“A Huge Grab of Power”: Trump Is Defying Congress on Foreign Aid

After the Trump administration upended the world’s largest foreign aid provider last year, terminating thousands of programs and firing nearly all of its staff, its plan for the agency was clear: Eliminate it entirely.

Amid a worsening flu outbreak at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas, the U.S. Air Force, Army and Navy are once again requiring new recruits to get vaccinated against the influenza virus, according to ABC News. The move comes two months after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth rescinded the U.S. military’s mandate that they do so.

As of June 23, 2026, at least 222 recruits on the base have fallen ill and four have reportedly been hospitalized.

Back when the world was a simpler and more savage place, when the stars in the night sky were not counted in the tens or hundreds, but in made-up numbers more akin to the holes in an old blanket, used to roof a child’s fort – back when American frontiersmen sought to distance themselves from busy coastal cities and with arms of granite they would hewn down prehistoric trees to make one room cabins for their families– there was a need in the Thirteen Colonies for men to be able to vote from their homesteads.