It's day 11 and counting of the government shutdown and President Trump is making good on his threat of mass federal workforce firings. On Friday, Trump's budget chief, Russell Vote, said in reduction in force plans have started with court filings saying the agency intends to lay off more than 4,000 employees. Now, that's in addition to the 750,000 workers expected to be furled during the shutdown.It'll be a lot and we'll announce the numbers over the next couple of days. And I must tell you a lot of them h ...

And we begin tonight with a look at the state of America right now as we head into the second week of a government shutdown that has put federal workers and military families in a financial bind. Take a look at this image shared by Spencer Hakem Unex. It shows a food bank in Texas lined with military members.Now, President Trump announced on True Social this afternoon that he is directing Defense Secretary Pete Hexith to use available funds to get those troops and others paid on October 15th. But here's the ...

I want to ask you about the Arizona Democrat Adelina Grihalva who was elected to fill her late father's seat in Congress last month. You've not set a date to swear her in just yet, saying she was elected after the House was out of session, but she's been elected. Why not get her sworn in.Because we're not in session because Chuck Schumer shut down the government. Okay. Uh we had a we had a special exception here a couple of months ago where we had two Florida representatives elected in a in a special electi ...

Senate Democrats from Arizona squared off yesterday with Speaker Mike Johnson outside of his office over an elected Democrat from their state who has not yet been sworn in. That's Congresswoman Electito Grahalva who won her special election more than two weeks ago. Since then, Johnson has cited that the House is not in session as well as the government shutdown which came after her victory as to why she hasn't been sworn in.That's one of his jobs to swear in new members. Here's some of yesterday's exchange ...

Discharge potential. The Epstein discharge. >> No, it has has nothing to do with that at all.>> You guys are experts at red herrings and distraction. Has nothing to do with Epstein. >> They're becoming experts at distraction and red herrings.This has absolutely nothing to do about Epstein. This is a scheduling matter. >> That was House Speaker Mike Johnson insisting three times in the past 24 hours that he is not holding off on swearing in a duly-eleed Democratic congresswoman to avoid a vote on releasing t ...

Look, Pam Bondi is a fool and a coward and she works for someone who is believes himself to be a king and is an autocrat and she has cast her her her lot with him. I mean, the fact is Pam Bondi doesn't think she's the attorney general for all the people. Pam Bondi doesn't think that she participates in a democratic process. Pam Bundy doesn't think she was at an oversight hearing. She believes that she is the personal lawyer to the president. She is there to protect him. She is there to lie for him. She is t ...

So the speaker's office has had absolutely no communication with me directly at all. So everything is going through leader Jeff or Whip Clark and every person in the Democratic caucus has been so incredibly supportive sending out their own tweets um really encouraging Speaker Johnson to swear me in. One of the first arguments that I heard was um and this is again through media outlets because the communication is not coming to me directly um said that if once the official results are in then we'll go ahead ...

10 days ago, Arizona Democrat Alita Grihalva won a special election to fill her late father's congressional seat by 40 points. But Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson has still not allowed her to be sworn into office. Now, Republicans say that it's because the House has not returned to a normal session.But it just so happens that once sworn in, Grialva would be the crucial 218th signature on the bipartisan petition to force a House vote on releasing the Epstein files. Speaking to CBS News yesterday ...

you know, this is a development. Uh, but it also would explain uh to me at least why the White House and House Republicans are working to such great lengths to bury the Epstein files like a mile beneath the earth. I mean, it it looks like they're blackmailed being blackmailed, right. I mean, we're we're in a Epstein shutdown right now.I went to Washington earlier this week and the doors to the capital were closed because they don't want to swear in a member of Congress who will be the 218th signature that w ...

We begin this hour with breaking news as President Trump is targeting yet another blue city today. This time threatening to send troops to Portland to shut down protests outside ICE facilities. Trump this morning posted on truth social, quote, "At the request of Secretary of Homeland Security Christy Gnome, I am directing Secretary of War Pete Hexith to provide all necessary troops to protect war ravage Portland and any of our ICE facilities under siege from attack by Antifa and other domestic terrorists. I ...