On Monday, hard-left Vermont senator Bernie Sanders offered a suggestion that would cripple America, declaring he would introduce the American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act, which would “give the public a direct ownership stake in the largest AI companies in America through a one-time 50% tax, not on profits, but on stock.” “The creative work of millions and hundreds of millions of people has been stolen by the wealthiest people in the world,” Sanders ranted. “The time has come to reclaim what was stolen from us.” He launched into his typical class-warfare argument: “No longer would the future of AI be dictated by a handful of big tech oligarchs while the rest of the world sits back and watches them do what they want. Secondly, it would guarantee that the trillions potentially created by AI are used to improve the lives of all of us, not simply to make the richest people on Earth even richer.” WATCH FROM TODAY’S EPISODE OF MORNING WIRE:      “The future of AI must not be decided behind closed doors in Silicon Valley,” he raged. “It must not be dictated by billionaires seeking to maximize their power and profits. It must be decided by workers, parents, teachers, artists, scientists, communities, and the American people.” I will soon be introducing a bill to give the public a 50% ownership stake in the largest AI companies in America. This would guarantee that the trillions created by AI are used to improve the lives of all of us — and block oligarch decisions that harm the American people. pic.twitter.com/y3ERWOsRfs — Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) June 2, 2026   Here are the reasons Sanders is completely wrong, and even dangerous: First, a one-time 50% tax on stock — not profits — would hit these companies just as they reach the public markets. Anthropic has already filed for an IPO, with OpenAI expected to follow this fall. Faced with the government claiming half their equity, investors would walk away from those offerings, collapsing the very valuations that would generate Sanders’s “trillions.” Second, companies would reincorporate outside the U.S. to avoid classification as a “large AI company.” Third, Investors who might fund the next AI company would redirect to other markets. Sanders claims AI was built on “stolen” collective intelligence. This kind of argument could be used to nationalize any information-based industry. Here is where Sanders’ position is dangerous: China’s government spends funds to support its AI companies, such as Alibaba, Baidu, and Huawei. But because American AI companies are supported by private capital, this enables the AI companies to move much faster than their foreign competition. And the military and intelligence applications of AI — drone autonomy, signals intelligence, logistics, cybersecurity — depend on the speed of the private sector to support them. The core of capitalism is people taking risks. Punishing the innovators and risk-takers is essentially anti-American. The AI giants in America are racing against China. If Sanders gets his way, his government fund would own a smaller stake in AI companies that either left for greener pastures or were outraced by competitors who didn’t have such shackles placed upon them.

A furious Democratic lawmaker interrupted Daily Wire investigative reporter Luke Rosiak’s Capitol Hill testimony on Wednesday, shouting over Rosiak as he spoke about the massive Medicaid fraud he exposed as part of an explosive, multi-part investigation. “I’m not waiting on the committee, but this is ridiculous,” Rep. Shontel Brown (D-OH) exclaimed as Rosiak was in the middle of his testimony.  Brown, who represents Ohio’s 11th district covering Cleveland, is not even a member of the bipartisan task force, which includes six Republicans and four Democrats.    WATCH:   “This is not your committee. You are not recognized,” Chairman Gill responded.  “This is absolutely absurd,” Brown replied.  Another Democratic lawmaker jumped in, questioning the fairness of the hearing.  “I hope you’re gonna be fair in this hearing,” Congresswoman Lateefah Simon (D-CA) said.  On Wednesday, the House Task Force on Defending Constitutional Rights and Exposing Institutional Abuses held its first hearing, dubbed “Universal Basic Fraud: Vulnerabilities in Medicaid Waiver Programs.” Task Force Chairman Brandon Gill (R-TX) said the task force is “going after institutions that stopped fearing accountability and abused the American people.” .@LukeRosiak blew the lid off one of the biggest Medicaid fraud scandals in the country. Tomorrow, he testifies before my Task Force – and we start holding people accountable. pic.twitter.com/QSOS9dfC4K — Congressman Brandon Gill (@RepBrandonGill) June 2, 2026 Recent reporting by The Daily Wire highlighted how state oversight agencies failed to stop shell companies from allegedly operating out of empty offices that billed taxpayers for services that were never performed. On Capitol Hill, tensions flared as Rosiak detailed the scope and enablers of the rampant fraud. “Companies are committing fraud by paying kickbacks for no-show jobs. The patients are committing fraud, but we’re just beginning to look into the root of the monster, the network of doctors who rubber-stamp this fraud,” Rosiak said. “That’s a criminal enterprise.”  Republican members of the committee appeared more receptive to The Daily Wire’s reporting. Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) entered all five of Rosiak’s investigative reports on fraud into the Congressional Record. Congressman @ByronDonalds just had ALL FIVE of @lukerosiak‘s Medicaid fraud investigations introduced into the Congressional Record! Be like @RepDonaldsPress. Head over to @realDailyWire and read the stories now.https://t.co/JYfe3pak1g — Tim Rice (@TimRiceDC) June 3, 2026 Before the chaos, Rosiak detailed how members of the Somali community in Columbus, Ohio, have exploited healthcare programs.  “Whistleblowers in the area tell me companies knock on doors in ethnic neighborhoods where most people are on Medicaid, and most people live in multi-generational households, and they tell the older family member to go to particular doctors and plan particular symptoms,” Rosiak testified to the committee. “Then they will put the younger family member on their payroll with the parent as their only patient.” “I visited hundreds of home healthcare companies and only saw, I think, two people who didn’t have an accent,” he added. WATCH ROSIAK’S FULL OPENING STATEMENT:

This is part three of a Daily Wire series exposing the Biden administration’s previously unreported efforts to enact radical anti-family policies in the name of protecting transgender-identifying children. In part two, we saw how Biden officials pushed a policy even radical LGBT activists told them to drop. Today, we see that the rule was just the tip of the iceberg. As Biden receded from view and Kamala Harris launched her campaign, Biden officials were laying the groundwork for what they would do if they kept the White House. The plan would have fundamentally changed child welfare across the country — enshrining transgenderism in federal law without a single vote. *** Shortly before the 2024 presidential election, Donald Trump’s campaign dropped a game changing ad. “Kamala is for they/them,” the ad warned viewers. “President Trump is for you.” It has since become clear that Trump’s embrace of the transgender issue helped fuel his return to the White House. But what if Vice President Kamala Harris had eked out a victory? Would her administration have continued President Joe Biden’s embrace of radical gender ideology? Would she have walked it back? Or would Harris have taken things even further? A 78-page plan reviewed by The Daily Wire shows how the Biden administration was planning to make affirming transgenderism the national standard within child welfare services without having to pass a single law. The crux of that plan was the creation of the Child Welfare Sexual Orientation Gender Identity and Expression Institute (SOGIE). Funded by a $20 million grant from the Department of Health and Human Services, SOGIE was on track to employ a 40-person team to push transgenderism on child welfare agencies across the country. “This is a comprehensive, detailed strategy to turn child welfare systems in all 50 states into training camps and havens for radical gender ideology,” Laura Hanford, the senior policy analyst at the Richard and Helen DeVos Center for Human Flourishing, told The Daily Wire. “Not a word about the major risks of sex-rejecting procedures, or about the comorbidities for gender confusion and its high correlation with sexual abuse, especially in such a vulnerable population.” Even the people behind the plan acknowledged its radical nature. Angela Weeks, a University of Connecticut employee tasked with administering the SOGIE grant, wrote to colleagues in August 2024 that “we wrote a proposal that was innovative, so much so that some other reviewers thought we should tone it down.” But “we chose to go big,” Weeks said, adding that it was “thrilling to see” the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), an agency within HHS, “wanted a contractor who would lead this work in a way that can create real change.” The Biden administration first mentioned the SOGIE Institute in January 2023, when HHS announced it was looking for a contractor to help its Children’s Bureau address the “unique needs of transgender and gender diverse individuals” in child welfare systems. This was pursuant to Biden’s Executive Order 14075, which mandated the federal government “combat unlawful discrimination” and “address the significant disparities that LGBTQI+ youth face in the foster care system.” The SOGIE Institute cited this order in its project work plan, stating it offered an “unprecedented opportunity” to make child welfare services “more responsive” to the “unique needs of [LGBTQIA2S+] youth and their families.” It called President Biden’s LGBTQ+ affirming foster care rule an “inflection point,” charging child welfare agencies to take radical action. In the fall of 2024, the SOGIE Institute set about transforming local and state child welfare agencies across the nation. The draft work plan outlines five years worth of initiatives, including efforts to collect data about the sexual orientation and gender identity of children in foster care, and trainings to help child welfare workers “maximize SOGIE knowledge and practice competencies.” The institute also had plans to handpick child welfare workers from state and local agencies to participate in a “SOGIE Champions” program, where they would participate in a “robust training and coaching program that teaches the skills and knowledge necessary to implement evidence informed LGBTQIA2S+ best practices.” Screenshot from the SOGIE Institute project work plan. Biden officials were particularly interested in recruiting “champions” from child welfare systems in conservative states that opposed President Biden’s LGBTQ+ affirming foster care rule, records show. Liliana Chakrabarti, a child welfare program specialist at the Children’s Bureau, told SOGIE leaders that her staff had created a list of potential allies in 20 states whose attorneys general had opposed the rule, an August 2024 email shows. The SOGIE Institute planned to welcome its first group of “SOGIE Champions” in January 2025. Liliana Chakrabarti did not respond to The Daily Wire’s request for comment. The institute also planned to recruit and train “Lived Experience Consultants” who had been supported by child welfare systems and identified as “LGBTQIA2S+ or are parents or caregivers of LGBTQIA2S+ young people.” These individuals would consult with local child welfare agencies and help them embrace gender affirming policies. The SOGIE Institute only operated for six months. But during that time, the group hosted webinars on “Supporting LGBTQIA2S+ Young People and their Families Receiving Child Welfare Services” and “Ten Tips on Fostering Safety for LGBTQIA2S+ Youth in Foster Care.” The “tips” included using non-gendered language, hanging pride flags in child welfare offices, and introducing yourself using chosen pronouns. The group published a glossary of terms that defined each letter of the LGBTQIA2S+ acronym, saying it would be used “for all the work throughout the Administration of Children and Families” and also provided definitions of terms such as “queer,” “transgender,” and “transition.” “Child welfare is already widely tainted by gender ideology,” Hanford told The Daily Wire. “One can only imagine how much more thoroughly this 20-million-dollar plan would have rotted child protective systems, and how many more families would have been destroyed, had President Trump not won the election and halted the project.” Screenshot from the SOGIE Institute project work plan. The work plan showed one of the long-term goals of the SOGIE Institute was to address the problem of “over-representation of LGBTQIA2S+ in foster care,” but Chakrabarti recommended that the SOGIE Institute focus on a more “realistic” goal. “I think a more realistic long term goal would be: increased satisfaction of services by LGBTQIA2S+ youth in care,” wrote Chakrabarti. Transgender activists believe not supporting a child’s transgender identity is a form of harm and abuse. Parents across the country, including in California, Indiana, and Maryland, have had their children taken away by child welfare services for affirming their child’s sex. In the first part of this series, The Daily Wire reported on an Oregon mom who lost custody because she would not affirm her daughter’s transgender identity. Erin Friday, a lawyer and president of Our Duty-USA, told The Daily Wire that gender-affirming child welfare systems are unnecessarily increasing the number of kids in foster care. “The child welfare system was designed as a safety net for abused children, with family reunification as its primary goal,” Friday said. “It has since morphed into a system that wants to add to the foster care ledger.” “The primary beneficiaries are LGBTQ-affiliated nonprofits that can then seek additional taxpayer funding,” Friday added. “This scheme simultaneously uses the increased numbers to justify the false notion that parents are abandoning their gender dysphoric children.” Under President Trump, HHS has alerted all 50 states that affirming “biological reality” does not constitute child abuse or neglect under federal law. “Removing a child from their home must be based on objective evidence or imminent risk of serious harm. So a state’s decision to break up a family cannot be based solely on a parent’s objection to radical gender ideology or irreversible sex rejecting medical interventions,” said Alex Adams, the assistant secretary for the ACF, in a video published by HHS. Despite this recommendation, few states have clarified their legal code to ensure that affirming a child’s sex is not labeled as a form of child abuse. Many American parents who won’t affirm the transgender identity of their children are at risk of losing custody of their kids to the state. President Trump canceled the $20 million SOGIE Institute contract in January 2025 with Executive Order 14151, which eliminated diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, according to the grant listing. But despite the loss of funding, members of the group have continued to push their views. Before the creation of Biden’s SOGIE Institute, Weeks was the director of a collaborative of transgender activists organizations that provides guidance and training to child welfare agencies implementing gender affirming policies called the National SOGIE Center. Partners of the collaborative include the Human Rights Campaign and Lambda Legal. The National SOGIE Center has continued to produce LGBTQ+ resources and published a “Coming Out With Care” guidebook in the fall of 2025. PART ONE: SHE WOULDN’T CALL HER DAUGHTER ‘TRANS.’ THE STATE TOOK CUSTODY. PART TWO: THE EVIDENCE PROBLEM AT THE HEART OF BIDEN’S TRANS RULE

President Donald Trump weighed in on recently ousted “60 Minutes” anchor Scott Pelley, referring to the former CBS News personality as a “stiff.” Trump made the comments during an appearance on the Wednesday episode of Miranda Devine’s podcast, “Pod Force One,” where he argued that Pelley was one of a number of legacy media personalities who truly didn’t care about the United States. It’s unclear whether the podcast was recorded prior to Pelley getting the boot from “60 Minutes” executive producer Nick Bilton. Trump explained his most recent battery of tests to Devine — a physical and a cognitive test — which he said he took out of an “obligation” to show the American people that he was more than fit for the job he was doing, and Devine asked whether the memory portions of the cognitive test were difficult. WATCH FROM TODAY’S EPISODE OF MORNING WIRE:      “I have a great memory, I have a good — look, so far so good,” Trump chuckled, adding, “I hope I’m going to keep it that way. If I don’t, you’ll be the first to know, you’ll say, this interview, this isn’t the same Trump! I think he’s lost it!” Devine pivoted to Pelley then, noting that he’d interviewed former President Joe Biden just after special counsel Robert Hur had done so. And despite Hur’s assertion that Biden shouldn’t be charged in the classified documents case because he was an aging man with poor memory, Pelley’s interview — through a combination of softball questions and edits — obscured that from the public’s view. “I think Scott Pelley’s got his own problems. He’s terrible,” Trump told Devine. “Look, Scott Pelley’s a stiff — and he’s afraid. And he’s part of this gang of crooked, stupid people that don’t care about our country. I watched that interview, that interview was a joke.” Trump also criticized CNN anchor Anderson Cooper and ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos — the latter of whom he referred to as “a tough little cookie” who’d been forced to pay him $16 million — and said that they’d been equally guilty in helping to cover up Biden’s cognitive decline.  

A 25-year-old Georgia man could face execution after being charged with a horrific crime aboard an Atlanta transit train. The suspect allegedly slashed a beloved great-grandmother’s throat and stabbed her up to 20 times in a completely unprovoked transit nightmare. John Elijah Matthews, a 25-year-old vagrant with no address and no phone, is now facing heavy-duty federal charges that could put him on federal death row for the alleged gruesome, broad-daylight execution of 66-year-old Margaret Swan, prosecutors announced. WATCH FROM TODAY’S EPISODE OF MORNING WIRE:    The bloodbath unfolded on May 30 around 11:25 a.m. aboard a northbound MARTA train. Surveillance footage captured the chilling countdown as the horror unfolded. Swan, described by authorities as a “phenomenal mom” and the “rock” of her family, boarded Train Car 134 and sat completely alone, minding her own business, according to the Fulton County arrest warrant affidavit. Minutes later, Matthews stepped into the train car wearing glasses, an orange T-shirt, and black slides. He didn’t say a word. He didn’t know her, and she didn’t know him. But video shows Matthews stalking over to the innocent senior, standing just inches away. At 11:25:26 a.m., he reached into his pocket, pulled out a folding knife, and flicked it open. Six seconds later, total horror. Matthews grabbed Swan by the head and cut her throat with his right hand, according to the chilling arrest affidavit. The terrified great-grandmother screamed, desperately trying to fight her way out of the seat. But the attacker held her down by the arm, raining down a flurry of 18 to 20 savage stabs into her chest and neck as she frantically tried to defend herself. As other passengers fled the car in a panic, the affidavit describes Matthews throwing Swan’s mangled body to the floor. He stood over her bleeding body for nearly two agonizing minutes until the train finally screeched into the Oakland City Station. Matthews allegedly stepped off the train with the bloody knife still in his hand. But his escape was cut short when a transit cop, alerted by terrified, screaming commuters pointing at Matthews, cornered him on the platform. After a brief standoff, cops detained Matthews and placed him in cuffs. Emergency workers rushed to save Swan, but she was pronounced dead at the scene. Now, the feds are stepping in. U.S. Attorney Theodore Hertzberg slammed the killing as an “unprovoked act of senseless violence,” and Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche will personally decide if the government will seek the death penalty. Meanwhile, Swan’s devastated family is furious, tearing into the “weak, pathetic coward” who stole their matriarch and demanding to know why transit cops aren’t doing more to protect women on the increasingly dangerous, crime-ridden train system. The incident was the second homicide around the Oakland City station in the last two months. “You took away our rock; you took away a gem,” Swan’s heartbroken daughter, Shanae Sams, said. “She was a phenomenal mom. Just for him to do that, it’s unforgivable. I don’t forgive him, I will never forgive him ever,” another daughter, Tiara, said.