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October 01, 2025 4:11 PM ET House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries sidestepped a question Thursday about withholding his paychecks during the federal government shutdown, claiming that the shutdown would not last long enough for him to have to make a decision. Jeffries said the members of Congress themselves would be able to make the choice

October 01, 2025 3:41 PM ET Democratic Maine Rep. Jared Golden said Wednesday that the government shutdown has been “driven” by the “demands” of “far-left groups.” Golden was the sole Democrat to vote in favor of House Republicans’ stopgap funding plan on Sept. 19 . The congressman’s comments come after Senate Democrats blocked a GOP spending

October 01, 2025 3:29 PM ET No one plays the “blame game” better than the Washington Post. President Donald Trump’s foreign aid pause “stranded lifesaving drugs,” the Washington Post claims. “Children died waiting.” A fairly accusatory account of events. To “strand” someone or something is malevolently connoted. The Washington Post suggests Trump, and the taxpayer

October 01, 2025 2:57 PM ET White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told the Daily Caller that federal layoffs as a result of the government shutdown are “imminent.” The federal government shut down at midnight on Wednesday, after  Congress failed to pass a stopgap funding bill before its deadline. Prior to the shutdown, the White

October 01, 2025 1:36 PM ET Former Vice President Kamala Harris appeared to make an error about transgender murders in her new book. Harris published a book in September titled “107 Days,” which detailed her short time on the campaign trail. Harris writes that 350 transgender individuals were murdered in America during 2024. Fifteen of

September 29, 2025 9:09 PM ET YouTube agreed Monday to pay President Donald Trump $24.5 million to settle a lawsuit in which he accused the platform of censoring him and others after Jan. 6, 2021. Trump in July 2021 filed a class-action lawsuit against Google, Meta, and what was then Twitter and its CEOs, alleging

September 29, 2025 9:09 PM ET YouTube agreed Monday to pay President Donald Trump $24.5 million to settle a lawsuit in which he accused the platform of censoring him and others after Jan. 6, 2021. Trump in July 2021 filed a class-action lawsuit against Google, Meta, and what was then Twitter and its CEOs, alleging

September 25, 2025 6:55 PM ET Former FBI Director James Comey has been indicted on two of three counts Thursday by the Department of Justice, according to multiple outlets. According to ABC News, the former official is charged with one count of making false statements and one count of obstruction of justice. This is a

September 25, 2025 3:46 PM ET Democratic U.S. Senate candidates running in several key races across the country are publicly distancing themselves from Democratic Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer, The Washington Post reported on Thursday. From Maine to Texas, many Democratic Senate hopefuls are sharply critical of Schumer — who has held elected office since 1975

September 25, 2025 1:17 PM ET Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s defense of joining with Republicans to fund the government in March could come back to haunt him as Democrats careen toward a shutdown despite far-reaching consequences for the very Americans he previously argued would suffer from a lapse of funding. The White House Office