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Schumer says Dems will fight voter ID push 'tooth and nail,' balks at DHS role in elections
This is performative politics again.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., vowed Sunday that Senate Democrats will block the latest GOP-backed effort to require proof of citizenship to vote.
"We will not let it pass in the Senate," Schumer told CNN’s Jake Tapper. "We are fighting it tooth and nail. It's an outrageous proposal that is, you know, that shows the sort of political bias of the MAGA right. They don't want poor people to vote. They don't want people of color to vote because they often don't vote for them."
Schumer’s comments came after Tapper pressed him on his opposition, noting that polling shows roughly 83% of Americans support some form of voter identification. That figure comes from a Pew Research poll published last year that found 71% of Democratic voters surveyed supported presenting an ID to vote.
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Still, Schumer and most Senate Democrats have criticized the Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act, which passed the House last week and is expected to face a vote in the Senate.
The bill would require proof of citizenship to register to vote and would establish a system for state election officials to share information with federal authorities to verify voter rolls. It would also allow the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to pursue immigration cases if non-citizens are found listed as eligible voters.
Schumer and his caucus have panned the bill as voter suppression targeting poorer Americans and minority groups.
FETTERMAN SLAMS DEMOCRATS' 'JIM CROW 2.0' VOTER ID RHETORIC AS PARTY UNITY FRACTURES
"What they are proposing in this so-called SAVE Act is like Jim Crow 2.0," Schumer said. "They make it so hard to get any kind of voter ID that more than 20 million legitimate people, mainly poorer people and people of color, will not be able to vote under this law."
Without support from Senate Democrats — save for a possible defection from Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa. — the bill is likely to fail.
The only way around that would be eliminating the Senate’s 60-vote filibuster threshold — a move Republicans oppose — or forcing a so-called talking filibuster that could require hours of debate and stall other Senate business.
HARDLINE CONSERVATIVES DOUBLE DOWN TO SAVE THE SAVE ACT
Schumer also pushed back on comments from DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, who earlier this week said elections "may be one of the most important things that we need to make sure we trust, is reliable, and that when it gets to Election Day that we've been proactive to make sure that we have the right people voting, …

Yes, We Can Stop Welfare Fraud
This deserves loud pushback.

Americans want to help people in need, but when government does that, about 500 billion taxpayer dollars get stolen.

It’s how the system is designed, says the United Council on Welfare Fraud’s Andrew McClenahan in this new video. “You’re measuring success by the amount of money you put out.”

Because of that, government agencies rarely check whether their handouts go to the right people.

Minnesota is just the latest example.

Government officials didn’t uncover that fraud—YouTuber Nick Shirley did.

I say to McClenahan, “It’s weird that a kid did what government investigators couldn’t do.”

“Articles back in 2018 talked about millions of dollars in suitcases being flown out of Minneapolis,” he replies. “But it took a 20-year-old with an iPhone to go in there and expose it on Twitter.”

After Shirley publicized the fraud, the White House froze billions in welfare payments.

Progressives didn’t like that.

“What they are doing is creating confusion, chaos, trying to intimidate people,” complains Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn. “There is no reason for them to fully stop funding these programs. The only reason they’re doing that is for PR purposes.”

Minnesota’s Gov. Tim Walz was hardly better. “This is on my watch. I am accountable,” he said.

But he did nothing about the fraud.  

During the pandemic, President Joe Biden said: “My message to those cheats out there is this: You can’t hide. We’re going to find you!”

But they didn’t.

Of the hundreds of billions stolen in 2024, the Department of Justice barely recovered $2.9 billion.

Is there nothing we can do to stop fraud?

“Sure, you can!” says McClenahan. “It takes less than a second to verify things with data connections these days.”

But government rarely uses modern data connections.

Elon Musk, when he ran the Department of Government Efficiency, complained that government records weren’t computerized. Many agencies doled money out without even saying what the money was for, or where it went! He calls government recordkeeping a “time warp.”

“They’re relying on rules and regulations written for pen and paper,” says McClenahan.

Poor recordkeeping makes fraud easier.

Some people openly brag about it.

During President Donald Trump’s first term, a rapper wrote a song about stealing benefits that Trump rushed out for pandemic relief: “I gotta shout-out to Donald Trump. I just might swipe me a lump sum.”

That was in California. There’s lot of fraud there. The state gave phone subsidies to 94,000 accounts of dead people.

“Everybody knows that the United States is the easiest game in town,” says McClenahan.

Some stolen funds go to alleged terrorists.

“We literally rang the dinner bell for the whole world, and they answered,” he says.

“These are American programs,” I point out. “People in other countries aren’t eligible.”

“But if you’re not checking to see where somebody lives, where they’re applying from, who they are, you’re not going to find them!” says McClenahan.

In addition, many state politicians don’t try to find fraud. Handouts mostly come from the federal government, so local politicians reason: “People in other states pay, but my taxpayers collect! Why make a big effort to stop …

Hillary Clinton clashes with Czech leader over Trump policies at Munich security conference
Every delay has consequences.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton clashed with a Czech political leader at the Munich Security Conference in Germany on Saturday.
Clinton was speaking during a panel on the state of the West where she heavily criticized President Donald Trump for his dealings with Europe. Petr Macinka, a Czech deputy prime minister, defended the Trump administration as Clinton repeatedly mocked his statements and tried to speak over him.
"First, I think you really don't like him," Macinka said as he began to respond to Clinton's Trump-bashing.
"You know, that is absolutely true," Clinton said. "But not only do I not like him, but I don't like what he's actually doing to the United States and the world, and I think you should take a hard look at it if you think there is something good that will come of it."
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"Well, what Trump is doing in America, I think that it is a reaction. Reaction for some policies that really went too far, too far from the regular people," Macinka said as Clinton interjected to ask for examples.
Macinka referenced "woke" ideologies, gender theories and cancel culture that ran rampant throughout the U.S. in recent years.
Clinton then mocked him, suggesting he was opposed to "women getting their rights."
THE ONE SENTENCE IN RUBIO'S MUNICH SPEECH THAT REVEALED TRUMP'S RED LINE FOR EUROPE
Macinka then rebuffed her hostility, saying he can tell he was making her "nervous."
The exchange came during the same panel where Clinton discussed immigration in the U.S., admitting that it had gone "too far."
"It went too far, it's been disruptive and destabilizing, and it needs to be fixed in a humane way with secure borders that don't torture and kill people and how we're going to have a strong family structure because it is at the base of civilization," she added.
Clinton acknowledged that there are places where a physical barrier is appropriate but opposed large-scale expansion of a border wall during her 2016 presidential campaign.
At the time, she supported then-President Barack Obama's executive actions that deferred immigration enforcement against millions of children and parents in the country illegally and wanted to end the practice of family detention.
Clinton also planned on continuing Obama's policy of deporting violent criminals, but wanted to scale back immigration raids, which she said at the time produced "unnecessary fear and disruption in communities," Fox News Digital previously reported.
Fox News' Ashley DiMella contributed to this report.

This State Fires a Shot Against ‘Blacklisting’ Conservative Media
This framing isn't accidental.

West Virginia state senators passed a bill to prohibit what it called “news censorship,” as other state legislatures have considered similar speech proposals.  

Specifically, the “First Amendment Preservation Act” bans state agencies from entering contracts with companies that use media monitoring or bias-rating organizations. The contracts could be used as guides to direct state agencies to prohibit state advertising dollars from going to news outlets.  

The legislation, Senate Bill 531, was sponsored by state Sen. Mike Azinger, a Republican, who has backed other First Amendment measures.  

“It was simply brought to my attention that ideologically-based fact checkers and media monitors are a distinct potentiality in West Virginia as it is already occurring in other states; so we set out to catch this proactively,” Azinger told The Daily Signal.  

“Also, I had a viscerally positive reaction to the bill when it was offered to me to sponsor it, since I have run and passed many a number of freedom and First Amendment bills; this drew me naturally to SB 531, The First Amendment Preservation Act,” Azinger said.  

This could primarily target NewsGuard, a media monitoring site that sued the Trump administration’s Federal Trade Commission for investigating its alleged efforts to blacklist conservative-leaning news outlets. NewsGuard argues the West Virginia proposal could prevent detection of fake news sites by foreign adversaries.  

The West Virginia proposal is similar to a provision approved in December in the National Defense Authorization Act.

That provision prohibits the War Department from forming contracts for the purpose of advertising for military recruitment with “advertising firms like NewsGuard that blacklist conservative news sources,” according to the House Armed Services Committee. 

Among past free speech bills, Azinger sponsored a bill that passed to ensure student journalists in high school and college have greater protections from censorship, and that school administrators could not exert prior review or punish student media advisers for refusing to censor content. 

The American Legislative Exchange Commission, a conservative group that recommends state legislative proposals, introduced its “Statement of Principle on News Censorship in 2024. It says that if government agencies rely on “fact-checking” or media monitoring groups based on subjective content judgments, it could chill press freedom.  

“Whether in print, over the airwaves or online, government agencies should harness the full potential of today’s media offerings to communicate official notices on the platforms where their constituents actually frequent – not put their thumbs on the scale exclusively in favor of ‘mainstream’ outlets,” the ALEC Statement of Principles on News Censorship says. 

“A troubling trend has emerged in which ‘media monitoring organizations’ analyze news outlets for the accuracy of their reporting and then blacklist or otherwise exclude certain publications from advertising,” the statement of principles continues. “This accuracy is often determined by adherence to official government positions.” 

ALEC referenced organizations that …

Yes, We Can Stop Fraud
We're watching the same failure loop.

Americans want to help people in need, but when government does that, about 500 billion taxpayer dollars get stolen.

It’s how the system is designed, says the United Council on Welfare Fraud’s Andrew McClenahan in this new video. “You’re measuring success by the amount of money you put out.”

Because of that, government agencies rarely check whether their handouts go to the right people.

Minnesota is just the latest example.

Government officials didn’t uncover that fraud—YouTuber Nick Shirley did.

I say to McClenahan, “It’s weird that a kid did what government investigators couldn’t do.”

“Articles back in 2018 talked about millions of dollars in suitcases being flown out of Minneapolis,” he replies. “But it took a 20-year-old with an iPhone to go in there and expose it on Twitter.”

After Shirley publicized the fraud, the White House froze billions in welfare payments.

Progressives didn’t like that.

“What they are doing is creating confusion, chaos, trying to intimidate people,” complains Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn. “There is no reason for them to fully stop funding these programs. The only reason they’re doing that is for PR purposes.”

Minnesota’s Gov. Tim Walz was hardly better. “This is on my watch. I am accountable,” he said.

But he did nothing about the fraud.  

During the pandemic, President Joe Biden said: “My message to those cheats out there is this: You can’t hide. We’re going to find you!”

But they didn’t.

Of the hundreds of billions stolen in 2024, the Department of Justice barely recovered $2.9 billion.

Is there nothing we can do to stop fraud?

“Sure, you can!” says McClenahan. “It takes less than a second to verify things with data connections these days.”

But government rarely uses modern data connections.

Elon Musk, when he ran the Department of Government Efficiency, complained that government records weren’t computerized. Many agencies doled money out without even saying what the money was for, or where it went! He calls government recordkeeping a “time warp.”

“They’re relying on rules and regulations written for pen and paper,” says McClenahan.

Poor recordkeeping makes fraud easier.

Some people openly brag about it.

During President Donald Trump’s first term, a rapper wrote a song about stealing benefits that Trump rushed out for pandemic relief: “I gotta shout-out to Donald Trump. I just might swipe me a lump sum.”

That was in California. There’s lot of fraud there. The state gave phone subsidies to 94,000 accounts of dead people.

“Everybody knows that the United States is the easiest game in town,” says McClenahan.

Some stolen funds go to alleged terrorists.

“We literally rang the dinner bell for the whole world, and they answered,” he says.

“These are American programs,” I point out. “People in other countries aren’t eligible.”

“But if you’re not checking to see where somebody lives, where they’re applying from, who they are, you’re not going to find them!” says McClenahan.

In addition, many state politicians don’t try to find fraud. Handouts mostly come from the federal government, so local politicians reason: “People in other states pay, but my taxpayers collect! Why make a big effort to stop …

(What’s Left of) Our Economy: Why That Last Official U.S. Jobs Report was Especially Good
This affects the entire country.

Before it gets too far back in our rear view mirrors, it’s definitely worth reporting on how strong many of the internals were in last week’s official U.S. jobs report (for January).

Not only were the headline figures good – with total employment rising by the most (130,000) since last December (237,000) and a main unemployment rate of 4.3 percent representing the best such result since the identical level in August. 

But the employment-to-population ratio – which measures the share of the working age population (aged 16 and over) with a job – was back up to its highest level (59.8 percent) since last April (60 percent).

The average mean period of unemployment (23.9 weeks) was down to its lowest level since last June (23.1 weeks).

The main indicator of underemployment – the so-called U-6 rate – dropped from 8.4 percent to eight percent (its lowest since last August’s 8.1 percent).

The number of Americans employed only part-time because a full-time job couldn’t be found dropped all the way from 5.341 million in December to 4.888 million.  That was the biggest monthly decrease in absolute terms since October, 2022 (4.131 million to 3.676 million).    

Multiple job holders as a share of those employed declined to 5.3 percent – a post-July, 2025 (5.1 percent) best. 

Unemployment for women dipped to 4.3 percent – back to where it was last August.  

January’s African American joblessness hit 7.2 percent – its best monthly result since last July’s identical number.

Youth unemployment (ages 16 to 19) is still way too high (13.6 percent).  But that’s the best such result since last May’s 13.4 percent.

The jobless rate for workers under 25 years of age lacking a high school diploma sank to 5.2 percent – the lowest since January, 2025.

At the same time, the January jobs results weren’t all roses.

First, they showed that revisions in employment totals for November and December were revised down by 17,000 altogether – and the preliminary results were pretty weak. (At the same time, due mainly to the Trump border and deportation policies, there’s lots of evidence that the numbers of net new jobs the economy needs to create to keep unemployment from rising has decreased considerably – indeed to the levels seen lately.  See, e.g., here.)

In addition, American job creation continues to be very narrowly based.  Positions that even Trump administration officials have (IMO, rightly) belittled as “government adjacent” (that is, government-subsidized) jobs accounted for an enormous 79.65 percent of all the January net new employment officially characterized as “private sector” jobs.

That’s especially worrisome if you believe, as I’ve been long arguing (e.g., here), that this trend is worrisome because the real private sector is more innovative and more productive than parts of the economy dominated by politicians’ decisions.

Also in January, unemployment for workers with a high school diploma but no college increased to 4.5 percent.  That’s still low by historical standards, but it was the highest level since November, 2024’s identical rate. 

In an especially discouraging development, the unemployment rate for veterans jumped from 3.9 percent to …

Trump says Board of Peace member states have vowed over $5 billion to rebuild Gaza
Notice what's missing.

President Donald Trump teased the inaugural meeting of his Board of Peace set for later this week, revealing that member states of the international body have collectively pledged over $5 billion to rebuild Gaza following Israel’s two-year war with Hamas.

The meeting will take place on Thursday at the U.S. Institute of Peace, which the State Department renamed after Trump, in Washington, D.C.

“We will announce that Member States have pledged more than $5 BILLION DOLLARS toward the Gaza Humanitarian and Reconstruction efforts, and have committed thousands of personnel to the International Stabilization Force and Local Police to maintain Security and Peace for Gazans,” Trump posted on Truth Social on Sunday.

OBAMA SAYS ‘RESPECT FOR THE OFFICE’ LOST AFTER TRUMP SHARES RACIST APE VIDEO

The United States and United Arab Emirates each promised more than $1 billion toward the reconstruction effort, the New York Times previously reported. About 25 countries have joined the Board of Peace so far, though it remains to be seen how much each member has vowed to provide.

Trump’s preview of the $5 billion pledge comes days after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu formally signed an agreement with the Board of Peace while visiting the White House.

Netanyahu traveled to the U.S. a week in advance of the Board of Peace meeting to discuss Gaza and other issues, including the U.S.-Iran nuclear deal talks. Because Netanyahu’s visit came earlier than initially expected, Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar will be taking the prime minister’s place at the inaugural Board of Peace meeting on Feb. 19.

As chairman of the Board of Peace, Trump is putting pressure on Hamas to demilitarize as required under his 20-point peace plan for Gaza.

“Very importantly, Hamas must uphold its commitment to Full and Immediate Demilitarization,” he wrote in the social media post.

Hamas is currently in demilitarization talks with mediators in Egypt, but the terrorist group has repeatedly pushed back against the demand to disarm under the Trump-led peace plan.

Hamas has indicated its government in Gaza would be dissolved once a Palestinian technocratic leadership committee assumed control of the enclave. The group has yet to relinquish full control of Gaza as Israel faces accusations for blocking members of the committee from entering the territory.

NETANYAHU SIGNS ISRAEL ONTO BOARD OF PEACE IN MEETING WITH MARCO RUBIO

A senior envoy on the Board of Peace is worried the …

The one sentence in Rubio's Munich speech that revealed Trump's red line for Europe
Who's accountable for the results?

Standing in Munich, where a Cold War wall once symbolized the division of a continent, Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivered President Donald Trump’s red line for Europe.
"We in America have no interest in being polite and orderly caretakers of the West’s managed decline," Rubio said during his Friday remarks before the Munich Security Conference.
America's top diplomat called for tighter borders, revived industry and a reassertion of national sovereignty, arguing that the West’s drift was not inevitable but the result of policy choices the Trump administration now intends to reverse.
RUBIO STEPS INTO MUNICH SPOTLIGHT AS TRUMP LEANS ON HIM TO CARRY VANCE’S POPULIST MESSAGE ABROAD
"We do not seek to separate, but to revitalize an old friendship and renew the greatest civilization in human history," he added, urging an alliance that "boldly races into the future."
Rubio’s 3,000-word address marked one of the clearest articulations yet of Trump’s break with the global status quo. It underscored a broader shift in transatlantic ties, with Washington pressing European allies to shoulder more of their own defense and elevate national sovereignty.
He described the erosion of manufacturing, porous borders and dependence on global institutions as symptoms of Western complacency.
RUBIO BLASTS ‘WORLD WITHOUT BORDERS’ FANTASY, WARNS MASS MIGRATION THREATENS WESTERN CIVILIZATION
Reclaiming supply chain independence, enforcing immigration limits and rebuilding defense capabilities, he said, would be key to reversing course.
His remarks landed before an audience of European leaders who have long relied on U.S. security guarantees and remain wary of a more transactional Washington. 
The shift was striking in a forum that has traditionally served as a showcase for transatlantic unity, where U.S. officials in previous years stressed multilateral cooperation and institutional continuity.
Whether European capitals embrace that vision remains to be seen. But Rubio made clear that, under Trump, the U.S. no longer sees itself as the quiet steward of a fading order.

Obama says ‘respect for the office’ lost after Trump shares racist ape video
Trust is earned, not demanded.

Former President Barack Obama said a “clown show” is happening on social media and television in response to a viral video President Donald Trump shared on Truth Social.

Trump took down an election conspiracy video from his social media earlier this month after it generated mass controversy, as it included a racist stereotype, portraying Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama as apes. The former president reacted to the video by saying most people in the United States find Trump’s behavior “deeply troubling” and called it a “distraction.”

“But as I’m traveling around the country, as you’re traveling around the country, you meet people, they still believe in decency, courtesy, kindness, and there’s this sort of clown show that’s happening in social media and on television,” Obama said on Brian Tyler Cohen’s podcast. “And what is true is that there doesn’t seem to be any shame about this among people who used to feel like you had to have some sort of decorum and a sense of propriety and respect for the office, right? So that’s been lost.”

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Obama also said the Democratic Party did come off as “scolds” to voters on certain issues, describing this as “virtue-signaling” that pushes voters away. He added that in order to create a welcoming environment, the party’s message needs to be “none of us are perfect,” something he said the party needs to recover.

In comparison, the former president said the Republican Party conducts “the mean, angry, exclusive, us/them, divisive politics,” whereas Democrats are “coming together.” He cited the recent Super Bowl halftime performance by Bad Bunny, who gave a “smart” performance by demonstrating “what a community is.”

“And people who did not speak Spanish and have never been to Puerto Rico, they saw that elderly woman serving a drink and the kids dancing with their grandmas, and it was intergenerational,” Obama said. “And it was a reminder of what Dr. King called ‘the beloved community’ can look like, which is not perfect, and it’s messy sometimes, and I guarantee you, not all of those lyrics were probably politically correct, and if you translated them. You know, people are complicated, but there was a sense of, ‘All right, there’s room for everybody here,’ and that, I think, is where we win.”

DEMOCRATS TEST ‘EPSTEIN CLASS’ ATTACK LINE AGAINST TRUMP’S ORBIT

Washington Examiner Executive Editor Bob Cusack said last week the Republican Party is off to “a very bad start” …

Immigration Is Shaking Up Political Parties in Britain, Europe, and the US
Transparency shouldn't be controversial.

As British Prime Minister Keir Starmer faces calls to resign for his appointment of Epstein-tied Peter Mandelson as ambassador to the United States, one is struck by the sudden instability of British governments.

In the 28 years between 1979 and 2007, Britain had only three prime ministers, while in the 19 years since 2007, it has had seven, and may soon have eight. Only one of those, David Cameron, carried his party to a reelection victory, and he resigned a year after being beaten in the Brexit referendum.

It’s not just leaders who have stumbled. Even historically long-lasting parties have. Britain’s Conservatives, who, since the party’s founding in 1846, 180 years ago, have been the most electorally successful party anywhere, are polling at 19% today. So is the Labour Party, founded in 1900 and Britain’s second party since 1923, 103 years ago.

Similarly, elsewhere in Europe, France’s historic socialist, communist, and Gaullist parties have more or less disappeared, and the National Rally, dismissed as unthinkable, to the point that the judicial establishment disqualified it from the ballot, still leads the polls under its 30-year-old successor.

Germany’s Social Democrats, founded in the 1880s, were swept in and promptly swept out of office, while the Christian Democrats, the descendants of the anti-Nazi Catholic Center party, have barely been holding their own against the oft-denounced AfD.

Italy’s dominant asymmetric duo, for two generations after World War II, the Christian Democrats and the Communists, fell on bad times in the 1990s, with the fading of belief in their founding faiths, Catholicism and communism.

Dominant since then have been media millionaire Silvio Berlusconi, the Five Star Movement party, founded by a comedian, and the current prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, whose party’s roots were once dismissed as neo-fascist.

The two American political parties, the oldest and third-oldest in the world, have shown more stability. In the first half of the 20th century, Democrats survived the landslide rejection of Woodrow Wilson in 1920, and Republicans survived the landslide rejection of Herbert Hoover in 1932.

The two parties’ resilience prevented Americans from succumbing, as many feared they would, to the totalitarian temptations that swept much of continental Europe in the 1920s and 1930s.

In the volatile years after what was then called the Great War, communists took over Russia in 1917 through 1920, fascists took over Italy in 1922 through 1924, and Nazis took over Germany in 1933 through 1934. No one could be sure that a similar upheaval would not succeed in France, Britain or America.

Before that war, American presidents opposed restrictions on immigration, confident that assimilation efforts, such as big-city public schools and Henry Ford’s English-language classes, would Americanize the Ellis Island generation of 1892-1914.

Fears of revolution and the wartime capacity to control people’s movements led to bipartisan majorities for the 1924 law that cut off immigration from eastern and southern Europe.

Now, a century later, immigration is the problem that, more than anything else, is threatening the hold of …

Campus Radicals Newsletter: Antifa-linked group tells students to mobilize, college students fake disabilities
How is this acceptable?

ANTI-WOKE WAVE: Tufts professor says students are ditching woke culture and finding performative politics 'cringy'
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DUBIOUS DIAGNOSES: Experts rip college students as reports expose them for abusing system with fake disabilities

Massie rips Trump’s lack of transparency on files as head of ‘Epstein administration’
Same show, different day.

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) derided President Donald Trump for his lack of transparency related to the Epstein files, going so far as to claim the president is in charge of the “Epstein administration.”

“Donald Trump told us that even though he had dinner with these kinds of people in New York City and West Palm Beach, that he would be transparent, but he’s not,” the congressman said on the ABC News Sunday morning news program This Week. “He’s still in with the Epstein class. This is the Epstein administration, and they’re attacking me for trying to get these files released.”

Within the Trump administration, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz are facing scrutiny for their past relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, the extent of which is seen in the files.

KHANNA SAYS DOJ ‘MUDDYING THE WATERS’ ON EPSTEIN FILES BY NAMING JANIS JOPLIN IN LETTER

Neither administration official nor Trump has been accused of any criminal behavior in relation to Epstein’s sexual crimes.

Since returning to the White House last year, Trump has tried to distance himself from his past relationship with the convicted sex offender. At several points, he claimed Democrats were pushing the Epstein files as a “hoax” to undermine his administration.

Trump later signed the Epstein Files Transparency Act, a bill passed by Congress to compel the Department of Justice to release all Epstein-related records in full and in a timely manner, as a way to expose Democrats’ ties to the late financier.

The DOJ maintains it is complying with the law by disclosing millions of records, but members of Congress continue to apply pressure on the department’s leadership.

Massie, for one, was not fond of answers made by Attorney General Pam Bondi during a contentious hearing in front of the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday.

Asked on ABC if he has confidence in Bondi as attorney general, Massie replied, “I don’t think Pam Bondi has confidence in Pam Bondi. She wasn’t confident enough to engage in anything but name-calling in a hearing. And so no, I don’t have confidence in her.”

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The Kentucky Republican cited Bondi’s evasive response to his question about the redaction of former Victoria’s Secret CEO Les Wexner’s name from a certain document.

“She wouldn’t give me an answer,” he said. “But ultimately, it’s her who is responsible for the document …