Thank a Democrat.

Travelers were forced to line up on the sidewalk outside the terminal in freezing temperatures early Saturday morning at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI) as Democrats block funding for TSA agents.

President Trump signed an executive order authorizing payment to TSA agents, but they won’t begin receiving paychecks until Monday.

In the meantime, travelers are missing flights and waiting in long security lines.

On Friday, BWI warned travelers to expect longer wait times as usual amid the Easter and spring break travel rush.

“Expect longer than normal wait times at checkpoints. Especially if flying out from Concourses A, B or C,” BWI said.

Plan ahead if you’re traveling this weekend.

Arrive early.

Expect longer than normal wait times at checkpoints. Especially if flying out from Concourses A, B or C.

Checkpoint conditions will likely be at their worst during morning and afternoon hours. pic.twitter.com/179SoFt16H

— BWI Marshall Airport (@BWI_Airport) March 28, 2026

On Saturday morning, BWI issued a second warning to travelers as TSA security line wait times exceeded 3 hours.

“If you are traveling today or tomorrow, please arrive to the airport 4 hours early,” BWI said.

“We have not previously experienced checkpoint wait times similar to what we are seeing this morning,” the airport said.

If you are traveling today or tomorrow, please arrive to the airport 4 hours early.

We have not previously experienced checkpoint wait times similar to what we are seeing this morning.

Travelers most impacted are those departing from Concourses A, B and C. pic.twitter.com/y5mxtlrcbs

— BWI Marshall Airport (@BWI_Airport) March 28, 2026

The line was so long that travelers were forced to line up outside on the sidewalk in freezing cold temperatures.

BWI BACKUP: Take a look at new video of the security line wrapping around Thurgood Marshall Airport as the DHS shutdown drags on.@BrianBrenberg: “Those are the people Congress is supposed to be serving… They’re using those people instead of serving those people.” pic.twitter.com/A7faHHbBu5

— FOX & Friends (@foxandfriends) March 28, 2026

The same Democrats who keep blocking funding for TSA agents are happily skipping security lines.

Democrat House Minority Whip Kathleen Clark skipped the TSA lines as she denies agents pay.

Rep. Clark was spotted being escorted through the TSA security lines along with her coffee handler as she left DC.

WATCH:

House Democrat @WhipKClark heading out of DC
Luckily she’s skipping security so she doesn’t have to face the TSA agents she is denying pay to – on day 43 of the shutdown pic.twitter.com/dBjDRWtx9L

— Sean Spicer (@seanspicer) March 28, 2026

The post Travelers Line Up on Sidewalk Outside Terminal in Freezing Temps at Baltimore Airport as Democrats Block Funding For TSA (VIDEO) appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

Bank of America wants to move away from the Epstein story.

A third major bank has agreed to settle a lawsuit from Jeffrey Epstein victims, as the fallout from the disclosures of his financial dealings seems far from dying down.

After JPMorgan and Deutsche Bank, now it’s the Bank of America’s turn.

The financial institution agreed ‌to pay $72.5 million to settle a civil lawsuit by women who accused the bank of facilitating their sexual abuse by Jeffrey Epstein, court documents show.

Bank of America agreed to pay $72.5 million to settle a lawsuit on behalf of Jeffrey Epstein victims https://t.co/iCLFPHPQbP

— Bloomberg (@business) March 28, 2026

Reuters reported:

“Lawyers for the bank and the women had told Manhattan-based U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff this month they had reached a ‘settlement ​in principle’, but terms of the deal were not disclosed at the time.

‘While we stand by our prior ​statements made in the filings in this case, including that Bank of America did not facilitate ⁠sex trafficking crimes, this resolution allows us to put this matter behind us and provides further closure for the plaintiffs’, ​a spokesperson for Bank of America said in a statement.”

Bank of America has reached a $72.5 million settlement in a lawsuit that alleges the financial giant helped facilitate the sex trafficking operation of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, according to court documents. https://t.co/BHzHhOer2J

— CBS News Texas (@CBSNewsTexas) March 28, 2026

The value to be paid by the Bank of America is in line with JPMorgan and Deutsche, which paid 75 million each.

“In a joint court filing, David Boies and Bradley Edwards, attorneys ​for the plaintiffs, said the settlement represented the best option for their clients ‘given that many Class Members suffered harm many years ago and are in need of financial relief now’.”

The settlement still requires Judge Rakoff’s approval.

The ​class action accused the bank of ‘ignoring suspicious financial transactions’ related to ‌Epstein despite ⁠a ‘plethora’ of information about his crimes ‘because it valued profit over protecting victims’.

In the meantime, in possibly unrelated news, French police stopped a terrorist attack outside a Bank of America building.

Police thwart suspected bomb attack outside a Bank of America building in Paris https://t.co/OLaprylLUb

— Sky News (@SkyNews) March 28, 2026

Bomb terror plot on Bank of America in Paris foiled by police as suspect arrested after early hours attackhttps://t.co/4KvfT13AvN

— GB News (@GBNEWS) March 28, 2026

Read more from June 2023:

Jeffrey Epstein Trafficking Ring: JPMorgan Chase Bank Settles With ‘Jane Doe’ Victim – Value Is Said to Be $290 Million

The post Bank of America Latest Financial Institution to Settle With Epstein Victims, Following JPMorgan and Deutsche Bank – PLUS: Bomb Attack on Bank of America Building Foiled in Paris appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

After a strong showing of support for Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton at CPAC in Dallas, Texas, this week, it is expected that Trump may finally make an endorsement in the Texas Republican Senate Primary runoff between Paxton and RINO incumbent John Cornyn.  

Paxton is the clear MAGA favorite, while Cornyn, backed by the RINO establishment, is depending on a Trump endorsement to even have a shot.

The two contenders advanced to a May 26 runoff after each received roughly 40% of the vote in the March 3 Primary. According to the final results, Rep. Wesley Hunt received 13.5% of the vote.

Over 50% of GOP primary voters voted against Cornyn.

And it appears the National Republican Senatorial Committee is abandoning Cornyn and is reportedly not providing him with strong financial backing as Trump weighs his options.

Per Politico:

MAGA world is taking a victory lap — and fresh comfort — in the receipts: A lack of significant spending and polling so far by not only Cornyn’s campaign, but also the NRSC and One Nation, the Senate Leadership Fund-aligned nonprofit. It amounts to a pattern the MAGA cohort reads as Washington making peace with a matchup between Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, their anointed candidate, and Texas Democratic state Rep. James Talarico.

Now, Trump may not give an endorsement at all. Or if he does, he may endorse Paxton after the SAVE Act debate in the Senate is over, three sources tell POLITICO.

“Nothing is dead,” said a source familiar with the president’s thinking. “It’s all just stasis at the moment.”

“It’s looking like he may not endorse at all,” another White House official said. “But it doesn’t seem like he has made up his mind.”

But the endorsement equation in Texas amid the SAVE Act saga is still very much vexing Trump, according to five Republicans in and around the White House. The president, who will not be in attendance at this year’s CPAC, is “being patient” and “trying to exact” a policy win, another person said.

The report further notes that Paxton was spotted speaking with Trump on Friday of last week, where the two discussed the runoff. “It was a positive meeting,” one source told Politico.

Additionally, the Washington Post reports that Trump stated over the weekend that the MAGA “base is with Paxton,” according to a source with knowledge of the comment.

This comes after Trump previously announced that he would be announcing his endorsement in the race and asking one of the candidates to drop out.

However, Paxton declared he would not drop out of the race even if Trump endorsed Cornyn, saying Cornyn “has not represented the people of Texas well.”

“I’m staying in this race. I owe it to the people of Texas,” Paxton said.

The post REPORT: Trump Expected to Endorse Ken Paxton in Texas Senate Runoff Against RINO John Cornyn appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

At 87 years old, California Rep. Maxine Waters isn’t just part of the Democratic gerontocracy the party is trying to fight against — she’s arguably its most visible face.

Thus, approaching the 2026 election, you’d think that she’d be considering retiring — and if not that, at least scaling back her role a bit. Pulling a Pelosi, if you will: take it a bit easy and let your stock portfolio do the work for you.

But, no. Not only does crazy old Auntie Maxine plan on running for her 19th term in office — which she’ll almost certainly succeed at, given her name recognition and how blue her district is — but she hopes to also take control of one of the most powerful committees in Congress.

“If you take a look at my energy and what I do — I am Auntie Maxine,” Waters told Politico in an interview about running again.

“I’m the one who popularized ‘reclaiming my time.’ … I don’t know who’s got more energy, more concern. And so, Maxine Waters seems to be doing alright.”

She’ll be doing more than alright, however, if the Democrats win the House this November. And, if history holds for midterm performance for a party out of power in the White House, they will. And thus, she confirmed, she expects to be the chair of the House Financial Services Committee.

This means, as Politico noted, that the “committee could soon have the oldest leader in its history as it grapples with technological shifts like cryptocurrency, and Democrats look to aggressively ramp up oversight of the president, his family business and his Wall Street regulators.”

There are some people looking to pump the brakes on this — some publicly, some privately.

Publicly, there’s Myla Rahman, her main challenger in the primary process. The nonprofit executive, who is in her mid-50s, said that constituents “are sick and tired of the same old thing” when she announced in February, according to Fox News.

“Time is of the essence,” she said last month. “Why wait when you can make an impactful change now?”

She reiterated that criticism, albeit in more moderate terms, in Politico’s “Auntie Maxine” puff piece.

“She’s done a lot of great work,” Rahman said. “But we’re saying, let’s pass the baton and let a new generation of leadership come have a seat at the table.”

Rahman, of course, has to be public. Most of the criticism of Waters that Politico got was private:

Waters’ grip on the role illustrates the entrenched power that many older members of Congress hold, despite growing scrutiny of elder politicians who show signs of decline while serving. Unlike Republicans, Democrats don’t have term limits for House committee leadership positions. But privately, some Democrats worry about the optics of having an octogenarian — and soon-to-be nonagenarian — in the seat… 

In Washington, Waters’ age isn’t the only focus for her critics. Over the years, some Democrats on House Financial Services have complained that she keeps the spotlight of committee activity on herself and doesn’t create enough opportunities for rank-and-file members to lead on issues.

A leader should “always take care of your troops first,” said one committee Democrat granted anonymity to speak candidly. “I think Maxine has a challenge with that.”

Maxine Waters has been in politics for longer than I’ve been alive, and in Congress since George H.W. Bush was president. The fact that some people are discovering that Maxine Waters is 100 percent about Maxine Waters now is one of the features, adorable and poisonous in equal measures, of the Democratic Party, one in which obvious personal flaws are obliquely acknowledged several decades too late.

Heck, this is a woman who unironically makes the statement “I am Auntie Maxine” as if this is some sort of great argument in her favor. One half expected her to adopt full-on Reggie Jackson illeism during the entire interview and start referring to herself only in the third person: “Auntie Maxine is going to be the chair of the House Financial Services Committee come January, and if any of these wet-behind-the-ears 50-somethings have a problem with Auntie Maxine, they should come tell it to Auntie Maxine’s face and not this Politicos AOL chatroom or whatever it is you’re running there.”

And yes, one gets that there’s an old 87 and a young 87, although once you’ve reached 80 it’s probably time to stop splitting (very gray) hairs in that department. But fine: Here’s your Auntie Maxine, Democrats. You make up your mind whether she’s still capable of running one of the most important committees in Washington:

Maxine Waters wants to deport Melania pic.twitter.com/5ja21ES3qV

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) March 24, 2025

Rep. Maxine Waters: “Elon Musk with his high-tech ass may have hacked our last election” pic.twitter.com/JlBvb4oAbe

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) March 5, 2025

Deranged Maxine Waters: “The president of the United States is a killer.” pic.twitter.com/S5Z64ouHIa

— TheBlaze (@theblaze) December 5, 2025

I guess you could make the point that this is par for the course for Auntie Maxine. But then, that just makes the point that the Democrats should have reclaimed her time a few terms ago.

This is the invariable problem with the Democrats promising to take care of their establishment gerontocracy, only to back off when hard decisions have to be made. Waters is no asset and a heck of a liability, and at age 88 she could be ranting her radical, senescent keister as the head of a major House committee, and no elected official will go on record telling the woman to leave already.

And it’s not even the outrage of just slowly taking power away from the senile, entrenched, and corrupt: They’re giving her new powers, instead. It’s more proof that all that talk about making the Democratic Party younger and less establishmentarian was just that: talk.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

The post Not Only Is Radical, Senile Maxine Waters Refusing to Retire at 87, She Could Chair Powerful Committee Come Next January appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

US Central Command released footage of strikes on Iranian Naval vessels that have been threatening shipping boats in the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday, as Trump threatens to obliterate Iran’s infrastructure if they do not stop targeting ships in the waterway. 

CENTCOM Commander Admiral Brad Cooper said in a statement on Thursday that “92% of the large ships in the Iranian Navy have been eliminated,” and US strikes will continue. He further called members of the Iranian Armed Forces to “immediately abandon their post and return home to avoid further risk of unnecessary injury or death.”

Statement from Adm. Brad Cooper, CENTCOM commander: pic.twitter.com/oVqhVjgIDL

— U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) March 26, 2026

On Saturday morning, CENTCOM posted the following clip on X, writing, “For decades, Iranian naval vessels have threatened and harassed global shipping in regional waters, but those days are over.”

WATCH:

Also, on Friday, CENTCOM released footage of strikes on Iranian missile sites and military facilities.

“U.S. forces continue to eliminate the Iranian regime’s ability to project military power beyond its borders,” CENTCOM wrote.

WATCH:

Over 10,000 Iranian targets have been hit by US forces since the beginning of Operation Epic Fury on February 28, 2026, according to CENTCOM.

As The Gateway Pundit reported, President Trump announced that he is giving Iran until Monday, April 6 to open the Strait of Hormuz as “talks are ongoing.”

Previously, Trump threatened to “hit and obliterate their various POWER PLANTS, STARTING WITH THE BIGGEST ONE FIRST” if they did not open the Strait.

MORE:

President Trump Pauses Iranian Energy Plant Destruction, Announces New Deadline

The post WATCH: US Central Command Releases Footage of Strikes on Iranian Naval Vessels Blocking the Strait of Hormuz appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.