Javier Milei: President of Argentina - Freedom, Economics, and Corruption | Lex Fridman Podcast #453
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NLzc9kobDk
In an internal Q&A shared yesterday with staff, the Washington Post says it will accept the resignation of any employee who does not wish to return to the office five days a week
https://x.com/maxwelltani/status/1858895851680149907
Trump picks Dr. Oz to lead massive Medicare and Medicaid agency CMS
President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday said he would nominate Dr. Mehmet Oz — celebrity TV host and former U.S. Senate candidate — as Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services administrator.
CMS operates or oversees programs that provide health coverage to about half of Americans, including Medicare, Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program, and the Obamacare marketplace exchange Healthcare.gov.
Those four programs account for $1.6 trillion in spending, or nearly 25% of the entire federal budget, which Trump highlighted when he announced that Oz, a heart surgeon, was his pick to lead CMS, a division of the Health and Human Services Department.
Trump said last week that he would nominate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a vaccine skeptic and conspiracy theorist, as HHS secretary.
Oz previously hosted “The Dr. Oz Show,” a syndicated daytime television program, for more than a dozen years. He was the Republican nominee for a U.S. Senate seat from Pennsylvania in 2022, losing to Sen. John Fetterman, a Democrat.
“America is facing a Healthcare Crisis, and there may be no Physician more qualified and capable than Dr. Oz to Make America Healthy Again,” Trump said in a statement Tuesday.
“He is an eminent Physician, Heart Surgeon, Inventor, and World-Class Communicator, who has been at the forefront of healthy living for decades. Dr. Oz will work closely with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to take on the illness industrial complex, and all the horrible chronic diseases left in its wake.
“Our broken Healthcare System harms everyday Americans, and crushes our Country’s budget,” Trump said.
“Dr. Oz will be a leader in incentivizing Disease Prevention, so we get the best results in the World for every dollar we spend on Healthcare in our Great Country,” Trump said. “He will also cut waste and fraud within our Country’s most expensive Government Agency, which is a third of our Nation’s Healthcare spend, and a quarter of our entire National Budget.”
Chiquita Brooks-LaSure is the current CMS administrator.
Oz has dual U.S. and Turkish citizenship, as a child of Turkish immigrants. During his Senate campaign, he vowed to renounce his Turkish citizenship if elected.
Trump has been a staunch critic of Obamacare, as the Affordable Care Act is informally known, and during his first year in the White House tried — and failed — to get Congress to repeal the law, which offers subsidies to many people who buy individual health insurance coverage.
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/19/trump-picks-dr-oz-to-lead-massive-medicare-medicaid-agency-cms.html
China is running summer propaganda camps for kids… inside the U.S
Thousands of American kids are being sent to camps run by a Chinese influence and intelligence agency that promote Chinese Communist Party (CCP) propaganda and even train some children to act like “Little Overseas Chinese Police,” a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation discovered.
long article, read moar:
https://dailycallernewsfoundation.org/2024/11/18/exclusive-chinese-summer-camps-teach-american-kids-to-be-like-red-army-soldiers-and-little-police-officers/
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene
@RepMTG
There are 438 federal government agencies and sub agencies.
The federal government is the largest employer in the United States.
The federal government is in debt at nearly $36 trillion dollars.
And all of this is funded by American taxpayers.
It’s truly shocking the American people haven’t torn down this government yet.
https://x.com/RepMTG/status/1858645055881290065
The industries that could be hardest hit by Trump's immigration crackdown
https://www.axios.com/2024/11/19/undocumented-workers-immigration-deportation-trump
Hakeem Jeffries elected House Democratic leader as GOP is set to retain control of lower chamber
Washington — House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries was elected Tuesday to lead Democrats for another two years in the minority despite the party failing to flip control of the lower chamber in the 2024 election.
Democrats held their leadership elections on Tuesday as the party seeks to keep its leadership intact as it reels from the bruising losses in the 2024 elections.
Democratic caucus chair Rep. Pete Aguilar of California was reelected Tuesday morning, as was House Minority Whip Katherine Clark of Massachusetts, who will continue in her role in the 119th Congress, beginning in January.
One race was injected with some uncertainty, as Rep. Jasmine Crockett of Texas launched an eleventh-hour challenge against Rep. Debbie Dingell of Michigan for chair of Democratic Policy and Communications Committee. Despite the last-minute challenge, the caucus reelected Dingell for the role on Tuesday.
Jeffries made history in 2023 when he became the first Black lawmaker to lead a party in Congress, succeeding former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as the top Democrat in the lower chamber. He was set to again make history as the first Black speaker had Democrats gained control of the House.
Heading into Election Day, Democrats needed a net gain of four seats to win the majority. Though Democrats won more than a handful of Republican-held seats in this month's election, they lost just as many. The party also suffered the loss of the Senate and the White House. As House Democrats conduct the leadership elections Tuesday, they're still reeling from the results — and reckoning with the path forward.
Republicans are expected to have a narrow majority in the next Congress. President-elect Donald Trump's selection of several House members to serve in his administration will also temporarily squeeze the majority even further until those seats are filled in special elections.
Jeffries, in an interview with NPR last week, said the narrow margins and divisions among House Republicans have effectively made Democrats the majority in several instances.
"Democrats, because of the closeness of the margins, have effectively governed in the majority, though we are in the minority. And the same dynamic will exist as we move forward," Jeffries said, pointing to a number of votes to avoid government shutdowns over the past two years in which Democrats provided a majority of the votes.
House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Louisiana Republican, said last week that he has "begged and pleaded" with Trump to stop poaching House members for his administration.
Republicans held their leadership elections last week, backing Johnson for another term as speaker. Johnson expressed confidence that he will win the speakership in the first round of voting on the House floor in January.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/house-democrats-leadership-hakeem-jeffries/
Congress is running out of time to pass a December funding deal
Facing a government shutdown deadline in just over a month, Congress is quickly running out of time to do anything but punt funding levels into next year — unless bipartisan talks begin in earnest.
Congressional leaders have yet to announce the start of negotiations over a more comprehensive funding deal, raising the odds that lawmakers will resort to a stopgap in late December that kicks the next funding cliff into President-elect Donald Trump’s first months in office.
Speaker Mike Johnson said Monday night that he has been “having lots of discussions” with Trump about funding the government. “But I'm not ready to talk about the content of those discussions,” he added.
Johnson has said Trump’s preference will heavily influence Republicans’ funding strategy heading into December. But the president-elect has not weighed in publicly.
Even if Johnson and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer started talking now, it could already be too late to pass final funding measures by the Dec. 20 deadline. That’s because it usually takes Congress about a month to clear bills with updated spending levels once leaders have reached a deal on overall totals for military and non-defense spending. Johnson indicated Congress was running out of time in an interview Sunday.
“We’re running out of clock. December 20 is the deadline,” Johnson said in an interview with Shannon Bream on “Fox News Sunday.” “We’re still hopeful we might be able to get that done. But if not, we will have a temporary measure. I think it would go into the first part of next year and allow us the necessary time to get this done.”
While Democrats are eager to cut a deal that updates federal agencies' funding through next September, congressional Republicans are divided on the decision.
“There are different points of view, as you would expect, about whether or not we ought to try and finish everything up this year or push it into next year,” Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), his chamber’s next majority leader, said Monday night.
Many Republican appropriators and other GOP lawmakers want to wrap up spending negotiations before year’s end, to update funding for the Pentagon and other federal agencies, as well as avoid an extra distraction next year as they work to enact policy that defines their first 100 days in control of Congress and the White House.
On the other side of the argument, Johnson said over the weekend that he thinks it would be advantageous for Republicans to kick the deadline into Trump’s second term. That’s the preference of many House conservatives and could save the speaker from potential backlash as he prepares for a January vote to keep his gavel.
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/11/18/congress/congress-running-out-of-time-on-funding-00190271
Leftists storming Senate office building. Let's see if CNN is going to report on it for the next few years.
Mark Warner, the US senator investigating Steam is funded by Disney who, coincidentally, has invested $1.5 Billion into Steam's rival
Nov 19 is International Men's Day, literally no one gave a fuck.
Jay Leno, 74, shows heavily bruised face and eye patch from shock fall down a hill… 2 years after car fire
Jay Leno sported heavy facial bruising and an eye patch this week after he fell 60 feet down a hill in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
The iconic host, 74, who suffered second degree burns in a car fire in November 2022, revealed he had broken his wrist and been hit in the eye by a 'bunch of rocks' on Saturday as he headed to dinner - just three hours before his show.
Tonight Show star Leno revealed dark bruises down the left side of his face as well as a brace on his right wrist as he joked about the incident to Inside Edition.
He said: 'I hit a bunch of rocks, it was 60 feet. I broke my wrist. Lost my nail on the finger, I'm all black and blue from 60 feet of hitting rocks.
'The rock hit me in the eye, I'm fine!' - before adding his left eye is currently swollen shut.
He went to a restaurant bathroom to examine his wounds and - despite his injuries - still managed to make it on stage that night.
He then traveled home to perform Sunday night in Los Angeles. Leno also admitted he has yet to see a doctor but plans to,
Leno was badly burned when a vintage 1907 steam engine he was working in his garage on exploded in his face in November 2022.
Leno was hospitalized following the fiery explosion at his garage, where he keeps a number of vintage cars as part of a collection.
George Swift, a mechanic in the comedian's personal garage, told ET that it was a steam car that sent Leno to the hospital.
'It was a steam car. This steam was made by gas. It got sprayed, as a gas,' Swift, a mechanic who works at the garage, said.
'He called me, and he told me there was a fire and the fire department is coming,' the employee continued.
The Burbank Fire Department then confirmed they were dispatched to the late-night host's home at around 12.30om that day, and when they arrived they assessed and treated 'one adult male.'
Leno was then transported to a local emergency room before being transferred to the Grossman Burn Center for further care.
A spokesperson for the medical center told People at the time that Leno 'is in good humor and is touched by all the inquiries into his condition and well wishes.
'He wants to let everyone know he is doing well and is in "the best burn center in the United States."'
Leno later issued a statement himself, saying he 'got some serious burns from a gasoline fire.'
'I am ok,' the former late-night host said. 'Just need a week or two to get back on my feet.'
He also told TMZ that it was his friend, Dave, who saved his life, by jumping on him and smothering the flames.
The host said that he was repairing a clogged fuel line when he got sprayed on his hands and face with gasoline.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-14102473/jay-leno-shows-bruised-face-eye-patch-fall.html