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August 1, 2025
CMS Digital Health Tech Ecosystem Is Active, Health & Fitness Of The Nation, Tariffs, White House Ballroom, OBBB Title X, Patriot Benjamin Franklin, And More
President Trump reminds us that over the next 3 years, the US will host 4 of the premier sporting events in the world: Ryder Cup, the President's Cup, the FIFA World Cup, and the Olympic Games.
In section 2, he goes on to establish prioritizing and expanding children's participation in youth sports and active play; promoting how daily movement (exercise) and nutrition promote physical, mental, and civic benefits for everyone; and create a national culture of strength, vitality, and excellence by engaging every sector of US society: public, private, civilian, and military.
In sections 3 & 4, he establishes the President's Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition (where he announces in the video below the sports figures who will be on that council) where the council's function shall be to advice the President, recommend strategies for 1) re-establishing the Presidential Fitness Test; 2) develop and promote Presidential challenges & school-based programs; 3) expand opportunities for participation in sports & physical activity on all levels; 4) create fitness goals for American youth to foster a new generation of healthy, active citizens; 5) elevate American sports, military readiness, and healthy traditions through campaigns and events; 6) partner with professional athletes, sports organizations, player's associations, influential figures, nonprofit organizations, & community groups to provide opportunities at all levels to expand participation in sports and emphasize good nutrition; and 7) develop strategies to address increasing rates of childhood obesity, chronic diseases, and sedentary lifestyles which are all a threat to national security and threatens future readiness of the US workforce and military.
I remember receiving multiple Presidential Physical Fitness Awards when I was in school. The opening image is one of them issued during President Nixon's term 1968-1974. We were proud to receive these certificates. I hope today's children will be just as proud.
Next up is a topic that seems to be "near and dear" to reporters hearts these days - Tariffs - as you can see by the number of related articles posted on alternative news sites (I try to stay away from the loony left sites):
On July 31, 2025, President Trump signed EOFurther Modifying the Reciprocal Tariff Ratesmodifies the April 2, 2025 EO 14257 (discussed in my July 23, 2025 ANP Article) to reflect current trade deals. Below is a list of current trading partners who have either already agreed or are on the verge of concluding new trade deals with the US. Future trading partners in the following list will remain subject to the additional ad valorem duties until the trade deals are concluded and President Trump issues subsequent orders enumerating the terms of the agreement, effective August 7, 2025.Click here for the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the US (HTSUS) aka Table IIalsoeffective August 7, 2025.
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The accompanying Fact SheetPresident Donald J. Trump Further Modifies the Reciprocal Tariff Ratesfurther explains that this restructuring of the global trade is to benefit US workers, strengthen the US position in the global market with historic trade agreements between the US and other countries, and deliver jobs to the US Citizen as domestic manufacturing and production increases.
Speaking of drugs, the White House released a Fact SheetPresident Donald J. Trump Announces Actions to Get Americans the Best Prices in the World for Prescription Drugs on July 31, 2025 explaining that President Trump is sending letters to leading pharmaceutical manufacturers demanding prices for US consumers be the same as the lowest price offered in other developed nations. The letters warn that the President is ready to take appropriate actions to protect US consumers from the abusive drug pricing practices. President Trump wants to end the pharmaceutical companies "freeloading" on the US consumer for their "innovations" (i.e., charging more to US customers to cover research & development costs for medications but offering those medications at lower prices to everyone else). The Fact Sheet cites President Trump's May 12, 2025 EO 14297(discussed in my May 13, 2025 ANP Article) which directed the Trump Administration to take actions to reduce the cost of medications to the US consumer. The Administration has been in discussions with pharmaceutical companies ever since (apparently not getting very far because President Trump had to issue letters to the companies).[RELATED: President Trump Gives ULTIMATUM to Big Pharma In Major Step to Reduce Drug Prices]
On July 31, 2025, the White House published President Trump's Nominations Sent to the Senatewith only one name:Edward Forst, of Florida, to be Administrator of General Services, vice Robin Carnahan, resigned.
While it has not been formally announced via a Presidential Action, President Trump announced during a press conference that the CMS Digital Health Tech Ecosystem is up and running, pulling together data from all participating medical insurance providers and other medical professionals into one system "for the benefit of the patient who will have control over their data."
Of course, and this is my opinion, you'll need either a login.gov or an ID.me account in order to access your own records and, supposedly, your health data will be stripped of identifiers (however, it's probably only name & address & SSN because birth date, sex, and other identifiers need to be included with the data so AI can usefully aggregate it).
And you know from an integrated health data base that the government HHS controls, it's a very simple step to then combine that data with other data the government has on you (driver's license, applications, military service, public assistance, student loans, VA loans, etc.) into one big database. And what will they do with all that information?
57 Presidential Orders, Memoranda, Determinations, Permits, and Notices
The Federal Register published two Presidential Proclamations on August 1, 2025 both were signed by President Trump on July 25, 2025 and discussed in my July 26, 2025 ANP Article.
298 active cases 12 suits filed by the Trump Administration
46 dismissed suits or appeals
14 SCOTUS stays or motions to vacate of lower court orders
1 SCOTUS affirmation of lower court order
7 suits where judges ruled for the federal government
22 suits where judges ruled against the federal government
Two lawsuits had their status updated on July 30, 2025:
1. Perlmutter v. Blanchedocket # 1:25-cv-01659 filed in District Court, District of Columbia on May 22, 2025 because the Trump administration fired herfrom her job as register of copyrights and director of the US copyright office. The Preliminary Injunction was denied. The lawsuit charged:Count I - Ultra Vires Violation of Constitutional and Statutory Authority (Appointment of Todd Blanche as Acting Librarian of Congress) (Against All Defendants) and Count II - U.S. Constitution Separation of Powers and Appointments Clause (Removal of Shira Perlmutter as Register of Copyrights) (Against All Defendants). Plaintiff has appealed to the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
2. Rona v. Trumpdocket # 1:25-cv-03114 filed in District Court, S.D. New York on April 15, 2025 because President Trump imposed sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC). A Permanent Injunction for all Defendants EXCEPT President Trump was grantedwhereDefendants are enjoined from enforcing IEEPA's civil or criminal penalty provisions against Plaintiffs. The lawsuit charged: COUNT I - Violation of the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution; COUNT II - Violation of the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution; and COUNT III - Ultra Vires Action under IEEPA, 50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.
Sec. 100101. Appropriation to the Administrative Office of the United States Courts. $1,250,000 for 2025 for continued analyses and reports to examine the state of the dockets of the courts and to prepare and transmit statistical data and reports as to the business of the courts, including an assessment of the number, frequency, and related metrics of judicial orders issuing non-party relief against the Federal Government and their aggregate cost impact on taxpayers.
Sec. 100102. Appropriation to the Federal Judicial Center. $1,000,000 in each fiscal year 2025 through 2028 for continued implementation of programs to stimulate, create, develop, and conduct programs of continuing education and training for personnel of the judicial branch, including training on the absence of constitutional and statutory authority supporting legal claims that seek non-party relief against the Federal Government, and strategic approaches for mitigating the aggregate cost impact of such legal claims on the taxpayers.
Sec. 100201. Extension of fund until December 31, 2028.
Sec. 100202. Claims relating to atmospheric testing. If you have a pending leukemia claim relating to Trinity Test in New Mexico and/or tests at the Nevada Test Site, you need to review this section very carefully. It changes dates and changes the payments.
My father-in-law got leukemia from working at the Nevada Test Site and we spent years filing claims for it. The government kept saying without documentation that he was working in the highly classified test site (which was not ever issued to non-government personnel) they kept denying the claim. Even though we had people from the government who worked with him say he worked there. Didn't count. He was not on the government's special list of workers at the test site and he wasn't on it. Even the lawyers were frustrated. He died and they closed the claim.
Sec. 100203. Claims relating to uranium mining. This applies to employees of mines and mills in Colorado, new Mexico, Arizona, Wyoming, South Dakota, Washington, Utah, Idaho, North Dakota, Oregon, or Texas between January 1, 1942 and December 31, 1990. For those employed as miners, this section adds "renal cancer or any other chronic renal disease, including nephritis and kidney tubal tissue injury" For millers, core drillers, and ore transporters this section strikes "renal cancers" and adds "renal cancer or any other chronic renal disease including nephritis and kidney tubal tissue injury." For those who were not solely miners, millers, core drillers, or ore transporters but held multiple of these jobs for at least 1 year, part (dd) wants written medical documentation that the individual developed lung cancer, a non-malignant respiratory disease, renal cancer, or any other chronic renal disease, including nephritis and kidney tubal tissue injury after exposure to radiation through work in one or more of the listed positions. This section also redefines a core driller as any individual employed to engage in the act or process of obtaining cylindrical rock samples of uranium or vanadium by means of a borehole drilling machine for the purpose of mining uranium or vanadium.
Sec. 100204. Claims relating to Manhattan Project waste adds a section 5A Claims Relating to Manhattan Project Waste starting 2 years after January 1, 1949, and claims must be submitted on or before December 31, 2028.
If you think this section affects you, there is a list of affected areas and diseases for which claims made be made in this section.
Sec. 100205. Limitations on claims extends the filing date to December 31, 2027.
Respect this founding, friend. It is your inheritance hard-won and fragile. Guard it well.
Today's Patriot is Benjamin Franklin who was born January 17, 1706 in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, Boston, Massachusetts. He went to school with the Clergy for 2 years. He attended Boston Latin School but did not graduate because he was pulled out of school at age 10 to work for his father. He became an apprentice to his brother, a printer, at age 12. At age 15, his brother founded the New-England Courant, the 3rd newspaper in Boston.
Benjamin's brother denied him a chance to write for the paper, so he became a middle-aged widow, Mrs. Silence Dogood. This lasted for quite some time before his brother discovered the deception. His brother was jailed for 3 weeks for publishing unflattering remarks about the governor in 1722 and Franklin had to manage the newspaper during that time.
At 17, Benjaminbecame a fugitive, leaving his brother's print shop and moving to Philadelphia but remained in the printing business. Pennsylvania Governor Sir William Keith promised Benjaminthat if he went to London to acquire the equipment, that Sir William would back his newspaper. So, he went to London, worked as a typesetter, discovered Sir William lied to him, and returned to Philadelphia in 1726. In 1727, Benjamin, at age 21, formed the Junto, aka the Leather Apron Club, comprised of aspiring artisans and tradesmen who wanted to improve both themselves and their community. Members created their own library, starting by donating their own books.
On September 1, 1730, Benjaminentered into a common-law marriage with Deborah Read Franklin and had 2 children together. Their son died at age 4 and their daughter eventually married Richard Bache. Why a common-law marriage, you might ask? Well, he asked to marry Deborah before he left for London. But he didn't write as often as the family expected, so Deborah's mother married her off to a potter who married her, got her pregnant, and left with her dowery to Barbados to avoid debts and prosecution. Since they could not prove the potter was dead, she could not remarry officially. Deborah died December 14, 1774 while Franklin was in Great Britain. He did acknowledge an illegitimate son (born February 22, 1730) but the mother's identity was unknown. Franklin and Deborah raised him along with their other children.
In 1731, Benjaminsuggested a "subscription library" (where members pooled their money to buy books) which was well received and became the Library Company of Philadelphia. In 1728, Benjaminwent into partnership with Hugh Meredith and a year later became publisher of The Pennsylvania Gazette. In 1730/31 he was initiated into the local Masonic Lodge becoming a grand master in 1734 and served as secretary of St. John's Lodge in Philadelphia from 1735 to 1738. From 1737 to 1753, Benjamin was appointed postmaster of Philadelphia.
Benjamin's political career truly began in 1757 when he was sent to England by the Pennsylvania Assembly where he remained 5 years but failed in his mission to protest against the Penn family. In 1764 he was elected Speaker of the Pennsylvania House but lost the seat at the next election. He opposed the 1765 Stamp Act but was unable to stop its passage. His testimony against the act is said to have lead to its repeal. He made many trips to london between 1757 and 1775.
In 1756, Benjamin became a member of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce (now the Royal Society of Arts) founded in 1754. The society created a Benjamin Franklin Medal in 1956. In 1776 he was chosen as delegate to the 2nd Continental Congress where he was appointed a member of the Committee of Five that drafted the Declaration of Independence.
There is too much to be said about Benjamin for a short article such as this. Suffice it to say he was very politically active in his adult years and traveled from the Colonies to the Continent very often. In addition, he was a prolific inventor and writer.
While Benjamin was plagued with many health issues, including gout, his health worsened after he signed the US Constitution in 1787. Benjamin died of a pleuritic attack (pleuritis) on April 17, 1790 at age 84 in his home. His daughter was with him. He is interred in Christ Church Burial Ground in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Those are some of the exact words used by Googles censors, aka 'Orwelliancontent police,' in describing many of our controversial stories.Stories later proven to be truthful and light years ahead of the mainstream media. But because we reported those 'inconvenient truths' they're trying to bankrupt ANP.
