JD Vance wants to end the US dollar's position as a global reserve currency, because he thinks it allows Americans to consume too much and do so too cheaply. Keep that in mind the next time you order a $20 burrito on door dash.

On this day in 1941, St. Maximilian Kolbe, a great Catholic priest, died in Auschwitz. When a husband and father was selected to be placed in a starvation chamber and cried out for his family, St. Maximilian volunteered to take his place. Once inside the starvation chamber, he led the condemned men in prayer and singing, surviving for more than two weeks without food or water.  Today, we celebrate his feast as a triumph over death and evil.

“Unfortunately you have the Californias and the New Yorks of the world who seem to want their states to be defrauded by the fraudsters, but we can’t let that happen. It’s gone on for too long, and the president has asked us to stop it. We’re finally taking it seriously.” — VP