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Congressional reporter Myles Morell contributed to this report

Multiple members of Congress admitted “I don’t know” when pressed by The Gateway Pundit on Capitol Hill about the more than 160 never-before-seen UFO files the Pentagon released on May 8, 2026, under President Donald Trump’s direct order.

The historic declassification, the first tranche under the new Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters, made public military reports, photographs, videos, and astronaut accounts spanning the 1940s to recent years. The files detail rotating saucer-shaped craft over Cold War Europe, metallic elliptical objects hovering motionless, glowing orbs with impossible maneuvers, and anomalous lights near Apollo missions that continue to defy conventional explanation.

Rep. @timburchett suggests that the “deep state” is trying to prevent the full release of the UFO files and full disclosure on them: pic.twitter.com/8FifYLU4Sh

— Myles Morell (@MorellMedia) May 18, 2026

“The deep state’s fighting the president on release…Some of our alphabet agencies are slow walking a lot of information. It’s about power. It’s about control,” Burchett, R-Tenn., told TGP in an exclusive interview.

Rep. Pete Sessions, R-Texas, pointed exactly to those encounters: “These were big orange balls, orange balls that chased aircraft in WWII. You ought to look it up.”

Rep. @PeteSessions on the UFO files.

He talks about these strange “big orange balls” that allegedly chased down aircraft during WW2 pic.twitter.com/fMsjNrC9o6

— Myles Morell (@MorellMedia) May 18, 2026

The files also expand on Apollo-era anomalies, including Buzz Aldrin’s report of a “sizable” object near the Moon and Apollo 17 astronauts describing bright tumbling particles lighting up the sky “like the Fourth of July.”

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., confirmed she participated in prior classified briefings and called the effort bipartisan, while stressing she had not yet reviewed the new batch.

“To be fair, I have to take a look at everything that was disclosed,” Ocasio-Cortez told TGP.

The New York Democrat cautioned that vague disclosure requests give agencies “discretion over what gets included and what doesn’t.”

“As a strategy,  the more specific we can get about the areas, departments, and things that we would like to see disclosed, the more precise [disclosure] is…the easier it is to get that information,” she continued. “If you just ask in general ‘give us information,’ then whoever is providing it has discretion over what gets included and what doesn’t.”

Rep. Sean Casten, D-Ill., rejected alien theories.

“These are not about aliens. This is not about foreign life,” Casten told TGP. “It’s a testament to science that we’ve identified so much else.”

Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., said her constituents are demanding answers: “Let’s have some transparency and get that information out.” She pledged to review the documents.

Rep. Mike Bost, R-Ill., noted the current administration has released more than predecessors but echoed the prevailing uncertainty, admitting he has no idea why the government has yet to disclose all the UFO files.

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Vice President JD Vance delivered an epic rebuke of the left-wing media while delivering a press briefing on Tuesday after a liberal reporter lectured him in what Vance described as a “speech masquerading as a question.”

The Independent’s White House Correspondent, Andrew Feinberg, pressed Vance with an incredibly long and nasty question that leveled accusations of insider trading against the President before finally getting to the point.

Vance briefly interrupted twice during the monologue, describing it as a “hell of a question,” then later urging, “Okay, what’s the question?”

He finally spit out the question after a tirade about Trump’s stock disclosures, public polling, and Vance’s comments while running for the Senate in 2022, asking, “The question, sir, is how can you and your administration argue to Americans that you’re cleaning up corruption, you’re preventing fraud, you’re fighting the sorts of things that harm people and people’s financial situations when the president seems to be talking up stocks that he owns, selling them and enriching himself?”

After Feinberg’s nearly 90-second-long speech, Vance went off, trolling him with a lesson on asking a question. “That was a doozy. Before I answer your question, I want to just observe there are different ways to ask a question,” Vance said, scolding the reporter for giving a speech instead of just asking a question.

The Vice President told the reporter, “You can just ask a question and try to get your answer, or you could do like a speech, where you say, you know, ‘Mr. Vice President, you know, you’re a terrible human being, and so is the President, so is the entire cabinet.’ And then I’m like, ‘What’s your question?’ And then your question is, ‘How dare you?’”

“Come on, man. Have a little bit of objectivity in the way that you ask these questions,” he added before answering the question and explaining that the President has independent investment managers, is not trading stocks himself, and still supports a ban on insider trading for public officials.

WATCH:

Feinberg: The President’s financial disclosures were released recently, and they showed a lot of stock trades in companies that he has talked up at events, official events at the White House, on his Truth Social account, sometimes even putting the stock ticker symbols in his posts and encouraging people to buy their stock. Americans, according to recent polling, are increasingly describing the president as corrupt and trading stocks—

Vance: This is a hell of a question.

Feinberg: Trading individual stocks is something that you have said that public officials should not be able to do when you ran for senate all those years ago, and yet the president, who arguably has access to more non-public information than your average senator, is not only buying and selling individual stocks, either through his, through his trust—

Vance: Okay, what’s the question?

Feinberg: The question is, the question, sir, is how can you and your administration argue to Americans that you’re cleaning up corruption, you’re preventing fraud, you’re fighting the sorts of things that harm people and people’s financial situations when the president seems to be talking up stocks that he owns, selling them and enriching himself?

Vance: Okay, so here, let me, let me, let me answer your question here. That was a doozy. Before I answer your question, I want to just observe there are different ways to ask a question, okay? You can just ask a question and try to get your answer, or you could do like a speech, where you say, you know, “Mr. Vice President, you know, you’re a terrible human being, and so is the President, so is the entire cabinet.” And then I’m like, “What’s your question?” And then your question is, “How dare you?” Come on, man. Have a little bit of objectivity in the way that you ask these questions, because there were a lot of things in that speech masquerading as a question that didn’t actually get asked, okay?

Number one, the president doesn’t sit at the Oval Office on his computer on his, like, Robinhood account, buying and selling stocks. That’s absurd. He has independent wealth advisors who manage his money. He is a wealthy person. He has had success in business. He’s not making these stock trades himself. And your question imputes that. It sort of, it doesn’t say it exactly, but a reasonable person listening to that question would assume the President is sitting around doing that. He’s not!

Second of all, you’re right, I’m a big fan of banning members of Congress from trading stocks. So is the President of the United States. And all of us believe that nobody should be taking proprietary information gained from public service and buying and selling stocks. We want to ban— we want to ban that. We want to ban that process, and I think the way to lead by example is banning that process, banning that approach, and making it illegal, which is exactly what the President has proposed doing.

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Fulton County Chief Judge Ural Glanville has signed a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) granting bipartisan members of the Georgia State Election Board and poll watchers full access to Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s secretive “election bunker,” the underground Emergency Operations Center where statewide vote totals from all 159 counties are aggregated and prepared for public release on this critical Primary Election Night.

The Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) comes just hours before Georgia’s critical May 19 primary elections and marks a massive win for election integrity advocates who have been demanding transparency from the very official tasked with running fair elections.

As The Gateway Pundit reported earlier today, Raffensperger’s office planned to tally and report Georgia’s 2026 primary results from an undisclosed, secure “emergency bunker” in metro Atlanta, an off-limits facility coordinated with the Georgia Emergency Management Agency that has been completely closed to candidates, the public, and even bipartisan members of the State Election Board (SEB).

Raffensperger’s team repeatedly denied requests for access, claiming no ballots are actually counted there just pre-certified county results are aggregated.

Critics called it a blatant violation of state transparency laws requiring public oversight of all election duties.

State Sen. Greg Dolezal, along with Republican candidates Chris Mora and Keli Gambrill, filed an emergency lawsuit against Raffensperger demanding the court force open the bunker.

Dolezal blasted the refusal as unacceptable, stating the room is where county results come in and questions about validity can be raised and SEB members had access in the past.

Just moments ago, Dolezal announced the huge victory:

We have secured a TRO from Chief Judge Glanville.

Bipartisan members of the State Election Board and poll watchers WILL be allowed inside Secretary Raffensperger’s “bunker” to observe tonight’s process.

Transparency wins. The people of Georgia deserve honest, observable elections.

BREAKING: We have secured a TRO from Chief Judge Glanville.

Bipartisan members of the State Election Board and poll watchers WILL be allowed inside Secretary Raffensperger’s “bunker” to observe tonight’s process.

Transparency wins. The people of Georgia deserve honest,… pic.twitter.com/BVOLnrt9Ic

— Senator Greg Dolezal (@DolezalForGA) May 19, 2026

Judge signs court order granting Georgia State Election Board access to the SOS election bunker….
Here is the update from @MoraForGeorgia @MarkDavisGOP @@GAballots pic.twitter.com/jQJ7rO8HhU

— Voice of Rural America (@VoiceofRuralAm) May 19, 2026

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