He solicitado licencia a la Presidencia Municipal de Escobedo para participar en el proceso de selección del Coordinador Estatal de la Defensa de la Transformación en Nuevo León.

No se trata de un trámite político. Se trata de una convicción sobre cómo debe ejercerse el servicio público.

Gobernar una ciudad exige dedicación absoluta. Defender y organizar un proyecto que aterrice a cabalidad el Plan México de la Cuarta Transformación para todo un estado también. Ambas responsabilidades merecen el cien por ciento del tiempo, del esfuerzo y de la atención de quien las asume.

Por eso decidí pedir licencia.

También porque comparto una idea expresada por la Presidenta de México, la Dra. Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo: los recursos públicos son para servir al pueblo. Si la tarea que quiero emprender es política, debe realizarse con trabajo político, no con recursos gubernamentales.

Pedir licencia significa dejar absoluta claridad de que no habrá un solo recurso público, ni un solo minuto de trabajo institucional, destinado a la tarea de defender la transformación en Nuevo León. Los recursos públicos son para atender las necesidades de la gente y para impulsar el desarrollo de Nuevo León.

Creo que la transformación merece ser defendida en Nuevo León porque, a diferencia de lo que a veces se afirma, no es una idea ajena a nuestra historia. Durante años, con mala fe, se ha querido presentar a Nuevo León como una tierra definida exclusivamente por la producción y los negocios. Pero nuestra historia cuenta algo más profundo.

Mariano Escobedo entendió que el progreso requería instituciones fuertes y compromiso con la República. Décadas después, Eugenio Garza Sada impulsó una visión empresarial donde el crecimiento económico caminaba de la mano con la responsabilidad social.

Las empresas, universidades y comunidades que construyeron la grandeza de Nuevo León entendieron una verdad sencilla: ninguna economía es verdaderamente fuerte si no fortalece también a su sociedad. En ese sentido, el premio Nobel de economía, Douglass North mostró que las sociedades prosperan cuando construyen instituciones capaces de generar confianza, cooperación y certidumbre de largo plazo.

Por eso me parece equivocado plantear una contradicción entre la identidad de Nuevo León y la transformación. La transformación forma parte de nuestra historia. Cada generación de nuevoleoneses ha transformado su realidad: construyendo instituciones, creando industria, formando talento, abriendo mercados y modernizando la economía. Lo que cambian son las circunstancias; lo que permanece es la voluntad de avanzar y de transformar.

Hoy esa tarea pasa por aprovechar una oportunidad histórica. La Dra. Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo ha planteado una ruta nacional basada en el Crecimiento Equitativo y en el Plan México. Nuevo León no debe quedar al margen de ese esfuerzo; debe convertirse en uno de sus principales motores.

Defender la transformación en Nuevo León significa defender más inversión, más empleos, más infraestructura, más seguridad y más oportunidades. Significa, entonces, fortalecer la coordinación entre Federación, estado, municipios, universidades, sociedad civil y sector privado para pasar de tener problemas comunes a construir soluciones comunes.

Y también significa entender algo fundamental. Durante demasiado tiempo se nos ha querido hacer creer que Nuevo León y México avanzan por caminos separados. Es un error. Nuevo León es más fuerte cuando México es más fuerte. Y México es más fuerte cuando Nuevo León aporta su talento, su innovación y su capacidad productiva al desarrollo nacional.

No existe contradicción entre defender a Nuevo León y contribuir al fortalecimiento de México. Al contrario, una cosa depende de la otra. Hay orgullo en construir un Nuevo León más fuerte. Pero también debería haber orgullo en que la fuerza de Nuevo León contribuya a hacer más fuerte a México.

Por eso he decidido dedicar de tiempo completo mis esfuerzos a defender esta visión. No porque la transformación sea ajena a Nuevo León. Sino precisamente porque la idea de Transformación forma parte de nuestro ADN, valores y la mejor tradición de un progreso compartido, al que yo me atrevo a denominar: Capitalismo Humanista.

* Andrés Mijes Llovera es Alcalde del Municipio de General Escobedo en Nuevo León

Congress returns facing looming deadlines, unfinished business and internal Republican divisions as the midterm elections draw closer.

Lawmakers left Washington ahead of Memorial Day on the cusp of passing a massive immigration enforcement funding package. Doing so would have allowed Republicans to tackle other outstanding priorities.

Instead, the budget reconciliation process — which Republicans planned to use to funnel roughly $72 billion to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol — stalled after a surprise move by the Trump administration exposed deep divisions within the GOP. 

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Now, the setback in the reconciliation process threatens to further push back other key agenda items, including the fast-approaching deadline to reauthorize a critical spy law, a colossal defense policy bill and a potential affordability-focused legislative package.

The Senate is currently stuck on the reconciliation package after the Department of Justice unveiled its nearly $2 billion «anti-weaponization» fund geared to provide payouts to those who feel wronged by the government. 

Senate Republicans erupted over the fund during a closed-door meeting with acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, demanding answers on whether people convicted of assaulting police officers during the riots of Jan. 6, 2021, would be allowed to get access to the taxpayer-funded money. 

Little has changed between the Senate GOP and administration since then, with Republicans putting the onus of dealing with the issue onto the White House.

«The administration appreciated last week’s conversation and feedback,» a White House official told Fox News Digital. «We look forward to additional conversations as needed.»

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The House is expected to take up the budget reconciliation bill upon Senate passage. 

But with no clear path forward, other pressing issues are beginning to crowd the congressional calendar.

Congress will soon have to address the looming June 12 deadline to reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). It’s a fight that lawmakers have punted on twice now over bipartisan demands for reforms to the program, despite the Trump administration pushing for a clean reauthorization. 

The spy law fight is one of the few horseshoe issues in Congress that blends Democrats and conservatives in a push for stronger privacy protections. While Section 702 allows the government to spy on foreign nationals abroad, there’s nothing in the law to prevent it from collecting data on Americans if they’re ensnared in those communications. 

House conservatives are seeking reforms that would require warrants to surveil Americans’ communications, close loopholes allowing the government to buy sensitive data from brokers without a warrant, and curb overly broad authorities permitting the incidental collection of information, according to a source familiar with the discussions.

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Congress returns facing looming deadlines, unfinished business and internal Republican divisions as the midterm elections draw closer. (Heather Diehl/Getty Images)

GOP privacy hawks in the Senate, including Sens. Mike Lee, R-Utah, and Rick Scott, R-Fla., are expected to push for similar priorities in the upper chamber.

Meanwhile, in the House, Democrats are likely to force a vote to rein in the president’s Iran war powers that could pass with modest GOP support. House GOP leadership shelved a war powers vote last week amid poor attendance from Republicans.

Democrats are also expected to trigger a vote on legislation authorizing $1.3 billion in military aid to Ukraine and levy new sanctions on the Russian war effort. The measure faces an uphill battle to become law due to expected opposition from Republican leadership and the Trump administration.

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., is also facing pressure from a swath of House Republicans to get the ball rolling on a third budget reconciliation package ahead of the midterm elections.

Rep. August Pfluger, R-Texas, told Fox News Digital that GOP lawmakers are having «great meetings» and he expects the conference to pass another budget reconciliation package by the end of July. 

Pfluger’s Republican Study Committee has consistently advocated for a package focused on affordability issues across the housing, energy and healthcare sectors. Enthusiasm for a third reconciliation bill has been less pronounced in the Senate. 

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Congress is also beginning to make moves with the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), the colossal package that would open up $1.15 trillion to fund the Pentagon. It’s an annual must-pass piece of legislation that could be slowed by the more pressing fights on the Hill.

Several lingering issues facing Congress come as time is dwindling to complete work before the midterm elections. Lawmakers will be gone for their typical August recess, but will also have almost the entirety of October off to campaign. 

That means that the next few weeks will be crucial, particularly for Republicans, who are trying to pass any outstanding parts of President Donald Trump’s agenda.

U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) announced that it carried out «self-defense strikes» against Iran over the weekend.

«U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) conducted self-defense strikes on Iranian radar and command and control sites for drones in Goruk, Iran and Qeshm Island this weekend,» a press release noted.

«The measured and deliberate strikes occurred on Saturday and Sunday in response to aggressive Iranian actions that included the shootdown of a U.S. MQ-1 drone that was operating over international waters. U.S. fighter aircraft swiftly responded by eliminating Iranian air defenses, a ground control station, and two one-way attack drones that posed clear threats to ships transiting regional waters,» CENTCOM continued.

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«No American service members were harmed. CENTCOM will continue to protect U.S. assets and interests in response to unwarranted Iranian aggression during the ongoing ceasefire,» the release added.

The Associated Press reported that Kuwait noted its air defenses opened fire on Monday to intercept drone and missile attacks. Around the same time, Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard said it responded to an American attack without saying where, likely referring to the attack on Kuwait. The Guard, via a statement reported by the state-run IRNA news agency, indicated that America targeted a telecommunications tower, according to the AP.

Asserting that Iran «really wants» to strike an agreement, President Donald Trump declared in a Monday morning Truth Social post that chattering critics are making it more difficult for him to negotiate. 

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He urged people to «sit back and relax,» claiming that the issue will ultimately turn out «well.»

«Iran really wants to make a deal, and it will be a good one for the U.S.A. and those that are with us. But don’t the Dumocrats, and various seemingly unpatriotic Republicans, understand that it is MUCH tougher for me to properly do my job and negotiate, when political hacks keep negatively ‘chirping,’ at levels never seen before, over and over again, that I should move faster, or move slower, or go to war, or not go to war, or whatever,» he declared in a Truth Social post early on Monday.

«Just sit back and relax, it will all work out well in the end – It always does!» he declared.

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U.S. President Donald Trump looks on during a swearing in ceremony for new Chairman of the Federal Reserve Kevin Warsh in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C. on May 22, 2026.  (Aaron Schwartz / AFP via Getty Images)

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The U.S. is continuing to conduct a blockade against Iran.

«U.S. forces operating in the Gulf of Oman enforced blockade measures by disabling a Gambia-flagged maritime vessel attempting to sail toward an Iranian port, May 29,» CENTCOM announced in a Saturday press release.

The Associated Press contributed to this report