New York Giants quarterback Jaxson Dart gave President Donald Trump a warm welcome on Friday as the president prepared to deliver an economic address at a rally supporting Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY). “Without further ado, I’m grateful and honored and pleasured to introduce the 45th and 47th President of the United States of America, President Donald J. Trump,” Dart said.  After shaking Dart’s hand, Trump praised the Giants QB. New York Giants QB @JaxsonDart introduces @POTUS in New York!

WASHINGTON— Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard plans to release findings from a number of high-profile investigations before she departs her role as President Donald Trump’s spy chief, The Daily Wire has learned. Gabbard announced Friday that she will resign, sharing that her husband is battling “an extremely rare form of bone cancer” and that she must “step away from public service to be by his side and fully support him through this battle.” She will remain in her position until June 30, an intelligence official confirmed to The Daily Wire. Before departing, Gabbard intends to release findings tied to investigations into Havana Syndrome, formally known as Anomalous Health Incidents (AHIs), the COVID-19 pandemic, the weaponization of the federal government, the 2020 presidential election, and more, according to the official. These findings will likely be released in weekly installments over the next month. Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence Aaron Lukas will serve as Acting Director of National Intelligence following her departure, President Donald Trump announced on Friday. “Unfortunately, after having done a great job, Tulsi Gabbard will be leaving the Administration on June 30th,” he shared. “Her wonderful husband, Abraham, has been recently diagnosed with a rare form of bone cancer, and she, rightfully, wants to be with him, bringing him back to good health as they currently fight a tough battle together.” “I have no doubt he will soon be better than ever,” Trump added. “Tulsi has done an incredible job, and we will miss her.” Gabbard served 15 months in her role as Director of National Intelligence, working to transform the intelligence community and restore public trust through reforms, many declassifications, aggressive transparency, revoking security clearances of intel officials who “abused public trust,” ditching DEI programs, and targeting foreign terrorist organizations. A second intelligence official told The Daily Wire that Gabbard oversaw the declassification of more than 500,000 pages of previously withheld government records as of May 2026. Her “ODNI 2.0” restructuring initiative also reduced agency bloat by more than 40%, saving taxpayers an estimated $700 million per year. Her declassifications included records tied to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr., along with files related to Amelia Earhart’s disappearance and Biden administration documents outlining the federal government’s “Strategic Implementation Plan for Countering Domestic Terrorism.” She has also aggressively worked to highlight the truths behind the “Russia Hoax” and how President Barack Obama’s administration weaponized intelligence to undermine Trump’s 2016 election victory. Earlier this year, Gabbard’s office announced that she had completed the largest intelligence community-wide “technology and cybersecurity modernization and investment effort” in American history. “Over the past year, we have taken meaningful steps to begin fulfilling that responsibility through the largest IC-wide technology investment and modernization effort in history,” Gabbard said at the time. “President Trump’s Intelligence Community is moving faster and more decisively on cybersecurity modernization and investments in IT than ever before, delivering stronger defenses, greater efficiency, and real cost savings for the American people.” The Trump administration could face an uphill battle to get another Director of National Intelligence confirmed, given that the current bickering between the president and Senate Republicans has been escalated by Trump’s endorsements against Sens. John Cornyn (R-TX) and Bill Cassidy (R-LA). In the interim, Gabbard says she is focused on ensuring a smooth transition at ODNI. “I am fully committed to ensuring a smooth and thorough transition over the coming weeks so that you and your team experience no disruption in leadership or momentum,” she wrote in her letter to Trump. “It has been a profound honor to serve the American people as DNI.” WATCH:

This piece is part of MI x DW, a collaboration that brings Daily Wire readers exclusive commentary and research from the Manhattan Institute’s world-class team of scholars. *** Since before his inauguration, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has made it known that, when it comes to the gig economy, a new sheriff was coming to town. Now, just months into his administration, he has launched a citywide crackdown on gig companies. Though promoted as a defense of workers, his campaign runs against what many of them want and need. Mamdani began by appointing Samuel Levine to lead the city’s Department of Consumer and Worker Protection. Levine, a veteran of the Federal Trade Commission under the Biden administration, was a key player in FTC Chair Lina Khan’s aggressive anti-business tenure. (See “Khan Job,” Spring 2026.) The DCWP has since become the primary vehicle for Mamdani’s anti-gig push. Declaring a “New Era of Accountability,” the mayor and Levine have promised stricter enforcement of gig-related laws, including the city’s 2023 minimum wage for app-based food-delivery workers and a newer rule requiring apps to display tipping prompts with a default suggestion of 10 percent. Right on cue, the administration launched a lawsuit against the gig firm Motoclick for allegedly stealing workers’ wages. The DCWP also announced a $5 million settlement with Uber Eats, HungryPanda, and Fantuan for violating the 2023 minimum-wage law. It’s hard to evaluate these moves without full access to the facts. But there’s more to the story of the Uber Eats settlement than the administration suggested. In the fine print, the city noted that Uber Eats had been “mostly compliant” with the minimum-wage law and that the company had “incurred the wage debt only in weeks where workers had a delivery canceled.” During those weeks, workers reportedly did not receive the compensation that Uber Eats owed them, and some drivers were subsequently deactivated under the app’s automated rules governing canceled orders. Whether this resulted from an algorithmic error or another issue remains unclear. Uber Eats has said, however, that it was informed of the pay shortfall in August 2024, before Mamdani had even announced his mayoral candidacy, and agreed at that time to take corrective action and “pay more than the amount owed.” Mamdani trumpeted the settlement anyway. “This is the most expensive city in the United States of America,” he said, “and we want to use every tool at our disposal to improve working conditions for delivery workers.” But the mayor’s anti-gig push is raising costs for New Yorkers while failing to reflect what gig workers actually want. The minimum wage for delivery workers increased food-delivery costs in Gotham by 10 percent after it took effect. Instacart has since announced a $5.99 regulatory response fee, following the extension of the delivery minimum wage to groceries. (The minimum wage already applies to restaurant delivery) Delivery drivers saw their tips plummet by nearly 50 percent after the minimum-wage law kicked in. This aligns with results elsewhere: economic research has shown zero long-term growth in driver take-home pay in places like Seattle after that city enacted a food-delivery minimum wage. Many gig workers were effectively iced out of the market after the implementation of the new minimum. To control labor costs, companies limited the number of drivers on their platforms, with Uber Eats reporting a waiting list of 27,000 New Yorkers who sought to use the app to deliver food but could not. Gig platforms have also turned to so-called arranged scheduling, in which even already-active drivers get locked out of the app during certain periods. Why? Higher wage mandates push gig companies to operate more like traditional employers, limiting how many workers can be on the clock at one time. If too many log on, the firms risk paying for idle or underutilized labor. Arranged scheduling cuts directly against what gig workers value most: flexibility. More than 60 percent cite it as the main reason they chose this work, and few are interested in traditional, prescheduled jobs. They’re also more concerned about the lack of benefits than about wage rates. These realities underscore the wrongheadedness of Mamdani’s anti-gig campaign. A better approach would preserve flexible hours while expanding access to benefits. One promising model is a portable benefits system, in which workers and companies contribute to SEP IRA–style accounts that can be used to purchase health insurance, paid leave, or retirement plans. Numerous states — red and blue alike, from Tennessee to Maryland to Pennsylvania — have enacted portable-benefits systems for gig workers in recent years. These models preserve the self-selected scheduling flexibility that workers prize and avoid leaving tens of thousands of would-be drivers stranded on waiting lists instead of earning income. Mayor Mamdani’s desire to help gig workers may be genuine, but that goal is likelier to be achieved through policies far different from his own. *** This is republished with permission from the Manhattan Institute’s City Journal. The original can be found here. Jarrett Dieterle is a legal policy fellow at the Manhattan Institute.

With midterm primaries in the news, the left-wing media has been focusing a lot of its attention on Republican candidates. For instance, the New York Times, a former newspaper, recently ran an article with the headline, “Bad Trump Ruins Everything,” in which columnist Nicholas Kristof speculated that the primary defeat of anti-Israel congressman Thomas Massie may have been due to an attack by Israeli rape dogs, imaginary animals whom Kristof claims have been trained to sexually assault antisemites. Kristof’s article was about to go on to examine the power of Trump’s endorsements, when he suddenly emitted a high-pitched scream, after which the article fell ominously silent. In another Times article, this one headlined, “Trump Bad, Everything Ruined,” the author speculated that Trump’s endorsement of Ken Paxton for Senate may turn deep red Texas into a blue state, if Republicans are unable to vote because they’re too busy laughing at this article. A third Times article, headlined, “Trump Trump Trump Bad Bad Bad Ruin Ruin Ruin,” merely contained those words repeated at random for several pages. Now, of course, it’s always important to hear what the left-wing media is saying. In the same sense, it’s always important to hit yourself in the groin with a hammer. But for a change of pace, we here at the Daily Wire have decided to take a closer look at candidates on the Democrat side, because we’ve just come from watching the monkeys at the zoo throwing dung at random passersby, and we want the fun to continue. In Texas, the Democrat Senate candidate is James Talarico, a Christian theologian who argues that the role of the Virgin Mary in giving birth to Jesus proves that God is in favor of crushing the heads of unborn children, then tearing their bodies apart limb from limb. A spokeswoman for the Queen of Heaven says that the Virgin Mary will not be responding to Talarico’s comments because she can’t use the words that would properly convey her opinions, because she’s the Virgin Mary. Socialist Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez not only won her primary but is jockeying to position herself as a 2028 presidential candidate. AOC, who studied economics at Sister Ignoramuses School for Wayward Girls, explains her socialist economic theory this way: “There’s this big pile of money that comes from somewhere. Then, just as we’re about to share it out equally, Elon Musk suddenly rushes in and steals so much of it, there’s not even enough left for me to pay off my psychiatrist with taxpayer dollars. This is why I’ve said repeatedly that Elon Musk is stupid, because if I could see a psychiatrist, I wouldn’t be talking like this.”  Unfortunately, Elon Musk was unable to respond to being called stupid because he’d just flown to Mars in his new electric space-car, but had not yet installed the final communications satellite link that would allow him to call Earth from the offices of the new terraforming company he’s built on the Red Planet. AOC reacted to this by saying, “Now you see what I mean. If Elon Musk is so smart, how come his crappy Mars phone doesn’t work?” Another possible Democrat presidential candidate is California Governor Gavin Newsom, who lists his achievements as: causing the weather to be consistently good in Santa Barbara, looking very concerned as Los Angeles burned to the ground, and receiving a hundred billion dollars for Medicare and a high-speed train, both of which he plans to provide as soon as he finds out what happened to the hundred billion dollars. Newsom says he also proved himself a great leader during the Chinese Flu pandemic, because he never let himself despair like some of those idiots who stayed home all the time wearing useless masks. In Maine, Democrats are running Graham Platner for Senate. Platner sports a Totenkopf, or death’s head tattoo, favored by Nazi SS officers. But in his memoir, entitled Maine Kampf, Platner explains that the tattoo does not mean he sympathizes with Nazis, but simply refers to his wish to slaughter every Jew on earth and then take over Europe. Platner does admit that, if his plans are carried out, he’s sort of going to miss those hot rape dogs.

Nick Shirley is 24 years old. He is not a network correspondent with a corner office and a team of researchers. He is a self-made journalist with a camera, a nose for fraud, and the audacity to follow money that powerful people didn’t want followed. For that, they nearly killed him. In December 2025, Shirley released a viral investigation into Minnesota’s child care system; empty rooms, blacked-out windows, misspelled signs, ghost daycares enrolling impossible numbers of children while collecting millions in taxpayer money. He showed the world what anyone with working eyes could see: something was catastrophically wrong. These children were not “learing” at daycare. They weren’t even real. We weren’t supposed to notice. The response from the liberal media was swift and vicious. CNN reported that Somalis were “under attack.” The New York Times said the community was being targeted. Governor Tim Walz, the same man who presided over one of the most staggering fraud collapses in American welfare history, called Nick Shirley’s investigative journalism “white supremacy.” Shirley was doxxed. Death threats arrived complete with a location, a date, and a time. On April 27, Nick recorded a video. “Today is the day I’m supposed to die,” he said. He is alive and well, and this week vindicated in the most definitive way possible. On May 21, 2026, the FBI and Department of Justice announced charges against 15 individuals in schemes totaling over $90 million in intended losses across Minnesota’s public health programs, the two largest Medicaid fraud cases ever charged in the district, and the largest autism-related fraud scheme the DOJ has ever prosecuted. Vice President JD Vance, chairing the White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, could finally say what we already knew to be true: Nick Shirley was right. The charges read like a catalog of the rot that Shirley, journalist Chris Rufo, the Daily Wire’s Luke Rosiak, and others had been documenting for months. The Early Intensive Developmental and Behavioral Intervention autism program — which exploded from roughly $600,000 in claims in 2018 to hundreds of millions in recent years — was being systematically looted. Clinic operators paid kickbacks of $300 to $1,500 per child per month to parents in exchange for fraudulent autism diagnoses. Medicaid was then billed for therapy sessions that never happened. Children who genuinely needed services were crowded out by a machine built entirely to steal. The Housing Stabilization Services program — projected to cost $2.5 million annually when it launched — ballooned to $104 million before the state was forced to shut it down entirely, stranding the disabled and homeless people it was designed to serve. One of the cases charged this week involves a man who required 24-hour care. He received nothing. He was found dead. The day before he died, his provider billed Medicaid for services that, if actually rendered, might have kept him alive. That is not bureaucratic inefficiency. That’s predation. The same week the indictments dropped, the ringleader of the $250 million Feeding Our Future scandal, a separate but connected fraud web involving fake meal counts, fabricated invoices, and luxury real estate purchases, was sentenced to over 40 years in federal prison. This is all just the tip of the iceberg. Luckily, Shirley saw that iceberg before the Titanic America could hit it. He pointed it out, filmed it, published it, and for roughly five months, the media told you he was the problem. This is the playbook, and by now we should all recognize it. When someone follows the money and the money leads somewhere uncomfortable, the response isn’t accountability; it’s accusation. Racists and Bigots and White supremacists! Oh My! The smear is deployed not to refute the evidence but to raise the cost of noticing it. Make the journalist the story. Give the fraudsters victim status. Make the public feel crazy for believing what’s in front of their own eyes. They made you feel crazy for refusing to wear an N-95 mask in an outdoor park, for refusing a vaccine, for wanting to keep your own money, and for voting for a pragmatic businessman instead of an establishment Democrat. Then they literally shot that businessman turned president, and tried to kill him again and again. They made you feel crazy for caring. They made Nick feel crazy, his audience feel crazy, and all along, the empty rooms were empty, the kids didn’t exist, and the money was going to luxury cars, lavish homes, and remittances wired through informal hawala networks back to Somalia instead of to the sick children and vulnerable adults it was meant to serve. Federal sources have alleged some of those funds found their way to al-Shabaab. Not a conspiracy theory. A federal allegation. The media won’t give Nick Shirley a Peabody. They will never say they were wrong. But the FBI executed warrants at roughly 20 locations. The DOJ unsealed the charges. JD Vance said his name on camera, thereby vindicating him. That will have to do. The Democratic establishment of 2026 is a gaslighting ex who swears the stove isn’t on, the money isn’t gone, and the kids are fine. Spoiler: the stove is on. The money is in Somalia. The kids weren’t real. The restraining order is called a ballot. Use it.