White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Friday that layoffs are necessary amid the Democrat-forced government shutdown because of the United States’ exorbitant debt and absence of money flowing into federal coffers.
The U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) has reportedly promised to assist Ethiopia with building a massive airport south of Addis Ababa.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) is expressing the belief that Republicans will cave to Democrats, the latter of whom shut down the government for political purposes, attributing that prediction to “public sentiment.”
The U.S. services sector showed continued growth in September, but two closely watched surveys disagreed on nearly everything else—from hiring to pricing power to business activity—underscoring deep uncertainty about the economy’s momentum as the year draws to a close.
Apple has taken down several apps that alert users to the presence of nearby ICE agents after facing legal threats from the Trump administration.
The Trump administration is not trying to inflict pain on people during this Democrat shutdown, unlike the former Obama administration, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said during an appearance on Breitbart News Daily.
The White House is placing a hold on $2.1 billion in Chicago infrastructure projects after Democrats allowed government funding to expire on Tuesday.
Democrats shut down the government for “purely political purposes,” Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said during an appearance on Breitbart News Daily.
House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN) is laying blame for the government shutdown at the feet of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY).
Security firms Mandiant and Google are investigating a new extortion campaign targeting top executives at multiple companies, with emails claiming sensitive data was stolen from their Oracle E-Business Suite systems.
A massive explosion caused a fire to break out at a Chevron facility in El Segundo, in Los Angeles, California, on Thursday evening.
On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” Rep. Mike Flood (R-NE) discussed a potential bailout for farmers and said farmers face “an immediate crisis that needs to be addressed. And just like President Trump did in 2017, he promised, when
President Donald Trump is pressuring elite universities to open their classrooms to more Americans by sharply reducing their enrollment of job-seeking foreign students.
The Free Traders Have It Backwards: America Doesn’t Need the World for Quality The next time you order a pint of hazy double IPA, you can thank the diversity, dynamism, and competitiveness of the American economy. Scott Burns of Texas
Larry Sanger, co-founder of Wikipedia, has come out with his heaviest criticism of the online encyclopedia yet, accompanied by a call to reform. In nine theses published to his blog and Wikipedia itself, Sanger outlines proposals for reform with essays describing and analyzing the myriad problems with the site since his departure in 2002, including the purging of conservative media through a sourcing blacklist.
Stocks rallied Thursday, shaking off concerns about the government shutdown for a second day.
Speaker Emirata Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) snapped at a reporter on Wednesday after she was asked if Republicans should negotiate with progressive Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) to end the Democrat shutdown.
Illegal aliens do sometimes improperly secure American taxpayer-funded welfare benefits, United States Census Bureau data makes clear.
Tech tycoon Elon Musk has made history by becoming the first person to amass a net worth exceeding $500 billion. The incredible surge in Musk’s wealth is driven by his interests in Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has announced that it will soon utilize user interactions with its AI digital assistant to inform ad targeting and content recommendations across its platforms, including Facebook and Instagram.
President Donald Trump announced Thursday he would meet with Russ Vought, the Office of Management and Budget director and Project 2025 architect, to discuss which federal agencies may face reductions as the government shutdown continues.
Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) told Breitbart News that taxpayers are paying $400 million per day for nonessential federal bureaucrats not to work during the Democrat shutdown.
OpenAI has recently rolled out parental controls for ChatGPT and its video generator, Sora 2, in response to growing concerns about the AI’s safety for vulnerable users, particularly teenagers. The lawyer for a family that has accused ChatGPT of being their son’s “suicide coach” before his tragic death says the change comes “far too late.”
Democrats are fighting to restart a pipeline of $20 billion in government healthcare aid per year to help migrants who face rising economic pressure to self-deport homeward.
Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought announced Wednesday that the federal government is cancelling $8 billion in green energy funding amid the Democrat-forced government shutdown.
While the government shutdown has captured the attention of the denizens of the nation’s capital, the actual financial capital and labor of the U.S. is likely to proceed as if nothing much has changed.
Democrat Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-NY) was scheduled to host a ritzy golf fundraiser in Virginia this week, occurring after he and his Democrat colleagues opted to shut down the government over their demands, which include healthcare for illegal immigrants.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) on Wednesday said Democrats were responsible for dragging the country into a government shutdown to satisfy their party’s radical left wing, urging them to reverse course and reopen federal operations.
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.
Vice President JD Vance debunked the left’s lies on the Democrat shutdown during a press briefing on Wednesday.
New apartment construction in Los Angeles has all but shut down, thanks in part to Measure ULA, the so-called “mansion tax” that applies to all buildings, including apartments, that sell for $5.3 million or more.
The 154,000 federal bureaucrats who accepted President Trump’s buyouts will all be removed from the federal payroll this week.
Gigi Sohn, the failed Democratic FCC nominee who was considered too radical even by Democrats, is criticizing Trump administration reforms to the $42.5 billion BEAD broadband program while reportedly working with some Republican state officials to undermine changes that remove DEI mandates and opened the program to satellite internet providers.
Sam Altman’s OpenAI is set to release a standalone app for its Sora 2 video generation AI model that will allow users to create and share AI-generated short videos in a format resembling TikTok.
“Democrats are solely responsible for this government shutdown,” Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Joe Gruters said in a statement after 44 Democrats voted on Tuesday to block a House-passed spending plan hours ahead of the deadline.
A task force of over 80 leaders from the public, private, and nonprofit sectors is pushing for a coordinated, government-wide approach to fight the growing scourge of scams, which cost Americans over $158 billion last year. The recommendations include applying pressure to foreign countries that look the other way while their citizens steal Americans’ hard-earned savings.
The Supreme Court declined Wednesday to immediately remove Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook from her position, leaving her in place at least until the justices hear arguments in the case in January.
Elon Musk’s business empire has been rocked by a wave of high-level executive departures over the past year, as the billionaire’s intense management style and interests outside of business shake the ranks of his formerly loyal acolytes.
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Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) admitted on Tuesday that Democrats are “demanding healthcare for everybody” in their fight against the continuing resolution (CR) bill.
