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What We’re Reading: Fed’s New Chief, ‘Yes’ To Deportations, Fair Elections, Please … And More

Some headlines, issues and news that caught our eye.

Next Fed Chief Kevin Warsh Definitely Isn’t Jerome Powell

Kevin Warsh Wants an Overhaul of the Fed — Here’s What That Could Look Like — The Epoch Times

Trump’s Fed Pick Could Be Just What the Central Bank Needs — City Journal

A Golden Age Needs A Strong Fed — TIPP Insights

What Kevin Warsh Could Mean For The Fed — Matthew Luzzetti, Deutsche Bank Group

Here’s Kevin Warsh In Action — Claudia Sahm, Stay-At-Home-Macro, via Real Clear Markets

Is Deporting Illegals Suddenly Unpopular? Doesn’t Look That Way

Poll: Likely 2026 Midterm Voters Support Deporting Illegal Aliens By 2:1 Margin — The Federalist

DATA: Americans Overwhelmingly Support Enforcing Borders, Deporting Criminal Illegals — The National Pulse

New York Released Almost 7,000 Criminal Illegal Aliens — PJ Media

Two-Week ICE Op Nabs Hundreds of Illegals Without Incident – Because State and Local Officials Cooperated — The National Pulse

The Democrats Will Support Immigration Control — At This Precise Point — American Thinker

Fraud’s Pervasive, And Corrosive, Presence In America

18% of Fed-Funded Home Health Care Is in Los Angeles County, and Fraud Is Rampant — PJ Media

Flashback: Audit of Blue State of California Finds $70 Billion “Lost” to Fraud — American Tribune

ICYMI: Welcome To Sunny Cali-fraudia! — Issues & Insights

Time To ‘Make Elections Great Again’?

As SAVE Act Stalls In The Senate, House Proposes Even More Robust Election Reforms — The Federalist

GOP election bill picks up steam as Trump calls to “nationalize” voting — Newsweek, via MSN

CNN’s Enten: Data Shows Photo ID to Vote ‘Not Controversial’ — ‘Vast Majority’ Agree with Nicki Minaj — Breitbart

Even Nicki Minaj Gets It — Nikki Minaj, X

What Is Election Reform and Why Does It Matter? — Legal Clarity

Anti-Trump Syndrome Is Real

What Was So Different This Time About Trump’s Election? — American Greatness

Minneapolis is showing a new kind of anti-Trump resistance — Vox, via Yahoo News

Teachers union president calls Trump a ‘dictator’ on unearthed call with Antifa-linked group — Fox News

‘Grassroots’ anti-ICE campaigns funded by left-wing billionaire donors: sources — New York Post

More than 2,000 anti-Trump protests planned for Saturday to counter president’s military parade — Spectrum Local News

Gov’t Shutdown Follies

Congress ends shutdown, approves $1.2T in funding — and sets up DHS cliff — Politico

Republicans struggle to pass compromise bill to end shutdown — Daily News, via Yahoo News

Miscellaneous Stuff You Might Have Missed …

Clintons reach deal with House Republicans to testify, likely avoiding contempt charges — Politico

Billie Eilish faces calls to return her $3m mansion to native tribe or house migrants after Grammys declaration that ‘No one is illegal on stolen land’ — Daily Mail

Melinda Gates throws ex-husband Bill to the wolves over Epstein: ‘You’ve got some explaining to do’ — Daily Mail

Tax Rates For Billionaires: They Pay More Here Than In Europe — Rutger Bregman, X, via Marginal Revolution

The Poor are Becoming More Reliant on the State — Dan Mitchell, Center for Freedom and Prosperity

Government By The Unelected — Ronald J. Pestritto, Claremont Institute

Nuclear is the most reliable path to affordable electricity — Ron Stein, America Out Loud News

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