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Steve Bannon talks about immigration issues with a caller while hosting Brietbart News Daily on SiriusXM Patriot at Quicken Loans Arena on July 20, 2016. | Getty Breitbart bullish on Bannon return, promises 'aggressive expansion'

Breitbart News is riding high amid its reunion with executive chairman Steve Bannon.

After announcing Bannon’s return on Friday, who officially left his post as White House chief strategist hours prior, Breitbart officials say they are “fired up” about the future of the populist right-wing publication, promising an “aggressive expansion” and renewed focus on its signature bombastic reporting-style.

“I think we definitely are planning on stepping up our game,” Breitbart News Washington editor Matthew Boyle said during the outlet’s weekly SiriusXM show on Saturday.

“’[W]e’re planning a lot of aggressive expansion and much more aggressive reporting than we’ve already been doing,” he added.

Boyle, one of Bannon’s closest allies at Breitbart both prior to and during his tenure serving President Donald Trump, said that the outlet was electrified by Bannon’s return, casting the dynamic at the site during his time away as akin to that of “a pirate ship without a captain.”

“We’ve been a pirate ship without a captain for a year,” Boyle said. “We’re thrilled to have our captain back.”

Boyle’s comments echo that of Bannon’s, who told the Weekly Standard Friday he was “jacked up” to be back with Breitbart’s cast of renegade conservatives. Prior to his White House departure, friends and associates of Bannon said he felt restless with the constraints of the West Wing and that he yearned to return to his role as a political outsider. It was time for “Bannon da Barbarian,” he reportedly told them.

The new Bannon era at Breitbart is likely to feature the publication doubling-down on its attacks on centrist Republicans.

Bannon declared Friday during an interview with Bloomberg that he and Breitbart would be setting their sights on who they saw as enemies of the Trump administration going forward.

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“I’m leaving the White House and going to war for Trump against his opponents -- on Capitol Hill, in the media, and in corporate America,” Bannon said.

Boyle expanded on the sentiment by putting “establishment Republicans” on notice Saturday, while cautioning the Trump administration that it would not be able to carry out its agenda if it strayed too far to the center.

“Trump has to work with conservatives. It’s the only way he can get major big ticket items done,” Boyle said. “What the president has to do is stick to the agenda that won him the election.”

Boyle also fired off a few warning shots to former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci and 21st Century Fox CEO James Murdoch, the son of Fox News chief Rupert Murdoch, both of whom have made critical remarks about Trump over the past week.

The Breitbart writer criticized James Murdoch over his open letter denouncing Trump’s response to the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville last weekend, saying it “read like leftist diatribe.” He also called out

Scaramucci for criticism about Trump to left-leaning publications this week.

Boyle also reiterated Breitbart’s commitment to their oppositional mantra of constant warfare – mirroring a tweet sent by editor at large James Pollak on Friday.