Important Takeaways:
- Current funding for most government programs expires on Sept. 30. If no action is taken before the next fiscal year begins on Oct. 1, large swaths of government functions would shut down.
- The need for a stop-gap spending bill — one that might extend through late November or early December — has been a foregone conclusion for months
- Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell on Wednesday told a business group in Kentucky: “I think we’re going to end up with a short-term congressional resolution, probably into December as we struggle to figure out exactly what the government’s spending level is going to be.”
- Such a measure is expected to be attached to new emergency money to pay for natural disasters throughout the United States and to bolster Ukraine’s battle against Russia.
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Important Takeaways:
- If former President Donald Trump gets reelected, he could derail the federal legal cases against him, according to legal experts who said he’d have several ways to get out of the jam once he’s back in the White House.
- Special counsel Jack Smith has brought two sets of charges against Mr. Trump at the federal level. One case accuses him of keeping secret documents that should have been turned over to the government. The case is pending in the Southern District of Florida with a trial date scheduled for May of 2024, though experts say it likely will be delayed further into the election year.
- Smith’s other case accuses the former president of fueling the 2020 election chaos by intentionally misleading the country about the results, and pushing for Congress and states to overturn President Biden’s win.
- That case is pending in Washington, with a trial date not yet set. Like the Florida one, though, it could also be delayed close to — or beyond — the election.
- “Delay is always to his advantage,” said Elliot Mincberg
- If Mr. Trump wins reelection and gets into office before a verdict is rendered, he could shut down the federal cases.
- Trump could order his new attorney general to disband the special counsel and drop the charges altogether.
- Trump could also choose to pardon himself at any time — even before a trial takes place. That’s known as a preemptive pardon.
- In the state cases, New York has charged Mr. Trump with falsifying business records concerning hush payments to two women and a hotel doorman.
- In Georgia, the Fulton County district attorney this week charged Mr. Trump and 18 other individuals with crimes related to his effort to have Georgia overturn Mr. Biden’s victory in the state in 2020.
- Mincberg said those cases are more challenging for Mr. Trump.
- “He doesn’t have power at the state level even if he becomes president,” Mr. Mincberg said.
- Trump would have to rely on state pardon boards, which typically — in both New York and Georgia — require the convicted person to have served part of their sentence before receiving a pardon.
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Ecclesiastes 5:8 If you see the poor oppressed in a district, and justice and rights denied, do not be surprised at such things; for one official is eyed by a higher one, and over them both are others higher still
Important Takeaways:
- The discovery in the West Wing, which contains the Oval Office and other working areas for presidential aides and staff, led to a brief evacuation.
- A senior law enforcement official told the BBC’s US partner CBS News the substance was found in a storage facility routinely used by White House staff and guests to store mobile phones.
- The West Wing is a large, multi-level part of the White House that contains the offices of the president of the United States, including the Oval Office and the Situation Room.
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Romans 1:28 And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done.
Important Takeaways:
- A transgender influencer and activist has hit back after a TikTok video that showed her topless during a Pride Month celebration at the White House sparked outrage.
- Rose Montoya was among hundreds welcomed by President Joe Biden on Saturday for a celebration on the South Lawn described by the administration as the largest Pride event ever hosted at the White House.
- It was a brief shot where Montoya is seen topless with her hands covering her breasts alongside two others…
- She continued: “All you’re doing is affirming that I am a woman. All you’re doing is saying that trans women are women. Because for some reason, people like to sexualize women’s bodies and say that they are inappropriate.
- “My transmasculine friends are showing off their top surgery scars and living in joy, and I wanted to join them. And because it is perfectly within the law in Washington, D.C. I decided to join them and cover my nipples just to play it safe. Because I wanted to be fully free and myself. I had zero intention of trying to be vulgar, or be profane in any way. I was simply living in joy, living my truth and existing in my body. Happy Pride. Free the nipple.”
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Mathew 24:12 And because lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will grow cold.
Important Takeaways:
- Missouri teenager, 19, with Nazi flag who crashed U-Haul into White House security gates is charged with threatening to murder President Biden
- A suspect who crashed a U-Haul truck into the White House’s security barriers last night has been charged with trying to kill, kidnap or harm the president, vice president or a family member.
- Sai Varshith Kandula, 19, from Chesterfield, Missouri, was arrested at the scene after plowing the vehicle into security barriers at around 10pm.
- While his motive remains unclear, police found a Nazi flag inside the truck.
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Revelations 13:16-18 “Also it causes all, both small and great, both rich and poor, both free and slave, to be marked on the right hand or the forehead, so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark, that is, the name of the beast or the number of its name. This calls for wisdom: let the one who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man, and his number is 666.”
Important Takeaways:
- Here are 9 fascinating facts to know about BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager
- BlackRock, the world’s largest investment manager, has become an increasingly influential Wall Street player in Washington, DC.
- Former BlackRock investment executive Brian Deese leads Biden’s National Economic Council, effectively serving as his top advisor on economic matters.
- Biden also tapped Adewale “Wally” Adeyemo, a former chief of staff to BlackRock chief executive and longtime Democrat Larry Fink, to serve as a top official at the Treasury Department.
- Michael Pyle, BlackRock’s former global chief investment strategist who had worked in the Obama administration before joining the firm, serves as chief economic advisor to Vice President Kamala Harris.
- So what else should you know:
- BlackRock oversees $10 trillion, making it the largest money manager in the world.
- It runs a massive technology platform that oversees at least $21.6 trillion in assets.
- In 1999, BlackRock started selling Aladdin, which analyses and tracks investors’ portfolios and can help professional money managers spot risks. Today, it is a juggernaut widely used in the money management industry and beyond.
- “Vanguard and State Street Global Advisors, the largest fund managers after BlackRock, are users, as are half the top 10 insurers by assets, as well as Japan’s $1.5tn government pension fund, the world’s largest. Apple, Microsoft, and Google’s parent firm, Alphabet — the three biggest US public companies — all rely on the system to steward hundreds of billions of dollars in their corporate treasury investment portfolios.
- BlackRock has hired many former government officials into senior roles.
- The firm played a significant role in aiding the Federal Reserve in early 2020.
- The Federal Reserve tapped BlackRock during the last financial crisis, too.
- Fink has been vocal on matters of climate change, urging other companies’ leaders to consider the associated risks.
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Revelations 6:3-4 “when he opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, “Come!” 4 And out came another horse, bright red. Its rider was permitted to take peace from the earth, so that people should slay one another, and he was given a great sword.
Important Takeaways:
- The West has ‘brought humankind to the brink of nuclear Armageddon’ with its decision to use depleted uranium ammo in Ukraine, says Russia’s US envoy
- Western countries led by the US have decided to bring the humankind to the brink of a nuclear Armageddon, Russia’s Ambassador to the US Anatoly Antonov said in Washington on Wednesday.
- He was responding to statements by US officials that depleted-uranium munitions are a standard type of weapons that have been used for decades and do not pose any heightened risk.
- The British defense ministry on Monday confirmed it would provide Ukraine with armor-piercing rounds containing depleted uranium.
- White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby called Moscow’s complaints a ‘straw man’ argument.
- The ammunition, which enhances ability to overcome defenses on tanks, ‘is not radioactive’ and ‘not anywhere close to going into’ the sphere of nuclear weaponry, Kirby said.
- ‘This is a commonplace type of munition that is used particularly for its armor-piercing capabilities. So again, if Russia is particularly concerned about the welfare of their tanks and their tank soldiers… they could just take them across the border back into Russia,’ he said.
- ‘I think what’s really going on here is Russia just doesn’t want Ukraine to continue to take out its tanks.’
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Revelations 6:3-4 “when he opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, “Come!” 4 And out came another horse, bright red. Its rider was permitted to take peace from the earth, so that people should slay one another, and he was given a great sword.
Important Takeaways:
- That Chinese Spy Balloon Shot Down off the Coast Was Carrying 2,000 Pounds of Electronics
- Pentagon officials say a “significant amount” of the electronic technology that was suspended below that Chinese spy balloon that flew over the U.S. and was shot down 10 days ago has now been lifted from the floor of the Atlantic.
- Officials say the payload carried by the balloon weighed around 2,000 pounds and was the size of three school buses.
- A White House official said so far, there’s little indication that these more recent objects were anything more than weather or science balloons, since they apparently had no communications signals and no maneuvering or propulsion capabilities.
- The White House says it’s establishing an interagency team to investigate the objects.
- And the administration sought to put to rest internet rumors the balloons came from extraterrestrials. White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said “there is no indication of aliens or terrestrial activity with these recent takedowns.”
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Romans 1:28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
Important Takeaways:
- Biden’s Press Secretary Pushes Gender Change Procedures for American Kids
- Psaki argues that kids should be given puberty blockers if they want them, saying, “Every major medical association agrees that gender-affirming health care for transgender kids is a best practice and potentially lifesaving.”
- Alabama lawmakers passed legislation making it a felony to prescribe puberty blockers or hormones to aid in the gender transition of anyone under the age of 19. If convicted, violators could be sent to prison for up to 10 years. The legislation also prohibits gender transition surgeries in the state.
- Abigail Shrier author of The Truth Fairy said responded, “There is, in fact, no proof that ‘affirmative care’ improves the mental health of gender dysphoric youth long-term—much less that its interventions are ‘life-saving’.”
- “Activists often exaggerate the suicide risk to gender dysphoric minors—as well as the mental health efficacy of these treatments—in order to coerce parents into acceding to the interventions,” Shrier wrote.
- “The ‘transition or suicide’ narrative falsely implies that transition will prevent suicides. Neither hormones nor surgeries have been shown to reduce suicidality in the long-term.”
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Revelations 6:3-4 “ when he opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, “Come!” 4 And out came another horse, bright red. Its rider was permitted to take peace from the earth, so that people should slay one another, and he was given a great sword.
Important Takeaways:
- White House warns Russia prepping possible cyberattacks against US
- The White House on Monday urged private companies to bolster their cyber defenses, citing evolving intelligence suggesting the Russian government is exploring “options for potential cyberattacks” targeting U.S. critical infrastructure.
- The administration has warned in recent weeks that Russia could look to target infrastructure in the U.S. or elsewhere with cyberattacks, but officials previously said there were no specific or credible threats against the U.S.
- Neuberger would not say Monday which specific critical infrastructure sectors could be targeted. Critical infrastructure encompasses a range of sectors, including water, energy, health care, and financial services.
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