Daily Business Report: Friday, July 25 2025
In-N-Out Burger Owner Latest CEO to Leave California: ‘It’s Tough Here’
By Tom Ozimek | The Epoch Times
As In-N-Out Burger prepares to open restaurants and a corporate office in Tennessee, owner and CEO Lynsi Snyder says she and her family will relocate from California.
In a message posted on social media on July 22, Snyder said California is a “tough” place to live and do business in, though she clarified that the company’s corporate headquarters would not be moving out of the state, nor would any In-N-Out restaurants be shut down.
“In addition to our Baldwin Park office, we’re expanding with an eastern territory office in Tennessee to support our growth,” she said. “We’re not leaving California or leaving our roots behind. Each one of our locations is here to stay.”
The Learning Curve: Trump Admin Unfreezes (Some) Education Funding
By Jakob McWhinney | Voice of San Diego
The Trump administration late last week announced they would unfreeze a portion of the nearly $7 billion in education grants they’d frozen the day before they were set to be released. The restored grants support summer and after-school programming at schools. Money for everything from migrant education to English learner instruction to teacher training still remains in limbo.
The unfrozen funds only account for a small amount of the total grants California education officials argue are being illegally withheld by the Trump administration. Of the $50 million withheld from San Diego County schools, Trump’s latest move restores about $14 million. No Imperial County school received the funding, meaning the entirety of the nearly $10 million withheld from them remains frozen.
That means schools in both counties are still without nearly $46 million in combined funding they’d already included in their budgets for the coming school year. There’s no timeline, or indication, that the feds will budge on the remaining funds.
A Russia ‘Collusion’ (and Clinton) Reckoning
By Kim Strassel | Wall Street Joural
The 2016 election will be remembered both for the rise of Donald Trump, and for the unprecedented law-enforcement and intelligence-community interference in the electoral process.
Washington this week released new information regarding two of the worst examples of that meddling—the infamous Russia “collusion” hoax, and the FBI’s politicized investigation of Hillary Clinton’s off-grid server. The documents offer enough details and redactions to keep internet sleuths busy for months, but disclosures in sum present one damning takeaway: Senior officials in the Barack Obamaadministration and Democratic Party engaged in shameless dirty tricks, with fallout that continues to roil the country and sow distrust in the political process even now.
