Over 100 Republican lawmakers are demanding answers about federal dollars. They want to know why they’re flowing to health centers that also provide abortions, including Planned Parenthood. They’re calling on the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to give an account from the past three years. Turns out past reports revealed billions were sent to health facilities and $49 million to Planned Parenthood affiliates. Time for more transparency. And it’s time for Planned Parenthood to get defunded. The Hill reports: More than 100 Republican lawmakers are asking for an investigation in to the amount of federal funding that has been awarded to health centers that also provide abortion, including Planned Parenthood. Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), as well as House Pro-Life Caucus co-Chair Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.), led a letter Friday to the Government Accountability Office (GAO), asking for a report on the funding sent to the groups over the past three years. The lawmakers noted the GAO has prepared several congressionally requested reports on federal funding for these organizations over the years. According to its most recent report, the Department of Health and Human Services obligated an estimated $33.67 billion to federally qualified health centers and about $49 million to Planned Parenthood affiliates from 2019 through 2022. “It is our hope that this report will provide greater insight as Congress considers funding levels and provides increased transparency and openness for our constituencies and the general public,” the lawmakers wrote. BREAKING: Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy Call for Defunding Planned Parenthood Via DOGE https://t.co/4NEp5j4HUC pic.twitter.com/rZxN80dBcS — LifeNews.com (@LifeNewsHQ) November 21, 2024   In a WSJ OpEd, @elonmusk and @VivekGRamaswamy call for a partial taxpayer defund of abortion chain Planned Parenthood via @DOGE Amazing! pic.twitter.com/IjLoqALiuK — Lila Rose (@LilaGraceRose) November 21, 2024 Time to DEFUND Planned Parenthood. Take action now to ask President Trump, RFK Jr., Elon Musk, and Vivek Ramaswamy to defund Planned Parenthood! https://t.co/Is923AxZ38 Planned Parenthood murdered 392,715 preborn babies in the last reported year alone. This makes them the largest abortion chain in America—a… pic.twitter.com/i3iXIKE6Ls — Live Action (@LiveAction) November 22, 2024

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A judge has granted a request by Special Counsel Jack Smith to dismiss President-elect Donald Trump’s election interference case. 

A California judge has delayed the resentencing hearing for Erik and Lyle Menendez in a Monday ruling, as the two killer brothers appeared in public for the first time in almost 30 years. 

Trump Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth has broken his silence on the sexual assault accusation made against him back in 2017, which has resurfaced since President-elect Trump tapped Hegseth for the DOD position. A police report concerning the allegation against Hegseth, a decorated combat veteran and former Fox News host, was released last week in response to a public records request. An unnamed woman claims Hegseth sexually assaulted her in a hotel room following a conservative conference. Hegseth said that the encounter was consensual and police decided against any further action. “It’s very simple,” Hegseth told reporters on Thursday. “The matter was fully investigated, and I was completely cleared, and that’s where I’m gonna leave it.” Tim Parlatore, an attorney for Hegseth, told the New York Post on Monday that they are demanding a file from the Monterey County district attorney’s office that they believe will show further exonerating details about the interaction. The memo the legal team is seeking outlines why the district attorney’s office decided not to prosecute, Parlatore said. It allegedly details an earlier allegation of sexual misconduct made by Hegseth’s accuser. “As part of our investigation, we received credible information indicating that she may have made a similar false allegation against another man in the past and the DA may have relied upon this as part of their determination, in addition to other witnesses who contradicted her story,” Parlatore said. CHECK OUT THE DAILY WIRE HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE As highlighted by The Daily Wire, the police report on the incident reveals that a man, presumed to be the accuser’s husband, told authorities that the woman told him she fell asleep in a friend’s hotel room when first explaining why she was out until 4 a.m. According to the report, Hegseth told authorities the woman told him this was the lie she would tell her husband, after panicking to Hegseth about cheating on her spouse. There is also security footage from the hotel and witness accounts that reveal the accuser was not intoxicated and was seen leaving the hotel bar with Hegseth in locked arms and “smiling.” The police report also details how the accuser contracted BV, or bacterial vaginosis, after having relations with Hegseth. This caused contention between the accuser and her husband. At one point, the woman asks her husband “to use a condom” when they had sex, for example. Related: Megyn Kelly Methodically Breaks Down ‘Bulls*** Allegation’ Against Pete Hegseth

Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk apparently struck a raw nerve, triggering MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough and Axios’ Jim VandeHei, when he issued a blanket announcement to everyone on his social media platform, X: “You are the media now.” VandeHei and Axios co-founder Mike Allen were honored at the National Press Club’s 2024 Fourth Estate Award Gala, and VandeHei lashed out at Musk directly during his remarks to Gala attendees. “Everything we do is under fire. Elon Musk sits on Twitter every day — or X today — saying like, ‘We are the media,’ ‘You are the media.’ My message to Elon Musk is: Bull****. You are not the media,” VandeHei complained. “You having a blue checkmark, a Twitter handle and 300 words of cleverness doesn’t make you a reporter. … You don’t do that by popping off on Twitter. You don’t do that by having an opinion. You do it by doing the hard work.” WATCH: NEW Axios CEO melts down over @elonmusk telling ? users “You are the media now” — mounts passionate defense of dying legacy media: "My message to Elon Musk is b*llshit. You're not the media!" The MSNBC panel applauds: “Social media people lying every day, every hour, every… pic.twitter.com/SBwgI9hFfC — Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) November 25, 2024 After playing a clip of VandeHei’s comments, “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough seconded every word, leading his response with a slow clap. “First of all, I’ve got to say, extraordinary content, it needed to be said, it continues to need to be said,” Scarborough said as cohost Mika Brzezinski agreed. “With all of the garbage that’s flying around on social media — lying about reporters, lying about the hard work they do, lying about the hard work editors do, lying about everything up and down about not only their alternative set of facts but their alternative set of facts about what people like you do.” Scarborough kept going in that vein for several minutes, but when Musk got wind of it, he was not convinced. “Yeah, whatever lmao. You are the media now. And legacy media know it,” Musk said. Yeah, whatever lmao. You are the media now. And legacy media know it. https://t.co/TWemmwMoqd — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 25, 2024 The exchange comes as MSNBC — and a number of the network’s employees — waits to see what the future looks like once NBCUniversal spins off the far-left cable news network. “What I find absolutely astounding about this is not his anger at Musk,” one person noted. “I can understand and even respect that to some degree. What absolutely baffles me is the total lack of introspection or self reflection as to why the media is so distrusted. Just go back over the past 5-10 years. It’s not hard to figure out. Maybe you should start going about gaining readers trust and turning out a quality product first.” What I find absolutely astounding about this is not his anger at Musk. I can understand and even respect that to some degree. What absolutely baffles me is the total lack of introspection or self reflection as to why the media is so distrusted. Just go back over the past 5-10… https://t.co/YI2wSu3z5V — Blume Industries CEO Balding 大老板 (@BaldingsWorld) November 25, 2024 “What the Axios CEO doesn’t seem to understand or accept is that X is the media now because of all the lying. If the corporate press hadn’t spent decades lying and misleading the public in really obvious, craven, and destructive ways, we wouldn’t be here. But they did so we are,” The Federalist’s John Daniel Davidson added. What the Axios CEO doesn’t seem to understand or accept is that X is the media now because of all the lying. If the corporate press hadn’t spent decades lying and misleading the public in really obvious, craven, and destructive ways, we wouldn’t be here. But they did so we are. https://t.co/j3mrxNbUll — John Daniel Davidson (@johnddavidson) November 25, 2024

Fresh off losing the 2024 White House race to President-elect Donald Trump, Vice President Kamala Harris is already getting the word out that she is open to running for office again, according to a new report. POLITICO reported on Monday that Harris has privately told advisers and others about her interest in a potential 2026 campaign for governor in her home state of California or even another presidential run in 2028. “I am staying in the fight,” Harris has declared in phone calls, per the report. Harris, a former California attorney general and U.S. senator, replaced President Joe Biden as the Democratic Party’s nominee in the 2024 race for the White House after he dropped out earlier this year following a fumbling debate performance against Trump. Trump ended up defeating Harris, coming out on top in all the battleground states and making gains among working-class voters, minority groups, and young people. Last week, after losing the election, Harris traveled with her husband, Doug Emhoff, to Hawaii for a vacation. Citing insider sources, POLITICO noted that Harris will head back to Washington, D.C., and is expected to explore “possible paths forward” with family members over the spend the winter holiday season. “She doesn’t have to decide if she wants to run for something again in the next six months,” one former Harris campaign aide told the outlet. “The natural thing to do would be to set up some type of entity that would give her the opportunity to travel and give speeches and preserve her political relationships.” If Harris were to campaign for governor of California in 2026, she would be competing to replace Gavin Newsom, a fellow Democrat who is term-limited and is seen as yet another potential candidate for president in the 2028 contest. A number of Democrats have already begun campaigns for California governor, including Lt. Governor Eleni Kounalakis and former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, while transgender-identifying celebrity Caitlyn Jenner indicated another GOP bid is possible following a 2021 recall campaign. “If I ran [for governor], and it was ultimately against Harris, I would destroy her,” Jenner said in a post to X on Monday.

Washington Commanders managing partner Josh Harris and the NFL Commanders ownership group have agreed to un-cancel the Redskins (the iconic Blackfoot chief logo) history. In a post on Facebook by Republican Montana Sen. Steve Daines, the Congressman wrote that “The censorship of the former Commanders logo was a classic case of woke gone wrong. I applaud the Commanders & the NFL for their commitment to never censor the logo again.” “And for working with the [Walter ‘Blackie’] Wetzel family to restore the logo to a place of prominence and honor to benefit Indian Country,” he added mentioning the “Native American artist who used Blackfoot chief John Two Guns White Calf as the inspiration for the logo the NFL team used for almost 50 years.” In 2020, the team announced it was removing Redskins from its name and two years later announced the national professional football team would be called the Washington Commanders. The name change came about from pressure from the cancel culture mob following the death of George Floyd and those who claimed that the term was racist and offensive to Native Americans. ?BREAKING: IT APPEARS DISCUSSIONS ARE UNDERWAY ABOUT THE #COMMANDERS POTENTIALLY USING THE REDSKINS’ OLD LOGO. ? Senator Steve Daines says that the proceeds would go to help benefit the tribe. Washington fans have been pushing for this to happen…pic.twitter.com/bHTbGVLZWV — MLFootball (@_MLFootball) November 22, 2024 Speaking to Fox News, Daines called out the “irony” that the woke mob was “canceling Native American culture, as in the DEI [Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion] movement went way too far.” Earlier this year, a local D.C. news station came under fire when it was revealed that it was blurring or removing the logo in archival footage and photographs of the team, Tampa Free Press noted. And in February, the NFL censored the logo on its X account when honoring previous Super Bowl winners, Daines noted during his remarks on the Senate floor. He also pointed out that the team had been selling a shirt that also blocked the logo.  Daines has said he would approve legislation for the building of a new stadium for the Commanders, as long as the team agreed to never censor the logo again or degrade it. That includes the team using the logo again in some shape or form, ie. in historical images, videos, merchandise, even using the logo if the team should want to use it throwback game jersey, etc., the Bozeman Daily Chronicle noted. Un-erasing the logo would also mean that if Wetzel wanted to use the logo in a throwback uniform, or something created to be posted in the stadium, etc. he could, Fox News noted. Wetzel’s grandson Ryan Wetzel said that he feels good that a plan will come about to honor his grandfather’s legacy, the Daily Montanan reported. “It’s exciting to even have that conversation after they said it (the logo) would be gone forever,” Wetzel said. Following what the Senator called good faith talks with the league, he was “proud to say, after speaking with my constituents, that they are satisfied with the ongoing negotiations with the team and feel optimistic about the direction that they are heading. Therefore, I will support the bill and vote in favor of its passage out of committee with the condition that the team follows through on the commitments made to the family.” Related: Native American Group Threatens National Boycott If Washington Football Team Doesn’t Change Name Back To ‘Redskins’