Officials with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) are suspending two travel programs beginning Sunday amid a partial government shutdown that is being blamed on Democrats.
The news surrounds the suspension of TSA PreCheck and Global Entry that offer some travelers a faster airport security experience, Fox News reported Sunday.
Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA) accused President Donald Trump of sending Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents out on “unconstitutional missions.”
Partial transcript as follows:
RADDATZ: Tom Homan — he took over in Minnesota, as you know, and he’s now saying it will be different than it was with Greg Bovino. They will do these targeted raids against people they know that are there, that they think are there illegally or have committed a crime.
SHAPIRO: To me, it’s less important who’s in charge. What’s more important is that these individuals are being sent out on what I think are compromised and unconstitutional missions, as we saw in Minneapolis. The direction’s coming from the President of the United States.
RADDATZ: If there’s a surge of ICE agents into Pennsylvania, what do you do?
SHAPIRO: We are prepared. I will tell you, governors prepare for all kinds of emergencies — for a weather emergency or, God forbid, a terrorist incident or a shooting, awful things like that. We are now preparing, should the federal government, against our will, deploy federal officials into our communities.
It was interesting in the governor’s meeting, one of the governors asked the president, what did you learn from Minnesota and what happened there? And the president said, in the way he says things, I learned we’re only going to go to places where we’re wanted, where people say please and thank you.
We do not want that kind of chaos in our communities in Pennsylvania, so don’t come. But if you come, we are prepared to address it.
RADDATZ: Our latest ABC News/Washington Post/Ipsos poll found that 70 percent of Democrats support abolishing ICE. Do you support abolishing ICE?
SHAPIRO: I think what’s clear is that ICE is not working. What’s clear is that they’ve been engaged in unconstitutional practices, and that needs to be fixed. I think the first step is what the Congress of the United States is doing right now to try and put some controls on that, and I want to see those controls be put into effect. Again, I’m not —
RADDATZ: But controls, not abolish.
SHAPIRO: I’m not going to get caught up in labels here. It’s what I said to you —
RADDATZ: It’s not a label really. It’s, do you get rid of them all together, or do you try to do it better?
SHAPIRO: I think what is clear is that the manner in which they are being directed is a manner that directs them to go violate people’s constitutional rights, and that is not something I support.
Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA) said President Donald Trump’s policies were “chaotic, cruel and corrupt.”
Partial transcript as follows:
MARTHA RADDATZ: Let’s talk about the state of the Democratic Party right now. You said that November’s election needs to be a referendum on President Trump, and that Democrats need to focus on reigning in the excesses, the chaos, the cruelty, the lawlessness of this administration. So what exactly is the pitch on how Democrats should do that?
SHAPIRO: I’ve called for a national referendum on these chaotic, cruel and corrupt policies of the Trump administration. Show up, vote in record numbers, and if you do, it is likely we’ll not only re-elect a bunch of Democratic governors who are holding the line here and
protecting the rule of law, but we’re very likely, and by the way, maybe even just in Pennsylvania, with our competitive congressional seats, to flip the balance of power in Congress.
That accomplishes two things. Number one, it stops the cruel policies from passing through the Congress of the United States, and number two, Congress finally, will ultimately act as a check on this administration, as is their constitutional obligation.
(UPI) — Comedian Conan O’Brien has broken his silence regarding the shocking fatal stabbings of filmmaker Rob Reiner and his wife Michele at their Brentwood, Calif., home, allegedly at the hands of their troubled son, Nick.
The trio had attended a holiday party at O’Brien’s house just hours before the dead bodies of Rob and Michele were discovered on Dec. 14, 2025.
Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) said President Donald Trump was a “shadow of himself.”
Host Dana Bash said, “The Supreme Court Struck down most of President Trump’s tariffs this week. He’s already using different authorities to impose a 15% global tariff, vowing to forge ahead even without Congress. What do you do?”
Ex-Biden officials Jason Houser (former ICE Chief of Staff) and Troy Miller (former acting CBP Commissioner) are part of a group tasked with suggesting enhancements to the Trump administration’s National Targeting Center (NTC) at CBP. A high-level source inside the agency is mystified by how overseers of Biden-era policies that led to record-breaking border failures are now working with the current CBP Commissioner on this key national security effort.
Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) said President Donald Trump and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent had “wrecked this economy.”
On tariffs, Newsom said, “He needs to refund that money with interest. He can do that in a nanosecond. They could do that electronically. They can do electronically. They have the tariff codes. They have the ability. They do refunds all the time. They have the ability to do that promise for families. It’s been about $1,710 a year. That’s a different requirement that I think he has to pay the American people back. I saw Bassett out there almost gleeful. He was gleeful that, no, we won’t be doing it. This is Dumb and Dumber. Trump and Bessent, they’ve wrecked this economy 1.4% GDP growth in the last quarter. Inflation back up to 3%. The worst jobs market we’ve seen since 2013, 2.2% GDP for the entire year. He inherited 2.8. It’s a wrecking ball presidency, wrecking this economy. His entire economic paradigm is mass deportations, tax cuts for billionaires and tariffs. And he’s been exposed.”
A teacher at Charles W. Baker High School in Baldwinsville, New York, was ousted after helping students start a Club America chapter — the high school division of Turning Point USA, founded by slain conservative icon Charlie Kirk.
Jennifer Fasulo, a Spanish teacher at the high school in a suburb outside of Syracuse was placed on a paid leave of absence in late January, just weeks after she agreed to help students establish a Club America chapter, her supporters say, according to a report by the New York Post.
Democrat leaders in New York City oppose voter ID laws but are not above requiring such papers for recruiting people for manual labor.
The New York City Department on Sanitation’s website features a page where residents can apply to become paid “Emergency Snow Shovelers” as a winter storm bears down on the area.
Eileen Gu, the California-born Olympian who chose to ski for Communist China instead of the United States, claimed the gold medal that had eluded her at the Winter Olympics on Sunday, with a win in the halfpipe event.
AFP reports the Stanford University student had been forced to wait when the contest was postponed on Saturday due to heavy snow smothering Livigno, high in the Italian Alps.
President Donald Trump called for Netflix to fire former White House adviser Susan Rice, labeling her as “racist” and “Trump Deranged,” and questioning how much she was being paid.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump shared a post from investigative journalist and activist Laura Loomer in which Loomer wrote that Rice, a Netflix board member “says corporations who took a ‘knee to Trump’ will face an ‘accountability agenda'” from Democrat lawmakers if they win the upcoming 2026 midterms and the 2028 Presidential election.
An armed man was shot and killed around 1:30 a.m. Sunday after entering Mar-a-Lago’s secure perimeter, President Donald Trump’s resort in Palm Beach, Florida.
The Associated Press quoted the Secret Service saying the man, believed to be in his 20s, was “observed by the north gate of the Mar-a-Lago property carrying what appeared to be a shotgun and a fuel can.”
