‘Attack Dog’ Donald Trump Jr. Reflects on RFK Jr.’s ‘Fast’ Alliance with MAGA

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‘Attack Dog’ Donald Trump Jr. Reflects on RFK Jr.’s ‘Fast’ Alliance with MAGA

(Julianna Frieman, Headline USA) Incoming First Son Donald Trump Jr. reflected on Department of Health and Human Services director nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s “fast” alliance with the “Make America Great Again” (MAGA) movement in an AmericaFest interview filmed on Dec. 19.

Donald Trump Jr. told Digital Social Hour Podcast host Sean Kelly that he helped bring about Kennedy’s prospective role in his father’s second administration.

Kelly told the incoming first son that he “can’t wait” for Kennedy’s “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) efforts to take effect.

“I sort of negotiated that deal. I saw what was happening to him,” Donald Trump Jr. said of Kennedy, who initially ran as a Democrat, changed his party affiliation to Independent and was faced with legal warfare to take him off of several states’ ballots.

“I’m from New York City. I’ve had a lot of Democrat friends. A buddy of my business partner, former Democrat Omeed Malik, was best friends with Bobby’s son,” the incoming first son said.

Donald Trump Jr. said Malik told him he and Kennedy would “get along great.” He said a tight group set up private conversations to avoid leaks to the media.

“I said, ‘Let’s start talking. Let’s figure this out,’” Donald Trump Jr. told the podcast host.

Donald Trump Jr. explained how Kennedy eventually reached the point where he knew he could not win the presidency. He said Team Trump offered Kennedy a chance to join forces and combine agenda items Kennedy was most passionate about with Trump’s MAGA campaign.

“‘Why don’t we get together, the things that you actually care about, why don’t we give you a seat at the table,’” Donald Trump Jr. recalled Trump’s campaign saying to Kennedy.

Susie Wiles, who Trump tapped to serve as his White House chief of staff, was involved in Kennedy’s team-up with Trump, according to Donald Trump Jr, who admitted he was initially wary of the former Democrat.

“We got along great. And at first, I was like, really skeptical. Because I was like, you know, half of me is like sort of just the attack dog. So, if they’re running against me, it’s like, you know, when you’re a hammer and everything’s a nail,” Donald Trump Jr. said.

Donald Trump Jr. said that while he liked much of what Kennedy was proposing to do about unhealthy food, his initial instinct was to fight.

”Once we started having that conversation, it was really fast,” he told Kelly.

He added that when Kennedy and Team Trump talked, a process he said lasted months, he realized Kennedy was the right fit for the job.

“I was like damn, like, this guy is probably going to do better than anyone else I can put in, my father would put in HHS, or FDA, whatever it might be, right? And my father agreed with that too, and we’re like, let’s fight together and let’s take this back,” the former and future first son said.

Julianna Frieman is a freelance writer published by the Daily Caller, Headline USA, The Federalist, and The American Spectator. Follow her on Twitter at @JuliannaFrieman.

‘This is Great’: Biden’s Biggest Soy Boy Spokesman Open to Praise Trump’s TikTok Rescue

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‘This is Great’: Biden’s Biggest Soy Boy Spokesman Open to Praise Trump’s TikTok Rescue

(Julianna Frieman, Headline USA) Leftist social media influencer Harry Sisson, a devout supporter of President Joe Biden, said Friday he would give President-elect Donald Trump credit if he can save TikTok from being banned in the U.S.

In April, Biden signed into law a bill into law that would block Americans from using TikTok if Chinese parent company ByteDance failed to sell the popular social media app. As the clock ticks toward the Jan. 19, 2025 deadline, Trump, who leveraged TikTok to win over young voters, urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday to pause the implementation of the Biden administration’s TikTok ban and extend ByteDance’s deadline.

Sisson posted a rare video on social media in which he borderline praised Trump for fighting against an immediate TikTok ban, politically scheduled one day before his second term begins.

The leftist influencer explained Trump’s 25-page amicus brief to his followers, acknowledging that the Republican wants to “save the platform while addressing national security concerns.”

“Donald Trump alone possesses the deal-making expertise, the electoral mandate and the political will to negotiate a resolution to save the platform,” Sisson said of Trump, who he recently called a “lunatic” and a “puppet president” of Elon Musk.

Sisson called Trump’s TikTok rescue mission “great” and promised to give the Republican credit if he delivers.

“This is great. Like, look, if Donald Trump manages to save TikTok and the app doesn’t get banned, I will give him the credit he deserves. Absolutely, no doubt,” he said before admitting he’s “not so sure” Trump could pull it off.

Sisson continued by saying, “This is a major, major development. A huge step, which very well could possibly stop the Supreme Court from banning it.”

Sisson railed hard against Trump during the 2024 campaign, parroting leftist talking points relentlessly both before and after Biden tapped Vice President Kamala Harris to finish the Democrats’ doomed race.

During a livestream at the Democratic National Convention in August, Sisson attempted to school My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell for supporting Trump, who he called a “convicted felon.”

Lindell hit back at the Sisson by asking, “Hey Harry, have you had your free vasectomy yet?”

Julianna Frieman is a freelance writer published by the Daily Caller, Headline USA, The Federalist, and The American Spectator. Follow her on Twitter at @JuliannaFrieman.

MURDOCK: Tonight, We’re Gonna Party Like It’s 2019!

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MURDOCK: Tonight, We’re Gonna Party Like It’s 2019!

(Deroy Murdock, Headline USA) Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy, and the new Department of Government Efficiency should help President re-elect Donald J. Trump implement a straightforward reform: Return federal spending to 2019 levels.

Americans lived large just before COVID-19. On New Year’s Eve 2019—nearly five years ago—the U.S. economy boomed.

Real annual GDP grew 2.5%. Unemployment was just 3.5% and at or near record depths for blacks, Hispanics, and Americans of Asian descent. Female joblessness was at its lowest point since Eisenhower!

The economy blossomed amid robust federal spending that totaled $5.46 trillion. Uncle Sam was no aloof skinflint back then. Paring Washington’s activities to that pace will not starve babies or steer seniors into the streets.

So, as 2025 beckons, America should restore the budget threshold that prevailed before the China virus ruined everything. It sandbagged the U.S. economy, sickened seemingly everyone, and—the Centers for Disease Control report—between Jan. 11, 2020 and Dec. 14, 2024, it killed 1,213,622 Americans.

These microbes (most likely from the Chinese Communist Party’s Wuhan Institute of Virology) also triggered some $2.48 trillion in emergency spending to relieve a totally quarantined national workforce, support padlocked employers, underwrite medical assistance, finance vaccine research, and otherwise shake the disease that gripped America and pounded the globe.

This once-in-a-century calamity guaranteed Big Government. Especially after it crippled the private sector, such federal activity and expenditures were unsurprising and not entirely unjustified.

The superb news is that COVID-19 has become an unremarkable flu. Its 2020 death toll of 367,209 under Trump rose to 469,966 under Biden in 2021 before falling to 255,673 in 2022, 75,580 in 2023, and 45,194 this year.

Alas, even today, a few too many bitter clingers still signal their twisted virtue by wearing masks. Resembling Donald Duck must give them a rush of moral superiority over us Great Unwashed. Aside from this extremely irritating reminder of the recent unpleasantness, COVID-19 has vanished into the history books.

So, too, should the tidal wave of pandemic-related spending. It stubbornly refuses to recede into the sea. 

Typical Washington: Today’s budget ceiling becomes tomorrow’s budget floor. Year One’s fiscal extravagance swiftly morphs into Year Two’s Scrooge-like federal parsimony.

This institutional profligacy goes by the highly arousing technical term “continuing services budgeting.” (Pause now, if you must, for a cold shower.) This practice fuels heavy spending.

Fiscal Year 2019’s total federal outlays were $5.46 trillion. The next year, COVID-19 costs ballooned that figure to $7.94 trillion—up 45.4%. Biden took the White House in 2020 and spent $7.84 trillion in FY 2021. While post-COVID spending slipped to $6.67 trillion in FY 2022 and $6.31 trillion in FY 2023, it outpaces pre-COVID disbursements.

Among countless necessary improvements, DOGE should chant the equally sexy term “zero-based budgeting.” (If necessary, briefly think about baseball.) Simply put: federal organizations no longer would ladle fresh gravy atop their previous year’s budgets. Instead, every Cabinet secretary and agency administrator must justify to Congress every annual expenditure—from Dollar One. 

DOGE should slash overall spending from FY 2024’s $6.75 trillion, back to FY 2019’s $5.46 trillion. That would provide all the government that Americans savored or spurned just before COVID-19 wrecked everything. 

And, thereafter, DOGE should use zero-based budgeting to evaluate every federal department, agency, program, military base, civilian building, outpost, and payroll. If the corresponding federal official cannot explain why a particular expenditure is both constitutional and vital to national security, prosperity, and freedom, then onto the ash heap of history it goes. 

This will not be easy, and the weeping will make the faint-hearted cry, cry, cry. But the rampant federal spending must stop. If not, within our lifetimes, America will follow the Roman Empire into oblivion.

Pruning Big Government to pre-COVID-19 dimensions and challenging every subsequent dollar will give America a fighting chance to deserve our 250th birthday in 2026 and survive until our tricentennial in 2076.

So tonight, we’re gonna party like it’s 2019!

Deroy Murdock is a Manhattan-based Fox News contributor.

Kari Lake Won’t Run Again for Office

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Kari Lake Won’t Run Again for Office

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) Former Arizona Senate candidate Kari Lake recently said she doesn’t “want to run again” after Democrats allegedly stole the 2022 and 2024 elections from her.

The Washington Examiner reported that Lake said she doesn’t plan to run for office again on Dec. 23 at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest.

“We’re not where we need to be on elections,” Lake said. “And that’s one of the reasons I don’t want to run again, to be honest. Why put yourself through that torture again?”

President-elect Donald Trump recently nominated Lake as director of Voice of America, a state media network.

“She will be appointed by, and work closely with, our next head of the U.S. Agency for Global Media, who I will announce soon, to ensure that the American values of Freedom and Liberty are broadcast around the World FAIRLY and ACCURATELY, unlike the lies spread by the Fake News Media,” Trump said, adding that Lake was a “beloved news anchor in Arizona, which supported me by record margins, for over 20 years.”

People assumed that Lake would get a job at Trump’s administration after she was spotted at Mar-a-Lago with her husband, talking to Trump.

During her speech, Lake also said she plans to focus on her new job.

“I am gonna go help President Trump in Washington, D.C. That’s what I’m gonna do,” she said.

The recent news came after the Democrats allegedly stole the Senate seat for Rep. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz. Conservatives assumed that this is what happened because Trump easily won the state and there were some election integrity concerns when people were counting votes in Arizona.

The Examiner also stated that Lake’s political career could be over.

“Lake lost a narrow gubernatorial race in 2022 to Gov. Katie Hobbs (D-AZ) and followed that performance with a loss to Gallego two years later. Despite her fight in both campaigns, Lake inadvertently helped Democrats capture the former Republican-dominated state,” the news source wrote.

The Examiner also claimed that Trump recently endorsed Republican Karrin Taylor Robson, Lake’s opponent in the 2022 primary for governor, in the 2026 gubernatorial race, adding that Hobbs will probably seek reelection and be the Democratic nominee.

“Such an endorsement likely excludes Lake from the 2026 race, meaning she would have to wait until 2028 for another significant election in the state. By then, Trump will be on his way out of office,” the news source stated.

Poll: Americans Don’t Care about Celebrities’ Opinions

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Poll: Americans Don’t Care about Celebrities’ Opinions

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) A recent poll revealed that Americans, especially conservatives, don’t care about the political opinions of celebrities from Hollywood and famous athletes.

The Thursday poll, conducted by the Associated Press and the University of Chicago’s nonpartisan National Opinion Research Center, revealed that only 11% of Republicans and 12% of independents said they approved of celebrities sharing their views on politics. Even approximately 60% of Democrats who were polled admitted that they don’t want celebrities sharing their political opinions.

It was also revealed that Americans of all political affiliations didn’t want professional athletes to talk about politics too. Only 33% of Democrats, 16% of Republicans and 15% of Independents stated they would be okay with the athletes talking about politics.

Many conservative commentators talked extensively throughout the 2024 election cycle about people not caring about celebrities endorsing leftist political candidates, like former Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris.

“‘Lizzo endorsed Kamala!’ ‘Eminem endorsed her!’ ‘Usher, Taylor Swift!!’ WHO CARES. Seriously. NONE of these affluent celebrities will be impacted by her fiscal policies. They have no skin in the game except relevancy,” conservative commentator Brett Cooper wrote.

Conservative author and political commentator Oli London also criticized Hollywood celebrities, pointing out that their non-stop celebration and promotion of Harris didn’t work because “hard-working Americans have shown they have had enough of being lectured about politics by out-of-touch celebrities who preach from their multi-million dollar gated mansions.”

Others also pointed out the double standard that leftists have about famous and rich people, pointing out that they are against them only when they are not explicitly on their side, like Elon Musk.

Americans also showed that they didn’t care about politicians’ opinions by mocking the Hollywood elites who threatened to leave the United States if Donald Trump was elected.

After the election, some celebrities, like George Clooney, stated that they would no longer be involved in politics.

Another person who learned that it is better not to tell everybody his political beliefs was musician Pharell Williams, who told other celebrities to “shut up,” even though in 2016, he was telling women they should vote for Hillary Clinton.

Another celebrity who would probably stop endorsing politicians is musician Taylor Swift, whose endorsement of Harris not only did not work but resulted in her losing followers.

Biden-Harris Push Marxist Kwanzaa Again

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Biden-Harris Push Marxist Kwanzaa Again

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) The Biden–Harris administration recently wished Americans a happy Kwanzaa, a holiday made up by a violent Marxist ideologue, Maulana Karenga (born Ronald McKinley Everett).

“Happy Kwanzaa from the Biden-Harris Administration!” the official Facebook post by the administration stated.

Conservatives quickly remembered the previous times the White House, in general, and former Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris, in particular, reminded Americans about the holiday that Karenga invented.

“Kamala: ‘I grew up celebrating Kwanzaa.’ Kwanzaa was invented in 1966 by Marxist professor Maulana Karenga to undermine Christmas, 2 years after Harris was born. Five years later, he was jailed for kidnapping and torturing innocent women in California,” @EndWokeness wrote. “Karenga also founded the United Slaves Organization, a violent black nationalist organization with ties to the FBI.”

However, others also pointed out that Harris doesn’t even care about the holiday since she repeats the same talking point every year.

“Kamala has been using the same exact Kwanzaa script for at least the past 4 years,” @joma_gc wrote.

Another conservative on Twitter also pointed out that Harris “pretends she grew up celebrating Kwanzaa” to “trick black Americans into thinking she’s one of them.”

“What a phony,” @MrReaganUSA wrote.

Harris was also ruthlessly mocked and criticized for pushing the holiday invented by a communist in 2020.

“Our Kwanzaa celebrations are one of my favorite childhood memories. The whole family would gather around across multiple generations, and we’d tell stories and light the candles. Whether you’re celebrating this year with those you live with or over Zoom, Happy Kwanzaa!” Harris wrote.

Conservative lawyer Marina Medvin pointed out Harris’s hypocrisy by reminding her that if she really cared about women and the alleged goals of the feminist movement, she wouldn’t celebrate the holiday because it “is but a crafty criminal defense created by a chauvinistic sadistic rapist and torturer who locked African women in his basement.”

Other conservatives also criticized Harris in the comments section.

Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, also wished Americans a happy Kwanzaa in 2022, as previously reported.

Another Dem Lawmaker Switches to GOP, Delivering Rebuke of the Anti-Semitic Left

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Another Dem Lawmaker Switches to GOP, Delivering Rebuke of the Anti-Semitic Left

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Republicans in the Florida House of Representatives welcomed a new member on Friday after a lawmaker left the Democratic Party, citing the left’s failure to condemn anti-Semitism. 

Florida Rep. Hillary Cassel became the second Democratic lawmaker to switch parties, expressing her belief in the GOP’s “vision for a better, more prosperous Florida.” 

“As a proud Jewish woman, I have been increasingly troubled by the Democratic Party’s failure to unequivocally support Israel and its willingness to tolerate extreme progressive voices that justify or condone acts of terrorism,” Cassel wrote in a letter shared on X. 

“I’m constantly troubled by the inability of the current Democratic Party to relate to everyday Floridians. I can no longer remain in a party that doesn’t represent my values,” she continued. 

Cassel acknowledged that while she may not always “agree on every detail with every Republican,” she will “always have input, collaboration, and respect.” 

She continued, “The House Republican Conference empowers members to find common sense solutions to real issues facing all Floridians. They welcome different ideas and collaboration, which is the cornerstone of effective government. Those are my values.” 

She said she “ran for office to make my community and this state better. I want my constituents to know my resolve to deliver on these promises has never been stronger.” 

Cassel’s decision to leave the Democratic Party follows that of Florida Representative Susan Valdés, who left the party claiming she had been ignored by its leadership. 

“I will not waste my final two years in the Florida Legislature being ignored in a caucus whose leadership expects me to ignore the needs of my community,” Valdés wrote in a letter shared on X. 

The Florida House of Representatives has 120 members, with Republicans holding 87 seats and Democrats holding only 33.

Manchin Slams Biden Over Commutation of Constituent’s Murderers

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Manchin Slams Biden Over Commutation of Constituent’s Murderers

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Outgoing Sen. Joe Manchin, I-W.Va., criticized President Joe Biden’s decision to commute the death sentences of two convicted murderers and kidnappers, Brandon Basham and Chadrick Fulks, who were responsible for the death of Samantha Burns, a 19-year-old student from West Virginia. 

In a heartfelt message posted on X, Manchin shared that he had spoken with Burns’s parents, Kandi and John Burns, who expressed their outrage at Biden’s “horribly misguided and insulting” decision to spare the lives of their daughter’s killers. 

Burns, along with another victim, Alice Donovan, was killed during a 17-day crime spree after Basham and Fulks escaped from a Kentucky prison.

Manchin stated the Biden administration ignored the heartfelt letters from the Burns family pleading against the commutation.  

“I can’t imagine the grief that Kandi and John Burns are reliving and dealing with during the holiday season,” Manchin wrote. “As their U.S. Senator and a father, I want to express my deepest sympathy for their continued suffering.” 

He added, “Please know that Samantha will forever be in our prayers.” 

Burns went missing on Nov. 11, 2002, and was last seen at the Huntington Mall in West Virginia. Law enforcement officials later located her burned car in a secluded area, but her body was never found. 

In July 2005, Fulks and Basham pleaded guilty to federal charges of carjacking resulting in death to avoid the death penalty in connection to Burns’s case. The two men escaped Hopkins County Jail in Kentucky in November 2002. 

They were sentenced to death for the murder of Alice Donovan, whom they killed in South Carolina.  

Angie Gilchrist, Donovan’s daughter, expressed her outrage over the commutation, saying: “I am so appalled. I am disgusted at what you did. You (Biden) have hurt so many people.” 

She added, “We allowed it to go through the court system, looking for justice and resolution through the court system, just to be smacked in the face by you signing this clemency.” 

Gilchrist stated her family had “been through hell. We’ve been through hell and back.” 

The family of Donna Major, a beloved bank teller who Brandon Council murdered during a 2017 robbery, also expressed their outrage over the commutation of his death sentence. 

“I was angry. I’m still angry,” Major’s daughter, Heather Turner, said. “I am upset that this is even happening—that one man can make this decision without even talking to the victims, without any regard for what we have been through, what we are going through.”  

Another Defeat: Judge Rules Fani Willis Must Testify in Misconduct Probe

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Another Defeat: Judge Rules Fani Willis Must Testify in Misconduct Probe

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) A Georgia judge ruled that the state Senate has jurisdiction over Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’s office, rejecting her refusal to comply with legislative subpoenas in its misconduct investigation of her. 

Fulton County Superior Court Judge Shukura Ingram ruled Monday that Willis is subject to subpoenas as Republicans probe her prosecution of President-elect Donald Trump. 

“Petitioner claims that the subpoenas are overbroad and seek privileged and/or confidential information. This may very well be true, but this Court needs more details on the basis for these objections from Petitioner before ruling on Respondents’ application for enforcement,” Ingram wrote, according to Newsweek.

Ingram gave Willis until Jan. 13 to respond to the subpoenas. Issued in August, the subpoenas demand her testimony and documents related to the Trump case.  

Despite the broad scope of the subpoenas, Republican investigators signaled a willingness to narrow the scope of their requests to ensure compliance. However, Willis’s attorney, Roy Barnes, called the ruling “wrong” and vowed to appeal. 

The Georgia Senate’s investigation is just one of many probes targeting Willis, who also faces questions about her collusion with federal investigators.  

The House Judiciary Committee is looking into Willis’s meetings with Special Counsel Jack Smith and the discredited and now-defunct Jan. 6 Committee in targeting Trump. 

Ingram’s ruling is the latest in a string of setbacks for Willis, marking her second defeat in just week weeks.

Earlier this month, the Georgia Court of Appeals disqualified her from the Trump case after she was busted having an affair with Nathan Wade, the man she hired to lead the prosecution. 

The pair took trips allegedly funded by Fulton County payments to Wade. These revelations, critics argue, have further fueled concerns that Willis personally benefited from the Trump case.  

While Willis denied the allegations, claiming she reimbursed Wade in cash, she failed to provide any evidence to substantiate her claim. 

The appeals court ruled Willis’s affair with Wade required her disqualification, stating, “no other remedy will suffice to restore public confidence in the integrity of these proceedings.” 

Biden’s HUD Admits Homelessness Skyrocketed in 2024 Thanks to Illegals

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Biden’s HUD Admits Homelessness Skyrocketed in 2024 Thanks to Illegals

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) As President Joe Biden limps toward the end of his presidency, his administration has conceded a major failure: a staggering 18.1 percent spike in homelessness under his watch. 

The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) revealed Friday that 771,480 individuals were counted as homeless in 2024, according to its 2024 Annual Homelessness Assessment Report. 

This alarming crisis touched nearly every demographic across the country, with certain populations facing record-high numbers, HUD conceded. 

Families with children, individuals with chronic patterns of homelessness, people staying both in unsheltered and sheltered locations and unaccompanied youth all saw their highest rates of homelessness ever recorded. 

This surge is largely driven by the Biden administration’s open border policies, which have paved the way for unprecedented levels of foreign individuals to enter the U.S. illegally. 

In Massachusetts, the state’s “right to shelter law” has created chaos, as Americans seeking shelter are often forced to compete with illegal aliens for limited resources.  

The strain on the system led Gov. Maura Healey, a Democrat, to declare a state of emergency, citing the overwhelming number of illegal immigrants flooding into the shelter system. 

Children have also been severely affected by the homelessness crisis, with nearly 150,000 minors experiencing homelessness on a single night in 2024.

This marks a whopping 33 percent increase from 2023, making children under 18 the demographic that saw the largest rise in homelessness, according to HUD. 

Veterans were the only group to see a decline in homelessness. HUD noted that 32,882 veterans were homeless on a single night in January 2024, an eight percent decrease from 2023. 

Despite the damning numbers, Acting HUD Secretary Adrianne Todman attempted to downplay the figures, claiming they no longer reflect the current situation. 

“While this data is nearly a year old, and no longer reflects the situation we are seeing, it is critical that we focus on evidence-based efforts to prevent and end homelessness,” Todman claimed in a press release. “We know what works and our success in reducing veteran homelessness by 55.2% since 2010 shows that.” 

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