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The O’Keefe Media Group released undercover video of Jonathan Ferrer, the HR Director for Summit Public Schools, a charter network operating in California and Washington, admitting to race-based hiring.

Ferrer admitted to violating Title VII, California FEHA (prohibits discrimination) and school policy.

“You get presented with, on equal merits, like a white person or a black person or whatever. Yeah, we’re going with the black person,” Ferrer told the undercover OMG reporter.

“Whenever there’s a qualified candidate and they happen to identify differently or present differently, we’re probably going with that person… That’s what DEI is all about,” Ferrer told the undercover journalist.

“We have one trans teacher in our district, and, so, I think it’s just culturally, we just naturally look for those folks,” he said.

When asked if Summit Public Schools would ever hire a Trump supporter, Ferrer said, “I don’t think we would hire them.”

“We do have DEI questions built into our selection process,” Ferrer said. “We have a rubric… if they say any of these things, this is not someone who’s answering the question the way we’re aligned to answer the question.”

WATCH:

EXCLUSIVE: Summit Public Schools HR Director Confesses to Violating Title VII, California FEHA, and School Policy: “We’re Going With the Black Person… NO MATTER WHAT” in Race-Based Hiring; Admits, “I Don’t Think We Would Hire MAGA People”

“Whenever there’s a qualified candidate… pic.twitter.com/ZIOCtpcgjQ

— James O’Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) April 17, 2025

“At Summit Public Schools, we’re committed to being an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to maintaining a team that is free from discriminatory conduct in accordance with all applicable state and federal laws. We expect each and every employee, including our Human Resources team, to uphold our commitment. Any allegations of discriminatory conduct or verified misconduct are taken seriously and addressed through established internal procedures,” Valeria Torres, Government Affairs Manager for Summit Public Schools said in a statement to OMG.

UPDATE: OMG has received a statement from Valeria Torres, Government Affairs Manager for Summit Public Schools, regarding Director of Human Resources Jonathan Ferrer’s comments:

“At Summit Public Schools, we’re committed to being an equal opportunity employer. We are committed… https://t.co/3s2ffZ7nEI pic.twitter.com/37rCNJrnTr

— James O’Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) April 17, 2025

This article originally appeared on The Gateway Pundit.com.

An instructor at Washington State University who was captured on security video beating up a student who was wearing a MAGA hat is learning the cost of his political violence: His job.

The professor, Patrick Mahoney, “has been fired from his post,” according to the Daily Mail.

EXCLUSIVE: Frontlines reporter @choeshow has obtained surveillance footage showing Washington State University (WSU) PhD student instructor Patrick Mahoney and WSU employee Gerald Hoff attacking engineering student Jay Sani.

Sani claims that Mahoney and Hoff assaulted him… pic.twitter.com/AhNae3FDMT

— FRONTLINES (@FrontlinesTPUSA) April 15, 2025

A Communist faculty member of Washington State University was arrested after allegedly assaulting a student for wearing a MAGA hat. In February, WSU junior Jay Sani was getting takeout in Pullman, Washington’s historic College Hill district when he was allegedly ambushed and… pic.twitter.com/xjfqvgUoPm

— Melissa Hallman (@dotconnectinga) April 15, 2025

The video showed Mahoney, “along with student Gerald Hoff ripped Jay Sani’s hat from him while outside of a bar near the Pullman campus on February 28.”

The video confirms Sani, who is Indian-American, was pushed to the ground by the two men and punched repeatedly. He was left with scrapes and bruises and reported the assault to police.

The university later confirmed that Mahoney was “relieved of all teaching responsibilities.”

“Washington State University is aware of an off-campus incident that occurred last February involving a WSU staff member and a graduate student. After an investigation conducted by the City of Pullman’s police department, and in accordance with WSU policies, the staff member’s employment has been terminated. The second individual involved was a graduate student serving as a teaching assistant. He was not a Washington State University professor. This person has been relieved of all teaching responsibilities.”

The report said the video first was obtained by Turning Point USA Frontlines reporter Jonathan Choe, and it confirmed policy bodycam footage confirmed the offenders “admitted to the assault.”

Mahoney, to police, tried to blame the victim.

The two attackers also have been arrested and charged with assault.

A Facebook post said, “A fight ensued which resulted in Jay Sani being thrown onto the concrete. This caused Jay Sani to bleed and suffer further injuries. One or more of them then proceeded to kick Jay Sani while he collapsed on the concrete.”

The reported noted that Mahoney “has been active in pro-Palestinian demonstrations, including advocating for the Pullman City Council to sign a Gaza ceasefire resolution.”

 

Though the COVID-19 pandemic brought widespread resistance to the Biden-era military’s vaccine mandate, COVID isn’t the only mandated shot being resisted by some service members for religious reasons.

Army Sergeant Dan McGriff (a pseudonym) spoke to WorldNetDaily on the condition of anonymity, anticipating reprisals. He emphasized that his views do not reflect those of the Department of Defense or the Department of the Army.

In the summer of 2021 during the thick of the pandemic, the non-commissioned officer “saw the writing on the wall,” suspecting a COVID-19 shot mandate was on the way for military service members. So, in August 2021, he was not surprised to see the rollout of former Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s now-rescinded mandate.

After conferring with his wife, he made the decision to seek exemption, not only from the COVID-19 shot, but for all future vaccines as well.

“Some people were getting responses back within 30 to 90 days at most, but mine took about six months, going all the way up to the Army surgeon general to be denied or accepted,” McGriff told WND. “And in March 2022, I received my initial denial.”

While the decision could be appealed, the Army sergeant said there was no guidance available. “I sent my appeal within seven days, and from that moment on I was a ghost.” He explained that even though he had approved orders for a new duty station, he was not allowed to move because he was “unvaccinated.”

During this period, he was also barred from attending schools or trainings that could have advanced his career.

With a large family to care for, McGriff grew increasingly worried about his future, knowing he could be separated from military service for refusing the shot. In September 2021, his fears were compounded as his appeal was denied. Subsequently, he received a General Officer Memorandum of Reprimand, or GOMOR, a permanent stain on his record for so-called misconduct.

McGriff spent the next several months fighting for his career, to no avail. And on the brink of administrative separation near the end of 2022, he said the former Defense secretary suddenly rescinded the mandate on Jan. 10, 2023. “After turning in all but one uniform, my career was saved about 30 days prior to facing an administrative separation board,” he recalled.

Unfortunately, his fight against being compelled to receive vaccines was far from over. As he told WND, “When my religious accommodation (RA) appeal was denied [in September 2021], the Secretary of the Army emailed a memo stating that I was denied and I could not request a blanket RA for all vaccines and had to do them case by case, or individually, even though they all went against my religious beliefs.”

“With that, I exercised my rights to request not to take the flu shot” in October 2022, McGriff said. At a time when he was finally unflagged for separation, had the GOMAR removed from his permanent file, and was allowed to transfer to a new duty station, he said, “my previous duty station somehow lost my RA request for the flu vaccine.”

Then in December 2023, he added, “I submitted a new one.” Strangely, in January 2024, this new religious accommodation request had also been lost.

Today, Sgt. McGriff finds himself seeking a religious accommodation for the flu vaccine for a third time. There is an Army regulation in place stating he does not have to take the vaccine while waiting for approval. And though he considers it a blessing to have avoided the shot in recent years, he said, “there have been loose threats of denying leave requests for not having it.”

Are the circumstances surrounding his objection to the flu vaccine a coincidence, or have they been deliberate? Either way, he feels that “when it comes to Christians, our religious freedoms are being trampled on while wearing the uniform.”

In McGriff’s opinion, “All vaccines should be optional and not mandated.” However, as it stands today, if a service member is not up to date on immunizations, that service member is not considered deployable.

“Do our religious rights count for anything?” he asked WND.

Apart from his religious objection to vaccines, he also pointed out that “with mRNA vaccines being the future, things are going to get very scary very fast.” Afterall, mRNA COVID-19 shots have been widely associated with a well-documented risk of serious side effects, including but not limited to cardiac issues and cancer.

The fight rages on, over whether an illegal alien deported by the Trump administration to a prison in El Salvador can be extricated from that prison and returned to America.

El Salvador’s president says no.

Further, whether judges in America can force President Trump to go into a foreign nation, retrieve one of its citizens from behind jail bars, and bring him back to America in a scenario that likely would lead to further deportation orders.

Amid all of this, Sen. Chris Van Hollen, a Democrat from Maryland, traveled to El Salvador and insisted to officials there he had to meet with the inmate, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, pressuring them over and over until they relented and set up a photo opportunity.

Now Trump is calling Van Hollen a “fool.”

The Washington Examiner said Trump’s comment on social media was, “Senator Chris Van Hollen of Maryland looked like a fool yesterday standing in El Salvador begging for attention from the Fake News Media, or anyone. GRANDSTANDER!!!”

President Trump, citing the catastrophic damages to America from Joe Biden’s years-long open borders scheme that allowed millions of illegal aliens, including known terrorists, to come into America, has made one of his term’s goals to crack down on that activity.

He’s literally closed off illegal aliens’ paths into the U.S., and also has been working to deport as many as can be identified and captured.

Democrats, smarting from landslide losses in the Electoral College and popular vote in last fall’s presidential election, have chosen to object to anything Trump does regarding national security.

As part of that they have taken up the cause of Garcia, who was eligible for deportation but apparently had a court order that he should not go to El Salvador.

I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return. pic.twitter.com/U9y2gZpxCb

— Senator Chris Van Hollen (@ChrisVanHollen) April 18, 2025

HOLY SH*T El Salvador President Nayib Bukele is trolling Democrats so badly. I absolutely love it

Now it’s time to impeach Sen. Chris Van Hollen pic.twitter.com/iydbpxAfH3

— MAGA Voice (@MAGAVoice) April 18, 2025

Senator Chris Van Hollen met with a deported illegal alien MS-13 member instead of the family of his own constituent, Rachel Morin, who was slain by an illegal alien.

Thoughts? pic.twitter.com/KdRzm6VOa8

— JOSH DUNLAP (@JDunlap1974) April 18, 2025

Van Hollen said, “I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.”

The Department of Homeland Security targeted Abrego Garcia for deportation due to his alleged MS-13 ties. On Wednesday, Attorney General Pam Bondi released 13 pages of police and immigration records on Garcia dating back to 2019, revealing suspicions against him of human trafficking, gang activity and more.

A federal judge has claimed the Trump administration must “facilitate and effectuate” Garcia’s return to the United States by April 7, a claim that is on appeal.

Van Hollen had simply traveled to El Salvador and demanded access to Garcia, to which authorities there explained there was more to the process than that.

Eventually the meeting was staged, and Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele mocked the senator.

“Kilmar Abrego Garcia, miraculously risen from the ‘death camps’ & ‘torture’, now sipping margaritas with Sen. Van Hollen in the tropical paradise of El Salvador!”

Bukele added, “Now that he’s been confirmed healthy, he gets the honor of staying in El Salvador’s custody.”

The backlash for Van Hollen advocacy for an illegal alien is expanding, too.

BREAKING: American Accountability Foundation has filed an ethics complaint against Sen. Chris Van Hollen for assisting a foreign terrorist organization with his trip to El Salvador.

In our letter to Leader Thune, we demand that he instruct the secretary of the Senate not… pic.twitter.com/VFzqhEAd3X

— American Accountability Foundation (@Theswampmonitor) April 18, 2025

The American Accountability Foundation said it had filed an ethics complaint against him “for assisting a foreign terrorist organization with his trip to El Salvador.”

“In our letter to Leader Thune, we demand that he instruct the secretary of the Senate not to foot the bill for Van Hollen’s trip and wants the Senate Ethics Committee to open an immediate investigation,” the organization said.

 

Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Republican Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan are turning their attention to Google over concerns that the tech giant is censoring users and infringing on Americans’ free speech rights.

Google’s parent company Alphabet, which also owns YouTube, appears to be the GOP’s next Big Tech target. Lawmakers seem to be turning their attention to Alphabet after Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta ended its controversial fact-checking program in favor of a Community Notes system similar to the one used by Elon Musk’s X.

Cruz recently informed reporters of his and fellow senators’ plans to protect free speech.

“Stopping online censorship is a major priority for the Commerce Committee,” Cruz said, as reported by Politico. “And we are going to utilize every point of leverage we have to protect free speech online.”

Following his meeting with Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai last month, Cruz told the outlet, “Big Tech censorship was the single most important topic.”

Jordan, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, sent subpoenas to Alphabet and other tech giants such as Rumble, TikTok and Apple in February regarding “compliance with foreign censorship laws, regulations, judicial orders, or other government-initiated efforts” with the intent to discover how foreign governments, or the Biden administration, have limited Americans’ access to free speech.

“Throughout the previous Congress, the Committee expressed concern over YouTube’s censorship of conservatives and political speech,” Jordan wrote in a letter to Pichai in March. “To develop effective legislation, such as the possible enactment of new statutory limits on the executive branch’s ability to work with Big Tech to restrict the circulation of content and deplatform users, the Committee must first understand how and to what extent the executive branch coerced and colluded with companies and other intermediaries to censor speech.”

Jordan subpoenaed tech CEOs in 2023 as well, including Satya Nadella of Microsoft, Tim Cook of Apple and Pichai, among others.

Despite the recent action against the tech giant, the battle stretches back to President Donald Trump’s first administration. Cruz began his investigation of Google in 2019 when he questioned Karan Bhatia, the company’s Vice President for Government Affairs & Public Policy at the time, in a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. Cruz brought forth a presentation suggesting tech companies, including Google, were straying from free speech and leaning towards censorship.

Even during Congress’ recess, pressure on Google continues to mount as a federal court ruled Thursday that Google’s ad-tech unit violates U.S. antitrust laws and creates an illegal monopoly. This marks the second antitrust ruling against the tech giant as a different court ruled in 2024 that Google abused its dominance of the online search market.

Cruz, Jordan and Google did not immediately respond to the DCNF’s request for comment.

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Several Democrat lawmakers refused to answer why they voted against a measure to ensure that non-citizens cannot vote in U.S. elections in footage exclusively obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.

Only four Democrat lawmakers joined Republicans to pass the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, which would require states to obtain proof of citizenship before registering an individual to vote and remove all non-citizens from existing voter rolls. Several lawmakers who voted against the legislation either refused to tell the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) why they seemingly support non-citizens voting in elections or claimed that the idea is a myth.

“Congresswoman, why do you want non-citizens to vote in U.S. elections?” an individual with the NRCC asked Democrat Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who ignored the question. “Why do you not want to keep American elections safe and secure?

Among those asked were Democrat Reps. Mark Takano of California, Jasmine Crockett of Texas, Greg Caser of Texas, Eric Sorenson of Illinois, Tom Suozzi of New York, Seth Moulton of Massachusetts, Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick and Lateefah Simon of California.

WATCH:

Suozzi said the idea that non-citizens vote in U.S. elections is a “myth” spread by Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) head Elon Musk.

“I don’t want that,” Suozzi said. “That’s actually a myth that, what’s his name, Elon Musk was on a show where he was talking about non-citizens voting in New York. It’s just not true.”

Cherfilus-McCormick, Caser and Jared Moskowitz of Florida also said they do not want non-citizens to vote in U.S. elections.

However, non-citizens participating in recent U.S. elections does not appear to be a myth. In August, government officials in Alabama, Virginia, Ohio and Texas identified as many as 17,000 non-citizens on state voting rolls and worked to remove them from the lists ahead of the 2024 general election.

America First Legal, a Washington, D.C.-based organization aligned with the Trump administration, sued Maricopa County, Arizona, in August, after the county had allegedly failed to remove 35,000 registered voters from its voter rolls who did not provide proof of citizenship. The lawsuit prompted all 15 counties in Arizona to verify and remove voters from the voter rolls, including nearly 50,000 registrants who did not provide proof of citizenship, Fox News first reported.

After Oregon resumed automatic voter registration, the Oregon Driver & Motor Vehicle Services division found 118 non-citizens on its voter rolls, and at least 13 of them had voted, according to Willamette Week. In September, the DMV had mistakenly sent the names of 1,619 people to the Elections Division to be added to voter rolls. In that group, at least 17 people voted.

Angelica Maria Francisco and Carlos Abreu, two illegal immigrants from Guatemala and the Dominican Republic, pleaded guilty to falsely identifying themselves as American citizens and voting in U.S. federal elections. A Chinese national allegedly registered to vote and cast a ballot in the 2024 general election, according to statements made in October by Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson’s office and the Washtenaw County Prosecutor’s office.

Former President Joe Biden’s administration fought against states that worked to remove non-citizens from its voter rolls. The Biden-led Justice Department sued Virginia and Alabama to prevent the states from taking such an action.

The Democrats who voted in favor of the SAVE Act were Democratic Reps. Henry Cuellar of Texas, Jared Golden of Maine, Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington and Ed Case of Hawaii.

The NRCC told the Daily Caller News Foundation that Democrats are refusing to explain why they treat “our sacred ballot box like an open border.”

“Democrats continue denying reality to explain their pathetic votes against requiring proof of citizenship to vote. The American people deserve better than these Democrats who treat our sacred ballot box like an open border,” NRCC spokesperson Ben Petersen said.

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The legal team at the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty, during the Joe Biden administration, took on the United States Department of Agriculture for programs that were race-based, and ended up injuring those of the wrong race.

But the problems were not eradicated, and the legal team now is confirming that Wisconsin dairy farmer Adam Faust is telling the feds to fix the rest, or be sued again.

The issue is that the programs violate both the U.S. Constitution and President Donald Trump’s executive orders from earlier this year.

They are similar to the fight handled by WILL under Biden.

“If not corrected within 60 days, a federal lawsuit will be filed on Mr. Faust’s behalf against the Trump administration,” the legal team’s report said.

Deputy counsel Dan Lennington explained, “Trump administration has taken some commendable steps to root out race discrimination in many agencies, but we have a long way to go. Millions of farmers face economic uncertainty, from unpredictable weather to rising input costs, all of which are far beyond their control, only then to be punished economically because of their race. It’s immoral, unconstitutional, and it’s time for it to stop once and for all. The clock is ticking, and we won’t hesitate to take the Trump administration to court to protect farmers from race discrimination.”

The team’s client, Faust, said, “USDA offers important resources for dairy farmers, including margin coverage, loan guarantees, and grants. But it is outrageous that some farmers get a better deal based on race. I am hopeful the Trump administration will change course and fix these discriminatory programs.”

Faust runs a dairy in Chilton, Wis., and like millions of other American farmers, is a white male.

He sued the Biden administration, successfully, for race discrimination in the Farmer Loan Forgiveness Program, in which a federal court held granting loan forgiveness only to “socially disadvantaged farmers” was, in fact, unconstitutional race discrimination.

Congress eventually repealed that scheme.

But the USDA still is “running over two dozen race-based programs that unconstitutionally discriminate against farmers and ranchers every day,” WILL said.

Among those is the discriminatory Dairy Margin Coverage Administrative Fee.

That “offers financial assistance when the margin between the milk price and the average feed cost falls below a coverage level chosen by the producer. All ‘socially disadvantaged farmers’ are exempt from the fee. USDA regulations define this phrase to include only the following racial groups: American Indians or Alaskan Natives, Asians or Asian Americans, Blacks or African Americans, Native Hawaiians or other Pacific Islanders, Hispanics, and women,” WILL said.

Others include the Loan Guarantee Program and the Environmental Quality Incentive Program.

 

Joe Biden, after decades as a politician on some fairly good salaries in Washington, and after his family took in tens of millions of dollars in what appeared to be an influence peddling scheme during his time in office, now is a former president, and is trying to make a bit of income from giving speeches, like so many out-of-office politicos.

He’s signed with an agency and outlined his demands, $300,000 per speech plus a jet if travel is involved plus expenses for a full staff to accompany him.

But, it seems, no one is buying.

A comment at the Gateway Pundit delivered a devastating assessment of Biden: “Apparently, there isn’t much of a market for angry, yelling, incoherent babbling speeches from former presidents who have difficulty forming sentences.”

It was the New York Post that revealed, “It’s not just Biden family artwork that’s struggling to sell these days. Former President Joe Biden’s attempt to bill $300,000 per speaking appearance is finding few takers, The Post has learned — as some of his own former aides say it’s time for the 82-year-old to leave the spotlight for good after reminiscing about ‘colored kids’ Tuesday in his first public address since leaving office.”

Biden has established a reputation for telling wild – and untrue – stories during his days campaigning and in office.

His speeches typically feature long periods of mumbling, interspersed with sudden bouts of shouting and screaming.

“I’M NOT KIDDING,” is a popular insert on just about any topic.

Biden has been known to call on dead people while speaking, and often insults listeners, once calling someone a “dog-faced pony soldier.”

The Post reported a source familiar with Biden’s “faltering speaking career” confirmed the $300,000 price tag.

Biden has been represented since February by the Creative Artists Agency, and delivered his “first public speech since leaving office Tuesday, stumbling when he referred to ‘colored kids,’” the report said.

He had spoken earlier, but nobody covered it.

The Post’s source said, “CAA is having trouble booking gigs, which isn’t surprising.”

The report cited Biden’s “history of peddling glaring inaccuracies before his political career came to a crashing end when he delivered incoherent debate remarks that prompted a Democratic mutiny.”

The CAA declined to comment to the Post on the topic.

Joe Biden is spending his first speech since leaving office saying he didn’t have to grow up around black people

“I remember watching a bus go by… it was full of colored kids… I had never seen those.”

The face of the Democrat party pic.twitter.com/4keCWCep8O

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) April 15, 2025

Biden starts randomly yelling during his first speech since leaving office.

This man is not well.

pic.twitter.com/PFpHQ4SjIA

— Ian Jaeger (@IanJaeger29) April 15, 2025

Karoline Leavitt: “My first reaction when seeing former President Biden was speaking tonight was, I’m shocked that he is speaking at nighttime; I thought his bedtime was much earlier than his speech tonight.”

pic.twitter.com/TxLEqceza4

— Julia (@Jules31415) April 15, 2025

I am shocked – shocked – that Joe Biden’s influence peddling business is struggling now that he no longer has any influence to actually peddle. https://t.co/jgOogbDimL

— Rhode Islander (@rhodeislander) April 17, 2025

April 17, 2025: 11:00 p.m.:
April 17, 2025: MAHA Highlights

• A leaked draft of the Trump administration’s FY2026 budget proposes cutting the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) discretionary spending by one-third, including reducing the NIH budget from $48.5 billion to $27.3 billion and consolidating its 27 institutes into eight. The CDC would also see its budget cut from over $9 billion to $5 billion, eliminating programs like the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion.

• The budget plan outlines the elimination of the Head Start program and significant cuts to community mental health clinics and teen pregnancy prevention initiatives. Approximately $20 billion would be reallocated to establish a new agency within HHS, the Administration for a Healthy America (AHA), consolidating several existing health services.

• HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and CMS Director Dr. Mehmet Oz are promoting the MAHA initiative across Republican-led states. In Indiana, they supported Governor Mike Braun’s issuance of nine MAHA-related executive orders, including a proposed ban on soda and candy for SNAP recipients. Similar measures are being considered in Arkansas, West Virginia, and Utah.

• House Republicans are preparing to mark up a major domestic policy bill in early May, central to President Trump’s agenda, which includes $880 billion in spending cuts from programs like Medicaid. The proposed cuts, with $500–$600 billion potentially coming from healthcare, have sparked internal GOP tension and Democratic criticism.

• Some Republicans in Congress have expressed concerns that the MAHA initiative may lead to restrictions on pesticide use, fearing potential overreach and negative impacts on agriculture. ​