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Bongino: ‘Threat picture' for US is ‘dramatic'
FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino sounded alarms during an interview Wednesday night on Fox News's 'Hannity' about the perilous threats the country faces and the impact of emerging technologies as law enforcement tries to stop terrorism. 'The threat picture now for the United States is dramatic,' Bongino told host Sean Hannity. 'When you get the president's daily brief every morning like the director and I do for this … you go out of there (and) your blood pressure is through the roof — it's so many different things.' He cited threats from drone attacks, artificial intelligence (AI), China and infiltration from other countries among his biggest concerns. 'People say, 'Well, what keeps you up at night?'' Bongino said. 'Well, the answer is, I'd never sleep if I thought about this stuff all the time, but it all keeps me up at night.' President Trump named longtime ally Bongino, a former U.S. Secret Service agent, radio personality and podcaster who has guest hosted Hannity's show in the past, to the FBI's No. 2 role in February. Bongino said he and FBI Director Kash Patel have prioritized building trust in federal law enforcement through reform. 'Without reform, we're not going to have anything, because the American people won't trust us,' he said. Bongino noted that he had spoken to recent graduates of the FBI Academy at Quantico earlier in the day and stressed the multitude of threats he sees facing the country. 'I said, 'There's no one coming to save us — the Marvel Avengers ain't coming,'' Bongino recalled to Hannity. 'It is us.'
Yahoo
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Ocasio-Cortez endorses Zohran Mamdani in NYC mayor's race
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Thursday endorsed socialist candidate Zohran Mamdani in the New York City mayoral race just days before early voting kicks off. 'Assemblymember Mamdani has demonstrated a real ability on the ground to put together a coalition of working-class New Yorkers that is strongest to lead the pack,' Ocasio-Cortez told The New York Times in an interview announcing her endorsement. 'In the final stretch of the race, we need to get very real about that.' The move is sure to buoy those on the left who have coalesced around Mamdani as the best progressive alternative to former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D), the current frontrunner to succeed Mayor Eric Adams (D), who is running for reelection as an independent. Cuomo is seeking a comeback after resigning from his job in 2021 as governor amid sexual harassment allegations. The race also comes as a battle plays out among Democrats over the future of the party following President Trump's victory in November, with Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) representing the progressive wing looking to push the party toward a more populist agenda. Ocasio-Cortez's endorsement comes less than 12 hours after Mamdani squared off with Cuomo and seven other candidates in a rowdy, often chaotic debate that saw no clear winner. Cuomo has maintained a strong lead in polls over the last several months, making him the candidate to beat. But Mamdani, a progressive State Assembly member endorsed by the Democratic Socialists of America, has surged into second place in recent weeks. A recent Emerson College Polling/PIX11/The Hill survey had the former governor leading in the primary's first round of voting with 35 percent. Mamdani came in at second with 23 percent. Perhaps in a sign of his newfound momentum, Cuomo focused many of his attacks Wednesday night on the progressive, in multiple instances lambasting Mamdani for past criticism he made about former President Obama. Primary voters will head to the polls in person on June 24. Whoever emerges as the winner of the Democratic primary will be the clear favorite to lead the city. New York City employs a ranked-choice voting system, meaning primary voters will have the opportunity to rank up to five candidates by order of preference. When their top choices are eliminated, those votes are then dispersed to candidates they had ranked lower. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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Vought grilled over DOGE, spending cuts in House hearing
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russell Vought was grilled by both sides of the aisle over the administration's sweeping cost-cutting plans as he testified before House appropriators Wednesday afternoon. Vought faced a wide-ranging list of questions during a budget hearing, as lawmakers pressed him over President Trump's latest spending cut requests, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), along with a major tax package of the president's priorities making its way through Congress. One area of bipartisan interest was leadership at DOGE, an effort Trump previously tapped tech billionaire Elon Musk for. Vought said the administration was 'in the midst of, with the last week or so, of establishing the leadership on an ongoing basis' following the exit of Musk. Other top officials at the department have also departed in recent days, including Steve Davids, whom Vought noted previously led the effort. He added that he partly thinks 'the vision for DOGE' is that it 'go and be far more institutionalized' at actual agencies and working 'almost as in-house consultants as a part of the agency's leadership. The OMB chief also faced questions over the president's budget request for fiscal 2026, which lawmakers have noted is incomplete. 'Where's the budget?' Rep. Steve Womack (R-Ark.), a spending cardinal asked him. 'We believe you have the budget,' Vought responded, after the White House released a 1,000-page budget document last Friday detailing more of its demands. 'We have a skinny budget,' Womack said. 'You have the skinny budget, discretionary budget in full,' the OMB director replied, which he said allows the House' funding 'to get the appropriations process moving forward.' Vought added that the administration has been focused at the same time on getting the president's tax plan to his desk, after it recently passed the House and faces changes in the Senate. He also faced heat from Democrats over other components of that plan, including reforms to Medicaid that Republicans have attached to the proposed tax cuts as an effort to save hundreds of billions of federal dollars over the next decade. 'The bill that you just said the White House supports is going to add, depending [on] who you talk to, 2.4 trillion to $5 trillion to the national debt,' Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Wis.) said. 'It's going to make somewhere between 11 and 16 million people lose their health care. 'I know you said on a Sunday morning show, no one will lose coverage as a result of this bill is that still your standing?' the lawmaker asked. Vought responded that the bill does 'not lead to less coverage for Medicaid beneficiaries.' They both went back and forth over the bill's impact on the program before Pocan needled Vought on the fiscal impact of the bill. The budget chief said, 'the bill will not increase the debt,' however, federal budget analysts estimate it would add more than $2 trillion to the nation's deficits in roughly a decade. Another notable moment from the hearing came when Vought was questioned by a Republican about proposed cuts to the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) pursued as part of the Trump administration's latest rescissions request. He defended the reductions as targeting items like 'teaching young children how to make environmentally friendly reproductive health decisions' and efforts he claimed were aimed at strengthening 'the resilience of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer global movements.' Rep. Mark Alford (R-Mo.) raised the question of PEPFAR cuts, later pressed Vought about whether prevention efforts would be impacted by the proposed reductions. 'Aside from the crazy woke programs, which I agree should be stripped,' Alford asked, 'is there any other prevention program, not treatment, but prevention program listed in this rescission package which is not of a woke nature?' Vought said in response that the administration seeks to scale 'down the program as it pertains to the types of organizations that are providing the examples of the waste, fraud and abuse.' But, he added, 'the prevention itself is where an analytical look needs to be done.' 'There's life saving treatment after you already have HIV, but there are prevention programs that PEPFAR does, which are not of the woke nature, which can prevent someone from getting HIV,' Alford countered. 'Are those programs going to survive?' 'It is something that our budget will be very trim on because we believe that many of these nonprofits are not geared toward the viewpoints of the administration, and we're $37 trillion in debt,' Vought said. 'So, at some point, the continent of Africa needs to absorb more of the burden of providing this healthcare.' Rep. Rosa DeLauro (Conn.), top Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, additionally grilled the budget chief at one point over the administration's takedown of a public website that showed how funding is apportioned to federal agencies. 'Your predecessor did comply with the law for over two years, and you followed this law for two months. What happened?' DeLauro asked Vought. 'Why did the website come down? Why do we not know what is happening? Why are we going back to those days of secret decisions being made by you and whomever else in terms of the spending of the dollars that we constitutionally enacted?' Vought responded that the administration 'had constitutional concerns with the provision' and 'it's something that degraded our ability to manage taxpayer resources.' DeLauro told the OMB director shortly after that she thought the 'level of your honesty on your claims [really] shines through on this topic' and accused him of making 'up constitutional issues.' 'We have no way of knowing if you are carrying out what we have lawfully required the executive branch to do,' the Connecticut Democrat said. 'That is our responsibility, and your responsibility is to carry out what it is that we have appropriated here.' 'You just can't pick and choose whatever the hell you want,' she added. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
