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House Speaker Mike Johnson has deferred the vote on a bill to fund the government through March. The temporary government-funding mechanism, called a continuing resolution, would have included the SAVE Act, an election-integrity measure meant to prevent illegal immigrants from voting in federal elections. Johnson has pulled the bill until next week in hopes of building “consensus” around his plan to avoid a government shutdown and force Democrats to vote against protecting American elections from illegal immigrant votes. “We are going to continue to work on this. The whip is going to do the hard work to build consensus and work on the weekend on that,” Johnson claimed. The speaker added the Republican conference will have more “family conversations” about it. The reason Johnson was forced to pull the bill was because of a growing number of GOP holdouts. He could only have afforded four GOP defections in the vote, originally scheduled for Wednesday afternoon, given that Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., was hospitalized last night after collapsing at an event. At least six Republicans had come out against the continuing resolution. Rep. Mike Rogers, R.-Ala., was one of the first Republicans to announce he’d be voting against the speaker’s plan. The hawkish chairman of the House Armed Services Committee—known for nearly assaulting Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., during the speakership fight—said he cannot vote for the continuing resolution because it would hold defense expenditures at current levels for the next six months. “It’s terrible for defense,” Rogers claimed. Another member of the Armed Services Committee, Rep. Cory Mills, R-Fla., currently opposes the continuing resolution. It “would weaken our defense capabilities and the readiness of our military, just as global threats are rapidly evolving,” the Florida representative said in a statement. “Six months is a long time in politics, but it’s an eternity in geopolitics, where quick responses are critical to countering foreign adversaries threatening to harm U.S. interests.” Mills, however, was sure to add that he is “a firm NO on bankrupting the nation and a YES on election integrity.” Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., is also on the Armed Services Committee and came out against Johnson’s continuing resolution. “I’m not going to vote to extend bloated spending for six more months and grow the national debt trillions of dollars more,” said the Indiana congressman, who is now running for Senate. Fiscal hawks have also came out against the continuing resolution, among them Republican Reps. Matt Rosendale of Montana, Andy Biggs of Arizona, Thomas Massie of Kentucky, and Tim Burchett of Tennessee. “I’ve continuously voted against [continuing resolutions]. I think it is terrible legislating,” Burchett said. “And the No. 1 threat to this country is fiscal irresponsibility. We are going off a fiscal cliff, and I think that every time we do this, we just kick that can further down the road.” Taken together, their objections have sent Johnson back to the drawing board. The speaker has tasked House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., “to do the hard work and build consensus.” “We’re going to work through the weekend on that. And I want any member of Congress in either party to explain to the American people why we should not ensure that only U.S. citizens are voting in U.S. elections,” the speaker said. “We’re going to work on that issue around the clock because we have an obligation to the people to do it. And that’s what the fight is. That’s what’s important.” The post Speaker Johnson Pulls Spending Bill Vote Amid GOP Opposition appeared first on The Daily Signal.

NBC’s Today wasn’t popping the proverbial champagne bottles on Wednesday like ABC’s Good Morning America did following the latter’s presidential debate marred by the partisan election interference of moderators Linsey Davis and David Muir for Vice President Kamala Harris against Donald Trump. NBC was more concerned about one person’s endorsement of Harris: Taylor Swift. After chief White House correspondent Peter Alexander tagged on a mention of Swift’s endorsement as having been “perhaps as important or at least getting as much attention”, co-host Savannah Guthrie giddily invoked it alongside Meet the Press moderator Kristen Welker and senior Washington correspondent Hallie Jackson. “Can we talk about Taylor Swift just briefly? I mean, look, these celebrity endorsements, I guess it’s a question of whether or not they matter, but as far as they go, this is the biggest one out there,” she swooned. Jackson was pumped about Swift’s “huge platform” and “very loyal followers” and how tens of thousands reportedly registered to vote when she shared a link on how to do so. Guthrie then fangirled with Welker if Swift will even campaign for Harris and running mate Tim Walz (click “expand”): GUTHRIE: Well, it would be interesting to see how far this endorsement goes because there are celebrities who put out a tweet and then there are celebrities who go out and try to register voters — WELKER: That’s right. GUTHRIE: and do all that kind of thing, do performances for the campaign. How much is she going to be involved? WELKER: Undoubtedly, there will be pressure on her to go out and campaign and perform. I would just say that this all comes down to those young voters right now. Kamala Harris has a lead, but not as much as Biden had in 2020, so part of this is about ginning up support with that critical group. NBC even gave this endorsement a full segment in the second half-hour. Guthrie teased it by promising a look at “[w]hat that endorsement could mean, especially for young voters in a race that is a dead heat this morning right after this.” Correspondent Joe Fryer called “the surprise late-night endorsement” something “the campaigns and voters are watching very closely” to the point that “they were definitely ready for it.” NBC's 'Today' was VERY excited about T-Swift's endorsement of Kamala Harris and touted how the Harris-Walz campaign just so happened to have friendship braclets ready to sell.... pic.twitter.com/jNathFMA4C — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) September 11, 2024 In between excerpts of her lengthy endorsement (including touting her signing it a “childless cat lady” alongside a picture of her cat, Benjamin Button), Fryer cheered Walz’s hilarious acting job of being surprised when he was told of the endorsement live on MSNBC and hoped her “massive presence and appeal to younger women” could swing the election. Fryer also reminded viewers of how “[i]n Swift’s Netflix documentary Miss Americana, she admitted she wished she had expressed her political opinions for the first time back in 2016 to help defeat President Trump.” Fryer closed with one huge final swoon: “And the endorsement came by surprise with the Harris campaign reportedly having no idea about it before the post, but the campaign is already jumped on it, announcing the sale of Harris-Walz’s friendship bracelets overnight.” As far as the debate itself, Alexander had a few moments of his own and started his lead-off report by touting the Harris campaign as “feeling very good about the Vice President’s performance last night” with “a senior Harris campaign official telling NBC News, we have an embarrassment of riches, too many moments to amplify.” Alexander made sure to tout Harris as having placed “Trump on the defense” and “deliver[ed] on on her strategy to try to get under Trump’s skin” as, in one case, she “referenc[ed] his refusal to accept the 2020 election results” and “mock[ed] his obsession with crowd size.” “Trump seeming to take the bait...and then, in the same response, veering from an attack on Harris’s record in a debunked conspiracy theories about immigrants in Ohio that have grown on the right in recent days,” he added. Alexander gave Trump some credit on the economy by acknowledging he “link[ed] Harris to President Biden, targeting their administration’s handling of the economy...and it’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan”. As for Jackson and Welker, both conceded Harris didn’t explain what she actually believes on policy and the latter emphasized “Harris threw out the bait repeatedly throughout the evening, and he took it over and over again.” To see the relevant NBC transcript from September 11, click here.

On the night of the debate – when late-term abortions would again be dismissed as a phony issue – NBC Nightly News ran a promotional piece about Colorado late-term abortionist Warren Hern, who has been a radical pro-abortion crank for 50 years. Lester Holt began: “And tonight we visit one state where women are traveling to obtain a rare and often misunderstood form of the procedure later in pregnancy.” It’s “often misunderstood” when you kill a baby in utero with an injection to the heart and then remove the corpse. Reporter Dasha Burns promoted abortion in this one-sided piece, focused on the "emotional experience" of women seeking abortions: BURNS: Dr. Hern says his clinic doesn't perform abortions in the eighth or ninth month and they're extraordinarily rare across the country. Just one percent of abortions are performed after 21 weeks. He tells us he doesn't want to do this work, but unforeseen circumstances create a need for it and that strict abortion bans in red states are partly to blame for an increase in patients seeking him out because it's taking them longer to find care. Hern was killing fully-formed babies when Roe vs. Wade was still the law. On screen, NBC says "Abortions Later In Pregnancy Exceedingly Rare." Their source was the Centers for Disease Control. In 2015, they found 1.3 percent of abortions came after 21 weeks. Their number of reported abortions was 638,169 -- 1.3 percent of that total is 8,296. Now compare that to the Washington Post finding on the number of unarmed black men killed by police in 2019. It was 13. Anyone think NBC would tout that as "exceedingly rare"?  In an article touting Hern last year in The Atlantic – titled “The Abortion Absolutist” – writer Elaine Godfrey revealed “Hern ends the pregnancies of women who are 22, 25, even 30 weeks along.” And worse: “I put my baby down,” Kate Carson, who’d gotten an abortion at Hern’s clinic in 2012, told me.  She’d been 35 weeks into a much-wanted pregnancy when her doctor diagnosed multiple brain anomalies. The only fraction of opposition was a seven-second Fox News soundbite of Donald Trump saying "the Democrats are radical" on late-term abortion. Burns focused the whole story by projecting all late-term abortion seekers in the most positive light: “Hern says many of the women who come here are dealing with very wanted pregnancies that have gone very wrong. Like the family that wrote him this letter.” Hern read it: "There are no words or gifts that can say thank you enough for what you've done for our family." You've reduced it. If you have a large enough TV, you can see it actually begins: “To the angels at the Boulder Abortion Clinic.” Ugh. Naturally, Burns found the Dr. Hern fans, no full names needed: “We visited that family at their home in Texas, where abortion is banned except in limited cases to save a woman's life or health. In 2023, they received a tragic diagnosis 24 weeks into their pregnancy. A severe fetal anomaly, and possible consequences for Emma's future fertility.” Emma said it was “the best decision for our family, to have an abortion.” Now they have a baby boy. That offers maximum propaganda value. NBC loves this angle!  Burns wrapped up the puff piece like this: BURNS: As abortion remains a top political issue in 2024, Dr. Hern vows to keep going. [To Hern] Why do you do this work? HERN: Because it matters. It matters for the health of the woman. It matters for their families. It matters for our society. And now it matters for freedom. BURNS:  Dasha Burns, NBC News, Boulder, Colorado.

The first presidential debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris has come to a close, and Dave Rubin isn’t buying the narrative the mainstream media is trying to spin about the candidates’ performances. “The narrative of what you are now going to see is the hyper-competent Kamala Harris is the winner, and you’re going to see a new narrative being laid out in front of us,” Rubin explains. “Trump old and angry. Kamala Harris competent, commanding of facts, happy, smiley.” “But that is really not what happened,” he adds. The ABC moderators, Linsey Davis and David Muir, continuously jumped in to take on Trump themselves — which is not normal for a debate. “This was a three-on-one,” Rubin says. “If this was professional wrestling, we would have thought this was a bit unfair.” “They fact-checked Donald Trump repeatedly, dishonestly at times,” he continues, “they pushed Kamala’s lies and did not once go after Kamala for any lies. So it was an abject clown show farce. Period.” While the mainstream media and leftists are cheering that Kamala won the debate, Rubin disagrees. “I think Donald Trump did a hell of a job. He really did do a hell of a job,” he says, noting that debating with a person who “lies about everything” is not easy. Liz Wheeler of “The Liz Wheeler Show” summed up Kamala’s lies in a post on X, writing, “Kamala has lied about late term abortion, ‘very fine people’ Charlottesville, J6, ‘Bloodbath,’ crime data, border security, Project 2025, fracking.’” “The ABC moderators are a disgrace. They’re propaganda. Pravda. They’ve sold their souls,” she concluded. “That is just right,” Rubin comments. “Every single thing that she said, almost without exclusion, was a lie or a distortion. And she knows she can do it because the two people sitting there were in cahoots to make sure she could get away with it.” Want more from Dave Rubin?To enjoy more honest conversations, free speech, and big ideas with Dave Rubin, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

A New York City special education teacher has been arrested after allegedly putting a 5-year-old elementary school student in a chokehold. Anthony Wicks, 46, was charged with second-degree assault and acting in a manner injurious to a child, WCBS-TV reported, adding that prosecutors said Wicks grabbed the student's neck with both hands and put him in a headlock. 'It was a very scary moment for him. … He said that ... his teacher's hands were tight around his neck, and that he said that he would be good and that he asked his teacher to let go.'More from the station:Wicks walked out of Manhattan Criminal Court silently with his husband Tuesday night, leaving on supervised release after his arraignment. The judge ordered Wicks not to have contact with the child, and when asked if he understood, Wicks replied to the judge, 'Yes, of course.' This is Wicks' first arrest. He is a full-time special education teacher, and his attorney says Wicks has worked for the city's education department for five years and at a preschool for three years before that. Police told WCBS the incident occurred Monday inside a classroom at P.S. 153 Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Elementary School in Hamilton Heights. The child's older brother told the station the 5-year-old wouldn't go in the "time-out corner" as the head teacher instructed. Wicks is an assistant teacher, parents noted to WCBS. "He was making a fuss about going in the time-out ... and then the teacher choked him," the brother told the station. "That teacher wasn't the one who was even talking to him. ... What other people have told me is that when he was getting choked, he was crying and then wouldn't calm down." The child's father told WCBS the principal called around noon Monday to say the boy was fine but that the parents needed to come to school. "It was a very scary moment for him," the child's father noted to the station. "He said that ... his teacher's hands were tight around his neck, and that he said that he would be good and that he asked his teacher to let go." A Department of Education spokesperson told WCBS, "This alleged behavior is completely unacceptable, and this employee has been immediately removed from this site. Pending the outcome of the arrest and if convicted, we will pursue their termination. There is nothing more important than the safety and well-being of our students." The station said it has not heard back from Wicks — who is awaiting arraignment on the charges — after an attempt to reach him by phone. One parent of a student in the 5-year-old's class told WCBS she came to school Tuesday because she was upset the school never notified her about the incident. "I had to find out through social media," she told the station. "That teacher is the teacher of my child, my 5-year-old child, and it's so upsetting because the school did not disclose anything. ... I went to go speak in there, and they couldn't give me any information. I want to withdraw him today." - YouTube youtu.be Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

North Carolina police said that a man was captured on surveillance video going into the bathroom of a gas station to beat a woman to death with a hammer. Charlotte-Mecklenburg officers said they responded to a call of a woman found bleeding at a QuikTrip in north Charlotte on Aug. 17 at about 11:15 p.m. They found 47-year-old Glandina Dixon bleeding from her head, and medics later pronounced her dead at the scene. 'God says you have to forgive; but right now, I can’t forgive because she didn’t deserve it.' Investigators reviewing surveillance video from the store shows that a man followed Dixon into the store and then returned to his black truck to obtain a hammer. Video reportedly shows him follow Dixon into the women's bathroom where police say he savagely struck her on the head with the hammer. He was only in the bathroom for 40 seconds. Police identified the man as 53-year-old Sam Roary, and detectives confirmed that he and the victim had previously known each other. He was arrested on a first-degree murder charge and given a cash bond of $1 million. WCNC-TV reported that Roary had been previously convicted of second-degree murder in 1989 when he was 18 years old and released from prison in 1995. Members of Dixon's family and friends held a vigil in her honor. “We don’t understand why, we want to know why. I’m angry," said James Love to WCNC. "God says you have to forgive; but right now, I can’t forgive because she didn’t deserve it." A news video report from WCNC showed scenes from the gas station as well as Roary's booking photo. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Mom of Young Woman Murdered by MS-13 Gang Member Warns Us Things Will GET WORSE If Kamala Wins