Questions

DIRECTIONS: Decide whether the bolded section is true or false. Write TRUE or FALSE next to each statement, then rewrite each false bolded statement to make it true.

1. The three Israeli hostages released on Saturday by the Hamas terrorists in Gaza were severely emaciated. They had been starved by the Hamas terrorists, who all appear equally emaciated and malnourished.

2. Before they were they were handed over to the Red Cross, the hostages were paraded by the Hamas terrorists on a stage in front of thousands of Palestinians in an effort to further demean and humiliate them.

3. In an interview with Maria Bartiromo of Fox Business, White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller noted: "Other nations use VAT tax to get an unfair trade advantage against us." He said, for example, every American car sold to Europe pays a 3% tax. But every European car coming into the U.S. pays 2.5% to 0%.

4. When discussing the federal agencies and the bureaucrats who run them, Miller said rogue bureaucrats are "elected by no one, answer to no one...who we will be told can never be fired." He then noted that President Trumps's mandate from the American people is to "Retain the status quo."

5. After Hamas violated the cease-fire agreement with Israel by announcing it was ordering a halt to the agreed to hostage exchanges for Saturday, Prime Minister Netanyahu warned: Release all 31 living hostages, (and the bodies of the 36 killed) by noon Saturday, or Israel will resume "intense fighting until Hamas is finally defeated.”

6. President Trump also called a day earlier for Hamas to free every hostage by 12 noon on Saturday or “let hell break loose” and he also said he would leave the final decision to Israel, giving them the ability to do what they thought best to do.

7. Discussing DOGE team findings in several federal agencies, Elon Musk noted that there are quite a few people in the bureaucracy at USAID who have a salary of a few hundred thousand dollars but somehow managed to accrue tens of millions of dollars in net worth while they worked there.

8. Mr. Musk asked: if we have rule of the bureaucrats - if the bureaucracy is in charge - then what meaning does democracy actually have? He noted that we need an autonomous federal bureaucracy, not a responsive bureaucracy.

9. Musk also noted that the DOGE team discovered that there are people who are 50 years old now receiving social security. Also, there are "a whole bunch of Social Security payments where there’s no identifiable information."

10. Abraham Lincoln, our 16th president, was known as Truthful Abe and the Great Emancipator.