内容摘要：But a spokesperson for the Railroad Retirement Board expressed concern over the upcoming lease cancellations of its offices in Joliet, Illinois, and eight other states, saying it was working to “maintain a public-facing office presence for the local railroad community.”

But a spokesperson for the Railroad Retirement Board expressed concern over the upcoming lease cancellations of its offices in Joliet, Illinois, and eight other states, saying it was working to “maintain a public-facing office presence for the local railroad community.”

“What’s really remarkable is the first quarter contracts that we have signed are the highest rate in the last 10 years,” Wormuth said. “We are going like gangbusters, which is terrific.”Some on social media have given Trump and Hegseth sole credit for the improving numbers, this week citing a Fox News graphic that aired Tuesday during a

with Hegseth. The graphic compared cumulative recruitment numbers for the first two months of the current fiscal year with those of the first five months.“Holy smokes. Military recruitment is THROUGH THE ROOF,” reads one X post sharing the Fox graphic. “Absolutely smashing every goal. This is what happens when you have strong leadership.”Kuzminski noted there’s no data to back up whether Trump’s election had been a factor in the most recent increase in recruiting numbers.

“We can’t rule out that for some people it was a factor, but the real way to get around that would be to actually do more qualitative surveys or interviews like,” she said.The Department of Defense did not respond to a request for comment beyond providing numbers around recruitment.

, published in January, does not list politics among the top reasons for either joining or not joining the military.

The survey polled youth ages 16-21. Fifty-three percent of respondents listed “pay/money” in response to the question, “If you were to consider joining the U.S. Military, what would be the main reason(s)?”The destruction, she said, is “driving these large numbers of people closer towards the famine numbers that we think are possible.”

Follow AP’s war coverage atAP correspondents Wafaa Shurafa in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Samy Magdy in Cairo and Sarah El Deeb in Beirut contributed to this report.

, the real estate developer turned commander in chief, is laying bare his style of diplomacy in the early weeks of his new term: It’s a whole lot like a high-stakes business deal, and his No. 1 goal is to come out of the transaction on top.The tactics are clear in his