Schumer Shutdown: Two Ways This Can Go | ZeroHedge

With tomorrow's shutdown deadline looming (and the House gone on recess until March 24), Senate Democrats are scrambling to both kill the GOP bill that passed the house, and avoid the optics of a shutdown falling squarely on their shoulders after minority leader Chuck Schumer categorically rejected the bill on Wednesday, and instead floated a 30-day continuing resolution which would allow Democrats to stuff it full of their own pork to include in a revised package (that he (more…)

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White House Says Trump Won’t Cut Social Security, Medicare Following Musk Interview | ZeroHedge

Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),

The White House released a statement Tuesday saying the Trump administration will not cut Social Security or Medicare after presidential adviser Elon Musk commented on cuts to entitlement (more…)

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FEMA Launches Probe Of NGOs Who Helped Traffic Illegal Migrants | ZeroHedge

Via Headline USA,

The Trump administration has launched a review of organizations that provide temporary housing and other aid to migrants, suggesting they may have violated a law prohibiting human trafficking.

Migrants sit in a queue outside of The Roosevelt Hotel that is being used by the city as temporary housing in New York. / PHOTO: AP

The Department of Homeland Security has “significant concerns” that federal grants used to address a surge of migration under former (more…)

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