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President Trump offered these comments on the "reckless and completely unnecessary" 2025 government shutdown and praised OMB Director Russ Vought as the "Darth Vader" of budget cuts. "They call him Darth Vader. I call him a fine man," Trump said about Vought. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Over one million federal workers right now, as you know, are going unpaid. That's the Democrats' fault. And children, tourists--unable to visit the museums in Washington, D.C. We now have beautiful, safe streets, but we don't have the museums open. We should probably just open them. But we are doing things that nobody's ever done--nobody's ever seen. All of this, and the pain that the Democrats have caused during this reckless and completely unnecessary affair--you could call it the Schumer shutdown or the Democrat shutdown. You can call it whatever you want. And I will say this: we have Darth Vader--you know Darth Vader, right? Darth Vader is a man who, I think he's sitting--right? Is that Darth? Stand up, please. Da

White House senior counsel for trade and manufacturing Peter Navarro spoke to the Council on Foreign Relations on Friday morning about the administration's general attitude towards China and economic fears over tariffs. Navarro delivered brief remarks, participated in a discussion on the Trump administration's economic strategy, and answered questions from the audience. He began with a frank assessment of the CFR's "establishment, technocratic, and globalist ideology" and contrasted it with the Trump administration's "America First" policy. "CFR has been uniformly anti-tariff and anti-Trump, and highly skeptical of an America First form of policy that, in truth, is restoring our trade balance, rebuilding our industrial base, strengthening alliances like NATO, keeping --and as we just saw in the Mideast, negotiating-- broader peace, and reasserting American sovereignty on the global stage," Navarro began. "Let's ask ourselves the obvious question: How did the gulf between the Council on Foreign Relat

House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries commented on President Trump declaring war on an "enemy within" and disputed Speaker Johnson's characterization that the current government shutdown is a fight over paying for healthcare for illegal immigrants, this morning on ABC's "Good Morning America." GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS, ABC NEWS: House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, your response first of all to what the Speaker said there about the president's comments on the "enemy within" and using American cities to train the military? HAKEEM JEFFRIES, HOUSE MINORITY LEADER: Good morning. It was a deeply disturbing statement the president made. We need presidential leadership that brings people together as opposed to tearing us apart. Certainly, it's the case that not a single American should ever be viewed as the "enemy within" or potentially as target practice for the American military. This is why the American people have rejected the deployment and occupation of American cities and towns and counties with Ame

President Trump, during an Oval Office event Tuesday, called out Albert Bourla, the CEO of Pfizer, for overcharging Americans for prescription drugs. "The United States has just 4% of the world's population and consumes only 13% of all prescription drugs, yet pharmaceutical companies make 75% of their profits from the United States," Trump said. "Think of that. We have 4% of the market, 13% of prescription drugs, and yet we pay 75% of the cost -- Albert, I didn't know you were that vile!" "I'm surprised. He's doing the right thing." "All new medications introduced by Pfizer to the American market will be sold at the reduced, most favored nation cost," Trump announced Tuesday. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: I think this is one of the biggest medical announcements that this office has ever made, because we're talking about price reductions -- as you'll see in a couple of minutes -- and they're incredible. For many years, Americans have paid the highest prices anywhere in the world for prescription dru

Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley said < ahref="">during a hearing Tuesday with FBI Director Kash Patel that Charlie Kirk's group, "Turning Point USA," was targeted by the Biden-era FBI as part of the "Arctic Frost" operation that eventually evolved into specail counsel Jack Smith's investigation of Trump. Grassley to Patel: "In the short amount of time you've been Director, you've corrected whistleblower retaliation and increased transparency more than any other FBI Director I've seen." SEN. CHUCK GRASSLEY: Under your leadership, the FBI has apprehended several "Most Wanted" fugitives and secured the extradition of senior leaders of Central American gangs like MS-13. Now, it's well-understood that your predecessor left you an FBI infected with politics. I'm going to provide examples of that today, including making public new whistleblower records. At your nomination hearing, I made public records that whistleblowers provided me about Arctic Frost. Arctic Frost was the FBI case opene

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox blamed the internet and Reddit for the radicalization of Tyler Robinson, the man accused of killing Charlie Kirk last week, during an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press." KRISTEN WELKER: Governor, I want to ask you about something you said on Friday. You said, quote, "There was a radicalization that happened in a fairly short amount of time." How was the suspect radicalized? How quickly did it happen? GOV. SPENCER COX: Well, again, those are pieces of information that we're still gathering, trying to understand. We do know, and again this has been well publicized, that this was a very normal young man, a very smart young man, a 4.0 student, I think a 34 on the ACT, went to my alma mater, Utah State University, but was only there for a very short amount of time and dropped out after less than one semester. And it seemed to happen kind of after that, after he had moved back to the southern part of Utah. Clearly there was a lot of gaming going on. Friends that have confirmed t

CNN data analyst Harry Enten zeroes in on President Trump's approval ratings: HARRY ENTEN, CNN: I do see something of a pattern. Sometimes we lose the forest for the trees, but I want to look at the forest—and it is one ugly duckling forest that we're looking at for Donald Trump. Look at this negative net approval rating. You know, we talk about one poll, the CBS News poll. We talk about another poll, the NBC News poll. Look at the aggregate polls and look how long Donald Trump's net approval rating has been negative. It has been every day since March 12th in the average of polls. We're talking about 181 days in a row in which Donald Trump has been underwater—swimming with the fishes. There is no good data for Donald Trump when looking at the aggregate and looking overall. He has been negative for a very long period of time, the vast majority of his second presidency. What about the issues? OK, what about the issues? You see this here, right? Is there any shining light? Is there any light at

NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya told Newsmax on Thursday night that he supports Florida's plan to end all vaccine mandates and researching concerns about vaccine side effects raised by HHS Secretary Kennedy. Bhattacharya argued that mandates are not the most effective way to get the most people vaccinated. "The European strategy is different, and they've had better results than we do on essential vaccines like MMR," he said. "In the UK, Sweden, and Denmark, all vaccines are voluntary. None of them have mandates for any of their vaccines. What they do have is public health that doesn't lie to their people." "They're not coercing people--they're reasoning with them. I'm not making an announcement for the administration; I'm giving you my view as an epidemiologist. That seems the better approach: talk to people, show them the data, be honest when there are problems, and treat people like adults, especially parents, so they can make good decisions for their families," Bhattacharya said. "I don't thi

FNC's Greg Gutfeld commented on the Minneapolis school shooter's rejection of trans identity on Thursday's edition of "The Five." "In this manifesto that this creep wrote, he said he was tired of being trans, and that he had wished he had never brainwashed himself," he said. "What more do you need—straight from the monster’s mouth?" "Politicians, activists, teachers—you built this," Gutfeld said. "It’s a nihilistic place to be, when you deny biology, and they have nowhere to go. So all of these media arguments—what you are seeing there among those people—it is to escape their own culpability and the reality they created." GREG GUTFELD: This is why none of these a-holes can lecture anyone on compassion. The most compassionate people on this planet are trying to stop the trans delusion. The least compassionate are the people in the media, academia, and politicians who enable this hysteria of horror. What is so glaring about the trans cult: apparently your identity is the only thing that

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told TOX News this morning that he has directed the National Institutes of Health to investigate how many homicides and suicides can be linked to psychiatric drugs, particularly SSRI (Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors). EMILY COMPAGNO: Two children dead and 17 hurt after a gunman opened fire during back-to-school Mass at a Catholic school in Minneapolis. BRIAN KILMEADE: One thing is clear: you are dealing with a person who is trans, he was transitioning. Are you examining some of the drugs that are used in order to make that transition happen, and if they play a role? There was a trans shooter in the Tennessee situation. ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR.: We are doing those kinds of studies now at NIH. We're launching studies on the potential contribution of some of the SSRI drugs and other psychiatric drugs that might be contributing to violence. Many of them had black box warnings that warn of suicidal ideation and homicidal ideation. We can't ex