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I don’t want to bury the lede, so I’ll stay up front that yes, content creator Andrew Sullivan is still alive because blogging ultimately did not kill him. But just as important, he is a Trump supporter, even if, as with most things related to politics, he doesn’t know it. Recall Sullivan as a pioneer of online writing in the aughts and also as the middle-aged white man who choked up on national television while referring to President Obama as a “father figure.” Sullivan now writes on Substack (snip) and he was recently the featured guest on Mark Halperin’s Next Up podcast diagnosing the ails of the Democrat Party.

For years now, the left has treated mass migration as this moral, beautiful thing. And if you questioned it, that meant you were some heartless, xenophobic, or stuck in some outdated nationalist fantasy loop. Borders were sold as cruel, enforcement (ICE) was framed as oppression, and “diversity is our strength” wasn’t just a slogan; it was a cult Now suddenly, two of the most powerful Dems in modern politics are singing a very different tune.(snip) When Hillary Clinton says mass migration has been destabilizing and went too far, and Barack Obama says we are a nation of laws with borders that must be orderly and fair, that is a direct slap

Dr. Oz, the Administrator at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), has been laser-focused on combatting Medicaid waste, fraud, and abuse. Over the past month, he has travelled to Minnesota and California to highlight egregious home health and hospice schemes. One often overlooked scheme is the abuse of intergovernmental transfers (IGTs). CMS should put a stop to how states use IGTs to favor government-operated providers at patients’ and taxpayers’ expense. Congress created Medicaid to help America’s most vulnerable access health and long-term care services. Both the federal government and the state were always meant to share financing responsibility. But states have long taken advantage of the federal government’s open-ended