House Oversight report on Walz
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and state Democrat leadership knew about the massive fraud in their state and did nothing, according to the House Oversight Committee report on the situation. “Meaningful corrective action was delayed or avoided” long after evidence of stolen nutrition funds and fraudulent Medicaid billing came to light. Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison were warned about the situation as early as 2019, but they prioritized avoiding the appearance of racism over guarding taxpayer funds. Committee Chairman James Comer said the two were responsible for the most stunning oversight failures he had ever examined, with over $300 million in nutrition funds lost and as much as $9 billion in fraudulent Medicaid payments. Vice President JD Vance, who is leading the federal anti-fraud task force, has referred this case to the Department of Justice for a full criminal investigation.

Supreme Court tosses ruling on Biden gas regulations
On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court handed the Trump administration a win by overturning a lower court’s ruling that had upheld the Biden-era regulation on gas-heated furnaces and water heaters. The Trump administration has already eliminated the regulation. The case now heads back to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit, with the question of whether Congress has given the Department of Energy such broad regulatory power. SCOTUS’s decision gives the Trump administration the opportunity to continue arguing its case that a number of the Biden-era anti-fossil-fuel regulations were both “factually and legally flawed.” Furthermore, Solicitor General John Sauer contends that this decision will allow the DOE more time to consider new gas appliance regulations.

Another district judge overrules the president
The head of the executive branch and commander-in-chief of the U.S. Armed Forces has once again failed to ask permission from one of nearly 700 district judges before exercising his powers. U.S. District Judge Leo Sorokin has overturned a decision by the U.S. president, continuing a trend that has become increasingly common since January 2025. The president attempted to impose a $100,000 fee on H-1B applications, arguing that the system was being abused to replace American workers. Judge Sorokin, acting on behalf of 20 states, ruled the fee an unconstitutional tax. Presumably, this applies to all H-1B visa fees, including the $1,700–$4,500 fee that existed prior to Trump’s change. The Trump administration is expected to appeal.

Homan says NYC will see more ICE agents
President Donald Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, announced on Monday that ICE would soon be making its presence felt in New York City. “I made [Gov. Kathy Hochul] a promise. You’re going to see more ICE agents than you’ve ever seen in New York City, and it’s coming,” Homan explained. “I’m keeping my promise. We’re going to send more ICE agents to New York because you took away the efficiencies of safe arrests in county jails.” Homan did not elaborate on how ICE and CBP planned to surge agents’ presence across the city’s five boroughs. Homan’s announcement is in response to Hochul and Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s refusal to allow ICE to take illegal immigrants in county jails into custody.

Denaturalization proceedings for 17 people
In the three decades before President Trump first took office, the U.S. Justice Department, on average, brought 11 denaturalization cases per year, despite having the authority to charge naturalized citizens who lied on their applications. On Monday, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin announced that the administration is seeking to denaturalize 17 immigrants who concealed crimes during the application process or otherwise failed to demonstrate the required “good moral character.” Cuban-born Delmas Garcia was convicted of fraudulently running 30 physical therapy clinics in Florida, where she billed an insurance company almost $37 million for unnecessary or never-provided services. During the application process completed by Jean Claude Alfred of Haiti, he concealed his ongoing sexual abuse of his minor-age daughter, for which he was later convicted. Others were convicted of grooming, drug dealing, H-1B fraud, and bigamy.

CBP bars Somali FIFA referee from entering U.S.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has denied entry to a Somali FIFA referee scheduled to officiate several upcoming World Cup matches. CBP explained that Omar Abdulkadir Artan was “determined to be inadmissible due to vetting concerns and was denied entry.” Somalia is one of 39 countries currently listed on President Trump’s “travel ban” executive order from last year. The CBP reiterated that it evaluates individuals seeking to enter the U.S. “on a case-by-case basis using law enforcement, national security, and immigration information available at the time of inspection.” Artan has been officiating soccer matches for a number of years and was named the Conference for African Football referee of the year in 2025.

Mark-0 reactor at Antares Nuclear goes critical
Contrary to what TV shows and movies may have trained Americans to believe, a nuclear reactor going critical is actually a good thing. In this context, it indicates that the reactor’s design is working perfectly. For the first time in over 40 years, a new privately developed non-light-water reactor completed a zero-power criticality demonstration. This comes just over a year after Trump’s push in May 2025 to have multiple new reactors go critical before the country’s 250th anniversary, and it is a milestone many did not believe possible. The Mark-0 reactor was developed by Antares Nuclear as part of the DOE’s Reactor Pilot Program and is the first of several advanced reactors expected to demonstrate energy-generation capability by next month.

Be like Blake
Last Friday, the Los Angeles Dodgers held a Pride Night celebration during which the team’s players donned hats with the “LA” logo in rainbow colors. The Dodgers first introduced these pride hats back in 2022. With the Dodgers holding a 1-0 lead over the Los Angeles Angels, reliever Blake Treinen entered to close out the game in the ninth, and he did so successfully, leading the home team to victory. Conspicuously, when Treinen took the field, he was not wearing a pride hat; instead, he simply wore the team’s standard cap featuring the “LA” logo in white. It was a small but important decision on Treinen’s part not to celebrate the LGBTQ+ lifestyle while also avoiding needlessly offensive behavior. Indeed, that such deviancy has been pushed into sports for “recognition” is offensive in and of itself.

EU freezes assets of Iranian officials involved in shutting the Strait of Hormuz
On Monday, the European Union approved sanctions on two senior Iranian officials for their part in restricting traffic in the Strait of Hormuz. The deputy commander for political affairs of the IRGC Navy, Mohammad Akbarzaedh, was sanctioned after publicly threatening to use missiles and drones on cargo ships attempting to go through the Strait. Hamid Hosseini, a representative of Iran’s Oil, Gas, and Petrochemical Products Exporters’ Union and a member of Iran’s Chamber of Commerce, was also sanctioned for enforcing the toll system. The sanctions freeze all assets held by the men in EU member states and prohibit any travel to the EU. The European Union also slapped sanctions on the Hormozgan Provincial Command of the IRGC Navy, which has been screening vessels to decide which ones are allowed to pass, often after paying tolls.

Headlines

• LA mayoral race heads to November runoff as Karen Bass faces Mamdani-style socialist (Fox News)

• Trump’s SAVE America Act shows signs of life in the Senate (Fox News)

• Two crew members rescued from U.S. helicopter downed near Strait of Hormuz (Washington Examiner)

• Republicans vow to make Talarico “unrecognizable” before summer is out (Washington Times)

• Prosecution rests in Karmelo Anthony trial (Hot Air)

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