John Bickley

Daily Wire reporter Tim Pearce has the story.

The closure of the El Paso airport this week caused a lot of confusion.

The FAA closed and then reopened the airport way ahead of its own deadline.

Officials have offered conflicting accounts of why that airspace was closed, at first citing cartel drones as the reason.

Officials are now saying it was actually the testing of anti-drone tech.

which could have posed a threat to aircraft in the area.

The closure, which ordered all flights grounded for 10 days, was issued late last night, surprising local officials, but it was lifted far ahead of schedule this morning, just seven hours later.

The El Paso mayor stated in a press conference that he's still looking for answers from the feds.

President Trump's tariffs faced a setback in Congress today.

House Speaker Mike Johnson attempted to block votes on resolutions disapproving of Trump's tariff.

However, the vote failed, with three Republicans crossing the aisle to vote with all 214 House Democrats.

The move clears the path for congressional challenges to Trump's tariff policy.

The GOP defectors were Representatives Thomas Massey of Kentucky, Kevin Kiley of California, and Don Bacon of Nebraska.

You can refuse illegal orders.

The fallout from the fraud epidemic in Minnesota continues as two men from out of state have pleaded guilty this week to millions of dollars in so-called fraud tourism.

The two fraudsters, who are from Philadelphia, admitted in court that they'd learned that Minnesota is a place where it's easy to get away with egregious Medicaid fraud.

So they set up sham businesses in the housing stabilization program and managed to steal more than $3.5 million from taxpayers before getting caught.

ABC5 tried to get comment from the fraudsters.

They called it fraud tourism.

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