President Donald Trump has confiscated the government’s closure as an opportunity to redesign the federal employees and punish critics by threatening the mass shots of employees and proposing “irreversible” cuts for programs for democrats.
Instead of just questioning the employees, the press spokesman for the White House, Karoline Leavitt, said that the layoffs are “immediately” immediately “direct”. The office for management and budget announced that in the hometown of the Democratic Fi from the US house and the Senate it held around $ 18 billion in infrastructure funds for the New York U -Bahn- und Hudson tunnel projects.
Thursday is the second day of shutdown, and the dial is already high. The aggressive approach of the Trump administration is what certain legislators and budget observers feared whether the congress who has the responsibility to adopt the legislation to finance the government, not to do its work and to give control to the white house.
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Johnson says that the closures “the keys of the kingdom” to Trump
The spokesman for the house, Mike Johnson, says that the government’s conclusion gives President Trump and his budget director a great power over the federal government.
The White House is preparing to unleash mass decisions and financing cuts during the closure, and Johnson, a Republican in Louisiana, agreed that the president has the constitutional authority to make these decisions. He accused Democrats and said, “They effectively switched off the legislative” and “handed them over to the president”.
Nevertheless, Johnson, Trump and the Household Director of the White House of Russ, said Russian “has no pleasure”.
The white house threatens “damage” for democratic voters during the closure
Trump said this morning that he would meet his top budget advisor Russ Vough to discuss financing cuts that could be carried out during the shutdown.
When asked whether this was just a negotiating tactic, the Press spokesman for the White House, Karoline Leavitt, said, “It’s very real.”
“The Democrats should know that they bring the white house and the president into this position, and if they do not want to harm their voters at home, they have to reopen the government,” she said.
Vice President JD Vance said in the White House on Wednesday and said that the federal authorities would not be addressed on the basis of politics despite the impending layoffs due to the closure.
House Speaker exposes democratic financing law as the “wild list of party political priorities”
The spokesman for the House, Mike Johnson, spoke in Capitol and asked the Senate Democrats to reverse the course and to support a draft law to reopen republican laws in order to reopen the government at the current output level.
Johnson, a Republican in Louisiana, described a Finance Act that presented a “wild list of party political priorities” from Democrats, and said that many of the measures that the congress took since the Republicans had taken majorities in the House of Representatives and Senate this year.
While the Democrats have presented the alternative laws, they do not seriously demand that the congress say goodbye. Instead, they mainly want to negotiate the Republicans of negotiating a deal in order to extend tax credits for health plans that are offered as part of the law on affordable care.
No meetings that are planned to shut down
President Trump and the congress leaders will soon meet again. The congress does not have any measures to comply with the Jewish day of the most sacred on Thursday, with the senators stay behind on Friday. The house should resume the meeting next week.
The Democrats adhere to their demands to maintain the financing of health care and refuse to support a legislative template that cannot do so, and warn of price tips for millions of Americans nationwide. The Kaiser Family Foundation estimates the insurance premiums more than twice as high as for humans who buy guidelines for the stock exchanges of the Affordable Care Act.
The Republicans have opened a door to negotiate the healthcare system, but GOP leaders say that it can wait because the subsidies that assist people to take out private insurance only take place in the year of the year.
“We are ready to have a conversation that the Americans continue to have access to health care,” said Vice President JD Vance on Wednesday in the White House.
Finance Minister Scott Bessent says
Bessent said: “We could see a hit on GDP, a hit of growth and a hit for the work of America”, as a result of the government’s closure.
Bessent made the statements about CNBCs “Squawk Box” on Thursday morning.
Data from previous shutdowns have shown only a compact impact on the USBIP, unless, according to Phillip Swagel of the congress budget, the Congress’s office director, they have been expanded. “The effects are not directly, but over time the economy has had a negative impact,” he recently told The Associated Press.
The federal government’s closure will reduce vital economic data, including the jobs on Friday at the Friday report on Friday
The state closure that began on Wednesday will withdraw from the political decision-makers and investors of economic data, which are of crucial importance for their decision-making in a time unusual uncertainty about the direction of the US economy.
The absence will be felt almost immediately, since the government’s monthly jobs will probably be delayed on Friday. A weekly report on the number of Americans who are striving for unemployment benefits – a deputy for layoffs that are usually published on Thursdays – is also postponed.
If the shutdown of low duration is, it will not be very annoying. However, if the publication of economic data is delayed over several weeks or more, this could occur primarily for the Federal Reserve. The Fed deals with where a key interest rate is to be determined at a time contradictory signals. Inflation is above its target of 2% and increases almost to a standstill, which increases the unemployment rate in August.
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Trump Administration wants
The Trump administration offers nine prominent US universities preferred access to federal funds if they promise to take a number of steps that correspond to the goals of Republican administration, which they see as a liberal influence on science.
The 10-point memo asks the universities to agree on five years to include the enrollment of international students to 15% of the student body in the basic course and to oblige strict definitions of gender and other steps.
The memo was sent to civil servants from Vanderbilt University, the University of Pennsylvania, Dartmouth College, the University of Southern California, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Texas, the University of Arizona, Brown University and the University of Virginia, which was not justified and the matter that to comment publicly and speaks in the matter with the state of anonymity.
“In order to improve the national interest from this unique relationship, this compact for academic excellence in university formation represents the priorities of the US government in their operational readiness with universities that benefit from the relationship,” says the memo preserved by the associated press in the lengthy memo.
– Amer Madhani
Besser continues with Argentinian loan -swap management discussions
The Finance Minister Scott Bessent published on Thursday morning on the social media website X that he will soon welcome an Argentine delegation to Washington to “make our discussions in the personal pioneer in relation to options for providing financial support for Argentina”.
The Argentine President Javier Milei is looking for a loan -swap line of 20 billion US dollars from the United States, which annoyed both Democrats and Republicans
Bessent said on X that the US Ministry of Finance is “fully willing to do what is necessary and we will continue to observe the developments closely.”
The anti-abbreviation group says that it is planning to issue for another race of the Senate of 2026
Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America said that North Carolina adds to the list of US Senate races that will be aimed for next year.
The anti-abdominal group undertook to spend $ 4.5 million to defeat Roy Cooper, a democratic former governor who runs as a replacement for retireing Republican Senator Thom Tillis next year.
The announcement will be made about a week after SBA announced that she would insert the same amount in each of two other races of the Senate in Michigan and Georgia.
If this follows with the expenditure, it would be roughly the same amount that he uses in the independent political editions across the country in 2022 and 2024.
The group says that it will also take part in other 2026 races.
Trump meet with the Budget Director of the White House, while he spends cuts during the downward
On his social media site, the president said that he would meet Russ with the budget director of the White House in order to discuss “temporary or permanent” expenses as part of the government’s closure.
Trump expressly emphasized in his social post that Vought played a role in compiling the project 2025 in order to redesign the federal government in right -wing politics. During the 2024 presidential campaign, Trump had contested to participate in the 2025 project, which was published by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank.
Trump said that the point of the meeting “should be determined which of the many democratic agencies” suspect “and whether these cuts will be temporary or permanent or not.”
The President said that democratic legislators give him “this unprecedented opportunity” to reorient the government according to his wishes.
