Kamala 'Unequivocally' Supported Cutting the US Defense Budget. She Won't Say Where She Stands Now.

As a Senator, Kamala Harris voiced her "unequivocal" support for slashing America's defense budget and "redirecting funding to communities in need." Years later, the vice president and Democratic presidential nominee won't say where she stands on the issue.

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Senate Republican Secures Potential Knockout Blow Against EcoHealth Alliance, the Group Tied to Wuhan Gain-Of-Function Experiments

It could be the end of the line for EcoHealth Alliance, the virus hunting group that conducted risky experiments on bat coronaviruses in Wuhan, China, before the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Now May We Defend Ourselves?

Senator Roger Wicker has an urgent warning: America is at risk of losing a war with another great power. The Mississippi Republican, who sits as ranking member on the Senate Armed Services Committee, paints a dark picture of the global threat landscape. Senior military leaders tell him that our under-resourced and overtaxed military is not prepared for the challenge. "We struggle to build and maintain ships, our fighter jet fleet is dangerously small, and our military infrastructure is outdated," Wicker wrote in a widely circulated New York Times op-ed this week.

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GOP Budget Proposal Touts Toughest Iran Sanctions in History and Eradication of ‘Woke’ Military Programs

A federal budget proposal released by the House’s largest Republican caucus on Wednesday “would implement the toughest package of sanctions on Iran ever proposed by Congress” and eradicate funding for “all woke programs and priorities in the military,” according to a copy of the fiscal package provided to the Washington Free Beacon.

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Let Them Vote

On February 13 the Senate passed a $95 billion aid package for weapons to Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan. The vote was 70 to 29. Action now moves to the House—which is out of session. And where the bill looks dead on arrival.

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Congress Secures Weapons Systems For Israel In Annual Defense Spending Bill

Israel will have access to American weapons systems and precision-guided munitions under new authorities granted by Congress in its annual defense spending bill, according to sources familiar with the legislation’s final text.

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YES, your phone is spying on you, RFK Jr. confirms



Many people worry that their smart technology, despite being incredibly efficient, is spying on them. Apple, Google, Meta, and other mega tech corporations guarantee privacy and security, but how effective are these so-called protection measures?

According to presidential candidate RFK. Jr., not very.

On top of privacy concerns, many are also deeply unnerved by the mass censorship we’ve seen, especially since the Biden administration took office.

“Do you ever feel that we're too deep in it now in some ways to reverse some of the effects of the censorship and what we learned from the Twitter files and the algorithmic tricks?” asks Dave Rubin.

“We can't really afford to be at war right now with Russia and in these kinds of conflicts with China and even Iran,” said RFK Jr. “We need to be sitting down with each other and figuring out how to control AI, and we cannot chase AI out of this country. We cannot make this a hostile environment for AI because superintelligence is coming; it’s terrifying, but we better have it better here than anybody else if we want to protect our national security because if we don't, we're going to be owned by somebody else.”

“We have this kind of turn-key totalitarianism that is waiting there in the wings,” he continued. “If a bad dictator took over, you know, now they’ve got AI [and] GPS that's following you everywhere.” Even “your cell phone is listening to your conversations and recording them and knows everything about you.”

He then tells a story that will likely resound with many. One time, he and his wife were discussing buying a new mattress, and by the next morning, they both had “three mattress ads on [their] phones.”

“It's not just the mattress company who's listening to you; it's the NSA who’s storing all these conversations,” he explains, “so it is terrifying, but I think there are, if we get smart people in a room, like Elon, there are things that we can do to at least mitigate the intrusive impacts and the controlling capacity of this new surveillance technology.”


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Senate Takes Critical Step Towards Permanently Defunding Group Blamed for COVID-19 Origins

The group that was conducting risky experiments on bat coronaviruses in Wuhan, China that are widely believed to have caused the global COVID-19 pandemic may soon lose its largest source of federal funding.

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GOP Hawks Say the Only Thing Cut From the Pentagon Will Be 'Wokeness'

Congressional defense hawks say the only cuts to the defense budget that will be considered will be to "woke" programs, saying cuts to the Pentagon would be disastrous as the United States faces down a Russian war in Ukraine and Chinese threats to invade Taiwan.

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Experts Warn Congress Not To Cut Defense Spending: Another Putin Invasion Likely

Russia is likely to invade countries beyond Ukraine, a former national security adviser to Donald Trump testified before Congress on Wednesday, warning against cuts to U.S. defense spending proposed by some House Republicans as part of debt-limit talks.

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