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The conservative Cato Institute is accusing the Trump admin of carrying out the largest fraud in the history of the immigration system — totaling $1 billion dollars. The scheme allegedly involves taking processing fees from immigrants, then never providing the promised services.

JUST IN: Trump’s handpicked Commission of Fine Arts approved a general design for a 24k gold commemorative coin for the U.S. 250th anniversary featuring Trump’s image. “I motion to approve this as presented, and with the strong encouragement that you make it as large as possible, all the way to three inches in diameter,” the commission’s vice chair, James McCrery, said. Separately, the Treasury has said it plans to issue a $1 Trump coin that the Commission of Fine Arts approved in January. Straight-up banana republic stuff.

Big batch of good news for Democrats in the latest forecast of 2026 governors' races by the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia ====>

If true then this is one of the most important stories of the entire war and it is not getting the attention it deserves. Charles Simmons, father of Tech. Sgt. Tyler H. Simmons who was killed in the KC-135 crash, told NBC News directly that when Hegseth spoke to him at Dover, “that was not something we talked about.” When asked if he said anything to Hegseth or Trump about the need to keep fighting, Simmons said: “No, I didn’t say anything along those lines.”  A public official who was within earshot of Trump’s meetings with families at an earlier Dover ceremony also told NBC News they did not hear any of them tell Trump to “finish the job.”  What Hegseth actually said at the podium was this: “What I heard through tears, through hugs, through strength and through unbreakable resolve was the same from family after family. They said, finish this. Honor their sacrifice. Do not waver. Do not stop until the job is done.”  The father of one of those fallen service members just went on record with NBC News and said that did not happen. Not in his conversation. And a witness said it did not happen at the earlier ceremony either. This matters beyond the politics. Using Gold Star families as human shields for a war policy, attributing words to grieving parents that those parents deny saying, is a specific kind of moral failure. These families are in the most vulnerable moment of their lives. They cannot easily push back publicly without being accused of dishonoring their children’s sacrifice. Charles Simmons did push back. He said he has questions about the war. He said he does not know what is going on. He said who wants war. That is not “finish the job.” That is a father trying to make sense of something that does not yet make sense to him. Hegseth turned private grief into public propaganda. The father of one of the dead just told us so on the record.