Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Thursday rebuffed Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker’s (D) request for her department to pause all federal immigration enforcement actions in Chicago over the Halloween weekend. “We’re absolutely not willing to put on pause any work that we will do to keep communities safe,” she told reporters. “The fact that Gov. Pritzker is asking for that is shameful and, I think, unfortunate that he doesn’t recognize how important the work is that we do to make sure we’re br

C-SPAN on Instagram: "Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) on Wednesday noted that the ongoing government shutdown has now become the second-longest in U.S. history, laying the blame on Senate Democrats. “While it’s already been, as we noted yesterday, the longest full government shutdown in history, Oct. 22 marks another landmark,” he told reporters at his daily press conference. “This is now the second-longest government shutdown of any kind ever in the history of our country, and it’s just shameful. D