Civil war brewing among Democrats as Senate moves to end 40-day shutdown

The Senate is moving toward a test vote tonight to break a filibuster on a new GOP spending plan. This test vote is not to be underestimated. If the Senate breaks a filibuster on the test vote tonight, it’s likely the government shutdown is just a few days from ending.

Here’s what we expect:

Sometime between 8 and 10 pm EST, the Senate will take the test vote to break the filibuster on the revised GOP spending package. The revamped bill re-opens the government through at least January 30. That buys lawmakers time to work on individual spending bills. However, the package includes full spending bills until next fall for the Department of Agriculture, veterans and military construction programs plus Congress.

It’s about the math. Sixty yeas are needed to break a filibuster Republicans believe they can get a group of Democrats to side with them to at least break the filibuster.

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FOX is told to keep an eye on these senators who caucus with the Democrats: Sens. Tim Kaine, D-Va., Mark Warner, D-Va., Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., John Fetterman, D-Pa., Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., Angus King, I-Maine, and Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H. Also keep an eye on Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin, D-Ill., has expressed interest in opening the government.

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In addition, it is unclear if Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., could vote yes. Paul previously voted to block the old GOP funding plan. A potential yea or nay vote by Paul could determine how many Democrats are needed to break the filibuster. After all, it’s about the math.

Voting to break the filibuster does not necessarily mean that these senators would eventually vote for the underlying bill. However, Republicans can haul the freight on their own with a simple majority and won’t need any Democrats for final passage.

What happens if the Senate scores 60 yeas? By the book, it would take until NEXT weekend to get to a final vote on the bill. But that probably doesn’t happen.

There are two schools of thought:

One school says that Democrats are frustrated with one another and just want to get out of the Capitol. So it’s possible they could forge a time agreement and vote on final passage of the bill overnight tonight or maybe during the daylight hours on Monday.

The other school says Democrats are so mad over the health care capitulation that they require the Senate to burn significant time over the next few days and pass the bill mid-week.

Some Democrats are outraged that their colleagues may help out the GOP and re-open the government – without an ironclad agreement to re-up expiring Obamacare subsidies. This chasm will spark a Democratic civil war. House Democrats fumed at Senate Democrats for helping the GOP avoid a shutdown in March. This battle will only intensify between those who support the test vote tonight and those who were dug in on Obamacare.

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Moreover, it’s entirely possible that Democrats blocked government funding for 40 days – and their own party threw them under the bus without a solution to the Obamacare problem.

However, Democrats pushing for the Obamacare assistance may have lost the battle – but could yet win the war. They have successfully put the health care affordability issue on the radar and could force Republicans and President Trump to address it. If they don’t Democrats may have secured a crucial issue ahead of next year’s midterms.

Here’s another factor:

Some rank-and-file Democrats are fuming at Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. Liberals raged at Schumer when he sided with the GOP in the spring. Now some think Schumer overcorrected and went too far this time. This could have consequences for leadership elections down the road.

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So what changed for some Democrats?

The pressure of the shutdown was beginning to mount. It was a toxic combination of aviation delays (with the holidays looming), air traffic controllers off their jobs, federal workers missing paychecks, no distribution of SNAP benefits, Capitol Police officers and Congressional aides working without pay… you name it. Plus, some Democrats scored spending priorities important to them in the appropriations bills tacked on to the package. That’s what makes this measure different from the one which Democrats have blocked since late September. And, a new funding deadline of January 30 gives lawmakers the chance to finish the other spending bills and get their big asks into those bills. So, it was a combination of things which altered the equation.

Family member’s confession solves 63-year-old church murder of innocent girl

More than six decades after a 9-year-old girl was raped and murdered inside a Bucks County, Pennsylvania, church, investigators say they finally know who did it.

Bucks County District Attorney Jennifer Schorn announced that a grand jury investigation identified William Schrader as the man who killed Carol Ann Dougherty inside St. Mark’s Church in Bristol on Oct. 22, 1962.

The 53-page grand jury report concluded that Schrader alone was responsible for the killing, citing eyewitness testimony, forensic evidence and a newly verified confession from one of Schrader’s family members.

“For more than six decades, this tragic case has haunted the community and inflicted unimaginable pain on Carol Ann’s family,” Schorn said in a statement. “Despite the passage of time, the case was never forgotten and was consistently under review by law enforcement.” 

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During a news conference at the Bucks County Justice Center, on Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025, Dougherty’s sister, Kay Dougherty Talanca, teared up, sharing what the findings meant to her family. 

“Our family lived without answers and the uncertainty surrounding Carol’s death became a part of who we were,” Talanca said, according to 6ABC News.

“After so many decades of unknowing, this finding finally brings closure and truth to a wound that never healed.”

According to the grand jury’s findings, Dougherty was last seen riding her bicycle to the Bristol Borough Free Library after stopping for candy and a soda. When she failed to return home, her father discovered her body inside St. Mark’s Roman Catholic Church. Investigators determined she had been raped and strangled with a ligature.

At the time, Schrader, a local factory worker who lived a block and a half from the church, was questioned by police and provided a hair sample. He failed a polygraph test and investigators later determined that “he lied about his alibi, with timecards proving he was not at work on the day of the murder.”

Shortly after being questioned, Schrader “fled to Florida, where he lived for a year before bouncing around Texas and Louisiana, eventually settling in Houma, Louisiana, where he lived most of his life,” according to the release.

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Although Schrader died in 2002, the grand jury’s review included a 1993 forensic comparison showing “significant similarities” between Schrader’s hair sample and hair found clutched in Dougherty’s hand. Out of 141 men tested over the decades, only Schrader could not be eliminated as the source. The report also notes that Lucky Strike cigarettes found at the scene matched the brand Schrader “was known to smoke.”

A key development came in November 2024, when Schrader’s stepson, Robert Leblanc, told Bucks County investigators and Pennsylvania State Police that Schrader confessed on two occasions to murdering a little girl in a Pennsylvania church.

Leblanc told investigators that Schrader said he “had to kill the girl in Bristol to keep her from talking.”

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According to the grand jury report, “Leblanc had no prior knowledge of the case’s specific details… This makes his account highly credible, as the details he provided could only have come from a confession by the perpetrator.”

The grand jury also reviewed and eliminated other early suspects, including Frank Zuchero, Wayne Roach and Rev. Joseph Sabadish, finding that each was wrongly implicated during the early investigation. Zuchero’s “confession” was deemed unreliable, Roach was out of state and his hair sample did not match, and Sabadish’s initial lie about his whereabouts was determined to be unrelated to the crime.

The report describes Schrader’s “pattern of violence and sexual violence, particularly against young, pre-pubescent and adolescent females.” His criminal history, spanning multiple states, included assaults with deadly weapons and the 1985 conviction in Louisiana for the death of 12-year-old Catherine Smith, who died after Schrader “intentionally set fire to his house, knowing she and other family members were inside.”

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Further investigation revealed Schrader had “sexually abused nearly every female child he lived with or had access to, including his own biological daughter and granddaughters,” most between “the ages of six and 13.” He also “sexually abused two adult women who had cognitive delays such that they were lacking the ability to consent,” the grand jury report read.

Dr. Veronique Valliere, a clinical and forensic psychologist who testified before the grand jury, said the perpetrator was a “psychopath who had a deviant sexual arousal for prepubescent victims… incredibly impulsive, with little or no self-control, and comfortable with the high risk associated with these crimes.” She added that such offenders “often want to share or brag due to arrogance and grandiosity.”

The grand jury found her analysis “aligned precisely with the crime and the crime scene, and with Schrader’s behavior and his later confessions.”

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Investigators say the work of Bucks County detectives, Pennsylvania State Police and prosecutors has brought “a definitive conclusion to a case that has haunted this community for decades.”

In a statement, the Bucks County District Attorney’s Office said it hopes the long-awaited resolution “can finally bring a sense of peace to Carol Ann’s family and everyone affected by this tragic crime.”

“This case has haunted the Bristol Borough community for years,” Bristol Borough Police Chief Joe Moors said, according to USA Today. “(Investigators’) pursuit of the truth and teamwork finally delivered answers for Carol’s family and our community … Their pursuit of the truth finally delivered.”

Media boss admits ‘mistakes made’ as he resigns over Trump speech editing scandal

The BBC director-general resigned Sunday after the British broadcaster was criticized over editing a Trump speech that some said was misleading.

Tim Davie, 58, who has served as BBC director-general since September 2020, announced his resignation after five years leading the corporation. 

His exit follows growing controversy surrounding a BBC Panorama documentary about President Donald Trump’s Jan. 6, 2021, speech, delivered before the attack on the U.S. Capitol. 

Critics said the edit of the speech was misleading because it omitted a section where Trump urged supporters to protest peacefully.

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The speech at the heart of the dispute showed Trump telling supporters, “I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.”

The broadcast version of the BBC documentary reportedly excluded that line but retained “fight like hell.”

In a letter to staff, Davie said quitting the job “is entirely my decision.”

“Overall the BBC is delivering well, but there have been some mistakes made and as director-general I have to take ultimate responsibility,” Davie said.

He added that he was “working through exact timings with the board to allow for an orderly transition to a successor over the coming months,” he added.

Davie’s resignation came after Deborah Turness, head of BBC News and Current Affairs, also stepped down. 

Turness said the controversy over the Trump documentary “has reached a stage where it is causing damage to the BBC, an institution that I love. As the CEO of BBC News and Current Affairs, the buck stops with me,” she added.

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Trump reacted to the developments in a post on Truth Social on Sunday.

“The TOP people in the BBC, including TIM DAVIE, the BOSS, are all quitting/FIRED, because they were caught ‘doctoring’ my very good (PERFECT!) speech of January 6th,” the president wrote. “Thank you to The Telegraph for exposing these Corrupt ‘Journalists.’ These are very dishonest people who tried to step on the scales of a Presidential Election. On top of everything else, they are from a Foreign Country, one that many consider our Number One Ally. What a terrible thing for Democracy!”

Pressure had intensified after The Telegraph published excerpts from a whistleblower dossier compiled by Michael Prescott, a communications advisor hired by the BBC to review its editorial standards.

The documents criticized some aspects of BBC coverage, including the Trump edit, reporting on transgender issues and alleged anti-Israel bias in the BBC’s Arabic service.

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Trump’s press secretary Karoline Leavitt also described the BBC as “100% fake news” and a “propaganda machine” in an interview after allegations of bias at the broadcaster surfaced.

In an interview with The Telegraph she said: “This purposefully dishonest, selectively edited clip by the BBC is further evidence that they are total, 100% fake news that should no longer be worth the time on the television screens of the great people of the United Kingdom.”

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Leavitt also said watching BBC bulletins while on trips to the U.K. “ruins” her day, saying taxpayers were being “forced to foot the bill for a leftist propaganda machine.”

Fox News Digital has reached out to the BBC and the White House for comment.

Trump makes bold prediction in NFL booth during Commanders’ drive vs Lions

President Donald Trump stepped into the FOX booth in between legendary play-by-play man Kenny Albert and analyst Jonathan Vilma during the Washington Commanders’ game against the Detroit Lions.

Commanders quarterback Marcus Mariota drove down the field to get Washington in the red zone.

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“I think this is a very important couple of plays,” Trump said as Mariota took the snap on 2nd-and-7 from the Lions’ 9-yard line. “… They have to get a touchdown. Let’s put it differently. They just have to get a touchdown. Forget about the play.”

Washington scored two plays later when Mariota threw a 4-yard touchdown pass to Deebo Samuel. The Commanders failed to make the 2-point conversion and were down 16 points to the Lions.

Trump was at Northwest Stadium for the NFL’s “Salute to Service” festivities. He read off names of enlistees into the U.S. military. He was the first sitting president to attend a regular-season game since President Jimmy Carter did it in 1978.

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Albert mentioned to Trump that Carter’s attendance came on the same day Bucky Dent etched his name into the annals of history between the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox.

Trump has been at a few major sporting events since he was inaugurated for his second term, including the Super Bowl, Daytona 500, the U.S. Open and the Ryder Cup.

“I just love it. It’s a microcosm of life,” he said of sports. “It’s sort of like life. The good the bad and the ugly.”

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Air Force One flew over Northwest Stadium before landing at Joint Base Andrews. Trump arrived just before halftime of the game.

Bill Belichick’s girlfriend flaunts ‘Banned’ jewelry as Tar Heels silence critics

Jordon Hudson was spotted on the sideline of the North Carolina Tar Heels’ 20-15 win over the Stanford Cardinal with a message around her neck.

Hudson’s glistening necklace read, “Banned.”

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Controversy swirled around Hudson and head coach Bill Belichick since the two arrived at the program. The spotlight increased after a disastrous interview with CBS to promote the legendary coach’s book. A report surfaced in May about Hudson allegedly being barred from the program.

However, North Carolina athletic director Bubba Cunningham denied that Hudson was prohibited from the stadium and the facility. It became more evident when Hudson greeted her boyfriend during the Tar Heels’ first game of the season in Chapel Hill.

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Hudson appears to have the upper hand now against the detractors as North Carolina’s season has not spiraled out of control. Instead, North Carolina moved to 4-5 on the season following the win over Stanford.

The Tar Heels also had a big win against the Syracuse Orange and were nearly victories against the California Golden Bears and Virginia Cavaliers.

North Carolina quarterback Gio Lopez was 18-of-25 with 203 passing yards and two touchdown passes. He had a 55-yard touchdown pass to Jordan Shipp, who led the Tar Heels with five catches for 83 yards.

“Good win,” Belichick said. “Good to win at home. Always good to win at home. Proud of our team.”

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North Carolina has three games left on its schedule with Wake Forest, Duke and North Carolina State left to play.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

DAVID MARCUS: NYC braces for eight-year sentence as billionaires bow to leftist mayor

It was a rude awakening for some young, bright-eyed, bushy-tailed socialists in New York City last week, as they arrived at the Zohran Mamdani victory party in Brooklyn to discover that a Bud Light cost a whopping $13. I mean, what kind of socialist utopia is that?

In fact, the pricey suds are probably quite indicative of the impact that Zany Zohran’s policies will have across Gotham. It will almost certainly be more carnival of errors than clinical communist takeover, making New York City more expensive and less attractive, but with snazzy Soviet-style posters and TikTok videos.

And guess what? Even if crime skyrockets because Mamdani hates cops, buses still aren’t free, rents continue to go up and the city becomes more divided than ever – Mamdani will be a two-term mayor.

There’s no Republican Rudy Giuliani 2.0 waiting in the wings, and even if there was, this electorate wouldn’t pick him.

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In the days prior to the election, I traveled around the five boroughs and found that among moderate and conservative New Yorkers there was no fear of apocalypse regarding Mamdani, even as billionaires, politicians and editorial boards scolded them for not lining up behind Andrew Cuomo to “save the city.”

“I don’t even go to Manhattan,” Steve, a lifelong Bay Ridge, Brooklyn resident, told me. “I’ve got everything I need right here.”

In Steve’s almost half a century in the blue-collar nabe where cops live and the mafia used to roam, he’s seen it survive not only under the disastrous leadership of former socialist Mayor Bill de Blasio, but the even worse old days of David Dinkins.

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Like The Dude in “The Big Lebowski,” this and so many hard working areas of New York City will abide. Other parts of the city, where gang crime, drug dealing and vagrancy fester, will get worse and worse, but such places are easily ignored by champagne socialists.

Another reason why Mamdani should have smooth sailing into a second term is that his base is transplants, young adults in their 20s and 30s who come to New York City to live it up, knowing full well that they will settle down somewhere else. To them, a little crime might as well be the mustard on a Nathan’s hot dog.

Ultimately, the reason that Gotham is looking at an eight-year sentence of Zohran’s socialist leadership is that the Republican Party, from the national, state and even city level, simply refuses to even try to compete.

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Some of this dates back to Michael Bloomberg, who cynically ran as a Republican in 2002 to win the mayor’s race and then abruptly became an Independent, all but making the GOP a third party, clinging to its one competitive congressional seat and a few city council slots.

Maybe it is hopeless for Republicans in Gotham. Maybe things will never get bad enough again, for everybody, that a new Rudy can emerge, and given how the original is treated today, who would want to be that person, anyway?

No matter how bad it gets, the city will blame Presidnt Donald Trump. Or Vice President JD Vance. Or racism, Islamophobia or whatever they can think of. Not for nothing, they’d have re-elected De Blasio if they could’ve.

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Note how the billionaires are now changing their tune, pledging to work with Mamdani, begging for meetings with their new commie mayor. Gone is the gnashing of teeth and wailing of wails over the death of New York City.

Right-leaning Gothamites never bought all the Sturm und Drang anyway, and they sure as hell don’t let rich guys tell them how to vote.

If there is any hope for the GOP to make a comeback in New York City, they better get started now, because with rank-choice primary voting there isn’t a moderate Democrat in the universe, to the extent they still exist, who could topple Zohran.

Elections have consequences, and for the next eight years, at least, in New York City the consequence is socialism. Like sitting at a two-hour recital after your kid has already performed, they’ll have to sit through the whole thing.

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Those $13 dollar Bud Lights will be the least of it.

Buckle up, Gotham, it’s gonna be a bumpy ride, and if there is any Republican other than Curtis Sliwa who will stand up against socialism, they should say so now, or they may truly, forever hold their peace.

101-year-old survivor of Nazi terror warns of frightening parallels in today’s climate

Eighty-seven years after surviving the terror of Kristallnacht, a 101-year-old Holocaust survivor says the world today feels alarmingly similar to Nazi Germany in 1938.

Walter Bingham was 14 years old when Nazis and other Germans attacked Jewish businesses, stores, homes and places of worship.

During Kristallnacht, commonly referred to as the “Night of Broken Glass,” Nazis burned more than 1,400 synagogues, vandalized thousands of Jewish-owned businesses, broke into Jewish people’s apartments and homes, and desecrated Jewish religious objects, according to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Roughly 26,000 men were also arrested and placed in concentration camps because they were Jewish.

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Bingham, 101, told The Associated Press that the current climate against Jews and the rising instances of antisemitism in the wake of the Israel-Hamas war are reminiscent of those dark times.

“We live in an era equivalent to 1938, where synagogues are burned, and people in the street are attacked,” he said.

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A synagogue in Manchester was the target of a deadly terrorist attack on Yom Kippur in October when a man rammed a car into worshippers and stabbed victims outside the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation, killing two Jewish men.

A synagogue in Melbourne, Australia, was also set ablaze last year in an act that was condemned as an antisemitic attack by the country’s prime minister.

In 2024, the Anti-Defamation League reported 9,354 antisemitic incidents across the United States — a 5% increase from 2023, a 344% increase over the past five years, and an 893% increase over the past decade.

“Antisemitism, I don’t think, will ever fully disappear because it’s the panacea for all ills of the world,” Bingham told The Associated Press.

He said living in today’s climate feels eerily similar to Germany before the war, but he sees one important distinction.

“In those days, the Jewish mentality was apologetic,” Bingham explained. “Please don’t do anything to me, I won’t do anything to you.”

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“Today, we have, thank God, the state of Israel, a very strong state,” he said. “And whereas antisemitism is still on the increase, the one thing that will not happen would be a Holocaust, because the state will see to it” that doesn’t happen.

Alex Winter admits fame left him fractured after years of sexual abuse

“Bill & Ted” star Alex Winter would not have been OK if he had not escaped the pitfalls of show business.

During an interview with The Guardian, Winter — who currently stars on Broadway with his “Bill & Ted” costar Keanu Reeves in “Waiting for Godot” — opened up about the downfalls of finding success at an early age, and explained how years of sexual abuse and trauma pushed him to leave Hollywood and start a new life.

For most of his teenage years, Winter — who made his Broadway debut at 12 years old — worked tirelessly both onstage and off. In 1987, he landed his breakthrough memorable role as Marko in the vampire film “The Lost Boys,” and two years later, played Bill S. Preston in the comedy “Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure.”

He moved to Los Angeles a year short of graduating from NYU film school and began shifting his focus to behind-the-scenes work – including directing music videos and commercials – and co-writing various TV hits.

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By 26 years old, however, he was “fried,” and needed an escape.

“I just wanted to get the hell out of the public eye, and just be on the tube, going to my office in Soho and start a family,” said Winter, who shifted his focus to directing and filming documentaries.

“My career is where I want it, which is that I have the ability to do whatever interests me the most,” he added. “But I would not have been OK had I not split.”

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In 2018, Winter opened up about being sexually abused by an unnamed adult who, he said, has since died.

Three years into his career as a teenager, Winter was sharing a Broadway stage with Yul Brynner in “The King and I,” but was “dealing with really intense and prolonged abuse,” he told The Guardian in 2020.

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“There was ‘The King and I’ – eight shows a week, happy face – feeling genuinely happy in that role. Great relationship with my mom and dad; great relationship with the co-workers around me; doing interviews, signing autographs, living this amazing … and then this nightmarish other existence,” he said at the time.

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“I had extreme PTSD [post-traumatic stress disorder] for many, many years, and that will wreak havoc on you. It’s a way in which you relate to the world around you and to yourself, and it’s very nuanced, but you can become very fractured. So you slowly compartmentalize. You keep this thing over here, you keep that thing over there, and you don’t have any natural equilibrium. That fracturing just gets worse and worse and worse.”

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“By your mid-20s, it’s like you’re holding those different selves together with duct tape. That’s when you see kids overdosing or blowing their heads off. In my case, I was just like, I need to stop doing this thing where these eyes are on me all the time and I don’t feel safe or comfortable … I just want to go ride the subway and help raise a family and do my writing and directing.”

Winter previously said children will undoubtedly face “psychological repercussions” if put into high-pressured situations within Hollywood.

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“Statistically, putting a child into a high-pressure, adultified environment, there are going to be psychological repercussions and family dynamic repercussions for all of the members of the family involved in that experience, not just the kid,” he said in 2020.

“It’s unavoidable. If you put your kid in the business or you allow your kid to enter the business, you have to understand that there will 100% be consequences. Those could be incredibly severe; they could be fatal; they could be minor. But absolutely there will be consequences.”

Trump vows $2K dividend funded by tariff revenue as the Supreme Court hears trade case

President Donald Trump said Sunday that people who do not support tariffs are “fools” and vowed to use the revenue generated from duties to fund a $2,000 dividend for Americans.

“People that are against tariffs are FOOLS! We are now the richest, most respected country in the world, with almost no inflation and a record stock market price,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post. “A dividend of at least $2000 a person (not including high-income people!) will be paid to everyone,” he added.

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Trump also said that due to his economic agenda, manufacturing plants and factories are seeing “record investment.” He also said that the U.S. will soon begin “paying down our ENORMOUS DEBT,” which is currently hovering just north of $38 trillion, according to the latest numbers published by the Treasury Department.

Since Trump announced his “Liberation Day” tariffs in April, tariff revenues have climbed sharply from $23.9 billion in May to $28 billion in June and $29 billion in July. Total duty revenue reached $215.2 billion in fiscal year 2025, which ended Sept. 30, according to the Treasury Department’s “Customs and Certain Excise Taxes” report. 

So far in fiscal year 2026, which began on Oct. 1, the U.S. has collected $35.9 billion.

Trump’s remarks came amid renewed legal scrutiny of his trade policies, as the Supreme Court last week began hearing oral arguments on whether Trump has authority under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to impose tariffs and whether those actions violate the Constitution’s separation of powers.

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A federal appeals court ruled on Aug. 29 that Trump overstepped his authority by using emergency powers to impose new tariffs on imported goods. The lower court said that power lies squarely with Congress or within existing trade policy frameworks. Now, the nation’s highest court will decide the fate of Trump’s trade agenda.

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The White House has previously defended Trump’s tariffs as a legitimate use of presidential powers to protect the economy, in a statement to Fox News Digital. 

“We look forward to ultimate victory on this matter with the Supreme Court,” wrote White House spokesperson Kush Desai, ahead of the oral arguments at the Supreme Court.