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House Republicans split with Trump team over ‘very frustrating’ funding fight as shutdown looms
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House Republicans on the Appropriations Committee are at odds with the Trump administration and some conservatives over how long a stopgap spending bill should last, with just weeks left to avert a government shutdown.
Congress is currently marking up fiscal 2026 spending levels, but some in the administration are pressing to bypass the process and instead extend current levels through a year-long continuing resolution (CR).
Republicans broadly agree some form of CR will be needed to avoid a partial shutdown when fiscal 2025 ends on Sept. 30, but the length of that CR has become a point of friction, frustrating appropriators who argue their work is being undermined.
A Trump administration official told Fox News Digital that appropriators’ complaints were «nonsense,» arguing they are simply unhappy with the funding levels the administration had proposed.
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Republicans in Washington are divided over a government funding strategy as the Sept. 30 deadline to avert a shutdown looms large. (Fox News Digital photo illustration)
The White House is in favor of a clean CR stretching into the new year, while one House lawmaker said appropriators would like a stopgap that was «as short as possible.» Some conservative lawmakers have even argued for a bill lasting at least the full fiscal year.
Committee member Rep. Ryan Zinke, R-Mont., called the idea of a long-term measure «very frustrating.»
«As a member of Appropriations, where you do an enormous amount of work, and it leads to a continuing resolution because that’s easier…I’m deeply concerned that we will roll over and not do our job,» Zinke told Fox News Digital.
Senior appropriator Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, R-Fla., predicted «a very short-term CR,» but he warned a year-long measure «would be devastating for the country.»
«The concept that Republicans control the House, Senate and the White House, and we would somehow be stuck with the last Biden [budget] for a second year, to me, is preposterous,» Diaz-Balart said, adding that the push for a year-long measure «is not coming from appropriators.»
Other committee Republicans echoed those concerns and issues with what they saw as a lack of direction from top officials on a top-line spending number.
The Trump administration official said accusations that House appropriators were not given enough direction from leaders are «completely false,» however, and said the White House was engaged in monthly and weekly conversations with lawmakers relevant to the process.
Russ Vought, director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), speaks to reporters outside the West Wing of the White House on July 17, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS)
«The frustrating part is we don’t have a top line yet,» Rep. John Rutherford, R-Fla., said.
One GOP lawmaker, granted anonymity to speak candidly, said, «We’re sort of flying blind right now, trying to get something done and across the finish line without really having a direction on what leadership wants, or frankly, what the president wants.»
Another House Republican pointed to Russ Vought, director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), accusing him of delaying the administration’s proposed budget until early May to build support for a year-long CR.
«That’s what Russ Vought wants. He wants a year-long CR,» that lawmaker said. «There’s enough appropriators who won’t allow that. That will fail.»
It’s not uncommon for administrations to unveil their budget proposals after the traditional early February deadline, however. The Biden administration similarly let its budgets slip past the Feb. 15 deadline, including fiscal 2022, when its proposal was not released until late May.
In 2018, during the Obama administration, no White House budget was proposed at all.
House Freedom Caucus Chair Andy Harris, R-Md., told Fox News Digital he supports going even further with a CR that stretches into December 2026.
«Why put us through the misery next September?» Harris said. «The American people shouldn’t be subjected to the question of whether or not Chuck Schumer wants to shut down the government for the election.»
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House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., speaks during a news conference at the Capitol on May 6, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr., File)
House Appropriations Committee Chair Tom Cole, R-Okla., for his part, said he would like to see a CR into November. And while he said there were «a lot of people» who could share blame for the current situation, he was hesitant to single any one party out.
«The top-line number, that wasn’t done this year, the president’s budget was late in arriving, and I think Democrats are still flustered by President Trump and aren’t sure whether they should deal with him or fight him at every step,» he said.
Cole also said of the White House’s proposal, «There’s some discussion about going as far as the first quarter. That’s not coming from the appropriators, but it is coming out of the White House. I’m willing to work within any time frame my leadership gives me. I don’t want a government shutdown. I want a bipartisan deal.»
In March, with the White House’s support, Congress passed a CR through Sept. 30 that extended fiscal 2024 spending levels, with some increases for defense funding.
The White House has since acted to rescind some of those funds, chiefly aimed at foreign aid and public broadcasting.
It’s soured bipartisan government spending talks with Democrats, who have warned they will not agree to any spending deal without assurances that more funding rescissions would not happen.
House Appropriations Committee Chair Tom Cole said he would want to see a CR into November. (Getty Images)
A White House official told reporters on a recent call, however, that they believed a clean CR for «however length» would put Democrats in a politically tricky situation and pin the blame for a shutdown on them if they reject the measure.
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., has privately signaled support for a short-term clean CR, two sources told Fox News Digital. Democrats have indicated openness to that approach.
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When reached for comment, a spokesperson for Johnson pointed Fox News Digital to recent comments in Punchbowl News that he understood both sides of the argument. «There are reasonable people on both sides who understand this is a basic function and responsibility of the government, so we’re working towards that,» he said.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., said Tuesday he had an «opening conversation» with Johnson on funding.
With just 11 joint House and Senate working days left before the Sept. 30 deadline, lawmakers are racing to avoid another shutdown showdown.
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GOP rips FISA court for tapping ex-Biden ‘disinformation’ lawyer to advise on surveillance
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Republican lawmakers called it «insane» that the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court appointed to a key advisory panel a lawyer with past ties to the Biden administration’s controversial Disinformation Governance Board.
Judges on the FISC appointed Jennifer Daskal this month to serve as an amicus curiae, meaning Daskal is now among a small group of lawyers designated to advise the secretive court, which approves warrants for federal authorities to surveil targets for foreign intelligence purposes. The GOP lawmakers say Daskal’s history with the disinformation board raises worries about her ability to discern whether warrants are appropriate.
«The same person who helped to build a board to censor American speech now advises judges on how to protect American liberties,» House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, told Fox News Digital in a statement. «That’s ridiculous — and exactly why Congress must continue our oversight.»
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Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, looks on during a hearing with the House Judiciary Committee in the Rayburn House Office Building on Sept. 3, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., echoed Jordan’s concerns, saying Daskal’s appointment was «insane» and calling for reforms to the FISC.
Schmitt shared a video of himself on X questioning Daskal during a hearing about what he called the Biden administration’s «censorship enterprise,» referencing Daskal’s role in aiming to dispel what the administration viewed as inaccurate information about COVID-19 masks and vaccines and information about election security.
FISC proceedings are classified and «ex parte,» meaning a judge reviews the federal government’s warrant application and the target of the warrant has no awareness of the proceedings. A judge reviewing the application can, however, turn to an amicus curiae to present counterpoints to the government’s application, meaning Daskal is among a handful of lawyers who could be tapped to argue against allowing the government to wiretap a person’s phones or otherwise surveil them.
The logo of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is seen at the Los Angeles Federal Building after a news conference to provide an update on the investigation into a May 18, 2025, bombing at a fertility clinic in Palm Springs, California, on June 4, 2025, in Los Angeles. (PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)
Under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the government has access to these powerful spy tools for foreign intelligence purposes, but it has sometimes, whether inadvertently or intentionally, improperly targeted U.S. citizens.
Building more guardrails into the legislation has long been a point of contention for privacy hawks. Republicans, in particular, became highly critical of the FISC after finding that the court approved the FBI’s warrant applications, which contained flimsy and inaccurate evidence, to surveil Trump campaign aide Carter Page beginning in 2016.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, told the Washington Free Beacon, which first reported on Daskal’s appointment, that the «American people need to have confidence in the people tasked to serve as amici» before the FISC. Grassley pointed to a bill he introduced, the FISA Accountability Act, which would allow Congress to have a say in who is chosen as an amicus curiae.
Jordan and Grassley have been some of the most vocal proponents of reining in the federal government’s use of FISA after identifying instances in recent years of intelligence officials allegedly abusing their authority and infringing on U.S. citizens’ Fourth Amendment right to privacy. In the case of Page, DOJ inspector general Michael Horowitz released a report in 2019 that identified more than a dozen «significant errors or omissions» across the FBI’s four warrant applications used to surveil the former Trump aide. Daskal, in her new role, could offer confidential, weighty legal arguments to a FISC judge that support or oppose intelligence officials’ requests to surveil someone.
Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, is seen in the U.S. Capitol during votes related to the government shutdown on Thursday, October 16, 2025. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
Daskal served as a top lawyer in the Department of Homeland Security when she helped launch the Disinformation Governance Board. Conservatives heavily criticized it, describing the board as a «Ministry of Truth» that sought to censor their viewpoints in violation of the First Amendment.
Daskal chartered the board, while Nina Jankowicz was named its executive director, an appointment that fueled Republicans’ fury over it after finding Jankowicz’ past social media posts that they said revealed she was too partisan. Jankowicz, for instance, cast doubt on the New York Post’s bombshell story in 2020 about Hunter Biden’s laptop, which she said fit a pattern of Russian «information laundering.» Biden administration officials vehemently objected to the claims in the New York Post’s story about Joe Biden’s handling of Ukrainian foreign policy, though the authenticity of the laptop itself has been verified through court proceedings.
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Republicans put so much pressure on DHS about the board — calling it an «abuse of taxpayer dollars» and raising alarm that it painted policy disagreements over COVID-19, election security and immigration as mis- or dis- information — that it disbanded just a few months after its launch.
In Daskal’s hearing exchange with Schmitt, Daskal said «it’s not appropriate for the government to censor any points of view.» Daskal did not respond to a request for comment for this story.
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Russia urges Iran, ‘all parties’ in Middle East to show restraint amid US military buildup
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Russia warned Iran and «all parties in the region to exercise restraint and caution» Thursday amid a U.S. military buildup in the Middle East.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov made the remark as the world’s largest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford, and its strike group are moving from the Caribbean toward the Middle East.
«Russia continues to develop relations with Iran, and in doing so, we call on our Iranian friends and all parties in the region to exercise restraint and caution, and we urge them to prioritize political and diplomatic means in resolving any problems,» Peskov said Thursday, according to Reuters.
«Right now, we are indeed seeing an unprecedented escalation of tensions in the region. But we still expect that political and diplomatic means and negotiations will continue to prevail in the search for a settlement,» he added.
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A F-18E fighter jet takes off from aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford as it sails during NATO Neptune Strike 2025 exercise on Sept. 24, 2025, in the North Sea. (Jonathan Klein/AFP via Getty Images)
The move of the USS Gerald R. Ford would place two aircraft carriers and their accompanying warships in the region. The USS Abraham Lincoln and three guided-missile destroyers arrived in the Middle East more than two weeks ago.
Negotiations between the United States and Iran over the latter’s nuclear program advanced Tuesday toward what Tehran described as the beginning of a potential framework, but sharp public divisions between the two sides underscored how far apart they remain.
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The USS Gerald R. Ford is heading toward the Middle East as tensions with Iran escalate and President Donald Trump demands full nuclear dismantlement. (Jonathan Klein/AFP via Getty Images)
Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi said the two sides reached a «general agreement on a number of guiding principles» and agreed to begin drafting text for a possible agreement, with plans to exchange drafts and schedule a third round of talks.
Yet Washington has publicly insisted that any agreement must result in the dismantling of Iran’s nuclear program — including its enrichment capacity — along with limits on Tehran’s ballistic missile program and an end to its support for allied militant groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah.
The world’s largest aircraft carrier, USS Gerald R. Ford, is seen in the North Sea during NATO Neptune Strike 2025 exercise in September 2025. (Jonathan Klein/AFP via Getty Images)
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Those demands go well beyond temporary enrichment pauses or technical adjustments.
Fox News Digital’s Greg Wehner and Morgan Phillips contributed to this report.
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La impactante carta que escribió el rey Carlos III tras la detención de su hermano, el príncipe Andrés
El rey Carlos III de Inglaterra declaró este jueves que “la justicia debe seguir su curso” tras la detención de su hermano, el expríncipe Andrés, salpicado por el caso Epstein y bajo sospecha de “mala conducta” durante su etapa como enviado comercial del Reino Unido.
“Lo que sigue ahora es el proceso completo, justo y adecuado mediante el cual este asunto se investiga de la manera apropiada y por las autoridades correspondientes”, afirmó Carlos III, en una inusual declaración firmada personalmente.
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Tras expresar su “más profunda preocupación” por el arresto de su hermano menor, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, el monarca reiteró su apoyo a la policía y la Justicia.
“En esto, como he dicho antes, cuentan con todo nuestro apoyo y cooperación”. “Permítanme dejarlo claro: la justicia debe seguir su curso”, añadió.
Escándalo en el Reino Unido: detuvieron al expríncipe Andrés en medio de las acusaciones por el caso Epstein. (Foto: Reuters)
Por qué detuvieron al hermano del rey de Inglaterra
La detención ocurrió mientras detectives británicos evalúan las afirmaciones hechas en los “archivos de Jeffrey Epstein” contra el exduque de York de que compartió información estatal sensible con el financista y delincuente sexual estadounidense mientras era enviado comercial del Reino Unido, cargo que ocupó entre 2001 y 2011.
Se trata de correos electrónicos publicados por el Departamento de Justicia de Estados Unidos en los que el exduque habría compartido con Epstein informes de visitas oficiales a Hong Kong, Vietnam y Singapur.
Otro, en la víspera de Navidad de 2010, pareció enviar a Epstein un informe confidencial sobre oportunidades de inversión en la reconstrucción de la provincia de Helmand, en Afganistán, según detalló el diario The Guardian.
Imágenes publicadas por medios británicos mostraron una flota de coches sin identificación, que se cree son vehículos policiales, llegando temprano el jueves a la finca de Sandringham del rey Carlos III, en el este de Inglaterra, donde Andrés se mudó a principios de febrero. Policías allanaron la casa del expríncipe Andrés. (Foto: gentileza BBC).
El príncipe, despojado de sus títulos
El año pasado, Charles despojó a su hermano de sus títulos y le ordenó abandonar su mansión en la finca de Windsor, aunque Andrés sigue siendo octavo en la línea de sucesión al trono británico.
La policía informó “estar realizando registros” en dos propiedades, señalando que “el hombre permanece bajo custodia policial en este momento”.
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La mala conducta en el ejercicio de un cargo público conlleva una pena máxima de cadena perpetua, según el Crown Prosecution Service (Fiscalía de la Corona).
La policía regional de Windsor indicó entonces que está “examinando esta información” sobre Andrew Moutbatten-Windsor, como debe ser llamado ahora tras ser desposeído de sus cargos aristocráticos.
Primeras denuncias de abuso sexual contra Andrés en el caso Epstein
Estos documentos se añaden a las acusaciones de agresión sexual formuladas contra el expríncipe por Virginia Giuffre, que se suicidó en 2025.
En un libro póstumo, Giuffre aseguró que el Príncipe Andrés había abusado tres veces de ella, entregada por el millonario estadounidense cuando era menor de edad.
Una segunda mujer afirmó posteriormente, a través de su abogado, que Epstein la envió a Inglaterra en 2010 para mantener relaciones sexuales con el hijo de la reina Isabel II. Virginia Giuffre con el príncipe Andrés. Ella tenía 17 años y él 41. Se conocieron en las fiestas sexuales de Jeffrey Epstein. (Foto: BBC)
Otro abogado estadounidense sostuvo que una de sus clientas relató que Epstein y el expríncipe la obligaron a mantener relaciones sexuales durante una fiesta en Florida en 2006.
Al menos cuatro fuerzas policiales británicas confirmaron que analizan informes que parecen vincular al expríncipe Andrés, ahora conocido como Andrés Mountbatten-Windsor, con Epstein.
Una investigación de la BBC publicada en diciembre encontró que casi 90 vuelos vinculados a Epstein llegaron y partieron de aeropuertos del Reino Unido, algunos con mujeres británicas a bordo que afirman haber sido víctimas de abusos por parte del multimillonario.
Leé también: Por las denuncias de agresión sexual, el príncipe Andrés renunció a sus títulos en la corona británica
Días atrás, el primer ministro británico, Keir Starmer, dijo que Andrés debería hablar con las autoridades sobre sus vínculos con Epstein.
El primer ministro recordó que “nadie está por encima de la ley” y agregó que las personas con información tenían el “deber de presentarse”.
Según la BBC, el período máximo que se puede retener al expríncipe es de 96 horas, pero esto requeriría múltiples prórrogas por parte de altos oficiales de policía y un tribunal de magistrados.
En la mayoría de los casos, los sospechosos son detenidos durante 12 o 24 horas y luego son acusados o liberados en espera de una mayor investigación.
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