Dem Stefany Shaheen Says ‘We’ve Got to Roll Back These Tax Breaks’ for New Hampshire Families

New Hampshire Democrat congressional candidate Stefany Shaheen, the daughter of U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH),said this week that she wants to reverse Republican tax reductions, after previously supporting tax and fee increases as a Portsmouth city councilor and receiving financial and political support connected to her mother.

Shaheen said this week, “I believe it’s a matter of electing people who have the will to fight for the issues that matter most to the majority of people, andwe’ve got to roll back these tax breaks. And again, let’s be clear: my opponent supports them.”

Rolling back the tax provisions would result in a 20 percent tax increase for New Hampshire families and bring back taxes on tips, overtime, and Social Security.

“Silver Spoon Stefany Shaheen just told voters everything they need to know: In Congress, she’d ‘roll back’ tax cuts that have made life better and more affordable for New Hampshire families. It doesn’t get any more out of touch than that. Granite Staters deserve a fighter, not a nepo baby,” NRCC spokeswoman Maureen O’Toole told Breitbart News.

Shaheen’s record as a Portsmouth city councilor also includes votes and proposals that increased taxes and fees. During her time on the council, Shaheen brought forward a motion to increasethe city’s hourly parking fees by 25 percent.

A year later, Shaheen voted in favor of Portsmouth’s first budget to exceed $100 million. The budget included a property tax increase and another increase in parking fees.

Shaheen, the daughter of U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), has also received financial and political support connected to her mother. A September Townhall headline described her candidacy this way: “Stefany Shaheen Has Been Handed Everything by Her Mom. Now She Wants a Promotion to Congress.”

In 2023, the City of Manchester partnered with the Manchester nonprofit Advanced Regenerative Manufacturing, where Stefany Shaheen served as chief strategy officer, to win $44 million in economic development funding from the Department of Commerce.

Then-Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said Manchester and ARMI’s application “stood out” because of “the persistent advocacy” of Sen. Shaheen.

In 2020, during Sen. Shaheen’s tenure in the Senate, Stefany Shaheen’s company, Good Measures, received an $890,000 Paycheck Protection Program loan during the first round of loans. The loan was later forgiven.

Stefany Shaheen’s congressional campaign has also received more than $600,000 in donations from her mother’s donor network, while Sen. Shaheen has directly advocated on her daughter’s behalf.

Stefany Shaheen has declined to condemn political violence when repeatedly asked about it in October 2025. She instead told the questioner, “I hope you have a great night.” As she continued toward her vehicle, the questioner asked whether political rhetoric needed to be toned down and whether “murdering someone because of their politics” was wrong, but Shaheen did not respond. The exchange came less than a month after Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk was assassinated while speaking at Utah Valley University and after a shooting at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Dallas.

Her mother has also said she saw no issue with violent political rhetoric. In 2015, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen defended Hillary Clinton after Clinton laughed in response to a man at a campaign event saying he wanted to strangle Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina whenever he saw her on television. Asked on MSNBC’s Morning Joe whether Clinton’s reaction was problematic, Shaheen responded, “I don’t see an issue with that either. She was — I mean, he’s speaking to the challenge of losing jobs, and that’s what people really care about.”….

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2026/10/10/dem-stefany-shaheen-says-weve-got-to-roll-back-these-tax-breaks-for-new-hampshire-families/

Park service could remove more than 500 trees at historic golf course Trump wants to redesign

The National Park Service has begun a new round of tree-cutting at a historic golf course near the White House as the Trump administration proceeds with a plan to renovate the East Potomac Golf Links into a championship-level course

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press

October 10, 2026, 2:33 PM ET

WASHINGTON – The National Park Service has begun a new round of tree-cutting at a historic golf course near the National Mall as the Trump administration proceeds with a plan to renovate the East Potomac Golf Links into a championship-level course.

More than 500 trees “that do not contribute to the historic landscape will be removed” as part of the rehabilitation project, the National Park Service said in a court filingFriday. “No healthy trees that are contributing features of the historical golf course” — including historic cherry trees — will be removed as part of the project, the park service said.

A total of 169 trees will be removed starting Saturday, with another 90 trees slated for removal later, the agency said.

The tree removals come as President Donald Trump has moved to turn the course into a world-class golf venue — part of his grand vision for Washington, D.C.,where he has torn down storied structures, remade or renamed others and deployed the National Guard for more than a year.

Some residents fear the planned changes to the golf course — where Trump has visited with a cabinet member, a well-known golf course architect and blueprints —risk altering the character of a place that has served Washingtonians of all income levels for more than a century. Turning the park into an upscale golf course will mean costlier fees and a likely loss of public space.

"The National Park Service is finally implementing a 7-year-old plan to address tree overgrowth at East Potomac Golf Course,'' the Interior Department said in a statement Saturday. The department oversees the park service and other agencies that manage federal lands.

The renovation work will include selective tree and vegetation work to restore the course, the Interior Department said, adding that the work is intended to “help restore the course’s historic character and reopen views toward landmarks, including the Washington Monument, National War College, Potomac River and Washington Channel."

The park service “recognizes the importance of trees to the park and its visitors. This carefully planned work is part of our required stewardship of the park,” the statement said.

The golf course will remain open to the public throughout the renovation effort, although individual holes may temporarily close while work is underway, the agency said.

The 106-year-old public course has been embroiled in a lawsuit since February. Plaintiffs including the DC Preservation League say the Trump administration’s reconstruction would violate the congressional act that created the park in 1897. The group sought an emergency stop-work order this spring because of concerns that work was expected to begin immediately on the course.

Trump, an avid golfer, has posted about the course on social media, “When completed, this Course will have the ability to host Major Golf Tournaments, including The U.S. Open, The Ryder Cup, The PGA Championship, and other top PGA Tour events,” he wrote in late June.

It’s unclear when the course could host any major tournaments, as locations are chosen several years ahead of the events.….

https://abcnews.com/amp/US/wireStory/park-service-remove-500-trees-historic-golf-trump-137163526

Rubio Deputy Calls Out Obama Ambassador’s ‘Smug’ Dismissal of Secretary’s Foreign Travel

Mariane Angela10 Oct 202

Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau hit back Saturday after former Obama ambassador Ivo Daalder criticized Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s foreign travel.

Landau reposted Daalder’s post on X and accused him of expressing a foreign policy establishment view that places too much importance on approval from European capitals while looking down on diplomacy in the Western Hemisphere.

Daalder, who served as the U.S. ambassador to NATO from 2009 to 2013 under Obama, questioned both Rubio’s destinations and his attention to major international issues.

“Secretaries of State travel the world, to our biggest allies and to address the most pressing issues=•,” Daalder wrote. “But Marco Rubio does neither. His solo travels take him where assistant secretaries go. Rarely the boss.”==

Landau, the State Department’s second-ranking official, responded by calling the post an example of the thinking he believes has damaged American foreign policy.

“THIS post perfectly encapsulates the decadence and degeneracy of the contemporary US foreign policy establishment,” Landau wrote.

He argued that Daalder’s criticism treated visits to European allies as the proper work of a secretary of state while suggesting that engagement with Latin American countries belonged to subordinates.

“In this view, a US Secretary of State is only supposed to travel to NATO capitals because a successful US foreign policy is what makes diplomatic counterparts in Paris, Berlin, and Brussels raise a champagne toast to ‘shared values’ while flinging open their borders, destroying their economies, and apologizing for Western civilization,” Landau wrote.

Landau then named three South American capitals to challenge the suggestion that those destinations were beneath the secretary of state.

“God forbid a US Secretary of State show his face in Bogotá, Quito, or Lima because that’s where mere ‘Assistant Secretaries’ are supposed to tread,” he continued.

Bogotá is the capital of Colombia, Quito is the capital of Ecuador, and Lima is the capital of Peru. Landau cited the cities in defending high-level American engagement with the region; his response did not provide dates or an itinerary for Rubio’s travel.

Daalder’s quoted post did not specifically mention NATO or those South American destinations. His criticism was that Rubio’s solo travel did not take him to the United States’ biggest allies or address its most pressing issues. Landau answered by challenging what he described as the assumptions behind that assessment.

The deputy secretary also accused the foreign policy establishment of producing failures on both sides of the Atlantic.

“This smug approach led not only to predictably catastrophic results in the Western Hemisphere but also in Europe itself, where the combination of moral vanity and strategic incoherence also proved toxic,” Landau wrote.

He did not identify particular policies or events in that passage, instead directing his criticism broadly at the establishment’s priorities and record.

Landau previously served as the U.S. ambassador to Mexico during President Donald Trump’s first administration and became deputy secretary of state in March 2025.

He ended his response by accusing establishment figures of spending their time on academic work and professional recognition while dismissing Trump and Rubio.

“But sure: keep holding your academic seminars, writing your unread articles, awarding each other meaningless prizes, and looking down your noses at Donald Trump and Marco Rubio,” Landau wrote.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2026/10/10/rubio-deputy-calls-out-obama-ambassadors-smug-dismissal-of-secretarys-foreign-travel/

Report: Kamala Harris’s Husband Doug Emhoff Doesn’t Want Her to Run Again

Lowell Cauffiel10 Oct 2026

Former Vice President and unsuccessful 2024 presidential candidate Kamala Harris has reportedly been getting a thumbs down from power brokers about launching a 2028 bid for the White House— even from her husband Doug Emhoff, according to the Wall Street Journal.

“Kamala Harris’s husband, Doug Emhoff,has privately told some people he would prefer she doesn’t run for president again,”the Journal reported late Friday in an exclusive election piece.

Some top donors have also warned her a bid would be a “long shot, according to people familiar with the conversations,” the outlet stated.

Harris has said she is undecided about making another run for the presidency.

“I have not decided if I’m going to run again,” she said at a National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) event in Michigan last month.“I do sincerely believe ’28 won’t matter if we don’t get through ’26.”

However, she has made moves that could be seen as a run up to a campaign by speaking with major donors, hiring staff, and traveling to battleground statesto support Democratic candidates in the November midterms, the California and New York Post have reported.

In numerous polls the former VP leads by double digits in a hypothetical primary field of Democratic candidates, including high-profile potential candidates like California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY).

However, in the latest Polymarket betting odds, she ranks dead last with only a six percent chance compared to AOC’s 18 percent and Newsom’s 15 percent.

In the 2024 race, despite a $1.5 billion campaign war chest,Harris lost every swing state, lost the popular vote by 2.3 million votes, and lost the electoral college with only 226 electoral votes to Donald Trump’s 312, putting him far over the 270 victory margin.

Since leaving DC, husband Emhoff has returned to his position as an attorney and partner at the Los Angeles law firm of Willkie Farr and Gallagher LLP, according to the Journal.

The couple last December also bought a 4,000-square-foot home in Malibu’s Point Dume for a reported price of $8.15 million. It is a step up from their previous 3,500 square-foot residence in Brentwood, the new home reported as a “mansion” by news outlets, though it falls short of that definition by L.A. and real estate standards.

The former VP hasn’t been languishing in her new Malibu digs, however.

According to the Journal:

Some of Harris’s recent moves have made some donors uneasy about her intentions, some of the people said. In the weeks leading up to the midterms, Harris has appeared at a half-dozen private fundraisers in California including an event in Santa Monica for Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley, the party’s nominee for governor of Wisconsin, and another for Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford, the Democratic nominee for governor of Nevada.

She also joined a get-out-the-vote call with the Democratic National Committee this past week, urging more than 2,000 volunteers listening live to knock on doors and engage with voters to flip seats in a dozen states across the country.

Such moves are typical of a candidate earning favor from a network of state and local politicians who would later come into play as supporters in a presidential bid.

While her husband would prefer Harris does not run, the Journal also reported that “people close to him” fully expect he will support his wife should she decide to make another try at the presidency.

(She has such bad understanding of how she is not liked and cannot ever win and be President, it’s scary arrogance! Basically she is dumb! The money will just be wasted.)

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2026/10/10/report-kamala-harriss-husband-doug-emhoff-doesnt-want-her-to-run-again/

Victor Davis Hanson Notes That James Talarico Isn’t the Only Democrat Running for Office Who Has Recently Disappeared(VIDEO)

by Mike LaChance Oct. 10, 2026

Everyone has been talking about James Talarico this week after he went missing for about twelve days. He finally resurfaced, but no explanation for his disappearance has been given.

Meanwhile, conservative historian and scholar Victor Davis Hanson is pointing out that Talarico is not the only Democrat running right now who has gone missing.

Has anyone seen California governor candidate Xavier Becerra lately?

Transcript via the Daily Signal:

Sami Winc: Well, let’s turn to the California governor’s race, and Steve Hilton is closing the gap, which was a huge gap.

Victor Davis Hanson: It was an internal poll, but it might be correct.

Sami Winc: Yes. And Xavier Becerra has angered the Latino community because he’s been pushing the lie that his own parents were immigrants, and his father, we’ve all found out, was actually born in Sacramento. And yes, he did go back and forth between Mexico and California, but nonetheless, he was born an American.

So the immigrant story has really angered the Latino community.

Victor Davis Hanson: Everything he said is untrue. He said he had nothing to do with losing, what, three hundred thousand people when he was [Health and Human Services Secretary]. He couldn’t even find them, right?

And then, I watched that debate, and he canceled. He just walked out of the second debate. He’s not gonna debate. It was all scheduled the day before. I think it was supposed to be tonight. He just canceled.

His advisors came to him and said, obviously, we looked at the tapes, Xavier, and you got slaughtered. You’re just a sphinx. You just sit there quiet, and then you turn to him and say, “Trump, Trump, Trump.” And then you get your little racist tidbit in, and you said you’re just wanting to get people into the country that only look like you. And then you don’t mention anything about your record or defend it. You have no idea what you want to do as governor. You can’t give an answer on high-speed rail. You can’t get [an answer] on the water bond we haven’t used. You don’t know about the homeless. You don’t know how to stop the fires.

And then he, I guess he says, yeah, but people in California don’t vote for the people. They just look at their little ballot and they say D, and 60 to 65% of the state, so they punch it. And that means to them, the SEIU and the teachers union and all these people are gonna get me more money, whether I’m a government employee and I work for the state in some fashion, or a school district, and I’m gonna get more money. And there’s all these fat cats that can pay me more money.

@DailySignal

Daily Signal

@DailySignal

Victor Davis Hanson: Becerra and Talarico Are Taking a Page from the Kamala Harris Playbook

In California, Xavier Becerra canceled his second debate and is banking on union-driven mail ballots to overcome a tightening race with Steve Hilton.

In Texas, Talarico has disappeared from public events for weeks, hiding from questions about his far-left record.

Both are following the Kamala Harris playbook—stay out of sight, avoid unscripted moments, and let the political machine do the work.

@VDHanson

https://x.com/DailySignal/status/2108656663393636378?

>>25128808

Here’s the video from Victor