A third Biden aid pleads the fifth during a closed door deposition. Congress sends the $9 billion

clawback bill to the president's desk and Puerto Rico bans transgender medical procedures on minors.

I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire executive editor John Bickley. It's Friday, July 18th, and this is Morning

Wire. Yet another former White House aide is pleading the fifth. During a closed-door deposition today,

Biden Deputy Chief of Staff Annie Tomasini declined to answer questions about the president's

mental fitness, classified documents, and the Biden's family business dealings.

House oversight chair James Comer said her silence fits a pattern of Biden confidence shielding

themselves from criminal liability. Tomasini is the third ex-white House official to plead

the fifth. She initially agreed to testify voluntarily but later reverse course and asked to be subpoenaed.

Three L.A. Sheriff's deputies were killed this morning in an explosion at a training center.

Aerial footage from a Sheriff Department training facility in East L.A. showed damage to the

rear windshield of what appears to be a bomb squad truck.

Three deputies were killed in the blast,

and a fourth was wounded and transported to a hospital. Authorities have not yet disclosed the

cause of the explosion. The $9 billion rescission package is on its way to the president's desk

after the House passed it just after midnight this morning. Daily Wire Deputy Managing

editor Tim Rice has more.

The measure passed in a close 216 to 213 vote.

Two Republicans joined Democrats in opposition.

It claws back $8 billion from the U.S. Agency for International Development

and $1 billion from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

Democrats accused the GOP of gutting

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