<p>Senator Mark Kelly (D-AZ) was quick to give President Donald Trump credit for securing the deal that could finally end the war in Gaza between Israel and Hamas terrorists.</p>
<p>Kelly sat down with CNN anchor Dana Bash on Sunday&#8217;s broadcast of &#8220;State of the Union&#8221; — when phase one of the deal was already beginning to unfold — and he said that Trump deserved &#8220;a lot of credit&#8221; for setting things in motion to bring about a deal.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Sen. Mark Kelly on ceasefire deal in Gaza: I think Trump &#8220;should get a lot of credit.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/iFopebsXTI">pic.twitter.com/iFopebsXTI</a></p>
<p>— State of the Union (@CNNSOTU) <a href="https://twitter.com/CNNSOTU/status/1977373195628941468?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 12, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
<p>&#8220;How much credit does President Trump deserve for this deal?&#8221; Bash asked Kelly to open the conversation.</p>
<p class="qualified qualified-1">&#8220;I think he should get a lot of credit. I mean, this was his deal,&#8221; Kelly replied. &#8220;He worked this out. He sent [Middle East Envoy] Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner over to negotiate this. And so far, it’s gone well.&#8221;</p>
<p class="qualified qualified-1">&#8220;Hopefully, the hostages get released here — might not be within 24 hours — but certainly, I think, by Monday. And that’s progress. And now we’re going to have to see what happens next,&#8221; Kelly continued, referencing the moves already being made in Gaza to see the last of the hostages released.</p>
<p>He went on to say that he hoped to see the rest of the deal come to pass as promised, with other nations in the surrounding area stepping up to help Gaza rebuild.</p>
<p class="qualified qualified-1">&#8220;You know, my hope is the Saudis, the Emiratis, they step up and they do what they said they would do, which is invest in rebuilding Gaza, which 90 percent of the homes have been destroyed. It is such a tragic situation,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It’s good to see these 600 aid trucks. That should have been happening over the last two years. You know, feed people who just are starving and struggling.&#8221;</p>
<p>Just hours after Kelly&#8217;s interview, President Donald Trump took off in Air Force One, heading to Israel to greet the living hostages who are expected to be released in the coming hours.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Air Force One is officially WHEELS UP to Israel — where President Trump is expected to land at about 2:20 AM Eastern Time 🛫🇺🇸🇮🇱 <a href="https://t.co/k2fO6hEQaT">pic.twitter.com/k2fO6hEQaT</a></p>
<p>— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapidResponse47/status/1977477653998317618?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 12, 2025</a></p></blockquote>

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‘He Worked This Out’: Senate Dem Admits Trump Deserves ‘A Lot Of Credit’ For Gaza Deal

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<p>House Speaker Mike Johnson unloaded on Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer during a Sunday morning interview, saying that the New York Senator was being intentionally dishonest about which party was driving the ongoing government shutdown.</p>
<p>Johnson joined anchor Shannon Bream on &#8220;Fox News Sunday&#8221; to discuss the shutdown and whether or not the end was in sight, and he argued that Schumer was allowing the federal government to stay closed in order to protect himself from the backlash he got for moving to keep the government open and avert the last potential shutdown in March.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">.<a href="https://twitter.com/SpeakerJohnson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SpeakerJohnson</a> on the Democrat shutdown: &#8220;Chuck Schumer, when he voted for the EXACT SAME measure back in March, took a lot of heat from the left of his party, and he doesn&#8217;t want to sustain that any longer. So, he&#8217;s doing this and inflicting pain for his own selfish reasons.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/ZN8YS74p0C">pic.twitter.com/ZN8YS74p0C</a></p>
<p>— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapidResponse47/status/1977378948355891452?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 12, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
<p>Johnson first responded to Schumer&#8217;s repeated claims that Republicans could reopen the government any time they wanted to because they controlled the House, the White House, and the Senate.</p>
<p>&#8220;Chuck Schumer is incapable of telling the truth right now,&#8221; Johnson began. &#8220;I mean, he&#8217;s been in Congress for 44 years, Shannon, I mean almost half a century. He knows this is basic civics. Every eighth grade civics student can point out the fallacy in what he just said. It requires 60 votes in the Senate to get this through. We only have 53 Republicans. We&#8217;ve got to have a handful of Democrats in the Senate who apply common sense and agree to reopen the government so that we can continue all these discussions.&#8221;</p>
<p>Johnson went on to point out that the Continuing Resolution on the table – which would reopen the government temporarily and has already been passed by the House — would keep the current levels of spending as they are and give Congress time to negotiate any changes.</p>
<p>&#8220;We just need seven more weeks to finish it, and right now they&#8217;re eating up the clock. They&#8217;re doing this for political cover,&#8221; Johnson explained. &#8220;Chuck Schumer, when he voted for the EXACT SAME measure back in March, took a lot of heat from the left of his party, and he doesn&#8217;t want to sustain that any longer. So, he&#8217;s doing this and inflicting pain for his own selfish reasons.&#8221;</p>

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Mike Johnson Unloads On Schumer, Says Senate Dem Is ‘Inflicting Pain For His Own Selfish Reasons’

<p>Vice President JD Vance argued on Sunday that Senate Democrats, led by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), were more interested in holding the federal government &#8220;hostage&#8221; than in negotiating an end to the ongoing government shutdown.</p>
<p>Vance, speaking with CBS News anchor Margaret Brennan, said that Democrats did not want to talk about health care — what they wanted was to use the shutdown to make demands until the White House and Republicans in Congress simply capitulated and gave them everything.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">When pressed on why President Trump hasn’t met with congressional leaders at the White House to negotiate a deal to reopen the government, Vice President JD Vance tells <a href="https://twitter.com/margbrennan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@margbrennan</a>: “This isn&#8217;t a deal-making. This isn&#8217;t a negotiation. This is hostage-taking.”</p>
<p>“If Chuck Schumer… <a href="https://t.co/Io73ycakfW">pic.twitter.com/Io73ycakfW</a></p>
<p>— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) <a href="https://twitter.com/FaceTheNation/status/1977385857335140403?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 12, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
<p>&#8220;When I pressed Leader Schumer on this program just last Sunday about this, about reopening the government, and he said it&#8217;s going to take getting everyone in the same room with the President of the United States — only the five people including the president can solve it,&#8221; Brennan recalled, asking Vance why President Donald Trump has not demanded that congressional leaders return to Washington in order to get that done.</p>
<p>&#8220;Well, as Chuck Schumer said, it&#8217;s not all lawmakers, it&#8217;s the Senate leadership that really is driving this shutdown,&#8221; Vance replied, noting that the Republican-led House had already passed a Continuing Resolution that would reopen the government, at least temporarily.</p>
<p>&#8220;But the president says he&#8217;s a deal-maker,&#8221; Brennan interrupted. &#8220;Why doesn&#8217;t he force a deal here?&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Margaret, it&#8217;s a totally fair question, and the answer is because this isn&#8217;t a deal-making. This isn&#8217;t a negotiation. This is hostage-taking,&#8221; Vance declared. &#8220;Chuck Schumer has not said to us, &#8216;This is what we need,&#8217; he&#8217;s said, &#8216;Unless you give us what we need, we&#8217;re going to shut down the government. That is a totally different thing.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;If Chuck Schumer wants to come into the Oval Office or come to my house, he is welcome to talk about how to fix health care policy for Americans,&#8221; the vice president added. &#8220;But you don&#8217;t come into the Oval Office and say, unless you, the president of the United States, give us everything that I want, I&#8217;m going to shut down the government.&#8221;</p>
<p>Vance echoed the sentiments expressed late last week by CNBC anchor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnbcs-joe-kernen-blisters-hakeem-jeffries-over-democrat-fueled-shutdown">Joe Kernen</a>, who challenged House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries directly about the demands Democrats were making.</p>
<p>&#8220;There was an election, and the Republicans were put in a position where they were able to pass the Big Beautiful Bill, or as you call it the ‘Big Ugly Bill.’ To then say, ‘We don’t like any of that, so we’re going to shut down the government until you take back all the things that you duly passed through legislation …&#8217;” Kernen began, arguing that if the shoe were on the other foot, Democrats would be angry — and rightfully so.</p>
<p>“If Republicans had tried to do that to the Inflation Reduction Act or the — any of the acts that Biden and that administration have passed — if they said we’re going to shut down the government because we don’t like any of those things you did, ‘we’re not going to pay our military, we are going to not allow the government to reopen until you do what we want’ – after an election where the American people put Democrats in power – you’d be going crazy!” he said.</p>

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Vance Torches Margaret Brennan Over Schumer Shutdown Narrative: ‘This Is Not A Negotiation’

<p>Vice President JD Vance pushed back when ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos tried to make their Sunday morning interview about an FBI surveillance tape that allegedly showed Border Czar Tom Homan accepting $50,000 in cash.</p>
<p>Vance defended Homan, but then also chastised Stephanopoulos for fixating on a &#8220;ridiculous smear&#8221; and a &#8220;bogus story&#8221; rather than using his time to address the issues that were impacting Americans on a day-to-day basis.</p>
<p>&#8220;The White House border czar Tom Homan was recorded on an FBI surveillance tape in September 2024 accepting $50,000 in cash. Did he keep that money or give it back?&#8221; Stephanopoulos began the segment.</p>
<p>&#8220;George, you’ve covered the story ad nauseum,&#8221; Vance pushed back. &#8220;Tom Homan did not take a bribe. It’s a ridiculous smear. And the reason you guys are going after Tom Homan so aggressively is because he’s doing the job of enforcing the law. I think it’s really preposterous. I know Tom, I think that he’s a good man. He gets death threats, he gets attacked, he gets constantly threatened by people because he has the audacity to want to enforce the country’s immigration laws. I think that it would be a much more interesting story about why is it that Tom Homan, who is simply enforcing America’s immigration laws, is getting constantly harassed and threatened to the point of death threats? That’s a much more interesting question that I think journalists should focus on. We can agree to disagree on that question.&#8221;</p>
<p>Stephanopoulos tried again to push the question with his framing: &#8220;Well, wait, you said he didn’t take a bribe, but I’m not sure you answered the question. Are you saying that he did not accept the $50,000?&#8221;</p>
<p>The exchange continued in that vein — and Stephanopoulos tried several other iterations of the same question: &#8220;So you don’t — what was caught on the tape, you’re saying right now you don’t know whether or not he kept that money?&#8221;</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">.<a href="https://twitter.com/VP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@VP</a> nukes George Slopidopolous for obsessing over made-up Fake News BS while not asking a single question about the Democrat Shutdown: &#8220;Here&#8217;s, George, why fewer and fewer people watch your program&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>George gets big mad, cuts <a href="https://twitter.com/VP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@VP</a> off, and goes to commercial 🤣 <a href="https://t.co/VVm2FV5ujd">pic.twitter.com/VVm2FV5ujd</a></p>
<p>— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapidResponse47/status/1977369179356352826?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 12, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
<p>&#8220;I don’t know what tape you’re referring to, George. I saw media reports that Tom Homan accepted a bribe. There’s no evidence of that,&#8221; Vance argued. &#8220;And here’s, George, why fewer and fewer people watch your program, and why you’re losing credibility. Because you’re talking for now, five minutes with the Vice President of United States about this story regarding Tom Homan, a story that I’ve read about, but I don’t even know the video that you’re talking about.&#8221;</p>
<p>Vance went on to suggest that there were far more important stories that ABC would do well to cover — issues like the government shutdown, driven by Democrats, that were impacting regular Americans from day to day.</p>
<p>&#8220;Low-income women can’t get food because the Democrats and Chuck Schumer have shut down the government. Right now, we’re trying to figure out how to pay our troops because Chuck Schumer has shut down the government. You are focused on a bogus story. You’re insinuating criminal wrongdoing against a guy who has done nothing wrong instead of focusing on the fact that our country is struggling because our government is shut down,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Let’s talk about the real issues, George. I think the American people would benefit much more from that than from you going down some weird left-wing rabbit hole, where the facts clearly show that Tom Homan didn’t engage in any criminal wrongdoing.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;It’s not a weird left-wing rabbit hole,&#8221; Stephanopoulos objected before bringing the segment to a close. &#8220;I didn’t insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50,000, as was heard on an audiotape recorded by the FBI in September 2024, and you did not answer the question. Thank you for your time this morning.&#8221;</p>

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‘You Are Focused On A Bogus Story’: JD Vance Squares Off With ABC’s Stephanopoulos

<p>Israel has uncovered a memo it says was written by deceased Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar in which the terrorist leader gave detailed instructions for Hamas&#8217;s October 7, 2023, attack on Israel, specifically ordering Hamas terrorists to target civilians and broadcast the atrocities across the world in real time.</p>
<p>The six-page document, discovered in a bunker after the assassination of Hamas leader Muhammed Sinwar in May 2025 and obtained by the New York Times, was disseminated to Hamas commanders in August 2022. The Times consulted document expert Sima Ankona, who said that the handwriting in the memo matched other documents known to be authored by Sinwar.</p>
<p>&#8220;The memo,&#8221; the Times reports, &#8220;calls for fighters to target soldiers and civilian communities — as well as to broadcast the violent acts so as to evoke fear in Israelis and destabilize the country. Commanders then issued similar instructions on Oct. 7, according to hours of previously unreported communications between commanders and subordinates intercepted by Israel during the assault.&#8221;</p>
<p>The memo undermines Hamas&#8217;s claims that the Oct. 7 attack was directed primarily at the Israeli military.</p>
<p>&#8220;Two or three operations, in which an entire neighborhood, kibbutz, or something similar will be burned, must be prepared,&#8221; the memo read — and while there were no specific instructions for militants to kill or kidnap civilians, they were ordered to set fire to homes &#8220;with gasoline or diesel from a tanker.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Israel Defense Forces intercepted communications in which Hamas commanders appear to have repeated several of the memo&#8217;s directives to burn homes and kibbutzim.</p>
<p>“Start setting homes on fire,&#8221; a communication from a Gaza City battalion commander named Abu Muhammed read. &#8220;Burn, burn. I want the whole kibbutz to be in flames.&#8221;</p>

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Hamas Leader Instructed Terrorists To Target Civilians On Oct. 7, Memo Reveals

<p>President Donald Trump announced on Saturday that he had found a way to make sure that American service members would be paid on October 15th, in spite of the Democrat-driven government shutdown.</p>
<p>Trump made the announcement via his Truth Social platform, saying that he had directed War Secretary Pete Hegseth to take steps to ensure that payment immediately.</p>
<p>“Chuck Schumer recently said, ‘Every day gets better’ during their Radical Left Shutdown. I DISAGREE!” Trump began.</p>
<p>“If nothing is done, because of ‘Leader’ Chuck Schumer and the Democrats, our Brave Troops will miss the paychecks they are rightfully due on October 15th,” he continued. “That is why I am using my authority, as Commander in Chief, to direct our Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, to use all available funds to get our Troops PAID on October 15th.”</p>
<p>Trump went on to say that he had already found a workaround and was pushing forward with it.</p>
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<p>“We have identified funds to do this, and Secretary Hegseth will use them to PAY OUR TROOPS,” he declared. “I will not allow the Democrats to hold our Military, and the entire Security of our Nation, HOSTAGE, with their dangerous Government Shutdown.”</p>
<p>The president concluded with a call for Democrats to vote to reopen the government, saying, “The Radical Left Democrats should OPEN THE GOVERNMENT, and then we can work together to address Healthcare, and many other things that they want to destroy. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”</p>
<p>“President Trump delivers for the troops,” War Secretary Pete Hegseth added.</p>
<p>Hegseth also praised House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) for making appearances across media outlets to talk about what was really going on.</p>
<p>&#8220;Unlike @TheDemocrats, this Administration will ensure that no military-dependent child goes without health care or medicine during the Democrat Government Shutdown,&#8221; Hegseth said.</p>
<p>“Kudos to the @SpeakerJohnson for blanketing the airwaves and giving Americans the facts about the shutdown,” he added. “Shame on Chuck Schumer for voting NO and preventing our brave troops from getting a paycheck.”</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Unlike <a href="https://twitter.com/TheDemocrats?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TheDemocrats</a>, this Administration will ensure that no military-dependent child goes without health care or medicine during the Democrat Government Shutdown.</p>
<p>Kudos to the <a href="https://twitter.com/SpeakerJohnson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SpeakerJohnson</a> for blanketing the airwaves and giving Americans the facts about the shutdown. Shame… <a href="https://t.co/Pq1iloDs7h">https://t.co/Pq1iloDs7h</a></p>
<p>— Pete Hegseth (@PeteHegseth) <a href="https://twitter.com/PeteHegseth/status/1976998701437485208?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 11, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
<p>CNBC host Joe Kernen addressed the shutdown with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) days earlier, arguing that Democrats were effectively trying to use a government shutdown to undo duly-passed legislation because they didn’t agree with it.</p>

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