October 2, 2026

02a U.S. Politics – Conservative

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REUTERS—The U.S. Justice Department is investigating Minnesota officials including Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey over an alleged conspiracy to impede immigration agents, a source familiar with the probe said on Friday.

The investigation, first reported by CBS News, stems from previous statements made by Walz and Frey about the thousands of Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers and Border Patrol agents deployed to the Minneapolis region in recent weeks.

Walz, reacting on social media to news of the investigation, said the justice system was being weaponized.

“Two days ago it was Elissa Slotkin. Last week it was Jerome Powell. Before that, Mark Kelly. Weaponizing the justice system against your opponents is an authoritarian tactic,” he said.

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With riots over an ICE enforcement still roiling Minnesota, Democrat protesters stormed a church service in St. Paul, accusing its pastor of supporting for immigration authorities.

Tell me again how there is going to be a blue wave in the November elections.

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Some Republican senators are increasingly voicing opposition to President Trump’s remarks suggesting the United States could take control of Greenland by force, as a bipartisan group of lawmakers prepares to visit Denmark to reassure its leaders that Congress would not support any military action targeting the territory.

As the Hill reported, Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and Thom Tillis (R-NC) are among several U.S. lawmakers scheduled to travel to Copenhagen on Friday, alongside Democratic colleagues Sens. Chris Coons (D-DE), Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), and Dick Durbin (D-IL), as well as Reps. Gregory Meeks (D-NY), Madeleine Dean (D-PA), and Sara Jacobs (D-CA). 

Tillis emphasized that he will remind Danish officials that Congress is a coequal branch of government, and said he believes “there [is a] sufficient number of members, whether they speak up or not, that are concerned with this.” Speaking about any use of military force to take Greenland, he stated, “The actual execution of anything that would involve a taking of a sovereign territory that is part of a sovereign nation, I think would be met with pretty substantial opposition in Congress.”

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Protesters harassed a man driving a rental SUV after appearing to mistake him for an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer, a video that went viral on X Thursday shows.

The video, which was originally posted to TikTok, shows the man opening the trunk of a white Chevy Suburban as a woman inspects its contents. Another woman noted that the man, who later in the video said that he worked for a media outlet, “has a lot of camera equipment” before accusing him of being an ICE agent.

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The U.S. military has seized another fugitive oil tanker linked to Venezuela in the Caribbean, marking the sixth vessel captured as the Trump administration intensifies its campaign against illicit oil trafficking.

U.S. Southern Command announced Thursday that American forces intercepted the Motor/Tanker Veronica during a pre-dawn operation carried out by Marines and sailors from Joint Task Force Southern Spear.

“In another pre-dawn action, Marines and Sailors from Joint Task Force Southern Spear, in support of the Department of Homeland Security, launched from USS Gerald R. Ford and apprehended Motor/Tanker Veronica without incident,” the command said in a statement.

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Not so long ago, Sweden used to be leftists’ favorite example of effective government: It had a generous welfare system, boasted a highly educated population, and just seemed a little classier and cleaner than most parts of the United States. True, it then had a small, homogenous population of law-abiding, productive citizens, but most admirers conveniently ignored this key detail.

In more recent years, far fewer people mention Sweden. If anyone mentions the country, it is usually to cite their soaring crime rates and terrorist attacks and the obvious connection with Sweden’s large number of unassimilated migrants from the Third World. Not only does this situation now threaten the livelihood for native Swedes, but also their reputable public entitlement system.

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Larry Krasner, the radical District Attorney of Philadelphia, threatened Wednesday to prosecute and jail any federal immigration officer accused of harming the city’s residents.

Krasner and a number of Democrat elected officials and community leaders gathered at Salt and Light Church in Philadelphia to discuss strategies to combat ICE activity in the city and in its court system.

Framing the issue as a battle of “good versus evil,” Krasner sent the following message to federal immigration enforcement: “We will arrest you. We will handcuff you. We will close those cuffs. We will put you in a cell. We will set your bail and I’m going to ask for it to be appropriately high.”

Philadelphia’s newly infamous Sheriff Rochelle Bilal echoed Krasner’s message, promising to bring “smoke” to ICE agents if they think they can come to Philadelphia and enforce immigration law without the Sanctuary City’s permission.

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Harmeet Dhillon, the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Justice, said Monday that “the fullest force of the federal government is going to come down” on the anti-ICE agitators—including former CNN host Don Lemon—who stormed a Minneapolis church and harassed Sunday worshippers.

The agitators, led by local Black Lives Matter activist Nekima Armstrong, entered Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota, chanting long discredited BLM slogans like ‘hands up, don’t shoot’, and attempting to shame churchgoers over their pastor’s alleged position as the acting ICE field office director.

 

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Iran is drowning in blood, yet the people refuse to break. As streets are reportedly lined with bodies and the slaughter intensifies, Iranians continue to meet live machine fire with open defiance. According to reports, the Kurdistan National Army has captured the Revolutionary Guards’ headquarters in Kermanshah—an extraordinary blow to the regime’s security apparatus. At the same time, the country’s financial system is cracking: five Iranian banks are said to be on the brink of collapse, including Bank Sepah, one of Iran’s three largest banks and the primary financial artery of the IRGC and the Iranian military, according to The Wall Street Journal. The regime is bleeding—militarily, economically, and morally—and yet the Iranian people continue to rise, signaling that this is no longer merely unrest, but a full-scale collapse unfolding in real time.

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Lang was assaulted during a staged protest in which he was planning on burning the Quran.

Jake Lang, an anti-Islam activist, was attacked in Minneapolis and assaulted by left-wing agitators on Saturday. Lang, who was also pardoned from his criminal activities on January 6, was in Minnesota for his “March Against Fraud” event and was met with violent pushback.

Photos and videos showed blood on Lang after he was dragged from a ledge and then beaten by a mob of left-wing agitators in Minneapolis. Lang then attempted to get away from the scene in a red sedan. Video posted to X showed the left-wing protesters trying to attack him as he entered the car.

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It’s what happens when you cater to woke nonsense and an authoritarian ethos grounded in political correctness: you end up defending pure nonsense. She’s a doctor; she knows what’s medically true. A biological fact is that there are only two genders, and only females can get pregnant. Not men. Trans women are men. They’re dudes. Stop pretending otherwise, but alas, here we are, and what makes this exchange between Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Dr. Nisha Verma yesterday even funnier is that the segue really wasn’t about that per se. It was a Senate hearing on abortion care.

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A federal appeals court on Thursday cleared the way for the Trump administration to again detain and move toward deporting Mahmoud Khalil, the former Columbia University graduate student who became a face of pro-Palestinian campus protests.

A three-judge panel of the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia overturned a lower court order that had sprung Khalil from immigration custody, ruling that the New Jersey federal judge who ordered his release never had authority to hear the case.

In a 2-1 decision, the panel said Khalil’s legal team used the wrong court when they filed a habeas petition to challenge his detention.

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Federal agents probing a Somali immigrant cash-courier operation that funneled massive sums through Minneapolis have uncovered a new stop along the route: Columbus, Ohio.

Homeland Security Department officials told Just the News that Transportation Security Administration officers have tracked and flagged about $136 million in bulk cash packed into outbound luggage at passenger checkpoints at John Glenn Columbus International Airport since November 2023.

Officials said the cash was carried by U.S. citizens of Somali origin flying out of Columbus en route to Minneapolis or Atlanta. The couriers declared the money as required on federal forms.

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A simple, but deeply unfair and manipulative, narrative about ICE’s enforcement of immigration law congealed as soon as Trump took office: ICE enforcement amounts to egregious military-style raids in otherwise peaceful communities, and as such, ICE is responsible for any unfortunate violence that accompanies their enforcement activities.

Obviously, that narrative has gone into overdrive since the unfortunate killing of Renee Good in Minneapolis last week. Facts don’t really matter here; anti-ICE hysterics are impervious to the fact that Good and her partner were specifically engaged in illegal activity. One can argue law enforcement should have behaved differently, but you cannot say Renee Good was an innocent bystander — she put herself in harm’s way. You can’t impede federal officers enforcing the law, let alone suddenly lurch toward them in a two-ton vehicle.

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Investigative journalist Nick Shirley blew up the internet the day after Christmas with a video that pulled the curtain back on massive Somali childcare fraud in Minnesota. In a single day, Shirley laid out evidence of an estimated $110 million in fraud, a bombshell that rocked the state and torpedoed Tim Walz’s political future, resulting in thousands of federal agents being sent into Minnesota, and HHS freezing more than $185 million in childcare payments.

 

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Hey, you know those Somali immigrants who just stole a few billion dollars from taxpayers up in Minnesota? They’re not going anywhere.

Well, OK, maybe prison — but likely for sentences that make slaps on the wrist look painful by comparison. And then they’ll be back in the Minneapolis area, likely with the same contacts in the grift community that they had before and with the same rights as any other convict.

Tennessee GOP Sen. Marsha Blackburn and other Republicans want to change that.

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If you’re given almost four years to come up with an acceptable answer to a question that should be obvious, you’d think you’d maybe do a bit better than Dr. Nisha Verma did on Wednesday.

To understand how fatuous and avoidable Verma’s viral moment of infamy is, we have to backtrack to March of 2022. That’s when Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson was appearing in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee as part of her confirmation hearings to the Supreme Court.

She was asked to provide a definition of what a woman was. Simple, no?

“I’m not a biologist,” was the best that Jackson could manage.

The anti-American terrorist Renee Good was killed when she attempted to murder an ICE officer attempting to arrest illegal aliens who also happened to be wanted for murder. What unfolded afterward you can read about in our Final Thought on pg. xx.

Good’s family has hired the George Floyd attorney to use lawfare to terrorize American officers and officials. The injured ICE agent is still recovering in the hospital, his family in hiding for fear of being murdered by DNC voters. The video now clearly shows the agent was struck by the vehicle, a fact the DNC media and its anti-American fanbase continue to deny.

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Calling all rational Americans: Here are the thieves, child rapists, and murderers the left’s latest false martyr was fighting for.

Renee Good, the 37-year-old radical fatally shot last week by the Immigration & Customs Enforcement agent she appears to have struck with her SUV, was part of a leftist resistance movement that tried to stop ICE from arresting criminal illegal immigrants like Hernan Cortes-Balencia. The Mexican foreign national, who had a final order of removal dating back more than nine years, has been convicted of sexual assault against a child, sexual assault-carnal abuse and four DUI’s, according to DHS.

And then there’s Sriudorn Phaivan, a criminal illegal alien from Laos. Phaivan, outstayed his welcome by nearly eight years. He’s a felon with a long rap sheet, including strongarm sodomy of a boy, strongarm sodomy of a girl, another aggravated sex offense, nine counts of larceny, four counts of fraud, vehicle theft, and two counts of drug possession.

The assaults in Minneapolis against ICE agents by DNC-paid insurgents are only increasing and getting more deadly. Against that backdrop, DNC government leaders, from Tim Kain to Chuck Schumer, and DNC supporters, from celebrities to influencers, keep spreading lies intended to get ICE agents killed. So far, Pam Bondi has made zero arrests.

Now, the terrorists have seized FBI papers, destroyed vehicles, seized an ICE vehicle and took a rifle out of it, all while Minneapolis police, under the order of Progmerican Mayor Jacob Frey, stood down and allowed it to happen. President Trump is threatening to invoke the Insurrection Act to put down the Minnesota revolt, but some Americans are wondering why that isn’t being declared at the national level.

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During riots in Minneapolis, protesters forced open a weapons locker in a federal vehicle, stealing a rifle and ammunition before fleeing in a black Ford Taurus with Minnesota license plate SMV 596. Video footage captured the thief’s face, including a man with facial tattoos, and the getaway vehicle details, which were forwarded to the FBI for identification. Some reports indicate additional theft of sensitive documents containing DHS agent information.

History is clear: these actions come before civil war.

The violent unrest surrounding ICE operations—particularly in Minneapolis—is not a spontaneous grassroots protest but a coordinated political campaign designed to delegitimize federal immigration enforcement and provoke confrontation. It contends that activists and sympathetic Democratic officials knowingly spread false claims that ICE lacks lawful authority, despite federal courts reaffirming ICE’s powers, thereby encouraging people to obstruct federal officers.

Reports of the looming attack by the U.S. on Iran keep coming, with multiple media outlets claiming to have insider information that suggests the U.S. is about to attack at any minute. So far, the Iranian regime is still in power, with reports of up to 20,000 people being murdered and public executions beginning. The protests, however, seem to be continuing. Read more about the Iran uprising and Trump’s dilemma on pg. 1.

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Multiple media reports are now warning that U.S. military action against Iran’s Islamic regime may be imminent, as the death toll from brutal crackdowns on anti-regime protesters continues to climb.

According to Reuters, U.S. military action against Iran could begin within the next 24 hours, citing two European officials familiar with the situation.

Those officials said U.S. personnel have been advised to leave Al Udeid Air Base by Wednesday night.

The growing Somali Fraud scandal has already triggered Tim Kain, the Progmerican governor of Minnesota to declare he is not running for re-election and appears to be threatening Minnesota’s Islamist anti-Americanist Progmerican representative Ilhan Omar. Nick Sherley, an independent reporter, broke the story of hundreds of millions, if not billions, of U.S. tax dollars being stolen through fake dare centers run by Somalis.

Now Ilhan Omar’s recent effort to earmark $1 million for an ISIS-linked Somali ‘Non-Profit’ has triggered a call to investigate the organization and Omar’s connections to it. Trump has responded by suspending Somali immigration and revoking the legal status of thousands of Somali “asylum seekers.” More action is being taken to strip new Somali naturalized citizens involved in the fraud, which includes Ilhan Omar.

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Republican Sens. Joni Ernst and Mike Lee are asking Attorney General Pam Bondi to probe a Minnesota-based non-profit that “exhibits a troubling pattern of red flags around its legitimacy” and is run by a Somali man whose brother was arrested for allegedly trying to join ISIS.

Ernst and Lee are asking Bondi to “initiate suspension proceedings to protect ongoing federal interests pending full investigation” and to refer “relevant matters to other DOJ components for further inquiry” in relation to Generation Hope MN, a tax-exempt organization founded in 2019 that is focused on addiction recovery and substance abuse disorder, according to a copy of the letter obtained exclusively by The Federalist.

Somali-born Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar and Minnesota Sens. Amy Klobuchar and Tina Smith tried to earmark $1 million in congressionally appropriated Department of Justice funding to Generation Hope MN. The funding was exposed by Ernst and Lee, and removed by the House.

President Donald Trump revealed his motivation for wanting America to purchase Greenland. He claimed NATO is not an effective deterrent to Russian and Chinese power and therefore America must secure the territory that makes them vulnerable with or without anyone else’s consent.

He stated, “Militarily, without the vast power of the United States, much of which I built during my first term, and am now bringing to a new and even higher level, NATO would not be an effective force or deterrent — Not even close! They know that, and so do I.”

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NATO cannot effectively deter China and Russia unless the United States takes control of Greenland, and anything short of that is “unacceptable,” President Trump said Wednesday.

Trump aimed the warning at European leaders who are insisting that Denmark, a NATO member, must retain control of the strategically located island. He made the remarks in a post on Truth Social.

“Militarily, without the vast power of the United States, much of which I built during my first term, and am now bringing to a new and even higher level, NATO would not be an effective force or deterrent — Not even close!” Trump said. “They know that, and so do I.”

Trump has pressed for the annexation of Greenland for years, arguing the island is critical to U.S. and allied security.

Renewed attention to Greenland followed Trump’s dramatic move to seize Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, part of what allies have dubbed his aggressive “Don-roe Doctrine” in the Western Hemisphere.

Long-time friends with Jeffrey Epstein, Bill and Hillary Clinton show up in the Epstein files numerous times, with Bill passing Hillary for that dishonor. After refusing to come before the House Oversight Committee for questioning, both Clintons have been referred to the Department of Justice for criminal prosecution.
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) said, “We’re going to hold both Clintons in criminal contempt of Congress. The [Epstein estate] complied with our lawful subpoena. [Former Attorney General Bill Barr and former Trump Labor Secretary Alex Acosta] came in and were deposed because of our lawful subpoenas. This same lawful subpoena was issued to the Clintons, and they defied it.”

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House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer  says contempt of Congress proceedings are moving forward after Bill Clinton refused to comply with a congressional subpoena tied to the committee’s investigation into Jeffrey Epstein. Comer said the subpoena was lawful and noted that other witnesses—including former officials—appeared under the same authority.

Comer also said the committee will pursue contempt against Hillary Clinton following disputes over her appearance, after attorneys for the Clintons argued the subpoenas were invalid and infringed on separation of powers. The chairman criticized Democrats for skipping the scheduled deposition and confirmed the contempt process would begin immediately, setting up a high-stakes legal fight between Congress and the Clintons.

46 RINO Progmericans within the GOP betrayed Americanist standards once again by helping the party of sedition, the party of Progmerica, the DNC-CCP, protect two of its most egregiously insurrectionist judges from having their office defunded.

Americanist Representative Chip Roy (R-TX) pushed forth the amendment as part of the appropriations package. The two judges targeted were James Boasberg and Deborah Boardman. Boasberg enabled Operation Arctic Frost and Boardman gave a would-be SCOTUS Judge assassin a lenient sentence. Both judges have consistently ruled outside the bounds of common-sense Americanist interpretations of the constitution, siding with leftist standards over American law.

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Forty-six House Republicans joined their Democrat colleagues on Wednesday in defeating a bill amendment that would have stripped funding from two activist judges and the D.C. federal courts.

Proposed by Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, as an amendment to an appropriations package considered by the House for the 2026 fiscal year, the measure sought to cut the budgets of the D.C. District Court and Court of Appeals by 20 percent. Roy cited the D.C. courts’ overreaching activism in stifling President Trump’s policy agenda as the reason for the amendment during a floor speech ahead of the vote.

“One of the issues that we’ve been addressing is the extent to which the president, who was elected to fulfill a mandate, has been carrying out policies that he believes fulfills the mandate the American people gave [him and] that … my colleagues on this side of the aisle believe should be fulfilled,” Roy said. “And yet, there have been judges who have been putting their personal preferences and their activist tendencies in front of the will of the people and in front of the policies that the president is putting forward in such a way that raises questions about whether they’re carrying out their jobs responsibly and in accordance with normal judicial ethics and procedures.”

Progmerican NY Governor Kathy Hochul is making a push to figure out how to make software that enables 3D printers to print guns and gun parts illegal. Even as the real 2A push is increasingly heading to the drone frontier, the Progmericans are still hoping to contain the threat that comes from citizens equipped and capable of defending themselves against ALL enemies, foreign AND DOMESTIC.

Her office released this official statement: As part of her 2026 State of the State agenda, Governor Kathy Hochul today unveiled proposals to strengthen New York’s nation leading gun laws by cracking down on 3D-printed and illegal firearms. The new legislation would establish criminal penalties for the manufacture of 3D-printed firearms and order minimum safety standards to be established for 3D printer manufacturers to block the production of firearms and firearm components.

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Gov. Hochul Demands Software to Block 3D Printers from ‘Creating a Gun’ – breitbart.com

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) pushed a mandate Wednesday that would require new 3D printers to be sold with software that blocks them from being used for “creating a gun.”

 

The United States Supreme Court voted by 7-2 that candidates in elections have standing to sue over Mass Mailer Ballot rules. The ruling could finally create a legal challenge to the obviously unconstitutional practice of allowing elections to be conducted in ways that are clearly impossible to secure.

Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the decision, saying, “Candidates have a concrete and particularized interest in the rules that govern the counting of votes in their elections, regardless whether those rules harm their electoral prospects or increase the cost of their campaigns. Their interest extends to the integrity of the election — and the democratic process by which they earn or lose the support of the people they seek to represent.” The far-left insurrectionist judges, Sotomayor and Brown-Jackson dissented.

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The Supreme Court held Wednesday that candidates for office can challenge rules governing elections in court.

In a 7-2 decision, the majority held that Republican Illinois Rep. Michael Bost has standing to challenge state rules that allow mail-in ballots to be counted up to 14 days after Election Day.

“Candidates have a concrete and particularized interest in the rules that govern the counting of votes in their elections, regardless whether those rules harm their electoral prospects or increase the cost of their campaigns,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the majority opinion.

“Their interest extends to the integrity of the election — and the democratic process by which they earn or lose the support of the people they seek to represent.”

For the first time in 50 years, the net migration in the U.S. has reached a deficit. The report by the Brookings Institute reveals the net deficit in migration is due to a combination of forced and voluntary deportations coupled with a precipitous decline in new entries. The Brookins Institute concluded, “Though a high degree of policy uncertainty remains, continued negative net migration for 2026 is also likely.”

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“Though a high degree of policy uncertainty remains, continued negative net migration for 2026 is also likely.”

The United States experienced negative net migration in 2025 for the first time in more than five decades as the Trump administration continues a sweeping crackdown on immigration.

In a report released Tuesday by the Brookings Institution, the shift was driven by a combination of stepped-up immigration enforcement, removals of illegal immigrants, voluntary departures, but most significantly a sharp decline in new entries into the country over the past year.

“We estimate net flows of -295,000 to -10,000 for the year,” the study said. “Though a high degree of policy uncertainty remains, continued negative net migration for 2026 is also likely.”

President Donald Trump needed VD Vance to stop the Senate from passing a bill that would handcuff President Trump’s military action in Venezuela. The Senate voted 50-50, with Vance casting the deciding vote in Trump’s favor. Had the bill passed it would have been vetoed, so the bill was a show bill intended to send Trump a message, but not one from the American people, one from the DNC-RINO party.

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Vice President JD Vance cast the tiebreaking vote in the Senate Wednesday night after some Republicans bucked President Donald Trump on a key war powers resolution.

Vance voted to block a war powers resolution aimed at reining in Trump’s authority to greenlight military operations in Venezuela. The vote was tied at 50-50 after Republican Sens. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Rand Paul of Kentucky, and Susan Collins of Maine defied their party to defy Trump, requiring Vance to break the tie.

‘You know what? That’s good enough for me.’