[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] The United States federal government has officially shut down after Donald Trump shared a behind-the-scenes photo from his failed negotiations with Democrats.
The strike of midnight on Wednesday ushered in the first federal government shutdown since December 2018, when a standoff over border wall funding during President Trump’s first term led to a historic 35-day stoppage.
The Senate plans to vote on the twice-failed funding bill again on Wednesday morning, but most House Republicans are not even in Washington, leaving a timeline for a resolution an open question.
At the heart of the standoff is Democratic Party demands that Republicans agree to restoring cuts to healthcare that were enacted over the summer.
The shut down came just hours after the president kept trolling Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House counterpart Hakeem Jeffries over the breakdown in talks.
All three, plus Speaker of the House Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune, were pictured in an image Trump posted to Truth Social late Tuesday.
In the Oval Office, The president placed 'Trump 2028' hats on the Resolute Desk beside a pair of ice-cold Diet Cokes, his favorite drink.
He offered the Democrat leaders the hats as gifts, which they reportedly rejected, according to Punchbowl News.
Jeffries even asked JD Vance, who was in the room at the time, what he thought of the president running for a third term, to which the vice president said: 'No comment.'
However, despite the friendly-seeming negotiations, the Democrats blocked any deal to keep the government open from moving forward.
It follows the president's controversial post from the night before which used AI to manipulate Schumer's speech and photoshopped a sombrero and mustache onto Jeffries.
The lapse in funding could result in hundreds of thousands of government workers getting furloughed, while millions of federal employees will be on edge as they await to know whether or not they are deemed 'essential' and need to work during the shutdown. The 1.3 million U.S. military personnel will go without pay as well.
For everyday Americans, services like passport offices, federal loan offices and food inspections will come to a grinding halt, as these services are deemed non-essential. Museums and National Parks will close, too.
President Donald Trump has already warned of dire consequences for Democratic priorities, signaling little willingness to negotiate with the minority party.
'We can do things during the shutdown that are irreversible - that are bad for them and irreversible by them - by cutting vast numbers of people out, cutting things that they like, cutting programs that they like,' Trump said in the Oval Office on Tuesday.
'A lot of good can come from shutdowns,' he said later in the day.
Typically, Congress is supposed to pass a dozen separate appropriations bills to fund the government, but this has not happened in years; instead, lawmakers have opted to pass continuing resolutions (CRs), which largely maintain funding levels as previously established in the passed funding bills.
Economically, the shutdown is poised to impose temporary disruptions but its long-term effects are expected to be limited, according to many analysts. Layoffs could dampen consumer spending and slow services such as health inspections, veterans' assistance and Social Security inquiries.
Essential operations, including border security, law enforcement and medical care will continue.
The impasse has arisen because Republican and Democratic leaders, including House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., have yet to strike a deal on spending levels.
House Republicans under Johnson passed a CR earlier this month to keep the government's lights on through November. However, Democrats in the Senate are opposing the Republican-led CR over its lack of healthcare funding provisions.
As it stands, the GOP proposal resides in the Senate, where it needs 60 votes to pass and head to President Donald Trump's desk, where he would need to sign it before midnight Wednesday to avoid a shutdown. All signs point to that not happening.
Schumer and Senate Democrats have openly said for weeks that they are not willing to support the measure unless provisions are added to make permanent tax cuts from the Affordable Care Act, which are slated to expire by the end of the year.
Democrats are also pushing to repeal parts of Trump's domestic policy agenda, the Big Beautiful Bill Act, which resulted in cuts in rural hospital funding and Medicaid.
There are 53 Republicans in the Senate, so any proposal would need at least seven Democratic votes to pass.
Republicans, meanwhile, have said they want to pass government funding first, then they will be open to negotiating subsidies.
To me, the video plays to the grade school playground voter level group.
Cute, and even Funny.
Don't get me wrong, TRUMP has made and accomplished a lot more of his promises than any other President. But, I expect a higher level of professional admin and management style of my Nation.
BTW: What happened to: The COMPLETE release of the JFK, MLK, RFK & Epstien files?
Or, the Ft. Knox tour, Trump to acquire Greenland, Trump to annex part of Canada, etc. etc. etc.
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I think the 100k are the folks that took the buyout. They haven’t been at work since Feb. Many have not done useful work in years. This seems like a good opportunity to turn the spigot of cash off to many NGOs and remove the handle. Hopefully, Trump was serious about all the cabinet identifying all their least valuable players for discharge.
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If any "Epstein" files are released, I won't trust the accuracy or completeness of a single one of them. The Deep State has had years to "dispose" of whatever "evidence" Jeffrey Epstein left behind. DS might well have simply concocted an AI collection of utter garbage -- how would anyone outside of the DS be able to determine that. Same goes for the other "secret files".
I have this vague memory from Nov. 1963 of seeing a photo of the limo JFK was assassinated in, showing its damaged windshield. A few days later another "photo" showed an undamaged windshield. How that happened was never explained.
[Breitbart] Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) has written to Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy to ask for an accounting of how the State of California has spent federal funding his department allocated for wildfire prevention.
Scott noted that “California’s state and local governments appear to have mismanaged resources designed to support wildfire preparedness, suppression, and recovery.”
Scott, as Breitbart News has reported, is chairing an investigation with Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) into how California responded (or failed to respond) to the devastating Palisades Fire in January, which began on state land.
In a letter dated Sep. 26, Scott pointed out that California has received federal funds, in part through the Department of Transportation, for the prevention of wildfires, yet appeared to have squandered it.
He wrote:
It has been reported that California, in general, and Los Angeles, in particular, have received seemingly endless flows of federal funds from the DOT and other federal agencies for wildfire management, repression, and response. Yet these funds do not appear to have been used wisely. This has led many to conclude that California’s trouble with wildfire mitigation is not due to a lack of funding, but rather years of the state’s foot-dragging and red tape.
Natural disasters happen, regardless of state or political party. And we should all rally around those who experience calamity through no fault of their own. But those in government also have a duty to responsibly manage funds that have been allocated to prevent and respond to these disasters. That does not appear to have been the case in California.
Accordingly, I have been conducting oversight of the contributing causes of the Palisades fire and the adequacy of the response efforts. To advance that oversight, although I acknowledge your incredibly effective response to the Palisades fire, I am writing to request an update on the funding that has been allocated to California in the past ten years, starting on September 1, 2015. In particular, how much money has the DOT given to California for wildfire response, prevention, and recovery? How many DOT personnel have been employed or deployed to respond to wildland fires on California state property? Are there any federal or California laws, rules, or regulations that hinder the DOT’s ability to adequately respond to wildfires or recover from wildfires? Additionally, how much money did California receive from the DOT in response to the Palisades wildfires and other California wildfires that occurred in 2025?
Read the full letter here.
Scott asked Duffy to respond by October 17, though it was unclear if a government shutdown would affect the deadline. (Scott has also joined Johnson in a legislative effort to change budgeting to prevent shutdowns.)
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I have never seen a published response to any of these letters. They used to get me excited. Now it sort of seems like a waste of a stamp.
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Could the California Political problem be simply solved, by the DOJ arresting those that criminally re-directed this Taxpayer $$$$$ and screwed over the Cal citizen-Voters?
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Woo, California squandered something. May need to start a list of things they've squandered things they haven't squandered.
For instance, they haven't squandered the weather. Yet.
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He burned through it.
Im here all week. Dont forget to tip the waitress.
The city is urging the governor to sign into a law a bill that would expand California's definition of emergencies to include landslides and events made worse by climate change.
[IsraelTimes] Ivy League school referred to government office responsible for administrative suspension and debarment proceedings, has 20 days to request hearing
US President Donald Trump ...So far he's been unkillable, and they've tried.... ’s administration expanded its campaign against Harvard University on Monday as the Department of Health and Human Services said it would start a process that could lead to the school becoming ineligible for federal funding.HHS’ Office for Civil Rights said it had referred Harvard to the office within the department responsible for administrative suspension and debarment proceedings, a move that opened the door to the Ivy League school being barred from entering into contracts with all government agencies or receiving federal funding.
Its announcement came after the Office for Civil Rights referred the school to the US Department of Justice in July to address allegations that it failed to address discrimination and harassment against Jewish and Israeli students on its campus.
Paula Stannard, the director of the Office for Civil Rights, said her office had notified Harvard of its right to a formal administrative hearing, where an administrative law judge would determine whether it violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It has 20 days to seek a hearing.
Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Harvard did not respond to requests for comment. The university has said it aims to combat discrimination.
Trump’s administration has launched a campaign to leverage federal funding to force change at Harvard and other universities, which the president says are gripped by antisemitic and "radical left" ideologies.
Harvard has sued over some of those actions, leading a judge to rule earlier this month that the administration had unlawfully terminated more than $2 billion in research grants awarded to the school. US District Judge Allison Burroughs in her ruling said that the Trump administration "used antisemitism as a smokescreen for a targeted, ideologically motivated assault on this country’s premier universities."
The administration has been seeking a settlement with Harvard. Trump, during a recent cabinet meeting, said the university should pay "nothing less than $500 million" as it had "been very bad."
The administration says universities allowed displays of antisemitism during massive pro-Paleostinian and anti-Israel protests throughout the Israel-Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... war in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... . Protesters, including some Jewish groups, say their criticism of Israel’s actions in Gaza and in Paleostinian territories should not be characterized as antisemitism, and their advocacy for Paleostinian rights should not be equated with extremism.
Still, an internal report as well as an investigation conducted by the Trump administration found that Harvard’s campus had become an intensely hostile environment for Jewish and Israeli students and that the university had failed to address the social and academic issues that had contributed to the hostility.
U of California students, staff sue White House after funding cuts over antisemitism
[IsraelTimes] The Trump administration is using civil rights laws to wage a campaign against the University of California in an attempt to curtail academic freedom and undermine free speech, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday by faculty, staff, student organizations, and every labor union representing UC workers. The coalition that sued is led by the American Association of University Professors union, or AAUP, and represented by Democracy Forward, a legal group that has brought other lawsuits against the Trump administration over frozen federal funds.
The lawsuit comes weeks after the Trump administration fined the University of California, Los Angeles $1.2 billion and froze research funding after accusing the school of allowing antisemitism on campus and other civil rights violations. It was the first public university to be targeted with a widespread funding freeze. The administration has frozen or paused federal funding over similar allegations against elite private colleges, including Harvard, Brown, and Columbia.
According to the lawsuit, the Trump administration has made several demands in its proposed settlement offer to UCLA, including giving government access to faculty, student, and staff data, releasing admissions and hiring data, ending diversity scholarships, banning overnight demonstrations on university property, and cooperating with immigration enforcement.
The US Department of Justice didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment, nor did the office of the UC system’s president.
Stett Holbrook, a spokesman for the University of California system, said that while the university is not involved in the lawsuit, it is part of numerous legal and advocacy efforts to restore and maintain funding.
The US government alleges that universities allowed antisemitism during campus anti-Israel protests. Protesters have said the government is wrongly equating their criticism of Israel’s actions in the Palestinian territories with antisemitism, and their advocacy for Palestinian rights with support for extremism.
The US Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has launched dozens of federal investigations also targeting K-12 school districts.
University of California president James Milliken said that the federal government has also launched investigations and other actions against all of the UC’s 10 campuses, but he offered no details in a statement.
“This represents one of the gravest threats to the University of California in our 157-year history,” he said, adding that the university system receives more than $17 billion each year in federal support, including nearly $10 billion in Medicare and Medicaid funding, and funding that goes toward research and student financial aid.
This summer, Columbia University agreed to pay $200 million as part of a settlement to resolve investigations into the government’s allegations that the school violated federal antidiscrimination laws. The agreement also restored more than $400 million in research grants. The Trump administration is using its deal with Columbia as a template for other universities, with financial penalties that are now seen as an expectation.
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No institution or person has a right to federal funding. I would like to see a summary of what I am actually getting for all these dollars that are going into Harvard. I don’t accept the assertion that it is basic research or that the return is spooky secret stuff that is so important that I can’t know about it. I see the Feds shoveling cash into the mouth of a beast that is the antithesis of America. I see no good return. Let’s just stop. Do the research at the University of Tennessee until they prove to suck as well.
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Back in the Vietnam stand down we had a million men in the Army and several National Laboratories which were established to support DoD. We're now under a half a million but zero reduction in National Laboratories. Yeah, they hid some under Dept of Energy, but no reductions. Just refocus their missions.
[Ynet] Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu instructed Justice Minister Yariv Levin to submit a basic law, the foundation of which was revealed by ynet about two and a half months ago, to replace "senior officials" in each government. According to him, "It is unreasonable that the vast majority of senior officials come from the same worldview. This is an anti-democratic system."
Over here in America we call that the Deep State.
He told Justice Minister Levin to submit a law "that will allow for proper diversity and enable any government from any political side to operate without officials being able to disrupt its work and block it." During the meeting, Netanyahu asked Levin to submit a basic law on the matter - and told him to handle it. Sounds familiar?
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] The United States federal government has officially 
[IsraelTimes] Ivy League school referred to government office responsible for administrative suspension and debarment proceedings, has 20 days to request hearing
..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
[Ynet] Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu instructed Justice Minister Yariv Levin to submit a basic law, the foundation of which was revealed by ynet about two and a half months ago, to replace "senior officials" in each government. According to him, "It is unreasonable that the vast majority of senior officials come from the same worldview. This is an anti-democratic system." 
