President-elect Donald J. Trump has nominated Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services. “I am thrilled to announce Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as The United States Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS). For too long, Americans have been crushed by the industrial food complex and drug companies […] The post Donald J. Trump Nominates RFK Jr. as HHS Secretary appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is crowdsourcing resumes for potential staff off the social media site X. President-elect Donald Trump announced the creation of DOGE on Tuesday, the “department” will serve Trump’s White House in an advisory role on ways to cut costs and make the government more efficient. DOGE will be led by entrepreneurs Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy. “We are very grateful to the thousands of Americans who have expressed interest in helping us at DOGE. We don’t need more part-time idea generators. We need super high-IQ small-government revolutionaries willing to work 80+ hours per week on unglamorous cost-cutting,” DOGE posted on X from a new account. “If that’s you, DM this account with your CV. Elon & Vivek will review the top 1% of applicants.” We are very grateful to the thousands of Americans who have expressed interest in helping us at DOGE. We don’t need more part-time idea generators. We need super high-IQ small-government revolutionaries willing to work 80+ hours per week on unglamorous cost-cutting. If that’s… — Department of Government Efficiency (@DOGE) November 14, 2024   Musk, who owns X and several other high profile companies, backed Trump in the election and oversaw a significant part of the Trump team’s ground game in battleground states. Ramaswamy ran against Trump for the Republican nomination earlier this year, and endorsed the former president after dropping out of the race. Trump said DOGE could “become, potentially, ‘The Manhattan Project’ of our time” in a statement on Tuesday, comparing the efficiency committee to the United States effort to construct the nuclear bomb during World War II. MATT WALSH’S ‘AM I RACIST?’ NOW STREAMING ON DAILYWIRE+ “I look forward to Elon and Vivek making changes to the Federal Bureaucracy with an eye on efficiency and, at the same time, making life better for all Americans,” Trump said in a statement. “Importantly, we will drive out the massive waste and fraud which exists throughout our annual $6.5 Trillion Dollars of Government Spending. They will work together to liberate our Economy, and make the U.S. Government accountable to ‘WE THE PEOPLE.’” Musk is a well-known for cost-cutting at his companies. When the tech mogul acquired X, then called Twitter, in a $44 billion deal in 2022, Musk oversaw mass layoffs at the company. Musk said he cut around 80% of X’s workforce, equivalent to about 6,000 people, in his first few months of owning the platform. The president-elect gave DOGE a deadline of July 4, 2026, the United States’ 250th anniversary, to come up with recommendations. “DOGE will deliver our nation the birthday gift of a government that’s actually accountable to its people, rather than the other way around,” Ramaswamy said. America’s 250th anniversary is on July 4, 2026. DOGE will deliver our nation the birthday gift of a government that’s actually accountable to its people, rather than the other way around. pic.twitter.com/40ft9akLmT — Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) November 14, 2024

Democrats in Michigan’s state House are attempting to ram through “radical” sex education changes in the weeks before control of the body flips back to Republicans. Earlier this week, nearly two dozen Michigan House Democrats introduced HB 6068, which seeks to make major changes to the Revised School Code Act of 1976. The changes range from allowing schools to distribute condoms to giving schools a green light to teach students that abortion is a “method of family planning” and “reproductive health.” One of the biggest revisions proposed in the new bill is to remove a ban on distributing “a family planning drug or device” on public school property. The proposed amendments to the 1976 law would also add leftist gender terms and require that schools “affirmatively recognize that individuals have different sexual orientations and gender identities and, when discussing or providing examples of relationships, be inclusive of various gender relationships.” While the changes would still allow schools to teach that abstinence is a “responsible and effective method” of preventing pregnancy and infections, the bill would remove a line referring to abstinence as “a positive lifestyle for unmarried people.” The new bill also keeps in place an option for parents to pull their children out of sex ed. Some Republicans have raised alarms about HB 6068, with Republican state Rep. Jaime Greene calling it “a clear overreach that strips away the foundational emphasis on abstinence, undermining a responsible approach to sexual health education.” “It introduces sensitive topics like gender identity, sexual orientation, and reproductive rights, which many parents feel are completely inappropriate for young students,” Greene added in a statement. Greene told The Daily Wire in a phone call on Thursday that “people are tired of partisan politics” and she expects many parents to opt their children out of sex education if the bill passes. Greene stressed that teaching age-appropriate sex education is still important, but said that Democrats’ proposed changes to the 1976 law aren’t in line with the average Michigan resident. “Sex ed is supposed to be teaching about biology and how your body works, how it makes a baby, not necessarily you’re identity,” she said. The bill was referred to the Education Committee after it was introduced by state Reps. Rachel Hood, Emily Dievendorf, Samantha Steckloff, Kara Hope, Veronica Paiz, Natalie Price, Jenn Hill, Penolope Tsernoglou, Lauri Pohutsky, Regina Weiss, Felicia Brabec, Jennifer Conlin, Donavan McKinney, John Fitzgerald, Amos O’Neal, Cynthia Neeley, Julie Brixie, Carrie Rheingans, Phil Skaggs, Noah Arbit, Kimberly Edwards, and Helena Scott — all Democrats. Hood, one of the bill’s strongest advocates, told Bridge Michigan, “Comprehensive sex education takes a wider lens: enabling students to make healthy choices for themselves and their relationships — and lets these conversations begin long before sex or puberty at developmentally appropriate levels.” Pohutsky, the Speaker Pro Tempore, said the bill “is absolutely a priority” for her to get passed in the lame duck session, which continues until the end of December. Greene blasted Democrats for continuing to push a “radical agenda” in Michigan despite losing the state House in the election. MATT WALSH’S ‘AM I RACIST?’ NOW STREAMING ON DAILYWIRE+ “Clearly Michigan spoke, and we had a major overturn in a lot of school boards as well just on the transgender issue,” she said. “We’re exploiting children for political gain and for a political ideology that has just taken off in the last couple of years and is not what most people in our country or even in the world actually believe.” The Daily Wire has reached out to Pohutsky for comment. Republicans took back control of the state House in the 2024 election and will hold 58 of the 110 seats at the beginning of January. If the sex ed reform bill is passed before then, it would go to the Democrat-controlled Michigan Senate, and then to the desk of Democrat Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

Obama administration alum Jeh Johnson defended two of the people President-elect Donald Trump has chosen to serve in national security-related positions in his incoming administration: former Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence and decorated U.S. Army veteran Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense. While Johnson made it clear — during his Thursday appearance on CNN News Central — that he was not a fan of Trump’s choice for Attorney General, he was willing to give a little grace on some of the others. He even defended Gabbard and Hegseth, explaining why they could be solid choices for those specific roles in Trump’s new administration. Host Sara Sidner raised the question regarding Gabbard first, repeating the preferred Democrat-media narrative that the former Democrat is somehow beholden to Russia. “She has spread Russian propaganda. She has challenged the intelligence on whether President Assad used chemical weapons, which the intelligence said he had certainly done. And now she’s in this position to potentially head the high intelligence agency over all intelligence agencies. What does this mean? To you?” she asked. “Well, I’m going to surprise you a little bit. I don’t think that it is an absolute prerequisite that the director of national intelligence be someone of the intelligence community. I also believe that on occasion, it’s a good thing to be skeptical of the intelligence that we’re provided. Those of us who are in a position of making serious decisions, policymakers,” Johnson replied. MATT WALSH’S ‘AM I RACIST?’ NOW STREAMING ON DAILYWIRE+ “So being skeptical of what the intelligence community produces can be a good thing. And I’m thinking of the intelligence leading up to the Iraq war, for example,” he added. Sidner then pivoted to Hegseth — a 20-year veteran who received two Bronze Stars and deployed to Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo Bay — whom she referred to as a “Fox anchor” and only mentioned briefly that he served in the National Guard. “Let me ask you about another controversial pick, a Fox anchor, Pete Hegseth. He did serve in the Army National Guard, but now he is up for secretary of defense. And, you know, he said a few things. He has lobbied for people who are accused of war crimes in Afghanistan. He recently said that women do not belong in combat roles. But you have said that you’d give him the benefit of the doubt. Why?” “I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt,” Johnson said. “Because here’s somebody who was well-educated, obviously intelligent, was in financial services, was in the Wall Street community for a while, could have made a lot of money and chose to leave that, put on the uniform of our country, and see combat. So I give him the benefit of the doubt for that reason.” Johnson went on to say that both Gabbard and Hegseth would have to appear before the Senate for their confirmation hearings, and he said that he expected the Senate to do its job in vetting them thoroughly.

We’ve all had those moments where we’ve yelled at our technology, right? Sure, it’s supposed to make life so much easier, but it can be very frustrating when these smart devices can’t figure out what the heck we’re talking about. It should be so simple just to tell Siri, Alexa, and their friends what to do, yet sometimes they just don’t get it. We are not alone. Even Céline Dion can’t get Siri to do what she wants. She posted a hilarious video on Instagram of an all too familiar occurrence, making us feel a bit better about ourselves. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Céline Dion (@celinedion) Siri Didn’t Want To Do What Céline Dion Wanted Her To The six-time Grammy winner asked Siri to play her version Hymne à l’amour. It seems Siri didn’t’ quite understand Céline’s request and played another of her famous hits. She said, “Hey Siri, play Hymne à l’amour by Céline Dion?,’ ” Her phone responded, “I cannot find that track by Céline Dion but here is My Heart Will Go On.” “No! Hello,” a frustrated Céline said. “No, no, no.” She asked a second time and once again, Siri played My Heart Will Go On. Céline decided to give it one more shot and made her request in her most elegant French accent. This time, Siri got it right. “Third time’s a charm,” she captioned the video. A fan wrote, “But Siri knows that Céline Dion is the greatest and most beautiful singer of all time!” This fan agreed, “Omg I love you so much.” This one noticed that Siri didn’t quite do Céline’s accent justice. “And yet Siri’s final response was barely French.” Céline, thank you for sharing your blunder and helping us remember we aren’t alone. You can find the source of this story’s featured image here. The post Siri Won’t Stop Playing “My Heart Will Go On” & Céline Dion Is Beside Herself appeared first on InspireMore.

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