On Thursday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) declared that he will not vote against moving forward with a Republican-backed stopgap bill to avert a partial government shutdown at the end of the week.
The announcement, in which Schumer criticized President Donald Trump and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) effort led by Elon Musk, marked an abrupt turnaround. Just one day ago, the top Senate Democrat insisted the Republican majority did not have enough votes for the House-passed continuing resolution to clear a key procedural hurdle.
&#8220;While the CR bill is very bad, the potential for a shutdown has consequences for America that are much, much worse. &#8230; I believe allowing Donald Trump to take even much more power via a government shutdown is a far worse option,&#8221; Schumer said in remarks on the Senate floor.
He added later: &#8220;I believe it is my job to make the best choice for the country, to minimize the harms to the American people. Therefore, I will vote to keep the government open and not shut it down.&#8221;
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The Senate needs three-fifths majority — or 60 votes — to invoke cloture and overcome a filibuster on the GOP&#8217;s six-month continuing resolution. Because Republicans have a 53-47 majority, they cannot clear that threshold without some kind of bipartisan agreement. The spending legislation will need only a simple majority to prevail in a final vote.
A partial government shutdown, in which non-essential federal employees will be furloughed, is set to begin at the end of Friday if a funding bill is not passed in time. It was only months ago, in December, that lawmakers <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-passes-last-minute-funding-bill-to-avert-shutdown" target="_blank" rel="noopener">resorted</a> to the last continuing resolution that extended funding through mid-March.
The Democrat leader&#8217;s statement came after a Senate Democrat meeting in which reporters <a href="https://x.com/AndrewDesiderio/status/1900259650127208589" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> they could <a href="https://x.com/aishahhasnie/status/1900259746868838565" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hear</a> Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) shouting about a shutdown.
It was not immediately clear how many Democrats or independents will join Schumer, though his opposition to a shutdown may signal better odds for the Republican continuing resolution. Still, some on the Left have expressed stern disapproval of the plan.
Many Democrats had previously released statements claiming they would resist the GOP measure. Prior to Schumer, Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) was the sole Democrat to openly <a href="https://x.com/SenFettermanPA/status/1899584350305276091" target="_blank" rel="noopener">state</a> that he would not support blocking the Republican stopgap bill.
&#8220;The weeks of performative ‘resistance’ from those in my party were limited to undignified antics,&#8221; Fetterman said on X. &#8220;Voting to shut the government down will punish millions or risk a recession. I disagree with many points in the CR, but I will never vote to shut our government down.&#8221;
One Republican — Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) — <a href="https://x.com/RandPaul/status/1899113680848961888" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signaled</a> that he will vote against the bill. However, that does not necessarily mean he would oppose breaking the filibuster.
“Despite [DOGE’s] findings of loony left-wing USAID programs, the Republican spending bill continues to fund the very foreign aid [Musk] proposes to cut! The bill continues spending at the inflated pandemic levels and will add $2T to the debt this year,” Paul said in a post on X. “Count me as a hell no!”
The GOP-led House <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-passes-funding-patch-win-trump-speaker-johnson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">passed</a> a 99-page <a href="https://appropriations.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-appropriations.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/bill-text.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">continuing resolution</a>, which provides funds to various federal agencies and programs through September 30, via a 217-213 vote on Tuesday. All but one Republican and a single Democrat — Rep. Jared Golden (D-ME) — supported the measure. The rest of the Democrats and Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) opposed the bill.
Republicans soon began warning of a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/schumer-shutdown-looms-as-dems-plan-to-block-gop-spending-patch" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;Schumer Shutdown&#8221;</a> after the minority leader declared the Senate majority lacked the votes necessary to break the filibuster on the GOP&#8217;s continuing resolution. Schumer argued the upper chamber should instead take up a one-month funding patch being offered by the Democrats.
&#8220;Funding the government should be a bipartisan effort but Republicans chose a partisan path drafting their continuing without any input — any input — from congressional Democrats,&#8221; Schumer <a href="https://x.com/sahilkapur/status/1899910466589126800" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> on Wednesday.
&#8220;Because of that, Republicans do not have the votes in the Senate to invoke cloture on the House CR. Our caucus is unified on a clean April 11 CR that will keep the government open and give Congress time to negotiate bipartisan legislation that can pass,&#8221; he added. &#8220;We should vote on that.&#8221;
Trump has endorsed the House-passed continuing resolution as a means to keep the government running and later get to his domestic agenda priorities in national defense, border security, and tax cuts.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) <a href="https://x.com/maxpcohen/status/1900193673385595059" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> said earlier in the day that he was open to allowing a vote on the 30-day stopgap proposal as an amendment to placate Democrats, although it was not clear as of press time if that will happen. &#8220;We’re waiting to decide what they want to do,&#8221; he said, according to Punchbowl News reporter Max Cohen.

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With Democrats threatening to force a partial government shutdown, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is being confronted with a warning he delivered just last year.
The &#8220;Rapid Response&#8221; account on X for President Donald Trump&#8217;s White House posted on Thursday a &#8220;flashback&#8221; clip of Schumer&#8217;s remarks from September — when the top Democrat pinned a potential shutdown at that time on Republicans.
&#8220;If the government shuts down, it will be average Americans who suffer most. A government shutdown means seniors who rely on Social Security could be thrown into chaos &#8230;&#8221; Schumer said.
&#8220;So what changed, Chuck?&#8221; the White House account asked.
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&quot;If the government shuts down, it will be average Americans who suffer most. A government shutdown means seniors who rely on Social Security could be thrown into chaos.&quot;
So what changed, Chuck? <a href="https://t.co/eyM07qBYv6">pic.twitter.com/eyM07qBYv6</a>
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Earlier this week, the GOP-led House <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-passes-funding-patch-win-trump-speaker-johnson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">passed</a> another continuing resolution to avert a partial government shutdown by the end of this week — in which non-essential federal employees will be furloughed — and keep federal agencies and programs funded through September 30. But on Wednesday, Schumer <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/schumer-shutdown-looms-as-dems-plan-to-block-gop-spending-patch" target="_blank" rel="noopener">declared</a> Republicans &#8220;do not have&#8221; the votes needed to break a filibuster.
A flurry of GOP senators and their allies piled on Schumer in response to the clip posted by the White House.
&#8220;Chuck Schumer should take some advice from *checks notes* Chuck Schumer. Let’s avoid a Schumer Shutdown,&#8221; <a href="https://x.com/SenatorHagerty/status/1900189771172905141" target="_blank" rel="noopener">quipped</a> Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-TN).
&#8220;The Trump Derangement Syndrome continues,&#8221; <a href="https://x.com/SenThomTillis/status/1900186205632839886" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Sen. Thom Thillis (R-NC). &#8220;One of the first things Democrats did when they controlled the Senate was to make a failed push to nuke the filibuster because [Joe] Biden was President. Now they are shamefully filibustering and on the verge of shutting down the government to appease their radical base because Trump is President.&#8221;
Elon Musk, who is overseeing the Trump administration&#8217;s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), <a href="https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1900179542771409389" target="_blank" rel="noopener">replied</a>: &#8220;Paging 2024 Schumer …&#8221;
As an alternative to the House spending patch, Schumer has proposed a four-week continuing resolution to &#8220;keep the government open and give Congress time to negotiate bipartisan legislation that can pass.&#8221; However, Republicans control the Senate and are moving forward with the lower chamber&#8217;s bill.
It is possible that leaders reach a deal in which enough Democrats or independents vote to advance the House bill — a three-fifths majority, or 60 votes, will be needed to invoke cloture — in exchange for a vote on the minority&#8217;s alternative measure, potentially as some kind of amendment.

Schumer’s Own Govt Shutdown Warning Comes Back To Haunt Him

For more than four decades, the federal government has controlled American education, and the results speak for themselves: declining test scores, skyrocketing costs, and millions of students left behind. Since its creation in 1979, the Department of Education has burned through more than <a href="https://committeetounleashprosperity.com/hotlines/trump-is-right-federal-education-department-a-trillion-dollar-failure/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">$1 trillion</a> in taxpayer dollars. What do we have to show for it?
The latest data from the Nation’s Report Card paints a bleak picture. <a href="https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/reports/mathematics/2024/g4_8/?grade=8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mathematics</a> and <a href="https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/reports/reading/2024/g4_8/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reading</a> scores for 13-year-olds are at their lowest in decades. Barely a third of elementary school students can read at grade level. <a href="https://gizmodo.com/u-s-students-post-lowest-reading-scores-in-decades-2000557027" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Low-performing</a> students are faring even worse. And despite the government throwing more money at the problem — per-pupil spending has surged by more than <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/2572941/test-scores-have-barely-risen-since-1970-despite-245-spending-increase/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">245%</a> since the 1970s — outcomes have only gotten worse.
Meanwhile, the cost of college has exploded by <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/college-tuition-cost-rise-loans-administrative-bloat/#:~:text=Between%201980%20and%202023%2C%20the,News%20and%20World%20Report%20found." target="_blank" rel="noopener">155%</a> since the Department of Education’s founding. Students are graduating with crushing debt, only to land jobs that <a href="https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/college-degree-jobs-unused-440b2abd" target="_blank" rel="noopener">don&#8217;t</a> even require degrees. We have seen funding fall by <a href="https://www.heritage.org/education/commentary/the-pork-barrel-politics-the-department-education" target="_blank" rel="noopener">50%</a> for career and technical education while Democrats continue to spend money on woke nonsense. Funding for Indian education has also declined by 27% alongside impact aid for schools serving military families which has dropped by 41%. Instead of fixing these problems, the Biden administration made things worse. Our kids deserve better.
Under Biden, the Department of Education wasted <a href="https://defendinged.org/investigations/granted/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">$1 billion</a> on grants pushing radical ideologies and <a href="https://edworkforce.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=411780" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rewrote</a> Title IX to let men compete in women’s sports. Bureaucrats in Washington are drowning schools in regulations, adding <a href="https://regrodeo.com/?year%5B0%5D=2024&amp;year%5B1%5D=2023&amp;year%5B2%5D=2022&amp;year%5B3%5D=2021&amp;agency%5B0%5D=Education" target="_blank" rel="noopener">$3.9 billion</a> in costs. Even a simple task like simplifying the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) proved <a href="https://budget.house.gov/imo/media/doc/fafsa.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">too much</a> for Biden’s team.
Enough is enough.
President Trump is delivering the reform America needs. His administration has already canceled <a href="https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/us-department-of-education-cancels-divisive-and-wasteful-grants-under-comprehensive-centers-program" target="_blank" rel="noopener">$226 million</a> in woke grants which forced divisive agendas like race-based discrimination and gender identity ideology onto states. But that’s just the beginning. By dismantling the Department of Education, we will return power to where it belongs: states, parents, and teachers.
The Constitution never envisioned a federal role in education — it’s a responsibility reserved for the states. Yet for decades, the Department of Education has smothered schools with regulations, diverted resources to ideological crusades, and undermined teachers, parents, and students. Thanks to President Trump, taxpayers will no longer foot the bill for progressive experiments and obsolete programs.
This isn’t just about cutting costs — it’s about unleashing potential. Imagine empowering states to achieve educational excellence: going back to basics like math and reading — not divisive ideologies — and adopting <a href="https://www.donaldjtrump.com/agenda47/agenda47-president-trumps-ten-principles-for-great-schools-leading-to-great-jobs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">patriotic civics lessons</a> that inspire pride in our nation’s history. Governors will be measured by student success, not by how well they comply with Washington’s bureaucratic demands. Education will be brought closer to the students and our system will be transformed.
The benefits will ripple outward. Teachers, freed from layers of red tape, will be able to do what they do best — teach. Parents will finally have a real say in their children’s education. And America’s schools will no longer be controlled by faceless bureaucrats or teachers’ unions pushing political agendas. The woke stranglehold on public education will be broken.
Critics will cry that eliminating the Department of Education will hurt students. But the truth is, Washington has failed them for generations. It’s time to try something new. President Trump’s vision trusts states and parents to deliver what Washington never could: an education system that works.
With President Trump’s leadership, we’re not just reforming education — we’re reclaiming it. The future of our children, and our nation, depends on it.
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U.S. Senator Markwayne Mullin represents the state of Oklahoma. He serves on the Senate Armed Services Committee; the Appropriations Committee; the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee; and the Indian Affairs Committee.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
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At the end of this week, Senate Democrats may force a partial government shutdown rather than allow a final vote on a GOP-backed stopgap bill that already has passed the House.
Republicans are warning of a &#8220;Schumer Shutdown,&#8221; named after Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), who said on Wednesday that the Senate majority lacks the votes necessary to break the filibuster on the GOP&#8217;s continuing resolution and should take up the Democrats&#8217; one-month funding patch instead.
&#8220;Funding the government should be a bipartisan effort but Republicans chose a partisan path drafting their continuing without any input — any input — from congressional Democrats,&#8221; Schumer <a href="https://x.com/sahilkapur/status/1899910466589126800" target="_blank" rel="noopener">declared</a> on the Senate floor. &#8220;Because of that, Republicans do not have the votes in the Senate to invoke cloture on the House CR. Our caucus is unified on a clean April 11 CR that will keep the government open and give Congress time to negotiate bipartisan legislation that can pass. We should vote on that.&#8221;
A partial government shutdown, in which non-essential federal employees will be furloughed, is set to begin on March 15 if a funding bill is not passed in time. It was only months ago, in December, that lawmakers <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-passes-last-minute-funding-bill-to-avert-shutdown" target="_blank" rel="noopener">resorted</a> to the last continuing resolution that extended funding through mid-March.
The GOP-led House <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-passes-funding-patch-win-trump-speaker-johnson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">passed</a> a 99-page <a href="https://appropriations.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-appropriations.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/bill-text.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">continuing resolution</a>, which provides funds to various federal agencies and programs through September 30, via a 217-213 vote on Tuesday. All but one Republican and a single Democrat — Rep. Jared Golden (D-ME) — supported the measure. The rest of the Democrats and Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) opposed the bill.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) took the first procedural step in moving ahead with the House-passed funding bill on Wednesday morning, according to C-SPAN&#8217;s <a href="https://x.com/cspan/status/1899919192863768939" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Craig Caplan</a>. A three-fifths majority — or 60 votes — will be needed to overcome a filibuster prior to a final vote in which the bill will need only a simple majority to prevail.
As it stands, Republicans have a 53-47 majority in the Senate, so a bipartisan coalition will have to vote in favor of advancing the legislation to clear the procedural hurdle. Punchbowl News <a href="https://x.com/JakeSherman/status/1899910451409895583" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> there could be some kind of agreement in which a sufficient number of Democrats support cloture in exchange for the GOP majority allowing a vote on their 30-day continuing resolution.
Republicans have already pinned a potential shutdown on Schumer, arguing the Democrat leader opposes their legislation only because he does not to side with President Donald Trump — who supports the GOP&#8217;s continuing resolution as a means to keep the government running and later get to his domestic agenda priorities in national defense, border security, and tax cuts.
&#8220;The most unbelievable part of a Schumer shutdown is that it has no purpose. There is no goal other than opposing Trump,&#8221; <a href="https://x.com/SenateGOP/status/1899845863519686717" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> the Senate GOP account on X. &#8220;Americans shouldn’t have to pay the price for Schumer’s tantrum.&#8221;
Also on X, Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) <a href="https://x.com/JohnCornyn/status/1899912983826096160" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> a &#8220;SchumerShutdown&#8221; hashtag and <a href="https://x.com/JohnCornyn/status/1899925188541563280" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>, &#8220;The only reason we&#8217;re voting on a CR is because Senator Schumer refused to put the normal appropriations bills on the floor for a vote last year. Now they want another short term bill? Nope.&#8221;
It remains to be seen whether all the Democrats and the independents who caucus with them will band together against the Republicans&#8217; continuing resolution. At least one of them — Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) — has indicated that he will break ranks.
&#8220;The weeks of performative &#8216;resistance&#8217; from those in my party were limited to undignified antics,&#8221; Fetterman <a href="https://x.com/SenFettermanPA/status/1899584350305276091" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> on X. &#8220;Voting to shut the government down will punish millions or risk a recession. I disagree with many points in the CR, but I will never vote to shut our government down.&#8221;
On the GOP side, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) signaled that he will vote against the continuing resolution — although that does not necessarily mean he will oppose breaking the filibuster.
&#8220;Despite [DOGE&#8217;s] findings of loony left-wing USAID programs, the Republican spending bill continues to fund the very foreign aid [Elon Musk] proposes to cut! The bill continues spending at the inflated pandemic levels and will add $2T to the debt this year,&#8221; Paul <a href="https://x.com/RandPaul/status/1899113680848961888" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a post on X, referring to the Trump administration&#8217;s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) overseen by Elon Musk. &#8220;Count me as a hell no!&#8221;

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Top Senate Democrat Jeanne Shaheen announced on Wednesday that she will not seek reelection in 2026, creating a prime pickup opportunity for Republicans in New Hampshire&#8217;s historically swing-state Senate race.
Shaheen, 78, previously served three terms as governor of New Hampshire until being elected to the Senate in 2008. The senator serves as the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
&#8220;It&#8217;s important for New Hampshire and the country to have a new generation of leadership,&#8221; said Shaheen.
She will have <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/us/politics/jeanne-shaheen-new-hampshire-senate-2026.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare&amp;sgrp=p&amp;pvid=08E71C55-51B1-483B-B732-EC5068702A73">served</a> 30 years in elected office and spent 50 years in politics by the end of her term, per the New York Times.
New Hampshire voters have shown increasing Republican leanings in recent elections. While supporting Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential race, they simultaneously elected former Senator Kelly Ayotte as governor and expanded GOP majorities in the state legislature.
Her departure sets up what will likely be one of the most competitive Senate races in 2026, in a map that experts say already favors Republicans.
Kyle Kondik and J. Miles Coleman of the Center for Politics <a href="https://centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/our-initial-senate-ratings-republicans-start-as-strong-favorites-to-hold-majority/">wrote</a> in February, “Even if 2026 is an overall &#8216;blue wave&#8217; environment, expecting Democrats to win back the Senate sets the bar too high—the seats just are not there,” writing before Shaheen’s announcement.
Several prominent Republicans were already considering running for her seat before Shaheen&#8217;s announcement. Former GOP Governor Chris Sununu <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5189899-sununu-possible-senate-bid/">said</a> on Tuesday about a possible bid, &#8220;I have not ruled it out completely, but folks in Washington have asked me to think about it and to consider it, and that is just kind of where I am,&#8221; after previously dismissing speculations of a run.
Sununu <a href="https://www.politico.com/2022-election/results/new-hampshire/statewide-offices/">won</a> his 2022 gubernatorial race by more than 15 points in a Democratic wave year, leading many GOP strategists to point to him as the top candidate for 2026. Governor Ayotte and former Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown are also reportedly considering entering the race.

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President Donald Trump scored a majority victory on Monday evening when the Senate, led by Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD), confirmed his <a href="https://apnews.com/article/trump-cabinet-labor-secretary-lori-chavez-deremer-decd9cff41794205bd06223f939f9e7b" target="_blank" rel="noopener">union-backed</a> nominee to lead the Labor Department.
With members voting <a href="https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1191/vote_119_1_00111.htm#position" target="_blank" rel="noopener">67-32</a> in favor of former Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer (D-OR), the upper chamber has given its blessing to all secretaries in Trump&#8217;s second-term <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/the-cabinet/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cabinet</a>. Trump now has 21 Cabinet-level nominees <a href="https://x.com/SRCC/status/1899231627131109453" target="_blank" rel="noopener">confirmed</a>, leaving only Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY), who has been tapped to become U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations but has yet to get a floor vote as Republicans <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/senate-republicans-slow-walk-elise-stefanik-confirmation-un-ambassador-rcna192129" target="_blank" rel="noopener">contend</a> with a slim majority in the House and New York Democrat Governor Kathy Hochul is <a href="https://www.semafor.com/article/03/10/2025/hochul-expected-to-slow-walk-election-to-replace-stefanik" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> expected to slow-walk the election to replace her.
Seventeen Democrats joined with the majority of Republicans in supporting Chavez-DeRemer while Sens. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Rand Paul (R-KY), and Ted Budd (R-NC) banded together with the rest of the Democrats and independents in voting against her.
&#8220;I’m deeply honored to be confirmed as the 30th [Labor] Secretary under President [Trump],&#8221; Chavez-DeRemer <a href="https://x.com/LChavezDeRemer/status/1899232928393265221" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a post on X. &#8220;As promised, I’ll work tirelessly to put American Workers First by fighting for good-paying jobs, safe working conditions, and secure retirement benefits. Let&#8217;s get to work.&#8221;
All 21 positions in Trump&#8217;s &#8220;formal&#8221; Cabinet have now been approved by the Senate in the seven weeks since Inauguration Day, according to Fox News&#8217; Chad Pergram, who also <a href="https://x.com/ChadPergram/status/1899211995507032212" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted</a> that former President Joe Biden did not have his Cabinet completed until March 22 of 2021 — when the Senate confirmed Marty Walsh as labor secretary.
The Trump 2.0 Cabinet includes: Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Attorney General Pam Bondi, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins, Energy Secretary Chris Wright, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Scott Turner, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought, Small Business Administration Administrator Kelly Loeffler, Education Secretary Linda McMahon, and Chavez-DeRemer.
Some of the confirmation votes have been very tight while some nominees have breezed through. The closest vote happened in January when Vice President JD Vance cast a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/vance-breaks-tie-to-confirm-pete-hegseth-for-pentagon" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tie-breaker</a> to confirm Hegseth. Gabbard was confirmed in a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/senate-confirms-tulsi-gabbard-as-director-of-national-intelligence" target="_blank" rel="noopener">52-48</a> vote and Kennedy Jr. in a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/senate-confirms-robert-f-kennedy-jr-as-hhs-secretary" target="_blank" rel="noopener">52-48</a> vote. Rubio, himself a former U.S. senator from Florida, received the most bipartisan support among all the nominees with a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/senate-votes-unanimously-to-confirm-marco-rubio-as-secretary-of-state" target="_blank" rel="noopener">99-0</a> vote. Other top officials not in Cabinet positions have also been confirmed, including FBI Director <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/senate-confirms-kash-patel-as-fbi-director" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kash Patel</a> and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche.

US President Donald Trump

Senate Confirms Last Of Trump 2.0 Cabinet Secretaries

Cabinet

Donald Trump

Executive

John Thune

Senator Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) broke with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) in the aftermath of President Donald Trump&#8217;s Tuesday address to a joint session of Congress, saying that the Democratic Party was still trying to regain its footing.
Slotkin, who gave her party&#8217;s response to Trump&#8217;s address, pushed back on Jeffries&#8217; <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/politics/we-have-the-republicans-on-the-run-hakeem-jeffries-wildly-claims-dems-have-the-gop-running-scared/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recent claims</a> that Democrats had Trump and the Republicans &#8220;on the run&#8221; when it came to the major issues affecting everyday Americans.
The newly-elected Michigan Senator suggested that the opposite was true — and even when asked directly, did not give a clear answer as to who she believed was leading her party.
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Democrat Elissa Slotkin refuses to name a leader of her own party and admits they&#39;ve been on defense since Trump&#39;s win: 
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&#8220;Meet the Press&#8221; anchor Kristen Welker posed the question, saying, &#8220;Since you delivered the Democratic response this week, a lot of eyes on you, senator. Who would you say is the leader of the Democratic Party right now?&#8221;
&#8220;Look, I mean, people know me. I’m pretty straightforward. I don’t think it’s a secret that Democrats have been on their heels since Trump won the election, right? I don’t think that’s, you know, something hidden,&#8221; Slotkin began.
She went on to say that the Democratic Party needed to be clearer about where the leadership was focused, but never gave any indication that she knew who those leaders might be.
&#8220;There’s lots of leaders in both parties, but also a strategy, right? And I think that’s something that as Trump has been successful in flooding the zone and just, like, every day 15 things happening,&#8221; Slotkin continued. &#8220;We are still finding our footing. And I think you can’t get better until you admit you have a problem. And for me, that’s one of the things that I think some of the new voices in the party have really been agitating about, right? New senators, new representatives, new folks who are like, &#8216;Hey, we need to do more. And we need to be showing that we’re actually having a plan to stand up on really important moments of inflection.'&#8221;

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Senate Dem. Has No Answer For Who’s Leading Party: Dems ‘Have Been On Their Heels’ Since Election

Senate Dem. Has No Answer For Who's Leading Party: Dems 'Have Been On Their Heels' Since Election

Democrats

Hakeem Jeffries

Media

Tuesday night was an incredible night in the United States Capitol. President Trump gave an astonishing, terrific speech at the joint session of Congress, the quasi State of the Union.
The enthusiasm was tremendous. I was invited by House Speaker Mike Johnson, and before the actual address to the joint session of Congress, a meet and greet was held inside his office, and many cabinet secretaries stopped by.
This administration is filled with terrific people. Everybody from the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, to the treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, to the commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick was there. President Trump has put together an amazing team.
Being in the chambers of Congress for the speech was definitely an interesting experience. I use “interesting” because the contrast between enthusiasm and excitement on the Republican side of the aisle, believing America is on the upsurge, and the absolute murderous depression in which Democrats have now sunk themselves could not be starker.
You could feel it. As they filed into the chamber, the Democrats looked like depressed college students who had just finished debating philosophy and smoking pot in their dorm rooms. It was quite an amazing thing. It was just dead on their side of the aisle — not just because they&#8217;ve lost the election and no longer control Congress, the Senate, or the White House, but also because they cannot find the thing over which to attack President Trump.
So they decided to bring campus tactics. Several members of the “Squad” showed up wearing pink to protest, to imply Trump hates women. By the way, they refused to applaud for a woman who was brutally injured by a man spiking a volleyball at her.
Some of the Democrats had on hideous jackets with Black Lives Matter regalia upon them. Other Democrats showed up with little placards and signs.
The Democrats acted like puerile spoiled children with no point of opposition. They are a party that is out of control while the Republicans are in lockstep with regard to the Trump agenda.
<h3><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/bss-ep-2151-member-exclusive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WATCH: The Ben Shapiro Show</a></h3>
Meanwhile, President Trump took the 80% side of every 80/20 issue it was possible to take in the speech, and Democrats were wrong-footed the entire speech. 
President Trump spent nearly the entire speech on domestic policy, which is clever and smart. 
The American people care much more about domestic policy than they do about foreign policy. I care deeply about foreign policy because I think that foreign policy affects Americans. There&#8217;s a massive impact on how Americans live, even if we don&#8217;t think about it a lot.
But President Trump understands, on an innate, gut level, that Americans care when he says America First. They don’t think he means 1930s isolationism; what they hear is that American citizens should be taken care of first as a first priority.
And that is inarguable.
President Trump again discussed the issues of which he is clearly the winner. The two biggest issues that he mentioned over and over were illegal immigration and that boys are not girls.
In fact, he spent a great deal of time on the basic proposition that boys are not girls.
I have friends who are Democrats, and I keep asking them the same question: “You know you lost the last election. You didn&#8217;t get totally blown out. Republicans only have a very slim majority in the House, a very slim majority in the Senate. President Trump won all the swing states. But it&#8217;s not as though he won 360 electoral votes. He didn&#8217;t win a 49-state landslide. So why do you guys keep holding onto an issue in which you prove that you are insane? You guys keep saying the trans issue is a small issue. So why do you keep talking?” 
When you pick an issue and say a totally loony thing about that issue, it implicates your views on all the other issues. Imagine if I am interviewing to be your accountant, and we have a great interview. But then I very seriously drop the idea that birds are not real, that birds are mythical creatures or actually all robots, even if for only 30 seconds out of our two-hour interview, are you hiring me? The answer, of course, is no, because you now know that I&#8217;m insane.
If Democrats choose to take the insane side of what is a clear issue, then they are going to lose. President Trump knows that, and he hammered it time and time again last night.
When President Trump came into the chamber, Republicans were ecstatic — because America is back. The feeling in the room on the Right side of the aisle was absolute enthusiasm. “We&#8217;re back baby, we&#8217;re going to do this thing.” And on the Left side of the aisle, it looked as though everyone had just taken a cyanide pill.
Early in the speech, Trump did something brilliant. He said he is not going to play the game where the cameras pan back to see one side of the chamber standing and one side sitting, leaving the implication the president is just too divisive. From the onset, he said his intent was to point out that nothing he does or says will ever get these people clapping.
He took the bat right out of their hands. He double-dog-dared Democrats not to clap. He was saying, “I&#8217;m going to say a bunch of super-populist stuff right now and watch: Democrats won’t even clap. And that&#8217;s why you can’t vote for them in the future. That&#8217;s why they don&#8217;t deserve power.” A very smart move from the president of the United States.
There were extraordinarily warm moments; he held up an executive order in the middle of the speech establishing and renaming a park in honor of a young girl who was killed by illegal immigrants. He called out somebody in the audience who had just received an acceptance to West Point.
This was President Trump taking it to the next level, a move he is quite good at.
Then, there was the comedy portion of the speech, when Trump started listing the projects where millions of dollars have been wasted. Trump is just an amazing performer. He has comedic timing, which is an unteachable skill. You’ve either got that, or you don&#8217;t.
President Trump announced that we had captured an ISIS terrorist who was responsible for the Abbey Gate massacre in which 13 American servicemembers were murdered.
And Democrats sat on their hands.
He made a 13-year-old boy, who has suffered from brain cancer, an honorary member of the Secret Service.
And Democrats sat on their hands.
This is Americana multiplied by a million, and the Democrats sat on their hands looking like they were sucking on lemons.
Aside from any moral and empathetic level, but on a mere pragmatic level, a politically pragmatic level, what were they thinking? Do they like the split-screen of them sitting on their hands?
When people look back on this historical era and wonder how President Trump was reelected, they will have to understand that he was a unique political figure, a colossus striding the American political scene.
There&#8217;s just no other way to see it.
The closing of the speech was one of the best closings of any of his speeches. He <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/us/politics/transcript-trump-speech-congress.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated</a>: 
<blockquote>We stand on the shoulders of these pioneers who built the modern age. These workers who were there swept into the skylines of our cities, these warriors who shed their blood on fields of battle, gave everything they had for our rights and for our freedom.
Now it is our time to take up the righteous cause of American liberty. And it’s our turn to take America’s destiny into our own hands and begin the most thrilling days in the history of our country. This will be our greatest era; with God’s help over the next four years, we are going to lead this nation even higher, and we are going to forge the freest, most advanced, most dynamic and most dominant civilization ever to exist on the face of this Earth. </blockquote>
A truly historic and unforgettable speech.

Donald Trump Delivers Joint Address To Congress

Trump’s Home Run State Of The Union

Mike Johnson

Republicans

State of the Union

U.S. House of Representatives

One of the things you&#8217;re generally not supposed to do when you&#8217;re in the commentary business is draw any sweeping conclusions about public sentiment based on reading YouTube comments. You can’t usually review YouTube comments and determine how people generally feel about something. But there&#8217;s been a trend across various YouTube comments sections lately that, at this point, I simply can&#8217;t ignore. 
If you pull up news reports about Republicans&#8217; efforts to ban men from competing in women&#8217;s sports, you will find — in every single instance, without exception — that the comments overwhelmingly support the Republicans. Even if you go to the channels of Left-wing news stations, the pattern remains the same. And not just on YouTube. Read the comments under any article on the topic. Read the comments on X or Facebook or Instagram. There is, everywhere, on every major platform, wide agreement on this issue. There just isn&#8217;t any debate among reasonable people about this issue. Everyone is tired of seeing men dominate women&#8217;s sports by pretending to be women.
Take for example this footage from NBC News&#8217; report last month. It&#8217;s about a bill that passed in the House, which would codify one of Donald Trump&#8217;s executive orders. The bill is called the &#8220;Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act.&#8221; And the terms of the legislation are pretty simple. It would ban any school that receives federal funding from, &#8220;permitting a person whose sex is male to participate in an athletic program or activity that is designated for women or girls.&#8221; And the bill goes on to define &#8220;sex&#8221; as &#8220;solely on a person’s reproductive biology and genetics at birth,&#8221; just in case there was any doubt about that.
This is the kind of legislation we need to see more of. It&#8217;s a meaningful step by Republicans in Congress to give some backbone to an executive order that&#8217;s extremely important. With that in mind, here&#8217;s how NBC News covered the House vote on this legislation back in January:
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Right away, you can see that they&#8217;re framing this legislation as a bill that would &#8220;ban transgender girls and women from competing in women&#8217;s sports.&#8221; They&#8217;re not reporting the truth, which is that &#8220;transgender girls and women&#8221; are men. They&#8217;re not going into any detail about how obviously unfair it is for men to compete against women in sports. Instead, they&#8217;re trying to portray this law as some kind of mean-spirited, bigoted effort by Republican lawmakers.
And even on NBC News&#8217; YouTube channel — which has a very Left-leaning audience — this framing didn&#8217;t fly. Instead of condemning the ban, pretty much every single comment supports it. For example, the top comment reads, &#8220;can&#8217;t believe this is even being discussed; common sense is underrated.&#8221; Then someone says, &#8220;Finally the nonsense ends.&#8221; Another user replies, &#8220;As a woman and mother of a girl, I&#8217;m happy and grateful.&#8221;
I could go through about a dozen other videos like this. Forbes, for example, has a similar <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D01lcKNWSE0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">video</a>. One of the top comments puts it this way: &#8220;As a former democrat, even if im liberal on certain subjects, it&#8217;s dumb s*** like this that has driven me and a lot of other folks away from this party. &#8230; Embarrassing.&#8221;
And again, every comment is like this.
<h3><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/mws-ep-1548-member-exclusive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show</a></h3>
So the pattern is familiar: Left-wing media outlets try to portray the Republicans as the villain of the story. And despite that framing, the comments section revolts. None of this is surprising, when you take a look at the polling data on the topic. Just a couple of weeks ago, a New York Times poll <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/01/19/us-news/nyt-poll-finds-majority-of-democrats-oppose-transgender-athletes-in-womens-sports/">found</a> that, &#8220;the vast majority of Americans, including a majority of Democrats, don’t think transgender athletes should be permitted to compete in women’s sports.&#8221; Roughly 80% of respondents said that &#8220;men who identify as women&#8221; should be banned from women&#8217;s sports. And among Democrats, the number was 67%.
Just to put these numbers in context, something like <a href="https://www.prri.org/research/analyzing-the-2024-presidential-vote-prris-post-election-survey/">4%</a> of Democrats voted for Donald Trump in the last election. This is a demographic that disagrees with Trump on pretty much everything. But when it comes to the farce of men competing in women&#8217;s sports, even these Democrats are forced to agree with him.
That&#8217;s why the vote that just took place in the Senate is so remarkable. Every single Democrat in the Senate — all 45 of them — just voted against the &#8220;Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act.&#8221; In other words, 100% of the Democrat Party in the Senate still endorses the insanity of men competing against women. There was not one single defector. Despite the overwhelming number of voters — including Democrat voters — who are tired of this nonsense, Democrats in Washington are in complete lockstep on this issue. And they&#8217;re proud of it.
To give you some idea of how the day went, this is footage of Elizabeth Warren casting her vote. She makes sure everyone sees that she&#8217;s giving the big thumbs-down for the cameras:
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This was so confusing that I went looking through the floor debates on this bill. I wanted to know what, exactly, could motivate the &#8220;party of democracy&#8221; to flagrantly disregard the clear desires of its own voters. I wanted to see what arguments they put forward. And I came across this speech from Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois. Here&#8217;s how it began. This is Dick Durbin&#8217;s argument for why the Senate should not pass a bill that bans men from competing against women in sports:
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What&#8217;s especially funny about this line of argument is that Durbin supported Democrats&#8217; &#8220;anti-lynching&#8221; law a few years back, even though lynching — and all other forms of murder — have been illegal for some time in this country. Somehow the fact that no black people have been lynched in several decades didn&#8217;t deter Durbin from supporting that law. But now we&#8217;re supposed to conclude that, because there aren&#8217;t thousands of men playing in women&#8217;s sports, the whole issue is moot.
This is the stock argument you hear all the time from trans activists. Of course, even assuming Durbin&#8217;s numbers are accurate — which of course, we should not assume that — this is still an argument that completely sidesteps two very important issues. The first is that women are indeed losing opportunities and being degraded in order to affirm the delusions of pathological narcissists. That&#8217;s not something we should allow, regardless of how many women are being affected. The other issue of course is that a functioning society has to be able to accept the reality of basic human biology. Even if you don&#8217;t care about the injustices that athletes like Riley Gaines have endured — and you obviously should care about those injustices — then you still have to explain some basic terms. You have to explain, for example, what a &#8220;woman&#8221; is. You have to explain what a &#8220;man&#8221; is. And as we all know, Democrats are incapable of doing this.
During the rest of Durbin&#8217;s speech he eventually gets around to making another argument, one that is even more revealing than the last one. Watch:
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I went back and read the <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/28/text">legislation</a> he&#8217;s talking about. And contrary to what Durbin says, there&#8217;s nothing in there that permits a random adult — or any adult — to look at the private parts of a student athlete who&#8217;s accused of pretending to be a woman. So what he is saying is that Republicans are secretly obsessed with this kind of perversion, when in fact he&#8217;s the only one thinking along these lines. This is maybe a window into the sordid mental state of Dick Durbin and Democrats like him.
In reality, the bill simply bans men from competing against women. That&#8217;s it. And everyone understands exactly how that would be enforced, because it&#8217;s extremely, painfully obvious when men are playing in women&#8217;s sports. You don&#8217;t need any kind of examination. You don&#8217;t need to test their chromosomes. You can just look at them. In every single case involving a man playing in women&#8217;s sports, that&#8217;s been true. And it has never been a close call.
Of course Democrats like Dick Durbin have to pretend otherwise. They&#8217;ll watch a basketball game, and see one athlete towering over everyone else — with a gigantic Adam&#8217;s apple, twice the muscle mass and a James Earl Jones voice — and conclude that there&#8217;s just no way of knowing the athlete&#8217;s gender. They have to act like it&#8217;s a mystery, known only to perverted gender inspectors who are going around pants-ing student athletes at every opportunity.
But even though Durbin&#8217;s side of this argument was in the minority, Democrats have succeeded in killing the legislation. That&#8217;s because laws like this one have to overcome a filibuster, which requires 60 votes. And because the vote on this legislation was 51 in favor and 45 opposed, it won&#8217;t pass. Republicans have the majority, but they&#8217;re not able to pass a law like this one. It&#8217;s enough to make you wonder why Republicans don&#8217;t eliminate the filibuster entirely at this point. We all know Democrats will do the same thing the moment they have the opportunity — they&#8217;ve done it before, after all. And if Democrats are now so unhinged and so unreasonable that they&#8217;re willing to defend the idea of men playing in women&#8217;s sports, then it&#8217;s safe to say the filibuster has drifted very far from its original purpose. The point of the filibuster was to enable careful deliberation. Instead, at the moment, it&#8217;s enabling insanity.
Getting rid of the filibuster would also make it much easier to pass a federal ban on child castration and mutilation in the name of so-called &#8220;gender-affirming care,&#8221; which is something I&#8217;ve obviously been pushing for, especially since the beginning of the second Trump administration. A couple of days ago, one of the most prominent Republicans in the Senate, Josh Hawley, endorsed my proposal. <a href="https://x.com/HawleyMO/status/1895487068438180307" target="_blank" rel="noopener">He wrote</a>: &#8220;And not just this — but when is Congress going to give VICTIMS of these transition surgeries &amp; treatments the right to SUE the people who carried them out? Needs to happen now.&#8221;
This is the kind of legislation that Republicans need to enact, as quickly as they possibly can. Whatever procedural roadblocks are in the way, they need to be cleared. When Democrats are using the filibuster to obstruct the will of the vast majority of Americans — including their own voters — then it&#8217;s a pretty clear sign that the filibuster needs to go. It has outlived whatever usefulness it had. And once the filibuster is gone, we need to start passing laws that affirm the reality of basic, fundamental human biology. For the benefit of all young people — and to restore some semblance of sanity in this country — we now have no other choice.

Senators Speak To The Press After Their Weekly Policy Luncheons On Capitol Hill

Democrats Ignore The Will Of The People With This Insane Move

Dick Durbin

Filibuster

Gender

Matt Walsh

Transgender

Women's sports

On Monday, the GOP-led Senate confirmed Linda McMahon to become secretary of the Education Department, a federal agency that President Donald Trump has indicated he wants to dismantle in favor of giving states more power in running schools.
Senators <a href="https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1191/vote_119_1_00099.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">voted</a> 51-45 to approve McMahon, who is now the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/senate-republicans-go-20-0-in-confirming-trump-nominees" target="_blank" rel="noopener">20th Cabinet pick</a> to be confirmed by the upper chamber and the 21st overall nominee for a leading role; Kash Patel got the nod to become FBI Director, which is not a <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/the-cabinet/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cabinet-level role</a>.
&#8220;It&#8217;s an honor to serve as the 13th Secretary of Education under President Trump,&#8221; McMahon <a href="https://x.com/EDSecMcMahon/status/1896708593896026385" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> on X with a photo of her being sworn in. &#8220;@POTUS pledged to make U.S. education the best in the world, return education to the states, and free students from bureaucracy through school choice. I intend to make good on those promises.&#8221;
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It&#39;s an honor to serve as the 13th Secretary of Education under President Trump.  <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a> pledged to make U.S. education the best in the world, return education to the states, and free students frombureaucracy through school choice.   I intend to make good on those promises. <a href="https://t.co/KgZ6K7IuQB">pic.twitter.com/KgZ6K7IuQB</a>
&mdash; Secretary Linda McMahon (@EDSecMcMahon) <a href="https://twitter.com/EDSecMcMahon/status/1896708593896026385?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 3, 2025</a></blockquote>
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McMahon is a former CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment who served as administrator of the Small Business Administration in Trump&#8217;s first term and went on to become chair of the board at the America First Policy Institute (AFPI).
In November, Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-taps-linda-mcmahon-for-education-secretary-says-she-will-fight-tirelessly-for-school-choice" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tapped</a> McMahon to become his Education Secretary, saying she would &#8220;fight tirelessly&#8221; for school choice. That might seem like an odd move as Trump <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-vows-close-education-department-203439091.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signaled</a> that he wants to deconstruct the Education Department, but the president <a href="https://x.com/cspan/status/1886883342114754755" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> reporters last month that he wants McMahon to &#8220;put herself out of the job.&#8221;
McMahon appeared before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee a couple of weeks ago. The nominee, who <a href="https://x.com/ABC/status/1890065091996844172" target="_blank" rel="noopener">testified</a> that she intended to help Trump reach his goal of making &#8220;American education the best in the world, return education to the states — where it belongs,&#8221; advanced through a 12-11 <a href="https://www.help.senate.gov/rep/newsroom/press/senate-help-committee-votes-to-approve-nomination-of-linda-mcmahon-for-secretary-of-education" target="_blank" rel="noopener">vote</a>.
HELP Chairman Bill Cassidy (R-LA) praised McMahon for her focus on reviving the American education system. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), the ranking member, <a href="https://x.com/NewsHour/status/1890109516911452244" target="_blank" rel="noopener">raised</a> concerns about diverting funds away from public schools and the nominee&#8217;s lack of experience in the field beyond roughly a year on the Connecticut State Board of Education.
&#8220;School districts and individual schools have different needs, and every student has his or her own needs and aspirations too,&#8221; Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) <a href="https://x.com/LeaderJohnThune/status/1896689756425060434" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. &#8220;I’m glad that Linda McMahon plans to work in a way that empowers those closest to the student – because they are in the best position to do what’s right for those individual needs.&#8221;

Linda McMahon

Senate Confirms Linda McMahon To Lead Agency That Trump Wants To Dismantle

Trump Administration

On Monday, Democrats in the GOP-led Senate blocked <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/senate-to-consider-bill-to-protect-womens-sports" target="_blank" rel="noopener">legislation</a> that aims to protect women’s sports leagues in schools by trying to keep male athletes who identify as females from competing.
By a <a href="https://x.com/CraigCaplan/status/1896714793031188630" target="_blank" rel="noopener">51-45 vote</a>, a motion to invoke cloture on Sen. Tommy Tuberville&#8217;s (R-AL) &#8220;Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act&#8221; failed. A three-fifths majority — or 60 votes — was needed to cap debate and proceed to a final vote for passage sometime in the future.
&#8220;Senate Democrats just BLOCKED the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act. Every Senate Republican supported it,&#8221; Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso (R-WY) <a href="https://x.com/SenJohnBarrasso/status/1896713183030894826" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a post to X. &#8220;Americans agree — men should not compete against women in sports. Democrats are out of touch on this common-sense issue.&#8221;
The <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/9/text?s=1&amp;r=1&amp;q=%7B%22search%22%3A%22Protection+of+Women+and+Girls+in+Sports+Act+of+2025%22%7D" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bill</a> says it aims to &#8220;provide that for purposes of determining compliance with title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 in athletics, sex shall be recognized based solely on a person&#8217;s reproductive biology and genetics at birth.&#8221;
If enacted, the bill would amend Section 901 of the Education Amendments of 1972 by adding two provisions to the end:
<blockquote>(1) It shall be a violation of subsection (a) for a recipient of Federal funds who operates, sponsors, or facilitates athletic programs or activities to permit a person whose sex is male to participate in an athletic program or activity that is designated for women or girls.
(2) For purposes of this subsection, sex shall be recognized based solely on a person&#8217;s reproductive biology and genetics at birth.</blockquote>
&#8220;79% of Americans agree: men don’t belong in women’s sports,&#8221; Tuberville said in a <a href="https://x.com/SenTuberville/status/1894846092828713262" target="_blank" rel="noopener">post</a> to X last week, citing the findings of a recent New York Times/Ipsos <a href="https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/documenttools/a66cc1cd29a9ea2c/41386e22-full.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">survey</a>. &#8220;I hope EVERY SENATOR will join me to PERMANENTLY restore Title IX protections and protect women and girls everywhere.&#8221;
In January, the GOP-led House <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-again-passes-bill-to-protect-womens-sports" target="_blank" rel="noopener">passed</a> a variant of the &#8220;Protection of Women and Girls Act.&#8221; That bill, which came from Rep. Greg Steube (R-FL), got the support of two Democrats: Reps. Henry Cueller (D-TX) and Vicente Gonzalez (D-TX).
If the Senate managed to approve its own version of the legislation, the House would need to pass it, too. Or both chambers of Congress would have to compromise on legislation that might integrate aspects of each bill.
Opponents of such legislation have <a href="https://x.com/EqualityCaucus/status/1896722078944088239" target="_blank" rel="noopener">warned</a> it would have invasive consequences, including &#8220;invasive physical inspections.&#8221; Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) <a href="https://x.com/cspan/status/1879228470900765057" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> the House version of the legislation is supported by &#8220;bigoted folks,&#8221; &#8220;assaulters,&#8221; and CEOs.
President Donald Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/surrounded-by-young-female-athletes-donald-trump-bans-men-from-womens-sports" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed</a> an executive order in February geared toward keeping men out of women’s sports at schools that receive federal funding. The White House <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/white-house-backs-tubervilles-womens-sports-legislation-ahead-of-senate-vote">released</a> a statement earlier on Monday that said the Trump administration &#8220;strongly&#8221; supported passage of Tuberville&#8217;s bill.
&#8220;Well, at least now the American people know the truth. Even after [Trump&#8217;s] landslide election, Democrats STILL support men competing in women’s sports,&#8221; Tuberville <a href="https://x.com/SenTuberville/status/1896721877399392348" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a post to X after his bill was blocked in the procedural vote. &#8220;This is far from over. I’ll NEVER stop fighting to protect women and girls.&#8221;

NCAA Women’s Basketball

Senate Dems Block Bill To Protect Women’s Sports

Tommy Tuberville

Women Sports

On Wednesday, Senate Republicans defeated an attempt by their Democrat colleagues to undo President Donald Trump&#8217;s day-one national emergency declaration.
Members voted <a href="https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1191/vote_119_1_00095.htm#position" target="_blank" rel="noopener">52-47</a> along party lines. Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-ND), who is <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/republican-senator-suffers-brain-bleed-after-falling-on-ice-during-seizure" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recovering</a> after falling and suffering a brain bleed after hitting the back of his head, missed the vote.
&#8220;For the last four years, American energy production was crippled by a woke, green agenda,&#8221; Sen. Jim Risch (R-ID) <a href="https://x.com/SenatorRisch/status/1894885644398149762" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a post to X on Wednesday as the effort met defeat.
He added: &#8220;President Trump’s energy emergency declaration takes the necessary steps to reverse Democrats’ Green New Deal and prioritize our domestic energy and natural resources.&#8221;
On the first day of his second term in the White House, Trump <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/declaring-a-national-energy-emergency/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed</a> the national emergency declaration, which ordered agencies to boost energy domestic production and infrastructure.
&#8220;That&#8217;s a big one,&#8221; Trump <a href="https://x.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1881512224000463246" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. &#8220;You know what that allows you to do? It means you can do whatever you have to do to get out of that problem. And we do have that kind of an emergency.&#8221;
Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) and Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee ranking member Martin Heinrich (D-NM) led the effort to <a href="https://www.kaine.senate.gov/press-releases/kaine-and-heinrich-unveil-legislation-to-terminate-president-trumps-sham-energy-emergency" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;terminate&#8221;</a> the order via a joint resolution.
While claiming the order would kill jobs, raise costs on families, and weaken economic competitiveness, the Democrats made their resolution &#8220;privileged,&#8221; which forced a vote on it.
&#8220;Today&#8217;s vote goes to show, once again, that Senate Republicans refuse to do their jobs and put the American people above the wish lists of Trump&#8217;s donors and billionaire energy tycoons,&#8221; they <a href="https://x.com/SenTimKaine/status/1894892222421537180" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
Kaine and Heinrich added: &#8220;To our colleagues: don&#8217;t say we didn&#8217;t warn you when your constituents&#8217; energy bills go through the roof. To the American people: we&#8217;re going to keep fighting for you.&#8221;
Senate Energy and Natural Resources Chairman Mike Lee (R-UT) worked to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/senate-gop-fights-dems-to-preserve-trumps-day-one-energy-emergency-declaration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rally</a> his fellow Republicans, who have a 53-47 majority in the upper chamber, in opposition to the resolution.
He said: &#8220;Senate Republicans won&#8217;t let Democrats delay and obstruct any longer and will ensure the President has the tools necessary to deliver the results the American people expect.&#8221;

President Donald Trump

Senate Rejects Dem Bid To Kill Trump’s Day-One Energy Emergency Declaration

Energy

Mike Lee