Dozens of left-wing activists from the Sunrise Movement were arrested Thursday after staging a sit-in inside Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s personal office in the Hart Senate Office Building, chanting “Schumer has got to go!” and demanding he either end the filibuster or step aside.

Capitol Police confirmed 54 arrests on charges of crowding, obstructing, and incommoding, as hundreds more demonstrators from across the country delivered letters to every Democrat senator’s office.

Photos and videos posted by the group showed protesters sitting on the floor of Schumer’s office in Green New Deal shirts, holding signs that read “The filibuster kills,” “Stop the climate crisis,” and “Schumer: Step up or step aside.”

Today, 50+ young people were arrested in Chuck Schumer’s office demanding an end to the filibuster and new Senate leadership.

Tonight, Van Hollen announced his run. Momentum is building. https://t.co/EJU6nrqZbO

— Sunrise Movement (@sunrisemvmt) November 13, 2026

WATCH:

BREAKING: Young people are blockading Chuck Schumer’s office to demand that he STEP UP and pledge to abolish the filibuster or STEP ASIDE as Senate Majority Leader in favor of Senator Chris Van Hollen. https://t.co/H0c9vIKwc8

— Sunrise Movement (@sunrisemvmt) November 12, 2026

BREAKING: 50+ young people have been arrested for blockading Chuck Schumer’s office to demand that he STEP UP and pledge to abolish the filibuster or STEP ASIDE as Senate Majority Leader in favor of Senator Chris Van Hollen. https://t.co/kHt7MQ4uV2

— Sunrise Movement (@sunrisemvmt) November 13, 2026

Sunrise said the action was part of a broader push for new Senate leadership and the abolition of the filibuster when Democrats take control of the chamber in January.

The group is fundraising to cover bail and legal fees for those arrested.

The protest comes as Schumer faces open skepticism from within his own party over remaining Democrat leader.

Sen. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland told CNN’s Manu Raju he is still “actively listening” to colleagues about a potential challenge and has already spoken with Schumer.

Sen. Chris Van Hollen told me he is still ‘actively listening’ to members about running against Chuck Schumer for Dem leader.

I asked him about Schumer’s role in the Dems’ huge midterm victory.

Van Hollen said it is not about individuals, but rather “a demand in the country for change and bold leadership.”

“We need to talk to my colleagues about what they think the best path forward would be,” he said.

Asked if he had spoken to Schumer, Van Hollen responded, “He and I have had a conversation.”

He said “stay tuned” when asked when he would announce his plans

— Manu Raju (@mkraju) November 12, 2026

Van Hollen framed the discussion as a broader demand for change and bold leadership rather than a challenge to any individual, adding that he would announce his plans soon and urging colleagues to weigh the best path forward.

Senators Bernie Sanders and Elissa Slotkin both publicly declined to back Schumer this week.

Sanders said at a news conference that while he has known Schumer for over 30 years and likes him, it is time for change, and he will not support Schumer’s reelection as Democrat leader.

WATCH:

BREAKING: Bernie Sanders and Elissa Slotkin say they won’t back Chuck Schumer as Senate Democratic leader.

Sanders: “The time is now for change, and I will not be supporting Chuck.”

One week into their “big win” and they’re already eating their own.

C-SPAN https://t.co/5maVZli2b7

— Patriot (@_Patriot1776Q_) November 10, 2026

Slotkin said she is a “no” until she sees a concrete plan that is definitively different, and she suggested peers withhold quorum until such a plan is presented.

Schumer has said he is confident he still has the votes.

WATCH:

REPORTER: “Senator Sanders just held a press conference where he said he cannot support you for leader. Senator Slotkin was with him…how do you respond to that?”

SCHUMER: “I’m confident I will be elected Majority Leader, and our caucus is really united…” https://t.co/niQPutpf04

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) November 10, 2026

Several newly elected Democrat senators have also declined to endorse Schumer.

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PETA faced widespread outrage Thursday after posting on X about a deadly shooting in Washington, D.C., which they used to protest a nearby restaurant’s planned foie gras dinner.

The organization deleted the post amid the backlash.

The original PETA tweet noted that an active shooting had occurred down the block from Mallard restaurant in D.C., which was planning a foie gras dinner that night.

The post added that PETA founder Ingrid Newkirk was “on the scene.”

“An active shooting has been down the block from Mallard restaurant in SDC, which is planning a foie gras dinner tonight. PETA’s Ingrid Newkirk is on the scene: Perhaps Mallard will show its neighbors the consideration it’s refused to show ducks,” the post read.

There is something deeply wrong with this organization. https://t.co/hZxUgVeuzN

— Yashar Ali (@yashar) November 12, 2026

In a follow-up statement, PETA acknowledged deleting the tweet but offered no apology.

The group said the shooting was in its neighborhood and affected its neighbors, that it had canceled a planned protest outside Mallard out of respect for the victims, and that the tweet was meant to urge the restaurant to pull foie gras from its menu to help eliminate violence.

Celebrity chef Jose Andres responded on X, “You should be so ashamed of this tweet……People dead and injured and you tweet this?”

You should be so ashamed of this tweet……People dead and injured and you tweet this?

— Chef José Andrés (@chefjoseandres) November 12, 2026

PETA subsequently claimed it removed the post because “supporters of foie gras,” including Andres, were twisting its message, while insisting it is possible to care about more than one issue at a time and to respect all life.

While there are absolutely valid arguments for banning foie gras, which involves force-feeding ducks and geese to enlarge their livers before slaughter, PETA’s attempt to make an actual murder about themselves as it was still unfolding may be a new low for them.

The shooting this morning in DC was in PETA’s neighborhood, and these were our neighbors who were impacted. We canceled a protest scheduled today in front of Mallard restaurant for its despicable sale of foie gras out of respect for the victims of the shooting, and in our tweet,…

— PETA (@peta) November 12, 2026

The organization reposted the same statement in replies to many of the posts calling them out.

It read in full:

The shooting this morning in DC was in PETA’s neighborhood, and these were our neighbors who were impacted. We canceled a protest scheduled today in front of Mallard restaurant for its despicable sale of foie gras out of respect for the victims of the shooting, and in our tweet, we were calling on the restaurant to help eliminate violence by pulling the cruel item from its menu. We took down our tweet because people who support and take part in the violent killing of ducks and geese for foie gras, like Chef Jose Andres, were twisting it, yet we encourage everyone to remember that it is possible to care about more than one thing at a time and to respect all life.

The shooting took place Thursday morning in the Logan Circle area at a VIDA Fitness location.

Authorities reported that one person was killed and multiple others were injured before the gunman died by a self-inflicted gunshot wound after a standoff with police.

Mallard, a Southern restaurant, had scheduled a four-course foie gras dinner for that evening amid ongoing debate over a recent voter-approved ban on the dish in the District.

This is not the first time PETA has deleted a post after being called out on their nonsense.

“In 2021, @PETA falsely claimed ‘Trump did nothing to stop animal experimentation,’ ignoring the administration’s historic steps working with WCW to stop some of the government’s worst animal testing abuses. They deleted their post after it was exposed as a lie.”

PETA Busted Again: Leftist Animal Rights Group Stealth Edits Bogus Anti-Trump Smear About Russian Cat Experiments After Being Exposed by @gatewaypundit and White Coat Waste

By @CassandraRules
Jan. 21, 2026 2:20 pm

In yet another embarrassing fumble by the far-left activists at PETA, the organization has been caught making stealth edits to an article falsely claiming the Trump administration is funding gruesome experiments on cats in Russia.

The edits come just days after Gateway Pundit and the animal testing watchdog organization White Coat Waste exposed their latest hoax designed to bash the Trump administration and stir up outrage among their donors.…

The problem is, as the Gateway Pundit previously reported, NIH hasn’t funded these cat experiments in Russia for three years since White Coat Waste first exposed it, and Republican lawmakers worked with them to cut the funding.

Through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, WCW uncovered years ago that the NIH was indeed sending U.S. dollars to the Pavlov Institute for cat mutilation experiments. Thankfully, their relentless campaign, backed by Republican leaders like @RepLisaMcClain and @SenJoniErnst, along with some Democrats, led to a complete defunding.

By 2023, all animal testing in Russian labs became ineligible for NIH grants, saving taxpayers millions and ending the abuse.

WCW’s Senior Vice President Justin Goodman publicly called out PETA on social media, noting that their “new” claims relied on outdated 2025 papers that used pre-2023 data and lacked evidence of ongoing funding.

Instead of issuing a correction or apology, PETA quietly tweaked its webpage on January 20 to cover its tracks.…

Its worth noting that PETA posted its fake Russian cat lab claim all over the internet but hasn’t once criticized its Fauci-loving friend NIH Deputy Director Nicole Kleinstreuer—who is the NIH’s ‘animal testing czar’—as she defends animal labs and allows tens of millions in new tax funding to flow to painful and deadly experiments on dogs, cats, primates and other animals and other countries (aside from Russia) around the world.”

This isn’t PETA’s first time running with fake news.…

In 2021, PETA falsely claimed “Trump did nothing to stop animal experimentation,” ignoring the administration’s historic steps working with WCW to stop some of the government’s worst animal testing abuses. They deleted their post after it was exposed as a lie…”

— White Coat Waste (@WhiteCoatWaste) February 3, 2026

Gateway Pundit previously highlighted a PETA tweet claiming President Donald Trump never did anything for lab animals or to stop animal experimentation.

That post was deleted after this outlet, and others, pointed out the Trump administration’s concrete actions ending certain federal experiments on dogs, cats, and monkeys, including NIH beagle lab closures and Navy testing bans that PETA itself had praised while often omitting any credit to the president.

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Democrats who thought last week’s elections meant they were on Easy Street are going to face a rocky road, President Donald Trump signaled Thursday.

“I have asked Vice President Vance to focus his complete and total attention on the Massive Corruption and Crime taking place in Democrat run Cities and States throughout the U.S.,” Trump posted on Truth Social.

“The Blue States, such as Minnesota, California, Illinois, and many more, are all poorly run, corrupt disasters. Billions of Dollars is being stolen each and every month,” he wrote.

“Our Budget could be quickly BALANCED with the correction of this large scale criminal activity. CORRUPTION is in the Democrat Leadership’s blood!” Trump wrote.

Trump said Vance, who had been the point man to bring the Iran war to a negotiated conclusion, should no longer focus on the talks.

Friendly reminder to the fraudsters:

At President Trump’s directive, we’re coming for you and bringing you to justice. https://t.co/eEzlCqCpXj

— Vice President JD Vance (@VP) November 6, 2026

“We don’t need a deal with Iran. Those days have long since passed. We’ve got their money, Hundreds of Billions of Dollars, and we’ve got their Strait!” Trump wrote.

In a later post, Trump mocked calls by Democrats that they would focus on Trump-related corruption when they take power in Congress.

“If the Democrats want to ‘root out corruption,’ they should start with investigating Blue States, perhaps the most CORRUPT governmental structures and entities anywhere on Earth,” Trump wrote.

“Big time money is being stolen each and every hour of the day!” he wrote.

As noted by The Hill, Vance is the chair of the Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, which Trump created this spring.

To date, the task force has found more than $200 billion in fraud.

On our task force to eliminate fraud, we’re taking every step possible to end the abuse of your tax dollars and protect the millions of Americans who use federal programs in their day to day lives.

Today, I’m proud to announce that the @WHFraudTF is partnering with @USTechForce so we can recruit the country’s best software engineers to join the fight.

As your Vice President, I’m calling on America’s best and brightest to answer this call, apply for these roles, and join our team. Help us out, your country needs you.

— JD Vance (@JDVance) October 14, 2026

Some of that came in October, when the task force led the way to cut 760,000 individual accounts that are on the Affordable Care Act’s books, according to administration officials, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Vance and Dr. Mehmet Oz, the administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, estimated that canceling those accounts will save taxpayers $2.2 billion.

During the Biden administration, Obamacare enrollment increased from  about 10 million people to more than 22 million.

A Department of Health and Human Services report issued this year estimated that nearly half of new Obamacare enrollments during Biden’s time in office were “likely improper, phantom or fraudulent,” the Wall Street Journal reported.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

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During The Five on FOX News, Greg Gutfeld defended his former network colleague, War Secretary Pete Hegseth, from the Democrats who are trying to impeach him.

Gutfeld listed many of Hegseth’s notable achievements while in office, but one of the greatest ones that he led with is not getting enough attention from anyone and it ha to do with recruitment.

As you may recall, under Joe Biden the U.S. Military was in a recruiting crisis across every division. All of that ended the minute Pete Hegseth was named as War Secretary.

From the Mirror US:

Host Greg Gutfeld mocked Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, wishing for him to return to Fox News.

During the Fox News broadcast of The Five on November 11, Gutfeld, 62, discussed how House Republicans blocked a push to impeach the defense secretary the previous day. On November 9, Kentucky Republican Representative Thomas Massie, 55, filed articles of impeachment against Hegseth, 46. Massie accused Hegseth of high crimes and misdemeanors, listing eight specific charges against him, including one for suppressing free speech and three for illegally waging war against Iran in violation of the War Powers Resolution.

Gutfeld mocked Hegseth for being “hard and unsentimental,” while poking fun at the scented candles at his former Fox News office. From 2017 to 2024, the defense secretary served as a co-host on the weekend edition of Fox & Friends.

Gutfeld said, If anybody deserved to be impeached, it was Pete Hegseth. Cause I want him back on Fox & Friends. You can’t find a hard, unsentimental guy than Pete,” the comic continued and added, “He has one speed only. And it’s go!”

Watch the whole thing below:

GREG IS OUTRAGED over the push to IMPEACH PETE HEGSETH!

“If anybody deserved to be impeached, it was Pete Hegseth.”@greggutfeld runs through Hegseth’s accomplishments as Defense Secretary — RECORD RECRUITMENT, military readiness, and major operations overseas.

So WHY does… pic.twitter.com/gwYbXdsK1A

— The Five (@TheFive) November 12, 2026

We know why the left is going after Hegseth.

He rejects everything they stand for.

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During an interview with Laura Ingraham of FOX News this week, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent explained that the administration is moving to ban migrants who are on government assistance from wiring money out of America into other countries.

Ingraham pointed out that there are examples of American tax dollars being used to support terrorist organizations overseas and Bessent concurred, agreeing that this is unacceptable.

It is amazing that it has taken this long to address this issue, but better late than never.

Breitbart News has more details:

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is banning migrants who are on government assistance from sending any U.S. dollars outside the country.

The secretary is making his move as part of a crackdown on ⁠federal social benefits abuses in Minnesota, which includes audits by the Internal Revenue Service on some banks under suspicion of money laundering.

Bessent has been concerned that money sent back to Somalia by the Somali community in Minnesota has ended up in the hands of the Muslim terror group al-Shabaab. Bessent has now suggested these funds — called remittances — should come under closer scrutiny.

“If you are wiring the money out of the country, one of two things must be true: you’re either getting too much money and your benefits must be cut, or you’re part of this conspiracy. Where did that money come from? We’re gonna find out,” Bessent said during an interview on Fox News.

“From now on, anyone who wires money out from one of these money service businesses has to check a box saying whether they are on public assistance,” he said.

“And if you are on public assistance, we are going to start pushing that you cannot wire money out of the country,” he added.

Watch the video below:

JUST IN: Sec. Scott Bessent is now moving to BAN anyone that receives government assistance from wiring money out of the country after Somali fraudsters were caught in Minnesota

“If you are wiring out of the country, you’re either getting TOO MUCH or you’re part of this… pic.twitter.com/CyaEtluTtj

— QUANTUM GUARD (@QuantumGuard17) November 11, 2026

America’s sense of charity has been abused for years.

It’s time for that to end.

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