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‘Radical Left’ shutdown message ignites firestorm as Democrats push for federal probe
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Senate Democrats are requesting an investigation into what they say is «partisan messaging» that the Trump administration used on official government websites during the longest government shutdown in U.S. history.
Sens. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Adam Schiff of California and others are urging the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) to launch a probe into whether the Trump administration crossed a line and broke federal laws due to messages posted on official government websites that pinned the blame on Democrats for the shutdown.
«Some agencies’ announcements appeared to include nothing more than partisan messaging and lacked a connection to official business,» lawmakers wrote in a letter, sent to GAO Nov. 9.
Specifically, the lawmakers pointed to messaging posted on the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s website, which stated on its website during the shutdown: «The Radical Left are going to shut down the government and inflict massive pain on the American people unless they get their $1.5 trillion wish list of demands. The Trump administration wants to keep the government open for the American people.»
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Sens. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Adam Schiff of California and others are urging the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office to launch the probe. (Charlie Neibergall/The Associated Press)
As a result, the lawmakers questioned whether the statement and others from separate agencies violated federal law, which bars using federal funds for «publicity or propaganda purposes.»
«Longstanding federal appropriations law prohibits the executive branch from using federal funds ‘for publicity or propaganda purposes,’ including for purely partisan materials,» the lawmakers wrote in their letter. «Federal law also prohibits agencies from using any appropriated funding, directly or indirectly, to generate publicity designed to influence Congress in supporting or opposing legislation or appropriations.»
But Hans von Spakovsky, a senior legal fellow at the conservative Heritage Foundation think tank, said that Democrats are seeking a distraction from their role in the shutdown.
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«This is an absurd claim and just a publicity stunt by Democrats desperate to push attention away from their failures,» Spakovsky said in a Friday statement to Fox News Digital. «Blaming Democrats for the shutdown was absolutely accurate since they voted more than a dozen times to keep the government shutdown. Truth is an absolute defense to any claim of partisan messaging.»
The White House voiced similar sentiments in a statement to Fox News Digital on Monday.
«It’s an objective fact that Democrats are responsible for the government shutdown, the Trump Administration simply shared the truth with the American people,» White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson said in a statement.
GAO spokesperson Jessica Baxter told Fox News Digital Friday that the organization had received the request and is in the middle of evaluating the request.
Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., speaks at a press conference introducing the Assault Weapons Ban of 2025 on April 30, 2025 in Washington, DC.
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«I can confirm that GAO has received this congressional request,» Baxter said. «GAO has a process it goes through to determine whether we do work and when, which we are working through right now.»
Other lawmakers who signed the letter include Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, Ron Wyden of Oregon, among others.
Trump signed a bill Wednesday to fund the government again as consequences of the lapse in funding started to build — including missed paychecks for federal workers and airline delays due to air traffic controller staffing shortages.
The White House is seen the day after President Donald Trump announced U.S. military strikes on nuclear sites in Iran on June 22, 2025, in Washington, DC. (Kevin Carter/Getty Images)
The bill keeps funding for the government at fiscal year 2025 spending levels through Jan. 30 to provide lawmakers an opportunity to secure a longer appropriations measure for fiscal year 2026.
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The shutdown originated due to Republicans and Democrats sparring over various healthcare provisions to include in a potential funding measure. Trump and Republicans claimed Democrats wanted to provide illegal immigrants healthcare, and pointed to a provision that would repeal part of Trump’s tax and domestic policy bill known as the «big, beautiful bill» that reduced Medicaid eligibility for non-U.S. citizens.
But Democrats said this wasn’t the case, and instead, said they want to permanently extend certain Affordable Care Act subsidies that are set to expire at the end of 2025.
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Los hijos de Bolsonaro acusaron al juez Alexandre de Moraes de querer “matar” al ex presidente brasileño
Tres de los hijos de Jair Bolsonaro cargaron este sábado con dureza contra Alexandre de Moraes, el juez de la Corte Suprema que dictó la orden de prisión preventiva del ex presidente brasileño, al acusarlo de querer “matar” a su padre.
“El objetivo de Alexandre de Moraes es bien simple: matar a mi padre”, escribió en sus redes sociales el diputado Eduardo Bolsonaro en un extenso mensaje en el que tachó al magistrado de “psicópata”.
Eduardo se encuentra desde marzo pasado en Estados Unidos, donde ha mantenido reuniones con representantes del Gobierno de Donald Trump en busca de ayuda para intentar tumbar el proceso por el cual el ex mandatario fue condenado a 27 años de cárcel por golpismo.
El Supremo ya imputó al legislador por su actuación en EEUU, que se tradujo en aranceles del 50% sobre los productos brasileños, la revocación de los visados a varios jueces del alto tribunal y funcionarios del Ejecutivo, y sanciones financieras contra De Moraes.
“Cualquier régimen de excepción busca eliminar físicamente a sus disidentes; Alexandre de Moraes simplemente sigue el ejemplo de todos los tiranos psicópatas que lo precedieron”, expresó Eduardo.
“Nada de esto nos hará retroceder ni rendirnos. El martirio de mi padre solo encenderá la llama de la justicia en nuestros corazones. Todos los involucrados en el actual intento de Alexandre de Moraes de asesinar a mi padre rendirán cuentas”, prometió.
En la misma línea, el senador Flávio Bolsonaro manifestó que su padre “nunca hizo nada malo” y que la prisión preventiva se basa en una decisión judicial “frágil” construida a partir de “hipótesis”.
“¡Si le pasa alguna cosa, Alexandre de Moraes, es culpa tuya! ¡Si mi padre muere allí dentro, la culpa es tuya! ¡¿Quiere matar a Bolsonaro, Alexandre de Moraes?!”, exclamó en un directo en redes sociales que finalizó entre lágrimas mientras pronunciaba una oración.
Por su parte, el concejal de Río de Janeiro Carlos Bolsonaro insinuó que los problemas judiciales del ex gobernante, quien también está inhabilitado para cargos electivos, forman parte de un plan para acabar con su carrera política y disipar el movimiento de extrema derecha que encabeza en el país.
“El objetivo no cambia: quieren a Jair Bolsonaro enterrado vivo. O muerto, como ya intentaron”, aseguró.
El ex jefe de Estado (2019-2022) fue detenido preventivamente este sábado en su residencia de Brasilia, donde desde el pasado 4 de agosto cumplía prisión domiciliaria por incumplir varias medidas cautelares impuestas en el marco de la causa de golpismo.
Un equipo de agentes condujeron al ex gobernante hasta la sede de la Superintendencia de la Policía Federal de Brasilia, donde permanecerá bajo custodia hasta nueva orden.
Su arresto se produjo en vísperas de que el Supremo ordene la ejecución de su condena de 27 años y tres meses por su papel en la trama que intentó revertir el resultado de las elecciones de 2022.
El Supremo Tribunal Federal lo consideró responsable de “liderar” un plan para desconocer la victoria de Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. El proceso reunió registros de reuniones con altos mandos militares, discursos que cuestionaron sin pruebas el sistema de voto electrónico y documentos que describieron escenarios para activar un Estado de Sitio sin base constitucional.
El juez Moraes fundamenta la prisión preventiva en tres hechos recientes. Primero, la convocatoria de Flávio Bolsonaro a una “vigilia por la salud de Bolsonaro y la libertad de Brasil”. La Policía Federal advierte que un tumulto cerca de la vivienda podía facilitar una fuga. Segundo, la ruptura registrada de la tobillera electrónica a la madrugada del sábado. El magistrado interpreta el episodio como una señal de intento de evasión. Tercero, la fuga de Alexandre Ramagem, exdirector de Inteligencia y condenado por golpismo, que escapa desde Roraima hacia Estados Unidos.
La justicia menciona además la proximidad entre la casa de Bolsonaro y la zona de embajadas, incluida la de Estados Unidos.
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Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara apologized to the Somali community for a comment he made connecting «East African kids» to crime.
«The Somali community here in Minneapolis has been welcoming and has shown love towards me, and I appreciate it,» O’Hara said at a news conference on Thursday. «Over the last three years we have been working together to try and address some of the real serious problems that we have in our community.»
«We have to be honest at times with the problems that we’re having in our community, and we need our community to help us fix those problems together because it’s real and it’s serious. At the same time, if people have taken anything that i have said out of context in a way that’s caused harm, I apologize, and I’m sorry for that because that’s not my intention at all,» O’Hara added.
In an interview with WCCO earlier this month, O’Hara was speaking about a deadly Halloween shooting as well as juvenile crime plaguing the city when he made the comment. Alpha News reported that the Dinkytown area, where the shooting took place, has seen a series of crimes including assaults, robberies, shootings and auto thefts.
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Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara speaks during a press conference regarding the Annunciation Church shooting in Minneapolis, Minn., Aug. 28, 2025. (Tim Evans/Reuters)
During the interview, he stated that the young people committing the crimes were not «poor kids from Minneapolis,» but rather kids that come from out of town who take «mommy’s Mercedes-Benz to Dinkytown, and they don’t know where they are.»
«Groups of kids, groups of East African kids that are coming from surrounding communities and not just one community, kind of all over the place,» O’Hara told WCCO.
After the interview, a petition on Change.org demanded an apology from O’Hara, saying that the East African community of Minneapolis «has already been carrying the weight of unfair scrutiny for years» and that the chief’s comment would «deepen that burden.»
The Minneapolis Somali community has faced scrutiny on a national level in recent days after a bombshell report revealed a series of alleged financial schemes that ended with terrorists getting taxpayer dollars. Ryan Thorpe and Christopher F. Rufo of the Manhattan Institute found that Al-Shabaab, an al Qaeda-linked terrorist organization in Somalia, was receiving funds that could be traced back to Minnesota.
«Every scrap of economic activity, in the Twin Cities, in America, throughout Western Europe, anywhere Somalis are concentrated, every cent that is sent back to Somalia benefits Al-Shabaab in some way,» a former official who worked on the Minneapolis Joint Terrorism Task Force told Thorpe and Rufo.
Women walk along a tree-lined street in Minneapolis’ Cedar–Riverside neighborhood, home to one of the largest Somali communities in the U.S. (Michael Dorgan/Fox News Digital)
Following the report, President Donald Trump announced he was ending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Somalis in Minnesota.
The Secretary of Homeland Security may designate a country for TPS if nationals cannot return safely or if the country «is unable to handle the return of its nationals adequately.» Countries currently under TPS are Burma, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Haiti, Lebanon, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Ukraine, Venezuela and Yemen.
«Minnesota, under Governor Waltz, is a hub of fraudulent money laundering activity. I am, as President of the United States, hereby terminating, effective immediately the Temporary Protected Status (TPS program) for Somalis in Minnesota. Somali gangs are terrorizing the people of that great State, and BILLIONS of dollars are missing. Send them back to where they came from. It’s OVER!,» Trump wrote on Truth Social.
Rufo, one of the authors of the bombshell report, said Trump’s announcement was a «great start» but that there is still more work to do.
«Canceling TPS for Minnesota Somalis is a great start. Next: review all asylum, refugee, and citizenship applications for any hint of fraud or technical error; then initiate denaturalizations and mass deportations up to the furthest limits of the law. They have to go home,» Rufo wrote on X.
Women walk along a tree-lined street in Minneapolis’ Cedar–Riverside neighborhood, home to one of the largest Somali communities in the U.S. (Michael Dorgan/Fox News Digital)
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House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn, who praised Trump’s decision, wrote a letter on Friday to U.S. Attorney for the District of Minnesota Daniel Rosen demanding an investigation. The letter was also signed by Emmer’s fellow Minnesota Republicans, Rep. Pete Stauber, Rep. Michelle Fischbach, and Rep. Brad Finstad.
«It is alleged that Minnesota’s Somali community, the largest in the nation, has been sending millions back to Somalia via the hawala network, an informal money trafficking network which is notorious for funds ending up in terrorist networks, and in this instance, Al-Shabaab,» the letter reads.
House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN) speaks during a press conference with members of the Republican Study Committee and other members of House Republican leadership, on the 28th day of the government shutdown in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 28, 2025. (Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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The lawmakers cited the various cases involving members of the Somali community, including the Feeding our Future fraud scheme, fraud in the Housing Stabilization Services program, Child Care Assistance program and Minnesota’s Early Intensive Developmental and Behavioral Intervention program.
«It is bad enough that these individuals are defrauding our state, taking services and funds away from children and the most vulnerable, but now there is a good reason to believe that Minnesota taxpayer dollars are going straight into terrorists’ hands. These new allegations present not only a serious betrayal of taxpayer trust, but also a grave threat to our national security,» the letter states.
Fox News Digital has reached out to Walz’s office for comment.
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