Senate Confirms Robert F. Kennedy Jr. To Lead New Era in Restoring American Health

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By Breitbart. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is on his way to Make America Healthy Again.

The United States Senate confirmed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Thursday morning to lead the Department of Health and Human Services by a vote of 52 to 48.

Kennedy’s confirmation is a watershed moment in the federal government’s role in the health of the American people, likely the most significant development since the passage of the Affordable Care Act in 2010.

Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), the face of waning Senate Republican recalcitrance to Trump, was the lone Republican voting against his nomination, joining 47 Democrats. He also opposed Trump’s now-confirmed choices to lead the Pentagon and Director of National Intelligence, Pete Hegseth and Tulsi Gabbard, respectively.

“Mr. Kennedy failed to prove he is the best possible person to lead America’s largest health agency,” McConnell said to cap a typical longwinded statement. “As he takes office, I sincerely hope Mr. Kennedy will choose not to sow further doubt and division but to restore trust in our public health institutions. (Read more from “Senate Confirms Robert F. Kennedy Jr. To Lead New Era in Restoring American Health” HERE)

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Sleep Specialist Backing RFK Jr.’s MAHA Movement Pushes to Change School Start Times in America

By Fox News. A sleep expert who is backing Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement is pushing for something he says people aren’t talking about enough: sleep.

Jeffrey Rose, a New York-based clinical hypnotist and sleep specialist, is a friend and longtime supporter of Kennedy, who was confirmed by the Senate on Thursday as Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary in President Donald Trump’s cabinet.

“[The MAHA] movement means a lot to me because I’m preaching health all the time,” said Rose in an interview with Fox News Digital.

Rose said there is chronic sleep deprivation across the country, but more specifically in teenage students.

“These high school kids are not able to be sharp and focused and to learn, it doesn’t matter how good the schools are or the teachers or the reputation. Kids are exhausted in school.” (Read more from “Sleep Specialist Backing RFK Jr.’s MAHA Movement Pushes to Change School Start Times in America” HERE)

This Dem Rep Made Everyone Dumber at the DOGE Oversight Hearing This Week

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The Department of Government Efficiency Oversight Subcommittee hearing on February 12 certainly wasn’t dull. We had “d**k” pics being whipped out, another Democratic congresswoman peddling election denialism, and overall Elon Musk derangement syndrome.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) chairs this subcommittee on DOGE, so you knew fireworks would fly. Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX), who is Greene’s archnemesis on the Hill, did what she did best: spew nonsense around the room like Trump “allegedly” being elected and casting Mr. Elon Musk as an unelected bureaucrat. Yes, admittedly, this isn’t Crockett at her worst, but such talk, I was told, was in support of armed rebellion.


Then, Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) called Elon a “d**k,” and did not shy away from using charged rhetoric to voice his outrage over DOGE doing its job in uncovering all of the liberal pork projects that have bled taxpayers for years. Oh, and his “d**k pic” was just an image of Mr. Musk during his remarks. These people truly have nothing. (Read more from “This Dem Rep Made Everyone Dumber at the DOGE Oversight Hearing This Week” HERE)

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Trump Plans Mass Firings of Government Workers. It Will Begin With These Employees.

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The mass firings of government workers have begun. On Thursday, the Trump administration met with the Office of Personnel Management, advising them to fire federal workers on probationary status. NBC News said this could put hundreds of thousands of workers in the crosshairs. These workers are essentially recent hires, and some might get fired very soon (via NBC News):

President Donald Trump’s administration began a mass firing of federal workers Thursday.

Office of Personnel Management officials met with agency leaders and advised them to dismiss probationary employees, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Hundreds of thousands of people could be affected, according to data from the Office of Personnel Management, although the exact number of people who will be terminated was not immediately clear.

Employees who have probationary status have typically been with the federal government for only one or two years — before all their civil service protections have kicked in.

(Read more from “Trump Plans Mass Firings of Government Workers. It Will Begin With These Employees.” HERE)

Timeline: Federal Judge Didn’t Even Read Final Complaint Before Enjoining Trump

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New York federal Judge Paul Engelmayer’s temporary restraining order blocking the Trump administration’s access to Treasury documents happened so fast it’s unlikely he carefully read the case filings. The filings from the 19 suing Democrat state attorneys generals were so voluminous, and Engelmayer’s order was entered so quickly, that it could not possibly have been the product of reasoned judicial analysis and reflection. The stench is so bad, questions of possible corruption must be answered.

Engelmayer is the first judge ever to grant a temporary restraining order (TRO) against the president of the United States that also forbids a cabinet secretary from accessing his own records without giving these parties an opportunity to respond. He offered zero analysis of his constitutional authority to make such a radical ruling, the federal rule governing injunctions and temporary restraining orders, or why he is enabling fraud and grift by blocking access to records that show who got government money and for what.

The next court hearing scheduled in this case is Feb. 14. I wrote an earlier article focused on some of the procedural defects in the plaintiff states’ request for a TRO and Engelmayer’s order keeping Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency, headed by Elon Musk, from investigating federal payments. New information shows the situation was much worse than suggested by my earlier observation that “Engelmayer’s Order was a very rushed, put-up job.”

As I wrote earlier, “After Engelmayer got the States’ Complaint and related filings on Friday night, he wasted no time in ruling on the application for a TRO. In a feat of seeming super-human efficiency and concentration, he must somehow have reviewed and diligently analyzed the 80+ pages of the Complaint and the Memorandum of Law, carefully read at least some of the 100+ court opinions, articles and other sources cited by the Plaintiffs, and concentrated on it all very carefully before entering his unprecedented Order granting the request for a TRO.”

The situation is actually worse than that. Here’s the timeline of the court filings. All these initial documents were filed by New York Special Trial Counsel Colleen Faherty. (Read more from “Timeline: Federal Judge Didn’t Even Read Final Complaint Before Enjoining Trump” HERE)

President Trump Announces Historic Global Reciprocal Tariffs

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President Trump on Thursday ordered his team to research and investigate new tariffs.

“Whatever countries charge the United States of America, we will charge them,” the president declared.

The newly assigned task force will take into account the taxes other nations charge on imports, and myriad factors that the president claims are not fair toward the United States.

Trump’s directive to his advisers formally begins an investigation into what tariffs will be the most fair to the United States on a by-country basis. This process, expected to last until April, will ignite global negotiations as foreign nations seek to avoid unfavorable trade terms. The president signaled he’s open to using these reciprocal tariffs as a starting point toward trade negotiations.

One such tariff negotiation has already proven effective. Reports over the last few days indicate that the European Union will lower taxes on U.S. auto imports to be even with its charges on exports. (Read more from “President Trump Announces Historic Global Reciprocal Tariffs” HERE)

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Trump And Vance Aren’t Defying The Constitution, They’re Following It

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Under the Constitution, “the President is invested with certain important political powers, in the exercise of which he is to use his own discretion.” For his decisions, “he is accountable only to his country in his political character, and to his own conscience.” His choices cannot be questioned in court because “the subjects are political. They respect the nation, not individual rights, and being entrusted to the executive, the decision of the executive is conclusive.”

Who penned these outrageous words? Democrats and many pundits might answer Vice President J.D. Vance. Over the weekend, Vance provoked an onslaught of criticism for suggesting that federal district judges “aren’t allowed to control the executive’s legitimate power.”

But the usual suspects would be wrong. The right answer is John Marshall, the greatest chief justice in Supreme Court history. And he did not squirrel this view away in a private journal. Instead, Marshall publicly explained that courts could not review presidential decisions on “political” subjects “entrusted to the executive” in a Supreme Court opinion.

He announced this principle not just in any case, but in Marbury v. Madison, the greatest opinion in Supreme Court history. The very same Marbury that concluded that federal judges should reject unconstitutional statutes, also recognized that courts could not intrude into the president’s exercise of his constitutional — dare we say “legitimate” — powers. Marshall’s opinion has given rise to the “political question doctrine,” which prohibits courts from reviewing decisions vested in the Constitution in the other branches, such as making war, prosecuting cases, and conducting impeachments.

Nevertheless, Democrats and pundits have exaggerated Vance’s remarks into a “constitutional crisis.” They claim that the Trump administration is threatening to defy court orders before overthrowing the constitutional structure, governing by presidential decree, and ruling without regard to the law. To be sure, all of us ought by now to be accustomed to such bizarre and overwrought reactions from Trump’s and Vance’s critics — and to write them off. Marshall himself would have seen these claims as a deliberate misrepresentation of the separation of powers. Americans should today as well. (Read more from “Trump And Vance Aren’t Defying The Constitution, They’re Following It” HERE)

It’s MAHA Time: Trump Establishes Commission to Deliver on RFK’s Goals

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Shortly after Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was sworn in as Secretary of Health and Human Services on Thursday, President Donald Trump announced the establishment of the “Make America Healthy Again Commission.”

Trump signed an executive order on Thursday that establishes the commission — and dives into the American health crisis in detail, arguing that 90% of the nation’s $4.5 trillion in annual healthcare expenditures are for people with chronic or mental health conditions, and that 77% of young adults don’t quality for the military based, in part, on their health scores.

All of these items are points of personal interest to the new HHS secretary.

“In short,” the order says, “Americans of all ages are becoming sicker, beset by illnesses that our medical system is not addressing effectively. These trends harm us, our economy, and our security.”

“To fully address the growing health crisis in America, we must re-direct our national focus, in the public and private sectors, toward understanding and drastically lowering chronic disease rates and ending childhood chronic disease,” the executive order continues. “This includes fresh thinking on nutrition, physical activity, healthy lifestyles, over-reliance on medication and treatments, the effects of new technological habits, environmental impacts, and food and drug quality and safety.” (Read more from “It’s MAHA Time: Trump Establishes Commission to Deliver on RFK’s Goals” HERE)

Trump Announces Plan to Equip India with F-35 Stealth Fighters

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Speaking alongside Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday, President Donald Trump announced that his administration would begin “paving the way” for India to eventually acquire the F-35 stealth fighter.

Newsweek reached out to the Pentagon, National Security Council (NSC) and the Department of State by email on Thursday evening for comment.

The Joint Strike Fighter program is the most expensive U.S. weapons system, with the Government Accountability Office (GAO) estimating its total cost to American taxpayers at $1.7 trillion.

The program includes eight international development partners, and the U.S. has approved foreign military sales with 12 additional nations, including Israel, South Korea, and Singapore. (Read more from “Trump Announces Plan to Equip India with F-35 Stealth Fighters” HERE)

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Mysterious Fog With ‘Chemical Smell’ Envelops Florida, Residents Fall Ill

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Residents in Florida have recently reported experiencing a strange fog with a distinctive chemical smell in various parts of the state. The National Weather Service (NWS) has issued dense fog advisories near Jacksonville and Tallahassee, extending from Tuesday to Wednesday. While fog is not unusual in this region, many locals are noticing differences in its appearance and smell, leading to concerns about its true nature.

In addition to visibility issues, there have been reports of adverse health effects associated with the fog. Symptoms such as coughing, sore throats, and lethargy have been commonly mentioned. Others have noted unusual gut issues and a metallic taste when in close proximity to the fog. These occurrences are reminiscent of a similar event last month, which also featured fog with a metallic odor.

Discussion online has given rise to theories about the fog resulting from chemical or biological agents. Comparisons have been drawn to historical events like Operation Sea Spray, a 1950s U.S. Navy experiment involving the dispersion of bacteria off the coast of San Francisco, infecting residents. (Read more from “Mysterious Fog With ‘Chemical Smell’ Envelops Florida, Residents Fall Ill” HERE)

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FEMA Employees Fired Over ‘Egregious’ $59M Payment for NYC Migrants

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Four Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) employees, including a top-level executive, have been fired after sending millions of dollars to New York City to house and care for illegal migrants, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

“Effective immediately, FEMA is terminating the employment of four individuals for circumventing leadership to unilaterally make egregious payments for luxury NYC hotels for migrants,” DHS officials said in a statement obtained by The Post.

The firings, first reported by Fox News, include FEMA’s chief financial officer, two program analysts and a grant specialist.

“Under President Trump and Secretary Noem’s leadership, DHS will not sit idly and allow deep state activists to undermine the will and safety of the American people,” the statement added.

On Monday, Elon Musk, who runs the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), posted on X that his team had discovered that FEMA has recently paid out $59 million meant for disaster relief to the Big Apple for “luxury hotels” to house illegal migrants. (Read more from “FEMA Employees Fired Over ‘Egregious’ $59M Payment for NYC Migrants” HERE)