2025 Government Shutdown: 43-Day Timeline, Impact & Recovery Understanding the 43-Day Government Shutdown Between October 1 and November 12, 2025, the United States experienced its longest government shutdown in history. After weeks of deadlock over healthcare subsidies and federal spending, Congress passed a bipartisan funding bill that reopened the government and set a new funding ...
Government Shutdown Deal: Complete Breakdown Understanding the Government Shutdown Deal On November 9, 2025, after 40 consecutive days of closure—the longest government shutdown in U.S. history—the U.S. Senate voted 60 to 40 to advance legislation designed to reopen federal agencies and resume critical services. This procedural vote marked the first step toward ending a fiscal ...
Vice President JD Vance leaned into an internet joke at his own expense this Halloween, posting a short video of himself wearing a curly brown wig to mimic a meme that followed him for months. The 41-year-old vice president filmed the clip at the Naval Observatory residence, where he opens the door in a dark ...
President Donald Trump announced on October 30, 2025, that the United States will resume testing nuclear weapons, marking a potential end to a 33-year moratorium that began in 1992. The announcement came just before his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Busan, South Korea, during talks aimed at restoring stability after months of trade ...
In an unusual move, federal agencies across the government sent nearly identical emails to employees Tuesday blaming Democrats for the looming shutdown, breaking from traditional non-partisan communications during funding disputes. The emails, sent to workers at the Departments of Interior, Labor, Health and Human Services, and many others, directly pointed the finger at congressional Democrats ...
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday to rebrand the Pentagon as the “Department of War,” a move that restores its historical name used from 1789 until 1949. The executive order allows the Defense Department to use “Department of War” as a secondary title, and authorizes officials to use titles like “Secretary of War” ...
A federal appeals court ruled on Friday that most of President Donald Trump’s tariffs are illegal, but allowed them to remain in place until October 14 to give the administration time to appeal to the Supreme Court. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit decided in a 7-4 vote that Trump overstepped his ...
President Donald Trump has called for Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook to resign immediately following allegations that she made false statements on mortgage applications. This marks an expansion of Trump’s pressure campaign against the Federal Reserve as he pushes for lower interest rates. “Cook must resign, now!!!” Trump wrote Wednesday on his Truth Social platform, ...
President Trump has nominated E.J. Antoni, an economist from the conservative Heritage Foundation, to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). This move comes just days after Trump fired the previous commissioner, Erika McEntarfer, following a disappointing July jobs report. The BLS reported only 73,000 jobs added in July, far below expectations. More concerning for ...
President Donald Trump has picked Nick Adams, a social media personality famous for his “alpha male” persona, as the next U.S. Ambassador to Malaysia. The White House sent this nomination to the Senate on July 9, 2025, causing a stir in diplomatic circles. Adams, 40, became a U.S. citizen in 2021 after moving from Australia. ...
