McMahon threatens Newsom with federal funding cuts over transgender athletes

Trump’s Department of Energy targets California and other blue states for budget cuts, according to internal documents

A major national effort to develop clean hydrogen energy is facing funding cuts — but only in Democratic states.

Trump admin launches blue-state probes into hidden trans-ing of kids, threatens defunding schools that keep parents in dark

The Trump Department of Education may be headed for dismantlement but on its way out is set to make life difficult for those blue-state radicals trying to indoctrinate and transition children behind parents' backs. In addition to putting schools nationwide on notice that they could lose federal funding for violations of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act and the Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment, the ED announced late last week th…

McMahon Threatens Newsom Over Transgender Athletes

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has had plenty to say since launching his podcast earlier this month with a splash, breaking from Democratic Party orthodoxy and agreeing with MAGA organizer Charlie Kirk that allowing biological males to compete in girls’ and…

Trump Admin Threatens To Pull California School Funding Unless It Forcibly Outs Trans Students

Ted Eytan // Creative CommonsErin In The Morning is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a subscriber.On Thursday, the U.S. Department of Education opened an investigation into California’s Department of Education over Assembly Bill 1955, a law passed last year that limits the forced outing of transgender students to their parents. The bill, already the subject of multiple legal challenges, …

Trump Officials Assured Skeptical Senator Dr. Oz’s Views On Transgenderism Have Changed

By Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell, The Daily Signal | March 26, 2025 The Trump administration has assured a conservative senator who raised concerns about Dr. Mehmet Oz’s positions on transgenderism that the nominee to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services have changed, The Daily Signal has learned. Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., wrote Oz a series of questions on March 18 about Oz’s past statements expressing support of transgender medical …

Newsom and Walz struggle to appear normal

The political makeover of Gavin Newsom proceeds apace. He recently seemed to agree that Trans boys beating the hell, figuratively and actually, out of girls in sports wasn’t exactly fair. Talk, of course, is cheap, and to date, Newsom hasn&rsqu...