Chaos..

 

The CEOs of the nation’s top airline companies, including American, Delta, Southwest and JetBlue, are imploring Congress to restore funding to the Department of Homeland Security.  

“Once again, air travel is the political football amid another government shutdown,” the executives wrote in an open letter to Congress. 

The letter, which was also signed by the CEOs of the cargo companies UPS, FedEx and Atlas Air, said that Congress should pass the Aviation Funding Solvency Act and the Aviation Funding Stability Act, which would guarantee air traffic controllers are paid regardless of the government’s funding status, as well as the Keep America Flying Act. That measure would offer the same protections to Transportation Security Administration officers tasked to provide security and to screen all travelers.

Comment:
So the Democrats with Biden opened the doors for the illegals to flood the Country. Then opens sanctuary cities, then, opposed ICE operation, then not funding the DHS.
Working hard for the American taxpayer???

Praise..

 

CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins faced online backlash after praising Donald Trump as an unusually "accessible" president during a resurfaced podcast interview, RadarOnline.com can reveal.

Sometimes presidents are press-averse; Trump embraced the media," Collins said. "He did it for decades as like this New York mogul, and so he just had a different approach to the press, and always has."

According to Collins, Trump's style stands in contrast to earlier administrations, where reporters often had fewer opportunities to shout questions or spark spontaneous exchanges.

When you speak to reporters who covered President Obama, he almost never responded to shouted questions," Collins explained. "It wasn't his thing. He would have his moments with world leaders, and then you would leave the Oval. 

Trump kind of upended that when he came into the White House."

Fraudsters..

 

Lawmakers voted231-186 to approve the Deporting Fraudsters Act, with 186 Democrats opposing the measure.

The bill, sponsored by Rep. David Taylor, R-Ohio, would amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to explicitly define fraud as a deportable offense. 

Republicans said the legislation is necessary to ensure that noncitizens who steal taxpayer dollars are no longer eligible for immigration relief services or legal protections.

The House Oversight Committee in December launched a probe into massive welfare fraud involving Minnesota’s social services programs. 

Federal prosecutors say as much as $9 billion in taxpayer money may have been stolen in various fraud schemes and have charged nearly 100 individuals, including many of Somali descent.

MAX...

 

Max Dowman, a 16-year-old Arsenal winger, became the Premier League’s youngest ever scorer with a remarkable stoppage-time goal in his team’s 2-0 win over Everton on Saturday.

Dowman collected the ball midway in his own half, dribbled around two Everton players and raced clear unchallenged from the halfway line to tap into an empty net, with Everton goalkeeper Jordan Pickford stranded up field having gone forward for a corner.

In November, Dowman became the youngest player in Champions League history at 15 years, 308 days when he entered as a second-half substitute against Slavia Prague. 

Dowman is still in school. 

He was 14 when he was asked by Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta to train with the senior team in December last year and he starred on the club’s preseason tour of Asia in matches against AC Milan and Newcastle/

Boo..

 

On Friday, Sen. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., said at a news conference following an antisemitic attack on the Temple Israel synagogue in her state that "certainly" Congress must fund DHS.

However, Slotkin and most Senate Democrats have voted four times to block DHS funding, including several attempts to temporarily reopen the agency while negotiations continue.

Slotkin is just one of several Senate Democrats calling for an end to the shutdown. Republicans argue the votes are part of a broader Democratic strategy to blame them for blocking efforts to reopen DHS.

"I remind my Republican colleagues, we're going to be back here again and again, winning this debate and eventually winning the American people," Schumer said.

Comment:

We really don't know what we are doing.   We want to look as if we are doing something for the regular Americans but. Just a thought.

No More ..

 

 Italy‘s Constitutional Court declared it would support a new law proposed by the government in 2025 to cut down on who can legitimately claim Italian heritage and, therefore, citizenship

Any Italian who has moved abroad but kept their citizenship can currently pass the right down their family line for generations under the principle known as ius sanguinis, confirmed in law in 1912 and 1992.

However, the government believes it is time for an overhaul to crack down on people “abusing” the nation’s citizenship principles.

“Being an Italian citizen is a serious matter, the granting of citizenship is a serious matter,” Italy’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said last March.

The majority of those living abroad do not pay taxes in Italy, don’t vote, and have little if any contact with the country.

Or..

 

Action..

 

Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., told Newsmax on Tuesday his fellow Democrats should acknowledge what he called the benefits of President Donald Trump's military action against Iran, saying that the operation was a welcome step toward blocking the regime from obtaining a nuclear weapon and degrading its missile program.

Fetterman's remarks on "The Record With Greta Van Susteren" highlighted his split with many in his party on Iran and came as the conflict carried broader military and economic risks.

CNN reported that Iran had begun laying mines in the Strait of Hormuz, the critical shipping route that carries about 20% of global crude oil, citing two people familiar with U.S. intelligence.

In the interview, Fetterman said Democrats have long agreed that Iran cannot be allowed to acquire a nuclear bomb, then questioned why more in his party would not call the latest action a positive outcome.

Discomfort..

 

Mirrored..

 

The top Senate Democrat said Hegseth’s spending in the final month of fiscal year 2025, $93.4 billion, which included millions of dollars on steak, seafood and furniture, could have instead been used to extend the Affordable Care Act.

Social media users panned Schumer online for the remarks, accusing him of cherry-picking a politically convenient area to care about spending, lambasting him for not supporting feeding high-quality meals to military members and citing similar defense spending during the Biden era.

During the Biden administration, Austin’s spending nearly mirrored Hegseth’s. Food expenses across administrations went toward feeding members of the military, according to the nonprofit Open the Books, which conducted the spending analyses.