Friday November 7th, 2025
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House conservatives back new funding deal to end shutdown, reject 'wasteful' Obamacare subsidies
Leaders of a 189-member group that acts as the House GOP's de facto
conservative think tank are formally endorsing a new short-term federal
funding bill.
With just over two weeks until the deadline for Republicans’ initial
Nov. 21 plan and the threat of more government shutdown chaos, the
Republican Study Committee (RSC) Steering Committee is calling for an
extension into "at least" January 2026.
"Democrats are responsible for the longest government shutdown in U.S.
history — paralyzing our country and deepening the healthcare crisis
sparked by Obamacare," reads a statement first obtained by Fox News
Digital.
"House conservatives support a return to regular order accomplished
only by a continuing resolution that funds the government at least into
January 2026."
Trump: Pelosi 'Ripped Off the American Public'
President Donald Trump on Friday morning continued commenting on Nancy
Pelosi's retirement announcement, saying the former House speaker
"ripped off the American Public" and "illegally made a fortune in the
Stock Market."
In a fiery Truth Social post, Trump wrote: "Nancy Pelosi, the old and
broken political hack who impeached me twice and lost, is finally
calling it 'quits.' She illegally made a fortune in the Stock Market,
ripped off the American Public, and was a disaster for America. I'm
glad to see the stench of Nancy Pelosi go!!!"
Trump has attributed Pelosi's unparalleled 2024 stock market success to "inside information."
The lawmaker's husband, Paul Pelosi, last year completed trades that
outperformed the S&P 500's 25% gain by earning roughly 54% in
returns, the New York Post reported, citing Bloomberg data.
"Crooked Nancy Pelosi, and her very 'interesting' husband, beat every
Hedge Fund in 2024. In other words, these two very average 'minds' beat
ALL of the Super Geniuses on Wall Street, thousands of them," Trump
wrote in an early August post.
Trump Admin Appeals Federal Order to Pay Full SNAP Benefits
The Trump administration wasted little time in appealing a federal
court order requiring it to pay full SNAP benefits to recipients this
month.
The appeal came soon after a Thursday ruling by U.S. District Judge
John J. McConnell Jr. in Rhode Island directing the administration to
secure funds to fully cover November's Supplemental Nutrition
Assistance Program (SNAP) payments despite the ongoing government
shutdown, Newsweek reported Friday.
The judge gave the administration until Friday to comply, though the
roughly 42 million Americans who rely on the food assistance program
may not immediately receive their full benefits.
McConnell said the administration's initial plan to fund only 65% of
November's benefits failed to consider the "practical consequences" of
reduced payments, citing the harm to low-income families and
individuals.
The FAA's Order to Cut Flights Nationwide Due to Government Shutdown Is in Effect
The Federal Aviation Administration 's unprecedented order to scale
back flights nationwide because of the record-long government shutdown
took effect Friday morning, with some passengers trying to figure out
backup travel plans.
The 40 airports selected by the FAA span more than two dozen states and
include hubs such as Atlanta, Dallas, Denver, Los Angeles, and
Charlotte, North Carolina, according to the order.
In some metropolitan areas, including New York, Houston, Chicago, and
Washington, multiple airports will be impacted, while the ripple
effects could reach smaller airports as well.
Delta Air Lines cuts 170 Friday flights. When to expect more.
Delta Air Lines has canceled roughly 170 flights for Friday, Nov. 7,
and already notified travelers whose flights are impacted for Nov. 8.
The airline said it will have fewer cuts on the 8th because demand and
daily departures are typically lower on weekends. It operates about
5,000 flights a day system-wide.
“We’re operating the vast majority of our schedule and intend to keep
access to all of the markets we serve, though frequency may be
affected,” the airline said in a statement. Delta told USA TODAY it
plans to keep all international flights moving.
The move follows the Department of Transportation's 10% reduction in
flights across 40 major U.S. airports to provide relief to the air
traffic controllers who have been working without pay during the
government shutdown, as announced by Transportation Secretary Sean
Duffy at a news conference on Nov. 5.
Heritage Rocked as Antisemitism Task Force Quits Think Tank
The conservative policy world was again rocked Thursday as the Heritage
Foundation's marquee affinity group to fight antisemitism — the
National Task Force to Combat Antisemitism (NTFCA), also known as
Project Esther — announced it is breaking formally from Heritage.
The announcement comes amid a widening controversy over Heritage
President Kevin Roberts' handling of the Tucker Carlson–Nick Fuentes
interview, and a surge of resignations from the task force by members
who say the institution has failed to hold Roberts or Heritage
sufficiently accountable.
According to the letter distributed to NTFCA members on Thursday —
signed by co-chairs Pastor Mario Bramnick, Dr. Victoria Coates, Ellie
Cohanim, and Pastor Luke Moon — the task force will "continue the work
… outside the Heritage Foundation for a season."
Stefanik Launches Campaign for New York Governor, Blasts Hochul as 'Worst in America'
Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., formally announced Friday that she is
running for governor of New York, vowing to make the state "affordable
and safe for all" and promising to "fire Hochul" in a sharp rebuke of
Democrat Gov. Kathy Hochul's leadership.
In a post on X early Friday morning, Stefanik wrote, "Kathy Hochul is
the Worst Governor in America. Under her failed leadership, New York is
the most unaffordable state in the nation with the highest taxes,
highest energy, utilities, rent, and grocery bills. When New Yorkers
were looking for leadership from our Governor, she bent the knee to the
raging Defund the Police, Tax Hiking Communist causing catastrophe for
New York families."
Stefanik added that she is running to unite Democrats, Republicans, and
independents to "save our state," concluding her message with the
slogan, "FIRE HOCHUL. SAVE NEW YORK."
Israel Strikes Hezbollah Targets Across South Lebanon
The Israeli Air
Force conducted a large wave of airstrikes on Hezbollah targets in five
villages across southern Lebanon on Thursday evening, after issuing
evacuation warnings to civilians in the area.
The strikes
were on a much broader scale than the hundreds of previous, smaller
strikes Israel has carried out to prevent Hezbollah's violations of the
ceasefire terms.
The Lebanese
Health Ministry reported that one person was killed and nine others
were wounded in the Israeli strikes on Thursday.
The escalation
followed numerous reports in recent days that Israel was growing
increasingly concerned about the pace of the terror group's rearmament.
Freed Israeli hostage reveals unthinkable horror during captivity: ‘Something even the Nazis didn’t do’
A traumatized Israeli hostage held captive for more than two years in
Gaza revealed that he was sexually assaulted and beaten so savagely by
the Jew-hating terrorists that he begged them to let him starve to
death.
Rom Braslavski was kidnapped on Oct. 7, 2023, by the Palestinian
Islamic Jihad, a Hamas ally, and subsequently stripped naked, starved
and sexually abused until he was finally released earlier this year, he
revealed in a chilling interview with Israeli media.
“It was sexual violence, and its main purpose was to humiliate me,”
Braslavski said. “The goal was to crush my dignity. And that’s exactly
what he did.”
He said the abuse was frequent — and worse than Nazi torture.
Russia Urges US to Clarify 'Contradictory' Nuclear Test Signals
Russia urged
the United States on Friday to clarify what it called contradictory
signals about a resumption of nuclear testing, saying such a step would
trigger responses from Russia and other countries.
President Donald Trump last week ordered the U.S. military to immediately restart the process for testing nuclear weapons.
But he did not
make clear if he meant flight-testing of nuclear-capable missiles or a
resumption of tests involving nuclear explosions - something neither
the U.S. nor Russia has done for more than three decades.
Politicians on both sides of the aisle are waffling on moral consistency — and it’s time to get a backbone
American politicians have a moral consistency problem.
In the span of a month, Sen. Bernie Sanders has excused a Nazi tattoo
on a Democratic candidate and Vice-President JD Vance seemed unbothered
by jokes about Hitler in a Young Republican group chat.
But the American public is watching. And I predict the party that
proves they have consistent moral standards will win over sensible
voters who haven’t lost their humanity.
Graham Platner, who is running in Maine’s Democratic primary for the
2026 US Senate election, was recently exposed for covering up a tattoo
that resembles a Nazi “Totenkopf.” This should be beyond the pale for
the party of political correctness — right?
Democrats hold the government hostage over subsidies Americans don’t want
COVID-era ACA subsidies linked to $27B in fraud from 6.4M improper enrollments, analysis shows
Democrats are holding the government hostage in an extended government
shutdown over temporary, COVID-era Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies
that were meant to make health insurance cheaper – or free – for
millions of Americans during the pandemic. But like most pandemic
relics, the cost of these subsidies far outweighs any potential
benefits.
Rather than forcing an extension of the temporary, bumped-up subsidies
through the spending bill, policymakers should allow them to expire at
the end of the year and focus instead on healthcare reforms that
actually help patients.
According to Democrats, including Joe Biden, inflated COVID-era ACA
subsidies were always meant to be a temporary "economic bridge through
the crisis," not a permanent expansion of government. But now,
Democrats are claiming that returning to pre-COVID Obamacare would be a
catastrophe – a not-so-tacit admission that the health insurance scheme
they’ve lauded the past 15 years is no good. And it isn’t.
