Good morning. Here is what matters today, in five.
1. Democrats vow to rein in ICE. ICE already got paid. Incoming Democrats promise body cameras, no masks and tougher oversight for immigration agents, but Congress already handed ICE and Border Patrol about $240 billion, enough to run deportations for the rest of Trump’s term, and Trump says he would welcome the nickname “Mr. Veto” via WGCU (NPR).
“Abolish ICE” turns out to come with a $240 billion non-refundable deposit.
2. IRS inflation relief: about $11 a month. The IRS’s new inflation adjustments, announced Nov. 5, save a married couple earning the national median of about $87,500 roughly $136 next year, or $11 a month, by Center Square economist Orphe Divounguy’s math. Higher prices swallow the rest via The Center Square.
3. NYC pays $192K principal for a school that doesn’t exist. New York City is paying a former East Harlem vice principal $192,374 to run Next Generation Technology High School, an AI-focused school the city scrapped in April after activists attacked its merit-based admissions. He still draws principal pay via the New York Post.
Finally, a New York public school with no dropouts, no fights and no students.
4. Congresswoman-elect’s first stop: felony court over a rental car. LaKesha Womack, the Democrat who flipped North Carolina’s 14th District, is due in a Mecklenburg County courtroom Tuesday on a felony charge of failing to return a $20,000 rental Corolla. The summons dates to 2020 and was served three weeks before Election Day via the Washington Free Beacon.
5. Cartel boss “R2” caught with DEA help. Mexican marines, acting on DEA intelligence, arrested Rafael Alvarez, alias “R2,” the alleged head of a Jalisco New Generation Cartel extortion cell, in Zapopan on Sunday along with 19 others. He is wanted for extradition to the United States via Al Jazeera.
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