Government shutdown

No matter which party was in charge nor which party had publically announced they were withholding their votes, the liberal media would always blame the Republicans, especially in an election year. The effort to manipulate the facts in that way was nakedly apparent during Monday’s episode of The View when the ABC co-hosts openly admitted it was Democrats who were “holding up funding”…

After Wednesday morning testimony from DHS secretary nominee Senator Markwayne Mullin (R-OK), CNN journalist Dana Bash, host of Inside Politics, helped push a Democrat conspiracy that DHS and ICE agents would be used to subvert the results of the upcoming midterm elections. Similarly, MS NOW primetime host and former Biden Press Secretary Jen Psaki followed with the same questioning…

On Wednesday’s CNN This Morning, host Audie Cornish and her guest panel shifted the pervious day's narrative with an actual allusion to the idea of the DHS shutdown being caused by Democrats. After, Cornish and panelist Antjuan Seawright framed the shutdown as a simple attempt to reform ICE while Republicans refused to fund other aspects of DHS.

On Wednesday, ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel turned his attention to the partial government shutdown at the Department of Homeland Security and the negative repercussions it has had on TSA workers and air travel. Predictably, Kimmel portrayed the shutdown fight as one between Democrats, who simply want people to make their flights, and Republicans, who “want ICE agents to be able to wear masks when they…

During Tuesday morning’s cable news morning shows on MS NOW and CNN, blame was placed on Republicans for the lasting DHS shutdown caused by Democrat protests of immigration enforcement and ICE funding. The hosts of CNN This Morning, CNN News Central, and, of course, MS NOW’s Morning Joe ignored the Democrats' impact on the shutdown, a growing media trend.…

A Media Research Center study found that, since the start of the Homeland Security shutdown on February 14, only eight percent – or 125 seconds – of the 26 minutes and 22 seconds on the shutdown across the flagship evening newscasts of ABC, CBS, and NBC have brought up the fact that the long lines at airports and TSA agents working without pay are because of the left’s obstructionism demanding…

CBS’s Stephen Colbert welcomed comedian Wanda Sykes to Thursday’s taping of The Late Show for a conversation that was as ridiculous as it was wide-ranging. In the span of just a few minutes, Sykes urged Colbert to team up with Pope Leo and “burn this bitch down” on the night of his final show, demanded that TSA agents be paid while omitting that the reason they go unpaid is because of…

HBO’s John Oliver waited until Sunday to kick off the 2026 season of Last Week Tonight and quickly fell in with the rest of the late night comedians in going after ICE. During his denunciation ritual, Oliver would praise Democrats for shutting down the Department of Homeland Security and call for ICE to be defunded and done away with.

Before the Department of Homeland Security shutdown at midnight on Saturday as a result of Democrats demanding certain ICE reforms, ABC’s World News Tonight host David Muir and chief White House correspondent Mary Bruce declined to inform their viewers that ICE will be largely immune from the shutdown.

Recently, in The Wall Street Journal, Neera Tanden, CEO of the Center for American Progress, a major foghorn in our nation’s capital for America’s left, explained “Why Democrats Won the Shutdown.” The most accurate declaration in the article is “fights tell the country a lot about what -- and who -- the fighters care about.” And, indeed, there should be no question what the Democratic…

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Since a July 7 Justice Department memo declared an “exhaustive review” of the Jeffrey Epstein case found he died by suicide and there was no evidence of a “client list,” ABC, CBS, and NBC have treated the so-called “Epstein Files” as the new Russiagate, submerging President Trump with a stunning 821 minutes of coverage on ABC, CBS, and NBC.

In anticipation of the longest government shutdown in U.S. history finally ending, MSNBC’s Katy Tur couldn’t let it end without degrading President Trump one last time, pointing to the mass-firings of federal employees and withholding of SNAP benefits as evidence of “callousness.”

After 43 days, the longest-ever government shutdown has mercifully come to a close. But ABC’s World News Tonight appears to have been vested in the shutdown dragging on indefinitely, judging by their latest report on the shutdown’s aftermath.