Two federal judges on Friday ordered the Trump administration to unlock emergency reserve funds to cover food stamp benefits for tens of millions of Americans in November. The rulings were a direct rebuke to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s claim that it could not access the money during the ongoing government shutdown, CNN reported. Judges in … Read more

Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) issued an apology Thursday on behalf of Senate Democrats for their failure to vote to end the ongoing government shutdown. In an interview with CNN’s Manu Raju, Fetterman expressed frustration that federal workers remain unpaid and that many families may struggle to feed their children as Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) … Read more

Democrats have spent the last several weeks of the Schumer Shutdown claiming the USDA has contingency funding it could use to keep food stamp benefits flowing beyond Nov. 1. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) made that argument again Wednesday, saying the administration “has the funding to make sure that not a single American on … Read more

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has apologized to U.S. President Donald Trump over a political advertisement that invoked former President Ronald Reagan’s comments on tariffs. The ad, which aired on major American television networks earlier this month, sparked backlash for its use of Reagan’s 1987 radio address on trade barriers. In that speech, Reagan warned … Read more

A federal judge on Friday ruled that the Trump administration cannot enforce an executive order requiring documentary proof of U.S. citizenship on federal voter registration forms, declaring the policy an ‘unconstitutional’ overreach of presidential authority. U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly in Washington, D.C., sided with the Democratic National Committee and several purported civil rights groups … Read more

President Trump on Thursday urged Senate Republicans to invoke the “nuclear option” — a rules change that would allow legislation to pass with a simple majority vote — in order to bring an end to the 30-day government shutdown. “It is now time for the Republicans to play their ‘TRUMP CARD,’ and go for what … Read more

Politics Commentary Former White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre faced an unexpectedly turbulent interview on MSNBC over the weekend, and for many viewers, it was symbolic of the broader dysfunction that has come to define the Biden presidency. Once regarded as a safe haven for Democratic figures, MSNBC offered no such comfort this time. Jean-Pierre’s … Read more

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced Friday that the Department of Defense is moving “quickly” to implement President Donald Trump’s directive to resume nuclear-weapons testing. Hegseth told reporters during a meeting with the ASEAN Secretary-General in Washington that the directive is a necessary step to ensure America maintains the “strongest, most capable nuclear arsenal” in … Read more

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) just hit a new low — even by Democrat standards. In a shameless political stunt, he’s using kids who just want to go trick-or-treating as props to attack ICE agents for doing their jobs in Chicago. It’s the kind of cheap grandstanding we’ve come to expect from the left: demonize … Read more

There’s an easy way to see who’s really responsible for the Schumer shutdown: just look at the media coverage. Despite Democrats’ efforts to blame Republicans — who currently hold the House, Senate, and White House — the usual wave of sympathetic media stories about suffering federal workers has been conspicuously absent. The press has gone … Read more