Mark Levin unveils the REAL reason we’re in a government shutdown



On October 1, the U.S. government entered a partial shutdown, as Congress remains deadlocked over federal budget appropriations.

On paper, a shutdown just means Congress is bickering over federal funds, but Mark Levin rips back the curtain, exposing what’s really going on behind closed doors: Democrats are fighting to slip health care for illegal immigrants into the budget.

He plays a clip from “MSLSD’s” Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, during which they argue that House Speaker Mike Johnson is lying about the shutdown — specifically that Democrats are pushing to reinstate taxpayer-funded healthcare benefits for illegal aliens.

“They’re lying to their own followers, saying Democrats want to shut down the government because they want to give great health care benefits to illegal immigrants. It’s a total lie,” Scarborough said. “I’m wondering where in the Bible does Mike Johnson read Jesus saying, ‘You know what? Tell the truth, except well when it might serve you well politically.”’

“Why don’t you spread lies about those who are on the outskirts of society, those who are suffering right now the most? Why don’t you lie about the weakest among us, Mikey?” he spat.

What Johnson has said is “absolute fact,” Levin says.

“I don’t know why this should surprise anybody. Remember the big, beautiful bill eliminates this in health care and Medicaid for illegal aliens? Biden put it in. Trump took it out. The Democrats are trying to put it back,” he asserts, calling Scarborough’s Jesus insult an “attack on the fact that Mike Johnson is an evangelical Christian.”

As for Scarborough’s lamentation that illegal immigrants are the “the weakest among us,” Levin counters, “Our government’s damn near bankrupt in the name of the weakest, in the name of redistributing wealth.”

The shutdown, he argues, is a deliberate Democratic strategy to manufacture a crisis for political gain and to “hurt Republicans” like Johnson. Democrats are stalling a routine temporary funding bill — something that is supposed to be “non-controversial” — by pushing for health care for illegal immigrants. On top of that, they’re exaggerating the shutdown’s impact, when only a small portion of the budget is affected.

“The fact of the matter is, the vast majority of the government’s open — over 80% of it. The fact of the matter is that Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security are going to keep running. Government keeps collecting taxes. The veterans’ programs will continue. Food stamps continue. ... Other programs — redistributing wealth to the poor and the needy and so forth and so on — those are continuing,” he says.

“The Democrats decide to use [a government shutdown] because they’re fighting among themselves, because they’re trying to empower their party. They’re trying to get their ... swagger back, and this is all they have,” Levin explains.

“But it’s not going to create that much pain” because the majority of the government will continue running. “So, unless you’re so desperate to go to a national park ... or the Smithsonian or some of these other things or unless you’re a bureaucrat who’s affected by a cut or reduction, you’re not going to feel it,” he says.

As the shutdown drags into its second week with no end in sight, Levin insists Democrats are playing a dangerous game, using the budget battle to score political points while most Americans carry on unaffected.

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Dearborn mayor tells pastor he’s ‘not welcome’ after he criticizes street named after Hamas sympathizer



Last month, Ted Barham, a Christian pastor and longtime resident of Dearborn, Michigan — the city with the largest Arab population in the U.S. — bravely spoke out at a city council meeting about the ceremonial naming of two intersections after Osama Siblani.

Siblani is the publisher of Dearborn’s Arab American News and a prominent community leader.

Barham took issue with the city’s honoring of Siblani given his past remarks praising Hezbollah and Hamas as "freedom fighters.” At the meeting, he calmly but pointedly made his case, arguing that the city might as well have named the streets “Hamas Street” and “Hezbollah Street.”

Dearborn's Muslim mayor, Abdullah Hammoud, however, was enraged. He called Barham an "Islamophobe" unfit for the city, declaring him "not welcome here" and quipping that he would personally throw a city parade upon his departure.

On a recent episode of “LevinTV,” Mark Levin played the clip of the heated interaction.

“This is sick,” says Levin, condemning the lack of media coverage on this story.

The Arab takeover of Dearborn, he argues, mirrors the swell of Palestinians in places like Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus, and Hebron, the burial site of the patriarchs Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

“It wasn't that long ago that Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus Christ, was 80% Christian. Today ... less than 15% of the population of Bethlehem is Christian. It's Palestinian,” says Levin.

“Some time ago, many [in Hebron] were slaughtered by the Palestinians. The Palestinians took over the area, so the IDF has a significant force there to protect the 85 Jewish families who are still there,” he adds.

Levin recalls traveling to Hebron with his family: “We had to go there in a vehicle with a driver. The vehicle was armored, the driver was armed, and we had to stay close.”

He then connects Dearborn’s controversy to broader historical shifts, arguing that the biblical regions of Judea and Samaria, named in the Bible for their significance to the ancient Israelites, are improperly called the West Bank of Palestine today. He rejects this modern term, asserting it erases Jewish historical ties, much like the street naming in Dearborn overlooks problematic associations.

The “Islamists” in Dearborn stand with Hezbollah and Qatar, says Levin.

That means “they want the annihilation of Israel and the Jews and the annihilation of the United States.”

To hear more of Levin’s analysis, watch the video above.

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From Dearborn to DC: Mark Levin warns of enemies eroding our heritage



Whether you celebrate Christmas and Easter or Rosh Hashanah and Passover, read the Bible or the Torah, go to church or to the synagogue, these traditions trace their origins to the ancient Middle East, a region Mark Levin passionately defends as central to our shared faith and heritage.

If we cherish these time-honored traditions and want to continue practicing them freely, then we need to understand that a very real enemy lives and breathes to see them crushed.

“They are people who want to destroy [our traditions], and they want to destroy us ... and if they get their way, that's the plan," Levin warns.

The enemy he speaks of is primarily Iran, whose nuclear ambitions and network of terrorist proxies, like Hamas, along with Qatar’s financial influence, threaten everything the West values.

And yet, we have Democrats, RINOs, and grifters in this country who are aiding and abetting the enemy.

Whether it's Dearborn, Michigan, attempts to establish a Sharia-governed city in Texas, growing anti-American sentiment in parts of New Jersey, a New York City mayoral candidate or Virginia’s lieutenant governor candidate sympathetic to radical causes, CAIR and Students for Justice in Palestine acting as Hamas front groups, or Qatar’s billions buying off American institutions, Levin warns these are vivid threats to our cherished traditions enabled by complicit leadership.

“The only thing that can stop it is you and me,” he says.

“That's why when ... grifters out there, podcasters, and others, use a platform like mine to lie about the president, to lie about the prime minister of Israel, to give aid and comfort to this enemy, I speak out.”

The amount of “crap” he gets for this is sometimes overwhelming, but Levin’s resolve is iron. “So be it,” he shrugs.

“And I will continue to speak out because [we’re] red-blooded Americans. We're not the French; we're not the British ... and we will stand up to this. We're people of faith, not fundamentalists.”

“We don't seek to destroy people who disagree with us. We don't seek to destroy anybody, but we will defend ourselves — just as the Israelis do, just as our president, our historic iconic leader, defends us today,” he encourages.

To hear more, watch the video above.

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Mark Levin destroys Jimmy Kimmel’s narrative on Charlie Kirk’s death



It’s not hard for BlazeTV host Mark Levin to dismantle Jimmy Kimmel’s narrative about Charlie Kirk’s assassination — because it was false — nor is it hard for him to dismantle the free speech outrage that followed his warranted suspension.

Levin points out that while Kimmel claimed the “MAGA gang” was “desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it,” all he really did was use ABC’s platform to lie.

“Well, first of all, that is a flat-out lie, and it is an attempt to politicize and exploit what took place, and people who love Charlie and his supporters trying to upset them, and he succeeded,” BlazeTV host Mark Levin says on “LevinTV.”

“Now, is that free speech? Is that constitutionally protected free speech under the First Amendment of the Constitution? There’s a difference between constitutionally protected free speech and just free speech,” he continues.


“The Kimmel suspension was never a battle over free speech or government control of speech. Kimmel was dropped because he’s a loathsome punk who made a highly inappropriate comment about the political assassination of Charlie Kirk. It is Charlie Kirk who was murdered because of his speech. Did Kimmel even talk about that? No. He lied,” he adds.

Levin also points out that ABC is a private company and has every right to fire its employees for what they say.

“I would ask you,” Levin says, addressing the audience, “most of you are employees, right? So if you say something that’s outrageous or inappropriate or something of that kind, and you’re fired, do you jump up and down and say, ‘Hey, my free speech rights! Hey, my free speech rights!’”

“You are careful to some extent because you know if you don’t have a governor on your mouth, you will be fired. Whether it’s your free speech or not, it’s irrelevant. Employers can and do fire employees for things they say,” he continues.

“The chairman of the FCC had no role in any of it, no matter what he said or didn’t say. He can’t even act on his own. He needs a majority of the commissioners,” he says, adding, “But he didn’t actually do anything. So there’s no First Amendment at issue, despite the best efforts to concoct one.”

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Mark Levin invokes Reagan’s 1964 warning as a rallying cry against today’s looming crisis



On October 27, 1964, Ronald Reagan, a rising conservative voice at the time, delivered his historic speech “A Time for Choosing.”

It’s one of "the greatest speeches in American history,” says Mark Levin.

The 29-minute nationally televised address articulated the future president’s conservative vision, emphasizing limited government, individual liberty, and a strong anti-communist stance. He criticized the growth of federal bureaucracy and warned of encroaching socialism, framing the election between Republican nominee Barry Goldwater and incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson as a critical choice between freedom and government overreach.

Reagan saw the internal erosion of liberty through excessive federal power and socialist-leaning policies as a threat equally perilous as the external danger of communism.

But Reagan didn’t view these internal and external threats as mutually exclusive. They were deeply connected.

“There is an enemy within, and the enemy within is growing because the enemy without is funding the enemy within and populating the enemy within, and they are fusing and joining and colluding with homegrown Marxists and people of that ilk,” Levin says, summarizing Reagan’s argument.

Even though this speech took place nearly 62 years ago, it is still relevant today, he says.

On this episode of “LevinTV,” Levin, who is constantly warning of America’s internal threat of Marxist ideologies and government overreach, played an inspiring clip from Reagan’s speech to remind us of what has been true since the 1960s: Marxism and unchecked government power threaten America’s core freedoms.

To hear the clip of Reagan’s speech, watch the clip below.

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Mark Levin shares the hilarious secret about how he prepares for his shows



It’s not uncommon for the great one to get inquiries from his fans asking about how he prepares for his shows.

While Levin doesn’t reveal all the ingredients for his show-planning sauce, he does share one: “Sometimes if I go to our fabulous supermarket called Wegmans, they have all the newspapers there. So I might pick up two donuts and five newspapers.”

On a recent episode of “LevinTV,” he invited his audience to pull up a chair and witness the master at work.

He starts with the Washington Post, which he affectionately dubs “the Washington Compost.”

Holding up the hefty stack of pages, he quips, “All the trees that died for this.”

He flips through, headline by headline, tossing out zingers like “some lib wrote this,” “these guys are morons,” and “who cares?” — each delivered with the precision of a seasoned roast-master.

He doesn’t shy away from the paper’s darker history either, reminding viewers, “This is one of the newspapers that covered up the Holocaust.”

Then, he hits a front-page story titled “‘We’ll do what’s right’: Judge Resolute Amid U.S. pressure,” a glowing piece about Brazilian judge Alexandre de Moraes, portrayed as a stalwart defender of “democracy” despite U.S. sanctions, tariffs, and criticism from figures like Elon Musk and President Donald Trump.

“Now keep in mind the Washington Compost is thrilled when it's running stories attacking Sam Alito and Clarence Thomas, of course, Brett Kavanaugh ... but this judge [Moraes] is ‘steadfast’ in Brazil. He's not going to buckle,” Levin mocks. “That judge in Brazil is a left-wing kook hack like many of the writers for this newspaper.”

Levin eventually makes his way to the Post’s style section to an article titled “The Future of Book Reviews Looks Grim.”

“This book ‘On Power’ is a number one New York Times bestseller. I've had nine [best sellers] in a row. ... Do you know how many book reviews the New York Times has done for this book or any of the nine? Zero,” he says. “Now, I'm supposed to read an article that the future of book reviews looks grim? Well, when it comes to my books, they're nonexistent.”

For more of Levin’s sharp-witted takedown of “the New York Slimes,” check out the video above. It’s a masterclass in turning newsprint into comedic kindling.

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Why do bureaucrats and judges rule when ‘we the people' hold power? Levin’s ‘On Power’ reveals all



“Individual and human rights, liberty, and equality predate governments because they do not originate from governments.”

This is a line out of Mark Levin’s new book, “On Power” — a deep dive into the nature of power, its historical roots, and its impact on liberty and governance in America.

It’s also a reiteration of the most critical part of the Declaration of Independence: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.”

“Those two sentences are so important,” says Levin.

He explains that this idea that “God is sovereign and God's children on earth are His sovereign children” is what distinguishes America – a “fusion of the Judeo-Christian value system” and “the Enlightenment” — from “Marxism and all the isms.” We the people get to decide how we’re governed.

If this is who America is, then why do we have bureaucrats and unelected judges calling so many of the shots?

“The bureaucracy has nothing to do with the consent of the governed,” Levin condemns, castigating the unelected judges and bureaucrats who continue to “devour the powers of the executive.”

This clash between America’s founding principles of individual liberty and the opposing ideology of centralized control by unaccountable powers is unsustainable, he argues.

“The basis for America’s founding and the ideology of the American Marxists are utterly incompatible,” he says, pointing to the “power struggle that exists today and has for 100 years or more” between worldviews about individual liberty and centralized control.

Levin’s “On Power” calls for reclaiming the consent of the governed, urging Americans to resist encroachments on their God-given rights by unaccountable powers, echoing the revolutionary spirit of the Declaration.

If you haven’t already, get your copy today.

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Bernie Sanders shuns Mark Levin debate: Scared of being grilled over his Castro crush?



Mark Levin has repeatedly invited Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on “LevinTV” to debate him over Sanders’ long list of socialist policies, like government-run health care, punitive wealth taxes, and union-heavy labor schemes. Many public invitations have been extended, but every time — crickets.

Is he just too busy rallying Trump haters on his "Fighting Oligarchy" tour? Or is he scared Mark will wipe the floor with him?

Perhaps he’s hesitant because he knows he’ll be skewered over his fascination with communist dictators — like his lauding of the tyrannical Cuban despot Fidel Castro back in 2020 during a "60 Minutes" interview and subsequent CNN town hall.

Following his controversial statement in the interview that it’s “unfair to simply say everything [about Castro’s Cuba] is bad,” Sanders doubled down in the town hall.

“When Fidel Castro first came to power ... you know what he did? He initiated a major literacy program,” Sanders retorted.

“There was a lot of folks in Cuba at that point who were illiterate, and he formed a literacy brigade. ... They went out, and they helped people learn to read and write. You know what I think? Teaching people to read and write is a good thing,” he added.

“Wow, a literacy program,” mocks Levin. “But you weren't allowed to read what you wanted to read. You weren't allowed to say what you wanted to say. There was no right to speech, free speech, or any other kind of speech unless it was dictated by the government.”

Castro, he reminds, was “a genocidal maniac who was killing people and throwing them in prison,” and his “literacy brigades” were “filled with people who had allegiance to [him] and the communists.”

“They were not just going into homes to teach literacy. They were going in their homes to spy,” says Levin.

Sanders caveated his praise of Castro’s literacy initiative by arguing he’s been “critical of all authoritarian regimes all over the world,” including Cuba’s, but Levin calls him a “a liar.”

“He used to defend all the communist leaders. Now, he's got a little more clever in his extremely old age,” he corrects.

“He supported the communist leader in Nicaragua. ... He supported the communist leader in Cuba. He supported the communist leader in the old Soviet Union when he honeymooned in Moscow,” Levin adds.

Sanders capped his defense of Castro by arguing, “I happen to believe in democracy, not authoritarianism.”

“No, he doesn't believe in democracy,” says Levin, citing George Orwell’s 1946 essay “Politics and the English Language,” in which he argued that political language is often manipulated by authoritarians to mask their wicked ends.

Sanders is “a Stalinist,” he says.

“This is why Bernie Sanders won't come on any of my shows. He will not come on any of my shows because he knows I'm going to question him.”

To see the clip of Sanders and hear more of Levin’s commentary, watch the clip above.

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Mark Levin slams viral Gaza photo as anti-Israel propaganda



There’s a ghastly photograph of an 18-month-old Palestinian boy named Mohammed Zakaria al-Mutawaq that’s gone viral. In the image, he appears severely malnourished, his spine protruding from his back while he lies in his mother’s arms in Gaza.

It’s a gut punch of a photo that makes even the staunchest Israel supporter wince.

That’s why major media outlets — including the New York Times, the Daily Express, the Guardian, CNN, and the Daily Mail, among others — have circulated the image. It’s top-tier pathos to push the narrative that Gaza’s humanitarian crisis is the fault of genocidal Israel.

Except the photo is a lie.

“That child was dying, but he was dying from a disease that he had at birth,” says Mark Levin, condemning the framing of the photograph as “horrendous propaganda.”

While Mohammed Zakaria al-Mutawaq’s condition is a tragedy — no child deserves such a fate — it adds insult to injury to use his predicament to further the lie that Israel is responsible for Gaza’s starvation.

“That photo made it around the world. Western media covered it. American media covered it. Prime ministers used it. Presidents used it. Everybody was using it to condemn Netanyahu and the Israelis as committing genocide and war crimes,” says Levin.

While it’s true that Gaza is indeed suffering from starvation, it’s Hamas who has blood on its hands, not Israel.

Levin plays a recent clip of House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) sharing the truth about Gaza’s crisis on NBC News' “Meet the Press.”

“Israel, since this war began, has supplied over 94,000 truckloads full of food. It's enough food to feed 2 million people for two years. [They’ve been] trying to get that into Gaza, but Hamas has stolen the food. … In 2024, the numbers are that Hamas profited over $500 million in stolen food aid that was supposed to go to these poor people who needed it,” he told Kristen Welker.

“The U.N. needs to work with Israel to make sure that the food is getting to the people that need it most. … That's Israel's intention. That's the U.S.' intention and the U.N. as well,” he added.

While Levin praises Johnson for speaking the truth about Hamas being the cause of Gaza’s starvation, he corrects the narrative that the U.N. seeks to help starving Gazans.

“The U.N.'s working with Hamas, just like UNRWA worked with Hamas. The U.N. wants all the food to go through the U.N. so the U.N. can then work with Hamas,” he says.

To hear more of his analysis and commentary, watch the video above.

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What you’re not being told about Israel, Gaza, and the UN



Why does the mainstream media perpetuate the narrative of starving Gazans, when right now, there are hundreds of pallets of food and medicine sitting undistributed?

Mark Levin plays recent video footage capturing thousands of pounds of aid sitting untouched on pallets and in semis along Gaza’s borders.

“Of course, the U.N. is doing what the U.N. does. The U.N. works with Hamas. Hamas sells the food. Hamas uses it to extort, to threaten Palestinians there. They're shooting Palestinians alive who are starving who want food,” he says.

Israel is responsible for much of the aid being sent to Gaza, but the mainstream media buries this fact and instead spreads the narrative that Israel is guilty of war crimes.

Levin plays a soundbite from U.S. ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee’s interview with Bari Weiss on “The Free Press,” during which they addressed this issue.

Weiss pointed out that “in the New York Times, articles pairing Israel and genocide reached levels more than nine times higher than the peak for Rwanda, in which 800,000 people were murdered in 100 days.”

“What is going on here?” she asked Huckabee.

“To say that Israel has been involved in something like that is recklessly irresponsible, and it is factually off-the-charts untrue,” he answered.

“You really are hearkening back to the very foundation of what led to the Holocaust.”

Of course, another holocaust is exactly what Hamas and other Islamist groups aim for, but they’re sneaky about how they go about it. They project their own genocidal intentions on Israel.

Levin plays a clip from MEMRI capturing former ISIS official and current Syrian leader Ahmed al-Sharaa declaring that “outlaw groups” — Druze and Christians — are slaughtering the innocent Bedouins.

The truth is the Bedouins are “terrorists that the army is supporting,” who are “slaughtering the Jews and Christians,” says Levin.

“The Israelis had to intervene to defend these people and to protect them. That's exactly what took place. The Bedouins are being urged and others to slaughter them,” he clarifies. “So this guy [Ahmed al-Sharaa] is so devious, so evil, and yet we put our money with him, hoping that he can turn Syria into some kind of a diverse democracy.”

To hear more of Levin’s commentary, watch the clip above.

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