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Swalwell: Senate DHS Bill Lets Us ‘Strip Out’ ‘Domestic Terror Unit’ ICE ‘From the Root to the Branch’

On Friday’s broadcast of MS NOW’s “Chris Jansing Reports,” California gubernatorial candidate Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) said that President Donald Trump “won’t pay the people who are keeping us safe because he wants to fund his own domestic terror unit,”
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White House slams ‘trash reporting’ over claims ICE chief hospitalized for stress, yelled at by Trump admin

The White House pushed back hard Friday against a news report that Todd Lyons, the acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), had been hospitalized at least twice for stress-related issues with the Trump administration that left him visibly upset and strained. The pushback came after a Politico report said Lyons was hospitalized at least twice while carrying out President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda.

WATCH: Trump goes viral for illustrating how to cut government waste with his favorite White House pen

President Donald Trump turned heads again this week for a viral Cabinet meeting tangent about a favorite custom White House Sharpie. He said the marker is an example of how he can get “better” results for less cost.The president brought up the pen while criticizing Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell over a new headquarters, which he said costs the government $4 billion.

Honor the Plumbers 

That we now have a cabinet secretary who is a plumber is something to be welcomed rather than mocked.

DHS shutdown breakthrough comes at cost for Republicans as funding fights nears end

Congress is one step closer to ending the Homeland Security shutdown after the Senate advanced a new, last-minute deal, but it came at the price of Republicans ceding ground, temporarily, to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.The Senate unanimously advanced a deal to reopen most of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in the wee hours of Friday morning, 42 days into the shutdown that was spurred by the Trump administration’s immigration operations in Minnesota.

Appeals court pauses orders limiting federal agents’ use of tear gas at protests near Portland ICE building

An appeals court paused a pair of lower court rulings in Oregon that restricted federal agents’ use of tear gas and other crowd-control munitions during protests outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in Portland.The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit granted the Trump administration’s request for temporary administrative stays in two cases in a 2-1 ruling.

Experts Warn of Growing Stockpile Vulnerability Among U.S. Allies, Despite over 90% Iranian Missiles Intercepted

While more than 90 percent of Iranian missiles and drones have been intercepted by the United States, Israel, and allied forces, experts are reportedly warning that the cost of defense is quietly draining allied stockpiles across the region.
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Schumer, Dems block DHS funding again as Trump intervenes to pay TSA agents

The Senate was again unable to end the Homeland Security shutdown on Thursday despite signs of a possible breakthrough to end the long-running closure, which prompted President Donald Trump to make a move. Senate Democrats blocked Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding for a seventh time as the partial shutdown entered its 41st day on Thursday after Senate Republicans made a new offer earlier in the day after late-night negotiations.

Exclusive – Sen. Cotton: U.S. Must Recognize China Is ‘Evil Empire’ Scheming to ‘Dominate the World’

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) compared President Ronald Reagan’s characterization of the Soviet Union to the reality of modern-day China, telling Breitbart News that the country is an “evil empire” and calling President Xi Jinping a “Marxist.”
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Elon Musk demands judge’s recusal after latest flare-up over alleged bias

Elon Musk demanded on Wednesday that a Delaware judge recuse herself from Tesla lawsuits, arguing she recently demonstrated her bias against him when she liked an anti-Musk LinkedIn post. Musk’s lawyers filed a motion for recusal in Delaware’s Court of Chancery, which included a screenshot of Judge Kathaleen McCormick liking the social media post celebrating Musk’s $2 billion court loss in a separate case.

Trump declares national emergency at airports, to sign order instructing DHS to ‘immediately pay’ TSA officers

President Donald Trump said he will sign an executive order to address airport disruptions, announcing the move in a Truth Social post Thursday that framed the situation as a national emergency.”Because the Democrats have recklessly created a true National Crisis, I am using my authorities under the Law to protect our Great Country,” Trump wrote.