GOP Leader Says Pregnant Women Shouldn’t Listen to RFK Jr.

Republican Senate Majority Leader John Thune—who said he believed that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would “help restore some of the trust in our public health agencies” when he voted to confirm him—now thinks that women should not trust RFK Jr. for medical advice.

MSNBC host Ali Vitali asked Thune on Thursday about the lack of “dissent” within GOP leadership, as the party simply seems to fall in line with everything President Trump decides.

“Is that a healthy party?” she asked of the GOP.

“No, and I don’t think that’s true. I would argue, and I’ve dissented a number of times, just in the last few weeks,” Thune said.

“For example on what?”

“Tylenol, for example. FCC.… Go back and check the record.”

“Do you feel the way RFK Jr. is talking about that is dangerous?”

“Well, I’ve said that I think that if I were a woman I’d be talking to my doctor, and not taking advice from RFK, or any other government bureaucrat for that matter.”

So for the record, the Senate majority leader does not think that American women should be listening to the highest-ranking health official in the country, even though he voted to confirm him on grounds that he would “Make America Healthy Again.” Now, as RFK Jr. sets backward policy on vaccines, destroys the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, and tells pregnant women that taking Tylenol will give their babies autism, all Thune can do is shrug and tell them to look elsewhere.

The White House promised to bail out American farmers, but they’re almost out of time.

Donald Trump’s tariffs have devastated the American farming industry from both ends, hurting both supply and demand by raising costs on equipment and fertilizer while nixing key international markets such as China. And now time is running out on how the government could help.

“Farmers are hurting financially,” Kansas Senator Jerry Moran told Politico Thursday. “They’re very troubled, there’s some expectation for help. Emotionally, it would be great for something to happen soon. But financially, they need to be able to go to their bankers and say that help is on the way.”

Last month, Trump said he intended to use the country’s supposedly surplus tariff money to subsidize American soybean farmers, though his concept of how much cash could be infused to America’s food producers was not coherent. Speaking with reporters, Trump mixed up “billions” and “millions,” apparently confused on the specifics of what government funds could amount to actual aid.

And the picture has not gotten any clearer, despite the fact that agriculture industry experts say that the industry needs a commitment in the next few weeks as they figure out how to afford the next planting season. Administration officials have still not finalized an amount to provide in the first wave of agriculture aid, according to Politico. Officials also don’t know how they’d pay for it, or how to deploy it.

“It’s easier to talk about than it is to do,” one official close to Trump told the publication.

The White House has so far blamed the government shutdown for a lack of action, steadily pointing the finger at Democrats (despite laws preventing the executive branch from disseminating that type of partisan rhetoric). But industry experts say that even if the shutdown ended tomorrow, it would still take months to get aid to the farmers who need it most. Failing to meet the moment could cause serious problems for the rest of America, spiking food prices and even challenging production.

“We’re starting to reach that precarious zone of not allowing farmers the tools, the commitments that they need to plan—it’s upon us already, to be honest,” Oscar Gonzales, a top aide to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack during multiple presidential administrations, told Politico. “Farmers are going to need something.”

Meanwhile, the Trump administration is moving forward with a plan to send $40 billion in aid to Argentina.

MAGA Representative Dave Taylor is blaming “office vandalism” for the Nazi hate symbol hanging behind his staffer’s desk.

An image reportedly taken during a Zoom meeting with Angelo Elia, the Ohio Republican’s legal correspondent, showed a small American flag with a swastika incorporated into the stripes pinned to the wall behind Elia. The flag was clearly displayed beside a copy of the U.S. Constitution and some printed memes about Ohio. Elia has been working in Taylor’s office since January 2025.

U.S. Capitol Police were called to Taylor’s office in the Cannon Building Tuesday, where they discovered the flag, Politico reported. Taylor’s spokesperson said the Republican lawmaker believed the flag’s presence was the result of “foul play or vandalism.”

Taylor released a statement Wednesday addressing “office vandalism.”

“I am aware of an image that appears to depict a vile and deeply inappropriate symbol near an employee in my office. The content of that image does not reflect the values or standards of this office, my staff, or myself, and I condemn it in the strongest terms,” he wrote. “Upon learning of this matter, I immediately directed a thorough investigation alongside Capitol Police, which remains ongoing. No further comment will be provided until it has been completed.”

This incident comes as a recent report revealed that a group chat used by leaders of Young Republicans groups across the country (whose members’ ages range from their teens into their 40s) was teeming with racism, antisemitism, rape jokes, and other filth—including declarations about loving Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, and jokes about sending adversaries “to the gas chamber.”

The Trump administration is devising a new plan to weaponize the government against his political opponents. This time, his team seeks to mold the Internal Revenue Service into a cudgel to be wielded against the left, and is already putting together a list of targets, according to a new Wall Street Journal report.

Under the plan, MAGA allies would be installed at the IRS criminal investigative division, where they would “exert firmer control over the unit and weaken the involvement of IRS lawyers in criminal investigations.” Spearheading the plan is IRS official Gary Shapley, who, according to WSJ sources, has expressed the possibility of taking the place of the IRS veteran currently heading the investigative unit.

He also reportedly has been compiling “a list of donors and groups he believes IRS investigators should look at.” Possible targets include liberal billionaire philanthropist George Soros, a long-standing boogeyman for the MAGA right, whom the DOJ is reportedly investigating as Trump has called for him to be jailed.

The new IRS plot was conceived after “a separate effort to strip tax-exempt status from certain nonprofits” wasn’t yielding sufficient results for the administration, per the report.

As the Tax Law Center notes, federal law prohibits many government officials, particularly those in the executive branch, from directly or indirectly requesting that a taxpayer be audited or investigated. Such guardrails were strengthened after President Richard Nixon sought to weaponize the IRS against his enemies—abuses detailed in the second article of impeachment against him.

After first saying that he did “nothing criminal” by accepting a $50,000 cash bribe in a paper Cava bag, White House border czar Tom Homan is now saying he never took the money at all.

Homan was given the chance to “clarify” the situation at NewsNation’s “Cuomo” Town Hall on Wednesday night.

“I didn’t take $50,000 from anybody,” Homan said.

“How did that get into the mainstream?” NewsNation’s Bill O’Reilly asked Homan.

“I have no idea,” Homan replied. “There’s been hit pieces on me since I came back to this administration. Either it’s gotta be 30, 40 hit pieces on me, about how I’m involved in contracts, government contracts, when in fact, day one I came back, I recused myself from any discussions of any contract or any monetary decisions like that because I used to have a company that did consulting. So I cleared myself day one.”

Then Homan went into victim mode.

“What people don’t talk about is I took a significant, huge pay cut to come back and serve my nation. I’m not enriching myself doing this job.” Homan currently makes $195,200 as border czar.

“Does this make you angry that they’re coming at you this way?”

“I don’t care what people think about me and never have.”

“No?”

“No. Because I know who I am. I work for the greatest president in the history of this nation in my opinion,” Homan replied as the crowd began to applaud. “And we’re doing the right thing every day.”

This is really the first time Homan has outright denied taking the money, even as MSNBC reported that the FBI has him on hidden camera doing it.

“Look I did nothing criminal, I did nothing illegal. And ya know there’s hit piece after hit piece after hit piece. And I’m glad the FBI and DOJ said that nothing illegal happened, no criminal activity,” Homan said when asked about it last month, not actually confirming or denying what he was reportedly caught on camera doing.

It doesn’t matter where the money is at this point, or the footage. If Trump’s FBI wants it buried, it will be buried, regardless of the validity of the evidence.