JOINT BASE ANACOSTIA BOLLING – The Defense Intelligence Agency recently released an unclassified assessment titled “Golden Dome for America: Current and Future Missile Threats to the U.S. Homeland” to depict threats a sophisticated missile defense system for the United States would defend against. The product presents the agency’s unclassified intelligence on adversary missile threats and capabilities.

In the coming decade, missile threats to the U.S. Homeland from more advanced conventional- and nuclear-capable delivery systems will expand in scale and sophistication. DIA profiles the missile threat and inventories in six categories: intercontinental ballistic missiles, submarine-launched ballistic missiles, two types of hypersonic weapons, land attack cruise missiles, and fractional orbital bombardment systems.   more...

APHIS' International Services program operates in more than 27 countries around the world to keep agriculture healthy and trade markets open. Panama is one of those countries.

There, the Panama-United States Commission for the Eradication and Prevention of Screwworm (COPEG), a joint program between International Services and Panama’s Ministry of Agriculture, is leveraging technical expertise and skilled diplomacy to tackle a potentially devastating agricultural pest. This pest, the New World screwworm (NWS, Cochliomyia hominivorax), could wreak havoc on warmblooded animals across the Western Hemisphere, particularly cattle.

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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a proposed rule that would close a Medicaid tax loophole exploited by states to inflate federal payments to states, and free up state funds for non-Medicaid purposes. Some states have exploited these tax loopholes to take money from federal taxpayers and then simultaneously spent “state” money on new benefits for illegal immigrants. This regulatory move is projected to save taxpayers more than $30 billion over five years and continues CMS’ work in ensuring this vital safety net continues to be available for the country’s most vulnerable populations in the future.

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Washington, D.C. – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins announced the suspension of live cattle, horse, and bison imports through U.S. ports of entry along the southern border due to the continued and rapid northward spread of New World Screwworm (NWS) in Mexico, effective immediately. NWS has been recently detected in remote farms with minimal cattle movement as far north as Oaxaca and Veracruz, about 700 miles away from the U.S. border.

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On April 28, President Trump signed an Executive Order, Strengthening and Unleashing America’s Law Enforcement to Pursue Criminals and Protect Innocent Civilians, which provides for significant support and resources for state and local law enforcement. The National Association of Police Organizations (NAPO) applauds the President for continuing to have the backs of the men and women who put their lives on the line every day to serve and protect our communities.

The provisions of this Executive Order adopt and make official almost all of the top policy priorities we have been calling for with the Administration. This includes protecting law enforcement officers’ legal rights, supporting improved training and increased benefits for officers, stronger penalties for those who commit violence against officers, going after misguided prosecutors and officials who refuse to enforce the law, and reevaluating the numerous consent decrees that are thwarting agencies across the country.   more...

You get a call out of the blue. The caller insists you owe money and says you’ll be arrested if you don’t pay immediately. You have no idea what she’s talking about. What do you do?

The FTC says that Global Circulation, Inc. (which did business using names like Consumer Impact Recovery and Total Mediation Solutions) used illegal threats like this to trick thousands of people into paying debts they did not owe — to the tune of $9.6 million. To settle the FTC’s claims, GCI will be banned from the debt collection business.

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