Navy Removes Longtime Capitol Attending Physician Brian Monahan Amid Misconduct Investigation: Report

 

Attending Physician of Congress Brian Monahan

The U.S. Navy has reportedly removed Rear Admiral Brian Monahan, the attending physician of the United States Congress and the Supreme Court, amid an investigation into alleged misconduct.

Punchbowl News reporter Jake Sherman broke the story late Wednesday, noting that Monahan has held the post since 2009 and that an Inspector General report is expected to be made public later this week.

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) immediately connected the removal to the COVID-era power plays that defined the Pelosi speakership. 

“Brian Monahan, the attending physician of the Capitol, is part of the deep Congress,” Massie wrote. “He endorsed and gave false credibility to Pelosi’s ridiculous mask mandate on members of Congress, which I ignored and was fined for doing so.”

After Monahan reinstated indoor mask requirements on the House side, Speaker Nancy Pelosi directed Capitol Police to arrest staff and visitors who refused to comply, while members faced fines.

Pelosi called then-Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy a “moron” for pointing out that the rules were not driven by science. At the same time, Monahan himself was photographed briefing Republican members while maskless, the classic “rules for thee, not for me” double standard that defined the era. 

House Republicans, including Massie, staged protests by walking maskless onto the Senate side of the Capitol, where Monahan’s mandate did not apply. Fines piled up against members who simply refused the theater.

By early 2022, Monahan quietly reversed course and made masking optional just in time for President Biden’s State of the Union address.

Monahan’s influence extended far beyond COVID mandates.

In August 2023,  Monahan had declared then-Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell medically fit to continue his duties after the Kentucky Republican experienced another troubling episode in which he appeared to freeze during a public appearance.

In her August 31, 2023, article, Cristina Laila reported on Monahan’s assessment, which attributed McConnell’s episodes to possible lightheadedness associated with concussion recovery and dehydration.

“NO MORE EXCUSES!” House Freedom Caucus Demands IMMEDIATE 10-Day Recess So Trump Can Make RECESS APPOINTMENTS

 

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The House Freedom Caucus just dropped the hammer on the do-nothing Senate.

On Wednesday, Chairman Andy Harris (R-MD) and his colleagues declared that if Senate Republicans under Majority Leader John Thune refuse to work the remaining 52 days of the 119th Congress, they should take a 10-day recess and let President Donald Trump install his nominees through recess appointments.

“If they don’t want to spend all 52 days, that’s fine. Let’s take a 10-day recess and let’s appoint some of the— so the president can make some recess appointments that can last for a year through the first year of Democrat rule,” Harris said. 

“Republicans should not leave town until these priorities are completed and Democrats are denied every possible leverage point. We do believe that we should cut spending another trillion dollars over the next 10 years, given the size of our budget deficits.”

The demand comes just days after the Freedom Caucus issued an aggressive lame-duck agenda urging Republican leaders to use their remaining congressional majority to advance Trump’s priorities before the new Congress convenes on January 3, 2027.

Among its demands: Confirm as many of President Trump’s nominees as possible before Democrats take control. 

The caucus is now proposing another route if Senate Republicans cannot complete that work in time.

If Republicans cannot get the nominations through the Senate, the caucus wants leadership to create a constitutionally sufficient recess rather than allow the remaining vacancies to become another political weapon against the Trump administration.

 

Those brief sessions prevented the Senate from entering a continuous recess long enough for Trump to exercise his recess-appointment authority.

Critics viewed the maneuver as another example of Senate leadership protecting its institutional prerogatives at the expense of the president’s ability to staff his administration.

The issue dates back to November 2024, when Trump explicitly demanded that candidates seeking Senate Republican leadership commit to allowing recess appointments.

Trump argued that the traditional confirmation process could leave important administration positions vacant for months or even years.

Yet the pro forma sessions continued.

WHAT A SHAME: Bruce Springsteen Fan Club Shuts Down Over His Embrace of Far Left Politics, Endorsement of Abdul El-Sayed

 

Bruce Springsteen during the premiere for his recent biopic. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

A large fan club for singer Bruce Springsteen is shutting down because it has been torn apart by his embrace of far left politics and his endorsement of Michigan radical Abdul El-Sayed.

It’s amazing to see Springsteen’s legacy imploding over this. Hope it was worth it for him.

For years, he built an image of someone who was in touch with working class Americans and it is all crashing and burning in real time. 

This is the El-Sayed endorsement he posted to Twitter/X:

That was apparently one of the straws that broke the camel’s back.

FOX News reports: 

Bruce Springsteen fan club founders say political fights, El-Sayed endorsement led to shutdown: report

A Bruce Springsteen fan club couldn’t escape the badlands and shuttered over political commentary.

Founded more than a decade ago, the “Spring-Nuts” Facebook group dedicated to The Boss noticed its 18,000 members were no longer focused on his music as they battled against “hateful” online discourse due to Springsteen’s public stances and recent endorsement of Michigan’s senator-elect, Abdul El-Sayed.

“As the world grew increasingly divisive, hostile, those tensions inevitably spilled into our little corner of the E Street world,” founders Julie and Howie Chaz said in a statement posted on Sunday, Nov. 8, according to Asbury Park Press.

“What should have been respectful differences of opinion too often deteriorated into personal attacks, bullying, insults, and some genuinely vile and hateful rhetoric.”

Springsteen embarked on the “Land of Hope and Dreams” tour earlier this year with the E Street Band and legendary guitarist Tom Morello.

The 20-date tour across North America was slated in response to President Donald Trump and the “No Kings” protests…

“Spring-Nuts” founder Howie Chaz admitted that as Springsteen became “more outspoken about his politics,” the group administrators were tasked with a “difficult balancing act” of respecting “his absolute right” while maintaining an ethical online community.

Years of good will from legions of fans all over the country, now gone.

These are real life consequences.

BOOM! Marco Rubio Shuts Down Reporter Peddling Left-Wing Talking Points on Iran (VIDEO)

 

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A reporter tried to push left-wing talking points about Iran while questioning Secretary of State Marco Rubio this week. It did not go well for him.

The premise of the question was that Iran has been facing sanctions for years, so the Trump administration is not doing anything new.

Rubio took the reporter to school and it was a thing of beauty. 

Transcript via the Red Wave Press:

Secretary of State Marco Rubio CLAPS BACK when a reporter tries to claim there have been sanctions on Iran forever — implying the administration has done nothing different — which is completely and UTTERLY false. “Never has Iran ever faced the inability to sell energy in the global market like they are today. They’ve never faced this and other things that we’re doing, which I can’t discuss, that are having a huge impact on the economy.”

Reporter: “There’s been sanctions for many years. The embargo has been on for quite a few months now. Is there a timeline?”

Marco Rubio: “No, it hasn’t been on for a few months. For example, the blockade that was initiated and it was stopped as part of the MOU that they themselves violated. They violated the MOU. They canceled the MOU by attacking shipping again. So if you look at the blockade, they got oil out during the MOU period. That oil that’s now on the water is almost out. So at that point, they won’t have any revenue. So you say sanctions have been in place. Never has Iran ever faced the inability to sell energy in the global market like they are today. They’ve never faced this and other things that we’re doing, which I can’t discuss, that are having a huge impact on the economy.”

Watch the video below: