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FBI says it found classified documents in John Bolton’s DC office

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics ... r-AA1NaUyA

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White House to agencies: Prepare mass firing plans for a potential shutdown

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/2 ... n-00579909

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Trump deploys troops to invade Portland, authorizing 'full force' if necessary

President Donald Trump announced Saturday that he will send troops to Portland, Oregon, and to immigration detention facilities around the country, authorizing “Full Force, if necessary” and escalating a campaign to use the U.S. military against Americans that has little modern precedent.

Trump said in a social media post that he was directing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to provide troops to what he dubbed “War ravaged Portland.”

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics ... tland-ice/

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Democrats turn up heat on Johnson over Epstein files vote delay

https://www.axios.com/2025/09/29/mike-j ... alva-clark

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Louisiana's governor asks for National Guard deployment to New Orleans and other cities

Source: AP

Updated 1:04 AM EDT, September 30, 2025

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana’s Republican governor asked for National Guard deployments to New Orleans and other cities, saying Monday that his state needs help fighting crime and praising President Donald Trump’s decision to send troops to Washington and Memphis.

Gov. Jeff Landry, a Trump ally, asked for up to 1,000 troops through fiscal year 2026 in a letter sent to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. It comes weeks after Trump suggested New Orleans could be one of his next targets for deploying the National Guard to fight crime.

Trump also sent troops in recent months to Los Angeles and his administration has announced plans for similar actions in other major cities, including Chicago and Portland, Oregon.

Landry said his request “builds on the proven success” of deployments to Washington and Memphis. While Trump has ordered troops into Memphis with the backing of Tennessee’s Republican governor, as of Monday night there had yet to be a large-scale operation in the city.

“Federal partnerships in our toughest cities have worked, and now, with the support of President Trump and Secretary Hegseth, we are taking the next step by bringing in the National Guard,” Landry said.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/louisiana-go ... 76f6f3bf14

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Americans Aren’t Buying Trump’s Shutdown Blame Game
By Julianne McShane
October 2, 2025

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( Mother Jones) As Democrats and Republicans trade accusations over which party is responsible for the government shutdown, new polling suggests that President Donald Trump’s efforts to falsely claim—in social media posts, on television, on government agencies’ websites, and in internal directives to federal employees—that Democrats shut down the government because they want to provide “free health care for illegal aliens” are not working.

Nearly half of Americans blame the shutdown on Trump and Republicans in Congress, according to a new nationally representative poll of more than 1,000 Americans, conducted by the Washington Post on Wednesday. Meanwhile, 30 percent said they blame Democrats, and nearly a quarter of respondents said they are unsure of who to blame. Interestingly, eight percent of Republicans blame Trump and the GOP for the shutdown, higher than the two percent of Democrats who blame their own party.

The White House’s claims, of course, are not accurate. Undocumented immigrants are already mostly ineligible for federal health care, and Democrats are seeking to restore access to Medicaid and Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies for documented immigrants, including refugees and people granted asylum. The Republican spending bill passed this summer contains the Medicaid cuts, while the ACA subsidies are set to expire at the end of this year under the Inflation Reduction Act passed in 2022. Yet, Republicans ranging from Trump, to Vice President JD Vance, to House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), to Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) have made the claim that Democrats shut down the government over efforts to provide health care to undocumented people.

Read more here: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/ ... ame-game/

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Government shutdown could cost US economy billions of dollars a week, analysts say

Source: The Guardian

Thu 2 Oct 2025 16.24 EDT
Last modified on Thu 2 Oct 2025 21.51 EDT

Senior officials inside Donald Trump’s administration have acknowledged the federal government shutdown, without an end in sight, could hurt the US economy. The damage could be worth billions of dollars each week, according to analysts.

“This isn’t the way to have a discussion, shutting down the government and lowering the GDP,” Scott Bessent, the US treasury secretary, told the CNBC financial news network. “We could see a hit to the GDP, a hit to growth and a hit to working America.”

Prolonged failure to reach a deal would be costly.

“We estimate that each week of shutdown would reduce US GDP growth by 0.1 percentage points (ppt) in Q4 (in annualized terms), translating into a $7 billion weekly hit to the economy,” a report by EY Parthenon said, citing the effect of lack of pay for furloughed federal workers, delayed government procurement of goods and services and decline in demand.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/business/20 ... y-billions

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Government shutdown: Senate funding measures fail again as deadlock continues

Source: CNBC

Published Fri, Oct 3 2025 12:51 PM EDT Updated 7 Min Ago

The Senate on Friday once again did not pass dueling funding bills that would have kept the three-day-old government shutdown from stretching into next week.

The latest attempts to pass both Republicans' "clean" resolution, which would resume funding at current levels through late November, and Democrats' version, which includes additional health-care funding and other measures, was expected not to succeed.

The same competing resolutions previously failed multiple times in the Senate, including on the eve of the shutdown and after it began Wednesday morning.

The shutdown is now all but guaranteed to drag on until at least Monday.

Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/03/governm ... trump.html

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White House freezes funds for Democratic states in shutdown slap

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-gov ... 025-10-01/

Several government agencies posted notices on their websites blaming the "radical left" for the shutdown - a possible violation of a law known as the Hatch Act meant to insulate nuts-and-bolts government services from partisan politics.

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