Apple has removed several apps from its App Store designed to help users track and avoid Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, following legal threats from the Trump administration. Among the most widely used was ICEBlock, an app that allowed users to anonymously share the locations of ICE officers within a five-mile radius.
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum told Breitbart News Daily that the Trump administration is working to limit the impact of the ongoing Democrat-led shutdown on the American people, in contrast to the Obama administration’s strategy during past shutdowns.
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) blasted Senate Democrats on Thursday night, accusing them of prioritizing taxpayer-funded healthcare for illegal immigrants over military personnel and veterans. Speaking on Fox News Channel’s Hannity, Hawley said Democrats’ refusal to pass a clean funding bill revealed their true priorities during what Republicans are calling the “Schumer Shutdown.”
Gigi Sohn, the Biden-era FCC nominee rejected even by Senate Democrats for her radical record, is now attacking President Trump’s reforms to the $42.5 billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program. Despite being considered too extreme for a Democratic-controlled Senate, Sohn is working behind the scenes with state officials—including some Republicans—to undermine reforms designed to eliminate waste, cut DEI mandates, and allow satellite providers to compete fairly.
The Trump administration is overseeing the largest one-year cut to the federal workforce in nearly a century, with 154,000 federal employees officially leaving the payroll this week. Those departing had accepted buyouts offered under President Trump’s plan to reduce the size and scope of the federal government.
On CNN’s The Situation Room Tuesday, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson sharply criticized President Trump’s comments about sending U.S. military forces into American cities. After reading Trump’s remark that Chicago might become a “training ground” for military deployment, Johnson called the statement “absolutely appalling” and labeled Trump an “unstable human being.”
