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As the government shutdown drags into its fifth week with no clear end in sight, Pennsylvania Democrat Senator John Fetterman erupted in frustration over his own party’s inertia — saying millions of Americans, including hungry parents and children, are left scrambling while politicians in Washington play political chess. “It’s an absolute failure,” Fetterman told CNN. With the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) expiring over the weekend, roughly 40 million low-income Americans could lose access to food benefits. “Imagine being a parent with a couple kids and how you’re going to fill their refrigerator and pack their lunches and get on with their lives when the things that they’ve depended on is (sic) gone because we can’t even agree to just open things up. … I’m apologizing that we can’t even get our sh** together and just open up our government.” Fetterman’s outburst came as the Senate adjourned again without results, heading into the 34th day of what is now one of the longest shutdowns in U.S. history. Behind closed doors, senators from both parties have floated compromises, but none have gained traction. For millions of families, that means another week of waiting while grocery prices soar and food banks stretch thin. Join us now during our exclusive Deal of the Decade. Get everything for $7 a month. Not as fans. As fighters. Go to DailyWire.com/Subscribe to join now. Fetterman pointed to his wife, Gisele’s, local outreach. Her free store in Braddock, Pennsylvania, distributes food several times a week — and the lines, he said, have already grown. “I’ll encounter people this weekend that have no SNAP benefits. I don’t have an explanation for them,” he said. “All I can say is I’m sorry.” The senator has become one of the few Democrats siding with Republicans to reopen the government. He’s broken ranks more than a dozen times, insisting that families should never be held hostage in a partisan fight. When reminded that Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said the shutdown was “getting better for us” politically every day for the Democrats, Fetterman didn’t hide his disgust, saying, “Ask the hungry people on Saturday. Americans are not leverage. This is not some sh**ty game show about who’s winning.” Sen. Fetterman: “I'm apologizing that, that we can't even get our shit together and just open up our government.” On Schumer’s claim that things are better every day for Ds: “Ask the hungry people on Saturday…This is not some shitty game show about who's winning or whatever.” pic.twitter.com/3ShdItR8UQ — Manu Raju (@mkraju) October 31, 2025

For several months now, as Leftists have rioted all over the United States in the name of open borders, the pro-civilization side — which, we have to remind ourselves, remains a majority in this country, albeit a slim one — has been asking a very simple question. And that question is this: When exactly are these terrorists going to be arrested and thrown in prison? These people are committing crimes on camera. They aren’t even attempting to hide their identity. They’re openly bragging about the fact that they’re attacking and impeding federal law enforcement officials. We’ve seen video after video, in places like Portland and Los Angeles and Chicago. These are far worse crimes than the January 6 defendants were charged with — and those defendants were forced to spend several months in solitary confinement. They had their lives destroyed, in many cases. Grandmothers with terminal cancer were imprisoned.  Portland (Oct. 11) — When the Antifa militants in the animal costumes think the cameras are pointed away, they engage in rioting too outside the ICE facility. The same thing happened in 2020 with “Wall of Moms” members helping to break inside the federal courthouse when they… pic.twitter.com/ynnr5ccEyT — Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) October 13, 2025 Credit: @MrAndyNgo/X.com Meanwhile, when it comes to these anti-ICE riots, there haven’t been any consequences to speak of. Simply put, different rules apply to Leftists. That’s been the norm for many years. It was true during the first Trump administration, as BLM rioters destroyed entire neighborhoods with impunity. And it’s been true for most of this year, as well. It’s maybe the single most important responsibility of the current Trump administration to end this double-standard, because if they don’t, then the violence is going to escalate. If we don’t have the rule of law, then Leftists will continue to hunt law enforcement, as well as conservatives, in the streets. They will kill us, and celebrate our deaths. That’s why I’ve been beating this drum for so long. It’s a legitimate crisis that needs to be addressed. The good news — which we’ve been waiting for — is that the Trump administration now appears to realize the importance of cracking down on these terrorists. And they’re commencing that crackdown, to the shock of Leftist terrorists. The other day, a Democrat congressional candidate named “Kat Abughazaleh” was indicted in a federal district court in Illinois for assaulting, resisting, and impeding a federal law enforcement officer in the performance of his duties. Kat Abughazaleh, whose name I am nervous to pronounce because it sounds like I’m summoning an ancient demon from the netherworld, was indicted along with two other Democrats: county board candidate Cat Sharp and Democrat committeeman Michael Rabbitt.  But Kat Abughazaleh is the defendant I want to focus on, for a couple of reasons. The biggest reason is that Kat Abughazaleh, in a somewhat unusual move for a criminal defendant, actually uploaded the footage of her crimes to the internet. Here’s what she uploaded to X in late  September: At the Broadview ICE facility, an ICE agent tried to run dozens of protesters over with an SUV as we walked on a public crosswalk. He kept driving for about a full football field until ICE barraged us with pepper balls. pic.twitter.com/bGX7vh5o84 — Kat Abughazaleh (@KatAbughazaleh) September 26, 2025 Credit: AKatAbughazaleh/X.com Notice Kat Abughazleh’s caption for this video. The problem with her description, of course, is that she uploaded the footage that proves she’s lying. The footage shows that she’s standing in front of a federal SUV that’s trying to gain access to the ICE facility. She’s part of a large and rowdy crowd. The crowd isn’t walking. They’re not using the crosswalk. They’re looking directly at the driver of the federal SUV. They’re punching and scratching the car. They actually broke its windshield wiper off, at one point. It’s very apparent that they want to disrupt ICE agents from doing their jobs — and they’re succeeding. And the SUV isn’t running anyone over, nor is it trying to run anyone over. It’s doing the exact opposite. It’s going 1 mile per hour, trying to get to safety in the federal facility. And by the way, this isn’t the only footage showing Kat committing a crime at one of these ICE facilities. In this footage, she runs in front of a federal SUV, forcing a federal agent to remove her. Watch: Now: A woman protesting rushes in front of a federal officer’s vehicle leaving the Broadview facility—Agents quickly jump in and forcibly remove her. Earlier she was sitting on the ground blocking the exit. pic.twitter.com/Y9DgbBg9xf — Ali Bradley (@AliBradleyTV) September 19, 2025 Credit: @AliBradleyTV/X.com Again, it’s an open-and-shut crime. Kat should’ve been arrested on the spot, back in September. She also should’ve been disavowed by the Democrat Party. But of course, she wasn’t disowned. In fact, she’s been endorsed by Ro Khanna, one of the most powerful Democrats in Congress. He’s the supposedly “reasonable” Democrat from California. But he’s endorsed a communist who’s happy to commit multiple federal crimes on camera. And he’s maintained that endorsement, even though Kat is obviously committing these crimes on purpose, so that she can raise her profile in the race. That’s why she’s lying about what she did. It’s why she posted the videos. And it’s why she’s currently trying to fundraise off this indictment. Watch: I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice. This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win. pic.twitter.com/szOSZa1h3z — Kat Abughazaleh (@KatAbughazaleh) October 29, 2025 Credit: @KatAbughazaleh/X.com You almost have to admire the sheer, unadulterated shamelessness of the Left at this point. They will film themselves committing crimes on the street, upload that footage online, and then they’ll pretend to be stunned when they’re prosecuted. Of course, she knows she’s guilty. That’s why she doesn’t show any footage of her crimes in this video. But it doesn’t matter. If anything, she’s probably going to become much more popular among Democrats because she attacks federal agents, on camera, and then posts the footage online. To be clear: When Democrats went after Donald Trump, in every single case, they attempted to use a completely novel, incoherent interpretation of the law. They were obviously political prosecutions because they were making up the law as they went. For the business records case in New York, Democrats created a Frankenstein theory, where jurors didn’t even have to decide what felony Trump had supposedly committed 10 years earlier — tax evasion, campaign finance violations, or business records violations. Nothing like that had ever been tried before in the state. For the classified documents case, of course, Democrats had to ignore the fact that Joe Biden had committed the exact same fake crime — except in Joe Biden’s case, he didn’t have any legal authority to declassify anything. And for the January 6 case, Democrats tried to argue that Trump had committed an insurrection by telling his supporters to “fight” for their beliefs — which is boilerplate political rhetoric that every Democrat uses. And in the Fulton County, Georgia case, as we all remember, the prosecutors turned out to be the actual criminals. All of these cases fell apart because they were political prosecutions of fake crimes. By contrast, Kat is being charged with a crime that’s extremely clear and well-established. Prosecuting someone for intentionally blocking a federal officer from getting to work, on camera, is not a novel application of the law. It’s not a cooked-up, trumped-up charge. It’s bog standard. And anyone with an IQ north of 50 understands that. This is the point where we need to talk about Kat Abughazaleh’s background. In case it’s not obvious from that video, she’s an extremely, comically stupid and useless woman. Her only real job, prior to running for Congress, was watching Fox News all day. She would watch Fox News, and then make dumb videos for TikTok where she would misrepresent everything she could. Here’s a sample of her work product, which we’ll make as mercifully short as we possibly can. This is from back in 2023, when her job was to justify the prosecution of Donald Trump: UPDATE: Kat Abughazaleh has been federally indicted for obstructing federal law enforcement https://t.co/fVqA6OeFvc — Will Chamberlain (@willchamberlain) October 29, 2025 Credit: @willchamberlain/X.com This was her whole shtick. She knows she doesn’t have the intelligence to actually respond to anyone’s argument. So she clips their arguments down to 3-second soundbites, without any context whatsoever. And then she attacks those soundbites, as if that was the person’s whole argument. The remarkable thing is that Kat Abughazaleh was making useless videos like this from Washington D.C., until she moved to Illinois in the summer of last year. In fact, according to her Wikipedia page, she voted in the last election from Washington, D.C. And now, a year later, she’s running for Congress in the state of Illinois. So here we have a very low-IQ woman, a criminal, with no meaningful work experience, who isn’t even from Illinois — and right now, she’s running for Congress in Illinois. And she might win. The latest polls show that she’s within 5% of winning the primary in a very safe, reliably Democrat district, which takes place early next year. And prominent Democrats are standing by her. That tells you, once again, the state of the Democrat Party, at every level. They don’t have ideas. They’re not remotely honest. They’re terrorists. They film themselves committing crimes. And they want you dead. The appropriate response here — which the Trump administration is pursuing — is to put this woman on trial, convict her, and send her to prison. That is not a political prosecution. It’s a righteous prosecution. The evidence of her crimes is available online. Use it. And don’t stop with her. Round up every other Leftist who’s impeding ICE officers in the performance of their duties. Fortunately again, that appears to be happening. This week in Chicago, a woman named Angelica Figueroa was tailgating ICE agents and broadcasting their locations on social media. As she did so, she was told, numerous times, that she was interfering with an ongoing investigation, which is a federal crime. Officers pulled up next to her, and told her to stop chasing them through the streets (and running red lights in the process). When she persisted, they arrested her. Watch: Credit: Angelica Figueroa/@MillennialVerse/X.com The thing is, you can’t just harass people around like this. It’s actually not legal. If you get in your car, and chase a particular person around all day — following them closely on the street, getting in their personal space, photographing them on foot, posting their real-time location, refusing to back off when they tell you to go away, et cetera — then you’re stalking them. If it goes on long enough, then you’re putting them in a reasonable fear for their safety. And that’s a crime. It’s even worse when you’re stalking law enforcement, and giving away the location of their vehicles, including undercover vehicles. That’s definitely not legal. This woman thought ICE would never actually arrest her for doing this. But obviously, she was mistaken. The Trump administration has decided to fight back against these terrorists because they know that, if they don’t, then the state and local governments will let them off the hook. It doesn’t matter if they commit their crimes on camera or not. Consider this recent case out of New York, where a woman named Sahara Dula deliberately ran over a police officer. Watch: Credit: LLN NYC/YouTube.com So it’s all on tape. And on top of that, she confessed to it. Here’s what she told investigators. “I told the cop I wanted to go straight, and he wouldn’t move, so I hit him. I did it on purpose. F**k these cops! He wouldn’t move! F**k these cops, it’s a lesson to him, and hopefully he doesn’t want to be a cop anymore.” For this attempted murder — which is completely, unequivocally proven beyond any doubt, and for which she’s shown no remorse — Sahara just received a sentence of two years in prison. Yes, two years, for attempting to murder a police officer in the middle of the street. That sentence was issued by Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Melissa T. Lewis — the same judge who, two years ago, let a 31-year-old black man named Lenue Moore out of prison on $5,000 bond after he forced his way into a 57-year-old white woman’s apartment. Credit: WABC New York/New York Post Once he entered the woman’s apartment, Moore broke her arm and severely beat her boyfriend with a hammer— all because he didn’t like the sound of the woman’s dog barking. Credit: GoFundMe/New York Post Yes, the bond was set at just $5,000 for a violent home invasion motivated by a noise complaint — which means that the man only had to pay $500 to get out of prison, since criminals only need to pay 10% of the bail money in cash. Five months later, what do you know? The man paid the $500, got out of jail, and immediately ambushed the woman while she was out walking her dog in the evening. Credit: NYPD and Jackie Billini/Facebook/Independent UK He shot her to death, along with her friend and the dog. So this is how the “justice system” normally works in Left-wing cities. And for several years under Joe Biden, it’s how the federal system worked, as well. The problem for these violent criminals is that, when the federal government steps in, and actually enforces the law, then the party’s over. They have no idea how to react. And that’s exactly what we’re seeing now, in the context of immigration law. So in response to the Trump administration’s new approach, the terrorists are becoming more desperate. They are panicking. And they’re becoming less and less effective. Recently, for example, a foreign-born federal judge named Sarah Ellis (whose parents are from Jamaica) ruled that the commander of the Border Patrol, Gregory Bovino, had to appear in her courtroom every single day. Wikimedia Commons Again, it’s a clear attempt at obstruction — no different, effectively, than what every other Leftist terrorist is doing. The point was to harass Gregory Bovino so that he couldn’t perform his duties. That’s why, very quickly, the order was shut down by the appellate court. Watch: ?BREAKING: The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals BLOCKS foreign-born Obama Judge Sarah Ellis’ order requiring CBP official Gregory Bovino to appear in court daily for updates on illegal alien deportation raids in sanctuary city Chicago. Activist judges should take notice: FAFO. pic.twitter.com/ksYFlA6ez1 — Dapper Detective (@Dapper_Det) October 29, 2025 Credit: @Dapper_Det/X.com During the entire four years of the Biden administration, did anything like this ever happen the other way? Did a single conservative judge, anywhere in the country, order that Merrick Garland had to show up in his courtroom, every day, to explain himself? Of course not. This kind of ruling only goes one way. Only the Left fights like this. And until now, they’ve had no resistance whatsoever. They must be shocked that, all of a sudden, they’re losing. And in response, they’re grasping at straws to maintain a narrative. NBC News for example just ran this headline. Screenshot: NBC Bay Area “Federal agents arrest undocumented father at home in San Jose, family says.” Well, that’s heartbreaking. What NBC doesn’t tell you, in the headline, is that the “undocumented father” is a pedophile named Gerardo Rojas-Leyva, who has a rap sheet including “lewd acts with a child” and “battery of a spouse.” So one of the largest news networks in the country is promoting a pedophile, as part of their campaign to demonize ICE and encourage attacks on law enforcement. There really is no way to debate or reason with people like this. Their arguments are indistinguishable from full-blown psychosis. And the big problem with psychotic people is that, as they become increasingly detached from reality, they become a much greater risk to everyone around them. They become a massive public safety threat. That’s what the Democrat Party represents. That’s what they’re embracing. And that’s why every single one of these terrorists must be imprisoned. At the moment, it looks like the Trump administration finally understands exactly what they’re dealing with. And with these indictments, they’re proceeding as they should — by following the law, as fairly but also as ruthlessly as they possibly can.

WASHINGTON — Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy warned Thursday that Americans may see significant Thanksgiving travel issues if the government shutdown continues. Vance led a roundtable discussion at the White House on Thursday afternoon focused on how the shutdown is impacting aviation, hearing from a number of aviation leaders on how the ongoing shutdown has affected the airlines thus far. The vice president and transportation secretary gaggled with reporters outside the White House following the roundtable, where they reminded White House press that air traffic controllers did not receive a paycheck this week — and that many aviation unions are calling on Senate Democrats to pass the “clean CR.” Asked by the Daily Wire whether Americans should be afraid to fly if the shutdown continues, Vance said no — Americans should not be afraid to fly “because we’ve got great airline professionals who are keeping the safest aviation industry in the world afloat.” “But they are doing it with incredible stress,” he warned. “What I worry more about is that if you have, let’s say, a pilot who has now missed two paychecks, who’s now telling his kids that they can’t do things that they would like to do, who’s now worried about feeding his family. Maybe that guy doesn’t show up to work. Maybe he goes and gets a different job. That means greater delays for the American people.” US Vice President JD Vance fields a question during a press conference outside the West Wing of the White House on October 30, 2025, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Oliver Contreras / AFP) (Photo by OLIVER CONTRERAS/AFP via Getty Images) “I worry about the air-traffic controller who now has missed two paychecks, who has gotta pay his credit card bill or his mortgage, but can’t pay both. And decides, you know what, this industry is not for me,” the vice president continued. “I think that we have a safe system because these guys are doing heroic things in the midst of this terrible shutdown,” he added. “But why do we ask them to do so much without getting paid? Why don’t we pay them, so that they can be happy, they can do the best job they can do, and they’re not worried about feeding their families while they do a very important job for all of us.” Join us now during our exclusive Deal of the Decade. Get everything for $7 a month. Not as fans. As fighters. Go to DailyWire.com/Subscribe to join now. Meanwhile, Duffy specifically pointed out the pitfalls of air travel as inclement weather arrives in November and more Americans choose to travel. “It’ll be a disaster in aviation,” Duffy said. “October is a slower air travel month, and we have great weather in October. And so you’ve seen minimal disruption because of good weather and slower travel. But as we go into November, travel picks up as people start to look at going to see their families, kids come home from college.” The Transportation Secretary emphasized that “people will not be able to go from one place to the other because of a government shutdown.” “I hope Democrats don’t take it to that point,” he said. Vance has repeatedly made the point that “we need five more” reasonable, moderate Democrats to vote to reopen the government, and “put the American people first.” “That’s all that we are asking,” he insisted again on Thursday. “Let’s talk about healthcare policy, let’s make sure that we ensure that Americans’ health insurance premiums don’t go up, we want that, and we’re willing to work with people for it, but they’ve got to reopen the government first.”