Matt Gagnon discussed various news topics, including Elon Musk’s allegation that FEMA reimbursed New York City $59 million for housing illegal migrants, and the confirmation hearings for Tulsi Gabbard and RFK Jr. Gagnon highlighted a federal judge’s pause on Trump’s plan to offer buyouts to federal workers, criticizing public employee unions for delaying tactics. He argued that the buyout plan is a standard corporate practice and not an ultimatum. Callers discussed the inefficiencies in government, the challenges of federal workforce reductions, and the potential impact on essential services.
Thousands of flights across the U.S. were canceled or delayed Monday as powerful storms swept across the eastern half of the country and a partial government shutdown affecting airport security screeners dragged into a second month.
Days of downpours have begun in Hawaii. The Southwest will soon bake with day after day of record 100-degree-plus (38 Celsius-plus) heat. Two storms will dump snow by the foot over northern Great Lakes states. And the dreaded polar vortex will again invade the Midwest and East with soul-crushing Arctic chill. This forecast of extremes comes as weather whiplash has already hit much of the East.
An inflation gauge closely monitored by the Federal Reserve moved higher in January in the latest sign that prices were persistently elevated even before the Iran war caused spikes in oil and gas costs.
A man with a rifle who crashed into a large Michigan synagogue in what federal officials are saying was an attack had lost four family members in an Israeli airstrike in his native Lebanon last week, an official said Friday.
