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Lucia Graves says her family can afford to eat healthier because of WIC benefits for her daughter and stepdaughter. Courtesy of Lucia Graves hide caption toggle caption Courtesy of Lucia Graves The federal shutdown won’t impact benefits from major programs such as Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. But one of the first things that could get hit is the nutrition assistance that many pregnant women and new parents depend on. It’s been crucial for Lucia Graves, who found out she was pregnant back in March 2020, just days before the world shut down for the Covid-19 pandemic. She was a…

One of the main lines of attack the White House and Republican lawmakers have leveled against Democrats amid the government shutdown is the claim that Democratic lawmakers want to give immigrants in the U.S. illegally free healthcare — which Democrats deny. “Democrats are holding the American government HOSTAGE so they can give FREE health care to ILLEGAL ALIENS,” House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Republican from Louisiana, said on social media Wednesday.Meanwhile, Vice President JD Vance accused Democrats of wanting to “take from the American people in order to give taxpayer-funded healthcare to illegal immigrants.”Trump administration officials and Republican lawmakers have pointed…

Politics / October 1, 2025 In 2009, Republicans falsely claimed that the Affordable Care Act would benefit undocumented immigrants. They’re still peddling the same bullshit. Ad Policy Representative Joe Wilson shouts out “You lie!” during President Barack Obama’s address to a Joint Session of Congress concerning healthcare on September 9, 2009.(Melina Mara / The Washington Post via Getty Images) Late Monday, with the deadline for a government shutdown just two days off, congressional leaders met with President Donald Trump to try to reach some workable consensus to move ahead on a continuing resolution to fund the government. The sticking point…

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Washington — The Trump administration said Wednesday it is freezing roughly $18 billion in federal funding for a pair of New York City infrastructure projects, targeting the home state of both Democratic congressional leaders on the first day of the government shutdown.Russ Vought, head of the White House Office of Management and Budget, announced the freeze in a post on X, saying funding for the Hudson Tunnel Project and Second Avenue Subway would be halted pending a review that will be delayed due to furloughs during the funding lapse.New York is home to both Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and…

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, both from New York City, speak to reporters outside the White House Monday after meeting with Republican Leadership and US President Donald Trump. Trump has now frozen $18 billion in infrastructure funding for projects in New York. JIM WATSON/AFP hide caption toggle caption JIM WATSON/AFP On the first day of the federal government shutdown, the Trump administration fired a financial salvo at New York City, home to Senate Minority Leader Senator Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries by freezing $18 billion in infrastructure dollars budgeted by Congress.…

The names of the three people who were shot and killed at a North Carolina bar by a Marine veteran over the weekend were released on Wednesday, as a vigil is scheduled to remember the victims.The City of Southport identified 36-year-old Solomon Banjo of Charlottesville, Virginia, 64-year-old Joy Rogers of Southport and 56-year-old Michael Durbin of Galena, Ohio, as the patrons of the American Fish Company, a waterfront restaurant along the Cape Fear River, who were killed in the shooting on Saturday night. Five others were injured, but were not identified. People place flowers in front of the American Fish Company following a…

Politics / October 1, 2025 Trump and the defense secretary summoned top military leaders to the side of authoritarianism and abuse, but the officers did not thrill to the message. Ad Policy Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth at a podium gesticulating in front of a large American flag.(Alex Wong / Getty Images) Nobody knew why Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth summoned 800 of the top US military leaders, from posts all over the world, to the Marine Corps base in Quantico, Virginia, yesterday for the most costly and boring pep rally in world history. He wanted to liberate the “warrior ethos”…

Karoline Leavitt is back in the press secretary’s traditional office in the White House.Leavitt is reclaiming the roomy space with a fireplace that Taylor Budowich, President Trump’s deputy chief of staff for communications and cabinet affairs, occupied until he left the Trump administration this week.Leavitt will take over some of the duties that Budowich handled, along with Steven Cheung, the White House communications director, two sources told CBS News. As of now, Budowich’s role has not been filled.West Wing office real estate has long been a status symbol in official Washington, where proximity and access to the president can equate…

Manufacturers in the U.S. are cutting thousands of jobs even as President Trump pushes economic policies that he says will revitalize the industry. Employers shed 12,000 manufacturing jobs in August, while payrolls in the sector have shrunk by 42,000 since April, according to a new analysis from the Center for American Progress (CAP) that draws on government labor data. The nonpartisan policy institute attributes that decline to the Trump administration’s steep new tariffs; hardline stance on immigration; and the Republican-backed “big, beautiful bill,” a tax and spending package enacted by Mr. Trump in July that CAP says hurts renewable energy companies by phasing out certain…