Senate fails to end DHS shutdown for a fifth time as airline passengers endure travel chaos
NY Post
WASHINGTON — The Senate failed to fund the Department of Homeland Security on Friday, as airline passengers fought through lengthy lines and a growing number of Transportation Security Administration employees began calling out sick.
Only 84 senators showed up for the fifth attempted vote to reopen DHS, which failed to clear a 60-vote threshold or even a simple majority — and fell largely along party lines.
Forty-six Republicans and Democratic Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania voted to fund DHS, while 37 Democrats led by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) opposed its reopening in protest of President Trump’s immigration agenda.
“My impression, at least up until now, is this is all about politics for Chuck Schumer and the Democrats,” Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) said. “The far-left base is demanding, again, that they fight the president.”
Republican and Democratic leaders and negotiators have acknowledged they’re still far from a deal on immigration enforcement reforms for the beleaguered agency 35 days into the shutdown.
Meanwhile, TSA agents have lost out on paychecks and begun calling out sick or quitting, prompting unions representing the federal employees to get involved.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s wife, Rama Duwaji, deactivated an old X account after a series of resurfaced posts showed her praising Palestinian terrorists, bashing Israel and criticizing the US military.
The US Coast Guard is working to safely move off more than 100 shipping containers from a cargo ship at the Port of Long Beach in what was described as a precarious situation.
You’d never know it from media reports, but the Iranian regime is struggling to survive — what’s left of it, anyway.
A 30-year-old Manhattan man was arrested for allegedly attempting to rape an 84-year-old woman at a Lower East Side Park — one week after trying to kiss a stranger in the same neighborhood, authorities said.
MS NOW announced Wednesday it is cutting an hour from Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski’s show “Morning Joe” as part of a drastic overhaul of the beleaguered network’s programming under chief Rebecca Kutler.
The kids are not alright — and they know it.
ALBANY — Gov. Kathy Hochul is begging wealthy New Yorkers who fled the city to come back and continue padding the Empire State’s lavish public handouts.
WASHINGTON — The month-long Department of Homeland Security shutdown has dealt a $2.5 billion blow to the economy so far, White House economists have forecasted — on top of an over $90 billion loss from last year’s record-breaking stoppage.
The Big Apple is ending its crackdown on e-bike drivers for blowing stop signs or illegally zipping along city sidewalks, Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration announced Wednesday.
Republicans in the California Legislature rallied with victims’ advocates Wednesday to blast Gov. Gavin Newsom and demand changes to state parole laws as another notorious child sex predator neared possible release.
Veteran Democratic Party strategist James Carville predicted in a video published Monday that President Donald Trump will resign by this time next year after the midterm elections.
In 2022, California Gov. Gavin Newsom broke ground on the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing (WAWC), a project featuring an overpass for animals atop ten lanes of the 101 Freeway in Southern California.
Nail-biting new video shows NYPD cops tackle and arrest Islamic extremist Emir Balat moments after he hurled an improvised explosive device outside Gracie Mansion.