The House Energy and Commerce Committee is demanding records from 11 states as part of a widening investigation into potential Medicaid fraud. It’s just the latest sign that Washington is beginning to recognize the scale of abuse inside one of the nation’s largest entitlement programs. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is also taking […]
Pennsylvania AG Dave Sunday says his state leads the nation in Medicaid fraud convictions, citing aggressive prosecution and collaboration with partners.
President Donald Trump is promoting his Great American State Fair as a pro-America concert intended to celebrate America’s 250 year anniversary — yet there are competing visions for how to celebrate the country’s semiquincentennial.“One month from America’s 250th birthday, events and celebrations to commemorate the adoption of the Declaration of Independence are as fragmented as the nation’s politics and culture in 2026,” reported Mike Magner from CQ-Roll Call on Sunday. Describing Trump’s event as a “campaign-style MAGA rally” which numerous artists refused to participate in, Magner mentioned that “America250, the bipartisan commission established by Congress to plan for the ‘semiquincentennial,’ remains the central organizer, but its efforts to get all 350 million Americans to participate in various ways have been overshadowed in recent weeks by the White House sponsor of events, Freedom 250.”In contrast to this event, Magner mentioned a pair of groups called All of U.S. 250 and Next 250, both of which also have their own plans to celebrate America’s anniversary. They are leading a coalition that will celebrate America’s birthday including a “nationwide day of mobilization” on June 27 that features “marches, rallies, cultural activations, performances, artistic installations, youth storytelling projects, teach-ins, faith gatherings and community events” in Washington and all over America.“We’re framing it as a counter-commemoration ahead of the 250th anniversary and also a movement-building opportunity,” said Trevor Smith, cofounder of a group sponsoring the event, the Black Liberation Indigenous Sovereignty Collective. “We push back against the kind of whitewashed narrative that the administration is pushing.”Linda Sarsour, co-chair of Next 250, told Magner that “I think for those of us who are working in grassroots movements right now, a lot of our people are feeling scared. They’re also feeling uncertain about the future. And I think what we’re trying to do here is reaffirm an actual certainty that whatever’s happening right now is temporary. We are on 250 years. And guess what? There’s another 250 years coming, and we can shape that by doing the work that we’re doing today.”Trump’s event has proved so controversial that most of the musical acts have dropped out, with many claiming they were booked without being told that it was going to be closely linked to the unpopular president. Five of the nine booked artists have pulled out including Bret Michaels, Martina McBride, Young MC, the Commodores and Morris Day & the Time.“I was presented with an opportunity to perform at a nonpartisan event but that turned out to be misleading,” McBride explained when pulling out. Similarly Michaels explained that the event “has evolved into something much more divisive than what I agreed to be a part of,” while Young MC stated that “the artists were never told about any political involvement.”“It’s a no for me,” posted Morris Day, while the Commodores declared, “Our music has always been our voice and we choose not to publicly affiliate with any single political party. We support the betterment of all Americans.”By contrast artists like Vanilla Ice, Fab Moran from Milli Vanilli and Flo Rida are still participating.
President Donald Trump, as a Republican, should theoretically support fiscal conservatism. Yet according to a report by a financial journalist, under Trump America’s national debt and deficit are ballooning to dangerous levels.“The price that the U.S. government has to pay to borrow money for 30 years has already punched through 5 percent a year, its highest level since the financial crisis of 2007,” reported The Washington Post's Matthew Lynn on Sunday. “For 10-year money, the annual price is 4.6 percent and climbing. Amid all the noise about the rise of artificial intelligence and the booming space economy, something far more significant is happening in the financial markets. The cost of borrowing is being reset.”Lynn added that this raises the possibility that American voters will care enough about deficit reduction that it can become a politically viable issue again.“The U.S. national debt has reached $39 trillion, with interest payments now exceeding $1 trillion annually, compared to the near-zero interest rate after the 2008 financial crisis,” Lynn wrote. “This could trigger a financial crisis and, even worse, modern political leaders are no longer even paying lip service to the need for deficit reduction.” As a result, “the big space in American politics will be waiting for a leader who can steadily balance the books while restoring competitiveness, keeping inflation under control and maintaining government services.”Lynn concluded, “That won’t be easy. The U.S. deficit came in at 5.8 percent of gross domestic product in 2025, and it is not likely to be any lower this year. Bringing it down will require sustained hard work, lots of patience and the ability to tell hard truths. Those are not qualities that Washington has in abundance. Even so, it would be a big prize. The only real question is whether there is a leader out there who is willing to step up and take it.”Lynn is not alone among finance experts who are concerned about America’s growing debt crisis, which has grown worse under Trump due to his tax cuts for the wealthy, war against Iran and spending cuts on programs that help low-income Americans.“Unless we change course, the debt will only get worse—fast,” Brookings Institution senior fellow William Galston wrote for The Wall Street Journal earlier this month. “The Congressional Budget Office estimates that we are on track to accumulate more than $24 trillion in debt over the next decade, for a total of $56 trillion—120 percent of estimated GDP in 2036.”He added, “These numbers are so large that it is hard to grasp what they mean. One key measure is the cost of financing this swelling debt burden. Twenty-five years ago, interest payments on the national debt were 2 percent of GDP. This year they will claim 3.3 percent; a decade from now, 4.6 percent.”Trump’s outsized impact on the budget deficit began in 2017, when he passed another series of tax cuts for the wealthy called the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA).“The Joint Committee on Taxation and the Congressional Budget Office have published several estimates of TCJA’s expected budget impact,” the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center explains. “These estimates all show TCJA substantially reducing revenues and increasing deficits over its first decade. The specific amount varies—from about $1 trillion to $2 trillion—for three reasons.”The Tax Policy Center continued, “First, the agencies estimated budget impacts using both conventional methods (which do not account for potential changes to the overall economy) and dynamic methods (which do). Second, the agencies originally estimated the budget impacts against a budget baseline established in 2017, when the act was debated and enacted. They later published updated figures using a 2018 baseline, which included new economic and budget information. Third, official scores typically do not include any new debt service costs resulting from tax cuts or spending increases. Projections for the entire budget, however, do include debt service.”
When Delano Squires was growing up, he was surrounded by young black men who were not only getting into trouble, but getting into gangs and going to jail — while he kept his hands clean.“At a certain point in my teenage years, I said, ‘Well, it’s because of the families we were raised in. All our parents were married, ... we were going to the same church, same values across households, a community of men who were raising us and keeping us in line. And I realized that family structure was the key,” Squires tells BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock on “Jason Whitlock Harmony.”“So from there, just one of those things that I’ve always thought about, the importance of family, the importance of marriage, importance of my dad in my day-to-day life, his everyday presence. And at a certain point, I wanted to write about it,” he explains.And Squires did write about it in his new book, “The Vanishing Black Family,” where he argues that the breakdown of the black family is to blame for lack of education and high crime rates.“Men and women are continuing to have children, particularly in our community, where 70% of kids are born out of wedlock,” Squires tells Whitlock.“The other thing that we’ve seen over the course of the last 60 years is that as poverty has decreased in the black community, the non-marital birth rate has increased,” he continues, using NBA players as an example.“In a league that was 70-plus percent black, you had guys who were fathering four, five, six, seven kids out of wedlock, even though they were making millions of dollars a year,” he explains, noting that economics appear to have very little to do with children being born out of wedlock.“I think economics is a part of it, but the real reason is because marriage is no longer seen as valuable, desirable, accessible, or indispensable for the purpose of forming a family. And the reason for that goes back much further than current economic trends,” he tells Whitlock.Whitlock has his own theory as to why the black family has broken down.“If we had more God, we could have a successful marriage, and we could raise up better kids. That’s the missing ingredient,” Whitlock says.“The cause of the vanishing black family is because we’re not looking for God to be our provider. We’re looking for money to be our provider. And so, whatever makes us the most money is going to fix the most problems,” he continues.“And to me it’s, you know, we’ve just lost focus on who our real provider is. It’s not man-made money. It’s God,” he adds.Want more from Jason Whitlock?To enjoy more fearless conversations at the crossroads of culture, faith, sports, and comedy with Jason Whitlock, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.
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