Unfit to Print: A SHAKY CEASEFIRE AND A UNION BETRAYAL
Plus: JD Vance's anti-fraud task force reveals early results
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The ceasefire with Iran is proving to be quite fragile, union leaders continue to betray their members, JD Vance’s fraud taskforce offers its first look at results, and Catholic nuns are in court once again.
Here we go…
Happy Easter, War Is Over… ?
The two-week ceasefire in the Iran War is already on shaky ground.
Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, who helped broker the deal, released a statement on X begging multiple parties to actually adhere to the agreement. Iran reportedly struck Israel minutes after President Donald Trump announced the ceasefire Tuesday night and continued to target the United Arab Emirates. Iran, meanwhile, has accused Israel of violating the ceasefire by continuing its war with Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Despite the seeming continued chaos, the Trump administration contends that they’ve achieved a “historic and overwhelming victory” in the war with Iran and has suggested the war is over.
White House Correspondent Reagan Reese asked Secretary of War Pete Hegseth during a Wednesday morning Pentagon briefing if Trump really intended to wipe out Iran’s “civilization” if they did not reach a deal before the deadline. Hegseth said the president was referring to critical infrastructure, adding, “They can’t defend it, and so Iran ultimately understood their ability, their future to produce, to generate power, to fuel their terrorist regime was in our hands, was in President Trump’s hands. That’s why they came to the table.”
Iran claims that the U.S. backed down by agreeing to a ceasefire and promising to start negotiations from Iran’s 10-point peace plan.
Scoop: Union Sellouts
The American Accountability Foundation (AAF) is rolling out a series of reports on how union leaders have betrayed the political priorities of their members.
The Daily Caller exclusively obtained the second report in the series — this one on the Laborers’ International Union of North America (LIUNA).
The LIUNA, which has over 500,000 members across the United States and Canada, has overwhelmingly supported Democratic causes, even though private sector union employees tend to be split politically — and, as AAF puts it, “at the center of the President’s base was the working-class men without college degrees, many of whom were members of industrial unions.”
From 2017 to 2024, LIUNA spent $1.2 million on Democratic groups versus just $250,000 on Republican groups, the report found. Some of the groups that received LIUNA donations support Black Lives Matter and oppose Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
At the federal candidate level, LIUNA gave more than $12.7 million to Democrats and just $410k to Republicans.
LIUNA’s top-level leaders, according to the report, live in luxurious homes in the DC area while the average LIUNA member makes around $50,000 a year. General President Brent Booker resides in a $1.4 million home and spent his time ahead of the election at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris.
LIUNA’s X account has repeatedly attacked Trump and conservative policies while supporting green energy mandates and illegal immigration, the report found.
AAF President Tom Jones told the Caller, “LIUNA’s bosses have built a cushy political machine for the far left while their own members keep voting like normal Americans who want secure borders and common sense economic policies. The rank and file are living in the Trump era but leadership is still caught up on spending dues on radical Democrat campaigns, vanity projects, and anti-law-enforcement rhetoric.”
Unprecedented Levels Of Fraud
The new anti-fraud taskforce led by Vice President JD Vance has uncovered nearly $6.3 billion in government contracts that they believe may be going to fraudulent businesses, the Daily Caller exclusively reported.
The task force is sending out letters to the nearly 400 businesses identified and will require them to prove within 30 days that they are legitimate, else they will lose their government contracts.
The bulk of the contracts were allegedly awarded during the Biden administration.
“The fact that these taxpayer dollars went out without verifying if the contractors and vendors were even real or lawful businesses is a disgrace and yet another example of how the previous administration flouted basic anti-fraud guardrails,” a senior White House official told the Caller.
Nuns Go To Court
Roman Catholic nuns operating a facility that provides health care for low-income cancer patients are suing the state of New York over a law they say violates their religious freedom.
The law requires health care facilities to avoid discriminating against a patient’s “actual or perceived sexual orientation, gender identity or expression.”
In practice, the Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne say, the law forces them to use patients’ preferred pronouns, assign rooms based on a patient’s gender identity, and allow patients access to restrooms that match their gender identity.
“Requiring a person to identify another by a sex other than his or her God-gifted sex would therefore require such a person to act against central, unchangeable and architectural teachings of the Catholic faith,” the complaint says.
The Little Sisters of the Poor, a separate congregation of nuns, previously fought the federal government in court for requiring them to cover free abortifacients and contraception in their health insurance plans.
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