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President Trump on Wednesday announced a major $54 billion investment in Alaska liquefied natural gas as part of a broader $350 billion investment deal with South Korea.
“We’re thrilled to announce one of the largest energy infrastructure investments in American history,” Trump said.
— A $22.3 billion, 6.5 GW natural-gas power facility in Encinal, Texas.
— Eight large nuclear reactors
— Alaska LNG project
Trump took questions from reporters after his announcement.
A reporter pointed out that California has to rely on foreign crude oil because the state doesn’t have refineries because of destructive, far-left environmental policies.
President Trump erupted on California’s Democrats over the state’s disastrous oil policies.
“It’s so unfair what California is doing. They closed their refineries. You know, they had a lot of refineries. They were actually the third or fourth biggest oil producer in the country. Nobody thinks of California that way. They have a lot of oil in California, but they don’t use it because of the environmental lunatics,” Trump said.
“They are being charged so much. It’s so sad to see and how they keep electing these people that have no idea what they’re doing,” Trump said.
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The post President Trump Goes Off on Newsom and California Democrats For State’s Disastrous Oil Policies, High Gas Prices (VIDEO) appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

The United States military has finally withdrawn from Iraq after 12 years, with President Donald Trump criticizing the “very bad decision-making that got us involved in this quagmire in the first place.”
The post U.S. Military Withdraws from Iraq After 12 Years, Trump Calls Out ‘Very Bad Decision-Making That Got Us Involved’ in the First Place appeared first on Breitbart.

An Israeli passenger who helped overpower the co-pilot accused of trying to crash a Tel Aviv-bound Flydubai jet recounted how he put the attacker in a chokehold before grabbing the controls of the plunging aircraft himself — an extraordinary intervention Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu later hailed as heroic.
The post Israeli Hero Recounts Battle to Stop Flydubai Hijacking: ‘I Grabbed Him, Choked Him’ appeared first on Breitbart.

Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh has appointed the General Services Administration to oversee completion of the central bank’s headquarters renovation, ordering an independent cost audit after an inspector general’s investigation documented extensive failures in management and senior oversight.
The post Fed Chair Warsh Moves to Remedy Serious Oversight Failures Found in Construction Report appeared first on Breitbart.

Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-TN) has filed a bar complaint against former special counsel Jack Smith declaring that “his prosecutorial misconduct damaged our constitutional order.”
The post Sen. Hagerty Files Bar Complaint Against Jack Smith: ‘His Prosecutorial Misconduct Damaged Our Constitutional Order’ appeared first on Breitbart.

President Donald Trump’s White House began sending $500 refund checks on Wednesday to nearly 1 million Americans whom the administration says were “overcharged” for Obamacare insurance by the Biden administration. 
The post Trump White House Begins Mailing $500 Obamacare Refund Checks, Says Biden Admin ‘Overcharged’ Customers appeared first on Breitbart.

The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to allow it to remove exemptions for transgender-identifying individuals serving time in prison.
The post Trump Administration Asks Supreme Court to Remove Transgender Exemptions in Prisons appeared first on Breitbart.

Conservative California superintendent candidate Sonja Shaw told Fox News Digital on Tuesday that she would not back down from confronting the United Teachers Los Angeles union (UTLA), after a circulated video allegedly showed a union leader calling Shaw a “real threat” and warning that her election “would cause a huge problem for us.”Shaw, the president of the Chino Valley Unified School District board, pointed to Los Angeles student achievement scores as she accused UTLA of protecting the education establishment rather than focusing on academic outcomes.”I’m not surprised the Los Angeles teachers union sees me as a threat,” Shaw said, in a statement to Fox News Digital. “More than half of their students still can’t read at grade level, and nearly two-thirds can’t do math. Instead of working to help those kids, UTLA has fought to keep parents in the dark, excused failure, and protected the system that produced these results.”NATION’S LARGEST TEACHERS UNION UNDER FIRE AS CONTROVERSIAL AGENDA PUTS CENTURY-OLD FEDERAL CHARTER AT RISKCalifornia’s latest official assessment results lend context to Shaw’s criticism of Los Angeles Unified’s academic performance. In 2025, 46.46% of LAUSD students met or exceeded the state standard in English language arts and 36.76% met or exceeded the standard in mathematics, according to California Department of Education testing data. That meant roughly 53.5% did not meet the ELA standard and 63.2% did not meet the math standard.Shaw said the criticism described in the video would not change her approach to the statewide race.”If putting children and families first is a ‘huge problem’ for their agenda, that tells you everything you need to know. I won’t back down,” she said. “They just admitted it. I’m a ‘real threat’ to their socialist agenda. Parents over politics. Kids over ideology. Girls over boys in their sports and locker rooms. Keep calling me a threat. I’ll keep being one.”WATCHDOG REPORT EXPOSES TEACHERS UNION ‘POLITICAL MACHINE’ FUNNELING MORE THAN $1 BILLION TO LIBERAL CAUSESIn the clip — shared by Corey DeAngelis, a research fellow at The Heritage Foundation — a woman can be heard describing Shaw as a “real threat” and discussing efforts to prevent a “MAGA lady” from taking charge of public education.The woman then warned about what Shaw taking office would mean for the organization.”That would cause a huge problem for us,” the woman said.The California Post reported the speaker was Julie Van Winkle, the UTLA AFT vice president.HOUSE GOP LAUNCHES PROBE INTO 5 MAJOR LABOR UNIONS OVER DEM SPENDING DESPITE MAGA MEMBERSHIP BASEDeAngelis told Fox News Digital that he viewed the purported criticism as evidence that Shaw was threatening teachers unions’ political influence.”This leaked audio is the best endorsement Sonja Shaw could’ve ever received. When a power-hungry teachers union that fights to protect itself at the expense of kids calls you an existential threat to their socialist agenda, you’re officially over the target,” he said.UTLA has publicly endorsed Shaw’s opponent, San Diego Unified School District Board President Richard Barrera, for California superintendent of public instruction. The union says Barrera has a “proven commitment” to working with educators and families and called for a superintendent who would work with unions on education funding.Organized labor has also spent millions supporting Barrera. CLICK HERE FOR MORE COVERAGE OF MEDIA AND CULTURECalifornia Secretary of State data compiled by CalMatters showed the California Teachers Association Independent Expenditure Committee had spent $5,057,539 supporting Barrera as of Sept. 15, compared with $10,000 in reported outside spending supporting Shaw.Los Angeles County Republican Party Chair Roxanne Hoge also pointed Fox News Digital to a Saturday post on X tying the controversy to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s recent overhaul of the superintendent’s authority.”We knew [Sonja Shaw] was causing good trouble when [Gavin Newsom] stripped the office she’s running for of most of its power,” she said.Fox News Digital reached out to UTLA and Newsom’s office for comment.

Pitching his administration’s conservative record as a national blueprint for Capitol Hill, Governor Ron DeSantis rallied Republicans in Osceola County on Tuesday night, portraying Navy veteran Dan Green’s bid for Florida’s 9th Congressional District as part of a broader push to bring aggressive Florida-style governance to Washington.Speaking before a crowd in St. Cloud, south of Orlando, DeSantis pointed to his administration’s high-profile battles on education policy, state spending reductions, and corporate pushback, and urged voters to bring that same combative, policy-driven mandate to the halls of Congress.SOCIAL MEDIA ERUPTS AFTER DESANTIS GIVES ‘SOROS’ PROTESTER A PIECE OF HIS MIND: ‘AIN’T MY FIRST RODEO’”I will say that I’m looking forward to y’all getting the congressman elected that has served this country and that has served for the right reasons. Now, I am a big believer that we need term limits for members of Congress. But until we do that, you can show your current guy the term limit by kicking him out of office.”So, I think what we need is what we’ve done in Florida. It can be a model for people like Dan going to Washington, other states, you name it, because it’s not just about peacocking and putting social media press releases out and never getting anything done. We have fought every big fight that there has been to fight in the state of Florida, and we have won every big fight that there is to fight in Florida.”DeSantis rallied the conservative faithful with a recap, alleging major victories over left-wing institutions, agencies, and agendas:”Just think about it:”We beat Dr. Fauci on COVID.”We beat Disney on gender ideology.”We beat Soros on crime by removing two of his prosecutors.”We beat Martha’s Vineyard on illegal immigration.”We just beat the Muslim Brotherhood by banning Sharia law.”We beat the teachers unions by enacting universal school choice for all Florida families.”We beat SEIU by doing paycheck protection.”Every single time there was a fight, we would beat and win the fights. And that’s ultimately what it’s all about. Because leadership—when it’s popular, when it’s easy—anyone can do that. ‘I’ll just go with the flow,’ all this other stuff. It really matters when it is tough and when you’re going to face arrows.”TRUMP’S HANDPICKED DESANTIS SUCCESSOR WINS CROWDED GOP PRIMARY FOR FLORIDA GOVERNORDeSantis repeatedly emphasized that his top priority was sticking to the courage of his convictions, not seeking political expediency or going along to get along.”I remember during COVID, I was doing things and people said, ‘Oh, he’s not shutting down the beaches. Why does he have these people in school?’ and all this other stuff. You know, people come after you, and a lot of people told me that I was frittering away my governorship, that I wouldn’t be able to win in ’22, and all this other stuff. I don’t know if that was true, who knows, right? But when you get in a position to lead, you either do it or you should just sit down. My job was not to be worried about my own political hide. My job was to be worried about protecting the liberty, jobs, and businesses of the people I was elected to serve. So we started the fire, and we gave them his right.”It is clear that the 2-term governor considers his famed battle with Disney to be a particular feather in his cap:”Nobody in the history of the state had ever taken on Disney in anything. A lot of people told me I was making a mistake. But the reality is: do we want a society in which our six-year-olds are being told they can change genders, or do we want a society rooted in truth? If you want a society rooted in truth, even if the biggest, most powerful corporation in the state is against you, you’ve got to stand up and you’ve got to fight. And we fought, and we won.”As the federal debt has topped a staggering $40 trillion, DeSantis makes the case that he has taken the state on a markedly divergent course:”Just look at the results. For four straight years, Florida has reduced its budget. Is any other state in the country reducing spending? We’ve done it four years in a row. I was just able to announce today: if you take all of Florida’s debt for all of our history up until the time I became governor, just in my tenure, we will retire 54% of the state’s debt—more than cutting it in half. “We’ve been ranked number one for education freedom, and our public university system is ranked number one. We have the lowest in-state tuition of any state in the United States, and it’s the exact same cost today to students and families that it was the day I took office. It did not go up one penny under my tenure. Is there anything else that didn’t go up? The dollar menu at McDonald’s is all $2.99 now! Everything else has gone up, but that has not gone up.”And DeSantis touts Florida as a national leader on lowering taxes for its citizens, and called for voters to back Amendment 3 in Florida, which would pave the way for elimination of non-school property taxes:”If you look at tax relief, we’ve done $10 billion over my tenure—more than anyone. Some of it is permanent, like no tax on baby items, back-to-school items, and no tax on business rent. But really, the big enchilada is going to be on the ballot in November when you have a chance on Amendment 3 to vote yourself more control over your own home and not let them tax you to death. So vote yes on 3.As Republicans face headwinds going into the midterms in a little over a month, DeSantis drew a parallel between this year’s election, and the 2018 election, which propelled him to the governor’s mansion, by an extremely narrow margin:”We’ve done all this stuff, but I think the lesson is this: when I won eight years ago, it was kind of similar to how it is now. People were saying it was a ‘blue year.’ There was a lot of wind in the face of Republican candidates. A lot of people thought Florida was a swing state—that we were purple—where one point had decided all these races for the previous decade. A lot of people didn’t think I could even win given those circumstances. And even if I won, they said, ‘Well, the state’s going to go blue. You’ve got all these people moving from Puerto Rico, the Northeast, anything.’So I’m running. It wasn’t easy, and we won!”Finally, DeSantis maintains he has never taken a poll as a means to determine a position on an issue:”It was a close race, so I had a choice to make: Do I try to tiptoe around the tulips, not offend anybody, and just try to walk this tight line? Or do I say, ‘You know what? I won the election, I got 100% of the executive power, and I didn’t get elected to follow—I got elected to lead.’ So I am going to fly the banner of bold colors, not pale pastels. I’m going to do what I believe in. I am not going to take any polls. I have not to this day ever polled a single issue in my entire time as governor.”The reason is simple…It depends on how you ask the question, right? I can tweak the words and get a different result. But also, what does a poll actually mean? Like Popeye said, “I am what I am,” right?”