The Trump administration has laid off a significant number of employees from the Office of Population Affairs (OPA) during the ongoing Democrat-led government shutdown, effectively gutting an agency long used by Democrats to promote abortion and gender ideology.
A newly resurfaced Katie Porter video shows the embattled California Democrat yelling at a staffer to "get out of my [expletive] shot" during a 2021 virtual meeting, triggering widespread criticism from within her own party and renewed scrutiny of her treatment of subordinates.
Just one day after a joint legislative committee missed its deadline to approve new bipartisan congressional maps, Ohio Democrats are demanding that Governor Mike DeWine immediately call the state’s Redistricting Commission back into session. So far, DeWine has declined to comment.
Congress faces a government shutdown deadline at midnight on September 30. As negotiations intensify, Democrats have introduced a stopgap spending bill that would add $1.5 trillion to the national debt over the next decade, primarily through permanent extensions of Obamacare subsidies and reversals of healthcare savings measures.
Congressional Democrats are steering the government toward a shutdown after blocking a short-term spending bill that would have extended current funding levels originally set under Joe Biden. Despite the measure’s bipartisan nature, Democratic leaders appear unwilling to accept a clean continuing resolution (CR), choosing instead to demand policy concessions with little chance of success.
Illinois congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh, a Democrat and former Media Matters for America staffer, openly joined demonstrators at an anti-ICE rally where protesters shouted violent slogans, including "shoot ICE" and "shoot the [Expletive]."
