Hakeem still playing dirty politics – trying to make Americans think it was the GOP and not the left who called for the shut down.
The Speaker of the House needs to give Schumer/Hakeem the water test, today. Fill a glass of water half full – have Schumer stick his right oath hand in the glass of water and then remove it. Nothing changed and shows that Schumer or anyone is not as important as they think they are.
This should be normal procedure. When the Democrats give us a lemon – make lemon-aid.
It is time to go one step further to protect our citizens – left or right.
As we know. the Democrat air controllers have not reported for work during the Democrats’ shut-down and are AWOL – they should be suspended until further notice and replaced.
When the left plays games with the lives of our citizens – it calls for extreme measures. It is time to take serious measures and add the military controllers (and they are being paid) to take over at the airports (controllers) to protect our citizens until the Democrat games the left are playing stop, especially during the holidays. We have bases all over the U.S. who are trained military controllers who are being paid – why not use them in this emergency? At least they are serious about their jobs.
11/11/2025
When it is time to vote again – be sure and show the split leftie Democrat/Socialist Party that you have some leverage too!
Brit Hume: The Shutdown Wasn’t About Obamacare Subsidies, It Was About Resistance To Donald Trump
FOX News chief political analyst Brit Hume reacted to the deal to end the shutdown and reopen the government on Monday’s “Special Report.”
BRET BAIER, ‘SPECIAL REPORT’ HOST: Brit, let me start with you. Your thoughts of the political moment here and what we’ve seen and started to see inside the Democratic Party today.
BRIT HUME, FOX NEWS: Well, this whole shutdown was a fool’s errand from the start. This strategy has been tried a number of times before where you try to use the government shutdown and the pressure to get the government reopened as a lever to get something done you couldn’t get done by the normal process because you didn’t have the votes. It has never worked.
It was never going to work. And, you know, the Democrats, yes, there was some polling that indicated that the Democrats were less, were getting less of the blame than the Republicans. But remember this, key elements in the Democratic Party, American Association, American Federation of Government Employees, the Teamsters Union, the Airline Workers Union, the Pilots Union, they were all urging that the Republican measure, the temporary measure, be passed.
And, of course, as the air traffic situation began to get worse and the deprivation of SNAP benefits set in, it became absolutely untenable, which when you think about it, it really was from the start. It really wasn’t about enhanced ACA benefits. It was about Democrats wanting to position themselves in resistance and opposition to Donald Trump in every way they could do or appear to do.
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What about the UPS plane crash – was it due to the government shutdown which the LEFT caused and the shortage of workers? Many lives were lost.
Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz discusses how the government shutdown affected healthcare and President Donald Trump’s deal with Eli Lilly on ‘Mornings with Maria.’
States dispute CMS Administrator Mehmet Oz’s claim that more than $1 billion was “spent on funding Medicaid for illegal immigrants.” (Getty Images/zimmytws)
The Trump administration has ordered states to investigate certain individuals enrolled in Medicaid to determine whether they are ineligible because of their immigration status, with five states reporting they’ve together received more than 170,000 names—an “unprecedented” step by the federal government that ensnares the state-federal health program in the president’s immigration crackdown.
Advocates say the push burdens states with duplicative verification checks and could lead people to lose coverage just for missing paperwork deadlines. But the administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), Mehmet Oz, M.D., said in a post on the social platform X on Oct. 31 that more than $1 billion “of federal taxpayer dollars were being spent on funding Medicaid for illegal immigrants” in five states and Washington, D.C.
Medicaid’s overall spending topped $900 billion in fiscal year 2024.
It wasn’t clear from Oz’s statement or an accompanying video over what period the spending happened, and CMS spokespeople did not immediately respond to questions, either for an earlier version of this article or after Oz’s statement was posted.
Only U.S. citizens and some lawfully present immigrants are eligible for Medicaid, which covers low-income and disabled people, and the closely related Children’s Health Insurance Program. Those without legal status are ineligible for federally funded health coverage, including Medicaid, Medicare and plans through the Affordable Care Act marketplaces.
Several states disputed Oz’s comments.
“Our payments for coverage of undocumented individuals are in accordance with state and federal laws,” said Marc Williams, a spokesperson for Colorado’s Department of Health Care Policy & Financing, which administers the state’s Medicaid program. “The $1.5 million number referenced by federal leaders today is based on an incorrect preliminary finding, and has been refuted with supporting data by our Department experts.”
He added: “It is disappointing that the administration is announcing this number as final when it is clearly overstated and the conversations are very much in the education and discussion phase.”
“Once again, the Trump administration is spreading misinformation about standard uses of Medicaid dollars,” said Illinois Medicaid spokesperson Melissa Kula. “This is not a reality show, and there is no conspiracy to circumvent federal law and provide ineligible individuals with Medicaid coverage. Dr. Oz should stop pushing conspiracy theories and focus on improving healthcare for the American people.”
The Washington State Health Care Authority, which runs the state’s Medicaid program, was also blunt.
“The numbers Dr. Oz posted on social media today are inaccurate,” said spokesperson Rachelle Alongi. “We were very surprised to see Dr. Oz’s post, especially considering we continue to work with CMS in good faith to answer their questions and clear up any confusion.”
In August, the CMS began sending states the names of people enrolled in Medicaid that the agency suspected might not be eligible, demanding state Medicaid agencies check their immigration status.
KFF Health News in October reached out to Medicaid agencies in 10 states. Five provided the approximate number of names they had received from the Trump administration, with expectations of more to come: Colorado had been given about 45,000 names, Ohio 61,000, Pennsylvania 34,000, Texas 28,000, and Utah 8,000. More than 70 million people are enrolled in Medicaid.
Most of those states declined to comment further. Medicaid agencies in California, Florida, Georgia, New York and South Carolina refused to say how many names they were ordered to review or did not respond.
Oz said in his X post that California had misspent $1.3 billion on care for people not eligible for Medicaid, while Illinois spent $30 million, Oregon $5.4 million, Washington state $2.4 million, Washington, D.C., $2.1 million, and Colorado $1.5 million.
“We notified the states, and many have begun refunding the money,” he said. “But what if we had never asked?”
Washington, D.C.’s Medicaid director, Melisa Byrd, said the CMS had identified administrative expenses for the district program that covers people regardless of immigration status that should not have been billed to the federal government, and her agency has already fixed some of those areas. “We run a big program that is very complex and when mistakes or errors happen, we fix them,” she said.
The program plans to pay $654,014 back to the CMS by mid-November.
All five states, plus Washington, D.C., are led by Democrats, and President Donald Trump didn’t win any of them in the 2024 election.
In recent days, Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Deputy Secretary Jim O’Neill began posting pictures on X of people he said are convicted criminals living in the U.S. without authorization who had received Medicaid benefits.
O’Neill could not be reached for comment.
“We are very concerned because this seems, frankly, to be a waste of state resources and furthers the administration’s anti-immigrant agenda,” said Ben D’Avanzo, senior health advocacy strategist with the National Immigration Law Center, an advocacy group. “This duplicates what states already do,” he said.
As part of the administration’s crackdown on people in the U.S. without authorization, President Donald Trump in February directed federal agencies to take action to ensure they are not obtaining benefits in violation of federal law.
In June, advisers to HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ordered the CMS to share information about Medicaid enrollees with the Department of Homeland Security, drawing a lawsuit by some states alarmed that the administration would use the information for its deportation campaign against unauthorized residents.
State Medicaid agencies use databases maintained by the Social Security Administration and the Department of Homeland Security to verify enrollees’ immigration status.
If states need to go back to individuals to reverify their citizenship or immigration status, it could lead some to fall off the rolls unnecessarily—for example, if they don’t see a letter requesting paperwork or fail to meet a deadline to respond.
“I am not sure that evidence suggests there really is a need for this” extra verification, said Marian Jarlenski, Ph.D., a health policy professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health.
Oz made clear that the Trump administration disagrees.
“Whether willful or not, the states’ conduct highlights a terrifying reality: American taxpayers have been footing the bill for illegal immigrants’ Medicaid coverage, despite many Democrats and the media insisting otherwise,” Oz said in his X post.
In an August press release, the CMS said it would ask states to verify eligibility for enrollees whose immigration status could not be confirmed via federal databases. “We expect states to take quick action and will monitor progress on a monthly basis,” the agency said.
Leonardo Cuello, a research professor at Georgetown University’s Center for Children and Families, called the CMS order to states “unprecedented” in the Medicaid program’s 60-year history.
He said the federal government may have been unable to verify certain individuals’ immigration status because names were misspelled or outdated, such as when a beneficiary is identified by their maiden instead of married name. The names may also include people helped by Emergency Medicaid, a program that covers the cost of hospital emergency services, including labor and delivery, for people regardless of immigration status.
“CMS is conducting pointless immigration status reviews for people whose hospital bills were paid by Emergency Medicaid,” Cuello said.
Oz noted in his post that federal law “does permit states to use Medicaid dollars for emergency treatment, regardless of patients’ citizenship or immigration status,” and that states can “legally build Medicaid programs for illegal immigrants using their own state tax dollars, so long as no federal tax dollars are used.”
The states Oz mentioned all run their own such programs.
The verification checks create an added burden for state Medicaid agencies that are already busy preparing to implement the tax and policy law Trump signed in July. The measure, which Republicans call the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, makes many changes to Medicaid, including adding a work requirement in most states starting by 2027. The law also requires most states to more frequently check the eligibility of many adult Medicaid enrollees—at least twice a year.
“I fear states may do unnecessary checks that create a burden for some enrollees who will lose health coverage who should not,” Cuello said. “It’s going to be a whole lot of work for CMS and states for very little pay dirt.”
Cuello said the effort may have “greater political value than actual value.”
Brandon Cwalina, a spokesperson for the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services, which runs Medicaid in the state, said the state already requires every Medicaid applicant to verify their citizenship or, where applicable, their eligible immigration status.
However, he said, the directive issued by the CMS “constitutes a new process, and DHS is carefully reviewing the list in order to take appropriate actions.”
Oz did not name Pennsylvania, which Trump won in 2024, in his post.
If a lawful resident does not have a Social Security number, the state confirms their legal status by checking a database from Homeland Security, as well as verifying specific immigration documents, he said.
Other state Medicaid agencies said they also needed to regroup before reaching out to enrollees.
“Our teams just received this notice and are working through a process by which we will perform these reviews,” Jennifer Strohecker, then Utah’s Medicaid director, told a state advisory board in August.
Renuka Rayasam and Rae Ellen Bichell contributed reporting.
KFF Health News is a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues and is one of the core operating programs at KFF—an independent source of health policy research, polling, and journalism. Learn more about KFF.
Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz discusses how the government shutdown affected healthcare and President Donald Trump’s deal with Eli Lilly on ‘Mornings with Maria.’
WASHINGTON — Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem claimed Wednesday that the Antifa movement is “just as sophisticated” as Hamas, ISIS and MS-13 — as the Trump administration threatened to launch a crackdown on the far-left street fighters.
“They are just as dangerous. They have an agenda to destroy us, just like the other terrorists we’ve dealt with.”
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem claimed Wednesday that the Antifa movement is “just as sophisticated” as Hamas and MS-13.Getty Images
Noem made the claim after visiting Portland, Ore., earlier this week, where she observed from a rooftop a group of anti-ICE protesters, including a demonstrator in a large chicken costume.
(The WorkPress guy working beside me is giving me heck not to publish this – is he part of what is being discussed. He needs to be checked out?)
Attorney General Pam Bondi pledged to “destroy” Antifa — describing it as a criminal organization rather than a decentralized network.
“Fighting crime is more than just getting the bad guy off the streets. It’s breaking down the organization brick by brick, just like we did with cartels,” she said.
“We’re going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa — destroy the entire organization from top to bottom,” Bondi added.
“We’re going to take them apart. Thanks to your bold leadership and the designation of Antifa as a terrorist organization, which is exactly what they are. Americans will no longer tolerate their unhinged violence,” the AG told the president.
Bondi did not identify purported organizational leaders whom she intends to target. Although there are some organized Antifa chapters, other panelists described autonomous groups operating in cities around the country.
Trump, responding to a reporter’s question, said he was willing to declare Antifa to be a foreign terrorist organization (FTO) on top of his recent domestic declaration.
The president also agreed with another questioner who claimed that Antifa members “dressed up like Trump supporters” were responsible for violence during the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.
Protesters outside the ICE building in Portland, where they have been camped out since June 2, disrupting the neighborhood nightly.Getty Images
Three journalists and social media influencers who have documented and condemned Antifa violence noted during the panel that there were obvious challenges to any federal crackdown — due to the fact that Antifa is a “decentralized” political movement.
“Thank you so much for acknowledging Antifa and for directing your administration to treat them as domestic terrorists,” Post Millennial editor Andy Ngo told Trump in the White House State Dining Room.
“It’s going to be really challenging, because how they organize is that they are decentralized, autonomous, and they operate on deception.”
Julio Rosas, a journalist at The Blaze who has covered protests and riots in many major cities, also noted that Antifa isn’t like other outlaw cliques.
“The common argument is like, ‘Well, they’re not a real organization because there’s no national leadership. They don’t have a national headquarters. So how can law enforcement go after a group that doesn’t exist?’” Rosas said.
Protesters stand outside of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building on September 28, 2025 in Portland, OregonGetty Images
“Well, law enforcement goes after criminal groups that organize to rob banks or do smash and grabs,” Rosas added.
“They don’t have a registered LLC, they don’t have official membership cards, they don’t have, you know, a business address, but law enforcement still goes after them because they’re working as a group. These people don’t just show up randomly at the same time to do the same thing, dressed in very similar fashion, espousing the same ideology.”
Brandi Kruse, a social media influencer who has documented her independent coverage of protests, said, “I do understand the challenge, as Andy pointed out, with Antifa as a graspable entity, I do.478
“But at the end of the day, when you look at behavior, you prosecute behavior, right? We’re not prosecuting ideas or ideology. You’re prosecuting behavior,” Kruse said.
“So whether you can prove that this amorphous thing is Antifa or someone has a patch that says Antifa, it doesn’t matter. You know, did they assault someone? Did they assault a federal agent? Were they engaged in rioting?”
Thanks to all of the students who stand for freedom. You are brave and it is just one step forward in the march to keep our country free and returning our educational system back to learning the 3 R’s instead of “DUMBING DOWN OUR STUDENTS.”
KEEP IT UP.
BRAVO!
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Students at NYU, Baruch College, Columbia, and Barnard College sat down with Fox News Digital and revealed the truth about how professors promote biased beliefs on campus.t
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