The U.S. House of Representatives yesterday defeated an amendment, 6-421, proposed by Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene to the 2026 defense spending bill that sought to cut $500 million from the Taiwan Security Cooperation Initiative, a program aimed at deterring potential aggression from China, according to a report by Craig Caplan. In other news, former President Donald Trump referred to Ben Carson as "an enigma" during an event in Fort Dodge, Iowa, on November 12, 2015. This specific word choice has been noted as unique for Trump, with an analysis by Grok indicating no prior record of him using the term "enigma" in his public statements or writings, as reported by Thiss_Youu.
