New York City (NYC) Mayor Zohran Mamdani cast blame on former NYC Mayor Eric Adams for the city's $12 billion deficit budget, stating that the city is facing a "serious fiscal crisis."

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio was not having it when Democratic Sen. Jacky Rosen of Nevada tried to get him to answer with “yes” or “no” to her questions. During […]

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Saturday’s fatal of shooting of 37-year-old Alex Pretti by Border Patrol officers in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has prompted former President Barack Obama to weigh in. His statement speaks volumes to his […]

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Peter Schweizer’s blockbuster new book, "The Invisible Coup," will debut at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list—the fifth time in a row for the investigative journalist.

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In its second round of mass layoffs since its CEO announced last year that artificial intelligence would reshape its workforce, Amazon announced Tuesday that it is cutting about 16,000 jobs. […]

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Amazon announced Wednesday it will eliminate 16,000 corporate positions as part of an organizational restructuring aimed at reducing management layers and streamlining operations.

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Congress is likely about to trigger a shutdown as Democrat leaders, responding to pressure from their base, demand restraints on immigration law enforcement in exchange for funding the Department of Homeland Security.

On Wednesday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., laid his demands out on the table.

The House has sent the Senate the final six bills to fully fund the government for fiscal year 2026 before a Jan. 30 cutoff. In order for Republicans to bring the funding bills to a final vote, they need the support of at least seven Democrats.

Top Democrats previously appeared to grant their blessing to a bicameral, bipartisan homeland security bill, but they have rescinded their support since the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti, 37, in Minneapolis during an interaction with federal officers.

Schumer on Wednesday demanded a stand-alone vote on the bill to fund DHS, with the five other bills in the funding package to be considered separately. 

In exchange for Democrats’ support of the homeland security bill, Schumer asked for concessions, such as a tightening of the “rules governing the use of warrants,” as well as a prohibition on mask use among Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers.

Splitting Up the Bills

Now Republicans must decide whether or not to yield to Democrat demands on funding.

Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., who sits on the Senate Appropriations Committee, said Wednesday, shortly before Schumer announced his demands, that it might be necessary to separate the homeland security bill.

“My Democratic colleagues, led by Sen. Schumer, who are controlled by the Karen wing of their party, are not going to vote ‘yes’ right now on the homeland security bill,” Kennedy told reporters. 

“Rather than scuttling the whole package, I say let’s go ahead and pass what we can. I think all the bills will pass, except for homeland security, and then we can sit down and talk about homeland security,” Kennedy continued.

Sen. John Hoeven, R-N.D., was another Republican who expressed openness to accommodating Democrats if it proves politically impossible for them to back the homeland security bill.

“We have to have an open mind on the options,” he told reporters. “Obviously, one that we’re talking about is the five bills go and we do some work on DHS. But obviously, the White House has to decide, tell us what they want, [and] we have to work with the House. But we are having those discussions.”

The White House

In this shutdown showdown, the White House’s role is very different than during the last one, in which Republicans repeatedly argued funding disputes are Congress’ problem, not the president’s.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., told reporters Wednesday morning that if Democrats have demands, they should talk them over with the White House.

“I think right now the conversation should be between the White House and Democrats,” Thune said Wednesday morning. “If there’s a way that the Democrats have things that they want, the White House could accommodate short of modifying the bill, that’s the best way to do what we need to do here, which is to make sure the government is funded.”

Hoeven similarly argued the White House could play a major role.

“That’s a very dominant aspect to the negotiation, and I think if the White House and the Democrats agree on something, then we can get agreement in our caucus,” said Hoeven. “And of course, then work with the House.”

However, Schumer, who sought executive branch buy-in for congressional negotiations during the last shutdown, brushed off the idea of negotiating with the White House, telling reporters, “The White House has had no specific, good, concrete ideas in terms of what we want.”

The White House did not immediately provide a comment to The Daily Signal on its discussions with Democrats.

The House

But even if Democrats seal a deal in the Senate that satisfies their homeland security demands, it could face resistance from conservatives in the House.

Members of the House Freedom Caucus, a fiscally hawkish, tough-on-the-border Republican faction, announced Tuesday it would not accept any bill that cuts funding to DHS.

“If they try to strip out the DHS funding, or they try to make a change, and they try to not fund DHS and demand the House make a change, I think that our letter speaks for itself that we think the president should continue to enforce federal law,” Rep. Keith Self, R-Texas, a Freedom Caucus member, told The Daily Signal.

Self added that he and his colleagues would also oppose attempts to require warrants for every deportation, arguing it would slow down ICE’s operations.

Fellow Freedom Caucus Rep. Mark Harris, R-N.C., similarly told The Daily Signal that the letter communicated “that we were not interested in allowing the Democrats to control this process.”

Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., acknowledged the difficulty of getting the House to buy into a Senate-crafted deal, telling The Daily Signal, “Ideally, we’d like to get it done without having to take another dip in the House.”

Tillis continued, “I think … to me the wisest course, with the fewest gears, would be to keep the five appropriations bills together, divide the question on DHS, and move forward.”

Big, Beautiful Leverage

But Republicans are walking into this funding battle with substantial leverage in that deportation efforts already have funding from the party-line budget reconciliation bill passed in July.

Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., acknowledged this Wednesday, telling reporters, “Republicans already gave ICE an enormous slush fund, which every Democrat voted against.”

Some Republicans told The Daily Signal they feel that their work in the summer of 2025 is now paying off.

“Of course, that helps, absolutely,” Self told The Daily Signal. 

“If they choose to not pass this, they’re not going to do anything to ICE,” Harris told The Daily Signal.

“The unfortunate thing is that they hurt [the Transportation Security Administration] and they hurt [the Federal Emergency Management Agency],” he added, mentioning the possibility of a destructive storm hitting the southeastern coast this weekend.

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Wednesday on CNN's "The Lead," Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) said Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem "is not competent" to run the federal agency.

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Two Border Patrol agents involved in Saturday’s shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis have been placed on administrative leave as required by the agency’s firearms regulations. According to a source within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the move is required under U.S. Customs and Border Protection policy, which provides agents with three days of administrative leave and requires the pair to contact the agency’s mental wellness Employee Assistance Program (EAP).

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The following is a preview of Daily Signal Politics Editor Bradley Devlin’s interview with Terry Schilling, president of the American Principles Project, on “The Signal Sitdown.” The full interview premieres on The Daily Signal’s YouTube page at 6:30 a.m. Eastern on Jan. 29.

For the first time in my lifetime, conservatives are dominating a battle in the culture war. 

And thank goodness they are, because defeat in this battle, the battle against transgenderism, could spell an end to western civilization as we know it.

Civilization begins with an understanding of man and his nature. When a society can no longer recognize the natural difference between men and women, it has abandoned civilization itself. 

When we deny the differences, collapse the distinctions, and confuse our definitions of man and woman, that is not a feature of civilization. It is the defining mark of barbarism, and transgenderism is its modern expression.

Poll after poll shows a growing majority of Americans are against transgender issues and policies, from men in women’s sports, to transgender procedures for minors, to men in women’s bathrooms. Some of these issues are now 80-20 issues.

It’s a remarkable feat, and it also makes one wonder how the conservative movement has had such resounding success against transgenderism when it resoundingly lost a very similar battle, the battle to defend traditional marriage.

Terry Schilling, the president of the American Principles Project, has been a driving force on combatting transgenderism all over the country. He’s one of the few people who really saw transgenderism coming, and he’s smart enough to have learned from the mistakes made in the fight to protect traditional marriage and apply those lessons to fighting transgenderism.

Schilling joined “The Signal Sitdown” this week to discuss.

Shilling unpacks how transgenderism emerged as a political issue and how the right has managed to make transgenderism so politically toxic that the most effective advertisement in the 2024 election cycle was “Kamala Harris is for they/them.”

Despite the successes of the Trump administration and recent votes in the House, however, there’s more work to be done to fully defeat transgenderism.

“I think it’s all federal at this point,” Schilling told The Daily Signal. “The states are good for temporary victories that can help build momentum, but we need to get federal victories.”

“Ban all sex change procedures and surgeries for minors and give liability protections for the adults,” which would allow them to sue if they later seek to detransition, Schilling continued, “pass a national women’s sports law,” and “protect private spaces.”

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BOISE, IDAHO – Idaho Family Policy Center, a pro-family Christian ministry, celebrates the introduction of our Uniformity in Local Antidiscrimination Ordinances Act by the Idaho House Local Government Committee. The committee will soon consider the bill in a public hearing.

The bill which—was drafted by Idaho Family Policy Center and is sponsored by Rep. Bruce Skaug (R-Nampa)—would prevent local government entities, such as counties and cities, from enacting ordinances that impose antidiscrimination requirements beyond those present in state law.

In recent years, the Idaho Legislature has preempted rogue local governments in a wide variety of contexts, including gun control, knife control, ideological flags, mask mandates, and plastic grocery bag bans.

More than twelve Idaho cities and counties have adopted local antidiscrimination ordinances that contain the categories of sexual orientation and gender identity, including Bellevue, Boise, Coeur d’Alene, Driggs, Hailey, Idaho Falls, Ketchum, Lewiston, Meridian, Moscow, Pocatello, and Victor. These antidiscrimination ordinances are frequently weaponized against small business owners who don’t want to participate in events that violate their sincerely held beliefs, including same-sex wedding ceremonies and Pride festivals.

According to statewide public opinion polling, more than 71% of likely Idaho voters support protecting photographs, cake artists, and event planners with sincerely held religious beliefs from antidiscrimination ordinances.

A statement from Blaine Conzatti, President of Idaho Family Policy Center:

No small business owner should ever be forced to choose between violating their sincerely held religious beliefs or leaving the marketplace altogether. But local antidiscrimination ordinances are frequently weaponized against small business owners—especially wedding vendors or those offering creative design services.

Government officials have forced bakers, photographers, florists, graphic designers, and wedding venue operators to participate in same-sex wedding ceremonies and pride festivals. And that has even taken place here in Idaho, where more than a dozen Idaho cities have enacted ordinances that violate individual conscience rights.

We call on the Idaho Legislature to rein in these rogue local governments by ensuring that these local antidiscrimination ordinances align with state law.