Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent battled it out with Democratic Rep. Linda Sanchez of California during a hearing of the House Ways and Means Committee Thursday.

Sanchez accused Bessent of being complicit with what she called corruption of the Trump administration when they entered a shouting match at the end of her comments.

‘The congresswoman is slanderous. She has nothing but the unsubstantiated opinions, and I will not stand for that!’

She asked him about whether he had reviewed the decision to give the president’s family complete immunity from being audited by the Internal Revenue Service.

“Why are you allowing President Trump and his family to have complete immunity from being audited?” Sanchez asked.

“Since you’re a lawyer, you will understand that the U.S. Treasury and the IRS are represented by the Justice Department and the acting attorney general,” Bessent responded.

Sanchez interrupted and accused Bessent of refusing to answer questions about the immunity order.

“I’m curious to know who counts as Trump’s ‘family’ for the purposes of this immunity. Is it his children, his in-laws, his grandchildren, his second or third cousin, his great-great-grandchildren? Do you know the answer to that question, Mr. Secretary?” she asked.

“Again, I imagine you have the Justice Department phone number. I suggest you call them,” Bessent responded.

“I’m not the one that runs the Department of the Treasury or that oversees what is happening with this immunity that has been granted,” Sanchez fired back.

“I’m not the one either,” Bessent said. “We follow the instructions of our lawyers, and we obey the law.”

“I hope that you’re proud of your performance today,” Sanchez said.

“Well, I hope you get some social media clips!” Bessent said to Sanchez.

“I think it’s pretty safe to say that this is probably the most corrupt Treasury Department in our nation’s history!” Sanchez said.

“I am going to have to take exception to that. That is a slanderous statement!” Bessent hollered.

“While you dance around questions to protect Trump, Americans are suffering in Trump’s spiraling economy. Inflation is now raising faster than average hourly wages, gas prices are at an all-time high with the war in Iran,” Sanchez said.

“Nah!” Bessent interjected.

“The price of groceries has risen 3.2% over the past years, and prices on most goods have gone up because of Trump’s tariffs,” she continued. “So I don’t see how you can call that anything other than a failure of the most corrupt Treasury Department in history.”

Bessent was given the chance to respond after Sanchez’s time was over.

“The congresswoman is slanderous. She has nothing but the unsubstantiated opinions, and I will not stand for that!” Bessent hollered.

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“There is nothing corrupt. We move at the highest levels, and just because she cannot get the answer she wants, if she would like to give me facts — she seems … short on facts, long on hot air. And I will not stand for that,” he added.

“It’s a disgrace to make a remark like that,” Bessent concluded.

The IRS audit immunity order was announced by the Justice Department as a part of the $20 billion lawsuit from the president over the leak of his IRS documents.

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The momentum behind Spencer Pratt’s campaign is only growing, as his chances of beating his Democrat opponents are up significantly.

While according to the polls he had a 7% chance in February, he was up to a 26% chance at the end of May.

“There’s so much hype around Spencer Pratt, and that’s because he’s done a good job with this campaign. Like, he’s, I would say, outperformed expectations in a major way. The fact that anyone thinks he has any chance of winning this election is impressive,” BlazeTV host Stu Burguiere says.

“This is a place, if you don’t know, where Donald Trump lost this election by over 40 points in 2024, in an election that Donald Trump won, right? So to come in as a Republican and try to win in this area is near-impossible,” he continues.

“Almost everything has to go your way,” he adds, “And with Pratt, a lot of it has.”

One element that’s working in Pratt’s favor is his “completely incompetent opponent,” Karen Bass — who is polling only slightly above the reality star.

Pratt’s AI ads are also working well for his campaign, with one of his latest showing a conversation between a husband, wife, and their son, whom they found to be searching “Spencer Pratt” online.

“In this house, we don’t believe in Spencer Pratt. He’s MAGA,” the father told the son, who asked, “What about Spencer Pratt is MAGA?”

“You know those streets downtown, the ones that are full of piss and homeless people? He wants to clean them up,” the father responded.

“And those neighborhoods that burned down — the Palisades, Malibu — he wants to rebuild them,” the mother chimed in, wiping a tear away.

“You know how people inject heroin in front of children at the park? He wants to stop that,” the father added.

“There’s still that weird uncanny valley thing going on with the AI, but he’s just really good at the messaging here. Like, you shouldn’t be embarrassed to vote for a guy who wants to clean up your streets,” Stu comments.

Dave points out that Karen Bass has said that if there is “a homeless encampment near you, you’re not safe.”

“So is that MAGA?” Dave asks.

“The whole city is a homeless encampment.”

Pratt has also been expertly using social media, where he recently posted a video of a Los Angeles ballot box surrounded by homeless people.

“That’s how voting is supposed to happen,” Stu says, “you’re supposed to drop it over a homeless body as you put your ballot in the ballot box.”

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Audience members were thrilled and confused by former President Joe Biden interrupting his wife at a publicity event for her memoir.

Jill Biden was being interviewed by Whoopi Goldberg about “View from the East Wing” on Tuesday when the former president shuffled out of his seat in the front to address her.

‘My book … my book, which comes out in September, read it.’

Joe Biden was protected by security guards but did not have a microphone, which led many to believe the moment was unplanned.

“I have a question,” he said.

“Joe has a question. Like you couldn’t ask it later?” Jill Biden replied to laughter from the audience.

“Who do you love most in the whole world?” he asked.

“Whoopi,” she joked.

While the audience laughed at her joke, her husband didn’t, and the uncomfortable exchange continued.

“I love you most, Joe. Was that it? Was that the answer he wanted?” she added.

“It’s overwhelming, isn’t it?” he replied.

“Overwhelming, well, that’s what keeps him on his toes. He’s never 100% sure. I always keep him guessing. Is that not true?” she responded.

Goldberg tried to steer away from the bizarre interaction, but the former president pressed on, prompting a staffer to hand him a microphone.

“My book … my book, which comes out in September, read it,” he said.

“Do I have to remind him that this is my event?” Jill Biden joked.

“The only thing that Jill does better than write, she’s a beautiful woman,” he said.

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The former president has been out of the spotlight since he dropped out of his re-election campaign in July 2024 and handed off the Democratic baton to Kamala Harris. He’s also being treated for stage four prostate cancer, which was revealed to the public in May 2025.

The former first lady has faced criticism for recently admitting that she was shocked by her husband’s condition during the June 2024 presidential debate against Trump that eventually led then-President Biden to quit his re-election campaign.

“I was frightened because I had never, ever seen Joe like that before or since. Never,” she said.

“I don’t know what happened. As I watched it, I thought, ‘Oh my God, he’s having a stroke.’ And it scared me to death,” she added.

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In 2024, Pat McAfee made a controversial statement about WNBA superstar Caitlin Clark — calling her a slur while complimenting her.

“There’s one white bitch for the Indiana team who is a superstar, and it is because she stayed in Iowa and put an entire state on her back and took a program from nothing to a multiple-year success story,” McAfee said on his show.

BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock has watched as the disrespect for Clark because of the color of her skin and superstar status has only grown — and he believes it’s time for big names like McAfee to step up and defend her.

“I’m disappointed with someone like Pat McAfee,” Whitlock says.

“And I’m saying this today trying to inspire him. He’s based right there in Indianapolis. He’s talked about Caitlin Clark previously. He has all the power and leverage at ESPN. He can say whatever the hell he wants and has previously on Caitlin Clark,” he explains.

“But you know what Pat? We need more than you being on ESPN calling Caitlin Clark a ‘white bitch’ as you did previously,” he continues.

“You didn’t say it in a negative way, but you said it. We need more than that. We need you to draw a line in the sand and say, ‘Hey man, whatever the Fever got going on here … the Stephanie White liberation army, this group of angry lesbian feminists that are running the Indiana Fever organization,’ you need to call them out,” he adds.

And Whitlock points out that Clark herself has “Stockholm syndrome” and “can’t speak for herself,” which is why someone like McAfee needs to step up and tell “Indianapolis and Indiana Fever fans, ‘Stay out of that arena until they clean out this left-wing alphabet mafia garbage.’”

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A Catholic priest who was officially employed as an exorcist has been removed from his role.

The Archdiocese of Washington, D.C., said the firing came in direct response to comments made in late May surrounding UFOs and aliens.

‘They can do things that we can’t do.’

Cardinal Robert McElroy, the Archbishop of Washington, D.C., said in a press release on Wednesday that Monsignor Stephen Rossetti, a priest of the Diocese of Syracuse, N.Y., would no longer be affiliated with the archdiocese where he was used as an exorcist.

Rossetti recently made comments in a YouTube video saying that his personal belief was that aliens were most likely demonic entities.

“There’s no question in my mind … that probably many, if not most of these UFO sightings, are in fact demons,” Rossetti said in a video that has been removed from YouTube.

It has since been noted that Rossetti is a former Air Force intelligence officer who spent six years in service. Rossetti confirmed this in a 2024 interview, describing himself as a signals intelligence officer, while other biographies have also listed him as working in an intelligence capacity.

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Rossetti is also listed as a former serviceman in an official Air Force document, where he is described as a “distinguished graduate of the Air Force Academy class of 1973.”

“They can do things that we can’t do, thus the speed and all sorts of things that human beings can’t,” Rossetti said in his recent video. “They will try to manipulate us.”

Cardinal McElroy said Rossetti’s statements that linked “UFOs to demonic presence” and his social media activity “gravely undermine the Church’s very precise teaching on the devil, demons, and exorcism.”

Rossetti responded to the press release by saying he was “saddened” by the decision and asked for forgiveness if he had not been faithful to the “teachings of the Church’s Magisterium.”

“I believe it is of the utmost importance to be obedient to the Church, and I will continue to endeavor to subject all that I do and the Center to be thus obedient,” he added.

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The comments come at a time of increased UFO disclosure, which has included a trove of government documents revealing reports of unknown objects like “glowing orbs.”

Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) in particular has been at the forefront of remarkable claims about aliens and UFOs/UAPs in recent months.

Burchett has claimed that alien aircraft, life forms, and even human-alien breeding programs are confirmed to exist.

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Former National Security Adviser John Bolton will reportedly plead guilty to one of the 18 federal charges against him, according to sources who spoke to CNN.

Bolton was indicted by a federal grand jury in Maryland in Oct. 2025 on eight counts of unlawful transmission of national defense information and 10 counts of unlawful retention of national defense information.

‘I think he’s, you know, a bad person. I think he’s a bad — yeah, he’s a bad guy. It’s too bad. But that’s the way it goes, right? That’s the way it goes.’

The 77-year-old is expected to plead to one count of illegal retention of sensitive documents and also agree to pay a fine of $2.25 million.

Federal prosecutors alleged that he illegally retained classified documents and information for the purpose of writing his 2020 memoir, “The Room Where It Happened.”

Bolton had allegedly sent thousands of pages of classified national security material via a private email server to his family members before he was fired by Trump in Sept. 2019.

“While Bolton was a national security adviser, he was literally stealing classified information, utilizing his family as a cutout,” said a top U.S. official to the New York Post after Bolton’s offices were raided in Aug. 2025.

President Donald Trump has lambasted Bolton often since tossing him out of his first administration.

“Washed up Creepster John Bolton is a lowlife who should be in jail, money seized, for disseminating, for profit, highly Classified information,” said the president in June 2020.

Bolton is expected to admit to improperly keeping classified information in his diaries, but he is expected to continue to deny he illegally carried classified documents out of government offices.

The sources indicated that Bolton is likely to plea guilty at his arraignment on June 26.

Neither Bolton nor the Justice Dept. commented on the report, according to ABC News.

RELATED: DOJ fires back at John Bolton over accusations in his book

“You’re telling me for the first time, but I think he’s, you know, a bad person,” the president said in October about Bolton’s indictment. “I think he’s a bad — yeah, he’s a bad guy. It’s too bad. But that’s the way it goes, right? That’s the way it goes.”

He was facing 10 years in prison for each of the 18 counts in the indictment.

Bolton worked in the Trump administration as national security adviser between 2018 and 2019. He had been a longtime proponent of regime change in Iran, but he has criticized how the president has handled the U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran.

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On June 1, Vickrum Digwa — the British-born Sikh man from Southampton who stabbed and killed 18-year-old British university student Henry Nowak over false claims of racism in December 2025 — was sentenced to life in prison.

The day following Digwa’s sentencing, released bodycam footage from the incident sparked a furious national uproar.

The footage captured police handcuffing and treating the dying Nowak as the aggressor based on Digwa’s false racism claim, while he repeatedly pleaded, “I’ve been stabbed,” and “I can’t breathe” — fueling widespread anger over perceived two-tier policing and racial bias in how officers responded. A particularly chilling image from the footage showing Nowak’s pale, bloodless hand in handcuffs has gone viral.

BlazeTV host Steve Deace wonders if this horrific case will finally “light the powder keg in the U.K.”

While Deace believes the outrage over the Nowak case has revitalized Reform U.K. leader Nigel Farage, making him sound like his stronger, more outspoken “Brexit-era” self again, he fears that the U.K. still lacks a strong enough political party or movement to actually ignite change — especially given the enormity of the task ahead.

“History shows Islamists don’t ever just peacefully hand over cultures,” he says, speculating that to successfully uproot Islam from British culture will take far more than the current “embers of resistance.”

Co-host Todd Erzen is even less hopeful. “I don’t think this is going to wake anybody up. Nobody wants to be awake. That’s the thing. They want to be comfortably numb there,” he says.

Aaron McIntire agrees, noting that more Brits would likely riot over Arsenal’s Champions League loss to PSG than over Nowak’s treatment and the broader erosion of British culture by mass immigration.

“The Christian worldview does not allow for nihilism, does not allow for black pilling, but I’m just trying to analyze this realistically,” he admits. “What would you point to to say that there is an appetite?”

The only leverage the U.K. has left, says Deace, is “the zero option” — the ultimate escalation of no-limits force.

But even this method isn’t foolproof.

“Sometimes against jihadists, you don’t even have that because now they’re just like, ‘You know what’s on the other end of zero option? Forty vestal virgins and a law in eternity,’” he says.

Even still, he believes zero option remains the only hope of change.

To hear more of the panel’s discussion, watch the episode above.

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Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) ratified a radical piece of Democratic legislation last week that will force colleges across the state to moonlight as dispensaries for abortion drugs like mifepristone, thereby encouraging college-age women to abort the next generation.

‘College students shouldn’t have to go through hoops.’

House Bill 1335 — a bill sponsored by state Rep. Lorena Garcia, a Democrat who ensured last year that all Coloradan taxpayers contribute to abortion — requires that:

Thirty-two Colorado colleges with student health facilities “provide abortion medication to all students enrolled at the institution”;On-campus pharmacies “maintain a stock of and provide access to abortion medication to students” enrolled at the school; andColleges without on-site pharmacies submit prescriptions for abortion medications to off-campus pharmacies or alternatively dispense abortion drugs through their student health centers.

The law goes into effect on Aug. 1, 2027.

Among the organizations that condemned the legislation and urged Polis to consider a veto was the Colorado Catholic Conference, which deemed HB 1335 “a violation of the sanctity of life of preborn children.”

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“Requiring colleges and universities to stockpile abortion pills will destroy more human life and cause serious physical, emotional and mental harm to many young women,” the CCC stated. “Additionally, HB26-1335 violates the religious freedom of insurers who do not cover abortion.”

Lydia Davis, a spokeswoman for Students for Life of America, warned about the dangers of abortion drugs.

Davis told the College Fix that “these deadly drugs have killed millions of babies, harmed women, and polluted our water systems with chemically tainted fetal remains flushed into our sewer systems. This bill would turn college campuses into abortion distribution centers and continue transforming our sewers into cemeteries.”

According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, there were at least 36 patient deaths associated with mifepristone between September 2000 and December 2024.

Adverse events have also been reported in 2,740 cases of women who took mifepristone to kill their unborn children. Between November 2012 and December 2024, 288 women who used mifepristone were hospitalized; 190 experienced blood loss requiring transfusions; and 114 suffered infections, the USDA reported.

Rebecca Weaver, director of advocacy for the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists Action, said in her written testimony to Colorado lawmakers that the legislation “imposes sweeping requirements without establishing basic medical safeguards, creating significant risks to women’s health and undermining standards of care.”

Lloyd Benes, a Coloradan who testified earlier this year in opposition to the legislation, echoed some of AAPLOG Action’s concerns in an op-ed in the Loveland Reporter-Herald last month, stating that the legislation does not require campus clinics to provide informed consent; has no in-person dispensing requirement, raising concerns about potential coercion; has no ultrasound requirement, perhaps leaving ectopic pregnancies undetected; has no guidance on the disposal of human remains; and lacks conscience protections.

After Polis signed the bill into law, state Rep. Garcia stated, “This new law makes sure college students can easily access their constitutionally-protected right to reproductive healthcare. For college students, their entire lives center around campus, and this law makes medication abortion accessible through a student health clinic or pharmacy.”

State Rep. Kenny Nguyen (D) said, “College students shouldn’t have to go through hoops to receive their constitutionally-protected right to an abortion. Our law streamlines access to medication abortion accessible so college students can receive life-saving care.”

Regis University, a private Catholic school in Denver, is exempt from the law, Axios reported.

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Oil industry executives have reportedly warned the Trump administration that energy prices are likely to spike even more as reserves hurtle closer to a danger point.

Gas prices have already risen sharply as a result of the blockade by both the U.S. and Iran on the trade route through which much of the world’s oil travels, the Strait of Hormuz.

‘I hope they are paying attention to inventories right now. You’re hitting tank bottom.’

According to a Politico report, four executives confirmed that officials of the U.S. energy industry informed the administration that backup oil reserves are being depleted quickly.

“We’re at dangerously low levels already,” said an industry executive who requested anonymity. “We have shared those concerns at the highest levels of government about what’s coming in mid-to-late June. … I hope they are paying attention to inventories right now. You’re hitting tank bottom.”

However, a White House official flatly denied the Politico report.

“Politico’s anonymous sources are wrong,” the official said.

The report was supported by recent public statements from ExxonMobil, Chevron, and other oil companies about depleted oil backup resources.

Gas prices have risen on average by an astounding 42.9%, according to statistics from the Automobile Association of America. A gallon of gas cost just under $3 before the war started, reached as high as $4.50, and has settled recently at $4.26.

Exxon’s senior vice president, Neil Chapman, said at an investor conference that crude oil prices could hit $150 or $160 a barrel once reserves run out.

“You can debate whether that’s going to hit those really low levels in two weeks or three weeks. Once you get to that point, then you’ll see prices shoot up,” he said.

Another oil executive commented to Politico about Chapman’s statement.

“The administration has already been told that,” the executive said. “Don’t think that an open strait is going to mean your July 4 gasoline bill isn’t going to be higher than what it is today. It’s going to be.”

Others expressed surprise that the oil price shock hadn’t hit already.

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The Trump administration points to policy changes it has made to alleviate oil prices, including a waiver to the Jones Act.

“President Trump and his energy team anticipated short-term market disruptions, communicated them openly to the American people, and implemented an aggressive plan to mitigate any impacts,” reads a statement from Taylor Rogers, a White House spokesperson. “President Trump will never allow Iran to possess a nuclear weapon, and he will continue to advance America’s core national security interests.”

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