As you probably know by now, SNAP benefits (a.k.a. food stamps) are set to expire tomorrow due to the government shutdown. In response to a reporter’s question about people not getting food assistance from the government next month, President Trump had the perfect answer. “All the Democrats have to do is say, ‘Let’s go,’” President Trump said, “They don’t have to do anything. They don’t have to agree to anything. All they have to do is say, ‘The government is open.’” He also noted that most SNAP recipients are Democrats, so they are really “hurting their own people.” Watch here: Backup here: .@POTUS on SNAP benefits expiring due to the Democrat Shutdown: “All the Democrats have to do is say, ‘Let’s go.’ They don’t have to do anything. They don’t have to agree to anything. All they have to do is say, ‘The government is open.'” pic.twitter.com/P6forKAIWf — Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) October 31, 2025 President Trump is right, once again. The reason why people aren’t going to get SNAP — and why the government is shut down in the first place — is because of the Democrats’ refusal to negotiate. As President Trump said in that clip, five more Democrats are currently needed to pass a vote to re-open the government. Fox News noted: The government shutdown has continued since Oct. 1, when Senate lawmakers failed to reach an agreement on a funding package. Republicans have pinned blame for the shutdown on Democrats for allegedly working to include healthcare benefits for illegal immigrants in the package, which Democrats have denied while arguing Republicans are to blame due to not negotiating healthcare demands. Only two Senate Democrats, Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada and John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, as well as independent Angus King of Maine, who caucuses with the Democrats, have voted alongside 52 Republicans to reopen the government. The measure needs 60 votes in order to pass. As for the SNAP program, yes, there are some lazy people who just don’t want to work and abuse the system at the expense of the taxpayer. That is a separate issue in and of itself. However, there are also many Americans in unfortunate circumstances that need temporary food assistance to feed themselves and their children. Something that is very telling about the Democrat party is the fact that at this point, they’re literally prioritizing healthcare for illegal aliens over feeding hungry U.S. citizens. If they really cared and wanted to ensure that people get their food stamps next month, then Democrats could vote today to re-open the government and get it done. But, they don’t, and they won’t. Democrat lawmakers will never do the right thing. — Paul A. Szypula (@Bubblebathgirl) October 31, 2025 pic.twitter.com/FR4b8xOZYz — WickedSon (@SoggyBottom22) October 31, 2025 No wonder President Trump and the Republican party’s approval ratings have been skyrocketing during the Schumer shutdown… Your thoughts?

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Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts issued a statement in regard to conservative commentator Tucker Carlson’s decision to interview far-right political commentator Nick Fuentes, declaring that “canceling” Fuentes “is not the answer” while calling for engagement rather than isolation of controversial figures.

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NPR justice correspondent Ryan Lucas has been quite clear a grave injustice in this moment is designating Antifa as a terrorist group. Summon the carefully selected Experts!  On Tuesday, the Lucas report warned: “As Trump talks of designating antifa a foreign terrorist group, experts see danger.” Lucas ushered in the civil liberties panic, over President Trump having designated Antifa a domestic terrorist organization last month, after years of the group organizing into cells in progressive cities like Portland and picking fights and destroying both public and private property. But to NPR, the worst danger is Trump calling out Antifa. Host Juana Summers sniffed, “It's unclear what that means in the real world. There's no statute for domestic terrorism. But now the president is talking about designating antifa a foreign terrorist organization. That would have legal teeth and likely enormous repercussions…." Give reporter Lucas one cheer for accurately calling antifa “far-left.” RYAN LUCAS, BYLINE: Earlier this month, President Trump welcomed right-wing influencers to the White House for a roundtable about antifa, the far-left movement or ideology opposed to fascism. Some of the influencers gathered around the table urged the president to designate antifa as a foreign terrorist organization. NPR ran audio clips from the gathering, then rebutted with Jason Blazakis, who worked in counterterrorism under Obama and Trump and who wrote an Los Angeles Times op-ed warning that Trump was "inching down" the path of "crushing democracy." JASON BLAZAKIS: I do think it would be a highly dangerous step for the administration to pursue. LUCAS: Blazakis says there are certain legal criteria to designate a group a foreign terrorist organization, including that it is indeed a cohesive organization. In the case of antifa, Blazakis says it is not a functioning group like ISIS or al-Qaida, which had clear leadership and a hierarchy. Instead, he and other experts say antifa isn't an organization at all. It's more of a movement of disparately linked people who share an ideology, which is that fascism is bad. They also share a penchant for masked violence and property destruction, but NPR won’t report anything that would stain Antifa’s brave "anti-fascist" mythology. Lucas next spoke with Thomas Brzozowski, former counsel for domestic terrorism at the Justice Department, who was even more aggressive in shielding Antifa and condemning the Trump administration's designation. There were no outside voices to offer a defense of Trump's stand. LUCAS: The most immediate impact would be the ability for federal prosecutors to bring the criminal charge of material support to a designated terrorist organization. Material support is broadly defined and can mean something as small as a $10 gift card or a bottle of water.... BRZOZOWSKI: When that foreign terrorist organization is so ill-defined and nobody even knows what it is and it potentially includes all activity that can be painted as left-wing or whatever term you like to hang on it, that becomes potentially catastrophically dangerous for anybody, for everybody. Lucas and his guest piled on the paranoia, suggesting universities, those hotbeds of extreme progressivism, “could cancel conferences that touch any topic that might conceivably relate to anti-fascism.”  BRZOZOWSKI: They're not going to insure these institutions if they touch anything where (inaudible) remotely concerns anti-fascism. And think about how broad that is. What does it even mean? It sounds crazy, Kafkaesque, but that's what this designation would bring into play. The media may claim Antifa is merely an “amorphous concept,” but networks actually do know what Antifa is, and they kind of like it. In 2018, then-CNN host Don Lemon practically defended Antifa by giving them a “distinction” from neo-Nazis—that being fighting fascism, supposedly. CNN platformed an Antifa member in an attempt to humanize the group. Lucas’s October 23 report for Morning Edition also fretted over Trump designating the violent rioters of Antifa a foreign terrorist organization. The next story in that show’s queue? The dangerous "far right" Young Republicans who got in heavily publicized trouble for obnoxious remarks in online group chats.   On top of that, Lucas turned up on The NPR Politics Podcast on Wednesday with the same frightened theme.