FIRST ON FOX: Deterring China is a top priority in Congress for the House’s number four Republican.  Michigan Rep. Lisa McClain, GOP conference chairwoman, is putting forth legislation that would expose the assets of top CCP officials and bar them from using U.S. banking systems if China chooses to invade Taiwan. Her bill would require the Treasury secretary to unleash details about illegal assets held by Chinese officials...

Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, said that Europeans complaining about not carrying more weight in negotiations to end the conflict in Ukraine need to either step up their defense spending or “shut up.”  Crenshaw said in Politico’s “Power Play” podcast on Thursday that Europeans haven’t “earned a seat” at the negotiating table and won’t — unless they step up and place 50,000 troops on the border of Poland to...

FIRST ON FOX: The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has raked in hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer funds in recent years while doling out hefty salaries to its top brass and bankrolling a variety of left-wing initiatives.  NASEM, which the New York Times reported in 2023 derives 70% of its budget from federal funds, received $200,616,000 in taxpayer funding from grants and contracts in 2023, according...