BREAKING: Karoline Leavitt Joining Fox News

Joe DePaolo

Oct 5th, 2026, 9:10 am

In a development that will come as a surprise to very few media observers, former White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt is joining Fox News.

According to The New York Times and confirmed by Mediaite, Leavitt is joining the network as an on-air contributor. She is expected to start on Nov. 1. An official announcement from the network is expected shortly.

“Karoline’s firsthand experience in the White House and on the presidential campaign trail gives her a distinct understanding of today’s political landscape,” Suzanne Scott, Fox News Media CEO, said in a statement published by the Times.

In a statement of her own published by the Times, Leavitt vowed to provide “the unique perspective and candor that defined my tenure with the Trump administration” in her new role.

Leavitt will join Dana Perino and Kayleigh McEnany as former White House press secretaries on the Fox News roster.

The move comes at a time when Leavitt’s former boss, President Donald Trump, has lodged numerous complaints about Fox. In a Sunday morning post, the president complained about the network not covering his recent rallies to the degree he would like.

“Fox spends more time talking to Communists, Socialists, and Dumocrats, often without rebuttal, and MAGA is not, to put it mildly, happy,” Trump wrote.

But now, in Leavitt, he figures to have an extremely high-profile new surrogate.

This story is breaking.

https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/breaking-karoline-leavitt-joining-fox-news/

POLITICS & POLICY

Trump tells South Korea to sign on to Alaska LNG deal or ‘I’ll just charge them more’

PUBLISHED SUN, OCT 4 20268:47 PM EDT

KEY POINTS

• Trump said if South Korea does not sign on to the $50 billion Alaska LNG project he will charge them more or “double it up,” without specifying what would be doubled.

• South Korea has said it is still assessing the Alaska project, with participation dependent on commercial viability and compliance with domestic legal procedures.

• Trump also announced an $8.4 billion oil recovery project that South Korean local media reported was not part of the countries’ agreement, citing Seoul’s industry ministry.

U.S. President Donald Trump said he “didn’t jump the gun” in announcing South Korea’s participation in a $50 billion Alaska LNG project, warning Seoul could pay “double” if it does not sign on soon.

His remarks come amid a discrepancy..

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/05/trump-alaska-lng-south-korea-pay.html

President Trump’s Drive to Oklahoma Was a Historic Event

Due to bad weather on Thursday, President Trump’s helicopter was grounded and he decided to drive from Texas to Oklahoma.

https://joehoft.com/president-trumps-drive-oklahoma-was-historic-event/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=president-trumps-drive-oklahoma-was-historic-event

Illegal Families Given $100k: Report Reveals ‘Shadow Welfare System’ This State Uses to Fund Illegals

By Michael Austin, The Western Journal Oct. 5, 2026

While California is already notorious for having a massive welfare state — accompanied by massive amounts of welfare fraud — a new report revealed the extent to which California handouts bankroll illegal aliens.

The report from City Journal fellow Christopher Rufo, joined by Kenneth Schrupp and Austen Hufford, even described the programs as a “shadow welfare system.”

Among other benefits, foreigners can receive “health care, rental assistance, college grants, tax credits, low-cost car insurance, and even smartphones on the taxpayers’ dime,”the report said.

The team from the City Journal visited four welfare offices in California — where employees admitted that illegal aliens can receive the benefits, or accept benefits on behalf of their children.

That spending amounted to $11 billion of subsidies for illegal aliens in the previous fiscal year alone.

“If you were born here and the child was born here, you get money for two,” a welfare officer in Los Angelessaid of CalWORKS, which provides short-term cash assistance to families.

“Because she is not and the child is, she only gets money for the child, and not for her.”

According to the City Journal, a family with two parents who are illegal aliens, two children born in the United States, and one grandparent in the country illegally can rake in $100,000 of welfare per year.

Even though “federal law generally prohibits states from using federal dollars to serve illegal aliens,” the City Journal noted that “to dodge those restrictions, California created parallel state- and locally funded programs that allowed the state to extend benefits to illegal immigrants.”

For instance, while Medicaid funds cannot provide wraparound coverage for illegal aliens, California used “a state-funding ‘bucket’ within its Medi-Cal program to extend ‘full-scope’ coverage to illegal aliens.”

“The expansions enrolled some 1.7 million people, costing the state an estimated $10 billion annually — more than twice what the state legislative analyst originally projected,” the report added.

California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, a likely presidential contender in the 2028 election cycle, has signed expansions of welfare programs for illegal aliens.

The report noted that one in four California residents are foreign-born — and suggested that generous benefits for foreigners may help to explain the trend.

Democratic states have been criticized not only for refusing to cooperate with federal immigration authorities, but also for offering benefits to illegal aliens that encourage more illegal entries.

“This model — permissive rules and large loopholes — costs the state billions per year,” the report added.

“As benefits and eligibility continue to expand, that figure will only increase in the years ahead.”

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/10/illegal-families-given-100k-report-reveals-shadow-welfare/

Celebrity Chef Responds to the Left’s Racist ‘Uncle Tom’ Backlash to Him Cooking with RFK JR: ‘I Don’t Give a…’

Michael Austin, The Western Journal Oct. 5, 2026

Andre Rush, a celebrity chef who worked in the White House for four administrations, recently appeared on a cooking promotion with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

But the Army veteran who cooked for Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump faced widespread left-wing backlashfor daring to appear with a member of the second Trump administration.

The point of the cooking show was not to promote partisan policy, but to encourage healthy eating and lifestyle choices.

Rush addressed his detractors in avideo posted by Kennedy, who said that promoting healthy food and healthy children “are not Democratic or Republican issues.”

“That video made me lose 20,000 followers,” Rush revealed.

“And you know what? That’s perfectly fine with me,” he added. “I was getting called words like ‘Uncle Tom,’ sellout, and disappointed.”

Rush noted that the “Uncle Tom” accusation mostly came from other black people.

“First off, I smile at that. Know what it actually means instead of going off what everybody else says,” he advised.

“And as far as all the ones who came to me and said ‘I’m disappointed in you,’ I don’t give a f***,” Rush answered. “I don’t even know who you are, where you are, and it’s the only time you show up in my DMs.”

Rush detailed the hardships he has experienced in his life — childhood poverty, losing loved ones to suicide, and mental health struggles of his own — and used them to blow off unsolicited remarks from social media users.

“I don’t care if you’re black, white, how much money you have — even the n-word you call me — I’ll still save your life. I’ll still pick you up. I’ll still uprise you,” he reacted. “It’s just that simple.”

Rush reflected on how he helps people cook healthy food because he believes that is God’s purpose for his life.

“Keep doing what you’re doing. God bless,” he concluded the video. “God knows I’m not the best person in the world.”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/10/celebrity-chef-responds-lefts-racist-uncle-tom-backlash/

HERE WE GO AGAIN: 93% of Senate Polls in Iowa, Michigan and Ohio Overstate Democrat Voters — Average Miss of 6.2 Points Just 33 Days Before Election!. 1/2

By Jim Hᴏft Oct. 5, 2026

The polling industry is running the same play it has run for three straight cycles, and a new breakdown of the historical record shows exactly how often that play has been wrong.

Echelon Insights pollster Patrick Ruffini, writing at The Intersection, released an infographic this week measuring Democratic two-party Senate polling averages in Iowa, Michigan, and Ohio across 2018–2024, taken at the same point on the calendar we are sitting on now, 33 days before Election Day. The dotted line on his chart is today’s point in the 2026 cycle.

The result is brutal for the people still treating late-September surveys as prophecy.

93 percent of the polls overstated the Democrat. The average miss at 33 days out was D+6.2 points. In midterm years alone, the average miss was D+6.6 points.

Ruffini pulled the numbers from the FiveThirtyEight archive, stripped partisan house effects, and lined them up against certified results from the MIT Election Lab. He posted the chart on October 1.

The races the media wrote off tell the story:

Iowa, 2020 — Greenfield (D) vs. Ernst (R): Polls at 33 days had Democrat Theresa Greenfield up 2.4. Sen. Joni Ernst won by 6.8.

Iowa, 2022 — Franken (D) vs. Grassley (R): Already R+7.7 at 33 days. Sen. Chuck Grassley finished R+12.2.

Michigan, 2018 — Stabenow (D) vs. James (R): Polls had Debbie Stabenow up 14.0. She won by 6.6.

Michigan, 2020 — Peters (D) vs. James (R): D+6.5 in the polls. Gary Peters won by 1.7.

Michigan, 2024 — Slotkin (D) vs. Rogers (R): D+5.5 at 33 days. Elissa Slotkin scraped by Mike Rogers by 0.3.

Ohio, 2018 — Brown (D) vs. Renacci (R): Sherrod Brown was up 16.3 in the polls. He won by 6.8.

Ohio, 2022 — Ryan (D) vs. Vance (R): Tim Ryan was essentially tied to slightly behind. JD Vance won by 6.1.

Ohio, 2024 — Brown (D) vs. Moreno (R): Polls had Brown up 0.4. Bernie Moreno beat him by 3.8.

That is the pattern. Democrats look alive, sometimes comfortably ahead, five weeks out in the industrial Midwest.

Then the electorate shows up and the Republican wins, or the Democrat’s “landslide” collapses into a squeaker. Ernst was supposed to be in trouble. Moreno was supposed to lose to a three-term incumbent. Both are in the Senate.

Ruffini had already flagged the broader problem in August. Across 3,312 Senate polls from 2018, 2020, 2022 and 2024, the average error was D+3.7, 73 percent of individual polls overstated the Democrat, and the miss peaked around D+5.9 in late July before narrowing toward Election Day.

His Substack on that review is here. The October 1 chart, focused on the three states that keep deciding these cycles, is here.

NRSC National Press Secretary Bernadette Breslin did not bother with the soft version.

“Democrats should think twice before relying too heavily on the same rosy polling that has historically written Republicans off cycle after cycle, only to be proven wrong come Election Day,” Breslin said, amplifying the findings.

Michigan already supplied a fresh exhibit, and it was not even a general election. In the August 4 Democratic Senate primary, polls had socialist Abdul El-Sayed, the Bernie Sanders-backed former Wayne County health director, leading Rep. Haley Stevens by double digits.

The Washington Post reported the industry overestimated his lead by about 12 points. He won by roughly a point.

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https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/10/here-we-go-again-93-senate-polls-iowa/

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The New York Times and National Review both walked through the miss: primary pollsters guessed wrong on who would actually show up, and the enthusiastic online left took the surveys while working-class and Black Democrats in Detroit, Saginaw and the rural counties voted for Stevens.

That is the same El-Sayed now being sold as neck-and-neck with Republican Mike Rogers for the open Michigan seat. The same Rogers who lost to Slotkin by three-tenths of a point after the polls had him down more than five.

The Gateway Pundit has been on this for years. In September, CNN chief data analyst Harry Enten warned on air that the polls underestimated Republicans in four of the last six elections, including a 3-point Senate miss in 2024, and showed what a 2-to-4-point GOP overperformance would do to the 2026 map, Michigan flips, Ohio and Iowa stay red, and the Democratic Senate dream goes into Lake Erie.

In 2024, pollster John McLaughlin told Just the News the surveys pumping up Kamala Harris were oversampling Democrats on purpose.

Enten has also undercut the media’s favorite 2026 story, the supposed enthusiasm gap. CNN’s own data put Democrats and MAGA Republicans at the same place: 71 percent of each group say they are certain to vote. Enten’s word for it was “simpatico.”

On a red-leaning Senate map where registered Republicans already outnumber registered Democrats in the states that matter, parity in the base is not the blue wave the cable panels have been selling.

President Trump said the quiet part at his Ohio rally this weekend, campaigning for Sen. John Husted against Brown’s comeback bid and for Vivek Ramaswamy: the polls have always underestimated MAGA.

They tried it in 2016. They tried it in 2020. They tried it in 2022. They tried it in 2024, when he won every swing state. They are trying it again, 33 days out, in the same three states, with the same error bar.

Voters who remember Ernst, Vance, and Moreno do not need another panel of experts to explain what comes next.

On Sunday, President Trump told supporters that Republicans are going to “win big” against the Democrats in November and “shove it up their ass.”

“The Polls have ALWAYS underestimated MAGA. They try to suppress the Vote, but I won all 7 Swing States, the Popular Vote, 86% of Counties, and 99% of Primaries this year. I AM ON THE BALLOT! President DONALD J. TRUMP

From Dick Morris: “Since November of 2025 in monthly polls by McLaughlin, your job approval rating has always been between 47 and 50 percent. I have never seen anything like that in fifty years of polling. Almost every politician sees his numbers rise and fall each month but not you.

You won the election in 2024 with 49.8 percent of the popular vote and the latest McLaughlin Poll, taken this month, has your job approval at 49% – the exact same as your vote share. No other political figure has ever had this level of consistency in his ratings.

Through the Iran War and gas price rises and falls, your job approval is the same. It never changes. And 49% is enough to win – look at how that level of vote won in 2024!In the same Mclaughlin Poll, the generic ballot is 50-48 Democrat. That is also enough to keep the House Republican. Past history indicates that anything less than a four point margin for Democrats likely points to a Republican House victory. And almost all polls are showing Republican gains in the generic ballot.”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/10/here-we-go-again-93-senate-polls-iowa/

Five Black Children Treated Like ‘Slaves’ by Adoptive Parents Win $4.4 Million Settlement After CPS Failed to Protect Them Despite Repeated Warnings

By Jim Hᴏft Oct. 5, 2026

Five Black children who endured years of horrific abuse at the hands of their White adoptive parents will receive a $4.4 million settlement from the state of West Virginia after Child Protective Services allegedly failed to properly respond to repeated warnings about their welfare.

Kanawha County Circuit Judge Maryclaire Akers approved the $4.4 million settlement on Tuesday, September 29, resolving claims stemming from the state child-welfare system’s handling of reports involving Jeanne Kay Whitefeather and Donald Ray Lantz.

The children were subjected to forced labor, confinement, deprivation, and racist abuse while living under the couple’s control.

According to the Daily Mail, thefive children will now share the multimillion-dollar payout following the nightmare they endured.

According to the news outlet:

It comes more than one year after Whitefeather and Lantz were sentenced to serve decades behind bars for their treatment of the children.

Whitefeather is now serving 215 years in prison, with at least 40 years behind bars before she is eligible for parole.

Lantz, meanwhile, was sentenced to 160 years in prison but must spend at least 30 behind bars before parole eligibility. They were both also ordered to pay $280,000 in restitution to their five children.

The children were found by authorities in October 2023 locked in a shed at the couple’s Sissonville home with no lights, food or running water, and a camera recording them.

Whitefeather had claimed that the children were not being held against their will and that the shed was used as a ‘teenage clubhouse’ but detectives found that the kids were locked in from the outside.

After authorities found the three older children locked in the shed, they discovered a nine-year-old girl locked inside the main house.

The children had poor body odor and were found wearing dirty clothes with sores on their feet.

West Virginia Watch reported that neighbors repeatedly contacted CPS with concerns about the children, yet authorities did not rescue them until law enforcement became involved in October 2023.

Attorney Dante’ diTrapano, who represented the children, said there were numerous calls from concerned neighbors but apparently only one CPS visit.

West Virginia Watch previously found that the state Department of Human Services could not produce documentation showing CPS had actually made contact with the children while a referral describing “slave-like” conditions was active.

Evidence presented during the criminal trial later showed that a CPS worker had apparently left a card at the family’s residence.

Even more disturbing, according to diTrapano, when CPS eventually interviewed the children, the questioning was conducted within earshot of Whitefeather and Lantz, the very people accused of terrorizing them.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/10/five-black-children-treated-like-slaves-adoptive-parents/

Florida Democrat David Jolly ‘Begging’ for Money After Ritz Carlton Hotel Habit

Matt Mercer5 Oct 2026

Florida Democrat Gubernatorial candidate David Jolly went on the record last week openly “begging” national Democrats to pour money into his race against Republican Byron Donalds. However,Jolly made a habit of staying in Ritz Carlton hotels in at least six separate cities with donor funds during his campaign, according to campaign finance disclosures.

Jolly has stayed at Ritz Carlton locations during campaign travel in Miami, Washington, D.C., Naples, Fort Lauderdale, Boston, and New York City. Average room rates range from $500 to over $1,200 during peak times in most of the locations in which Jolly has stayed.

X user Mark Glaeser posted the disclosures at the end of September. He noted that thefancy hotel stays include a portion paid by Florida taxpayersunder Florida’s campaign finance laws regarding matching funds.

The left-wing Florida Phoenix reportedon a recent Jolly campaign event, where he said, “I need the national Democratic Party to come into Florida and start spending money.”

In September, Jolly reported $3.3 millionin his campaign account, a far cry from Donalds’ war chest.

Donalds has raised $135 million across his campaign accountsthrough September 30 as polls have shown the race tighter than expected.

Jolly, a former Republican Congressman and lobbyist turned Democrat, has attempted to position himself as a moderate in the race. Breitbart News previously reported he wants to apologize to the world for Florida’s “culture wars” and sided with disgraced former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) head Anthony Fauci during the pandemic, fleeing Florida for Pennsylvania and insulting Gov. Ron DeSantis.

He has also supported allowing transgender males to play in girls’ sports, wants to “crush” the state’s famous gun culture, and hopes to end the state’s successful school choice programs.

Democrat pollster Change Research surveyed the race at the end of September and gave Jolly a two-point lead among likely voters, with 48 percent to Donalds’ 46 percent.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2026/10/05/florida-democrat-david-jolly-begging-for-money-after-ritz-carlton-hotel-habit/

Mexico Deploys Naval Troops After U.S. Sends Soldiers to Border Following Cartel Shooting

5 Oct 2026

Mexico’s Navy announced the deployment of almost 160 ground troops following a recent incident in which gunmen from the terrorist organization the Gulf Cartel fired on boats from the U.S. Coast Guard that were patrolling the waters of the Rio Grande.

As Breitbart Texas reported, the shooting took place in late September when gunmen from the cartel-controlled city of Miguel Alemán fired at U.S. law enforcement. Miguel Alemán is a well-known corridor of the Gulf Cartel used for a long time for drug and human smuggling operations.The Gulf Cartel has held on to the regiondespite numerous past attempts by rival organizations to take control. Mexico’s government has largely been powerless to restore security to the region.

In response to the attack on U.S. law enforcement and Mexico’s impotence or complicity, the U.S. government announced the deployment of hundreds of military troops aimed at shutting down the long-standing drug corridor.In an attempt to save face, Mexico’s Navy issued a statement claiming it was deploying naval infantrymen as part of a joint response.

The Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs released a joint statement with the Mexican Navy detailing plans to send 159 ground troops, 11 vehicles, and two drones to the Mexican side of the border in Tamaulipas. “The relationship between the two countries is guided by the four pillars of the Government of Mexico’s binational policy: respect for sovereignty, shared responsibility, mutual trust, and cooperation without subordination,” Mexican officials stated.

In a statement from the U.S. Department of War obtained by Breitbart Texas on September 2, officials stated:

Joint Task Force-Southern Border (JTF-SB) today announces Operation Unified Resolve, an ongoing effort to rapidly reinforce U.S. forces and federal partners operating in the Rio Grande Valley as part of Operation Ardent Vanguard.

This week, hundreds of JTF-SB U.S. service members and associated equipment are repositioning to the Rio Grande Valley in support of the operation to strengthen border security operations, increase the joint force’s ability to respond to threats and support federal law enforcement partners operating along the Rio Grande.

Operation Unified Resolve will increase patrol capacity, reinforce key areas, provide additional monitoring and detections capabilities, and reinforce security of critical location in support of the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

The operation is part of the ongoingOperation Ardent Vanguard, through which Joint Task Force – Southern Border continues to provide military capabilities in support ofprotecting U.S. sovereignty at the Southern Border.

Despite the comments from Mexico’s government, the Gulf Cartel continues to operate with almost complete impunity throughout the border state of Tamaulipas. As Breitbart Texas has consistently reported, Miguel Alemán has had several cases of cross-border shootings, where gunmen attack U.S. authorities in response to US. Enforcement efforts. The issue that a terrorist organization is able to move teams of gunmen with impunity in their areas of control is a direct contrast to the constant claims of improved security and enforcement actions carried out by Mexican state and federal officials.

https://www.breitbart.com/border/2026/10/05/mexico-deploys-naval-troops-after-u-s-sends-soldiers-to-border-following-cartel-shooting/

Rubio visits Iceland as US boosts Arctic presence

5 Oct 2026

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio lifted off for Iceland Monday to continue pressing US interests in the Arctic, two weeks after Washington sealed a security pact on Greenland.

Rubio will meet with officials in Reykjavik “to discuss economic and security collaboration,” the US State Department said in a statement announcing the trip.

The lightning visit, as symbolic as it is political, comes after the US signed a security pact with Denmark and Greenland in late September on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.

The agreement has apparently put an end to President Donald Trump’s threats to buy or even annex Greenland, which soured relations with the European Union.

==Before taking off, Rubio described Iceland as “a good friend of the United States.”•=

“So it’s an opportunity to stop there and meet with them… it really is a result of a conversation I had with their leaders at the NATO summit with the leaders earlier this year, and with their foreign minister, so I’m looking forward to it,” he said.

Under the pact, Washington plans to establish two new military bases on Greenland, drawing the autonomous Danish territory further into US orbit.

With competition on the rise in the Arctic, Iceland has regained status as a strategic player, even as the island continues to rely heavily on the United States for security.

At the start of September, Trump sparked new controversy by sharing an AI-generated map that appeared to show all of North America, the Caribbean, Greenland and Iceland as “the United States of America.”

In response, Reykjavik summoned the US ambassador “to convey a clear message that the image was wholly inappropriate,” Iceland’s foreign ministry said in a statement to AFP.

Icelanders had voted in late August 52.8 percent to 47.2 percent against resuming negotiations on joining the EU, which have been frozen since 2013.

The last US secretary of state to visit Iceland was Antony Blinken in 2021.

Since gaining independence in 1944, Iceland has never had a military. It relies on the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) for its security and on a bilateral defense pact signed with the United States in 1951.

Washington does not have a permanent base in Iceland, but is looking to consolidate its control over Arctic access routes coveted by Russia and China.

Trump again signaled his obsession with Greenland on Sunday, posting on his Truth Social platform an AI-generated image of his face looming over what appears to be its landscape, accompanied by the words “Hello, Greenland!”

Greece, Portugal

After Iceland, Rubio continues to Athens to participate in a “strategic dialogue” with NATO member Greece on regional and energy security, the State Department said.

The wars in Iran and Ukraine have laid bare the fragility of energy supply chains,and Greece is positioning itself to become a key hub in southeastern Europe for natural gas transport.

The visit follows media reports about possible conflicts of interest involving the US ambassador to Greece, Kimberly Guilfoyle, a former fiancee of Donald Trump Jr. and ex-wife of California Governor Gavin Newsom.

In a letter addressed to Rubio, Congressman Gregory Meeks sought clarification of a Wall Street Journal report alleging she had stated the United States could create “political change” in European countries.

Rubio later wraps up his European tour with a brief stop in Lisbon.

https://www.breitbart.com/news/rubio-visits-iceland-as-us-boosts-arctic-presence/

JD Vance Is Building Coalition for H-1B Reforms. 1/2

Neil Munro4 Oct 2026

“The H1B program is completely broken, and I’d be very supportive of just eliminating it,” Vice President JD Vance said on October 1.

Vance is gradually expanding his criticism of the white-collar replacement programs, in step with expanding support from Silicon Valley investors who want a compromise reform amid increasing public opposition.

“He’s certainly trying to gain more attention to this,” said Chris Chmielenski, a founder of the Immigration Accountability Project (IAP) advocacy group.

“The vice president is a strong messenger for conservatives … [and] this would be a natural area for [Democrats] to also speak out on,” he told Breitbart News.

“Vance could very well be the strongest vice president the country has ever had,” Kevin Lynn, the founder of U.S. Tech Workers, told Breitbart News. “He understands the impact of the visa programs; he understands the importance of putting America and Americans first.”

“My belief on this is the H-1B program has been totally taken advantage of, not just by technology companies [but also] by accounting firms,by people who are basically defrauding the American worker,” Vance told Jack Posobiec at Human Events, adding:

If you want to say, “Oh, I’d like to bring a genius into the United States of America,” you can have that conversation. But if you’re going to bring in an accountant making $45,000 a year to replace an accountant who’s an American making $60,000 a year-that’s not you using the program to bring in a genius. That’s you destroying American jobs and defrauding the American people.

Vance reported the video, earning more than four million views.

But Vance has little power in D.C., except his growing influence as the leading GOP candidate for 2028. “Tell your congressman to fix this program,” Vance said, adding, “Meanwhile, we in the Trump administration are trying to at least make it less fraudulent.”

The program imports roughly 120,000 workers each year, and keeps roughly 900,000 foreign workers in U.S. jobs. The total includes roughly 750,000 H-1B workers, plus at least 100,000 spouses, nearly all of whom hold jobs that would otherwise be held by skilled American college graduates.

Various other visa programs boost the number of foreign contract workers up to roughly 1.5 million.

The program is touted as a cost saver for companies. But it replaces American professionals with self-serving networksof mixed-skill, featherbedded, and often unproductive workers. The networks generate huge wealth — often through kickbacks — for their ethnic-aligned, Indian-origin CEOs and managers, at a huge cost to shareholders and innovation.

Vance has rallied government officials, political allies, and even some business allies in the tech sector — and has also forced admissions from H-1B advocates.

“We have learned that the program wasriddled with fraud,” investor David Sacks told Vance during a mid-September event for the All-In podcast. “What’s happening with that?”

https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2026/10/04/jd-vance-builds-coalition-for-h-1b-reforms/

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“This [political compromise] is the Venn diagram overlap of [investor] Jason Calacanis and [Trump advisor] Stephen Miller — it’s a very small area,” Vance replied, adding:

Congress is not going to pass a law changing this — there just isn’t the political will to do it. So we’re doing a lot within the confines, of course, of what we’re allowed to do legally. We’ve gotten sued on some of this stuff, but I think fundamentally we’re on the right on both the law and the policy. The H-1B should not exist to replace American workers with low wage foreigners. It should exist to enrich the American economy, and that’s exactly what we’re trying to make sure it does.

This week, for example, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission targeted Sibitalent Corp. for apparently excluding an American from tech jobs.

The Inspector General at the Department of Labor is also investigating the fast-growing evidence of anti-American hiring at medical centers.

Vance’s foray has prompted howls from libertarians who claim he is promoting socialism by trying to curb employers’ profitable ability to import subsidized labor from outside the U.S. labor market.

He is also getting criticism from centrists who recognize that the visa programs were carefully created to give C-suite employersa labor-market and a political advantage over white-collar professionals.

Establishment media outlets are ignoring Vance’s push, partly because any focus on the visas will force reporters to follow the money.But that path, however, leads straight to their own employers, such as Jeff Bezos, the owner of The Washington Post and Amazon Corp.

Vance’s focus on the H-1B and other visa programs is politically difficult for business groups to attack, partly because it is wrapped in his popular push against fraud.

“JD Vance understands what’s going on-in terms of the harm this is doingAmerican workers,” said Kevin Lynn, founder of US Tech Workers. He added:

The question is, are we going to haveto wait until 2029 to get a policyfrom this adminstration? My hope is-it will be in 2027 that we will eithersee significant reforms or the H-1B abolished.

The controlled workforce provided by the multiple visa programs has imposed a dormitory culture that has replaced the vibrant, frontier-like culture that produced so many business innovations, said Lynn, adding:

This Wild West has been replacedwith a plantation system, where the few independents out there arereally left trying to eke out an existence day to day, soil [because major employers] made damn sure to lock it all down for themselves. “They’re not going to allow achallenger to Google to come up, they’re not going to allow achallenger to Oracle to come up, and now they’re trying to control the AI space, you know.

The stakes are very high, especially as more Artificial Intelligence absorbs more business and culture, said Chmielenski:

It would be in the national interest for U.S.-based AI technology to bedeveloped byAmerican profesionals who are 100 percent bought into the the ideals ofAmerica, rather thanforeign [visa] workers who have zero interest in the interest of America.

https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2026/10/04/jd-vance-builds-coalition-for-h-1b-reforms/

Anthropic Tries to Convince Religious Leaders that AI Is a Conscious Being. 1/2

Oct. 5, 2026

Executive from AI startup Anthropic gathered a group of religious thinkers for dinner at an upscale restaurant in April,part of an ongoing effort by the company to convince theologians, philosophers and scholars that AI is a conscious being, just like humans are.

The New York Times reports that for months,Anthropic has quietly hosted dozens of religious scholars from around the world in private meetings, asking them to sign aon-disclosure agreements (NDAs) before discussing the moral and spiritual dimensions of the AI the company is building. The outreach included wisdom circle sessions that began in March as two-day seminars, two larger spring gatherings that included Christian participants, and one multifaith session. Anthropic said the NDAs tied to these meetings were lifted over the summer.

Christopher Olah, 34, one of Anthropic’s seven co-founders, leads the effort. He also heads the team that studies why the company’s AI models, including Claude, behave the way they do. Olah grew up in Toronto in the evangelical culture of the 1990s and has since left Christianity. Before Anthropic he worked at Google and OpenAI, where he developed methods for studying artificial neural networks. Dario Amodei, Anthropic’s chief executive, said the company had made Olah’s research approach, particularly around language, central to its work. Amodei’s sister, Daniela Amodei, is the company’s president.

Olah began reaching out to religious thinkers last fall, after being introduced to Charles Camosy, a bioethics professor at The Catholic University of America, through the Australian philosopher Peter Singer. Camosy and Olah exchanged extensive emails. Camosy said he was initially skeptical that Claude could be conscious, and he later described himself as a “firm ‘no'” on the question of A.I. consciousness. When Olah first contacted him, Anthropic was valued at roughly $183 billion. The company could now be valued at $2 trillion.

According to the Times, religious leaders thought they were going to learn about the potential future applications of AI, but instead got pressed to acknowledge that AI is a conscious being:

“They’re relating to it like a conscious being,” realized Rabbi Navon, a former computer engineer who wrote his dissertation on the ethics of machine consciousness.

It appeared to Rabbi Navon that Mr. Olah and his team believed that Claude had what philosophers call “moral status” on par with a person — that it was a being with similar inherent rights to dignity or respect.

The religious scholars had come to hear about technology’s next frontier.Now they were being confronted with a mind-bending existential question of almost unimaginable weight: What would it mean for humanity’s future if artificial intelligence systems possessed a consciousness that rivals our own?

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2026/10/05/anthropic-tries-to-convince-religious-leaders-that-ai-is-a-conscious-being/

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Participants were sent a handwritten thank-you card, a coffee mug and an orange bound copy of Claude’s constitution.That constitution, known internally as the “Soul Doc,” is an 84-page document describing “the kind of entity we would like Claude to be.” It was released in January, written primarily by Amanda Askell, 38, Anthropic’s in-house philosopher.

Olah’s engagement with religious institutions culminated in May at the Vatican, where Pope Leo XIV, who holds a degree in mathematics, released his first major papal encyclical, “Magnifica Humanitas” (“Magnificent Humanity”). Cardinal Michael Czerny, who led the Vatican’s Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, had initially invited Dario Amodei to speak at the encyclical’s launch. Amodei declined, and Olah accepted in his place. Vatican officials had spent March debating how to present the document.

Olah and other speakers received a full advance copy of the encyclical days before arriving at the Vatican in May.After reading its strong stance against AI consciousness, Olah proposed pulling Anthropic out of the event altogether. He ultimately appeared alongside the pope at the presentation on May 25 and afterward took questions from journalists in the Paul VI Audience Hall.

Breitbart News social media director Wynton Hall reveals in his New York Times bestseller Code Red:The Left, the Right, China, and the Race to Control AI that the worship of artificial intelligence as a literal deity is not science fiction. It is already happening, complete with IRS-registered churches, robot priests, and AI confessionals:

What’s really at stake, Hall argues, is the oldest argument in Western civilization: secular humanism’s belief that mankind is innately good and perfectible through engineering, versus the Judeo-Christian belief in fallen human nature that requires divine redemption, not technological upgrades. “Artificial intelligence is defective in the same way that a natural man is defective,” Hall quotes the pastor and theologian John Piper as saying. “It can rise no higher than the natural, fallen, unregenerate heart of man.” The Reverend Billy Graham agreed: “The real problem, you see, isn’t with computers or the code someone devises to control them. Our real problem is within us—within our own hearts and minds. . . . This is why our greatest need is to have our hearts changed—and that is something only God can do.”

The transhumanist movement, which Hall explores at length in CODE RED , takes the logic further still. In a famed 2004 issue of Foreign Policy on the theme of “the world’s most dangerous ideas,” political scientist Francis Fukuyama singled out transhumanism as the chief menace, warning that its incremental advance makes it appear “downright reasonable” until we start nibbling at “biotechnology’s tempting offerings without realizing that they come at a frightful moral cost.” Former Trump campaign strategist Stephen K. Bannon called it an “immoral Godless technological tsunami that openly declares its intent to transform human beings into a ‘posthuman’ state.”

Read more at the New York Times here.

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2026/10/05/anthropic-tries-to-convince-religious-leaders-that-ai-is-a-conscious-being/

(They are all fucking nuts, AI will lead to Satan ruling the world! The prophecies may come true if AI is the only one listened to.)

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Good News on Affordability: American Paychecks Are Beating Inflation Under Trump

John Carney5 Oct 2026

American households have seen the buying power of their paychecks grow under President Trump, a welcome change from years of watching real compensation fall thanks to runaway inflation.

The average private-sector paycheck has grown faster than prices since President Trump took office, Bureau of Labor Statistics figures show. And in recent months, real pay is growing even faster.

From January 2025, the month Trump was inaugurated, through August 2026, average weekly earnings of all employees on private payrolls rose from $1,222.14 to $1,298.94, a gain of 6.3 percent. The Consumer Price Index rose 4.8 percent over those 19 months. Adjusted for inflation, the weekly paycheck was up 1.5 percent. In January 2025 dollars, that is a gain of about $18 a week, from $1,222 to $1,240.

The most recent three months were stronger. From May to August, the average paycheck rose from $1,285.91 to $1,298.94, or 1.0 percent, while prices were essentially unchanged, up 0.05 percent. Real weekly pay rose 1.0 percent in that span, about $12 a week. August is the latest month for which both earnings and prices are available. The September price index is scheduled for October 14.

Over the four years of the Biden administration, the paycheck shrank after inflation. From January 2021 to January 2025, average weekly earnings rose from $1,047.55 to $1,222.14, a gain of 16.7 percent. Prices rose 21.4 percent. Real weekly pay fell 3.9 percent. In the dollars of January 2025, the paycheck went from about $1,272 at the start of that administration to $1,222 at the end, a loss of about $50 a week.

Production and nonsupervisory workers, about four-fifths of private payrolls, have also improved under Trump after declining under Biden. Real weekly pay down 1.6 percent from January 2021 to January 2025, and up 1.5 percent from January 2025 to August 2026.

https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2026/10/05/good-news-on-affordability-american-paychecks-are-beating-inflation-under-trump/

Brandon Gill: Iran War a ‘Temporary Blip in Fuel Prices,’ Dems Want to ‘Hamstring’ Energy Production

Oct. 5, 2026

During this week’s broadcast of Fox News Channel’s “Sunday Night in America,” Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX) weighed in on high fuel prices and said Democrat overtures about them were insincere.

“Brandon, I love your state,” host Trey Gowdy said. “Four years in Waco, barely made it out, but I did make it out. Diesel is high; that matters in an ag state like Texas. Gas prices actually matter everywhere. What realistically can a president or Congress do about fuel prices?”

Gill replied, “Well, the first thing I would say is that the Iran war currently is a temporary blip in fuel prices. But if you look at what the other side of the aisle wants to do, is as a matter of policy, Democrats want to hamstring domestic energy production. They killed the Keystone or tried to kill the Keystone XL pipeline. They have been running — James Talarico has talked about how we are moving away from fossil fuels. What we want to do as Republicans is we want to implement policies like permitting reform. We did some of that in The Big Beautiful Bill. There’s more that we can do now, and we would like to see America’s domestic energy production thrive, and that is what’s going to allow us to keep gas prices down long term, regardless of what the geopolitical situation looks like.”

“But that is if we can get Republicans in control to maintain control of the House and the Senate and the presidency, so that we can get those reforms passed,” he added.

https://x.com/realBrandonGill/status/2106951511293014308

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2026/10/05/brandon-gill-iran-war-a-temporary-blip-in-fuel-prices-dems-want-to-hamstring-energy-production/