Trump’s MASTER PLAN to ensure shutdown spells DOOMSDAY for Democrats



As the government shutdown begins, President Trump has not only made it clear that he won’t be caving to Democrats' demands to fund illegal immigrants' health care — but that the Democrats are in deep trouble.

“Well, the Democrats want to shut it down. So when you shut it down, you have to do layoffs. So we’d be laying off a lot of people that are going to be very affected. And the Democrats, they’re going to be Democrats,” President Trump announced.

“As you know, this country, no country can afford to pay for illegal immigration, health care for everybody that comes into the country. And that’s what they’re insisting. And obviously, I have an obligation not to accept that. That would affect everybody,” he continued.

“A lot of good can come down from shutdowns. We can get rid of a lot of things that we didn’t want, they’d be Democrat things,” he added.


And one man, BlazeTV host Jill Savage says, “behind the scenes is going to be having the best week right now of anybody in Washington, D.C.”

That man is director of the United States Office of Management and Budget, Russell Vought.

“People need to know the Office of Management and Budget is exceptionally powerful, because they actually have to put together the budget, and that’s where a lot of the money flows out of. So the initial DOGE excitement was looking at, you know, money flow. Well, the actual organization that does this is the Office of Management and Budget, with which he is in charge of,” Blaze Media editor in chief Matthew Peterson says.

“And he’s, I think, very prepared for this moment, because ... the big picture is you can talk about cutting the government all you want, but you have to know exactly what you’re doing and what levers to press,” he continues.

“And right now, we can see that Russ Vought is taking advantage of this opportunity. We see today that he’s frozen $18 billion of New York City’s infrastructure plan … and he’s just canceled $8 billion in the green new scam, climate funding throughout a boatload of blue states,” Savage chimes in.

“So when you look at how he’s operating right now, he’s trying to be pretty effective in the first few hours of this government shutdown,” she adds.

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Soros and the 'Facebook wives’: Who’s controlling America’s DAs?



George Soros' shadow network has its hands everywhere, and the hosts of “Blaze News: The Mandate” believe that much of the horror we’ve seen unfold in the recent past can be linked to his network — as well as other billionaires.

And Vice President JD Vance is in clear agreement, after he called out Soros in a recent speech.

“Did you know that the George Soros Open Society Foundation and the Ford Foundation, the groups who funded that disgusting article justifying Charlie’s death, do you know they benefit from generous tax treatment? They are literally subsidized by you and me, the American taxpayer,” Vance said.

“And how do they reward us? By setting fire to the house built by the American family over 250 years,” he added.


And they don’t just fund cruelly written articles pushed in the mainstream media — but also district attorneys.

“Call me crazy,” BlazeTV host Jill Savage says, “But there was probably a time in our history that people thought ... their district attorney would actually be running their own office, but right now, America’s criminal justice system is actually being run by a lot of outside activists and donors.”

“It’s not democracy," BlazeTV host and Blaze News editor in chief Matthew Peterson chimes in, noting that it's also not just George Soros.

"You have billionaires — more than just George Soros — funding organizations that actively influence how we prosecute and how we sentence criminals. And in fact, it’s worse than that, because they foment criminality through these groups,” Peterson says.

“Look at the Facebook wives club,” Savage says. “Of course, we know that the leftists have their billionaires that are out there. It’s not just George Soros. But there’s the Social Environmental Entrepreneurs. It’s called SEE. It’s a California nonprofit group.”

“These Facebook wives, right — Priscilla Chan, obviously Mark Zuckerberg's wife, and Cari Tuna, the wife of Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz, and then you also have John Arnold, formerly of Enron,” she continues.

“These are the people that are going out there and saying, ‘No, no, no, your way of life — we don’t care,’” she says, before asking, “So why does this matter, that they have all these billionaires?”

Savage points to the latest headlines, particularly the ones about Iryna Zarutska, who was murdered on a train in Charlotte, North Carolina.

“The person who brutally murdered her was let out 14 different times,” she says. “It’s your DAs that are allowing that to happen over and over and over again.”

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Epstein victims speak out! Will PREDATORS finally be revealed?



The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has released over 33,000 pages of Epstein-related records that were provided by the U.S. Department of Justice — but Americans have been conditioned to wonder if this is real transparency or just D.C. political theater.

The same uncertainty applies to apparent meetings taking place behind closed doors that may be uncovering more information about the predators involved.

“Speaker Mike Johnson and Oversight Chairman James Comer actually quietly pulled something together that you almost never see. It’s been a rare bipartisan closed-door meeting,” BlazeTV host Jill Savage explains on “Blaze News: The Mandate.”

“They had six women who survived Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse, and for at least two of them, it was the first time that they had ever spoken out,” she says, noting that Johnson called the meeting both “heartbreaking” and “infuriating.”


According to Johnson, some of the women had been “groomed” for over 30 years.

“There’s so much that’s happening behind closed doors, and we still just don’t know. Are we going to get the transparency that we want, or is this more of the actual political theater?” Savage asks.

“There’s not much new, but what is new is that, you know, we’re told that these women have provided names of additional persons of interest, so that is interesting. Who are those people? Will that come out? Will we talk about that? I don’t know,” BlazeTV host Matthew Peterson says.

“We also have about a thousand pages ... that are new, flight logs from him flying out of the country. But what we don’t have so far is actual names, and that’s what most people want,” he continues.

Blaze media senior politics editor and D.C. correspondent Christopher Bedford isn’t too pleased with how long it’s taken for them to interview these women in the first place.

“It’s the kind of attention that Congress probably should have paid to this from the very beginning, which is bringing in victims, having closed-door meetings, which, you know, are more serious than open-door meetings,” Bedford says.

“Open-door meetings are theater for MSNBC, CNN, and Fox,” he continues. “They’re not real. There aren’t real questions. It’s just, ‘Let me see how many points I can get. Let me see how many points I can put on the board.’ … But closed-door sessions are much more serious.”

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Two leaders stand in the stark light of blame after horrific Minneapolis Catholic school shooting



On Wednesday, August 27, Robin (formerly Robert) Westman, a 23-year-old transgender-identifying person, opened fire through the windows of Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis during a school Mass, killing two children and injuring 17 others. Westman, a former student, who died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, left behind writings and videos expressing hate toward multiple groups and an obsession with mass shooters.

“Minneapolis didn't just let a massacre happen. It helped make it happen,” says Jill Savage, BlazeTV host of “Blaze News: The Mandate.”

And two people stand under a harsh glare of blame: Minnesota Governor Tim Walz (D) and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (D).

Minneapolis’ reputation was already waning thanks to the George Floyd riots and its defund-the-police crusade when Tim Walz made the state a transgender sanctuary in 2023.

But even though this move has proved disastrous, Mayor Frey has doubled down in his support for Minneapolis’ transgender community. “Anybody who is using this as an opportunity to villainize our trans community or any other community out there has lost their sense of common humanity,” he said at a press conference on August 27. The next day, he reiterated the sentiment in an interview with CNN’s Erin Burnett.

“Should we be talking about the trans community and making sure that they feel our love and support, or should we actually be looking at the Catholics right now — the ones that were actually killed yesterday in that church?” says Jill.

“This is the 42nd or maybe 43rd attack on an American Catholic church this year alone in the United States. It is over 520 attacks on Catholic churches here since 2020,” says Blaze Media senior politics editor Christopher Bedford.

“They’ve been satanic; they’ve been anti-Catholic; they’ve been pro-abortion; they’ve been pro-trans.”

But they haven’t been that surprising.

“Minneapolis and Minnesota have had an extreme tolerance for evil and promoting evil,” says Bedford, condemning the state's “permissive abortion laws” and policies allowing the state to take children away from parents who oppose "gender-affirming care."

Bedford stresses the need to investigate how things like cross-sex hormone therapy, puberty blockers, and mutilating surgeries impact a transgender-identifying individual’s behavior. Perhaps Westman was just a case of mental illness; perhaps there were drugs related to his gender transition that influenced his deadly actions. “I think that's something that's absolutely worth investigating,” he says.

As for Walz, Bedford says he “deserves condemnation for his anti-Catholic sentiments.” The woke governor denied Catholic schools' requests for security funding in 2022 and 2023, despite an $18 billion state surplus, leaving nonpublic schools without access to safety grants provided to public schools. He also allegedly denied Catholic school students access to Minnesota’s Postsecondary Enrollment Options program, preventing them from earning tuition-free college credits, despite their academic eligibility.

“These are the sorts of things that are going on in the United States and are being allowed by our politicians. … It's soft on evil, and it allows it to fester,” he says.

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Trump vs. RFK: Where do they stand on the vaccine fight?



Health and Human Services Secretary RFK Jr. is shaking up Washington by cutting vaccine funding, challenging Big Pharma, and pushing to yank the COVID shot off the U.S. market — while President Trump continues to champion Operation Warp Speed.

RFK’s latest moves were featured in an article in Newsweek, which appears to be what the president is responding to.

“Despite COVID, which was a very unfortunate situation for the whole world, we did a great job with it. Never got the credit for the job we did. Operation Warp Speed, people say, is one of the greatest achievements ever, in politics or in the military, because it was almost a military procedure,” President Trump said during a recent cabinet meeting.

“But everybody, including Putin, said that Operation Warp Speed, what you did with that, nobody can believe it. And we did a great job,” he added.


“It looks like HHS, they’re like, ‘Hey, you know what? We’ve gotten rid of some of the other vaccine stuff. You can’t give this to kids or pregnant women anymore.’ And, you know, sometimes you just want to leak some information out there,” BlazeTV host Jill Savage tells Blaze Media senior politics editor Christopher Bedford on “Blaze News: The Mandate.”

“And Donald Trump heard that, and at his press conference, I mean, you just heard the reaction,” she adds.

“Yeah, that’s expected,” Bedford says. “That’s kind of an amateur move from HHS when you’re dealing with President Trump, who’s not like most other people.”

“The secretary of defense has found this out, for example, when he went ahead of the president on putting off arms shipments to Ukraine. This is something that was actually on the president’s agenda, but it wasn’t the right time with the president’s negotiations with Russia and Ukraine, and he was extremely irritated that there was a rollout beforehand,” he continues.

As for RFK’s moves, Bedford believes he’s taking it “a bridge too far.”

“He ought to take warning, and he ought to probably back off and figure out a different way, because if he does want to get this done, then leaking it to Newsweek, leaking it to liberal reporters and not going through the proper [channels] and convincing the president,” Bedford explains, “well, that’s not the way to do it.”

“That’s actually the way to lose your job,” he adds.

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DC Democrat slams crime laws turning Washington into a war zone



Denise Rucker Krepp may be a former Obama appointee and lifelong Democrat, but that’s not stopping her from calling out D.C.’s devastating crime policies.

Krepp blames the D.C. Council for redefining “juveniles” to include offenders up to age 24, undermining accountability and fueling carjackings, shootings, and lawlessness across the city.

“When I was a kid, a juvenile was somebody under the age of 18 ... but according to the D.C. Council, a juvenile is somebody under the age of 24,” Krepp tells Blaze Media senior politics editor Christopher Bedford on “Blaze News: The Mandate.”

“I mean, a 24-year-old man is a man, not a juvenile. And if you tell a 24-year-old that if they commit armed carjacking and they won’t be held fully accountable, then what do you think’s going to happen?” she continues.


“At the age of 24, some of my best friends were 24-year-olds. They were two years out of the Marine Corps already,” Bedford agrees.

Krepp recalls confronting the Ward 6 Councilman Charles Allen, saying, “Charles, what are you doing, dude?”

“He just blew me off and he said, ‘Denise, I know what I’m doing.’ Okay, you definitely knew what you were doing. You pretty much invited President Trump to come in and bring the National Guard in to solve your problem, which you created,” Krepp says.

“He kind of seems like the left-wing leader of the D.C. city council, or one of the most vocal champions of some of these causes,” Bedford says.

He notes that “there was enough anger” among Democrats that there was a recall petition for Allen — but it failed.

“I think it failed because people looked at the recall effort and said it was funded by Republicans. And I, you know, when people said that, I laughed. I said, ‘Are you kidding me?’ It wasn’t funded by Republicans. It was funded by Democrats. It was Democrats telling Charles Allen that what he was doing was unacceptable,” Krepp says.

“Unfortunately, the majority of Democrats did not agree with that,” she adds.

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Did a COVID conspiracy turn a Christian preacher into an alleged Minnesota assassin?



Vance Boelter was a Christian preacher, father of five, and a former business adviser to two Democrat governors — and he’s now been accused of one of the most shocking killings in Minnesota history.

One Minnesota state lawmaker and her husband were shot dead, while another lawmaker and his wife were seriously injured.

And the alleged gunman’s story isn’t making total sense, so Blaze News investigative journalist Joe Hanneman is doing his best to change that.

“We’re just starting to get into some of the nitty-gritty details,” Hanneman tells BlazeTV host Jill Savage and investigative journalist Steve Baker on “Blaze News: The Mandate.”


The suspect has pleaded not guilty to all charges.

“I spent about six weeks digging into his background, because this story, from the beginning, just simply did not make sense. This was not a career criminal. This was not a criminal at all,” Hanneman says.

“His entire life up until about the middle of May stands at great odds to what happened on June 14. And so I figured there just has to be a story behind that, something that would give us some clues,” he continues.

Hanneman then made contact with Boelter in the Sherburne County Jail in Elk River, Minnesota, through the jail’s messaging system.

“He and I spent the weekend texting back and forth, probably, I mean hundreds of texts. And he’s starting to unroll what he says is his story and the reason that he was at those houses that night, which, again, has another kind of bizarre twist to it — that he did not mean to shoot anyone. He didn’t plan to shoot anyone,” Hanneman explains.

“He was, he claims, going to make citizen arrests, and this was related to the clot shot. He was doing investigations, he said, for two years on the COVID-19 so-called vaccine and the deaths that it has caused,” he continues.

This is why Boelter claims he began working in the funeral industry.

“He says now that the reason for that is he was investigating these, what they call ‘sudden and unexpected.’ And that obviously, that’s been a big issue since the COVID-19 scamdemic came up,” Hanneman explains.

“So,” he adds, “I’m trying to peel this back with him. Slowly but surely, in 200 characters at a time on a text. So as long as he keeps talking, I hope to keep learning from him.”

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SCANDAL: Major university caught in new DEI cover-up



While President Donald Trump has been cracking down on the implementation of DEI at publicly funded universities since he got into office, not all schools are listening — and the Oversight Project is sniffing them out.

“We sent a FOIA request to UNC Chapel Hill, which is a public university, and we did the unthinkable. We asked for the syllabus of a number of professors, focusing basically on whether or not they were still teaching DEI and other garbage like that in defiance of President Trump’s executive order,” Kyle Brosnan tells BlazeTV hosts Jill Savage and Matthew Peterson on “Blaze News: The Mandate.”

After one professor responded by throwing “what can only be described as a hissy fit” on LinkedIn, the Oversight Project was able to get its hands on the syllabi.

“And guess what? It’s full of DEI garbage. You know, it contains classes and lectures on why diversity programs fail and about white guilt and things like that,” Brosnan explains.


“I’ve taught at universities,” Peterson chimes in. “The syllabus is not a top-secret document, you know? This is something that, in fact, you want to share to the world. ... So, how do they even make this argument? Like, what’s the argument here?”

The professor and “his buddies on the left” claim it’s “intellectual property.”

“If you even think about it for a second, that’s crazy. I mean, particularly at these public universities, they’re funded by taxpayers,” Brosnan says.

“You’re right, though, Matt,” he continues. “You as a professor are trusted to endow your knowledge upon your students and show off your research that you do. You should be shouting that from the rooftops. You should be wanting students to see your syllabus.”

“But the fact that they’re putting barriers up and actually pretending to be the victim of a transparency organization is just crazy,” he adds.

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Can Ghislaine Maxwell finally blow the lid off the Epstein files?



Just weeks ago, Americans were told that the case was closed on Jeffrey Epstein, but in a dramatic turn, Ghislaine Maxwell may be taking the stand to testify.

“Justice demands courage. For the first time, the Department of Justice is reaching out to Ghislaine Maxwell to ask: What do you know? At @AGPamBondi's direction, I’ve contacted her counsel. I intend to meet with her soon. No one is above the law — and no lead is off limits,” Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche wrote in a post on X.

The House Oversight Committee voted to subpoena Maxwell over the Epstein files, and her lawyer has publicly stated in response to the news that she will “always testify truthfully.”

“She’s going to name names,” senior editor for politics and Washington correspondent for Blaze Media Christopher Bedford tells BlazeTV hosts Jill Savage and Matthew Peterson on “Blaze News: The Mandate.”


“The question is, what evidence could be provided for actual prosecutions? Which is always a risk now that the administration faces,” he continues, noting that the “thing about Maxwell” is that “she’s got no dog in this fight.”

“She could be interested in chaos. She could be interested in hurting Donald Trump. She could be interested in helping the cause for truth. Maybe she’s had just a huge turnaround in prison,” he adds.

While Bedford believes her motivations will be “entirely out for herself,” the end result will likely be that she’s going to “hand over names” because she was never offered a plea deal in the first place and might try to get a lesser sentence.

“And here’s the risk in general of the client list,” Bedford says. “The list of people who went to the island is broad. The list of people who went to the island includes artisans, includes workers, includes staff. And then you’re going to have the whole question of, well, a 16-year-old girl who refuses to go on the record and refuses to press charges.”

“We could find some great stuff here. I think we will,” he continues. “But is it going to tidy up the administration’s mess? That’s a different question entirely.”

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