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President Trump shared a text message from Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) regarding so-called Association Health Plans that “allow individuals to buy collectively health insurance via Costco, Amazon, or Sam’s Club.” “I know we have been at odds recently but in ur first term you signed an executive order to legalize Association Health Plans,” the text message read. “This collaboration brought us together and still holds the promise of lowering insurance premiums. It did not succeed because Dem AG’s fought it in court. We could pass it in Congress today, with ur help,” it continued. “It costs nothing and simply changes labor law to allow people to buy insurance as a group from retailers. Let me know if this is something you might want to partner on,” the message added. Full Text: Newsmax shared: Trump’s post comes soon after Republican Reps. Rick Allen of Georgia and Jodey Arrington of Texas announced their “Healthy Competition for Better Care Act,” which they say would promote “transparency in health care,” crack down on anti-competitive practices, and remove restrictions that prevent competition in health care markets. Echoing Paul’s concerns, the Allen-Arrington bill argues that increased competition in the health insurance industry is necessary to restore “access to quality care” for Americans. “Americans are paying too much for too little health care,” Arrington said in a statement. “This bipartisan legislation puts hardworking families first, ensures fair competition, and puts patients, not bureaucrats, back in charge of their health care.” “Joined @BloombergTV to discuss my healthcare plan: HSAs for all, buying insurance across state lines, and real negotiating power for millions of Americans through places like Costco, Amazon, and Sam’s Club,” Paul said. “President Trump and I worked on this before, and I’m ready to work with him again to fix our broken system,” he added. Joined @BloombergTV to discuss my healthcare plan: HSAs for all, buying insurance across state lines, and real negotiating power for millions of Americans through places like Costco, Amazon, and Sam’s Club. President Trump and I worked on this before, and I’m ready to work with… pic.twitter.com/MNqAmClkxy — Rand Paul (@RandPaul) December 3, 2025 Paul wrote in an op-ed for Newsweek: Obamacare costs the taxpayers billions of dollars and costs every individual thousands of dollars a year in increased premiums. As conservatives, including myself, warned in the debate over Obamacare, subsidizing insurance simply increases demand and therefore increases the price of health insurance. Where once there existed the choice of a higher deductible plan with lower premiums, now Obamacare plans offer high deductibles and high premiums. Any semblance of a functioning individual health insurance market has been eliminated, as government health insurance or employers are the only real source of coverage for nearly all Americans. My health care plan, called the Health Marketplace and Savings Accounts For All Act, which I will introduce this week, does two things and costs the taxpayers nothing. First, my plan legalizes the ability for any group to purchase insurance collectively and operate across state lines. My plan would make it legal for Costco, Sam’s Club, or Amazon to bargain for their millions of members as a single entity, thereby driving prices down. These collectives could be bigger than any corporation in America and have the size and leverage to drive health premiums down. In fact, once these co-ops are legalized, the individual market likely melts away, and everyone in America would gain the benefits that normally accrue to the group market. My plan is the only plan being offered that would drive prices down. All other plans, such as the Democrat plan to continue the add-on subsidies to the original Obamacare subsidies, will continue to drive up health insurance premiums. All Republican variations of these plans only vary in their cost to the taxpayer. Some in the GOP want to simply give the fully expanded Obamacare subsidies to individuals’ Health Savings Accounts (HSAs). Which, in reality, will be a distinction without a difference. It will cost the taxpayers the same amount and simply serve as a pit stop for the money before it inevitably flows to the insurance companies. Other compliant Republicans are offering variations on this theme. Some in the GOP want to give the Obamacare subsidies (minus the pandemic add-on) to individuals’ HSAs. This plan will do nothing to lower insurance premiums and puts its Republican supporters on the record as supporting Obamacare subsidies.

President Trump announced on Wednesday that he would give a full and unconditional pardon to Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) and his wife. The Texas Democrat and his wife, Imelda, were indicted last year for allegedly accepting nearly $600,000 in bribes and laundering the funds. “For years, the Biden Administration weaponized the Justice System against their Political Opponents, and anyone who disagreed with them. One of the clearest examples of this was when Crooked Joe used the FBI and DOJ to ‘take out’ a member of his own Party after Highly Respected Congressman Henry Cuellar bravely spoke out against Open Borders, and the Biden Border ‘Catastrophe,'” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “Sleepy Joe went after the Congressman, and even the Congressman’s wonderful wife, Imelda, simply for speaking the TRUTH. It is unAmerican and, as I previously stated, the Radical Left Democrats are a complete and total threat to Democracy! They will attack, rob, lie, cheat, destroy, and decimate anyone who dares to oppose their Far Left Agenda, an Agenda that, if left unchecked, will obliterate our magnificent Country,” Trump continued. “Because of these facts, and others, I am hereby announcing my full and unconditional PARDON of beloved Texas Congressman Henry Cuellar, and Imelda. Henry, I don’t know you, but you can sleep well tonight — Your nightmare is finally over!” he added. The Hill has more: Trump shared a letter he received last month from Cuellar’s daughters in which they requested a pardon for their parents. In the letter, Christinia and Catherine Cuellar suggested Cuellar’s “independence and honesty” may have contributed to the investigation into his conduct. “With all our hearts, we humbly ask that you show mercy and compassion to our parents — either by dismissing this case or granting a full and unconditional pardon,” the two daughters wrote in a Nov. 12 letter. The Justice Department in March 2024 indicted the Cuellars on 14 counts. The indictment outlined payments Henry Cuellar allegedly accepted from an oil company owned by the Azerbaijan government and a Mexican bank. A judge in August dismissed two of the 14 counts in the case at the request of federal prosecutors and set a trial for next year. “I want to thank President Trump for his tremendous leadership and for taking the time to look at the facts. I thank God for standing with my family and I during this difficult time. This decision clears the air and lets us move forward for South Texas,” Cuellar said. “This pardon gives us a clean slate. The noise is gone. The work remains. And I intend to meet it head on. Thank you Mr. President, God bless you, and God bless the United States of America,” he added. I want to thank President Trump for his tremendous leadership and for taking the time to look at the facts. I thank God for standing with my family and I during this difficult time. This decision clears the air and lets us move forward for South Texas. This pardon gives us a… pic.twitter.com/ajNvHq6rG0 — Rep. Henry Cuellar (@RepCuellar) December 3, 2025 CBS News noted: Cuellar’s daughters also appeared to reference Mr. Trump’s own criminal cases, which they called his “challenges.” They said they prayed for the president and his family “because we know that behind the headlines, there are real people who hurt, who love and who still hope for better days.” Mr. Trump faced federal charges in two cases brought by former special counsel Jack Smith, though both ended after he won the presidency last year. A state prosecution in Georgia related to the 2020 election was also dismissed last week. The president was convicted on 34 felony counts in New York in June 2024 and has appealed the conviction. In last year’s indictment against the Cuellars, federal prosecutors accused them of accepting at least $598,000 in bribes from an oil and gas company owned by the government of Azerbaijan and a Mexican bank. They alleged that the bribes were laundered in the form of sham consulting contracts through front companies and middlemen into shell companies owned by Imelda Cuellar. The congressman’s wife, according to the indictment, “performed little or no legitimate” work under the consulting contracts.

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Reverend Phillip Phaneuf of the North Chili United Methodist Church (UMC) in Upstate New York announced to his congregation that he will be transitioning to become a woman.