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“Solano County Public Health officials on Wednesday will begin testing nearly 300 people who were identified as ‘close contacts’ to a person confirmed in an active case of pulmonary tuberculosis disease associated with Armijo High School,” the Fairfield-Suisun Daily Republic reports.

“Solano County is warning people about an active case of tuberculosis [TB] on the campus of Armijo High School” in Fairfield, California, KOVR TV in Sacramento reported in its February 16 evening newscast.

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt met with eleven Western Governors at a breakfast on Sunday, honoring a promise he made during his confirmation hearings and at CPAC on Sunday to reach out to state governments to re-establish trust.

Rogue bureaucrats at the Department of Homeland Security have leaked an “incomplete” report critical of President Trump’s executive order that temporarily blocked the issuance of visas to seven Middle Eastern countries that previous administrations had declared “sponsors of state terrorism” or countries of concern.

Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning wants Congress to help President Trump get rid of “rogue bureaucrats [who] are not serving the American people” by “cutting the personnel budgets of non-defense civilian departments and agencies, reducing the enacted full-time equivalent number for each department, agency and office by 10 to 20 percent reduction in the workforce on a last-one-in, first-one-out basis,” according to a statement released on Friday.

“A group serving as a central hub of information for congressional town halls was founded by a former Hillary Clinton campaign staffer,” the Free Beacon reports.

One week after President Donald Trump fulfilled a campaign promise by curbing the arrival of refugees from several Muslim-majority countries, a senior bureaucrat at the Department of Homeland Security countermanded his presidential directive.

The federal bureaucracy is comprised of about 2.6 million permanent employees protected by Civil Service and about 4,000 political appointees. Many of these bureaucrats are actively engaged in sabotaging President Trump’s agenda.

“Health officials are recommending that 240 people at Renton’s Hazen High School get tested for tuberculosis (TB) after someone at the school was diagnosed with the infectious disease,” the Seattle Times reported on January 12.

“A review of information compiled by a Senate committee in 2016 reveals that 72 individuals from the seven countries covered in President Trump’s vetting executive order have been convicted in terror cases since the 9/11 attacks,” according to a report issued by the Center for Immigration Studies on Saturday.

State Treasurer Ron Estes was selected by delegates to the 4th Congressional District Republican nominating convention to serve as the party’s standard-bearer in the April 11 special election.

Another case of active tuberculosis (TB) has been diagnosed in Hennepin County, Minnesota public schools, local officials confirmed on Wednesday.

On Tuesday, the second full weekday after Federal Judge James Robart issued a temporary restraining order halting President Trump’s executive order that temporarily blocked the issuance of visas for seven Middle Eastern countries and temporarily banned refugees from all countries,

One hundred Syrian refugees rushed into the country on Monday, the first full week day after Federal District Judge James Robart issued a temporary restraining order halting key elements of President Donald Trump’s immigration executive order, “Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States.”

Federal District Court Judge James Robart’s ruling on Friday placed a temporary restraining order (TRO) on many elements of President Trump’s executive order temporarily banning refugees from all countries and blocking the issuance of visas from seven Middle Eastern companies.

Many of the 2.7 million bureaucrats employed by the federal government oppose President Donald Trump’s policies and are actively attempting to sabotage his agenda. That sabotage comes in several forms, from secretly circulating emails among fellow ideologically committed members of

Somali refugee Dahir Adan attacked nine Americans with a knife at a mall in St. Cloud, Minn. before an off duty police officer shot and killed him on Sept. 17, 2016. Two months later Somali refugee Abdul Razak Ali Artan attacked 11 Americans with a knife and then a car on the campus of Ohio State University in Columbus before a campus police officer shot and killed him on Nov. 28, 2016.

Two hundred and six refugees, 17 of whom are Muslims, have legally entered the United States in the four full days since President Trump signed the “Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States”executive order temporarily banning refugees from entry.

The National Partnership for New Americans convened a nationwide conference call on Monday to plot a panicked response to President Trump’s temporary 120-day ban on refugees from all countries, sources who were on the call tell Breitbart News.

The suspects in Sunday’s attack on a Quebec mosque that killed six have been identified as Mohamed Khadir and Alexandre Bissonnette, CBC and the Montreal Gazette are reporting.

Eighty-seven percent of the world’s 1.6 billion Muslims are not affected by President Donald Trump’s Friday decision to temporarily withhold visas from citizens of seven Middle Eastern countries.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has failed to disclose a $1.3 million line of credit provided to her by Bank of America, the Washington Free Beacon reports:

President Trump signed an executive order late Friday which temporarily bars refugees from entering the United States.

Bureaucrats at the State Department brought in an additional 526 refugees in the seventeen hours between midnight and 5 p.m. eastern on Thursday.

Bureaucrats at the State Department brought in another 512 refugees to the United States on Wednesday, according to the department’s interactive website.

Bureaucrats at the State Department brought 500 refugees into the country on Tuesday, one day before President Trump “is expected to order a multi-month ban on allowing refugees into the United States except for religious minorities escaping persecution, until more aggressive vetting is in place,” according to Reuters.

The Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs approved Dr. Ben Carson’s nomination as Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development in a voice vote on Tuesday.

Rep. Chris Collins (R-NY) schooled CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on ethical standards in business investment late Monday.

The Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs will meet in executive session Tuesday morning “to vote on the nomination of Dr. Benjamin Carson, Secretary-Designate, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.”

Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt emerged unscathed from more than three rounds of questions posed during a seven-hour hearing before the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works on Wednesday.

The Presidential Transition Team called a CNN story about Dr. Tom Price (R-GA) “junk reporting” and late Tuesday requested “that CNN retract this blatantly false story,” noting that the network failed to accurately report all the facts.

A student or staff member at St. Louis Park High School in suburban Minneapolis, Minnesota, was diagnosed with active tuberculosis (TB) in late November, but Hennepin County Department of Health officials and St. Louis Park Public Schools officials concealed that information from the public until the second week of January, six weeks later.

The refugees resettled by the federal government in New Hampshire produced 29 percent of all diagnosed active tuberculosis (TB) cases in the state during 2014 and 2015, says the Centers for Disease Control.

Dr. Ben Carson sailed smoothly through his confirmation hearing to become Secretary of Housing and Urban Development before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs on Thursday, despite grandstanding from Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), who used it as

Dr. Ben Carson will testify at Thursday’s hearing before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs on his nomination to become Secretary of Housing and Urban Development that growing up poor in Detroit gave him a unique understanding of the job for which he is being considered.

The Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs will begin confirmation hearings on Thursday for Dr. Ben Carson, the retired neurosurgeon and former presidential candidate President-elect Donald Trump selected to serve in his cabinet as secretary of Housing and Urban Development.