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Congress did not explicitly approve $1,776 "warrior dividend" checks in the One Big Beautiful Bill; the White House announced the payments as financed by tariffs and by money it says flowed through th...
Multiple major outlets report that the Trump administration enacted policies and budget proposals in 2025–2026 that reduced or threatened federal cancer-research funding — including proposals to cut t...
U.S. military recruitment has reversed years of shortfalls and is up in 2024–25: the Army contracted more than 61,000 recruits for FY2025—about 10% higher than its FY2024 goal—and the services reporte...
Available sources show no record that President Trump formally ordered 10,000–20,000 National Guard troops to the U.S. Capitol before or on January 6, 2021; multiple fact‑checks and official timelines...
The District of Columbia National Guard is legally distinct from state guards: it normally reports to the President rather than a mayor or governor, which has allowed recent presidential-directed depl...
The Pentagon has opened a review of “serious allegations of misconduct” against Sen. Mark Kelly (ret. U.S. Navy) and said he could be recalled to active duty and face court-martial or administrative m...
Reporting and first‑hand allegations about substance use linked to Donald Trump span anecdotal claims about his personal behavior, contemporaneous accounts of prescription drug distribution inside his...
Available reporting shows President Donald Trump discussed and floated deploying National Guard forces around January 6, 2021, but there is no consensus in the record that he specifically ordered troo...
No president has permanently removed Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a federal holiday; Congress created MLK Day in 1983 and it became a federal paid holiday starting 1986 . Presidents have altered how ...
The District of Columbia National Guard (DCNG) is uniquely structured: by statute it is under the president’s command rather than the mayor’s, and that presidential authority has been delegated throug...
The White House announced a one‑time $1,776 "warrior dividend" to roughly 1.45 million active service members, framing it as a patriotic bonus funded by tariff revenue and timed for pre‑Christmas deli...
Retired regular-component U.S. military members who are entitled to retirement pay remain subject to the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) and can be recalled to active duty for investigation or...
Newly released footage shows then‑Speaker Nancy Pelosi saying “I take responsibility” for security failures on Jan. 6 and asking why the National Guard “wasn’t there to begin with,” but multiple fact‑...
Congressional packages over 2023–2026 bundled a mix of emergency cash, weapons procurement authorities, and specific replenishment lines for missile-defense and munitions—ranging in headline totals fr...
Federal law gives the president powerful tools to federalize or deploy National Guard troops, and recent 2025 actions show administrations can and have moved Guard forces without a governor’s consent ...
The aircraft widely described in reporting was , and was accepted into U.S. government custody in 2025 for use as a temporary Air Force One; conflicting reporting places acceptance in with later notic...
President Trump’s administration has not authorized new large congressional packages for Ukraine but has continued some deliveries of weapons and reinstated paused shipments; Congress and the Pentagon...
Federal reporting and advocacy documents say the Trump administration targeted hundreds to thousands of federally funded research awards, including cancer grants: reporting cites about $1–2.3 billion ...
Available reporting indicates two West Virginia National Guard members were shot near the White House on November 26, 2025 and were described by multiple officials as in “critical condition” after bei...
The claim that 9/11 was a deliberate operation implicating U.S. insiders is not supported by the primary official investigations and mainstream institutional accounts, which attribute the attacks to a...