SEE IT: House floor erupts after GOP lawmaker accuses Tlaib of Hezbollah ties

Rep Max Miller was barred from speaking for the rest of Wednesday after his remarks were struck from the record

The House floor erupted into chaos Wednesday after Rep. Max Miller, R-Ohio, accused Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., of having ties to terrorist groups, including Hezbollah.

The shouting match came during a heated debate over a resolution that would force President Donald Trump to withdraw U.S. forces from Lebanon. Tlaib, a progressive lawmaker and member of the Squad, is expected to force a vote on the measure Thursday, arguing that the United States should not assist Israel’s war in Lebanon. 

Her resolution does not mention Hezbollah, a U.S.-designated terrorist organization in Lebanon and a proxy force of the Iranian regime. Republicans seized on the omission, arguing the measure would aid Hezbollah and that its supporters were acting as the group's "proxies."

"Hezbollah is a terrorist organization ... and its members are butchers that you like to hang out with to a certain extent," Miller said on the House floor Wednesday evening, referring to Tlaib.

An Israeli soldier scans the area while taking cover near the Israel-Lebanon border following a Hezbollah drone attack on June 1, 2026.

REP RASHIDA TLAIB MOVES TO BLOCK US OPERATIONS IN LEBANON BUT IGNORES HEZBOLLAH

When Tlaib responded by yelling, Miller retorted, "Are we getting a little emotional?" 

Tlaib then responded, "That is an attack on my character," and demanded that Rep. Jay Obernolte, R-Calif., the presiding chair, rule that Miller’s remarks were out of order.

Obernolte ultimately struck the Ohio lawmaker’s words from the record after the House floor was frozen for more than an hour while lawmakers deliberated.

Miller was barred from speaking on the House floor for the rest of Wednesday.

House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Brian Mast, R-Fla., then delivered a statement on Miller’s behalf, saying, "Yes, I said it. I own it, and I stand by it." 

Mast also attempted to enter materials into the record about Tlaib’s alleged association with terrorist groups, but the Michigan Democrat objected. The documents included a Fox News Digital story from 2023 reporting that Tlaib was a member of a private Facebook group that glorified Hamas’ Oct. 7 invasion of Israel.

Rep. Max Miller, R-Ohio, said he stood by his remarks associating Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., with Hezbollah "butchers."

TRUMP URGED TO LOOK INTO US FUNDING OF LEBANESE ARMY AMID ACCUSATIONS OF ITS TIES TO HEZBOLLAH

Tlaib’s resolution targeting U.S. forces in Lebanon is likely to die on the House floor Thursday amid bipartisan opposition. The measure is expected to divide Democrats, and it is unclear how House Democratic leadership will vote.

GOP lawmakers have also argued the resolution is "dangerous" because it could affect U.S. military operations in the country to protect the American embassy in Beirut and train the Lebanese Armed Forces to fight Hezbollah.

Rep. Delia Ramirez, D-Ill., a co-sponsor of the resolution, did not answer directly when asked by Mast whether she would like to see U.S. forces stay in the country to help train Lebanon’s army to combat the terrorist group.

Rep. Brian Mast, R-Fla., said supporters of the Lebanon war powers resolution are acting as "proxies for Hezbollah."

"He's having a different debate here," Ramirez insisted.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/see-it-house-floor-erupts-after-gop-lawmaker-accuses-tlaib-hezbollah-ties

BREAKING: John Bolton Agrees to Plead Guilty Over Mishandling Classified Documents

 Former Trump Nat Sec Advisor John Bolton has agreed to plead guilty to a felony over mishandling classified documents.

Bolton is facing 60 days in jail and $2.25 million in fines.

CNN reported:

John Bolton, President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser-turned-adversary, is expected to plead guilty over mishandling classified documents, according to three sources familiar with the matter.

He intends to plead guilty to one count of illegal retention of sensitive national security documents, according to one of the sources. He has also agreed to pay a more than $2 million fine, according to one of the sources.

A conviction on one count of illegal retention comes with a sentence between 0 and 60 months in prison.

The plea deal comes months after the top Trump foe was charged by prosecutors in Maryland for allegedly keeping diary entries from the first Trump White House in his home.

The FBI raided John Bolton’s home last summer.

FBI agents were sent to Bolton’s home because he allegedly sent “highly sensitive” classified materials to family members from a private, unsecured email server while he was working at the White House during the first Trump Administration.

“Investigators reopened a dormant probe into Bolton’s alleged use of a private email to send classified national security documents to his wife and daughter from his work desk before his dismissal by Trump in September 2019, according to a senior US official,” The New York Post reported last week.

The investigation into John Bolton began in 2020 when he used classified information to write his book titled, “The Room Where It Happened.”

The Biden Administration halted the investigation into Bolton, but FBI Director Kash Patel revived it and ordered the raid on the former NatSec Advisor’s home.

The New York Times previously reported that the US Government actually discovered John Bolton’s classified emails while gathering information from an “adversarial country’s spy service.”

Documents previously released revealed that John Bolton stored classified information about WMDs and the United Nations.

“Categories of potentially classified records that the FBI reported finding at Bolton’s office included: travel memo documents with a “secret” label; confidential documents from the U.S. mission to the U.N.; confidential documents related to strategic communications; and classified documents related to weapons of mass destruction,” Politico reported.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/06/breaking-john-bolton-agrees-plead-guilty-mishandling-classified/

Canada: New fuel surcharges on groceries and more making 'almost everything in the economy' more expensive

Documents obtained by National Post show a range of mechanisms and formulas to pass on increased fuel costs to customers

A truck carrying Windsor built Chrysler Pacifica minivans is shown among traffic on Huron Church Road in Windsor heading to the Ambassador Bridge on Thursday, March 5, 2026. 

OTTAWA — Canadians already struggling with rising grocery prices are staring down another blow as delivery companies are hitting their retail customers with new fuel surcharges triggered by the war in Iran.

Documents obtained by National Post show that a number of Canadian trucking and delivery companies have in recent weeks used a range of mechanisms and formulas to pass on increased fuel costs to their customers. Those mechanisms include flat price increases, surcharges based on weight and distance, and new minimum orders, but economists say they’re all going to mean the same thing for consumers: higher prices.

There’s little doubt that those customers, mostly grocery stores and other businesses that rely on large shipments of goods, are almost certainly passing on those various fuel surcharges to shoppers, economists say.



Michael von Massow, a food agriculture economist at the University of Guelph, said the new fuel surcharges are likely to be felt in checkout lines with little delay, particularly in a case like today’s oil supply chain woes that aren’t expected to go away any time soon. It’s difficult to quantify how much the fuel surcharges would cause grocery prices to rise, but the charges themselves are widespread, von Massow said.

“Almost everyone is charging them.”

But the problems for consumers may not end there. Those retail price increases will then push up inflation, which has already been on the rise in recent months, putting further pressure on the Bank of Canada to raise interest rates.

Statistics Canada reported Tuesday that inflation jumped to 2.8 per cent in April, the highest rate since May 2024. That April rate compared to an inflation rate of 2.4 per cent in March.

Von Massow said higher fuel prices will also put upward pressure on prices in many industries other than groceries because transportation is an important input for most goods. Airline tickets, parcel delivery and even some public transit costs have also already been affected.Article content

“Fuel prices are connected to almost everything in the economy,” he said.

Many of the Canadian delivery and trucking companies that are raising or implementing surcharges emphasize that the price increases are temporary and are a direct result of the war in Iran and the related price hikes in global energy markets.

CTS Food Brokers Ottawa, a food importer, wholesaler and distributor whose customers include more than 600 independent supermarkets in Ontario and Quebec, wrote to customers to let them know about a new fuel surcharge. “This surcharge will be reviewed regularly and adjusted or removed as fuel prices stabilize,” the company wrote in early April.

In its letter to customers, Brandt Meats, also based in Mississauga, Ont., said it would take a different tack. The manufacturer, whose partners include retail brands such as International Cheeses and Summer Fresh, said that its minimum order for deliveries would rise to $1,000 on May 4.

In a letter to customers, Maple Leaf Foods said it would start charging a temporary fuel surcharge of 11 cents per kilogram for all prepared meats and fresh poultry shipments.

In its March 31 letter to customers, the Mississauga, Ont.-based company said the new surcharge reflects only the incremental increase in freight costs caused by the war in Iran and that the surcharge would be reviewed each week to reflect fuel prices.

Maple Leaf, one of the country’s largest food companies, said the freight carriers association’s published fuel surcharge was 55.3 per cent higher in the early weeks after the start of the war, compared to a year earlier.

“This is not a permanent price increase,” the company’s letter to customers said, “but rather a temporary adjustment tied directly to fuel cost movements.”

Maple Leaf, which owns brands such as Schneiders, and Lightlife, also emphasized to customers that the new surcharge would not be used to recover other recent input price increases, such as raw materials, packaging or ingredients.

None of the three companies could be reached for comment on Wednesday.

For consumers, economists say, the fuel surcharges represent the second part of a double hit: they pay for the oil price surge while filling up at the pump, then again when they make purchases at the many stores affected by higher delivery charges.

While prices for fuel and many other items are noticeably higher than before the pandemic, this recent surge can be directly connected to the war in Iran that started in late February. After the United States and Israel started bombing, Iran eventually responded by closing the Strait of Hormuz, which has led to supply chain disruptions and related energy price increases.

StatsCan said this week that the price of gas jumped 28.6 per cent in April compared with a year earlier. The increase would have been even greater if not for the federal government’s move last month to temporarily suspend the fuel excise tax. That lifting of the tax, which cuts about 10 cents off the price of a litre of gas, is scheduled to expire on Labour Day.

In this week’s inflation numbers from StatsCan, there was a small decrease in produce prices, despite the new fuel surcharges. But von Massow said that’s largely because the warmer months mean that Canadian shelves are being filled by produce that tends to be grown much closer than the fruits and vegetables that are shipped north during the winter months. So, the fuel surcharges have meant that many prices have fallen less than they otherwise would have, he said.

Transportation costs represent an average of 10 to 15 per cent of the cost of non-manufactured food items during the winter months in Canada, von Massow said, but more often seven to eight per cent during the warmer months when more produce is harvested closer by.

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/new-fuel-surcharges-are-making-almost-everything-in-the-economy-more-expensive

Spanberger Signed the Gun Ban, but Virginia Prosecutors Say It Can't Be Enforced

Thirteen Virginia commonwealth's attorneys have now said they will not enforce Gov. Abigail Spanberger's (D-VA) new gun ban when it takes effect on July 1, including the top prosecutors in Page, Shenandoah, and Warren counties.

The law Spanberger signed in May bans the future sale, manufacture, transfer, import, and purchase of certain semiautomatic firearms and magazines that hold more than 15 rounds. Anyone charged under it faces up to 12 months in jail and a $2,500 fine, plus a three-year ban on buying or possessing firearms.

Spotsylvania County Commonwealth's Attorney Ryan Mehaffey was among the first to go on record.

"The assault weapons ban and the public carry ban are obviously unconstitutional. And it's incumbent upon constitutional officers in Virginia to come out and clearly state that they cannot be lawfully enforced, and to defend the people's rights to keep and bear arms."

Mehaffey also drew a contrast with Fairfax County Commonwealth's Attorney Steve Descano, a Democrat who has reportedly dropped charges against multiple violent suspects, including Abdul Jalloh, an illegal alien who went on to murder Stephanie Minter at a bus stop after Descano's office declined to prosecute him despite police warnings.

"The law should be vigorously enforced against violent and dangerous people," Mehaffey said. "The laws that were not being enforced in some other jurisdictions were not being enforced not out of constitutional concern, but just out of an ideology.”

Warren County Commonwealth's Attorney John Bell issued a formal memorandum stating his office would not prosecute law-abiding citizens for possessing, purchasing, selling, or transferring firearms and magazines that were legal before the ban, citing pending constitutional challenges.

Prosecutors and sheriffs in Clarke, Goochland, Patrick, Appomattox, Powhatan, Pulaski, Smyth, Scott, and other counties have also issued statements saying they won't bring charges under the ban. In Clarke County, the sheriff and the commonwealth's attorney issued a joint statement stating that the law "will not be enforced against nonviolent offenders where no other criminal conduct is alleged.”

Democrat Attorney General Jay Jones said commonwealth's attorneys are "elected to enforce our laws, which is what we expect them to do when these laws take effect on July 1."

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A Spanberger spokesperson said firearms "designed to inflict maximum casualties" do not belong on Virginia streets and that "the people of Virginia must be able to trust that all Commonwealth's Attorneys will uphold the rule of law.”

The NRA's Institute for Legislative Action has filed a federal lawsuit arguing the ban targets firearms and magazines "overwhelmingly possessed by law-abiding citizens for lawful purposes" and cannot be justified under the nation's historical tradition of firearm regulation. The Firearms Policy Coalition, Gun Owners of America, the Virginia Citizens Defense League, and the National Shooting Sports Foundation have also filed separate challenges.

In Spotsylvania County, the Board of Supervisors has already passed a resolution declaring the county a Second Amendment sanctuary.

Republicans don't expect the lower courts to block the law; the Fourth Circuit upheld a similar Maryland ban last year, and the Supreme Court declined to take it up, but they are hoping the accumulation of challenges will eventually force the Supreme Court to weigh in. The law takes effect July 1 unless a court steps in first.

https://redstate.com/ben-smith/2026/06/03/spanberger-signed-the-gun-ban-virginia-prosecutors-say-it-cant-be-enforced-n2202985

Outrageous! Marxist Code Pink “Head Honcho” Physically ASSAULTS GOP Rep. Anna Paulina Luna as She Leaves Congressional Hearing

Rep Anna Paulina Luna on Newsmax “Wake Up America Weekend” 4/25/26

The lead organizer of the communist, pro-China organization Code Pink has crossed a bright red line after attacking a brave member of Congress on Wednesday.

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) revealed on X that she was leaving the hearing with Secretary of State Marco Rubio when the “head honcho” of Code Pink harassed Paulina Luna and then smacked her arm, a clear case of assault.

“The head honcho of Code Pink here on Capitol Hill decided to try to harass me as I was leaving my hearing with Rubio and smacked my arm,” Paulina Luna revealed. “I have no issues answering questions, but the moment you touch me, you cross a line.”

While Rep. Paulina Luna did not name the person, she is likely referring to Medea Benjamin, the primary head organizer of Code Pink.

Rep. Paulina Luna added that the assault occurred after she asked Rubio about Code Pink’s close ties to the Communist Chinese Party.

She also revealed she would be pressing charges.

“After I questioned Secretary Rubio on Code Pink and their ties to the CCP, their organization followed me out, berated me, and then their head person here in DC smacked me,” Paullina Luna announced. “I will be filing charges.”

Finally, Paulina Luna demanded that House Speaker Mike Johnson ban the organization.

“I have asked the Speaker to ban Code Pink,” Paulina Luna continued. “I was just physically hit by their head organizer. This is right after I questioned Secretary Rubio about them. It is time for Speaker Johnson to ban them.”

Code Pink not only needs to be banned, but the individuals involved need to be locked up for assault and treason.

But will Speaker Johnson and other government officials have the courage to do what’s necessary?

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/06/outrageous-marxist-code-pink-head-honcho-physically-assaults/