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. Along with others including the Secretaries of Transportation and the Interior, President Trump announced the first ever Nascar race to be held on the streets of DC this summer during the celebration of America’s 250th birthday.

2. DC's Democratic Mayor Muriel Bowser is enthused about the race because it will greatly benefit the city economically, and also show the sports fans who attend all of the wonderful things DC has to offer visitors.

3. President Trump announced this week the creation of a strategic critical minerals reserve to be used by American manufacturers is the first-ever stockpile of the critical minerals “for civilian use in times of emergency.”

4. With the creation of the strategic reserve, American businesses will no longer be at the mercy of Iran, which controls approximately 70% of rare earth minerals. Automotive, defense, and tech industries need rare earth minerals to make their products.

5. The Director of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Dr. Mehmet Oz, while announcing investigations into hospice fraud in California, noted that 18% of home healthcare billing nationwide is coming from one county in California - Los Angeles County.

6. Rules overseeing hospice companies that make it easier for criminals to commit fraud include the facts that there is no limit on the number of hospices an individual can own and hospice business applicants must be U.S. citizens living in the city where their business is located.

7. The FBI and LVPD raided an alleged illegal biolab in a house in Las Vegas on Saturday following a tip from the homeowner.

8. The owner of the Vegas house is Chinese national Jia Bei Zhu with ties to the Chinese Communist Party, who is currently in federal custody following the discovery of an unauthorized biolab operating out of his house in Reedley, California in 2023.

9. Mike Rowe supports the skilled trades as a career path, noting that they offer stable, high-paying careers without massive student debt. In a recent interview, Rowe said there are currently hundreds of thousands of job openings in the manufacturing industry.

10. Rowe said a couple of million new jobs will be created in manufacturing over the next couple of years if President Trump succeeds in his reshoring efforts.  He noted that the jobs least likely to be disrupted by AI include welders, electricians, steamfitters, pipe-fitters and energy workers.