WASHINGTON, D.C. — Advocates and angel families who lost children to the opioid epidemic applauded news Monday that President Donald Trump had signed the SUPPORT Act, legislation that strengthens resources for Americans facing substance use disorders. Trump signed the legislation into law on Monday afternoon, reauthorizing and revising programs within the Department of Health and Human Services addressing substance use disorders, overdoses, and mental health. Sandy Snodgrass, the mother of a victim named Bruce, and co-founder of Fentanyl Fathers and Angel Army, said simply: “The SUPPORT Act and Bruce’s Law will simply save the lives of young Americans.” Another bereaved father, Greg Swan, thanked the president for listening to the story of his grieving family, noting that Trump created the original SUPPORT Act back in 2018. Monday’s action renewed the law with the addition of “Bruce’s Law,” written by Snodgrass, he said. “Now we are empowered and backed by the Support Act to go into all 26,727 reluctant USA High Schools and preach the dangers of fentanyl as a bereaved army, the Angel Army,” said Swan, who is co-founder of Fentanyl Fathers and Angel Army. “110,000 lives will be saved by youth alone – and you can double that by the number of bereaved parents who WILL NOT have to have an empty chair for their ‘Tiny Tim.’” Drew Siegel, co-founder of Victoria’s Voice, said that his organization is “forever grateful” to Trump and his administration for “answering the prayers of millions of bereaved parents, siblings, friends, and families across our country.” Drew’s sister, Victoria, is also a victim of a drug overdose. “This is for you, Victoria,” he said simply. “We love you, and we miss you every day.” U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during an East Room event at the White House October 24, 2018 in Washington, DC. President Trump hosted an event to mark the one-year anniversary of the administration’s declaration of combating the opioid crisis. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) Robert Branner, co-founder of Fentanyl Fathers, described the legislation as “a lifeline for American families.” “It is an Act designed to save lives, strengthen communities, and protect our children from a crisis that is touching every corner of this nation,” he argued. “I stand here as a Father who lost a daughter because she did not know the dangers of taking a pill that was not prescribed to her. She didn’t know it could be laced with fentanyl. She didn’t know one single pill could stop her heart. She didn’t know because she was never taught.” Branner says the new law matters for all Americans, recognizing that “prevention is protection.” 50% off DailyWire+ annual memberships will not return for another year, so don’t miss this deal! Join now at DailyWire.com/cyberweek. “It invests in education, awareness, treatment, and support,” he said. “It brings resources to schools, families, and communities so our children do not grow up uninformed, unprotected, and unaware. If my daughter had received the education that the SUPPORT Act encourages, if she had been taught early about the dangers of unprescribed opioids she might still be here today. And I know I am not alone. Families across this country have the same story, the same pain, the same loss.” “The SUPPORT Act is an equalizer,” he said. “It doesn’t pick and choose which families to help. It reaches across race, class, background, and zip code because addiction and fentanyl do not discriminate. Education, prevention, and support should not either. … It saves lives. It strengthens families. And it gives our children the knowledge they need to survive in a world where one pill can take everything.”

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem recommended a “full travel ban” on potentially dozens of countries on Monday. Noem said on Monday she had met with President Donald Trump and pushed for a travel ban on all countries that have “been flooding our nation with killers, leeches, and entitlement junkies.” Noem’s move to crack down on foreign entry into the United States comes as the president has paused asylum claims from 19 countries after an Afghan national allegedly killed a National Guardsman in Washington, D.C. “Our forefathers built this nation on blood, sweat, and the unyielding love of freedom—not for foreign invaders to slaughter our heroes, suck dry our hard-earned tax dollars, or snatch the benefits owed to AMERICANS,” Noem wrote in a post on X. “WE DON’T WANT THEM. NOT ONE.” Noem did not specify which countries would be included in the travel ban under her criteria. Law enforcement says that Afghan national Rahmanullah Lakanwal shot two National Guardsmen in D.C. last week. Lakanwal worked with U.S. forces in Afghanistan before coming to the United States during the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan under former president Joe Biden. 50% off DailyWire+ annual memberships will not return for another year, so don’t miss this deal! Join now at DailyWire.com/cyberweek. Lakanwal applied for asylum in the United States last year, and his request was granted earlier this year under the Trump administration. Noem deflected on Sunday when asked if the Trump administration vetted Lakanwal before granting him asylum. The Homeland Security secretary said during an interview on NBC’s “Meet The Press” that “vetting is happening when they come into the country, and that was completely abandoned under Joe Biden’s administration.” Trump paused asylum claims from 19 countries last week, announcing the move in a pair of Truth Social posts on Thanksgiving. The countries included under the pause are Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen, Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan, and Venezuela. Those countries “of Identified Concern” were originally listed in a June 4 executive order. The president said Sunday that he would not put a time limit on the pause because “we have enough problems. We don’t want those people.”

This may come as a shocker, but it’s been nearly 52 years since Happy Days premiered on ABC. The show followed the lives of squeaky-clean Richie Cunningham, his rebel pal Aruther “Fonzie” Fonzarelli, and buddies like Potsie Weber and Ralph Malph. While it aired from 1974 to 1984, the show took place in the 1950s and 1960s. The show took place in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and depicted life for an average midwestern family in the prime of their lives. After the show went off the air, the Happy Days characters became a part of television history, but the actors who played them remain lifelong friends. “Happy Days” Made Friends Forever Anson Williams, who played Potsie on Happy Days, shared a photo with friends Don Most and Henry Winkler, who played Ralph and Fonzie. The three men beamed in the photo, and it’s not hard to see their true love for each other. Anson wanted Happy Days fans to see how much his friends mean to him more than 40 years after the show wrapped. “Three Amigos Together Again! Truly Happy Days!” Anson Williams wrote on Facebook. Fans immediately chimed in their excitement seeing the men back together and reminisced about the show. “I liked the episode where Ralph Malph crashed into Fonzies Motorcycle and tried to keep it quiet. Fonzie did his own investigation to find the culprit and went crazy when he found out it was Ralph Malph that did it,” someone wrote. Another person had many ideas for a reunion. “I would love to see a reunion show. They’re all married with kids and grandkids. Fonzie still has the leather jacket. Richie is still fighting with his parents. The Malachi Brothers still wanna kick Ralph and Pozzi‘s ass. Oh, the amount of ideas lol,” they wrote. Seeing Anson, Don, and Henry makes us smile. Happy Days was one of those shows that seemed like real life, and we love that these men remain such great friends. This story’s featured image is by Stephen Shugerman/Getty Images.

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With time winding down before the House breaks for Christmas, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is hitting Republicans’ pressure points. On Monday, Jeffries announced he is introducing a discharge petition—a way to circumvent Republican leadership—in a bid to extend COVID-19-era enhanced health care premium tax credits before they expire.  Jeffries appears to be trying to hit Republicans where it hurts, fomenting dissent in their caucus and gaining political momentum off of the health care issue. Discharge Mayhem Discharge petitions, which require 218 members to sign on in order to force consideration of a bill, have become increasingly common in this Congress. The petitions are a thorn in the side of leadership, granting Democrats power in the minority. The mechanism allows a member to force a vote on legislation that leadership is not putting on the floor once the petition collects 218 signatures. The petition then sets off a timer of seven legislative days for the petition to “ripen,” at which point the speaker is given two legislative days to schedule a vote. Recently, a discharge petition brought forward by Reps. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., and Ro Khanna, D-Calif., forced consideration of a bill to compel the release of information on the now-deceased convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Rep. Jared Golden, D-Maine, has also successfully gathered the 218 signatures necessary to force consideration of a bill to protect federal employees’ union rights. Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., has also submitted a discharge petition to force a vote on his bill to sanction Russia, and the backers of a bipartisan bill to ban stock trading among members have discussed a discharge petition to force it on to the floor, as well. Jeffries Not Interested in Negotiating Jeffries is demanding a three-year, clean extension of the Obamacare premium tax credits—an idea most Republicans have rejected.  “We only need a handful of Republicans to join us in order to save the healthcare of tens of millions of Americans,” Jeffries writes in his letter announcing the initiative. “It’s time for the do-nothing Republican Congress to proceed with urgency.” This demand for a clean extension—despite Republicans criticisms of the credits as market-distorting, prone to fraud, and permissive of abortion—is in contrast with the openness some Democrats previously expressed to negotiate and reform the credits with Republicans. “We have to write a version that is good for our values that helps people, but also is designed to get some Republican votes,” Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., said shortly before the shutdown ended.  Kaine ultimately voted to end the shutdown after receiving Republican guarantees of a vote on whether or not to extend the credits. “Time has run out on Republican inaction,” Jeffries told The Daily Signal when asked why he would propose a clean extension. The credits, which were boosted to higher levels and granted to higher earners under President Joe Biden, were set to expire at the end of 2025 by Democrats. “We have a discharge petition that if it received an up or down vote in the House of Representatives, we are confident will pass,” Jeffries told The Daily Signal. “But obviously, [Speaker of the House] Mike Johnson [R-La.] has zero interest in protecting the health care of the American people. Instead, these extremists are gutting the health care of the people that they represent, including in the state of Louisiana.” In response to Jeffries’ statement, a spokeswoman for Johnson told The Daily Signal, “Democrats are once again fabricating a narrative and misrepresenting the speaker’s position. The speaker welcomes President Trump’s efforts to lower health care costs, and any White House input is a meaningful contribution to the thoughtful, deliberative conversations taking place in Congress.” The White House, although it has not released any final proposal of how to resolve the subsidy expiration issue, has reportedly flirted with the idea of a two-year extension of the credits, involving reforms such as ending zero-premium credits. She added, “After 43 days of the Democrat Shutdown—during which they demanded bipartisan talks and direct White House engagement—Democrats now attacked the mere possibility of President Trump’s involvement. If Democrats truly want to address health care affordability, why would they reject a plan they haven’t even seen? Democrats clearly prefer a partisan fight over working towards a bipartisan solution.” The Path Forward Jeffries’ discharge petition might be more of a messaging ploy than an actual attempt at passing legislation, as Democrats have consistently messaged on purported Republican attacks on health care and entitlement programs. In the Senate, Republicans are still discussing proposals for replacing the COVID-19-era credits, such as Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy’s proposed flexible savings accounts, which, if enacted, would allow consumers more flexibility in shopping for health care coverage and eliminate direct subsidies to insurance companies. Jeffries suggests that, with total Democrat unanimity in the House, picking up the five necessary Republican defectors is a possibility. “I guess we can always hope that there are a handful of Republicans who will actually do what they said that they would do once their shutdown ended, which is to work with Democrats to find a path forward,” he told reporters Monday. Democrats’ success in this attempt would have to involve an extraordinary revolt against Republican leadership, going against the long-established position that the credits need reform if they are to be extended at all. The post Jeffries Tries to Sidestep Republican Leadership on Health Care appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Fraudsters in the Somali community of Minnesota stole billions of dollars from American taxpayers over a period of years, and the state government did nothing to stop it. That outrageous scandal has finally become part of a “national conversation” after City Journal published a stunning article written by Christopher Rufo and Ryan Thorpe titled “The Largest Funder of Al-Shabaab Is the Minnesota Taxpayer” in November. Al-Shabaab is a Somalia-based Islamist terror organization. “Minnesota is drowning in fraud. Billions in taxpayer dollars have been stolen during the administration of Governor Tim Walz alone,” Rufo and Thorpe wrote. “Democratic state officials, overseeing one of the most generous welfare regimes in the country, are asleep at the switch. And the media, duty-bound by progressive pieties, refuse to connect the dots.” The piece highlighted truly titanic fraud schemes involving various state welfare programs, including “Feeding Our Future,” a program that received hundreds of millions of dollars annually and was ultimately “being used to fund lavish lifestyles, purchase luxury vehicles, and buy real estate in the United States, Turkey, and Kenya.” The report set off a firestorm. Rufo was accused of being anti-immigrant and racist. Many on social media accused him of exaggerating the problem. But then The New York Times published a follow-up basically confirming that Minnesota’s social services were essentially eviscerated by Somali fraudsters under Walz’s watch. There was a very important line in this piece provided by Ahmed Samatar, a professor at Macalester College. Samatar said, according to the Times, that “Somali refugees who came to the United States after their country’s civil war were raised in a culture in which stealing from the country’s dysfunctional and corrupt government was widespread.” This sort of gets to the heart of why immigration policies have been so out of whack and destructive in Western countries for a generation, producing the current justified backlash. It should be no surprise that in concentrated Somali communities, like the ones that exist in Minnesota, similar scams have taken place. One doesn’t need to be wholly against immigration to understand that. After all, Thomas Jefferson warned in his famed “Notes on the State of Virginia” about taking in too many people from “absolute monarchies” who will bring with them “the principles of the governments they leave imbibed in their early youth.” “These principles, with their language, they will transmit to their children,” Jefferson wrote. “In proportion to their numbers, they will share with us in legislation. Our laws and institutions must therefore be guarded with jealous attention; and in order to preserve them, we must incorporate our immigrants into the body of our people.” He recommended essentially slowing our roll bringing in people from such places. That’s prudence, not nativism. What we’ve seen under President Joe Biden and Democrat governors like Walz, is the furthest thing from prudence. Instead, our country has been subjected to a reckless, cynical vote grab combined with the toxic empathy of modern leftism. President Donald Trump said on Sunday that the U.S. needs to stop taking people in from countries like Somalia where they have “virtually no government” and “then they come into our country and tell us how to run our country.” .@POTUS: "Countries like Somalia, that have virtually no government, no military — all they do is go around killing each other, then they come into our country and tell us how to run our country. WE DON'T WANT THEM." pic.twitter.com/x8oVgKAXR4— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) November 30, 2025 The president is on to something here when talking about the Somalia issue. The war-torn nation typically ranks as one of the most corrupt on Earth. Theft of public money is commonplace. In 2022 it was discovered that two-thirds of the five thousand civil servants in Somalia didn’t report to work and in many cases were likely “ghost employees” according to the Horn Observer. Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud groused about this issue. “There are more than 5,000 civil servants registered in our biometric system, but only 1,500 of them report to work every day,” he said, according to the Horn Observer. “Where are the rest? They do not exist or they do not live in the country. However, they are still paid. They are thieves and their superiors who accepted this scheme are also thieves. They are simply stealing public money.” Hassan may be right, but it seems he doesn’t have a leg to stand on. He’s been accused of corruption related to public land sales. There has been, no surprise, widespread problems with theft of international aid in Somalia too. The European Union had to temporarily suspend Somalia’s World Food Programme in 2023 because of widespread theft. Reuters reported how the program was supposed to send $130 a month to displaced persons in a refugee camp, but they would frequently only receive $65 after it was handled by the camp manager. In 2024 the Minnesota Informer published an interesting piece about the corruption clearly taking place among Somalis in Minnesota. It was written by Kayseh Magan, a man with a Somali background who had worked as a fraud investigator in the Minnesota Attorney General’s Office. Magan explained that widespread fraud was common in the Somali community. He said that this crime problem is the classic case of when “desire meets opportunity.” Magan wrote that “Minnesota’s public programs don’t adequately guard against organized fraud.” Part of the issue: The fraudsters have exploited “the burgeoning political power of the Somali community, and the feckless fear that establishment politicians and state agencies show when confronted with charges of racism or Islamophobia.” It’s here we see the crisis facing many Western governments playing out in the most extreme way in Minnesota. They’ve combined a generous welfare state with the near religious belief in mass immigration from developing, “third world” countries as Trump called them. To even question that system is to be ostracized as part of the wholly unacceptable “far right.” The result in Europe, after years of evidence that the system isn’t working, is that governments literally silence people who disagree with unlimited immigration. The U.K. is conducting this Orwellian experiment in tyranny as I write this. What we are seeing in the United States is hopefully an immigration reset of sorts. More Americans now question the value that unlimited, unchecked migration from dysfunctional countries brings to ours. What is happening in Minnesota needs to stop. The country can’t afford it. The post Thomas Jefferson Could Have Predicted Massive Somali Minnesota Fraud Schemes appeared first on The Daily Signal.

The Boy Scouts of America taught me valuable lessons about tying knots, lighting fires, and what it means to be a man, but I’m glad to see the Department of War reconsidering its historic partnership with the Scouts. Founded in 1910, the Boy Scouts of America taught young men wilderness survival skills, fostered friendship, and trained boys to become citizens and leaders. In order to attain the rank of Eagle Scout, a young man must not just demonstrate mastery of many skills but also plan his own project, leading others. For these and other reasons, the military awards an automatic rank increase to Eagle Scouts who enlist. A 2017 post for Scouting Magazine noted that 20% of West Point cadets, 12% of the Naval Academy Class of 2016, and 10% of Air Force Academy cadets had attained the highest rank in Scouting. Yet the Boy Scouts of America no longer exists, and the organization that replaced it, Scouting America, leaves a great deal to be desired. It is high time the military reconsider, and establish clear benchmarks for a scouting program that fosters virtue, rather than virtue-signaling. The Trans Scouts of America As a young man, I learned the Scout Law: “A scout is trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, and reverent.” Tragically, the Boy Scouts of America abandoned these commitments. In January 2017, the organization endorsed transgender ideology, which I’ve long argued is fundamentally at odds with both trustworthiness and reverence: ‘A scout is trustworthy’ means more than just telling the truth. It means living with integrity, not presenting a false sense of yourself to others. There is a fundamental falseness in presenting yourself as a boy when you are in fact biologically a girl. But I think there is a worse loss of integrity among those who encourage biological girls to identify as boys. ‘A scout is reverent’ means honoring God, or at least a principle greater than yourself. Christians—and most Jews and Muslims, to my knowledge—believe that God created humans male and female, and that their sexuality is a good gift from God. Rejecting that gift—or encouraging others to reject it—is arguably irreverent. Endorsing transgender ideology is a fundamental rejection of the virtues the Boy Scouts of America once championed. The Boy Scouts of America also faced 82,000 claims of child sexual abuse in a scandal that led the institution to declare bankruptcy in 2020. I thank God that I never experienced any such abuse, but I am horrified by the fact that an institution tarred by such a scandal would go on to embrace an ideology that arguably makes young people more vulnerable to predation. The Boy Scouts drifted from a non-political home for Democrats and Republicans alike to a left-leaning institution. The transgender policy came after the Boy Scouts allowed open homosexuality among boys in 2013, and then among adult leaders in 2015. In 2020, it announced solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement and introduced a “diversity and inclusion” merit badge, now mandatory for the rank of Eagle Scout. When the BSA changed its position on homosexuality, former scout leaders banded together to form Trail Life USA, a Christian alternative. The BSA encouraged a faith in God or a higher power, but Trail Life USA is explicitly Christian. By 2023, Trail Life USA had grown to more than 50,000 members in all 50 states, with 1,200 troops across the country. Perhaps fittingly, at the beginning of this year the organization changed its name from Boy Scouts of America to “Scouting America.” The Department of War Last week, NPR published a story claiming that Secretary of War Pete Hegseth had written a memo cutting off Scouting America. Hegseth reportedly wrote that the Scouts no longer promotes “masculine values,” instead focusing on “gender confusion” and diversity, equity, and inclusion. A War Department official told The Daily Signal that “the department will not comment on leaked documents that we cannot authenticate and that may be pre-decisional.” I support the Department of War’s connection with scouting institutions. Scouting trains young boys—and girls—to develop important skills, and the military should reward scouting achievements with a higher initial rank. That said, I think Scouting America has taken this important relationship for granted, and it is high time the Department of War develop clear guidelines for what kind of scouting program it will honor. Since Scouting America aims to indoctrinate kids on “diversity, equity, and inclusion” and rejects the distinction between men and women, Hegseth would be well advised to reconsider this relationship. I’d recommend two things. First, the Department of War should set forth clear standards for scouting partners: standards focused on key skills and virtues, not political correctness. Second, the Department of War should seriously consider partnering with Trail Life USA and American Heritage Girls, the conservative alternatives to the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts. Perhaps, if the military establishes clear standards, it may not just send Scouting America a well-deserved wake-up call, but also encourage reforms to restore the Boy Scouts to their own high ideals. The post An Eagle Scout Weighs in on Department of War Cutting Ties With the Boy Scouts appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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