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🔵 Fauci Subpoenaed
Citizen Frank
January 30, 2025
Good morning. It’s Thursday, January 30.
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The Republican chairman of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations announced subpoenas for documents on vaccine safety, including emails from Dr. Anthony Fauci.
Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin released a statement about the subpoenas on Wednesday as the Senate Finance Committee questioned Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on his nomination to the Department of Health and Human Services.
Johnson became the chairman of the subcommittee after Republicans took control of the Senate in the 2024 elections.
Authorities have said there are likely no survivors from a tragic plane crash near Reagan National Airport outside D.C., late Wednesday night.
An American Airlines passenger jet with 64 people on board collided with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter carrying three soldiers, sending both aircraft plunging into the Potomac River.
John Donnelly, chief of D.C. Fire and EMS, told reporters Thursday: “We are now at a point where we are switching from a rescue operation to a recovery operation” as they believed there are no survivors.
Kash Patel faced sharp questioning from Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday as President Donald Trump’s nominee to be FBI director.
“The only thing that will matter if I’m confirmed as director of the FBI is a de-weaponized, depoliticized system of law enforcement, completely devoted to rigorous obedience of the Constitution and single standard of justice,” Patel told the committee.
The panel got sidetracked on remixed songs, the definition of the word “we,” and a mock bingo card, and it seemed to split along party lines as some Democrats vowed to oppose Patel’s confirmation even before the hearing began.
Tulsi Gabbard faced her first test as a nominee to be the next director of national intelligence during her confirmation hearing on Thursday before a key Senate panel, but it’s unclear if her testimony was enough to consolidate the support she needs to advance out of the committee onto the Senate floor.
Gabbard, a former Democratic congresswoman and 2020 presidential candidate, left the Democratic Party in 2022. She supported President Donald Trump in the lead-up to the 2024 presidential election, announcing she was joining the Republican Party and being rewarded for her backing by getting nominated to serve as the leader of the country’s 18 intelligence agencies.
Senators on the intelligence panel dove into her record from the eight years she spent in Congress, dissecting her previous comments about a range of subjects including infamous leaker Edward Snowden, the now-defunct Assad regime in Syria, and her previous criticism of a key law for intelligence collection.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Trump’s nominee for Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary, sat through his second Senate confirmation hearing in as many days on Thursday, with his chances of being confirmed appearing less certain by the end.
Democrats on the the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee once again hammered Kennedy for promoting misinformation about vaccines, and his refusal to back down from those positions seemed to bother even some Republicans on the panel.
Kennedy was also asked about his stance on GLP-1 drugs and emergency abortion access, while again conveying a shaky grasp on the agencies he would oversee.
An internal preliminary report from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) reportedly showed that the number of staff members working at the air control tower at Ronald Reagan National Airport in Arlington, Virginia, was “not normal for the time of day and volume of traffic.”
On Wednesday night, an American Airlines plane and Army helicopter collided near Reagan National Airport outside of Washington, D.C., and all 67 people onboard both aircraft are presumed to be dead.
The Associated Press obtained a report which showed one air traffic controller was working two positions at the time of the crash.
President Trump on Thursday said he plans to follow through on Saturday on his threat to impose 25 percent tariffs on goods from Mexico and Canada.
“We’ll be announcing the tariffs on Canada and Mexico for a number of reasons,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office.
He cited the influx of migrants at the southern border, the flow of fentanyl into the United States and the trade deficit the U.S. has with its neighbors.
A European Parliament member from Slovenia says he nominated tech giant Elon Musk for a Nobel Peace Prize for his free speech advocacy.
“The proposal that Mr. Elon Musk, for his consistent support for the fundamental human right of freedom of speech and thus for peace, receives the Nobel Peace Prize 2025, was successfully submitted today,” Branko Grims wrote in a Thursday post on social platform X.
“Sincere thanks to all the co-proposers and everyone who helped with this challenging project!” Grims added.
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