Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) on Friday publicly called for the acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to reject a vaccine advisory panel's recommendation to no longer administer doses of the hepatitis B vaccine to all newborns. Cassidy's plea came soon after the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) voted 8-3 in favor of a new recommendation that hepatitis B vaccination for newborns be left to "individual-based decision-making" among parents and their health care providers, something which members of panel noted already occurs. The vote states "it is suggested" that a hepatitis B vaccine dose be administered "no earlier than 2 months of age." Cassidy spoke out forcefully against changes to hepatitis B guidance, the preventable liver disease being a close issue for the longtime physician. read more
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's rush to bolster the number of ICE agents on the streets means applicants who can "barely read or write" are being accepted, according to a new report. ... "We have people failing open-book tests and we have folks that can barely read or write English," one DHS official told the [Daily Mail].
President Trump has made increasingly sweeping claims about new investments flowing into the United States, citing figures as high as $21 trillion since taking office. "Twenty-one trillion dollars will be the amount invested in the United States " or committed to invest " in one year," the president said in a November meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. In an Oval Office event this Wednesday, President Trump said, "In 10 months, we have $18 trillion being invested." But a CBS News review found no evidence that total commitments or new investments approach the scale the president has cited. While companies and foreign governments have announced large-scale projects since Mr. Trump's inauguration, the White House has not provided documentation showing total investments approaching $21 trillion " an amount roughly two-thirds of the annual GDP.
Kash Patel's girlfriend issues are not going away with MS NOW reporting that the embattled FBI director has ordered agents to act as Uber drivers and deliver one his girlfriend's "inebriated" pals home. According to the report from Ken Dilanian and Carol Leonning, on more than one occasion the friend needed a ride home but could not drive and the FBI SWAT team assigned to Patel's girlfriend, Alexis Wilkins, objected, only to be overruled. The report notes Wilkins asked "FBI agents on her security team at least two times, including once this spring, to drive her friend home, and agents objected to diverting from their assignment, said the sources, who were granted anonymity to discuss nonpublic matters. But Patel insisted they do as Wilkins requested and in one case called the leader of Wilkins' security detail and yelled at him to do so."
A man pardoned by President Donald Trump for his role in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol returned to Washington in recent days and has been wandering the neighborhood of Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin " alarming police and prosecutors, who urged a judge to immediately jail him. U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols, who convicted Taylor Taranto at a bench trial this year for a threat to federal buildings and for bringing weapons to President Barack Obama's D.C. neighborhood, did not immediately order him back to prison, but said he would weigh the request over the next few weeks. read more
The PWZ pissant comes crawling back.