Trump lets housing bill become law without his signature
At midnight on Saturday, the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act became law. The bipartisan bill easily passed both chambers of Congress last month, but President Donald Trump refused to sign it into law as a protest. “I will not sign the Housing Bill, which has been fully approved by Congress and sent to the White House, in PROTEST over the fact that the United States Senate is not capable of passing THE SAVE AMERICA ACT, which is polling at 97% with the Republican Party, and very high with the non-politician Dumocrats,” Trump explained on Truth Social. Trump did not veto the bill, which would likely have been overridden, and instead let the legislation become law after the 10-day threshold. The new law includes over 45 provisions intended to make housing more affordable by increasing housing development.

Walz protected predator; Rubio deported him
President Trump has made some good staffing choices in his second term, but no choice comes close to the excellence of selecting Marco Rubio as secretary of state. Last Monday, we noted Minnesota Governor Tim Walz’s attempt to spare a confirmed child rapist and illegal alien from deportation by issuing him a pardon for repeatedly raping a 10-year-old girl. Last Friday, the happy news broke that Walz’s feckless pardon accomplished nothing when Rubio released a video confirming that Laotian national Tou Lue Vang had been deported. Walz stymied the Department of Homeland Security’s intent to deport Vang before Rubio personally stepped in.

Minnesota daycare fraud update
Contrary to what Democrat hysteria would have Americans believe, Nick Shirley really did uncover rampant fraud in his breakout reporting last December. Fahima Mahamud, CEO of Future Leaders Early Learning Center in Minneapolis, and one of the subjects of Shirley’s videos, has pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud and one count of conspiracy. Between October 2022 and November 2025, Mahamud filed Child Care Assistance Program claims amounting to over $4.6 million on behalf of low-income recipients who never paid the required copayment. Mahamud’s organization also received over $850,000 from Feeding Our Future, the Minnesota program that bilked taxpayers out of over $250 million. The Future Leaders CEO also claimed to serve tens of thousands of meals to the hungry each month, despite serving only a fraction of that number. Mahamud attempted to flee the U.S. in February.

Georgia voter fraud investigation
Six years later, accusations of voter fraud in Georgia in the 2020 presidential election are the story that just won’t die. Last week, a judge struck down a subpoena for the names and contact information of everyone who worked on the 2020 election in Fulton County. This week, news broke that more than 260 FBI agents descended on Fulton County and are examining roughly 700 pieces of evidence collected in a sweep this past January. Federal agents have until the end of the week to report their findings. Irregularities and mismatches between hand-marked and machine-tabulated ballots in a small sample suggest there may be thousands of discrepancies across the 2020 election, according to a report from Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. In 2022, an audit showed nearly 18,000 ballots in the count for which no physical ballot could be found.

DOJ keeps finding noncitizens who illegally voted
The Trump Department of Justice is cracking down nationwide, prosecuting noncitizens found guilty of voting in federal elections. In the last few months, the DOJ has procured two dozen noncitizen voting arrests with 90 more cases under investigation. Democrats claim that noncitizens voting in federal elections rarely happens, but Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon is proving that these are not isolated cases. In a dozen states that have cooperated, Dhillon has discovered 20,000-30,000 noncitizens on the voter rolls. Officials say a much larger bloc is expected to be found in non-cooperating states such as California, New York, New Jersey, and Illinois. Dhillon’s department has also put election officials in all 50 states on notice that they also face prosecution if they knowingly allow noncitizens to vote. Congress can and should end this practice immediately by passing legislation requiring citizenship and voter ID for all federal elections.

Iran conflict continues
The U.S. and Iran continue to exchange strikes, with the former significantly increasing the number of targets in Iran around the Strait of Hormuz. The U.S. is “going to keep the Strait, and we’ll probably run it,” President Trump said. “We’ll become the guardian of the Strait. Maybe we’ll call it the ‘Guardian Angel of the Strait.’” He added, “And we should be reimbursed for that.” Reportedly, a number of Iranian officials have privately claimed that the attack on commercial shipping was a mistake and have blamed it on “errant” hardliners within the IRCG. Regarding the ongoing long-term peace negotiations, Vice President JD Vance said, “We’re going to keep on talking so long as the president tells us to do so. When the president says stop talking to the Iranians, then we’ll stop talking to the Iranians.”

Waltz says Iran has ongoing assassination plots against Trump
UN Ambassador Mike Waltz acknowledged on Sunday that the Iranian regime has active assassination plots against President Trump. Even more troubling, Waltz told ABC’s “This Week,” “They have operatives here in the United States. Plots are ongoing. But our intelligence community, the FBI, our law enforcement entities are absolutely on top of it.” Last week, Trump issued a warning to Iran in a Truth Social post: “1000 Missiles are Locked and Loaded and aimed at the Islamic Republic of Iran, with thousands of more to immediately follow, should the Iranian Government act on its threat, pronounced in many corners of the Globe, to assassinate, or attempt to assassinate, the sitting President of the United States of America, in this case, ME!”

New York Times reporters subpoenaed over Air Force One reporting
On Friday, New York Times reporters Eric Lipton, Julian Barnes, Tyler Pager, and Eric Schmitt were issued subpoenas relating to a grand jury probe into a leak of classified information. A Times lawyer expressed his shock and dismay that journalists are being targeted for covering the news, a constitutionally protected right. The Department of Justice insists that the information leaker is the target of their investigation, not the journalists themselves. The story in question came last week when news broke that President Trump would be returning to the U.S. from the NATO summit in Turkey aboard the old Air Force One rather than the newly retrofitted 747-8 given to him by the Qatari government. The administration has insisted that the change of jets was not due to security concerns.

Ukraine PM resigns
On Sunday, Yulia Svyrydenko resigned as Ukraine’s prime minister. Her reason for leaving the office was to take up a new position in government. Under Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, a number of government officials have shifted their positions, which has been described as the nation “changing its political strategy.” Since Russia invaded over four years ago, the Ukrainian government has remained in a state of martial law, with Zelensky remaining in office without undergoing a reelection. In light of this, Zelensky has reshuffled his government to address various challenges. Regarding this latest development, Zelensky said, “Each priority area of foreign policy will be assigned to a specific person with substantial experience who is capable of implementing what we agree on at the leaders’ level and what the Ukrainian people expect.”

Headlines

• Erika Kirk demands fast ruling on whether Tyler Robinson will stand trial for murder of Charlie Kirk (NY Post)

• Leftist billionaire’s bankrolling of E. Jean Carroll’s case against Trump draws ethics complaint (Daily Signal)

• Apple sues OpenAI over alleged theft of trade secrets (NewsNation)

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