Evening Wire: Jim Jordan Voted In As Minority Leader & Cali Kills ‘Billionaire Tax’ | 11.10.26

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Congressman Jim Jordan, who is voted in as the new minority leader this afternoon, reporter Drew Burkmeyer as more. The Ohio Congressman will assume leadership over the Republican minority in the House, after current speaker Mike Johnson declared he would not run for leadership in the 120th Congress. Jordan defeated Louisiana representative Steve Scalise, 1673, in a secret ballot vote on Tuesday. Scalise has served in Republican leadership roles for over a decade, as both minority and majority whip, as well as House majority leader under both Johnson and former speaker Kevin McCarthy. Jordan, meanwhile, has been an outsider to the upper ranks in the chamber. In his ten terms in the House, he has been a conservative stalwart as a founding member and first chairman of the House Freedom Caucus and a close ally of President Trump. Despite that, the president seemingly stayed out of the House leadership struggle. President Trump had to clarify comments he made over the weekend in an interview on 60 minutes related to dealing with Democrats on immigration. Associate producer Garrett Van Team has the story. The comments left many of his own supporters stunned in believing that Trump had in mind a deal that could involve mass amnesty. Here was the president's response. We want to get the worst of the worst and then we'll see what happens, but they came in illegally. Many of them have good jobs now, they're productive, some of them are even paying taxes, and we're seeing what's going to happen. There won't be amnesty. Somebody suggested, will there be amnesty? No, but they came in, they knew the law, and we're working with a lot of different groups to see whether or not. But my policy hasn't changed. What we are doing is absolutely the worst of the worst. While Trump has somewhat softened his tone on deportations, he elevated Stephen Miller to be his next White House chief of staff. Miller is well known to be one of the most hawkish members of the Trump administration when it comes to immigration and deportations. A procedural vote on the impeachment of war secretary Pete Hexeth is set for 5.30 p.m. Eastern today. Outgoing Congressman Thomas Massey rolled out eight articles of impeachment against Hexeth yesterday, accusing him of violating federal law and the Constitution. Hexeth responded to the charges this morning. Let's be clear about what this resolution actually does. It tells our enemies, Iran, the cartels, every adversary watching that the United States will actually punish its own warriors and its own civilian leadership for successfully executing lawful military operations. It tells them that a single rogue legislator loaded with personal animus for the president can attempt to veto national security decisions made by the duly elected commander in chief. It puts a target on the backs of American warriors by signaling that Congress will undermine their missions in real time. This is not patriotism. This is sabotage. If the vote stalls, Democrats could take it up next year when their new majority is seated. California voters have officially shot down a proposed billionaire tax in a move celebrated by many on both sides of the aisle. Reporters that jewel has more. The Associated Press called the race Monday on Proposition 40, which would have imposed a one-time 5% tax on the assets of residents worth more than $1 billion. The state Democrat Party endorsed the proposition and blamed its defeat on hundreds of millions in Silicon Valley ad spending prior to Election Day. Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom broke with the far-left voicing his opposition to Prop 40 in favor of a national billionaire tax instead. Far-left activists vowed to put the measure back on the ballot in 2028, but a separate billionaire backed proposition to ban future wealth taxes in California was leading as of Monday. This comes despite massive Democrat gains across the state with Democrats flipping at least five GOP held seats in the Golden State with one race still too close to call. The FDA is now mandating ozimpic and other GLP-1 drugs to carry a new caution label warning of permanent vision loss, lifestyle reporter Lauren Bear has the details. The FDA reviewed 126 clinical trials, which showed that some patients who took GLP-1s, experienced a condition known as non-arturitic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy, a loss of blood flow to the optic nerve causing partial or total blindness. Although the possible side effect was rare in trials about 6,100,000, it did show slightly increased risk over the placebo group, prompting the new warning label. 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When asked about a possible response to the attacks, French foreign minister Jean Noelle Barreau stated, quote, "We will take whatever measures are necessary, including some that we will not discuss publicly if we judge them proportionate and necessary to deter any new attacks and punish those responsible for this unacceptable aggression." Florida's Attorney General James Uthmeyer announced today that his office subpoenaed the Democratic Socialists of America as part of an investigation into possible foreign funding from Cuba and China. Investigators are looking into whether the organization received overseas contributions connected to international delegations and fundraising for travel. Uthmeyer pledged to enforce Florida's financial disclosure laws and pursue any violations, take a listen. We are examining whether DSA accepted contributions or support from foreign sources of concern, including the regimes in Cuba and China, and whether it's fundraising from Florida donors has been fully transparent and lawful. This includes scrutiny of recent DSA delegations to Cuba, where national leaders and national political committee members met with Cuban government officials, as well as a delegation to China that also covers travel fund solicitations that sought tens of thousands of dollars to cover costs for those trips and related activities involving Florida chapters. Our laws prohibit accepting contributions from foreign sources of concern. They require organizations to be honest and transparent about how money is raised and used. The subpoena seeks the documents needed to determine compliance. We will follow the facts, we will enforce the law and we will not allow foreign adversaries to influence Florida through the back door of non-private fundraising. His office has not released evidence supporting the allegations or named any individuals suspected of wrongdoing. Meanwhile, the DSA has not yet publicly responded to the investigation. New York, AG Latisha James has lost again in her effort to stop women from learning about abortion pill reversal. Here's Alliance Defending Freedoms, Andrew Spanenberg. A federal court in New York has handed another loss to Attorney General Latisha James in her fight with pro-life pregnancy centers. The dispute is over something called abortion pill reversal or APR, a progesterone treatment that women can take if they change their minds after taking the first abortion pill and want to save their child. In 2024, James went to state court and sued pregnancy centers that promoted arguing their claims about the treatment are misleading. Federal pregnancy centers represented by Alliance Defending Freedoms sued the AG in federal court. A district judge and then the second circuit court of appeals sided with the centers, saying that their speech about APR is protected under the First Amendment. The AG's office then sought the full membership list of a network of pregnancy centers, saying it needed to know which centers were covered. They refused pointing to decades of Supreme Court precedent shielding membership lists from government officials. On Friday, the court extended protections to all of the network members, not just those named in lawsuit. This is James' latest fight against pro-life pregnancy centers as the broader cases continue. ICE agents have arrested an Iranian social media personality known as the King of Instagram, who authorities say illegally re-entered the U.S. and has a lengthy criminal record. Immigration reporter Jenny Tehrer as a story. Farzad Tony to Tony 55 was taken into custody in Los Angeles on October 27 after allegedly crossing into the country from Canada. ICE says to Tony first entered the U.S. legally in 1983 but was ordered deported twice and was eventually removed to Mexico in 1999. Authorities say he later crossed back into the country illegally in 2011 using an electric raft near the Michigan border. His criminal history includes convictions for kidnapping, robbery, extortion, forgery, and grand theft, and he is now being held in federal custody as removal proceedings begin. Senate investigators have recovered the cockpit voice recorder from the Learjet crash in South Florida that killed all nine people aboard. The National Transportation Safety Board said the recorder is being examined at its laboratory in Washington, D.C. and could help establish what happened before the plane plunged nose first into the street. Previously released air traffic control audio captured the pilot's battling turbulence and ICE, asking for a better route and permission to climb before issuing a Mayday call. Investigators are now examining how the pilots and air traffic controllers decided to fly into thunderstorms in the area. The NTSB expects to release a preliminary report in December. "All right, those of your drive home updates." To learn more about these stories, go to dailywire.com in a case you missed it earlier today. We covered some major stories, including President Trump's election post-mortem in May a copa, a Chinese spy scandal rocking the world's leading AI company, and a new investigation into California's use of taxpayer money for partisan voting gains. Thanks for tuning in. We'll be back tomorrow morning with another full edition of Morningwire. Three and four said they'd be less likely to vote for a member of Congress who supported those cuts. Senators are one of the most reliable voting blocks in the country, and they're telling lawmakers exactly where they stand and what matters to them most. Read the full findings and take action at Medicare Advantage Majority.org.