Supreme Court justices usually ask the questions. On Tuesday morning, two of them sat down to answer Congress. Justice Amy Coney Barrett and Justice Elena Kagan walked through Capitol Hill and into a House hearing room for an appearance so rare that no sitting justice had testified before Congress since 2019. The pair came from opposite wings of the Court, yet arrived with the same urgent concern: protecting the justices and their families has become serious federal business. The security stakes were already being laid out as the hearing began: Rep. Hoyer says more than 200 federal judges have faced credible threats of violence this year alone. This just before Supreme Court Justices Elena Kagan and Amy Coney Barrett testify about SCOTUS $228 million budget request, which includes safety enhancements for justices. pic.twitter.com/Mypj9vTTBV — Joe Khalil (@JoeKhalilTV) July 14, 2026 The optics carried weight before either justice spoke. Barrett, appointed by President Trump, often votes with the Court’s conservative majority. Kagan, appointed by President Barack Obama, is a leading voice on its liberal wing. They have sharply different views of the Constitution. Threats aimed at a justice’s home erase every ideological boundary. The House Committee Repository formally listed Kagan and Barrett as the only witnesses for Tuesday’s hearing before the Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee. The hearing began at 10 a.m. Eastern in the Rayburn House Office Building. Its official title was plain: a budget hearing for the Supreme Court of the United States. That narrow description placed the focus on money, staffing and physical security rather than a replay of the Court’s latest opinions. Lawmakers still had room to range widely in their questions, which is one reason an appearance like this carries unusual tension. Members of Congress routinely summon Cabinet secretaries and agency heads. Sitting justices operate at a greater distance from the political branches, making the sight of two of them at a witness table an event in itself. House appropriators announced the hearing early Tuesday: The judiciary plays a critical role in our constitutional system. Today, Appropriators will welcome the Supreme Court for an FY27 budget hearing. FSGG Subcommittee Chairman @RepDaveJoyce gavels in at 10AM. Follow along: https://t.co/KhQD0uqW5r pic.twitter.com/MSdqKrNyUt — House Appropriations (@HouseAppropsGOP) July 14, 2026 The U.S. Courts fiscal 2027 budget summary puts hard numbers behind the security appeal. The Supreme Court seeks $210.3 million for salaries and expenses, plus $18.1 million for care of the building and grounds. Its largest new program request is $14.6 million and 84 full-time positions for expanded personal protection. That would fund six additional agents for each justice, more travel protection, 25 additional officers at the Supreme Court building and four administrative positions. Another $2 million would establish an off-site residential security office to coordinate assignments and improve emergency response times. The Court also wants $2.3 million for 12 cybersecurity specialists charged with strengthening critical systems and data safeguards. A separate $6.5 million request would pay for design work on an exterior visitor-screening facility. The judiciary says physical-security reviews concluded that screening should begin outside the main vestibules rather than after visitors enter the building. Combined, the two Supreme Court accounts reach roughly $228.4 million. The most revealing figure may be 84. That is the number of full-time positions attached to a single expansion of protective operations around nine justices, their residences and their families. Congress should examine every dollar. It should also recognize what kind of country needs six more agents assigned to each member of its highest court. The Associated Press documented 564 threats against federal judges during the last government fiscal year, an increase from the year before. That total covers judges across the federal system, though the danger has repeatedly reached the Supreme Court. Police responded to a fake 911 call targeting Barrett’s home in May. Her sister faced a bomb threat last year, and officers found no explosive after searching the property. In 2022, authorities arrested an armed man near Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s Maryland home after prosecutors said he traveled there intending to kill the justice. The suspect carried a gun, ammunition, zip ties and other equipment. Chief Justice John Roberts has warned that fierce criticism of judicial opinions is part of American life while personal hostility directed at judges creates a different and dangerous problem. The line between argument and intimidation has grown far too thin. A judgment can be condemned. A justice can be criticized. Congress can change a statute, voters can change Congress, and future litigants can bring the next case. A threat at a family home belongs to none of those constitutional remedies. C-SPAN carried the House testimony live: U.S. Supreme Court Justices Elena Kagan and Amy Coney Barrett testify before @HouseAppropsGOP @AppropsDems– LIVE online here: https://t.co/LxPfbUfQ9m — CSPAN (@cspan) July 14, 2026 The Senate Appropriations Committee scheduled Barrett and Kagan for a second hearing at 2 p.m. Eastern in the Dirksen Senate Office Building. Senator Bill Hagerty is set to preside over that session. Two hearings in one day make clear that this was more than a ceremonial visit. The justices came to defend a funding request before both chambers that control the federal purse. That arrangement gives lawmakers a legitimate oversight role. They can demand clear staffing plans, measurable security improvements and honest accounting for a request that asks taxpayers to spend millions more. The power of the purse also carries a duty. Physical protection for judges cannot become a bargaining chip used to reward favored opinions or punish rulings that infuriate one party. The pairing of Barrett and Kagan sends its own message. One justice may write the majority while the other writes the dissent. The next case can reverse those positions. Political rage rarely pauses to check the fine print. Americans have every right to scrutinize the Supreme Court, challenge its reasoning and demand integrity from its members. A lifetime appointment does not place anyone beyond criticism. The American answer to a bad judgment is a better argument, a new law, an election, a constitutional amendment or another case. It can never be a bomb threat, a swatting call or an armed man outside a justice’s home. That is the warning two very different Supreme Court justices carried into Congress on Tuesday. Congress should hear it. This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport. View the original article here. The post BREAKING: Two Supreme Court Justices Make RARE Appearance Before Congress appeared first on 100PercentFedUp.com.

Well, this is awkward for the experts. President Trump just received a major inflation report that every single economist in one closely watched survey failed to see coming. Not most of them. Not almost all of them. All 67. The Consumer Price Index fell 0.4% in June on a seasonally adjusted basis, according to the government’s newly released figures. That was the largest one-month decline since April 2020. Here is the official announcement from the Bureau of Labor Statistics: CPI for all items falls 0.4% in June; gasoline down #BLSData https://t.co/mI1WBYOqMt — BLS-Labor Statistics (@BLS_gov) July 14, 2026 The full report is even more revealing. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the all-items index was 3.5% higher than it was one year earlier. That annual rate was down sharply from 4.2% in May. Energy did much of the heavy lifting, falling 5.7% in June. Gasoline plunged 9.7% for the month, delivering immediate relief in one of the places Americans feel inflation most directly. The index excluding food and energy was unchanged in June. Over the preceding 12 months, that closely watched core measure rose 2.6%. Shelter costs increased just 0.1%, the smallest monthly move in that category since January 2021. Housing has been one of the most stubborn forces keeping inflation elevated, so even that tiny change deserves attention. Food prices did rise 0.2% in June. The report does not mean every household expense suddenly became cheaper, and a 3.5% annual rate still means the overall price level was higher than it was a year ago. But the month-to-month number is where the surprise became impossible to ignore. White House officials said Bloomberg had surveyed 67 economists before the release. Every one of those forecasters missed the negative 0.4% reading. The result blew past the consensus estimate. National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett said it came in four times more negative than expected. The experts were not debating whether consumer prices would post a major decline. They were looking in the other direction when it happened. Watch the White House reaction: "Expecting a headline number to be negative…this is 4X more negative!" CPI fell by 0.4% in June, the largest decline since April 2020—and below the forecast of every single Bloomberg economist. Core inflation also came in better than expected, falling to 2.6% year-over-year. pic.twitter.com/aEdMzE6GGE — Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) July 14, 2026 Those caveats are real. So is the direction of the new data. Headline inflation fell month over month. Core inflation stopped rising for the month. Gasoline prices dropped hard. Shelter inflation slowed to its smallest monthly increase in more than five years. That is a far different report from the inflation resurgence President Trump’s critics repeatedly warned his agenda would produce. For months, Americans have heard confident predictions about what tariffs, energy policy and the broader Trump economic program would do to prices. Then the real number arrived, and not one of the 67 economists in the Bloomberg survey had it right. The scale of the miss drew an immediate reaction: CPI PLUMMETED 0.4% in June — biggest drop since April 2020 Core inflation cooled to 2.6% Year over year CPI came in 4X more negative than every Bloomberg economist predicted. The Trump economy is delivering results pic.twitter.com/aYJMx2kYrk — Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) July 14, 2026 One report does not settle every argument about the economy, and the next set of numbers could move in a different direction. But this release does demolish the idea that today’s inflation result was obvious, inevitable or already baked into the experts’ models. It was not. President Trump’s economic team now has a powerful answer for critics who insisted his policies would send inflation surging: the largest monthly CPI decline in more than six years, a cooler core reading and a forecast miss so complete that all 67 economists got it wrong. The experts made their predictions. The official numbers just made them look foolish. This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport. View the original article here. The post BREAKING: ALL 67 Economists Got President Trump’s Latest Inflation Report WRONG! appeared first on 100PercentFedUp.com.

An issue at the heart of endless complaints twice per year could soon be resolved. Lawmakers are considering a new, bipartisan piece of legislation that would make standard time permanent in almost all cases nationwide, thus eliminating spring and autumn clock changes. As The Hill reported: The House could vote on its version of the Sunshine Protection Act this week in a move that could end the twice-a-year changing of the clocks. The U.S. has long had a back-and-forth relationship with daylight saving time, with each attempt at making it permanent being rolled back a short time later. But a bill introduced in the House last week could take a largely different approach. The bipartisan “Sunshine for Our Kids Act of 2026” was introduced by Reps. Mary Gay Scanlon (D-Penn.) and Pat Harrigan (R-NC). It calls for permanent standard time — the time we observe from November through March — in the U.S., with some exceptions. While health experts agree that standard time is better for our health, most efforts in Congress and throughout the U.S. have focused on making daylight saving time permanent. Nearly 20 states have passed legislation to observe daylight saving time year-round, should Congress approve it. Only Hawaii and parts of Arizona observe standard time year-round. President Donald Trump supports legislation making Daylight Saving Time permanent, and the debate between the two proposed solutions has sparked some social media discussion:   Tell Congress NO! Permanent Daylight Saving Time means 9am winter sunrise. Replace it with the newer bill for permanent Standard Time. https://t.co/Ubw9pUSa0H — Save Standard Time (@SaveStandard) July 14, 2026 I’d rather change clocks twice a year (as dumb as that is), than permanently be set on a time zone contrary to nature. Standard Time All The Time — Eric Sammons (@EricRSammons) July 13, 2026 What do you think, should we make Daylight Saving Time permanent year-round, or Standard Time? This map shows what winter sunrise would look like in your area if DST is observed year-round. The Sunshine Protection Act would make Daylight Saving Time permanent with states able… pic.twitter.com/QFhL77STN7 — Pecan (@PecanC8) July 14, 2026 Here’s more on the Trump-backed bill, per Fox News: Proponents argue that resetting clocks has negative health impacts, while permanent Daylight Saving Time would boost outdoor recreation, tourism and economic activity, among other benefits. Most Americans already set their clocks forward one hour each spring to preserve more evening daylight before “falling back” one hour in November. “Americans are overwhelmingly supportive of this policy and want to end the practice of ‘springing forward’ and ‘falling back.’ Locking the clock all year long would have positive impacts on sleep schedules, energy conservation, motor vehicle safety, and our economy,” Chairman Brett Guthrie, R-Ky., said in an opening statement Monday. “In practice, this change would mean more time for people to exercise outside, visit family, attend concerts and sporting events, attract customers to their retail businesses, and more.” “Floridians and Americans across the country are tired of the biannual time change, and the evidence is clear that permanent daylight saving time can improve public health,reduce traffic accidents, lower crime and encourage more outdoor activity,” Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Fla., who authored the measure, previously said in a May news release.  And here’s some congressional debate on the Sunshine Protection Act: What are your thoughts? TAP HERE TO ADD YOUR VOTE This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport. View the original article here. The post New Bipartisan Bill Would Eliminate Daylight Saving Time appeared first on 100PercentFedUp.com.

President Trump used an interesting wording to explain the cause of death for the late U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham. In an interview with Newsmax, President Trump was asked by Newsmax Host Greg Kelly if Russia had anything to do with the death of Lindsey Graham. Kelly’s question stems from the fact that Graham visited a drone facility in Ukraine just 24 hours before he died. In response to Kelly’s question Trump shared “We’ve had great doctors. And they talked about, you know, a certain part of his body literally blew up.” Mediaite reported more on Trump’s explanation of Graham’s death: President Donald Trump offered quite the explanation for the sudden death of Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), who died on Saturday. Graham, 71, died from an aortic dissection, which occurs when the aorta – the largest artery in the human body – endures a tear in the inner lining. That tear allows blood to leak into other layers and reduces blood flow to vital organs. Trump joined Monday’s edition of Greg Kelly Reports on Newsmax, where the host asked if foul play may have caused the senator’s death. Specifically, Greg Kelly inquired about the possibility that Russian President Vladimir Putin had something to do with Graham’s death. Kelly noted that the senator had just returned from Ukraine hours before his death. “Look, the Russians, they have a habit of poisoning people they don’t like,” Kelly told Trump. “And Lindsey Graham once called for Putin to be taken out. Do you have any suspicions or worries? Do you think we know the whole story about his death?” Trump downplayed Kelly’s suggestion and explained what happened to the late senator: Well, I think we do. We’ve had great doctors. And they talked about, you know, a certain part of his body literally blew up. And that’s a condition I believe his father had also. His father died very, very young from heart complications. And that’s what Lindsey had. And it’s something that’s, number one, it’s very tough to see. And even if you see it, it’s hard to fix, very hard to fix. And, you know, he had a problem with arteries and I thought it was like a 70% blockage. I said, “Lindsey, you’re gonna have to go and take care of that.” But this was not that problem. This was a different problem that wasn’t really related. The president went on to add that he spoke with Graham hours before the senator died. “But he just got back, and I said, ‘How are you doing?’ And he said, ‘Well, I’m doing good, but I’m tired.’ And within, you know, a short period of time after that call, he was gone. Amazing actually. But he was, I don’t think, you know, just to answer the conspiracy theory, I don’t know. I’d love to say yes, but I think he had some problems.” Listen to Trump here: WATCH: Newsmax asks Trump if Russia poisoned Lindsey Graham Trump: “Doctors said Part of his body literally blew up… same thing his father had… I’d love to say yes but I think he had some problems.” pic.twitter.com/tifcTfLf1Y — The Tennessee Holler (@TheTNHoller) July 14, 2026 Trump’s comments came around the same time FBI agents were reportedly outside of Graham’s D.C. home. The Hill reported more on the FBI’s visit to Graham’s home: FBI personnel visited late Sen. Lindsey Graham’s (R-S.C.) home in Washington, D.C., on Monday, less than 48 hours after he died of an aortic dissection. At least six men and two women in FBI gear were at Graham’s row house in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of D.C., according to footage shot by Nexstar’s Vinay Simlot. At one point, an FBI agent entered the home after a man wearing a U.S. Marshals Service jacket exited it. Later on, two agents wearing blue and yellow FBI windbreakers entered the home. While agents went into and out of the home, a man wearing an FBI jacket stood watch outside near a large black container — at one point, another man wearing bureau gear retrieved a manila folder from the container. Graham died on Saturday evening, after what his office called a “brief and sudden illness.” The chief medical examiner preliminarily ruled Sunday the 71-year-old died of aortic dissection due to arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease. On Sunday, FBI Director Kash Patel said his bureau was “assisting local authorities and has made every necessary resource available” in the wake of Graham’s death. The FBI declined further comment regarding Patel’s post. WATCH: Multiple FBI agents seen outside late Sen. Lindsey Graham's Washington, D.C., residence. pic.twitter.com/jd2UyZbxed — Scope Report (@ScopeReport_) July 13, 2026 What are your thoughts? TAP HERE TO ADD YOUR VOTE This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport. View the original article here. The post President Trump On Lindsey Graham’s Death: “A Certain Part Of His Body Literally BLEW UP” appeared first on 100PercentFedUp.com.

Once again, the Trump family has been targeted by serious death threats. This time, the DOJ has arrested and charged a 39-year-old man from Rochester, NY for threatening to kill President Trump’s son Donald Jr. Here are the details: James Gerald Eckert Jr. allegedly made the threats during a livestream of one of Don Jr.’s “Triggered” podcasts on Rumble last month. One of Don Jr.’s assigned Secret Service agents became aware of the threat when Eckert Jr. flooded the livestream chat with sick, deranged messages. In an ultimate case of FAFO, Secret Service traced these messages and tracked him down! Now, Eckert is facing up to five years behind bars. More from a DOJ press release: U.S. Attorney Michael DiGiacomo announced today that James Gerald Eckert, Jr., 39, of Rochester, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with threats to kill, kidnap, or inflict bodily harm upon a member of the immediate family of the President, which carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison. According to the criminal complaint, on June 18, 2026, a member of the U.S. Secret Service on duty at the residence of President Donald Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr., was alerted that several threats were made against Trump Jr. The threats, made in the group chat feed of Trump Jr.’s podcast “Triggered with Donald Trump Jr., included: “im going to kill you, (expletive), I am going to kill this (expletive) on the screen.” The threats were posted by an account with the username JamesGeraldEckertJr/@JamesGeraldEckertJr. While viewing the podcast on the online video platform Rumble, JamesGeraldEckertJr/@JamesGeraldEckertJr was also streaming himself on Rumble. Eckert, Jr. repeats, both verbally, as well as by posts in the live chat, similar threats against Trump Jr. as well as the CEO of Rumble, for most of the duration of an approximately eight-minute video. The threats included, “your (expletive) dead, its over guys” and “I’m going to go to YouTube and be calm and I’m still going to (expletive) kill Trump Junior. We’re going to get to World Peace. (Expletive) die guy. Try to get out of this surviving. (Expletive) you forever. (Expletive) you forever.” On June 7, 2026, prior to the threats made against Donald Trump Jr., Eckert, Jr. posted a message on the Facebook account of “James Gerald Eckert Jr.” stating: “Mayor Malik Evans, I am coming for your family. Seriously, you will lose them to me personally. Stand by. This will not go away until you are dead or [REDACTED] is behind bars. Deal with this.” On June 11, 2026, the same Facebook account made a threatening post against New York State Senator Samra Brook, on the senator’s official Facebook page. The comment stated: “You are going to die.” Eckert made an initial appearance before U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark W. Pedersen and was held pending a detention hearing on July 20, 2026. The case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Louis A. Testani. The complaint the result of an investigation by the United States Secret Service, under the direction of Special Agent-in-Charge Charles T. Perras and the Rochester Police Department, under the direction of Chief David Smith. The fact that a defendant has been charged with a crime is merely an accusation and the defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty. This idiot just learned the hard way that violence against the president’s family will not be tolerated. You don’t mess with a president’s son! pic.twitter.com/Ryh8u8RIkk — God & Country (@GodandCountryy) July 13, 2026 Your thoughts? What are your thoughts? TAP HERE TO ADD YOUR VOTE This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport. View the original article here. The post DOJ Arrests NY Man Over Deadly Threat to Donald Trump Jr. appeared first on 100PercentFedUp.com.