"Two hundred and fifty years into the American experiment, our national debt has hit an all-time high of $40 trillion." "During his first campaign for president, Donald Trump promised to pay down the national debt within eight years." "Since then, it has doubled." "In fact, Trump has accumulated as much debt since entering the White House as every president from George Washington through Bill Clinton combined."
The Food and Drug Administration upgraded a recall of frozen blueberries and mixed berries sold at Publix grocery stores across the U.S. to the highest health risk level on Tuesday, according to an enforcement report. Publix on July 29 announced a recall of four varieties of frozen GreenWise organic blueberries and mixed berries sold at stores across eight states over potential E. coli contamination. The FDA is now categorizing it as a "Class 1" recall, which the agency assigns to product recalls "in which there is a reasonable probability that the use of or exposure to a violative product will cause serious adverse health consequences or death."
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President Donald Trump's close aide Natalie Harp apparently worked inside the White House for a year without a security clearance, according to a report on Wednesday. Both people said Harp's reasoning for failing to complete the process was unknown," Traylor wrote in a post on X. "After concerns mounted among the White House counsel's office and security officials, the president himself intervened and Harp in recent months filled out the forms to launch a formal federal background investigation and received the clearance, one of the people said."
President Donald Trump bragged on Wednesday, "I'm very good at flagpoles!" during what CNN described as an "impromptu tour of his various White House construction projects." CNN's Kasie Hunt reported on the moment during Wednesday's edition of The Arena, explaining, "The president's schedule initially said he was participating in a policy meeting during that time. Instead, he spent 32 minutes ... explaining in painstaking detail the changes that he's bringing to the People's House." While the CNN segment is a supercut of the event, the full clip shows Trump citing a 2025 donation of his, which he described on Truth Social at the time as "two beautiful Flag Poles on both sides of the White House."
Patricide Jeff is despondent over Maddie Cawthorn's drubbing.