Democrat Michigan State Representative Karen Whitsett has announced she will not seek reelection and is walking away from politics entirely, saying the Democratic Party’s radical positions on abortion and LGBTQ issues have become incompatible with her Christian faith.
Whitsett, who represents Michigan’s 4th House District in parts of north and northwest Detroit, made the announcement last month.
She described the decision as a “spiritual decision” rooted in her commitment to Jesus Christ and the authority of Scripture.
In a recent interview on Fox News’ The Ingraham Angle, Whitsett explained why she could no longer remain in the party or in elected office. She cited years of growing conflict that intensified over the last three to three-and-a-half years.
“Abortion, LGBTQ, things to our children, that are just imperative where parents no longer have control,” Whitsett explained.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced the arrest of Jordanian national Salah Sarsour in Milwaukee. Sarsour, who is President of the Board of Directors of the Islamic Society of Milwaukee (ISM) — Wisconsin’s largest mosque, is being held in ICE custody in Indiana.
Sarsour is also a board member of the national pro-Palestinian advocacy organization American Muslims for Palestine (AMP).
DHS says Sarsour is a terrorist and was convicted of throwing Molotov cocktails at the homes of Israeli soldiers. Sarsour then allegedly lied on his U.S. immigration applications to obtain a green card under President Bill Clinton.
DHS shared, “Today, @ICEgov arrested a Jordanian national with a prior conviction for THROWING A MOLOTOV COCKTAIL at the homes of Israeli Forces.”
“He lied on his immigration application and became a green card holder under President Clinton.”
“This terrorist will remain in ICE custody pending removal proceedings.”
On November 5, 2001, Salah Sarsour was reportedly listed [p.49] in an 2001 F.B.I. Action Memorandum as a fundraiser for Hamas in the United States.
The memorandum stated that Salah’s “involvement with HAMAS” and his fundraising “activities” for the terror group were through the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF). The memorandum also stated [p.49] that Salah’s brother Imad was also a Hamas fundraiser.
Five individuals were indicted for funneling funds to Hamas in the guise of humanitarian aid through HLF. The men were all convicted and sentenced in 2009 to federal prison terms ranging from 15 to 65 years.
Multiple sources confirm the 47th president already fired Attorney General Pam Bondi and replaced her with none other than EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin.
Citing Fox News, that President Donald Trump has already fired Bondi following a meeting on Wednesday.
While Pam Bondi was brought in to restore order after the initial withdrawal of Matt Gaetz, insiders suggest the President has grown increasingly frustrated with the slow-walking of critical investigations.
Trump has privately fumed that Bondi hasn’t been aggressive enough in going after his political enemies, the same corrupt actors who weaponized the DOJ against him for years.
Lee Zeldin’s name has repeatedly surfaced as the leading candidate to step in if Bondi is removed.
“When Trump met EPA boss Lee Zeldin on Tuesday to discuss last year’s California wildfires, Trump also discussed the potential of tapping him for the AG role, a person close to the WH tells me,” Politico’s Dasha Burns reported.
Lee Zeldin, the former New York Congressman, Iraq War veteran, and fearless America First fighter who nearly flipped the Empire State red in 2022. As EPA Administrator, Zeldin has already been dismantling the radical green agenda, slashing regulations, and putting American energy dominance first.
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) weighed in on the reports, making it clear that some Republicans are ready for a change at the top of the Justice Department.
Federal agents raid fraudulent hospice care providers in Southern California
UPDATE: The DOJ announced in a press release, “Eight defendants, including three nurses, a chiropractor, and a psychologist, have been arrested on federal charges that they schemed to defraud the nation’s health care system out of more than $50 million.” This includes arrests for Medicare hospice care fraud, private health care plan fraud, and immigration health care fraud.
“Six of the defendants arrested today are expected to make their initial appearances this afternoon in United States District Court in downtown Los Angeles. One defendant is expected to make his initial appearance in U.S. District Court in Idaho,” the release reads.
Federal authorities have begun raids against businesses defrauding federal taxpayers in Southern California as the White House Fraud Task Force’s nationwide crackdown begins.
President Trump signed an executive order last month establishing the anti-fraud task force to investigate and root out the massive fraud in federally funded welfare programs across the country.
Chaired by Vice President JD Vance, with Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson as Vice Chairman, “the Task Force will coordinate measures to improve eligibility verification, implement pre-payment controls, detect high-risk fraud trends, and disrupt and dismantle fraud networks and the mechanisms through which fraud is committed,” according to the order.
Trump previously announced during his State of the Union speech last month that Vance would lead his administration’s “war on fraud.” Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson will serve as the task force’s Vice Chairman.
Per Fox, at least two California hospice care businesses were raided by FBI agents on Thursday morning, and multiple arrests were made.
In one scheme, St. Francis Palliative Care is accused of admitting ineligible patients while billing the government $30,000 per patient. Per CBS, the owners billed Medicare $7.45 million, and the survival rate of patients was discovered to be 97% after five years, a red flag for a hospice care provider, whose patients are typically terminally ill.
First Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California Bill Essayli told Fox News, “They’ve been bilking the taxpayers for over $7 million, close to $8 million, and it’s all total, fraudulent hospice services. They were signing up people who are not terminally ill, they were forging the documents, the medical records, and they were collecting taxpayer dollars.”
He continued, “They’ve been charged, and this morning, they were arrested.”
The hospice patients “don’t seem to ever pass away,” Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Mehmet Oz, said.
In another raid, Topenga Hospice was allegedly paying patients $600 per month while the government gave the business $6000 per month. They were also reportedly paying marketers to find Seniors to steal from Medicare using their information.
Each scheme is reported to have stolen about $8 million.
Vice President Vance, the chairman of the White House Fraud Task Force, signaled in an interview last week that California would be targeted in their probe and that politicians who are complicit in these schemes could be prosecuted.
Of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, Vance said, “We’re now going to investigate it, and if he committed a crime, we’re absolutely going to prosecute it.”
“They know that fraud happens in both our voting system, but also our welfare system, way more often than they let on,” he said of California politicians and Gavin Newsom.
