Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Wednesday called for the Senate Democrats to end the government shutdown, saying it “may start costing the U.S. economy up to $15 billion a day.”
Treasury Sec. Scott Bessent said U.S. job growth has slowed down in part due to two million illegals being deported or self-deporting.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent declared that the Trump administration “won’t negotiate” with China in response to stock market volatility, but because “we are doing what is best economically for the U.S.” after the Wall Street Journal reported otherwise.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) is ramping up the investigation into former Special Counsel Jack Smith, demanding he testify about his “politically motivated investigations” into President Donald Trump following the revelation that his team tracked phone calls of Republican senators.
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) shot back at his left-wing colleagues who used Columbus Day as an opportunity to virtue signal about the United States being built on “stolen land” and calling to “reflect on the trauma and damage” that Native Americans have “suffered in this country.”
Former President Barack Obama stated that President Donald Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops to quell crime in Democrat-run cities is “inherently corrupting,” arguing that he would have received a different reaction from conservative media if he had sent the military into Texas during his tenure.
Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) issued a Columbus Day statement alerting Americans that “we are all on stolen land” and accusing Republicans of attempting to “whitewash American history.”
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison (D) claimed that “nobody” knows what the left-wing terrorist organization Antifa is and that it does not exist, despite promoting an Antifa “handbook” in a 2018 social media post.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) and other Republicans are ditching their weekend fundraising event as the government shutdown drags on, while Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) continues to plan the Democrats’ fundraising vacation in California’s luxurious Napa Valley.
WASHINGTON — First lady Melania Trump announced the reunification of eight Ukrainian children with their families after they had been taken and held in Russia, stating that the progress has come as a result of months of direct communication with President Vladimir Putin starting with a letter she wrote him in August.
FBI Director Kash Patel has fired agents involved in tracking phone calls of eight Republican senators and a congressman as part of former Special Counsel Jack Smith’s investigation of President Donald Trump.
WASHINGTON, DC — Leaders in the soft drink industry have reduced their products’ role in the U.S. obesity epidemic by listening to the concerns of parents and experts and using free market innovation to address health issues, American Beverage Association (ABA) President and CEO Kevin W. Keane told Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow.
Credit unions for U.S. military service members are sounding the alarm on how the Democrats’ government shutdown is disrupting lives, arguing that troops “shouldn’t have to worry about whether their next paycheck will arrive while they’re standing watch for our nation.”
Monday evening flights into multiple major cities were delayed as the government shutdown continued, just hours after the Department of Transportation (DOT) warned that the funding halt has led to stressed-out air traffic controllers calling out sick as they wait to get paid again.
Nearly ten Republican senators and a representative had their private communications allegedly tracked by former Special Counsel Jack Smith under the Biden administration, FBI Director Kash Patel revealed Monday.
Sen. Alex Padilla said his forcible removal from a DHS press conference in June after officials said he “lunged” toward Sec. Kristi Noem should have been a “wake-up call.”
The hosts of MSNBC’s Morning Joe denounced the texts allegedly sent by Democrat Virginia attorney general candidate Jay Jones wishing death on a Republican lawmaker and his children, with Joe Scarborough saying he “should probably be forced to withdraw from the race.”
War Secretary Pete Hegseth addressed a lively audience of U.S. Navy Sailors in Virginia to commemorate the military branch’s 250th anniversary, reiterating President Donald Trump’s emphasis on “America first, and peace through strength” and blasting diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).
President Donald Trump’s nominee for U.S. Air Force chief of staff is a nearly-retired general with a public history of pushing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and COVID vaccine mandates on service members, Breitbart News has learned.
Senate Republicans need five more votes from Democrats to pass their continuing resolution (CR) to reopen the government, with some eyeing moderates from the other side of the aisle who may be convinced to cross over.
The chamber of the U.S. Senate erupted into laughter Tuesday evening as Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) argued that his hometown paper, the New York Times, is “biased” due to their poll revealing that the majority of Americans were against the Democrat push to shut down the government.
Any journalist who submits an inquiry to the U.S. Department of State since the government shut down on October 1 will receive an automated response blaming delayed responses on congressional Democrats who refused to pass a clean funding resolution.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) put the Democrats on blast with their own words, showing their hypocrisy as they protested against previous government shutdowns while refusing to put a stop to the looming shutdown that will occur at midnight if they do not compromise with Republicans.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is pushing Congress to a government shutdown because he is scared of being challenged in a primary by far-left Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Tom Cotton (R-AR) theorized to Breitbart News.
John Casaretti, an air travel safety whistleblower and president of the Air Marshal Association, called on President Donald Trump and Congress to act quickly to allow the Federal Air Marshal Service (FAMS) to operate as its own agency without “bureaucracy” to better stop potential terrorist attacks in an exclusive Breitbart News Saturday interview with Matthew Boyle.
A senior White House official reportedly said Democrats “will pay a huge price” for the government shutdown expected to come next week, telling Politico that Republicans have no plans to negotiate with Democrats to pass their version of a stopgap spending measure.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday approving a deal to allow TikTok to continue operating in the United States, as the Chinese app becomes majority-owned by American interests in a new joint-venture company.
Transportation Secretary and acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy said “when we go back to the moon, we’re going to stay” when discussing the space program’s upcoming manned Artemis launches.
Former Vice President Kamala Harris has repeated a blatant lie about her 2024 election performance while on her book promotion media tour, falsely claiming that the results were the “closest” of the twenty-first century.
The Trump administration has obligated over $42 million to fund “critical rail safety projects” along Florida’s notorious Brightline rail from a massive backlog of grants left behind by the Biden administration’s Department of Transportation (DOT).
Over 20 Republican state attorneys general sent a letter to President Donald Trump on Tuesday urging him to fight European Union (EU) regulations that “demand” that diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) standards be “incorporated into companies.”
The Department of Labor (DOL) has launched an enforcement initiative to “ensure no employers are abusing H-1B visas at the expense of our workforce” in line with President Donald Trump’s recent proclamation directing federal agencies to fix the foreign worker program.
The Trump administration’s Department of War has put the previous administration’s social media strategy to shame with a more than 1000 percent increase in average post impressions and engagements, Breitbart News has learned from data exclusively obtained from the Pentagon.
Tucker Carlson delivered a Christ-centered speech at Charlie Kirk’s memorial service in Arizona on Sunday, receiving thunderous applause after encouraging the crowd to listen to the assassinated Turning Point USA founder’s message of faith.
Tens of thousands of people packed into the State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, on Sunday to honor the life of Charlie Kirk, with local outlets reporting that the crowd size could “exceed” those of NFL football games.
Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) has introduced a bill to undo the Biden administration’s red tape within a federal employment program.
Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) denounced the Republican-led resolution to “honor” Charlie Kirk before it passed on Friday, arguing it “brings great pain” to black Americans who suffered under segregation and accusing the assassinated conservative activist of antisemitism.
Failed presidential candidate Kamala Harris revealed that former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was her “first choice” to be her running mate, but decided against it because picking a gay man would be “too big of a risk.”
Donald Trump Jr. argued that people who have been fired for celebrating the assassination of Charlie Kirk are not losing their jobs to “cancel culture,” but to “consequence culture.”
The U.S. Department of Education has partnered with the America First Policy Institute (AFPI), Turning Point USA (TPUSA), Hillsdale College, and dozens of other aligned organizations to launch a program dedicated to “renewing patriotism, strengthening civic knowledge, and advancing a shared understanding of America’s founding principles in schools across the nation.”
