“How do we protect our poultry flocks?” Texas dairy, poultry producers grapple with bird flu
Across the country, dairy producers have dumped milk and infected chickens have been killed, including millions of egg-laying hens, causing egg prices to skyrocket.
New FOIA on migrants potentially avoiding the draft could open new deportation predicate: attorneys
A top government accountability group will send a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the U.S. Selective Service System (SSS) for data on illegal immigrants who did not register for the draft and therefore committed a felony. Oversight Project executive director Mike Howell – whose group is filing the action – underlined the move is not an illustration of any support for illegal immigrants serving in the military. By law, all U.S. males aged 18-26 must register with the SSS under penalty of felony conviction and $250,000 fine under the Military Selective Service Act of 1917, Howell’s group noted in their filing. Additionally, the McCarran-Walter Act of 1952 makes failure to register with the SSS a deportable offense, and the SSS website clearly states undocumented aliens are required to sign up for the draft, Howell noted. However, the Oversight Project’s filing also cites a passage on the SSS website saying the agency does not share or collect information on a man’s immigration status and has “no authority to collect such information, has no use for it, and it is irrelevant to the registration requirement.” WATCHDOG SUES BIDEN AGENCY FOR RECORDS AS LAWMAKER CALLS ITS VOTER WORK ‘A SLAP IN THE FACE’ Given that discrepancy, the letter goes on to cite a 2023 SSS report to Congress cataloging 23,249 registrations from USCIS – the federal agency responsible for overseeing legal immigration – but no data from ICE, the Office of Refugee Resettlement or other agencies engaged in handling illegal immigration and asylees. In a Thursday interview, Howell and attorney Kyle Brosnan said SSS registration has been flat during the Biden administration as far as it relates to the obvious uptick in “military-aged males” crossing the border and being “caught-and-released” by federal immigration authorities. “The absence of such a surge indicates that there is widespread criminal non-compliance by such aliens,” they wrote in their FOIA request. “There should be a large increase in [SSS registration] with 10 million illegals that have come over the border in the last four years,” Brosnan said. “Former Secretary Mayorkas went on the Hill and talked about how good [Biden’s DHS] was at processing people – well, how didn’t that processing lead to an increase in registrations for Selective Service?” “What we are really looking at now is whether the Selective Service under the Biden administration took this into account and they purposely avoided this issue for political reasons.” “If you look at their website… they go out of their way to assure illegal aliens like we’re not going to share information with ICE… So I want, you know, whether those people have any culpability for failing to register the biggest population surge of military age males in U.S. history when their job is to register military.” OVERSIGHT GROUP SEEKS DOCS FROM WALZ’ MINNESOTA AS DOJ REBUKES VA VOTER ROLL MAINTENANCE Howell said the FOIA request’s results could go beyond the scope of just determining whether undocumented residents of the U.S. may have attempted to avoid the draft – but also potentially offer an additional avenue for Border Czar Thomas Homan’s mass deportation plans. With failure to register with SSS being a felony and a deportable offense, Howell said that if the threads are pulled further on this situation, it could provide simplified legal grounds for the mass deportation plans of the Trump administration. “Now that this little quirk has been figured out, how can ICE and other entities in the federal government use this new authority to drastically scale-up immigration enforcement?” CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP “You can turn a class of individuals into potential criminals overnight. What it also means is you don’t need ICE necessarily to do it. [Alleged SSS violators] would be prosecuted by DOJ. That means they’re in other beds that aren’t ICE beds. So you’re looking at all of them being in federal prison potentially, as opposed to taking up space in ICE custody,” Howell said. “All of these things open up the aperture for immigration enforcement in a huge way.” The Oversight Project went on to formally request at least a dozen data points from SSS in hopes of ascertaining how many asylum seekers and illegal immigrants are violating the law twofold with their avoidance of the draft. Copies of the letter will also be sent to Homan, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and DHS Secretary Kristi Noem.
Three million Hindus take ‘holy dip’ a day after fatal crowd crush
Millions of Hindus have thronged the northern Indian city of Prayagraj for the Mahakumbh Mela festival, a day after dozens died at a crowd crush at the world’s largest religious gathering. Train and bus stations in the city saw a surge in crowds as people continued to arrive for the festival, although some devotees remained nervous after the deadly crush. Krishna Soni, a student from the western state of Rajasthan’s Bikaner city, and his family of eight linked themselves together with string to ensure they would not lose each other in the massive crowd. Police said 30 people were killed in Wednesday’s crush and 60 were injured. The Mahakumbh Mela – held every 12 years – is expected to draw some 400 million devotees this year, officials estimate. The festival is taking place at a 4,000-hectare (9,900-acre) temporary township created for the purpose on the river banks – the size of 7,500 football fields. About 150,000 tents have been erected to accommodate devotees along with almost an equal number of toilets. Advertisement Adblock test (Why?)
Myanmar military extends state of emergency for another six months
The declaration is widely anticipated to be the last before the military holds long-delayed national polls this year. Myanmar’s military has extended its state of emergency for another six months as it struggles to maintain its increasingly fragile grip on power, with fighting raging on multiple fronts across the country. The military-controlled National Defence and Security Council renewed the emergency rule in a meeting in the capital Naypyidaw on Friday, a day before the four-year anniversary of a coup that plunged the country into chaos after a decade of tentative democracy. “All members of National Defence and Security Council including the commander in chief as well as acting president decided in unison for the extension of the state of emergency for another six months according to the section 425 of the 2008 constitution,” the statement said. “There are still more tasks to be done to hold the general election successfully. Especially for a free and fair election, stability and peace is still needed,” state-run MRTV said on its Telegram channel in announcing the extension of emergency rule. Myanmar has been in turmoil since February 1, 2021, when the military seized power from the democratically elected National League for Democracy (NLD) government and arrested its hugely popular leader, Aung San Suu Kyi. Advertisement Justifying the coup, the military claimed, without evidence, that the NLD had committed widespread voter fraud in the 2020 elections that it won by a landslide three months earlier. The military imposed a yearlong state of emergency after seizing power, extending it for six-month intervals multiple times as it brutally crushed peaceful pro-democracy protests and battled ethnic armed groups and anti-military fighters that emerged in response to the coup. The military’s Commander-in-Chief Min Aung Hlaing – who is also serving as the country’s self-appointed prime minister and president – had promised to hold elections by August 2023. But he has repeatedly delayed doing so due to the increasingly intense armed rebellion unfolding across the country. Myanmar’s military has suffered a string of damaging defeats in the north and west of the country since late 2023, in what the United States Institute of Peace has described as a crisis of an “unprecedented scale” for the military – which has dominated the country’s politics since the 1960s. Despite this turmoil, growing internal and external pressure means the military is widely expected to hold the long-delayed national elections in late 2025. Opposition groups have pledged to violently disrupt the polls, which they condemn as an attempt to legitimise the military regime which seized power four years ago. Under the military-drafted 2008 constitution, authorities are required to hold elections within six months of a state of emergency being lifted, which is slated for July 31. Advertisement Richard Horsey, Myanmar adviser to the Crisis Group, told Al Jazeera that most indications point to elections finally being held later this year, with November traditionally being the month in which polls take place in Myanmar. “The National Defence and Security Council meeting is scheduled for July 31, or there could be an ad hoc meeting called before then, to potentially declare an end to the state of emergency,” Horsey told Al Jazeera. “Then they have six months to organise the polls.” Horsey added that the end of the state of emergency and the subsequent elections imply a “return to rule by the 2008 military-drafted constitution”, a move that would be welcomed by members of Myanmar’s military and its main backer, China. “A return to the 2008 constitution is seen as hopefully leading to a little bit more predictability and less random decisions [by Ming Aung Hlaing],” he said. Adblock test (Why?)
Israel attacks Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley, violates ceasefire deal again
In the two months from November 27 to Monday, Israel killed at least 83 people in Lebanon Israel has launched a wave of attacks on Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley in its latest breach of a fragile ceasefire agreement with the Hezbollah group. The Israeli army said on Friday it struck “multiple” Hezbollah targets in the area near the border with Syria in the east, as tensions escalated following its extension of a recent deadline for removing its troops from the country. The army claimed that the sites it targeted in the overnight attack include “underground infrastructure used to develop and manufacture weaponry” and sites on the border used to “smuggle weaponry into Lebanon”. Israel was supposed to complete its army’s withdrawal from Lebanon by January 26 under a ceasefire agreement with Hezbollah agreed last November. However, it refused to do so and the deadline was then extended to February 18. Under the terms of the ceasefire, the Lebanese army is to deploy in the south as Hezbollah pulls its forces back north of the Litani River, some 30km (20 miles) from the border. Israel made clear it had no intention of meeting the deadline, claiming that the Lebanese army had not fulfilled its side of the bargain. Advertisement In the two months from November 27 to Monday, Israel killed at least 83 people in Lebanon, according to data obtained from Lebanon’s Ministry of Public Health. At least 228 were also injured as displaced residents tried to return to villages where Israeli soldiers remain stationed. Earlier this week, as thousands of people in Lebanon tried to return to their homes, Israeli forces killed at least 24 in southern Lebanon. This week, Lebanese media reported repeated violations of the ceasefire agreement by the Israeli military, including attacks on the town of Taybeh and village of Kfar Kila, both on the border with Israel. The most recent drone attack injured at least five people in the southern Lebanese town of Majdal Selem on Wednesday, the Reuters news agency reported. From the beginning of the conflict on October 8, 2023 to November 26, 2024, Israeli forces killed at least 3,961 people across Lebanon and injured more than 16,520. Adblock test (Why?)
This Indian train will only serve vegetarian food, no eggs, meat on menu, you won’t be able to guess name, it is…
The Vande Bharat Express, running from Delhi to Katra in Jammu and Kashmir, offers exclusively vegetarian food.
‘Refuse to be their puppet’: Top 5 moments from Tulsi Gabbard’s confirmation hearing
President Donald Trump’s pick for director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, faced an hourslong hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday, fielding a bevy of questions related to her qualifications and previous remarks related to national security. Gabbard appeared before the intelligence committee on Thursday morning where she worked to rally support from lawmakers ahead of Senate committee and floor votes. Fox News Digital reported ahead of the hearing that Gabbard did not have a majority of its committee members’ votes, which are necessary to move to the full Senate, according to a senior Intel Committee aide. Gabbard likely will need every Republican vote to move past the committee, assuming Democrats vote against her. A spokesperson for Gabbard brushed off concerns that Gabbard would not have enough committee votes in a statement to Fox News Digital ahead of the hearing. “Anonymous sources are going to continue to lie and smear to try and take down the President’s nominees and subvert the will of the American people and the media is playing a role in publishing these lies,” the spokesperson said. “That doesn’t change the fact that Lt. Col. Gabbard is immensely qualified for this role and we look forward to her hearing.” Fox News Digital compiled the top five moments, exchanges and highlights from the hearing, which ended ahead of 1 p.m. on Thursday before it moved to a closed session later in the afternoon. Gabbard kicked off her Thursday hearing by preemptively combating “lies and smears” she anticipated to hear from some Senate lawmakers, including that she simultaneously operates as a “puppet” for Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin and others. “Before I close, I want to warn the American people who are watching at home: You may hear lies and smears in this hearing that will challenge my loyalty to and my love for our country,” Gabbard said. “Those who oppose my nomination imply that I am loyal to something or someone other than God, my own conscience and the Constitution of the United States,” she continued. “Accusing me of being Trump’s puppet, Putin’s puppet, Assad’s puppet, a guru’s puppet, Modi’s puppet, not recognizing the absurdity of simultaneously being the puppet of five different puppet masters.” ‘LIES AND SMEARS’: TULSI GABBARD RAILS AGAINST DEM NARRATIVE SHE’S TRUMP’S AND PUTIN’S ‘PUPPET’ “The same tactic was used against President Trump and failed,” she said of the accusations against her. Gabbard’s critics have slammed her since Trump’s election win and her nomination, including claiming she lacks the qualifications for the role, questioning her judgment over her 2017 meeting with then-Syrian dictator Bashar Assad and labeling her a “likely a Russian asset,” as Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz claimed in November 2024. “The American people elected President Trump with a decisive victory and mandate for change,” Gabbard said. “The fact is, what truly unsettles my political opponents is I refuse to be their puppet. I have no love for Assad or Gadhafi or any dictator. I just hate al-Qaeda. I hate that we have leaders who cozy up to Islamist extremists, minimizing them to so-called rebels.” Gabbard was questioned on her views of National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden repeatedly throughout the hearing, including by ranking member Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., as well as Sens. Angus King, I-Maine, Michael Bennet, D-Colo., Susan Collins, R-Maine, James Lankford, R-Okla., and others. “Was Edward Snowden a traitor to the United States of America?” Bennet asked Gabbard. “He broke the law,” Gabbard responded. “Was Edward Snowden a traitor?” Lankford also asked. TOP SENATE INTELLIGENCE DEM GRILLS GABBARD IF EDWARD SNOWDEN IS ‘BRAVE’: ‘VERY TROUBLING’ “Senator, my heart is with my commitment to our Constitution and our nation’s security,” she responded. “I have shown throughout my almost 22 years of service in the military, as well as my time in Congress, how seriously I take the privilege of having access to classified information and our nation’s secrets. And that’s why I’m committed, if confirmed as director of national intelligence, to join you in making sure that there is no future Snowden-type leak.” Gabbard previously has made favorable remarks related to Snowden across the years, including in 2019 on Joe Rogan’s podcast, and calling on Trump in 2020 to pardon “brave whistleblowers exposing lies and illegal actions in our government,” such as Snowden. “If it wasn’t for Snowden, the American people would never have learned the NSA was collecting phone records and spying on Americans,” she said on “The Joe Rogan Experience” podcast in 2019. Snowden was working as an information technology contractor for the National Security Agency in 2013 when he traveled to Hong Kong to meet with three journalists and transferred thousands of pages of classified documents about the U.S. government’s surveillance of its citizens to them. He soon traveled to Russia and planned to head to Ecuador, but federal authorities canceled his passport and indicted him for espionage. Snowden ultimately remained in Russia and became a naturalized citizen in 2022. “Until you are nominated by the president to be the DNI, you consistently praised the actions of Edward Snowden, someone, I believe, jeopardized the security of our nation and then, to flaunt that, fled to Russia,” Warner said to Gabbard on Thursday morning. “You even called Edward Snowden, and I quote here, ‘a brave whistleblower,’” he said. “Every member of this committee supports the rights of legal whistleblowers. But Edward Snowden isn’t a whistleblower, and in this case, I’m a lot closer to the chairman’s words where he said Snowden is, quote, ‘an egotistical serial liar and traitor’ who, quote, ‘deserves to rot in jail for the rest of his life.’ Ms. Gabbard, a simple yes or no question: Do you still think Edward Snowden is brave?” Gabbard pushed back that Snowden “broke the law” and does not agree with his leak of intelligence. “Mr. Vice Chairman, Edward Snowden broke the law,” she said. “I do not agree with or support with all of the information and intelligence that he released nor the way in
Trump health secretary nominee RFK Jr survives heated hearings ahead of crucial confirmation votes
The back-to-back combustible Senate confirmation hearings are over. But Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), still faces crucial committee and full Senate confirmation votes in his mission to lead 18 powerful federal agencies that oversee the nation’s food and health. Testifying in front of the Senate Finance Committee on Wednesday and the Health Committee on Thursday, the vaccine skeptic and environmental crusader who ran for the White House in 2024 before ending his bid and endorsing Trump faced plenty of verbal fireworks over past controversial comments. And while most of the tough questions and sparring over his stances on vaccines, abortion, Medicaid and other issues, came from Democrats on the two committees, Thursday’s hearing ended with the top Republican on the Health panel saying he was “struggling” with Kennedy’s nomination. RFK’S CONFIRMATION HEARING QUICK GOES OFF THE RAILS “Your past of undermining confidence in vaccines with unfounded or misleading arguments concerns me,” GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy told the nominee. The physician from Louisiana, who is a crucial vote and who has voiced concerns over Kennedy’s past stance on vaccines, asked whether Kennedy can “be trusted to support the best public health.” And the senator told Kennedy, who seeks to lead key health agencies like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Food and Drug Administration, the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, that “you may be hearing from me over the weekend.” HEAD HERE FOR LATEST FOX NEWS REPORTING ON PRESIDENT TRUMP’S FIRST 100 DAYS BACK IN THE WHITE HOUSE Kennedy faced two days of grilling over his controversial past comments, including his repeated claims in recent years linking vaccines to autism, which have been debunked by scientific research. And Democrats have also spotlighted Kennedy’s service for years as chair or chief legal counsel for Children’s Health Defense, the nonprofit organization he founded that has advocated against vaccines and sued the federal government numerous times, including a challenge over the authorization of the COVID vaccine for children. One of Thursday’s most heated exchanges came as independent Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont pushed Kennedy over his past of linking vaccines to autism. Sanders stated that “vaccines do not cause autism” and asked Kennedy “do you agree with that?” After the nominee didn’t answer, Sanders responded, “I asked you a simple question, Bobby.” Kennedy replied, “Senator, if you show me those studies, I will absolutely … apologize.” “That is a very troubling response because the studies are there. Your job was to have looked at those studies as an applicant for this job,” Sanders said. Later in the hearing, the two also clashed over political contributions to the pharmaceutical industry, with Kennedy referring to Sanders simply as “Bernie.” “Almost all the members of this panel, including yourself, are accepting millions of dollars from the pharmaceutical industry and protecting their interests,” Kennedy said. Sanders immediately pushed back, “I ran for president like you. I got millions and millions of contributions. They did not come from the executives, not one nickel of PAC [political action committee] money from the pharmaceutical [companies]. They came from workers.” Another fiery moment came as Democrat Sen. Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire appeared to fight back tears as she noted her son’s struggles with cerebral palsy amid accusations that “partisanship” was behind the Democrats’ blistering questions to Kennedy. Hassan, who at Wednesday’s hearing charged that Kennedy “sold out” to Trump by altering his position on abortion, on Thursday accused the nominee of “relitigating settled science.” But many of the Republicans on the panel came to Kennedy’s defense, including conservative Sen. Rand Paul. The ophthalmologist from Kentucky defended Kennedy and took aim at comments about vaccines not causing autism. “We don’t know what causes autism, so we should be more humble,” Paul said to applause from Kennedy supporters in the committee room audience wearing “Make America Healthy Again” garb. The 71-year-old Kennedy, a scion of the nation’s most storied political dynasty, launched a long-shot campaign for the Democrat presidential nomination against President Joe Biden in April 2023. But six months later, he switched to an independent run for the White House. Kennedy made major headlines again last August when he dropped his presidential bid and endorsed Trump. While Kennedy had long identified as a Democrat and repeatedly invoked his late father, former Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, and his late uncle, former President John F. Kennedy – who were both assassinated in the 1960s – Kennedy in recent years built relationships with far-right leaders due in part to his high-profile vaccine skepticism. Trump announced soon after the November election that he would nominate Kennedy to his Cabinet to run HHS. Kennedy, whose outspoken views on Big Pharma and the food industry have also sparked controversy, has said he aims to shift the focus of the agencies he would oversee toward promotion of a healthy lifestyle, including overhauling dietary guidelines, taking aim at ultra-processed foods and getting to the root causes of chronic diseases. “Our country is not going to be destroyed because we get the marginal tax rate wrong. It is going to be destroyed if we get this issue wrong,” Kenendy said Thursday as he pointed to chronic diseases. “And I am in a unique position to be able to stop this epidemic.” The Finance Committee, which will decide on whether to send Kennedy’s nomination to the full Senate, has yet to schedule a date for a confirmation vote. With Republicans controlling the Senate by a 53-47 majority, Kennedy can only afford to lose the support of three GOP senators if Democrats unite against his confirmation. And besides Cassidy, two other Republicans on the Health Committee – Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska – are potential “no” votes on Kennedy. Collins on Thursday questioned Kennedy about vaccines, herd immunity as well as his views on Lyme disease. Kenendy pledged that there’s “nobody who will fight
4 of the biggest clashes between Patel, Senate Dems at his confirmation hearing
President Donald Trump’s FBI director nominee Kash Patel sparred with Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday in his lengthy confirmation hearing, where he faced off with lawmakers on issues ranging from Trump’s pardoning of Jan. 6 rioters, his role in elevating a song released by the Jan. 6 inmate choir, and his previous call to shut down the FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C. He also answered questions about his views on QAnon and on his book, “Government Gangsters.” Here were the four biggest clashes of the day. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., blasted Patel for refusing to share his grand jury testimony from the probe into Trump’s handling of classified documents after leaving the White House. FORMER TRUMP OFFICIALS REJECT WHISTLEBLOWER CLAIM THAT FBI DIRECTOR NOMINEE KASH PATEL BROKE HOSTAGE PROTOCOL The charges against Trump were dropped in Florida and New York after he won the presidential election, in keeping with a long-standing DOJ policy against prosecuting a sitting president. Blumenthal told Patel on Thursday that refusing to share his remarks with the panel gave “the appearance” that he is being less than transparent. “The appearance here is that you have something to hide,” Blumenthal told him. “I submit to my colleagues on the committee, we need to know what the grand jury testimony is … and you have no objection to our seeking it, but you won’t tell us.” “Even in a classified, confidential setting, I think that position is disqualifying,” he said, before adding, “What are you hiding?” “Why won’t you tell us?” Patel declined to give a satisfactory answer. “The appearance here is that you have something to hide,” Blumenthal said. WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY DEFENDS TRUMP’S FIRING OF INSPECTORS GENERAL Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., also traded barbs with Patel on Thursday over the president’s sweeping pardon and sentence commutations to the more than 1,500 defendants charged in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riots. Durbin, the ranking Democrat on the panel, asked whether Patel believed the U.S. is “safer” after the mass pardons were granted, to which Patel attempted to equivocate the action to pardons issued by former President Joe Biden. He told Durbin that he has “not looked at all 1,600 individual cases” before adding, “I also believe America is not safer because of President Biden’s commutation of a man who murdered two FBI agents,” Patel said, referencing Biden’s decision to commute the sentence of Leonard Peltier, a Native American activist convicted of murdering two FBI agents on a South Dakota reservation. The agents’ families, he said, “[D]eserve better than to have the man that point-blank range fired a shotgun into their heads and murdered them released from prison.” “So it goes both ways.” The January 6 rioters, and their pardons, were a frequent topic of the hearing. Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., hit Patel with rapid-fire questions regarding his involvement in and promotion of a song recorded by the “J6 Prison Choir,” a group of Capitol rioters, during their incarceration. Patel shared the song, “Justice for All,” on social media. He said that at the time he “did not know about the violent offenders,” noting that he “did not participate in any of the violence in and around Jan. 6.” In response, Schiff gave Patel a harsh public dressing-down over the violence and assault endured by the Capitol Police on Jan. 6, 2021. “Turn around and look at them,” Schiff told Patel before motioning to the officers lined up for protection along the back of the room. Patel declined to do so. “I want you to look at them if you can, if you have the courage to look them in the eye, Mr. Patel. Tell them you’re proud of what you did,” Schiff said. “Tell them you’re proud that you raised money off of people that assaulted their colleagues, that pepper sprayed them, that beat them with poles. Tell them you’re proud of what you did,” Schiff said, adding, “They’re right there. They are guarding you today.” FIRST ON FOX: TRUMP CABINET NOMINEE LEOFFLER PLEDGES TO DONATE SALARY TO CHARITY IF CONFIRMED New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker’s questions to Patel regarding any efforts by Trump to declassify documents after leaving the White House were among the most heated moments of the hearing. Booker, a New Jersey Democrat, asked Patel repeatedly whether he witnessed Trump handling documents marked as classified or moving to declassify them after leaving the Oval Office. “In the name of all the values you have said today, did you or did you not testify to witnessing the president of the United States declassify documents?” Booker asked, his voice rising several octaves. Patel told Booker he did not know if the documents he saw being declassified at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida were seized by FBI agents in the special counsel probe, and he urged Booker to obtain them legally. “The question is: Will you lie for the president of the United States?” Booker said. “Would you lie for Donald Trump?” “No,” Patel said. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Booker urged Patel to testify to the Senate over what he said to the grand jury. It “would be utterly irresponsible for this committee to move forward with his nomination … if we do not know that the future head of the FBI would break the law and lie for the president of the United States,” Booker said. “He’s refusing the transparency that he claims to adhere to. He is refusing to be direct with the United States Senate,” he continued. “Did he or did he not lie for the president? That is the question.”
Union Budget 2025: Will there be income tax relief for middle class? Here’s what PM Modi said
Every year, salaried taxpayers hope for lower tax rates, revised tax slabs, and a higher standard deduction to reduce their tax burden