Source: White House Cocaine Culprit Unlikely to be Caught

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Source: White House Cocaine Culprit Unlikely to be Caught

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Citing an anonymous official, Politico reported Wednesday that law enforcement was unlikely to catch the culprit who left cocaine in the White House over the weekend.

“It’s gonna be very difficult for us to do that because of where it was,” the official reportedly said.

“Even if there were surveillance cameras, unless you were waving it around, it may not have been caught [by cameras],” the source added. “… It’s a bit of a thoroughfare. People walk by there all the time.”

Politico’s report was published around the same time that White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre briefed reporters on the cocaine incident. According to Jean–Pierre, the Biden family was not at the White House over the weekend.

“The President and the First Lady and their family were not here this weekend,” she said.

“They left on Friday and returned yesterday,” she added. “Where this was discovered is a heavily travelled area … I just don’t have anything more to share.”

The press secretary said the White House was confident that the Secret Service would “get to the bottom of this.”

But that didn’t do anything to quell suspicions that the cocaine belonged to known coke-addict Hunter Biden.

The president’s troubled son has been a frequent visitor to the White House, including his attendance at a June 22 state dinner for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Biden’s daughter Ashley, also a recovering drug-addict, was in attendance as well. Apart from the two Biden children, none of the other guests at the event—including tennis legend Billie Jean King, civil-rights scion Martin Luther King III and director M. Night Shyamalan—had widely known public histories of drug abuse.

Although rumored to have spent much of 2022 at a rehab facility in Malibu, Hunter’s presence at the White House has reportedly been far more frequent as his legal troubles have escalated.

According to an April report in the New York Post, Hunter Biden hid there while the mother of his estranged child sought compensation for lack of child support.

Meanwhile, observers have questioned why the story of where the cocaine was found continues to change.

“Weird how WH leaks on where the cocaine was found keep on changing,” remarked Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “From the library, to a ‘work area’ to now ‘near’ where ‘guests leave their cell phones.’”

Ken Silva is a staff writer at Headline USA. Follow him at twitter.com/jd_cashless.

Diversity Industrial Complex Finally Starting to Fade (or at Least Rebrand)

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Diversity Industrial Complex Finally Starting to Fade (or at Least Rebrand)

(Corine Gatti, Headline USA) Diversity, equity and inclusion measures are facing declining support from workers who are becoming less concerned about a diverse workplace and more concerned about working in a woke workplace. 

“There are people who say, ‘I really wish we were more diverse,’ and I’ve also seen people say, ‘Stop being so woke,’” Sarah Sharp, a vice president of human resources at Clayton, a homebuilder based out of Tennessee, told the Wall Street Journal.

A recent poll reinforced the downturn of support for ethnically diverse workplaces.

The majority of workers didn’t believe that having an ethnically diverse workplace was important, while an equal mix of men and women was also not deemed important by the majority, a May Pew Research Center survey found. Only 32% of workers believed that working at an ethnically diverse place was “very important” to them, while 38% said it was “not too/not at all important.”

The same poll revealed that 26% of workers valued gender equality in the workplace, with an even distribution of men and women being considered “very important.” However, a significant 44% of respondents did not share that sentiment.

The debate around DEI in the workplace was an issue before the recent Supreme Court ruling against race-based admissions in colleges and universities. The Daily Caller reported that of “140 human resource heads surveyed, 59% plan to increase their DEI budgets in the next year, while 84% had responded they would in 2022.”

The Supreme Court’s ruling on racial preferences may impact private-sector hiring practices, and prod corporate America to reconsider its diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.

Manhattan Institute Policy Analyst Renu Mukherjee told the news outlet, the ruling is “likely to give corporate America, which itself has embraced race-based hiring/promotions and [diversity, equity and inclusion], pause.”

While he was quick to backtrack an affront to DEI and ESG orthodoxy, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink recently slipped and reportedly disavowed the “ESG” label after years of commitment to woke capitalism.

According to GianCarlo Canaparo from the Heritage Foundation’s Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, there may be a rise in litigation if employers continue to implement these diversity types of programs.

“The threat of increased litigation might discourage some employers from using racially discriminatory practices,” he said. “But others will do it anyway, treating the risk of a civil rights violation as an acceptable cost of their ideology.”

Dems Fret that Changes to US Citizenship Test Could Cut into Voter Base

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Dems Fret that Changes to US Citizenship Test Could Cut into Voter Base

(Headline USA) Democrats looking to secure future votes from immigrants are worried that updates to the U.S. citizenship test will hurt test-takers with lower levels of English proficiency.

The naturalization test is one of the final steps toward citizenship — a months-long process that requires legal permanent residency for years before applying.

Leftists are still furious with former Republican President Donald Trump’s administration for changing the test in 2020, bolstering requirements for citizenship. Within months, Democrat President Joe Biden took office and signed an executive order aimed at eliminating barriers to citizenship, eyeing a potential pool of immigrants who historically vote Democrat. In that spirit, the citizenship test was changed back to its previous version, which was last updated in 2008.

In December, U.S. authorities said the test was due for an update after 15 years. The new version is expected late next year.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services proposes that the new test updates the speaking section to assess English skills. An officer would show photos of ordinary scenarios — such as daily activities, weather or food — and ask the applicant to describe the photos.

In the current test, an officer evaluates speaking ability during the naturalization interview by asking personal questions the applicant has already answered in the naturalization paperwork.

“For me, I think it would be harder to look at pictures and explain them,” said Heaven Mehreta, who immigrated from Ethiopia 10 years ago, passed the naturalization test in May and became a U.S. citizen in Minnesota in June.

Mehreta, 32, said she learned English as an adult after moving to the U.S. and found pronunciation to be very difficult. She worries that adding a new speaking section based on photos, rather than personal questions, will make the test harder for others like her.

Shai Avny, who immigrated from Israel five years ago and became a U.S. citizen last year, said the new speaking section could also increase the stress applicants already feel during the test.

“Sitting next to someone from the federal government, it can be intimidating to talk and speak with them. Some people have this fear anyway. When it’s not your first language, it can be even more difficult. Maybe you will be nervous and you won’t find the words to tell them what you need to describe,” Avny said. “It’s a test that will determine if you are going to be a citizen. So there is a lot to lose.”

Another proposed change would make the civics section on U.S. history and government multiple-choice instead of the current oral short-answer format. Bill Bliss, a citizenship textbook author in Massachusetts, gave an example in a blog post of how the test would become more difficult because it would allegedly require a larger base of knowledge.

A current civics question has an officer asking the applicant to name a war fought by the U.S. in the 1900s. The applicant only needs to say one out of five acceptable answers — World War I, World War II, Korean War, Vietnam War or Gulf War — to get the question right.

But in the proposed multiple-choice format, the applicant would read that question and select the correct answer from the following choices:
A. Civil War
B. Mexican-American War
C. Korean War
D. Spanish-American War

The applicant must know all five of the wars fought by the U.S. in the 1900s in order to select the one correct answer, Bliss said, and that requires a “significantly higher level of language proficiency and test-taking skill.”

Currently, the applicant must answer six out of 10 civics questions correctly to pass. Those 10 questions are selected from a bank of 100 civics questions. The applicant is not told which questions will be selected but can see and study the 100 questions before taking the test.

Lynne Weintraub, a citizenship coordinator at Jones Library’s English as a Second Language Center in Massachusetts, said the proposed format for the civics section could make the citizenship test harder for people who struggle with English literacy. That includes refugees, elderly immigrants and people who have disabilities that interfere with their test performance.

“We have a lot of students that are refugees, and they’re coming from war-torn countries where maybe they didn’t have a chance to complete school or even go to school,” said Mechelle Perrott, a citizenship coordinator at San Diego Community College District’s College of Continuing Education in California.

“It’s more difficult learning to read and write if you don’t know how to do that in your first language. That’s my main concern about the multiple-choice test; it’s a lot of reading,” Perrott said.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said in a December announcement that the proposed changes “reflect current best practices in test design” and would help standardize the citizenship test.

Under federal law, most applicants seeking citizenship must demonstrate an understanding of the English language — including speaking, reading and writing words in ordinary usage — and demonstrate knowledge of U.S. history and government.

The agency said it will conduct a nationwide trial of the proposed changes in 2023 with opportunities for public feedback. Then, an external group of experts — in the fields of language acquisition, civics and test development — will review the trial’s results and recommend ways to best implement the proposed changes, which could take effect late next year.

More than 1 million people became U.S. citizens in fiscal year 2022 — one of the highest numbers on record since 1907, the earliest year with available data — and USCIS reduced the huge backlog of naturalization applications by over 60% compared to the year before, according to a USCIS report also released in December.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Ohio Gov. Requests Biden Declare a State of Emergency in East Palestine

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Ohio Gov. Requests Biden Declare a State of Emergency in East Palestine

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) One hundred and fifty days after a catastrophic train derailment and subsequent chemical spill in East Palestine, Ohio, Gov. Mike DeWine requested President Joe Biden declare the site a major disaster zone.

According the Daily Wire, the Republican governor sent a letter to the president with the request.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency refused to grant an extension on the site’s disaster status as the state “continues to evaluate long term needs.”

While there may be possible assistance from Norfolk Southern, the train company responsible for the accident, there was no guarantee of that continuing.

“The possibility remains that the voluntary support provided by Norfolk Southern could at some point in the future cease, and this Declaration is needed to ensure that the State and Federal government use all resources available to step in and provide the community with needed assistance,” DeWine wrote.

The National Transportation Safety Board recently published a report revealing that the wheels on one of the train cars fell off. No one died in the initial crash, but locals expressed concerns about the chemicals causing health and environmental problems.

Cleanup of the site is ongoing, even five months after the incident.

“Residents continue to report medical conditions and are concerned that the air and water were impacted by the chemicals released during this incident,” the governor said. “This derailment and the subsequent controlled release were extraordinary events that continue to garner national media coverage.”

DeWine also noted the financial decline many of the locals faced in the wake of the crisis.

“In addition to the physical and mental health impacts, there have been economic impacts,” the governor wrote. “Homeowners and business have seen property value decline and loss of business as people are hesitant to come into the community.”

The White House has been slow to respond to the incident in East Palestine altogether, taking several days to send emergency assistance immediately after the disaster and only sending Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg to the scene after former President Donald Trump made a visit.

China Restricts Export on Minerals, May Cause Significant Economic Damage

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China Restricts Export on Minerals, May Cause Significant Economic Damage

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) The Chinese Communist Party announced plans to restrict exports on gallium and germanium.

Manufacturers use the minerals to help produce electric vehicles, solar panels, military equipment and more.

According to the Daily Wire, the restrictions on the two minerals—along with several other related materials—were a reaction to Western nations limiting China’s access to advanced semiconductors.

Some experts expressed the belief that China’s gamble could backfire on on them.

China had led the market for the minerals by suppressing the price. However, because they halted their price suppression, mining for these minerals in the West might be a cheaper option for other nations, said Christopher Ecclestone, a mining strategist at commodoties think-tank Hallgarten & Co.

“For a short while they get a higher price, but then China’s market dominance gets lost,” Ecclestone said. “The same thing has happened before in other things like antimony, tungsten and rare earths.”

U.S. customs started holding Chinese imported goods in March due to concerns of North Korean labor being used for Chinese sports brand Li Ning.

The initial move may have provoked China into a possible trade war as the U.S. and Europe continued to sanction levy sanctions against the Eastern Asian country.

Some market analysts said China intended the move as a “warning shot” to deter additional economic sanctions from the West and its allies.

“It is a shot across the bow intended to remind countries including the United States, Japan, and the Netherlands that China has retaliatory options and to thereby deter them from imposing further restrictions on Chinese access to high-end chips and tools,” said the Eurasia Group.

One executive said China put the measure in place temporarily to stave off a possible economic downturn, and would have a very “limited impact” on international economics in the short term.

The soft metal gallium has aerospace applications, consumer goods, industrial equipment and medical equipment. Germanium is used to produce solar panels and fiber optics.

Currently, neither minerals is produced in the United States. Both are imported from foreign nations including France, Kazakhstan and Russia.

However, it is unclear whether the Biden administration’s sanctions on many Russian exports might further impact the availability. Meanwhile, political instability in France could cripple its production if ongoing riots by Islamic extremists result in damage to critical infrastructure.

Despite having hobbled America’s energy independence immediately upon taking office, President Joe Biden has also put severe limits on its private mining capabilities, using recent land grabs in western regions to assume federal control of millions of acres of mineral-rich territory in Utah and Nevada.

As a result, many of the supplies needed for green-energy infrastructure have been outsourced to China, which has long maintained private business ties with the Biden family.

French Vigilante Gang Zip Tying Protesters and Handing them to Police Amidst Riots

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French Vigilante Gang Zip Tying Protesters and Handing them to Police Amidst Riots

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) The French media reported on a group of young, masked men fighting and zip-tying rioters in the port town of Lorient amid nationwide unrest.

According to Brietbart, local newspaper Le Télégramme reported on the roving group of vigilantes, largely groups of between 20 to 30 young men, concealing their faces with balaclavas and making unofficial arrests.

Witnesses described the group as well-built, quick-moving and well organized. The city of Lorient is home to a military base; however, there is no confirmation of the group being off-duty Marines.

One outlet claimed that a member of the group made a statement saying “we are on the good side,” but could not reveal himself and the identities of those in his cohort.

When asked if the group had “far-right” convictions, the group said “no, we are just people who want to save France, because France is going to ruin.”

The mayor of Lorient denied the existence of the anti-thug brigade, or the brigade anticasseur, and urged citizens to call the police if they see unrest.

French authorities deployed 45,000 police officers on the fifth day of riots, as the country burned.

An officer made a statement to Le Télégramme saying the police were grateful for the help.

“We let it happen at the start of the evening, because it relieved us,” he explained.

Many Frenchman believe that the riots—spurred by the killing of a Algerian teen by a police officer—were more than just outrage against policing, but a protest against France itself.

Rioters attacked and looted several private businesses across the European nation.

Despite the assistance given to the police, Mayor Fabrice Loher claimed the group was entirely fictional.

“In response to a rumour: no, there is no “militia” working alongside the police!” he said. “Our citizens are called to call… to report any public order issues.”

Since the beginning of the protests seven days ago, police made 2,426 arrests. Reports indicated there have been 5,821 car fires and more than 1,000 buildings damaged.

Mansion-Dwelling Millionaire Democrat Complains about Her Student Loan Balance

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Mansion-Dwelling Millionaire Democrat Complains about Her Student Loan Balance

(Robert Jonathan, Headline USA) In the aftermath of the SCOTUS decision striking down Joe Biden’s student loan bailout, a prominent New York Democrat took to Twitter to complain about her six-figure law school debt balance.

The far-left politician didn’t seem to get much sympathy on social media, inasmuch as she and her entrepreneur husband were somehow able to afford a million-dollar home in a fancy Westchester County enclave.

In a tweet that received about 17 million views, former State Sen. Alessandra Biaggi lamented that “In 2012, I graduated from Fordham Law School with $180,000 is [sic] student loan debt. I’ve been paying loans for 11 years. Even paid two of them off completely. In 2023, my balance is $206,000.”

The red ink apparently didn’t prevent her from buying a lavish property in Bedford, N.Y. in July 2022 at a reported price tag of $1,137,500.

Biaggi, 37, has a purported net worth, based on one estimate, of nearly $3 million.

If a borrower was deemed eligible, the Biden administration plan — had the high court allowed it to go forward without the necessary approval from Congress — would have written off $10,000 of student loan debt, with the U.S. taxpayer picking up the slack.

Biaggi reportedly lived previously in a nearby town in a condo that was worth about $700,000 before upgrading to the three-bedroom Bedford abode located about 40 miles from New York City.

According to the New York Post, “The 2,468 square foot ranch sits on 4.3 acres of land, and comes complete with two wood burning fire places and an in-ground heated pool. A master bedroom features a full walk in closet, and full bathroom with jacuzzi.”

The real estate broker in the transaction reportedly was one of her campaign donors.

The Post noted that Biaggi is on record lamenting the high cost of New York housing.

Biaggi’s balance-sheet woes, which may have been merely performative progressive pandering, inspired many social media users to weigh in.

Fox News commentator Dagen McDowell, whose field is finance, was just one of them.

“This far-left ex-NY state senator [and] spouse bought a $1.13 Million home in a posh NYC ‘burb last year. The 20% down payment for a mortgage of that size would have more than paid off this student loan debt. Wails for home loan bailouts imminent,” McDowell observed.

DEI watchdog Christopher Rufo, among other influencers, quipped that “You need Dave Ramsey, not Joe Biden,” while author and commentator Jesse Kelly joked that “BREAKING: Woman spends more than she makes.”

Talk show host and former frequent Tucker Carlson Tonight guest Jason Rantz asserted that “Maybe Alessandra should ask whomever forced her to go to a private law school to pay her loans? Or maybe she could have paid back what was owed instead of moving into a $1.3 million dollar home?”

Political strategist and former Trump administration official Michael Caputo opined that “My plumber buddy owes nobody and makes $150,000 annually as a local business owner. He liked LA Law too, but he knew it was fiction. Watch less TV. Pay your bills.”

Even given the criticism and mockery mostly from the right side of the aisle, Biaggi’s original tweet nonetheless apparently received about 46,000 likes.

That kind of popularity hardly transferred to votes in 2022, however.

With an endorsement from the Squad’s Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Biaggi launched a Democrat primary challenge against then U.S. Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney in New York’s 17th congressional district.

Incumbent Maloney received about 70% of the vote in the primary election matchup with Biaggi.

Maloney subsequently lost to Republican state assemblyman Michael Lawler in the general election, an outcome that helped the GOP retake control of the U.S. House.

UN Trying to Seize ‘Global Emergency’ Powers w/ Support from Biden

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UN Trying to Seize ‘Global Emergency’ Powers w/ Support from Biden

(Corine Gatti, Headline USA) President Joe Biden has given his blessing as the United Nations attempts to seize “global emergency” powers once and for all. If granted, the proposal would grant the organization unprecedented authority over global industries to combat any unidentified crisis. 

In September 2024, the United Nations will host a “Summit of the Future,” where member nations would adopt a “Pact for the Future.” This will solidify policy reforms offered by the U.N. over the past two years as part of its “Our Common Agenda” platform, just in time for the U.S. presidential election, the Gateway Pundit reported.

The details of the U.N. emergency platform were laid out in a March policy paper titled “Strengthening the International Response to Complex Global Shocks — An Emergency Platform.” In the paper, the U.N. secretary-general wrote, “I propose that the General Assembly provide the Secretary-General and the United Nations system with a standing authority to convene and operationalize automatically an Emergency Platform in the event of a future complex global shock of sufficient scale, severity and reach.”

The U.N. could declare any event a “global shock” at its discretion. Once triggered, the emergency platform would give the U.N. the ability to “actively promote and drive an international response that places the principles of equity and solidarity at the center of its work,” The Federalist noted. However, not every crisis or shock would be categorized as complex or global. 

The United Nations’ emergency platform proposal is a massive power grab, but the Biden administration expressed its support for it, despite undermining America’s independence and sovereignty. The administration endorsed the emergency platform and other proposals included in “Our Common Agenda,” according to U.S. Ambassador Chris Lu’s speeches in March 2022.

Another cog in the globalist wheel was the World Health Organization, which drafted their own global pandemic treaty that would give them more power over global biosecurity. U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra met with WHO Director–General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus earlier this year to lay the groundwork for a pandemic treaty under the banner of bringing “the world together equitably.”

FBI Forces Local Police to Hide Secret Surveillance Tools: Records

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FBI Forces Local Police to Hide Secret Surveillance Tools: Records

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The FBI has been providing local police forces with “stingrays”—technology that simulate cell towers and collect signals from devices nearby—but the bureau doesn’t want you to know that.

Documents obtained by the Project for Privacy & Surveillance Accountability and the ACLU show that the FBI has been forcing local police departments to sign nondisclosure agreements before providing them with stingrays.

“Information obtained through use of the equipment is FOR LEAD PURPOSES ONLY and may not be used as primary evidence in any affidavits, hearings, or trials,” the FBI’s nondisclosure agreement states, according to the heavily redacted records.

The privacy groups argued that this practice denies people their right to a fair trial.

“This deception likely results in defendants being denied the ability to know how a case was constructed against them, degrading their right to a fair trial,” PPSA said Monday, reacting to the recently disclosed records.

PPSA explained that police agencies can secretly use stingrays to undergo “parallel construction of evidence,” in which law enforcement  learns of criminal activity through one source, but then gives the information to a law enforcement agency to “reconstruct” the investigation so that the origin of that second investigation is different from the original source.

The FBI came under criticism in 2015 for using nondisclosure agreements to conceal the use of stingrays. At the time, the bureau purported to back away from that practice, saying that NDAs  “should not be construed to prevent a law enforcement officer from disclosing to the court or a prosecutor the fact that this technology was used in a particular case.”

But the FBI appears to be again engaging in what it disavowed some eight years ago, according to the recently disclosed records.

“The FBI employs a ‘jigsaw’ or patchwork theory of disclosure, documents show, to keep even minor details about cell site simulators hidden from the public. A May 2020 email also makes clear that the FBI will not deploy a cell site simulator at the request of local police until they ‘have read and acknowledged the FBI’s Nondisclosure agreement,’” the ACLU said.

“Previously released versions of the FBI’s NDA went so far as to require police to drop charges in criminal cases rather than disclose that they used the technology.”

Bob Goodlatte, the former Republican chairman of the House Judiciary Committee and PPSA senior policy advisor, called for Congress to intervene.

“The important question posed by privacy advocates is: Why are police departments and the FBI going to such lengths to conceal information about a technology that is public knowledge?” he said.

 “Congress should demand to know if there is any basis at all for these non-disclosure agreements—and how common parallel construction really is in practice.”

Ken Silva is a staff writer at Headline USA. Follow him at twitter.com/jd_cashless.

Calif. Reparations Task Force Wants Black Fathers Exempt from Child Support

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Calif. Reparations Task Force Wants Black Fathers Exempt from Child Support

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) In its recent 1,100 page final report, California’s Reparations Task Force recommended that the state legislature excuse black residents from paying child support on account of America’s unjust treatment of blacks in the past, according to the Daily Mail.

The Task Force, which called its document a “book of truth,” blamed “discriminatory” laws for having “torn African American families apart.”

One of these alleged harms was “the disproportionate amount of African Americans who are burdened with child support debt,” it said, while seeming to overlook the fact that the lack of child support would likely do greater harm to single black parents with children who would lose the benefit of additional income.

The Task Force specifically complained about the interest on unpaid child support with which many absentee fathers are hit—a 10% rate—citing it as a reason that black men are unable to maintain steady employment or maintain a home.

“As a result of the debt owed for back child support and interest, a disproportionate number of African American parents are saddled with crushing debt that hinders their ability to attend school or job training, maintain housing, and find employment if their professional licenses and/or driver’s licenses have been suspended,” the report claimed, overlooking several crucial steps that may have led to those circumstances.

It said 27% of all child-support back-payments were the result of accrued interest, leading to the conclusion that all interest on child support should be suspended for black residents in the state.

“At a minimum, the proposal recommends that the Legislature eliminate the prospective accrual of interest on child support debt for low-income parents,” the report said.

But, not willing to stop there, the Task Force also suggested that the legislature make room for “compromise and forgiveness of child support debt” based solely on “a parent’s financial circumstances and ability to pay.”

Although the final report did not put a specific number on the reparations it recommended giving to black California residents, it has floated a sum of upward around $800 billion, the Daily Mail reported.

That would come out to somewhere around $285,000 apiece for California’s 2.8 million black residents, assuming all were eligible—a much lower number than the $5 million figure floated by San Francisco’s municipal reparations task force but still enough to have a sizable impact on California’s economy.

The state also has released a reparations calculator that reveals certain factors could multiply the amount owed to a seven-figure sum.

Kamilah Moore, an intellectual property and entertainment lawyer and leader of the Task Force, celebrated the completion of the report, noting that she felt better after demanding hundreds of billions of dollars in reparations.

“It’s been very work intensive, but also very cathartic and very emotional,” she said. “We’re standing in the shoes of our ancestors to finish, essentially, this sacred project.”

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