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WASHINGTON—The State Department is destroying $13 million worth of contraceptives, The Daily Wire has learned, in addition to saving nearly $31 million by canceling contraceptive orders placed by President Joe Biden’s administration. The contraceptives — including everything from hormonal birth control pills to birth control implants — were set to be distributed abroad through the U.S. Agency for International Development. But the State Department now says the Biden administration purchased much of these contraceptives in violation of the Kemp-Kasten Amendment, which prevents U.S. funds from going to organizations that support or participate in programs of coercive abortion or involuntary sterilization. There were some interested buyers, a State Department official said, but they were deemed ineligible since they support organizations involved in coercive abortion and sterilization. Those buyers reportedly included the Gates Foundation, the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), and the United Nations Population Fund. None of these organizations immediately responded to requests for comment. A State Department official noted that it would cost the department several million dollars to sell the materials to other vendors, given that the department would have to rebrand some of these materials. Destroying the contraceptives, meanwhile, would cost taxpayers around $167,000, the official said. Doing so also avoids potential further violations of the Kemp-Kasten Amendment and ensures the materials don’t fall into the wrong hands — something that has happened before with USAID, according to the State Department. The move is part of President Donald Trump’s January 2025 presidential directive that stops support for organizations that are involved in coercive reproductive practices, according to a State Department memo shared with The Daily Wire. It is the Trump administration’s latest effort to curtail USAID, a once-sprawling operation that has been radically reined in and placed firmly under the auspices of the State Department. An inventory of USAID-Funded Contraceptive Commodities held at a distribution center in Belgium shows that USAID had formerly funded millions of dollars’ worth of birth control implants (including $3,850,540 for levonorgestrel rod implants and over $3,500,000 for etonogestrel rod implants). USAID was also funding hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of birth control pills, hormones, and IUDs, according to data reviewed by The Daily Wire. The Belgian distribution center, Belgium RDC, was holding a total of $9,734,251 contraceptive commodities, and $3.4 million in commodities are still being held by its supplier, according to the State Department memo.

It wasn’t so long ago that the absolute worst thing the government could do to a child — according to pretty much every expert, NGO and media mouthpiece on the planet — was to put that child in a “cage.” That was, as you probably remember, a major line of attack during the first Trump administration. The consensus was that Donald Trump was so evil and so unhinged that, simply for his own personal amusement, he instructed immigration officials to incarcerate children in the worst conditions imaginable, like they were animals. Things were so bad that AOC wept outside of an empty parking lot near an immigrant detention facility. Lin Manuel Miranda sang a lullaby for the Mexican children. Oprah, Rihanna, John Legend, George Clooney — the luminaries of our time — came together to formally condemn the Trump administration. In response, conservatives made the case that children weren’t actually being placed in “cages” of any kind. They also pointed out that the alleged “cages” predated the Trump administration. And that was all true.  The strongest argument, however, was actually pretty simple. Democrats couldn’t answer the following question: How exactly would a Democrat-run administration handle tens of thousands of children who are apprehended attempting to enter this country illegally at the border? If they weren’t going to deport the children, or use Obama’s “cages,” then what exactly would they do? What’s the alternative? We all knew that Biden couldn’t use the cages, because now Democrats are saying cages are evil. So what would Biden’s administration ultimately do? As it turns out, a big part of their solution was to place unaccompanied minors inside the homes of people they called “sponsors.” So if a minor attempted to enter this country alone, or if their father was being prosecuted for a serious crime, the Biden administration would try to find someone for these minors to live with, inside of this country. They wouldn’t simply deport the children. They also wouldn’t put them in a secure government facility or a “cage.” Instead, they’d house them with an adult. Of course, the “perverse incentives” in this situation are off the charts. The Biden administration was effectively encouraging children to cross the border without a legal guardian, because then they’d be allowed into the country instead of being deported with their families. And predictably, foreigners caught on to this situation. The number of unaccompanied minors attempting to enter this country increased by more than 100% under Biden, to more than 130,000 children per year. But it was all necessary, the Biden administration said, to avoid placing children in cages. Instead, they’d all be going to “sponsors.” WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show A year ago, the HHS secretary at the time was asked about this program. And he conceded that, once children were handed off to sponsors, the Biden administration had no idea what happened to them. They completely lost track of these children. And they knew this would happen, because they understood that they didn’t have any legal authority to follow-up on the whereabouts of the children. It’s almost as if they intentionally pawned these children off as quickly as they possibly could, to make them go away. They said this was supposedly the more “humane” approach. Watch: It’s not exactly the most reassuring testimony. He’s admitting that the federal government has handed off tens of thousands of children to adults who, in many cases, are not even related to them. And then he’s acknowledging that the government has no idea what happened next. That’s because the HHS, which is overseeing this whole program, isn’t a law enforcement agency. They have no power whatsoever. They’re not remotely capable — legally or practically — of figuring out what actually happened to these children that the government relocated.  And on top of that, Kamala Harris and other Democrats made sure to block HHS from informing local schools about the children. In other words, because of the deliberate policy choices of the Democrat Party, there was no way for anyone, even school districts, to verify that the children were attending school. Teachers couldn’t check up on them. So what were all of the kids doing? What was happening to them? Thanks to new reporting from the group “Illegal Alien Crimes,” as well as The Daily Wire’s Luke Rosiak, we now have some more clarity on this question. And the answer is far more horrifying than any “cage” could possibly be. It turns out that, in effect, the Biden administration launched a human trafficking operation. That was their solution to “kids in cages.” Instead, now we have “kids being forced to live with sexual abusers.” The Daily Wire reports: A 37-year-old illegal immigrant man was arrested for allegedly sexually abusing at least one teen girl who the federal government sent to live with him as part of the Biden administration’s scheme to place ‘unaccompanied alien children’ in the homes of unrelated, loosely-vetted ‘sponsors.’ …Wilson Manfredo Lopez-Carillo was arrested by the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s office in Florida on May 22 and charged with three counts of sexual assault on a minor. This is the level of “vetting” that HHS conducted during the Biden administration, to make sure that the “sponsors” had the best interests of the children in mind. Of course, there wasn’t any way to vet this guy, or check his record or anything like that, because he was *also* an illegal alien. In other words, yes, the Biden administration housed a 16-year-old girl with a 37-year-old illegal alien, who had already broken our laws to enter this country. They put her with a known criminal who they could not vet in any meaningful way. If you pull up the probable cause affidavit, you’ll find that these alleged sexual assaults took place in February of last year. The victim arrived in this country in August of 2023. So within about six months, she was attacked several times in the “home” that the Biden administration set her up with. The other thing you’ll notice, as you look at this probable cause statement, is that at least a third of the document is redacted. There’s a lot of information that’s not being disclosed here. To be sure, there are probably legitimate reasons for these redactions in some cases. We’re talking about a very sensitive case involving a minor, after all. But it’s enough to make you wonder whether we’ll ever receive anything approaching a full accounting for what the Biden administration has done here.  What we know for sure is that the scale of this particular human trafficking operation is staggering. Late last year, the DHS inspector general under the Biden administration disclosed that something like 300,000 minors are unaccounted for. And even the minors who are “accounted for,” in some cases, are raising very obvious concerns. For example, the inspector general pointed out that: One ICE officer expressed concern with not being able to take action in a case involving an [unaccompanied minor] whose sponsor claimed the [unaccompanied minor] was in an inappropriate relationship with her husband. In other words, the Biden administration placed this unaccompanied minor inside of a household, and then the husband start abusing the minor, causing the woman to complain to federal authorities. And in response, federal authorities did absolutely nothing. And this kind of thing happens a lot.  From the report: ICE E.R.O. [Enforcement and Removal Operations] has no authority over [unaccompanied children] beyond managing their immigration cases. Therefore, even if ICE were to identify [unaccompanied children] in unsafe conditions, the agency has limited authority to respond. ICE personnel at two field offices affirmed this and explained they had identified [unaccompanied children] in unsafe conditions but were unable to intervene. Unfortunately the report doesn’t go into any more detail on that point. You’d think that, if illegal alien children were suspected of living in unsafe conditions, after the federal government placed them in a household full of other illegals, it would be pretty easy to kick the door down and investigate. But apparently, these children have just fallen through the cracks. No agency wants to assert jurisdiction. And of course, whenever anyone in Congress tried to press for answers, the Biden administration stonewalled, because in the end, all of this was deliberate. Last November, for example, Louisiana senator Bill Cassidy tried to conduct an audit into the status of these unaccompanied children. From The Daily Caller:  HHS would repeatedly take months to respond to [Cassidy’s] requests — and sometimes the department would not respond at all. … HHS officials also stonewalled state investigators when Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis demanded answers. .. DeSantis — in response to findings that alien children smuggled into Florida were being sexually exploited or used for trafficking in drugs and weapons — petitioned the Florida Supreme Court to investigate criminal activity related to the smuggling of unaccompanied alien children from the U.S.-Mexico border into Florida. ..However, HHS allegedly ‘refused’ to provide witnesses or documents to a grand jury, ignored subpoenas and ‘actively encouraged’ Florida entities that contract with [federal immigration] officials to not cooperate with investigators. Predictably, nearly a decade after the fake outrage over “kids in cages,” there has been no concern whatsoever from any political figure or media outlet on the Left about any of this. There’s no outrage about the fact that the Biden administration, fresh off the moral outrage over the “kids in cages,” constructed an elaborate human trafficking operation with a code of silence that rivals any mafia. Keep that in mind, the next time you’re told that some policy you support is supposedly horrific or barbaric or racist or whatever. When people tell you that, ask them what the alternative is. And if they can’t answer, it’s a pretty good sign that, in their quest to score some political points, they’re willing to endorse evils beyond all comprehension. That’s the bargain Democrats made under Joe Biden. And now, locked away with “sponsors” who no one can track, there are tens of thousands of children who are suffering every day as a result. If you needed another reason to support mass deportations, that’s a pretty big one. At the very least, deporting some of these sponsors would help break up one of the largest human trafficking rings ever created — the one the Biden administration spun up right here in the United States. In the end, the only sustainable solution is a secure border — one that’s ruthlessly enforced in a way that might make some liberal women uncomfortable. Unless we want tens of thousands more children to suffer untold horrors with their “sponsors,” we simply have no other choice.

The news of George Wendt’s sudden passing on May 20 shocked Cheers fans. It was hard to believe the ever-jolly Norm Peterson was suddenly sitting at a barstool in heaven where Coach handed him his first beer. It’s been a little more than two weeks, and The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health released George’s official cause of death on June 5. According to documents obtained by TMZ, George Wendt died from a combination of ailments. Per the death certificate, he died from cardiac arrest. George also suffered from congestive heart failure, coronary artery disease, hypertension, end-stage renal disease, kidney disease, and hyperlipidemia related to high cholesterol. Sadly, the conditions proved deadly, and George’s life ended in a blink. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Rockhurst University (@rockhurstuniversity) George Wendt Passed Away Peacefully It seems that George Wendt’s death came quickly, and he passed away in his sleep, a family member told TMZ.  Many fans and loved ones paid tribute to George Wendt on social media after his death. His alma mater, Rockhurst University shared kind words for one of their most famous alums. “Our thoughts and prayers are with the family and friends of Rockhurst alum George Wendt, beloved comedian and actor. Best known for his role as ‘Norm’ from the sitcom ‘Cheers,’ many in our community knew him as a fellow Hawk. Wendt graduated in 1971 with a degree in economics before joining Second City comedy troupe in Chicago and landing his iconic role.Thank you for all the laughs, George. Rest in peace.” Ted Danson, who played Sam Malone alongside George on Cheers, shared a heartbreaking statement with Entertainment Weekly. “I am devastated to hear that Georgie is no longer with us. I am sending all my love to Bernadette and the children. It is going to take me a long time to get used to this. I love you, Georgie.” John Ratzenberger, who played Norm’s drinking buddy Cliff Clavin, echoed Ted’s sadness following George Wendt’s death. “What you saw on screen was exactly who he was off-screen with impeccable comedic timing and a deep loyalty to those he loved. I’ll miss our conversations and the quiet moments of friendship that meant the most,” he shared with Entertainment Weekly. George Wendt was 76. This story’s featured image is by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for Turner. The post George Wendt’s Cause Of Death Revealed Two Weeks After “Cheers” Star’s Sudden Passing appeared first on InspireMore.

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