United States President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that the so-called Trump Accounts, the investment accounts for children under 18, will become available from July 4 next year.
"Contributions to Trump Accounts will also be a great benefit for employers to offer their workers, which they'll be able to do tax-free. We expect hundreds of major companies to announce plans to contribute to these accounts in the coming months," the US president said.
He thanked Chairman and CEO of Dell Technologies Michael Dell and his wife Susan for contributing $6.2 billion to the savings accounts. Under the plan, children born between 2025 and 2028 are eligible to receive $1,000 from the US government and additional contributions from employers or prominent philanthropic organizations.
The Afghan national, who was also shot, made his initial court appearance by video from a hospital bed. The incident resulted in the death of Specialist Sarah Beckstrom and wounded Staff Sergeant Andrew Wolfe. During a brief court appearance in Washington, DC, his lawyer submitted a not guilty plea on his behalf.
Lakanwal entered the US in 2021 through Operation Allies Welcome, a Biden administration initiative that resettled Afghans after the US withdrawal from the nation. He served in the Afghan army for 10 years alongside US Special Forces troops. Authorities have not yet found a motive for the shooting.
The U.S. Transportation Department is now moving aggressively to correct thenon-domiciled commercial driver's license(CDL) crisis created under theBiden-Harris regimeyears, a period when these CDLs were effectively handed out like candy tounqualified migrant drivers, fueling awave of carnageon America's highways.
The latest enforcement action comes from Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy, who announced the removal of nearly 3,000 CDL training providers from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's (FMCSA) Training Provider Registry (TPR) for failing to meet the Trump Administration's standards of readiness, with another 4,500 providers put on notice for potential noncompliance.
"This administration is cracking down on every link in the illegal trucking chain. Under Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg, bad actors were able to game the system and let unqualified drivers flood our roadways. Their negligence endangered every family on America's roadways, and it ends today," Duffy stated, adding, "Under President Trump, we are reigning in illegal and reckless practices that let poorly trained drivers get behind the wheel of semi-trucks and school buses."
On X, Duffy quoted an AP News story that said as many as 44% of the 16,000 truck driving schools nationwide face immediate closure. He said, "The days of a 'Wild Wild West' trucking industry are over under the Trump administration."
The continued crackdown follows a series of 80,000-pound big rig crashes with migrants behind the wheel. These crashes have killed Americans.
Separately, the State Department has been investigating the matter, and the Department of Homeland Security is auditing trucking firms in California owned by migrants. The desperate calls for urgent action all began with the trucking advocacy group American Truckers United earlier this year.
ATU's research has found that the Biden-Harris regime and rogue sanctuary states enabled the trucking industry to be flooded by migrants, some of whom should've never been behind the wheel of a big rig.
Duffy continued.
Thank ATU for their hard work this year in exposing and advising the federal government on how to correct yet another nation-killing policy by Biden-Harris.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission should tell the PJM Interconnection that it can only add large data centers to its system when they can be reliably served, according to a complaint filed Tuesday at the agency by the grid operator’s market monitor.
PJM is considering proposing to allow data center loads that it cannot serve reliably and that will require periodic blackouts for data centers and other customers, Monitoring Analytics, the grid operator’s market monitor, said.
“That result is not consistent with the basic responsibility of PJM to maintain a reliable grid and is therefore not just and reasonable,” Monitoring Analytics said.
The market monitor contends that PJM Interconnection - the largest power grid in the United States, which runs the grid and wholesale power markets in 13 Mid-Atlantic and Midwest states and the District of Columbia and serves 65 million customers - has the authority to require that large new data centers wait in a queue to be added to the system until there is adequate generation and transmission to serve those facilities, according to the complaint.
However, during PJM stakeholder discussions this fall on potential large load interconnection rules, PJM staff and many stakeholders were unwilling to say that the grid operator has that authority, the market monitor said.
“If PJM has an obligation to provide reliable service to all PJM loads, is it just and reasonable for PJM to add new loads that it cannot serve reliably?” Monitoring Analytics asked. “The answer to that question is no.”
The complaint was filed days after PJM stakeholders failed to agree on a new framework for adding data centers and other large loads to PJM’s system. During the stakeholder process, Monitoring Analytics proposed that data centers be required to have matching, new power supplies before they are allowed to interconnect to the grid.
PJM’s board plans to develop a large load interconnection proposal and file it for approval by FERC.
It would make the board’s job “significantly more manageable” if FERC indicates that it intends to rule on the complaint and then rules in the near future, Monitoring Analytics said.
“PJM markets face an urgent need for immediate clarification of PJM’s authority over the interconnection of large new data center loads,” the market monitor said.
Large data center load additions in PJM have been driving up transmission costs as well as energy and capacity prices, according to the market monitor.
Existing and expected data center loads increased PJM’s capacity revenues in its last two capacity auctions by $16.6 billion, Monitoring Analytics said. “This total will continue to grow until the issues associated with the additions of large data center loads are addressed,” the market monitor said.
PJM is reviewing the complaint, Jeffrey Shields, a spokesman for the grid operator, said. PJM runs the grid and wholesale power markets in 13 Mid-Atlantic and Midwest states and the District of Columbia.
Copper advanced to a record high in London on fears the global market is heading for a supply crunch.
The metal rose as much as 1.3% to $11,334 a ton on the London Metal Exchange before trimming gains, surpassing a peak reached on Friday, while futures on the Comex in the US surged as much as 1.7%. A rush to get copper to America ahead of possible import tariffs looks set to exacerbate shortfalls elsewhere as miners struggle to keep up with demand.
The HHS Office for Civil Rights issolicitingquestions for a video the department is producing about a HIPAA rule.
The prerecorded video will review the requirements of the HIPAA Security Rule’s risk management implementation specification. Nicholas Heesters, senior advisor for cybersecurity at the Office for Civil Rights, will also address OCR investigations, potential violations, and risk management and cybersecurity resources.
The American Medical Association is facing heightened scrutiny from Republican lawmakers about its role in shaping physician payment,The Washington Post reported Dec. 2.
Five things to know:
1. Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., sent a letter to the AMA Dec. 1, requesting details on how it develops and licenses CPT billing codes used for Medicare and commercial reimbursement. The action follows a formal letter Mr. Cassidy, chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, sent to the AMA in early October, requesting detailed information about its control of the CPT coding system.
2. Mr. Cassidy and other Republican lawmakers have criticized the scale of the AMA’s coding enterprise, alleging it generates substantial revenue and gives the association disproportionate influence over payment policy. They argue that the AMA’s longstanding process lacks transparency and has contributed to payment structures that favor procedures over primary and preventive care.
3. The inquiry comes after the Trump administration released its 2026 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule final rule Oct. 31, which reduces reimbursement for surgeries and other procedures by 2.5% and shifts funds toward chronic disease management and prevention.
4. HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has also reportedly considered an overhaul of Medicare’s physician payment model to incentivize primary care and preventive services.
5. The AMA did not immediately provide a comment to Becker’s but said it intends to respond to Mr. Cassidy’s inquiry.
