• Trump kicks off affordability tour: On Tuesday, President Donald Trump spoke in Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania, to a crowd that extended into overflow viewing rooms. The message for Trump’s new tour was emblazoned on a banner behind him as he spoke, “LOWER PRICES,” “BIGGER PAYCHECKS.” Trump’s message is the economy, stating that he created 60,000 new jobs in Pennsylvania since taking office, including 4,000 manufacturing jobs that “the Democrats gave up on.” He strayed off message by calling the term “affordability” a Democrat “hoax”; his point was that Democrats created high prices, and now affordability is “the only word they say.” If the goal of this tour is to boost Republicans’ midterm election odds, Trump would do better to refrain from denying that voters are concerned about prices that have not been coming down.

• Court backs Trump’s military trans ban: On Tuesday, Donald Trump got another win when the DC Circuit Court of Appeals stayed a lower court’s injunction against the Trump administration’s ban on “transgender” military service. White House spokesman Anna Kelly called the ruling a “great win for the security of the American people,” adding that “as commander in chief, President Trump has the executive authority to ensure that our Department of War prioritizes military readiness over woke gender ideology.” In its ruling, the court noted that the U.S. military has long enforced strict medical standards, which until recently included barring individuals with gender dysphoria. Given this reality, the court wrote, “The [lower] court afforded insufficient deference to the Secretary’s [Pete Hegseth] considered judgment.” The case will return to the lower district court for a decision and will likely continue to proceed up the courts, possibly ending up before the Supreme Court.

• Nuclear reactor financing: Energy demand is soaring in the U.S., even as the green energy scam has stymied efforts to build real power generation for decades. The second Trump administration is seeking to end that by going “all in” on nuclear power. Energy Secretary Chris Wright says his Department of Energy and its newly rebranded Office of Energy Dominance Financing will provide low-interest loans to up to 10 new nuclear reactors. Wright explained that he wants nuclear to be funded by the free market, but “the government smothered the nuclear industry for 40-plus years,” so the loans will help jump-start the industry. Some hope that the new loans will be used to finance small modular reactors, which are significantly smaller than traditional reactors, can be built in factories and then transported to their sites, and still power as many as 300,000 homes.

• Dem wins Miami for first time in three decades: Following a runoff election, Democrat Eileen Higgins won the Miami mayoral race yesterday, becoming the first Democrat to hold the office in nearly 30 years. Higgins, a former Miami-Dade County commissioner, defeated former city manager and businessman Republican Emilio González by a margin of 59% to 41%. While Florida and Miami-Dade County have increasingly become more Republican, Kamala Harris narrowly carried the city of Miami last year. The primary focus of both campaigns was housing affordability, with Higgins touting her former role as a county commissioner while painting González as a Donald Trump stooge. González, for his part, did not align himself with Trump, but instead with Gov. Ron DeSantis, touting his plan to eliminate property taxes. National Democrats are touting this victory as more evidence that the American public is swinging their way.

• A GOP ObamaCare subsidy extension: With Joe Biden’s expanded ObamaCare subsidies set to expire in a couple of weeks, a small contingent of lawmakers led by swing-district Republican Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (PA) has launched a bipartisan bid to extend the subsidies for another two years. “When the stakes are this high, responsible governance means securing 80 percent of what families need today rather than risking 100 percent of nothing tomorrow,” Fitzpatrick argued. The measure would also include elements of Donald Trump’s health savings account plan, allowing people to use their HSA funds to pay insurance premiums and other healthcare costs. Thus far, just four Republicans and four Democrats are backing the measure. In the Senate, Republican leaders are coalescing around a plan from Senators Bill Cassidy and Mike Crapo that does not extend the subsidies but instead funds people’s HSAs.

• GA Dem Johnson calls America “the Great Satan”: As Donald Trump might have said, “When the Democrats send their people, they’re not sending their best.” Such a comment would have been appropriate to describe Georgia Rep. Hank Johnson, who recently echoed Iranian propaganda about the United States. “America is indeed … the great hand of Satan,” Johnson said on a radio show with leftist Dean Obeidallah. Johnson once suggested that the island of Guam might tip over if too many military service personnel were stationed there. Now, he says the U.S. is “the world’s number one bully,” so it must be true.

• Florida sues medical associations for promoting “gender-affirming care” for minors: On Tuesday, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier filed a lawsuit against the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, the Endocrine Society, and the American Academy of Pediatrics for pushing “gender affirming care” on minors. “Some parents were told that if they didn’t put their kids through … double mastectomies and castrations, that their child would commit suicide,” said Uthmeier, and it’s a charge that demands justice. In Great Britain, the 2024 “Cass Review” found that the guidance on gender-affirming care was “methodologically bankrupt,” meaning it was a lie. The lawsuit asks the court to impose a $10,000 penalty for each false and misleading claim, when those claims led to the permanent mutilation and medicalization of children, $10,000 seems like a paltry figure.

• Charlotte city council spends millions on PR following train stabbings: The late, great Rush Limbaugh often observed that Democrats prize symbolism over substance. A recent decision by the Democrat-dominated Charlotte City Council proves, yet again, that Rush’s insight was correct. Following two widely publicized stabbings on Charlotte’s train system, highlighted by the brutal murder of a Ukrainian refugee, Iryna Zarutska, people are viewing Charlotte’s public transportation system as unsafe. To solve this problem, rather than focusing on increasing security in the train system, the council voted to spend $3.4 million in taxpayer funds on a PR firm to counter the public transportation’s reputation as being dangerous. Republican North Carolina Rep. Mark Harris observed of the “pro-crime Democrats in Charlotte” that rather than choosing to “invest in REAL safety to prevent another tragedy like Iryna Zarutska’s brutal murder,” they are spending taxpayer money to run “misleading ads.”

• More on Oklahoma University’s viewpoint discrimination scandal: In the latest development regarding the Oklahoma University student who was flunked due to her Biblical beliefs on gender by a teacher’s assistant who uses she/they pronouns, the teacher has been removed from the classroom. Adding to the drama, however, another teaching assistant professor has been accused of viewpoint discrimination stemming from a protest organized to call for the man’s return to the classroom. The professor granted excused absences to students who wished to join the protest in favor of his reinstatement, but denied them to TPUSA’s chapter president, who wanted to participate in a counter-protest at the same event. A school director responded to and “told students in class today and by email that the lecturer’s actions were inappropriate and wrong, and that the university classroom exists to teach students how to think, not what to think.”

Headlines

• U.S. military flies two fighter jets near Venezuela (Washington Times)

• Trump threatens Mexico with additional tariffs over failure to fulfill water agreement (Daily Signal)

• Trans-identifying Biden official outraged Trump HHS changed his nameplate (Daily Wire)

• Maryland sixth-graders shown video with “tips for being non-binary,” “advice for coming out” (Not the Bee)

• MI father files suit after daughter forced to compete against trans male athlete (National Review)

• DOJ sues Loudoun County for transgender bathroom policy (Washington Free Beacon)

• Navy pilot who took out four Soviet jets in covered-up mission may get Medal of Honor (Task and Purpose)

• Hollywood announces bold new film where an evil villain is just evil and not misunderstood (Babylon Bee)

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