Gretchen Whitmer’s Top Aide Helped Pass Funding for EV Battery Plants. Now He’s a Top GM Lobbyist.

George W. Cook III served as the top legislative aide to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D., Mich.) while she pushed a historic billion-dollar funding package that has largely been leveraged for electric vehicle projects. Now, according to state filings reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon, Cook is a senior lobbyist for General Motors, the Detroit-based automaker that

‘China’s to Blame’ Regardless of How COVID-19 Came About, Senator Says

Bipartisan consensus grows over oversight of experiments on dangerous viruses. The blame is on the Chinese regime no matter how COVID-19 arose, said Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah). “Whether it was from a wet market, or the Wuhan lab, China’s to blame. Both those things were in China,” he said at a Senate Homeland Security and

US Approves New $360 Million Arms Sale to Taiwan for Drones, Related Equipment

WASHINGTON—The Biden administration on Tuesday approved a new $360 million weapons sale to Taiwan, sending the island hundreds of armed drones, missile equipment and related support material, the State Department said in a statement that is sure to draw condemnation from China. The announcement was not unexpected but it comes at a time of high