Representative Robert Garcia (D-CA) said Friday on MS NOW’s “The Beat,” Democrats “are going to be aggressive on day one” investigating the Trump family. Garcia said, “We’re going to first and foremost do real investigations. I think step one has The post Dem Rep. Garcia: We Will Aggressively Go After Trump Family Pay-to-Play appeared first on Breitbart.

Anthony Fauci’s Darkest Hours Authored by Jeffrey A. Tucker via The Brownstone Institute, “Out, damned spot! Out, I say!” said Lady Macbeth as she paced in a hallucinatory state, reliving in her subconscious the murders she helped plan. She rubbed her hands as if washing them, to wash away the sin, following up the promise to her son that “a little water clears us of this deed.” The line comes to mind from the latest dump of entries from the diaries of Anthony Fauci that cover the months December 2021 to May 2022. These were the darkest months of the Covid era. Confidence that the virus was a lab creation was growing. That points directly to Fauci. The lockdowns had given rise to growing population-wide fury. And the shot was not working, not stopping infection or spread while groups reporting deep injury from injection could not be censored fast enough to make them vanish completely, though tech companies certainly tried. Fauci still held his position at NIAID with certainty that he would keep it under President Biden, whose confidence he enjoyed. He was daily in touch with the people who were actually running the government – aides Ron Klain and Jeff Zients – and coordinated his decisions with them. They trusted him to continue the Covid operation, which they all knew to be a national security issue beyond the control of any political player. Fauci was the front man but an effective one, until he became a liability. We know from previous entries that Fauci at first hoped the new virus would get lost in the mix of a bad flu season. This was mid-January 2020. The CDC called him out on that. His first scheme failed because a savvy businessman in China spilled the beans by posting the sequence

US Designates Helium A Critical Material In Reindustrialization Push To Avoid “Single Point Of Failure” America’s reindustrialization depends on securing reliable, conflict-free supplies of critical materials, including rare earths and other critical metals, most of which are produced and processed overseas. The Trump administration has made rebuilding and strengthening domestic critical material supply chains a national security priority. Its designation of helium as a critical material on Friday morning extends that effort to now include the industrial gas used for semiconductor manufacturing and many other applications.  The Energy Department’s decision earlier today makes the 20th critical material designated by the agency and brings the industrial gas within the Energy Act of 2020’s critical materials framework, including closer government monitoring. Energy Secretary Chris Wright wrote in a statement, “President Trump is bringing back America’s manufacturing industry, and that means making sure we have the materials needed to build things in America again.” Wright continued, “Helium is essential to producing the semiconductors and advanced technologies that power our economy. By designating helium as a critical material, we are taking another step toward securing our supply chains, creating American jobs, and ensuring the United States leads the world in energy and technological innovation.” Helium is recovered as a byproduct of natural gas processing and faces growing geopolitical risks in the Gulf area. Qatar’s exports have been severely curtailed by Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz and attacks on Qatari infrastructure, while Russia imposed temporary export controls in April.  The good news is that the US remains one of the top helium producers in the world, supplying 81 million cubic meters in 2025, or about 43% of global output. It exported 38 million cubic meters that year. Helium is critical to applications ranging from chipmaking to medical imaging to quantum computing to magnets to space rockets.  Assistant Energy Secretary Audrey Robertson warned that