Chapter 1: What pressures are businesses facing from anti-ICE protests?
Anti-ice agitators ratchet up the pressure on businesses to pick a side as protests continue to expand across the country.
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Chapter 2: How is the government shutdown impacting federal operations?
What kind of pressure are businesses now feeling with regards to federal law enforcement? Yeah, businesses that don't even have ties to ICE are under pressure to take an explicit stance against the agency. Target seems to be the main mark for demonstrators right now.
Over the weekend, similar to the protests that stormed into City's church, dozens of activists marched through Target's all over Minneapolis. Here's what some of that sounded like from Frontline's TPUSA.
People united will never be defeated. If we don't get it, shut it down. If we don't get it, shut it down.
Now, Target hasn't made any sort of show of support for ICE or commented one way or the other. So what do these protesters want them to do? They want it to get on the anti-ICE bandwagon. They want the company to publicly condemn ICE and ban agents from conducting operations on Target property or even entering stores.
Activists even went to Target headquarters in Minneapolis on Monday and called out its new CEO, Michael Fiddleke, who officially stepped into the top job on Sunday.
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Chapter 3: What frustrations are residents experiencing after Winter Storm Fern?
Now, the activist's approach seems to contrast pretty starkly with Tom Homan's. He arrived in Minneapolis last week but has kept pretty low profile this whole time. Do we have any sense of what progress he's made? Yeah, he hasn't been out in public much, and he said that that's because the kind of progress he is looking for is easier when it's done out of the public eye.
He did give a press conference late last week, though, and sounded optimistic. Here's some of that. This administration is absolutely focused on identifying removal aliens that pose a public safety threat and national security threats. You can't fix problems if you don't have discussions.
I will note a bit of irony here is that the anti-ICE activists and Tom Homan may actually be on the same page regarding Target. The border czar's message since the early days of last year has been that if state and local officials don't help the federal government enforce immigration law for dangerous illegal aliens,
then agents will be forced to go into places like Target to conduct its business. That kind of invasive action by ICE is much less necessary if local law enforcement cooperate. And that appears to be the kind of partnership Homan is attempting to set up in Minneapolis. Now, shifting gears a bit, ICE was a major theme at the Grammys on Sunday night.
And now some of the artists who made speeches are getting some backlash. What happened there? Right. As is typical for these award shows, the vast majority of the stars affirm the politics of the far left. And ice was the main punching bag on Sunday night.
A lot of stars were wearing special ice-out gear, and award winners frequently made anti-ice statements to a lot of loud applause from the audience. Here's what that sounded like from Billie Eilish. No one is illegal on stolen land. Yeah, it's just really hard to know what to say and what to do right now.
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Chapter 4: What caused the power outages in Nashville during Winter Storm Fern?
And I just, I feel really hopeful in this room and I feel like we just need to keep fighting and speaking up and protesting and our voices really do matter and the people matter. And I say, sorry. Now, if you're not watching the video and can't read lips, Eilish, during that brief pause in the audio, said something that sounds like duck ice.
Of course, Eilish took heat online for her comments with plenty of users on X pointing out that she doesn't appear too eager to turn over her $2.3 million horse ranch in Glendale over to any dispossessed owners of that land anytime soon. Tim, thanks for reporting.
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Lawmakers on Capitol Hill have been frantically working to end the government shutdown before its effects start to really be felt.
Joining us now with the latest is Daily Wire political reporter Cameron Arcand. Morning, Cameron. So let's start with the president. He waded into the shutdown yesterday to try to prevent hiccups in the House. What did he say?
So the president said no changes to the spending bill as it stands right now. As we saw over the weekend, the government did shut down, but the Senate was able to pass spending bills per an agreement between the White House and Chuck Schumer, basically saying, hey, we're going to separate Homeland Security funding.
We're going to pass a short-term solution to fund that department while we work out some possible restrictions onto immigration enforcement. But for now, he's telling the House, we don't want anything added. We want to get the government back open. So here's some of what the president said in a true social post.
He said there can be no changes at this time, saying he's working hard with Speaker Mike Johnson on this right now. Obviously, we could see an end to the shutdown today, but these situations can be very, very fluid.
The goal for the president is he wants this to get out of the House without it going back to the Senate, so that way the government can reopen and they can go back to these Homeland Security negotiations.
All right. So some real pressure now from the president to get this thing passed without further headaches. Obviously, this all started over a split on the funding for the Department of Homeland Security. You mentioned that. What can we expect with that debate going forward?
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