Two prominent loyal defenders of President Trump have emerged as frontrunners to succeed Karoline Leavitt as the next White House Press Secretary, and TGP readers would likely be happy with either.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, Trump on Wednesday announced that Leavitt will be departing her role as White House Press Secretary to spend more time with her young children.
She will now serve as one of Trump’s top outside advisors.
Leavitt was the youngest person to hold the position of White House Press Secretary. She was just 27 years old last year when she took on the role.
Leavitt also has two young children. She gave birth to her second child, a daughter, in May.
Hours following Trump’s announcement, The New York Post reported that two front-runners have emerged as potential successors to Leavitt and both are staunch loyalists to the President.
Trump administration sources told the Post that Trump is looking at Alina Habba, who served as a defense lawyer for Trump and as a former acting attorney for New Jersey, and Breitbart Washington Bureau Chief Matthew Boyle.
Sources within and close to the administration told The Post that early front-runners for the role are believed to include Alina Habba, the former acting US attorney for New Jersey, and Breitbart Washington Bureau Chief Matthew Boyle.
Habba gained fame as one of Trump’s defense lawyers, giving passionate televised appeals on his behalf to journalists before his return to power. She briefly worked in the West Wing last year as a counselor to the president before Trump appointed her the top prosecutor in New Jersey.
Boyle, meanwhile, is a favorite among well-connected Trump allies who recognize the dogged Breitbart scribe’s fiery but steady presence in the conservative media ecosystem.
Trump knows Boyle by name and has given him many interviews, including a recent Oval Office sitdown. His experience with investigative work targeting public figures and close coverage of the Trump movement convey working knowledge of how to manage — and mitigate — PR challenges.
If one thought the White House press briefings were fiery under Leavitt, Habba and Boyle would take it up another notch. Both have firebrand personalities, particularly when it comes to the left and their corporate media allies.
Other names floated by the Post for the role include former White House deputy chief of staff for communications and personnel Taylor Budowich, Katie Miller, a former aide to Elon Musk at DOGE and the wife of deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller, principal deputy press secretary Anna Kelly, and US chief of protocol Monica Crowley.
These possibilities, however, are considered much less likely than Habba and Boyle.
At a time when the United States is increasingly treating Communist China as its principal strategic competitor and moving to restrict Chinese military-linked companies and protect critical AI and technology supply chains, there are growing reasons to question whether South Korea is moving in the opposite direction.
The latest case is particularly striking.
South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS), which manages the retirement assets of millions of Korean citizens, reportedly made a new investment in Zhongji Innolight, a major Chinese AI data-center technology company, after the U.S. Department of Defense had already formally designated the company as a Chinese Military Company under Section 1260H.
June 8, 2026: The Pentagon designates Zhongji Innolight a Chinese Military Company.
July 20, 2026: South Korea’s National Pension Service reportedly enters into a cornerstone investment agreement involving the company, Zhongli.
Only 42 days separated the Pentagon designation and the South Korean investment.
This was not an old investment later caught by a new American designation.
The U.S. national-security warning came first. South Korea’s public investment came afterward.
This should be viewed in the context of the larger U.S.-China confrontation
The United States and China are no longer competing simply over trade.
They are competing over artificial intelligence, semiconductors, communications infrastructure, data, advanced manufacturing, critical supply chains, military technology and ultimately strategic power in the Indo-Pacific.
The Trump administration has been moving aggressively in many of these areas.
Washington has expanded scrutiny of Chinese companies connected to the PLA and China’s military-industrial system.
The Pentagon expanded its Section 1260H list of Chinese Military Companies in June.
The Trump administration is also reportedly preparing additional restrictions on Chinese components used in American data centers, including optical transceivers — precisely the technology produced by Zhongji Innolight.
And the Trump administration has publicly raised the issue of Chinese involvement in U.S. election-related activities, releasing and declassifying materials concerning foreign election interference and China’s acquisition and exploitation of American voter data.
Whatever one thinks about each individual policy or intelligence assessment, the strategic direction in Washington is unmistakable:
China is increasingly being treated not merely as a trading partner, but as a long-term economic, technological, intelligence and military competitor.
Yet developments in South Korea increasingly raise the opposite concern
That is why this NPS investment should not be examined in isolation.
South Korea is not simply another country doing business with China.
It is a treaty ally of the United States.
Approximately 28,500 American troops are stationed on the Korean Peninsula, and the U.S.-ROK alliance remains the foundation of South Korea’s national defense.
South Korea also occupies an extraordinarily important position in the global semiconductor, battery, telecommunications and advanced-technology supply chains that are central to U.S.-China strategic competition.
Against that backdrop, the question becomes much larger than whether one pension-fund investment will make or lose money.
Where is South Korea strategically heading as the confrontation between Washington and Beijing intensifies?
That question deserves serious attention.
When Washington is trying to reduce exposure to companies connected to China’s military-industrial system, why is a South Korean public pension institution committing new capital to a company after the Pentagon placed it on its Chinese Military Companies list?
When Washington is attempting to secure AI infrastructure and technology supply chains from Chinese strategic dependence, why is Korean public capital flowing into a Chinese company operating directly inside that critical infrastructure?
And if the U.S.-China competition continues to intensify, how will South Korea reconcile deeper economic and institutional exposure to China with an alliance system that remains overwhelmingly dependent on the United States?
Zhongji Innolight makes this contradiction impossible to ignore
Zhongji Innolight is not an ordinary consumer company.
It manufactures high-speed optical transceivers used inside AI data centers — components responsible for moving enormous amounts of data among servers, GPUs and networking systems.
AI infrastructure is rapidly becoming one of the central battlegrounds of U.S.-China technological competition.
The company also reportedly derives more than 60 percent of its revenue from the United States.
Yet the Pentagon has now identified it as a Chinese Military Company, while Washington is considering further restrictions involving Chinese data-center technology.
Despite those warning signs, South Korea’s national pension fund reportedly participated in its Hong Kong IPO.
According to the Korean report, the NPS joined BlackRock-related funds and other institutional investors in a cornerstone investment arrangement totaling approximately $250 million, although the NPS’s individual allocation has not been disclosed.
The shares are reportedly locked up until January 29, 2027.
This means Korean retirement capital could remain exposed while Washington continues tightening its China policy.
The lack of transparency makes this even more concerning
Korean media asked the NPS whether it knew about Zhongji Innolight’s Pentagon designation and whether the designation had been considered before the investment.
The NPS reportedly declined to disclose details regarding the individual investment.
That is not a satisfactory answer.
This is not private capital.
It is the retirement money of the Korean people.
The public deserves to know whether the Pentagon designation was identified during the investment review, whether geopolitical and regulatory risks were evaluated, who approved the investment, and whether the NPS has additional exposure to companies identified by Washington as part of China’s military-industrial system.
But there is an even more important question for Americans:
Are major South Korean institutions still moving strategically in the same direction as the United States?
Americans should pay attention to the direction of South Korea
For decades, Washington largely viewed South Korea through the framework of North Korea.
That framework may no longer be sufficient.
The U.S.-China struggle is reshaping the entire Indo-Pacific.
China’s economic influence, technology networks, supply chains, capital, political influence operations and military-civil fusion strategy cannot be separated from the broader regional security environment.
South Korea sits directly in the middle of that competition.
That is why developments that might once have been dismissed as ordinary commercial or investment decisions deserve a different level of scrutiny today.
A single investment does not prove that South Korea has chosen China over the United States.
But neither should individual developments be dismissed without examining whether they form part of a broader pattern.
And the pattern is precisely what I believe American journalists and policymakers should begin examining more closely.
As the Trump administration moves to confront China’s military, technological and economic expansion, is South Korea gradually becoming more economically and institutionally aligned with Beijing?
If so, what does that ultimately mean for the U.S.-ROK alliance?
That is the larger story.
The National Pension Service investment in Zhongji Innolight may be one important piece of it.
The Pentagon designated the company on June 8.
South Korea’s national pension fund invested on July 20.
Only 42 days later.
At a moment when Washington is attempting to reduce strategic dependence on China, Americans deserve to know why institutions in one of America’s most important Asian allies appear, in cases like this, to be moving in the opposite direction.
Margarita Cielo Balbuena cannot speak a lick of English after living in US for 37 years. Demands citizenship!
Margarita Cielo Balbuena is a woman who has been in the U.S. since 1989 and cannot speak a WORD of English.
That’s 37 years!
This week Margarita stood with leftist leaders and demanded amnesty at a Democrat presser about Delaney Hall:
Margarita says (in Spanish): “We need a path to citizenship for those of us that have been present at least 7 years in this country.”
Margarita does not love this country. She hasn’t even learned our language.
No thanks. Go home!
Via Breitbart.
Margarita Cielo Balbuena, a woman who has been in the U.S. since 1989 and cannot speak a WORD of English, demands amnesty at a Democrat presser about Delaney Hall:
“We need a path to citizenship for those of us that have been present at least 7 years in this country.” pic.twitter.com/npOdSFVuxb
Retired Border Patrol Commander at Large, Dan Bovino weighed in on Margarita’s plight.
Thank you Margarita Cielo Balbuena.
You have lived in the United States since 1989. That is 37 years. You still need a translator.
At a Democratic event you stood up and demanded a path to citizenship for anyone who has been here just 7 years.
Notice the arrogance. Notice the entitlement.
After nearly four decades she still cannot function in English. Yet she feels perfectly justified demanding the full rights of citizenship for herself and millions of others who have not assimilated either.
This is the system working exactly as designed.
We have imported so many people so quickly that assimilation is no longer required.
Critical mass creates ethnic silos where English and the host culture become optional.
You can live your entire life here without learning our language or our way of life and still demand the right to vote and rewrite the country.
That is how America becomes balkanized and unrecognizable.
Mass deportations are the only policy that restores the pressure to assimilate.
Everything else is just managed decline.
It should be obvious today that Democrats are doing whatever they can to destroy this great nation.
Vote in the upcoming November 2026 election as if your life depends on it.
This is more true today than ever.
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Not garnering near the media attention as cyclospora, but deadlier and more dangerous, is a flesh-eating bacteria crisis that has developed along the Gulf Coast.
A significant uptick in Vibrio vulnificusinfections — the so-called “flesh-eating bacteria” — is unfolding across the Gulf Coast, with Louisiana and Floridareporting the most alarming numbers so far in 2026.
Louisianahas confirmed 9 cases and 5 deaths year-to-date, with all nine patients requiring hospitalization. Every single case involved wound exposure to seawater, and all patients had underlying health conditions. This represents a dramatic deviation from the state’s 10-year average of roughly 7 cases and 1 fatality per year.
Floridahas logged 14 cases and 2 deaths across 10 counties, with Palm Beach and Marion Counties each recording a fatality. Florida’s 2024 numbers — 82 cases and 19 deaths — were heavily driven by Hurricane Helene’s floodwaters pushing brackish water into populated areas, and while 2026 hasn’t yet approached those levels, the season runs through October.
Alabamareported its first case in April, and Connecticut confirmed an infection from out-of-state oysters as early as February — a reminder that contaminated shellfish travel far beyond the Gulf. V. vulnificuswas even detected this spring in coastal waters off Long Island, New York, reflecting a northward creep as ocean temperatures rise.
What is this “flesh-eating” bacteria and how do you get it? Again, Dr. McCullough explains:
Vibrio vulnificusis a gram-negative bacterium that thrives in warm, brackish water — the mix of fresh and salt water found in bays, estuaries, and much of the Gulf coastline. It’s not contagious person-to-person, but it doesn’t need to be. Two routes of infection dominate:
Wound exposure— An open cut, scrape, surgical wound, or even a new piercing contacts contaminated seawater, for example from sharp shells. The bacteria can trigger necrotizing fasciitis, destroying soft tissue with terrifying speed.
Consumption— Raw or undercooked shellfish, particularly oysters, deliver the bacteria directly into the GI tract, where it can rapidly progress to fulminant sepsis.
Horrifyingly enough, this flesh-eating bacterium has a fatality rate of 20% and for survivors, the outcomes can be devastatingly permanent:
For those who survive, the cost is often extreme: limb amputation, massive tissue debridement, and prolonged ICU stays. The bacteria doesn’t “eat” flesh in the literal sense — it releases toxins that kill tissue and trigger a runaway inflammatory response — but the clinical effect is indistinguishable from the horror-movie nickname.
How to Avoid the Bacteria
McCullough lays out a handful of tips for avoiding the “flesh-eating” bacteria:
Stay out of brackish/salt water with any open wound — cuts, scrapes, surgical incisions, tattoos, piercings
Cover unavoidable wounds with waterproof bandages before water contact
Wash wounds immediately and thoroughly with soap and clean water after exposure
Wear protective footwear and gloves in coastal waters and when handling shellfish
Keep raw seafood and its juices strictly separated from cooked food
What to Do if You are Exposed
You can do everything to avoid contact with this bacterium, but unless you are simply going to lock yourself away for the next few months there is nothing you can do to absolutely guarantee your safety and the safety of your family. So what should you do if you are exposed? Not surprisingly, like so many other medical challenges, timing is the key.
Standard hospital treatment for advanced Vibrio vulnificusinvolves aggressive IV antibiotics (typically a combination of a third-generation cephalosporin like ceftazidime plus doxycycline, or a fluoroquinolone), surgical debridement of necrotic tissue, and intensive supportive care — fluids, pressors, and often amputation. The key is early intervention. Delay kills.
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Author and Brownstone Institute founder and president Jeffrey Tucker sat down with computational biologist Dr. Jessica Rose for an hour-long conversation about some of the most shocking revelations from the COVID response.
During that discussion, Tucker shared what he says top FDA and NIH officials told him about the real purpose of the lockdowns and other restrictions.
The purpose, according to Tucker, was “to delay the onset of natural immunity… until after the shots were online.”
Tucker admits it “sounds like a wild conspiracy theory.” But he says multiple sources who were actually there, working inside the agencies and companies, have confirmed it “without a shadow of a doubt.”
The lockdowns that wiped out small businesses. The school closures that sent children’s reading scores back to 1971. The plexiglass, the masking, the stay-at-home orders. None of it was about keeping us safe. “It was exactly the opposite,” as Tucker put it.
TUCKER: “We all have what we consider to be the most shocking feature of the COVID response. But for me, I still can’t get over the fact that I was told by top FDA, NIH officials that a major reason for social distancing, lockdowns, masking, Plexiglas, stay-at-home orders, and everything else was to delay the onset of natural immunity, to delay rising seroprevalence levels, to delay endemicity until after the shots were online.
“So, it wasn’t just that all these tactics, these sort of social engineering tactics, were designed to keep us [safe]. Well, no, it was exactly the opposite. It was to keep us from gaining natural capacity to resist the virus.
“So that they could wait until the injection came along. So the injection could be deployed and experimented upon us and, and thereby get all the credit for having solved the issue.
“That sounds like a wild conspiracy theory, but that’s what they meant by ‘flatten the curve.’ Flatten the curve meant to prolong the pain, delay the solution. And it sounds crazy until you hear it from people who were there on the ground, in the agencies, in the companies, watching all this unfold.
“And multiple sources have confirmed this without a shadow of doubt in their mind that was the real purpose of the school closures, the business shutdowns, the stay-at-home orders, the travel restrictions, and everything: to delay the point at which we would have solved, essentially solved, the problem through natural exposure and immune upgrades.”
Watch the full conversation below:
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A federal appeals court just delivered a major setback to Planned Parenthood Federation of America, dismissing the abortion giant’s attempt to escape liability in a long-running Medicaid fraud case that could ultimately force it to repay nearly $2 billion in taxpayer funds.
On Wednesday, the full (en banc) U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit dismissed Planned Parenthood’s interlocutory appeal for lack of jurisdiction.
The ruling returns the high-stakes False Claims Act lawsuit to the federal district court in the Northern District of Texas, where Trump-appointed Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk previously rejected Planned Parenthood’s bid for immunity.
In the undercover video, Dr. Ann Schutt-Ainé, Chief Medical Officer of Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast, and Tram Nguyen, RN and Vice President of Abortion Access at Planned Parenthood Houston, are seen discussing the gruesome details of their procedures.
In one particularly harrowing exchange, Schutt-Ainé said, “You told me about the proposition, and so now every time I do a D&E [dilation and evacuation abortion], I’m like, ‘Oh, there’s some lungs, there’s some kidneys.’”
The footage also captures Nguyen laughing as she recalls a particularly gruesome instance where a fetus was dismembered during an abortion. “I’m like, ‘Yeah, I have like a leg for you!’ I’m like, oh sh**, if other people were to hear me, they’d be like, you are f***ing evil,” said Nguyen.
WATCH: (Viewer discretion is advised)
In response, Texas and Louisiana terminated the Medicaid eligibility of three Planned Parenthood affiliates.
Despite the terminations, Planned Parenthood continued billing Medicaid for services while fighting the states in court under temporary injunctions.
After the Fifth Circuit ultimately sided with the states and allowed the terminations to take effect, a whistleblower known as “Alex Doe” (widely understood to be connected to the original undercover investigation) filed a qui tam lawsuit under the federal False Claims Act and corresponding state laws.
The suit alleges Planned Parenthood and its affiliates knowingly submitted false claims and failed to return millions in improperly collected Medicaid reimbursements.
Under the False Claims Act’s treble damages and per-claim penalties, the potential judgment has been estimated at approximately $1.8 billion to nearly $2 billion.
A three-judge panel had earlier sided with Planned Parenthood, holding that the organization was entitled to attorney immunity for advice given by its lawyers.
The full Fifth Circuit granted rehearing and has now wiped that panel decision away by dismissing the appeal.
The court held it lacked jurisdiction under the collateral-order doctrine because the claimed immunity would not shield Planned Parenthood from the entire lawsuit or prevent it from standing trial on key claims.
The case now heads back to Judge Kacsmaryk’s courtroom for further proceedings. If the whistleblower and the states ultimately prevail, Planned Parenthood could be ordered to repay the government for years of continued billing after states had already moved to cut it off from Medicaid.
Christopher Gillum (Credit: Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office)
A former police officer accused of planning a racially motivated mass shooting at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival (Jazz Fest) was quietly released from custody in June after a grand jury declined to indict him.
Christopher Gillum, 45, a former Chapel Hill police officer, had been held without bond following his dramatic April 22 arrest in Destin, Florida.
As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, authorities claimed he was heading to Louisiana to carry out a mass shooting targeting Black people at a large festival, widely understood to be the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival (Jazz Fest), which draws hundreds of thousands, and then commit “suicide by cop.”
A Louisiana grand jury in June declined to indict Gillum on a state “terrorizing” charge that carried a potential 15-year sentence. He was released shortly afterward.
His attorney, Dylan Utley, confirmed Gillum faces no charges in any other jurisdiction. The release went completely unreported until AP broke the story this week.
According to a statement from Lester Duhe, spokesperson for Republican Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill, Gillum’s family has taken him “to a treatment facility out of the state.” He is not facing additional criminal charges.
Duhe pointed to major jurisdictional problems that sank the case: “The threat relayed to a family member actually occurred in North Carolina. The defendant never entered the State of Louisiana until after his arrest.”
Gillum had also been planning to travel to the Florida Keys during the same period he was allegedly supposed to head to New Orleans.
Louisiana’s terrorizing statute requires that “a crime of violence is imminent or in progress or that a circumstance dangerous to human life exists or is about to exist.” The grand jury decided the evidence did not meet that bar.
Here is where the story becomes even more alarming: North Carolina law enforcement officials told the AP that they did not know Gillum had been released.
North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson’s office said it has no plans to pursue the case. Florida authorities have not indicated any charges either. The FBI New Orleans office said charging decisions rested with prosecutors.
A former FBI executive who ran the agency’s active shooter program noted that thwarted plots often struggle to produce indictments because “it’s very difficult to convince a jury, or to convince a grand jury, that something might have happened.”
As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, Gillum was arrested without incident at a Destin hotel after the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office, tipped off by federal authorities and using Flock license plate readers, located him. Deputies recovered a handgun and roughly 200 rounds of ammunition.
His family had reported him missing days earlier in North Carolina and told police he had a history of self-harm and had “expressed recent threats to harm ‘Black people.’” An arrest affidavit later detailed a phone call with a cousin in which Gillum allegedly spoke of going to New Orleans to “take care of business” and “kill a Black person,” while sobbing and describing his mental state. He also referenced a left-leaning Twitch streamer.
Gillum served as a sworn officer with the Chapel Hill Police Department from 2004 to 2019. He later worked as a Carolina Beach officer, an Orange County detention officer, a nonsworn Chapel Hill employee, and briefly as an Orange County deputy in 2025. He was even named Officer of the Month in June 2025 for helping solve a gas station robbery.
At the time of the arrest, national media and local officials treated the case as a near-catastrophe narrowly averted. Jazz Fest organizers thanked law enforcement. Louisiana State Police and the FBI confirmed they were involved. The story dominated coverage as a clear-cut example of a white former cop plotting racial violence.
Then the grand jury said no. And the story vanished.
Abdi Daisane, a Somali-born daycare operator, has won the DFL primary for Minnesota House District 14A, setting up a November showdown in a seat Republicans have held for years.
Abdi Daisane, a St. Cloud childcare-business owner, won Tuesday’s Democratic-Farmer-Labor primary for Minnesota House District 14A with 2,262 votes—62.52% of the total—defeating Paul R. F. Schumacher, who received 1,356 votes. The figures come directly from the Minnesota Secretary of State’s election results.
Daisane will face Republican Mike Conway in the November 3 general election. Conway won the Republican primary with 62.25% of the vote. The open district covers St. Augusta and portions of St. Cloud, Waite Park, and St. Joseph, according to KNSI’s election-night report.
Daisane, 38, was born in Somalia, spent 18 years in Kenya’s Dadaab refugee camp, and resettled in the United States in 2009.
He later moved to St. Cloud, earned degrees from St. Cloud State University, and opened Blooming Kids Child Care Center (licensed capacity 113). He has made expanding childcare funding and assistance a centerpiece of his campaigns.
The problem? His own daycare has a documented history of state violations.
Daisane is listed by Minnesota’s Secretary of State as the chief executive officer and registered agent of Blooming Kids Child Care Center Inc. The company was formed in 2017 and remains active and in good standing, according to the state’s business filing.
That same official record, however, lists violations arising from five separate state visits between September 2022 and October 2025—four licensing reviews and one licensing investigation.
The most serious publicly posted enforcement document is a November 18, 2024, DHS order imposing a $400 fine for two background-study violations.
The order states that one staff member worked in a position allowing direct contact with children after that person’s background study expired, from March 20 to October 16, 2024. DHS also cited a separate failure to repeat another staff member’s background study as required.
Earlier reviews cited additional problems. Alpha News reported in 2024, based on DHS records, that the center had been cited for an insufficient number of qualified staff, incomplete staff training, damaged or poorly maintained equipment and spaces, cleanliness problems, missing qualification records, and missing medical documentation in children’s files.
Alpha News reported that the earlier violations had been corrected, and Sahan Journal reported that the correction orders had been resolved without further state action. Daisane told Sahan Journal that staffing was the center’s largest challenge, pointing to low wages, limited benefits, and high turnover in the childcare industry.
The center remains open and licensed. Daisane has not been charged with fraud in connection with the business.
Minnesota has been ground zero for enormous public-assistance fraud scandals, much of it concentrated in certain Somali-owned operations.
Feeding Our Future alone produced hundreds of millions in theft. Federal and state probes have targeted childcare assistance, autism services, and other programs, with dozens of convictions and ongoing investigations.
Viral videos and enforcement actions in late 2025 and 2026 put a national spotlight on empty or barely operating centers still drawing large public payments.
Daisane has not been accused in the large-scale fraud cases, but the pattern of regulatory failures at facilities serving vulnerable children under Democrat governance is hard to ignore.
The high-speed rail program that California has been working on for years and which has already cost billions of dollars, may run out of money as early as the end of 2027, according to new reports.
Has there ever been a greater example of the inefficiency of government to build things?
They have been at this for years and hardly any tracks have even been laid. At what point to they just give it up already?
Gavin Newsom’s bullet train barreling toward financial cliff as cash could run dry in 2027
California’s bullet train could have a new end point: Brokeville, USA.
The state’s beleaguered high-speed rail line is once again careening toward a financial cliff, as a new report — delivered last month to Gov. Gavin Newsom and legislators — says the project could run out of cash by the end of next year.
The Office of the Inspector General warned that the California High-Speed Rail Authority’s funds could dry up as soon as December 2027 unless it secures financing — and the authority would need to borrow as much as $9.5 billion over five years just to keep construction on schedule.
Inspector General Benjamin Belnap’s report noted that high-speed rail officials have “obscured basic facts about the project, hindering lawmakers’ ability to provide effective oversight of the project.”
State Sen. Tony Strickland (R-Huntington Beach), who previously called the bullet train “the most wasteful government project in probably world history,” said on Tuesday that the warning of empty coffers by the end of 2027 was “no surprise.”
“During the informational hearing this spring, both the nonpartisan [Legislative Analyst’s Office] and the Inspector General were unable to identify a reliable funding source for high-speed rail,” Strickland told The Post.
Trump commented on this, slamming the failure of Gavin Newsom. Watch:
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Asked this week about wasteful government spending, President Trump didn’t have to think hard for his top example: Gavin Newsom’s… pic.twitter.com/WqTq5TcW1E
Putin visits Russia’s Pacific Fleet – Screengrab Social Media/X Upscaled by Grok AI
Russia may retaliate against UK-EU ships in the Pacific or anywhere else in the world, Putin says.
With the Iranians in Hormuz, Houthis in the Red Sea, Somali pirates in the Horn of Africa, and the Russia-Ukraine war in the Black Sea, maritime trade is getting increasingly more dangerous by the day.
Now, another vector of escalations is arising, with the UK/EU seizing Russia’s ‘shadow fleet’ vessels, and the promise by President Vladimir Putin to retaliate anywhere in the planet.
Russian Pacific Fleet says its ready to seize and detain British ships.
Vladimir Putin warned that Russia would seize British and other European vessels in response to UK and EU actions against Moscow’s “shadow fleet” of oil tankers.
“President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that Russia will respond in kind if European countries start to seize Russian merchant vessels and the commander of Russia’s Pacific Fleet said his forces were ready to ‘inspect and detain’ foreign vessels from what he called hostile states.
The comments, which Putin made as he oversaw navy drills in Russia’s far east, come as the EU tries to ratchet up pressure on Russia’s so-called shadow fleet, expanding sanctions against hundreds of vessels and detaining some ships and their crews for checks. Some European governments have said they are exploring tougher maritime enforcement measures against ships suspected of sanctions evasion.”
Any move to seize Russian commercial shipping will be met with a like-for-like response, Putin declared pic.twitter.com/7cdlDTF55M
Putin: “We can see that the authorities of certain countries, in violation of international maritime law, are attempting to restrict the movement of our economic operators’ vessels, and have recently gone so far as to consider the possibility of seizing our vessels and selling off the property they have plundered from us. Naturally, this is nothing less than piracy and robbery. And if this begins to be put into practice, we shall be forced to respond in kind. And not necessarily in those waters where raids on our ships and vessels are planned, but wherever we ourselves deem it necessary and appropriate.”
Putin: ‘Russia’s Response in Kind to Any Seizure of Merchant Ships Will Not Necessarily Be in Same Waters West Plans to Raid Our Vessels’
While the actions taken by the UK/EU against the ‘shadow fleet’ have amounted to having the ships briefly detained and released, the latest sanctions allow EU members to sell the oil or cargo seized from the ships.
“Viktor Liina, the commander of Russia’s Pacific Fleet, described Britain and France, which have both taken part in shadow fleet seizures, as potential targets for the maritime retaliations.”
The Pacific fleet is gathering intelligence on Asia-Pacific trade routes, he said.
“Admiral Liina said some 1,001 ships had traversed Russian-claimed waters near the South Kuril Islands, a chain of desolate islands off northern Japan that were seized by Soviet forces in August 1945. Of these, he claimed 379 belonged to ‘unfriendly states’, including 26 vessels from the UK and nine from France.
‘We have the capabilities to inspect and detain vessels belonging to unfriendly states and their shadow fleet; inter-agency coordination is in place, and we are ready to tackle these tasks’, he told Putin on board the Varyag missile cruiser.”
Russian Pacific Fleet says its ready to seize and detain British ships.