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YouTube bends knee to Trump in fight over cancellation of his access to social media

President Donald Trump already has won a $16 million settlement from Paramount for a “60 Minutes” interview with then-candidate Kamala Harris that was charged with being, essentially, a campaign ad for the Democrat.

And he’s collecting $15 million from ABC because George Stephanopoulos falsely claimed a jury found Trump liable for rape, when it didn’t.

Now he’s getting another payout, this time from YouTube for its censorship scheme that deprived Trump of access to some social media opportunities.

The amount is $24.5 million.

Breaking: YouTube has agreed to pay $24.5 million to settle President Trump’s 2021 lawsuit over the suspension of his account https://t.co/zUeyamByuV

— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) September 29, 2025

It is the Gateway Pundit that said Trump has sued the company for canceling his access in January 2021.

Trump’s censorship claims actually also included Twitter and Facebook.

“We’re demanding an end to the shadow-banning, a stop to the silencing and a stop to the blacklisting, banishing and canceling that you know so well,” Trump said in July 2021. “I am confident that we will achieve a historic victory for American freedom and at the same time freedom of speech.”

A report in the Wall Street Journal said YouTube agreed to the $24.5 million payment after Meta said it would pay $25 million and Twitter, now X, agreed to pay $10 million.

The Gateway Pundit said the settlement makes YouTube, which is owned by Alphabet’s Google, “the final Big Tech company to settle a trio of lawsuits Trump brought against social-media platforms in the months after he left the White House.”

Some of the payments have gone for Trump’s presidential library, others have gone directly to him.

 

Censored! Tucker Carlson stunned as Wikipedia founder goes through blacklisted news organizations

Daily Caller News Foundation co-founder Tucker Carlson expressed amazement on “The Tucker Carlson Show” Monday as Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger guided him through the site’s blacklist.

Wikipedia has a “perennial sources” page which categorizes sources based on how reliable they supposedly are, based on “public discussion and consensus.” Sanger told Carlson on his show how to find the list and informed him as he searched for it that The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, The Nation, Mother Jones and GLAAD were among those with approval from Wikipedia.

WATCH:

“Come on!” Carlson exclaimed, laughing.

“These are all green lit, fully green lit,” Sanger said. The Wikipedia co-founder then read some of the “blacklisted” sources, including Breitbart News, the Daily Caller, The Epoch Times, Fox News, the New York Post and The Federalist.

“So, you can’t use those as sources on Wikipedia,” Sanger said.

“Oh, wow,” Carlson said as he looked at the list on his phone. Sanger explained the color coding.

“Red means it’s blacklisted,” he said. “You cannot cite it as a source of facts, maybe as a source of opinion, but generally that works out.”

Carlson read out loud that Blaze News, Catholic-Hierarchy.org, CounterPunch and the Caller were coded red. He told Sanger he founded the Caller but has “nothing to do with it now.”

“That’s interesting,” Carlson said while looking at his phone. “Well, this is kind of incredible. Okay. I never hear about this! And we don’t know who made this decision?”

Sanger asserted an account named Mr. X was responsible, but noted it is edited by numerous individuals, just like other Wikipedia pages. Carlson continued to list off outlets.

“This is so funny! This is amazing!” Carlson said, laughing.

While not mentioned during the interview, Wikipedia categorizes the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) as “generally reliable on topics related to hate groups and extremism in the United States.”

However, the SPLC accused the late Charlie Kirk’s popular organization Turning Point USA of being a hateful, white nationalist-friendly movement despite Kirk denouncing such ideologies. TPUSA also appeared on the SPLC’s so-called “Hate Map” four months before Kirk’s Sept. 10 assassination due to its common conservative stances.

SPLC has also repeatedly listed right-leaning groups like Moms for Liberty and Gays Against Groomers on its Hate Map — alongside the Ku Klux Klan — for denouncing LGBTQ ideology and other liberal priorities.

Moreover, The Nation published a piece on Sept. 12 using an incorrect quote from Kirk and subsequently issued a correction with the accurate quote, which read, “If we would have said that Joy Reid and Michelle Obama and Sheila Jackson Lee and Ketanji Brown Jackson were affirmative action picks, we would have been called racists. Now they’re coming out and they’re saying it for us. They’re coming out and they’re saying, ‘I’m only here because of affirmative action.’ We know. You do not have the brain processing power to otherwise be taken really seriously. You had to go steal a white person’s slot to go be taken somewhat seriously.”

Furthermore, Wikipedia categorizes ProPublica as “generally reliable for all purposes” due to its “excellent reputation for fact-checking and accuracy,” noting it has garnered multiple Pulitzer Prizes.

However, a majority of ethics experts cited by ProPublica in stories on Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito’s alleged ethics breaches had records of donating to Democratic campaigns and left-wing causes, a Daily Caller News Foundation review of Federal Election Commission (FEC) records found in July 2023.

Seven of the nine ethics experts cited in ProPublica’s stories on the justices had collectively contributed more than $100,000 to Democratic campaigns and left-wing causes, FEC records showed. Several also worked for groups advocating for Thomas’ resignation that were supported by donors that also funded ProPublica, the DCNF previously reported.

The ProPublica stories failed to disclose these ethics experts’ contributions or the fact it shared donors with organizations pushing for Thomas to resign.

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On docket: DOJ sends request to Supreme Court for ruling on birthright citizenship

U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C.

The Department of Justice is asking the Supreme Court to review – and decide – the birthright citizenship case this term.

The fight is over whether the 14th Amendment grants American citizenship to the children of illegal aliens who have broken U.S. laws to enter then give birth inside U.S. borders.

President Donald Trump contends that’s not what the writers of the Constitution intended, even though that’s been the practice for a good many years already.

A report at the Washington Examiner explained the Trump administration filed two petitions seeking the review soon.

The petitions, filed Friday, appeared on the court’s public docket Monday.

The cases were launched by Democrat-run states and groups of people who might be affected.

The largest case going before SCOTUS in my lifetime will be birthright citizenship.
It’s just over Roe v. IMO
The author of the 14th Amendment when he addressed Congress told them:
1.) Foreigners
2.) Aliens
Were not included in birthright citizenship. pic.twitter.com/IxnqJX1Qi1

— The Old Man Down The Road (@baronofbarons) September 27, 2025

When the issue originally arose, Trump commented:

REPORTER: A short time ago the Supreme Court agreed to hear oral arguments in the case about ending birthright citizenship. How confident are you that the court will rule in your favor?@POTUS: “I am so happy. I think the case has been so misunderstood… birthright citizenship… pic.twitter.com/GIhuPQBAZ0

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) April 17, 2025

.@RepGrothman explains how the 14th Amendment was NEVER intended to grant birthright citizenship to children of illegal aliens:

“It does not say all persons born in the U.S. become citizens… It did not include anybody who just happened to show up here, have a baby, and move on” pic.twitter.com/vAajnLnRrC

— NumbersUSA (@NumbersUSA) January 22, 2025

Experts have contended that the 14th Amendment never was intended to create massive grants of citizenship to children of illegal aliens.

The Examiner report said the fight stems from Trump’s order in January that said the amendment does not include children born on U.S. soil to parents who are in the country illegally or temporarily.

“The issues in this petition are unquestionably cert-worthy,” the DOJ said. “The government has a compelling interest in ensuring that American citizenship — the privilege that allows us to choose our political leaders — is granted only to those who are lawfully entitled to it.”

The filing noted a lower court ruling against the president actually causes problems, invalidating “a policy of prime importance to the President and his Administration in a manner that undermines our border security. Those decisions confer, without lawful justification, the privilege of American citizenship on hundreds of thousands of unqualified people.”

Earlier this year, the high court addressed the issue, but did not decide the core question.

The fight was the vehicle for the Supreme Court to put a limit on nationwide injunctions that were commonly being used by lower court judges to control the president’s international policies, economic policies and much more.

 

‘Very close!’ Trump’s Gaza plan: AMNESTY for repentant Hamas members, return of hostages, freedom to hundreds in jail

President Donald Trump greets Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (Official White House photo by Daniel Torok)

President Donald Trump on Monday released an outline of what he hopes to see develop for Gaza, that parcel of land adjacent to Israel that for years has been controlled by Hamas terrorists who on that fateful Oct. 7, in 2023, invaded Israel, slaughtered some 1,200 citizens and kidnapped hundreds more.

Stunningly, it includes amnesty for Hamas members who are committed to “peaceful co-existence” and who decommission their weapons.

Trump has been pledging to end the war the erupted following that invasion since before he was elected, and has been working on it since he took office.

President Donald J. Trump’s Comprehensive Plan to End the Gaza Conflict:

1. Gaza will be a deradicalized terror-free zone that does not pose a threat to its neighbors.

2. Gaza will be redeveloped for the benefit of the people of Gaza, who have suffered more than enough.

3. If… pic.twitter.com/veqhr9MW28

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) September 29, 2025

BREAKING: President Trump CONFIRMS that Arab and Muslim nations around Israel STRONGLY support his framework for peace between Israel and Gaza.

If he pulls this off, it will be irrefutable that Donald Trump is the peace president…

“Peace in the Middle East. Let’s call it… pic.twitter.com/m0GY44SsNV

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) September 29, 2025

BREAKING: President Trump says Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu has his full backing to “do what he has to” if Hamas rejects Gaza peace plan. pic.twitter.com/QXYrd0GtOv

— Fox News (@FoxNews) September 29, 2025

BREAKING: White House publishes 21-point Gaza plan pic.twitter.com/5XvjvfjFdz

— Elizabeth Hagedorn (@ElizHagedorn) September 29, 2025

On Monday, Trump released his agenda for the zone, under which Gaza would be “a deradicalized terror-free zone that does not pose a threat to its neighbors.”

It would be “redeveloped” for the benefit of residents.

His plan would have the war end immediately with Israeli forces withdrawing to an agreed upon line, and while preparations are made for the release of all hostages, dead and alive, military ops would halt.

Once all the hostages are returned, Israel would release 250 life sentence prisoners plus another 1,700 Gazans who have been detained.

“Hamas members who commit to peaceful co-existence and to decommission their weapons will be given amnesty,” he proposes.

Aid, including equipment needed to rehab the infrastructure, hospitals and more, would follow soon.

Trump said Israel has accepted the multi-point plan, and the requirement still needed is acceptance by Hamas.

“We’re at a minimum, very, very close,” he said.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, “I believe that today we’re taking a critical step towards both ending the war in Gaza and setting the stage for dramatically advancing peace in the Middle East.”

Officials for Hamas said the leaders had not yet been fully briefed.

Trump confirmed that if Hamas rejects the latest plan, Israeli would have America’s full support to “finish” the war.

“Bibi, you’d have our full backing to do what you would have to do.”

The plan would have Gaza governed “under the temporary transitional governance of a technocratic, apolitical Palestinian committee.” It would include qualified Palestinians and international experts.

An economic development plan would come from a panel of experts, and a special economic zone would be set up to produce tariff and access rates.

No one would be forced to leave Gaza, nor would anyone who wants to leave be prevented.

“Regional partners” would provide a guarantee that Hamas will comply with its obligations.

An international force would provide security and police protection until a new force is trained.

Israel would not annex Gaza and its defense forces would withdraw.

“While Gaza re-development advances and when the PA reform program is faithfully carried out, the conditions may finally be in place for a credible pathway to Palestinian self-determination and statehood, which we recognize as the aspiration of the Palestinian people,” the guidelines note. “The United States will establish a dialogue between Israel and the Palestinians to agree on a political horizon for peaceful and prosperous co-existence.”

 

 

Karoline Leavitt: Suspect in church attack ‘hated’ Mormons

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt

The man suspected of shooting up a Mormon worship event in Michigan on Sunday, killing at least four and leaving the structure burned out, “hated” people of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, the Mormon church.

That’s according to Karoline Leavitt, the press secretary for President Donald Trump.

Trump earlier decried the additional attack on “Christians” in America, and society in general puts the organization and its members among the widely considered “Christian” church.

He said, “This appears to be yet another targeted attack on Christians in the United States of America. The Trump Administration will keep the Public posted, as we always do. In the meantime, PRAY for the victims, and their families. THIS EPIDEMIC OF VIOLENCE IN OUR COUNTRY MUST END.”

Some leaders of other Christian groups, however, point to the extra-biblical teachings adopted and accepted by the Mormons to challenge that assumption.

Christianity.com has posted a response to that exact question with a blunt answer.

“The answer to that question is easy and straightforward: ‘no.’ Nevertheless, even as the question is clear, the answer requires some explanation. The issue is clearly framed in this case. Christianity is rightly defined in terms of ‘traditional Christian orthodoxy.’ Thus, we have an objective standard to define what is and is not Christianity,” it wrote. “We are not talking here about the postmodern conception of Christianity that minimizes truth. We are not discussing Christianity as a mood or a sociological movement. We are not talking about liberal Christianity that minimizes doctrine or sectarian Christianity that defines the faith in terms of eccentric doctrines. We are talking about historical, traditional Christian orthodoxy.

“Once that is made clear, the answer is inevitable. Furthermore, the answer is made easy, not only by the structure of Christian orthodoxy (a structure Mormonism denies) but by the central argument of Mormonism itself – that the true faith was restored through Joseph Smith in the nineteenth century in America and that the entire structure of Christian orthodoxy as affirmed by the post-apostolic church is corrupt and false.”

It is suspect Thomas Jacob Sanford, a Marine veteran who served America’s military in Iraq, who was shot and killed by police to end the attack in

Detectives said the still were documenting what could have been a motive in the violent attack in which the suspect rammed the church with a truck, then shot up parishioners and even lit the building on fire.

Leavitt explained, “From what I understand based on my conversations with the FBI director, all they know right now is that this was an individual who hated people of the Mormon faith. And they are trying to understand more about this, how premeditated it was, how much planning went into it, whether he left a note, all of those questions have yet to be answered, but certainly will be answered by the FBI.”

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At least four people died in the attack and at least eight others were hurt.

The attacker died when he engaged police in gunfire.

Christianity.com also added, “Christians do respect the Mormon affirmation of the family and the zeal of Mormon youth in their own missionary work. Christians must affirm religious liberty and the right of Mormons to practice and share their faith.”

IT BEGINS! Court hearing held in case against suspect in assassination of Charlie Kirk

Tyler Robinson

A hearing largely to handle housekeeping duties was held Monday in court in Utah for the suspect charged with the assassination of Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk.

The suspect, Tyler Robinson, was in attendance only virtually, but the judge scheduled another hearing for October 30 and said he expects Robinson to be present then.

Tyler Robinson Hearing • Charlie Kirk Assassination Case https://t.co/iovdYZjKIe

— @amuse (@amuse) September 29, 2025

JUST IN: Alleged Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson’s next court appearance will be October 30 at 10am MT

The judge says he plans to make all hearings PUBLIC

His execution should be made public as well! pic.twitter.com/Aq9PDbZ4z8

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) September 29, 2025

Comments at PJMedia explained the hearing in Provo, Utah was “largely uneventful.”

“Utah County Chief Deputy Attorney Chad Grunander stated that he is still working on speaking to witnesses, given that thousands of people were in the crowd when the murder happened.”

The report noted Robinson’s defenders had the option of waiving a preliminary hearing, but did not do that.

“Lead defense attorney Kathryn Nester said that her team is seeking a preliminary hearing and is hoping to check in in 30 to 60 days to ‘let the court know where we’re at,'” the report said.

The judge is Tony Graf of Utah’s Fourth District Court.

Robinson, 22, is charged with aggravated murder and other counts and could face the death penalty in the state if convicted.

Scandal-plagued Dem threatens private Americans if his party gets majority in Congress

Eric Swalwell and Christine Fang (Facebook)

Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., holds the nickname “Fang Fang” for his relationship with a woman who allegedly was a Chinese “honey pot” spy.

When his relationship with a foreign government activist came to light, the House Ethics Committee investigated. But it “closed” its review, promising to protect him from “action.”

Now he has given an interview in which he is threatening private American citizens if they supported President Donald Trump in a way that he dislikes.

His comments prompted the Gateway Pundit to post a “Fascism Alert” warning about him.

In an interview, Swalwell said his party will be the majority in Congress after the next election, a prediction that is not at all supported by all analysts of the coming election.

“We are making it clear we are going into the majority a year from now. We have every intention to do that,” he said.

“And so we will bring oversight accountability. We will subpoena the Department of Justice, but also private actors who have done these drug deals with the administration.”

Wagging his finger at Americans, he continued, “College campuses, entertainment companies, and so accountability is coming and so, One, It’s all coming out, Two. I hope that deters people from doing more of these deals, these one-offs with the president.”

Actually, evidence released by the Trump administration has confirmed that it was Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden and other Democrats who actually weaponized the federal government against Trump, launching an FBI probe based on lies, and much more.

The accountability for that scheming has just started to develop, with last week’s indictment of ex-FBI chief James Comey on lying and obstruction charges.

BREAKING: Congressman Eric Swalwell announces he will TARGET and INVESTIGATE private citizens who work with President Trump “when” Democrats win in 2026.

“Accountability is COMING. It’s all coming out. I hope this deters people from doing more of these deals for the… pic.twitter.com/1oorUOFlVY

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) September 29, 2025

The Gateway Pundit’s comments included, “The Democrats will be targeting ordinary Americans to retaliate against the Trump administration for holding disgraced former FBI Director James Comey accountable along with people who have worked with President Trump to clean up corruption and go after bad actors.”

The report described how Swalwell “vowed revenge” on Trump and his supporters.

 

What would it really take to overturn Obergefell?

U.S. Supreme Court

WASHINGTON — “Gay marriage did that,” Katie Faust, founder of Them Before Us, repeated for the eighth time to an audience at the recent National Conservative Conference.

She wasn’t raising tired talking points about the landmark Obergefell v. Hodges ruling undermining federalism or religious liberty. She was lamenting how gay marriage upended children’s rights.

Voices like Faust’s calling for a reckoning with the effects of Obergefell are increasingly gaining traction among some conservatives. NatCon’s “Overturn Obergefell” panel, which came weeks after the filing of a longshot Supreme Court petition, reflected rising hope that the culture is trending towards reversal.

“The last 10 years have made one thing unmistakably clear,” Faust said. “We can either recognize gay marriage, or we can recognize a child’s right to their mother and father. We can’t do both.”

The Supreme Court will consider in the coming weeks whether it will take up a formal request to reverse Obergefell, the first it has received since 2015. Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis, who was thrown in jail after declining to issue marriage licenses based on a religious objection to the 2015 ruling, argued in her petition filed in July that Obergefell’s “legal fiction of substantive due process” must be reversed.

The question is, are there enough votes on the bench? Many court watchers are skeptical.

“The petition is nonsense and stands no chance of being granted,” Ilya Shapiro, director of Constitutional Studies at the Manhattan Institute, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “There are not five votes to overturn Obergefell and even if there were, there’s no way that the Court would use this case to do it.”

‘Very Long Road’

The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a judgement in March keeping Davis on the hook for $100,000 in emotional damages and $260,000 in legal fees owed to a gay couple who sued over her refusal to issue a license, rejecting her First Amendment and qualified immunity claims.

Davis previously brought her case to the Supreme Court in 2020 on the question of qualified immunity, without explicitly asking them to overrule Obergefell. The justices declined to take it at the time, but Justice Clarence Thomas wrote separately to highlight how Davis’ case provided “a stark reminder of the consequences of Obergefell.”

“By choosing to privilege a novel constitutional right over the religious liberty interests explicitly protected in the First Amendment, and by doing so undemocratically, the Court has created a problem that only it can fix,” Thomas wrote.

Thomas also suggested in his Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization concurrence that Obergefell should be reconsidered. Yet the Dobbs majority explicitly wrote that nothing in its opinion “should be understood to cast doubt on precedents that do not concern abortion.”

The justices receive between 7,000-8,000 petitions each year but hear less than 100. Four justices are needed to agree to hear a case, and five are needed to win.

Davis’ attorney, Liberty Counsel chairman Mathew Staver, told the DCNF there are three justices who have already “expressed very strong opinions” against Obergefell.

Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in his Obergefell dissent that the majority imposed “an act of will, not legal judgment.” It was the only dissent he has ever read from the bench, Staver noted.

“My only question is if [Robert’s] view of protecting the institution of the court and his devotion to stare decisis going to lead him to say, well, we can’t take it,” John Eastman, founding director of the Claremont Institute’s Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence, said during the NatCon panel.

The Supreme Court did for a response to Davis’ petition, which Eastman suggested signals “they’re very interested in the case,” although he doubts they would address her broad request to overturn Obergefell.

“They’re much more incremental than that, and if they could decide it just on a religious liberty claim, I think they probably would,” Eastman said.

South Texas College of Law Houston professor Josh Blackman told the DCNF there is “a very long road to overruling Obergefell.”

“You would need some local government to deny marriage licenses, or marital benefits to a same-sex couple,” he said. “Then the lower courts would be required to follow Obergefell and find the government acted unlawfully. At that point, you would need four Justices who are willing to grant cert and reverse Obergefell. I see that as very unlikely.”

While some have pointed out that the Supreme Court did what seemed unthinkable by overturning Roe v. Wade in 2022, court watchers knew “literally for decades that there was a big chance Roe would go,” Cato Institute fellow Walter Olson wrote in comments shared in Reason.

“Overturning it was the number one project for much of the legal Right through countless confirmation battles,” he said. “Thousands of anti-Roe meetings were held and articles published. There is no comparable head of steam on Obergefell, or really any head of steam at all.”

Marriage is not for us to redefine. It’s God’s plan for the world.

-Rabbi Ilan Feldman at NatCon 5’s “Overturn Obergefell” panel pic.twitter.com/f4ejkylWOz

— National Conservatism (@NatConTalk) September 4, 2025

Shifting Culture?

Davis’ petition still set off a media firestorm, sparking pieces warning about the end of “gay rights.” Hillary Clinton predicted in August on the “Raging Moderates” podcast that the Supreme Court would “do to gay marriage what they did to abortion.”

Public support for gay marriage remains higher than it was in 2015, at 68%, according to a May Pew Research poll. Yet among Republicans, there has been a 14% drop in support since 2022.

At the same time, the LGBTQ movement has exploded, with 23% of Generation Z now identifying as something other than heterosexual, according to a 2024 Gallup poll.

The Supreme Court has been forced to face a number of other gender ideology related issues: in June, it ruled in favor of state efforts to ban transgender procedures for minors. The justices have already agreed to consider cases on banning men from women’s sports during the coming 2025-2026 term.

Idaho’s house passed a resolution in January calling on the Supreme Court to reconsider Obergefell, as did North Dakota lawmakers in February, though it was rejected in the state Senate. Similar measures have been introduced in at least three other states.

The Southern Baptist Convention similarly voted for the first time in June to call for a reversal of the ruling.

The NatCon panelists, who spoke to a large room that was less than half-full, observed a “vibe shift” in the culture.

Downstream effects of gay marriage, from enabling two men to have an unrelated child through surrogacy arrangements to the weakening of legal protections for biological parents, hurt children, Faust argued during the panel.

“Any conservatism worthy of the name must commit itself to removing this poison from our law,” Jeff Shafer, director of the Hale Institute, said on the panel.

A panel discussion on the topic would have been “unthinkable” five years ago, when “most mainstream conservative organizations wouldn’t broach the subject,” Ethics and Public Policy Center fellow Andrew T. Walker wrote on X.

“But people kept making the arguments, so here we are,” he said. “Who knows what the next ten years will bring in helping overturn this rogue, anti-reality ruling.”

While lawyers on stage remain uncertain the Supreme Court will fully address it now, they are hopeful that day will come.

“The culture is changing,” Eastman told the audience. “I got a meme in an email the other day. It was Nancy Pelosi buying stock in baby goods stock futures because of Taylor Swift’s engagement to Travis Kelce. Maybe marriage is gonna make a comeback.”

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WH to Dems: Shutdown threatens WIC benefits for mothers, children

The pain of a government shutdown won’t just be political: Millions of low-income women and children could be left hungry as soon as next week if congressional Democrats and the White House do not come to a deal.

The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children will soon run out of funding. If they don’t cut a deal to keep the government open, a senior White House official told RealClearPolitics, “Democrats would be turning their back on WIC recipients.”

Called WIC for short, the program provides vouchers for healthy food to low-income pregnant and postpartum women, their infants, and young children. The $7 billion program is funded entirely by the federal government, but that money is expected to be depleted on Oct.1. New beneficiaries will be unable to enroll, and current WIC beneficiaries will be unable to have their cards reloaded.

“The program would run out of money in October, and women and children could no longer receive benefits,” a senior administration official said. “The White House and Republicans in the House-passed CR added $600 million so there will be no loss of benefits – clearly Democrats are ok with women and children losing WIC benefits.”

The program has been increasingly strained in recent years as enrollment increased and as the cost of food continues to rise. A small contingency fund does exist, about $150 million, but that is not enough money to provide food assistance for the more than 6.7 million that rely on the program. The administration has searched for additional money to reprogram but come up short.

“There’s no more quarters in the cushions,” the official said. “It’d get us maybe another day.”

House Republicans advanced a continuing resolution to keep the government open until Nov. 20. Other than additional money for new security for members of the executive and judicial branches, and programmatic change to free up $1 billion for the D.C. city government, it does not make big new spending changes.

Under pressure from their base and led by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, congressional Democrats have balked at that deal and tried to open negotiations with the White House. They are seeking concessions on health care spending in exchange for their support. Late Tuesday, President Trump abruptly canceled a meeting with Democratic leadership.

“After reviewing the details of the unserious and ridiculous demands being made by the Minority Radical Left Democrats in return for their Votes to keep our thriving Country open, I have decided that no meeting with their Congressional Leaders could possibly be productive,” he wrote on Truth Social.

The blame game commenced shortly thereafter, with Schumer blasting the White House for refusing to talk. “Donald Trump is causing the shutdown,” Schumer said at a Tuesday press conference. “This is a Trump shutdown, and he is barreling right toward it right now, and he knows he is going to be blamed for the shut down.”

The White House then quickly turned up the pressure, threatening to use a government shutdown as an opportunity to further remake the federal workforce. If the lights go off, Russ Vought, director of the Office of Management and Budget, warned that thousands of government employees could permanently lose their jobs. On the home front, the White House now warns, millions of kitchen tables could begin to go bare.

This article was originally published by RealClearPolitics and made available via RealClearWire.

Soros-backed group pushing Democrats toward government shutdown

Then-Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., delivers remarks at the signing of H.R. 5376, the ‘Inflation Reduction Act of 2022,’ Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2022, in the State Dining Room of the White House. (Official White House photo by Erin Scott)

A left-wing activist group that received millions of dollars from the Soros family’s organization is spearheading a pressure campaign to push Democratic senators to vote against funding the government and force a partial shutdown.

Indivisible — the organization behind many of the recent “No Kings” protests and other demonstrations part of the so-called “resistance” against President Donald Trump — has embarked on a recent effort to goad Senate Democrats to fight against a funding bill in the face of a partial government shutdown. The group’s website currently hosts a form enabling people to easily contact their Democratic senators by phone, complete with a script of what to say.

The group’s non-tax-deductible entity, Indivisible Project, has received a total of $7.6 million in grants from the Soros’ Open Society Foundations (OSF) over the past eight years, according to Indivisible’s website. OSF is a grantmaking network which left-wing billionaire George Soros founded in 1993 and his son, Alexander Soros, currently chairs.

“Federal government funding runs out on September 30 — and Republicans need Democratic votes to clear the filibuster and avoid a government shutdown,” Indivisible’s form states. “Democrats have a strong hand to play. They must use it to deny Donald Trump the blank check Republicans want to hand him!”

The government will shut down if Congress does not pass a continuing resolution (CR) to fund it by the end of Tuesday. Senate Democrats led by embattled Minority Leader Chuck Schumer have thus far refused to support Republican-passed CRs that do not include a litany of left-wing policy proposals.

“But in the last big funding fight, Chuck Schumer and a handful of other Dems surrendered—rolling over and letting Trump weaponize federal funds to rob our services, militarize our cities, and terrorize our communities,” the left wing group’s form continues. “That cannot happen again.”

Schumer notably worked with Republicans to pass a spending bill to fund the government in March.

Indivisible’s form further tells constituents to remind Democratic senators “we cannot hand blank checks to a wannabe king,” referring to Trump. It further tells voters to ask their Senators “to keep publicly pressuring Schumer to FIGHT LIKE HELL!”

After Schumer and nine other members of the Senate Democratic Caucus voted with Republicans to break the filibuster on the March spending bill, Indivisible publicly called for Schumer to step down as the caucus’ leader and even put together an event where people wrote retirement cards addressed to him.

Right after Schumer’s March decision to work with Republicans to keep the government open, Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez went on the record blasting him, fueling speculation she may challenge him in New York’s 2028 Senate election. A late March poll by left-leaning firm Data for Progress showed Ocasio-Cortez leading the longtime incumbent by nearly 20 points in a hypothetical matchup.

The House on Sept. 19 passed a GOP-backed clean CR to fund the government through Nov. 21 — with the support of only one Democrat. However, it fell well short of the 60 required votes to bypass a filibuster in the Senate on the same day.

Meanwhile, the Senate rejected a Schumer-backed counter-proposal along party lines, also on Sept. 19. This Democratic-backed CR would have reversed about $1 trillion in cost savings of Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBA), nixed language preventing illegal immigrants from receiving healthcare subsidies and undid the OBBA’s new Medicaid work requirements.

“Senate Democrats must reject the Soros-funded pressure from the radical left and pass the clean CR,” a White House official told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “More than one trillion dollars in new spending, taxpayer-funded health care for illegal aliens, half a billion dollars for left-wing media, and the elimination of the rural health care fund are all nonstarters – completely out of touch with what the American people want and deserve from their government.”

“If Democrats cave to their extremist base, they will own this shutdown and put law enforcement at risk, cut WIC [Women, Infants, and Children] benefits for mothers and children, and threaten health care for seniors,” the official added.

Trump is reportedly planning to meet with Schumer, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune on Monday, one day before the partial shutdown deadline.

Indivisible did not respond to the DCNF’s request for comment.

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