Kitchen Briefs - April 29, 2026 AM

• Congress is hearing from Secretary Hegseth who is defending his $1.5T budget
• 5 more people have been killed in Lebanon from Israeli attacks
• Iran has been trying to get around sanctions by using Crypto and now Trump has frozen $344M in crypto assets
• The Supreme Court has tossed out Louisiana’s contested congressional map as an unconstitutional gerrymandering
• California Congressman Robert Garcia has announced a civil contempt resolution for former Attorney General Pam Bondi for her failure to comply when subpoenaed
• ICE agent Jonathon Ross who killed Renee Good has been moved to another state to do his job
• A new poll shows that Democrats are stressed out by the news but still won’t look away
• Another new poll shows that Americans think Republicans are more of a threat to free speech than Democrats
• The CDC is warning of a new strain of salmonella that is antibiotic resistant and it’s linked to backyard poultry
• Today in 1945 US soldiers liberated Dachau
• California Gubernatorial Debate - takeaways are that Sheriff Chad Bianco is not only not qualified but a bad human and Tony Thurmond, Xavier becerra and Matt Mahan all put him in his place