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The Trump administration’s significant budget cuts to the National Weather Service have pushed the agency “to its limits,” according to a new report from the Washington Post, leaving many experts to fear that the agency may very well be unable to perform its most basic functions.

“They’re going to run out of gas,” said John Sokich, who worked for the NWS for close to five decades before retiring this year, speaking with the Washington Post in its report published Saturday. “They’re going to start missing things. They can’t sustain that level of effort for much longer. You just can’t sprint a mile.”

Multiple economists laid into President Donald Trump Saturday for his “fuzzy math” cited alongside his many lofty promises or supposed achievements, including one who called Trump’s cited figures “meaningless.”

Speaking with Axios in a report published Saturday, Wayne Winegarden, a senior fellow in business and economics at Pacific Research Institute, took a dive into Trump’s staggering claim that his tariff policy was generating $17 trillion in revenue.

Radio and television personality Billy Bush, who in 2005 was featured alongside President Donald Trump in the infamous Access Hollywood tape that saw Trump brag about grabbing women “by the p----,” said that a trove of still unseen videos exist but are currently in the possession of a wealthy television producer.

Speaking on the Jim Acosta Show Thursday, Bush provided details as to how and why the Access Hollywood tape was initially obtained, and how evidence exists that far more yet-unseen videos still exist.

The White House was rife with internal squabbles about how far to go in pursuing Donald Trump’s perceived enemies, which left Attorney General Pam Bondi unhappy with the pressure coming from all sides.

According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, there are plenty of insiders who are unsure about the Department of Justice pursuing cases that they feel won’t survive in the courts as well as worries about ethical concerns.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) agreed with liberal Call To Activism host Joe Gallina that House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is obstructing the confirmation of newly-elected Rep. Adelita Grijalva (D-AZ) to stave off the final vote on the bipartisan discharge petition to compel the release of the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case files.

Johnson plans not to bring back lawmakers throughout next week to conduct business, and while observers suspect delaying an Epstein vote is the main cause, another potential side effect is dragging out a potential government shutdown.

Amid rising concerns over US President Donald Trump’s authoritarianism, including attacks on the media, press freedom advocates on Friday celebrated the dismissal of some federal charges against a journalist indicted during the Biden administration.

“This ruling is a significant victory for free expression and press freedom, and it will help restore confidence that journalists, researchers, and members of the public are not breaking federal law simply by accessing or reviewing streaming information,” said Bobby Block, executive director of the Florida First Amendment Foundation, which had filed an amicus brief with other advocacy groups.

Americans in the largest health insurance market could see their premiums double in price virtually overnight, depending on what Congress does over the next few days.

Politico reported Friday that hundreds of thousands of people in California could see a significant spike in their health insurance premiums at the end of the month, due to the possibility of both a federal government shutdown and a funding bill being passed without an extension of Affordable Care Act (ACA, or Obamacare) subsidies. When open enrollment begins in November, those buying health insurance in the Golden State could experience significant sticker shock should those subsidies not be renewed.

The Justice Department issued a subpoena for the travel records of Fani Willis, the district attorney in Fulton County, Georgia, who pursued a racketeering case against President Donald Trump, according to a report.

The New York Times reported the revelation late Friday, citing a federal grand jury subpoena. Investigators sought documents related to Willis's trip abroad around the time of the 2024 election, the Times reported. The scope of the investigation wasn't immediately known, nor was it clear whether Willis was the target of the inquiry or whether she would face charges.

An immigration expert accused the Department of Homeland Security of making defamatory statements against a pair of men whom the agency made out to have committed a shooting, when they actually were just careless at a makeshift gun range.

"Two of the MONSTERS who opened fire on a children’s baseball field in Katy, Texas, gained status and even U.S. citizenship under the Biden Administration," stated a post to X by the official DHS account, including head shots of the two men. "Mustafa Mohammad Matalgah and Ahmad Mawed ruthlessly opened fire hitting the team’s coach while he was leading a prayer. These individuals should never have been allowed into our country. Under @POTUS Trump, and @Sec_Noem we are working to prevent attacks like these from ever happening again."

Mike Lindell, CEO of MyPillow, lost a significant court ruling Friday when a judge rejected his bid to avoid a defamation trial regarding his claims that voting machine company Smartmatic stole the 2020 election.

Lindell will now have to face trial over his statements about Smartmatic and the election.

Geoffrey Ingersoll, an editor-at-large of the far-right news outlet The Daily Caller, recently published an op-ed entitled: "Enough Is Enough ... I Choose VIOLENCE!"

Ingersoll argued that there was a "need to reinstitute a public debt for anti-social and subversive behavior" and that "some of this cost needs to be summary and ultra-violent." He further opined that violence was necessary and justified as he believed law enforcement is too slow to act, saying "we’ve always known no one is coming to help us." As an example, he pointed to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who recently dismissed charges against a woman who punched a conservative provocateur on camera.

A Republican told CNN viewers Friday evening that criticism among big-name conservative voices is "meaningful in the world of normal Republicans" — but chided them for "glossing over" President Donald Trump's move to direct the Justice Department to act on political retribution.

Conservative Margaret Hoover joined Erin Burnett's "OutFront" to discuss comments made this week by Kimberley Ann Strassel, a member of the Wall Street Journal editorial board, and Andrew McCarthy, a former federal prosecutor who wrote a book criticizing the Russia investigation.

Congressional lawmakers just gave a "stark" indication they believe the federal government is careening toward a shutdown, according to a new report.

Axios reported Friday evening that several congressional trips that were scheduled for next week have since been canceled due to the looming shutdown at midnight Sept. 30. Science, Space and Technology Committee members planned to visit New Mexico's Los Alamos and Sandia National Laboratories, two sources told the outlet.