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Federal workforce shutdown cuts will “most likely” exceed 10,000, Foote says

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🔥 Discover this must-read post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 Category: Donald Trump news,federal workers,Government Shutdown,layoffs,Office of Management and Budget,Russ Vought 📌 Here’s what you’ll learn: Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought said in an interview Wednesday on "The Charlie Kirk Show" that many of the workforce reductions, known as RIFS or reductions in force plans, were planned for as long as the shutdown lasted. Read more: Judge temporarily blocks Trump's firing of federal employees during shutdown He said court filings last week that showed at least 4,000 people being fired are "just a snapshot and…

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Social Security’s cost of living announcement was delayed, another side effect of the shutdown

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💥 Explore this insightful post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 Category: cost of living adjustment,seniors,social security,social security administration 📌 Here’s what you’ll learn: WASHINGTON (AP) — The ongoing government shutdown is delaying the announcement of Social Security's annual cost-of-living adjustment for tens of millions of beneficiaries. Social Security's 2024 COLA announcement was originally scheduled for Wednesday, and will now be on October 24. It was timed according to the September Consumer Price Index, which has also not yet been released. Read more: Social Security has been around for 90 years. It may be threatened now more than ever…

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Ukrainian officials meet with US arms manufacturers ahead of Trump-Zelensky talks

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🔥 Read this must-read post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 Category: Lockheed Martin,russia,Ukraine,Volodymyr Zelenskyy 📌 Key idea: KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Ukrainian government delegation met with prominent U.S. arms manufacturers during a visit to the United States, a senior official in Kyiv said Wednesday, ahead of President Volodymyr Zelensky's meeting with his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump at the White House later this week. Yermak wrote in a post on Telegram that a delegation led by the Chief of Staff of the Ukrainian President Andriy Yermak and Prime Minister Yulia Sviridenko met with representatives of Lockheed Martin and…

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WATCH LIVE: Trump holds a press conference with FBI Director Patel

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🔥 Explore this insightful post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 Category: antifa,Donald Trump news,Kash Patel 📌 Main takeaway: WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday threatened to move World Cup matches scheduled to be played next year in suburban Boston, after suggesting unrest had “taken over” parts of the city. Trump is scheduled to speak to the media with FBI Director Kash Patel at 3 p.m. ET. Watch in the player above. Foxborough, Massachusetts, home of the NFL's New England Patriots and about 30 miles from Boston, is scheduled to host games while the United States hosts…

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WATCH: Trump still expects to meet with Chinese leader as trade tensions rise, Picent says

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✨ Check out this trending post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 Category: China,Donald Trump news,federal shutdown,scott bessent,tariffs,trade ✅ Here’s what you’ll learn: Treasury Secretary Scott Besent said President Donald Trump still expects to speak with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in South Korea during APEC week. Watch Bessent's comments in the player above. Renewed trade tensions have threatened ongoing tariff negotiations between the United States and China. Besant made the comments at a press conference on Wednesday. China last week expanded export controls on key rare earth minerals, and then Trump announced a 100% tariff on Chinese goods set…

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How do Trump and Budget Chief Foot make this government shutdown unlike any other?

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💥 Explore this awesome post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 Category: Donald Trump news,Government Shutdown,office of budget and management,project 2025,Russ Vought 📌 Key idea: WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is making this government shutdown unlike anything the country has ever seen, giving his budget office rare power to pick winners and losers — who gets paid or fired, what programs get cut or stay on — in an unprecedented restructuring across the federal workforce. Watch live: The Senate is in session as the Trump administration threatens more firings due to the federal shutdown As the shutdown enters…

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Meta removes Facebook page that tracked ICE in Chicago

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🚀 Discover this must-read post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 Category: Chicago,Department of Justice,facebook,immigration and customs enforcement,Meta,Pam Bondi 📌 Here’s what you’ll learn: Meta is the latest tech company to restrict the tools used to track ICE agents on its platform. Earlier this month, Apple and Google banned downloads of phone apps that suggested seeing American immigration agents, just hours after the Trump administration demanded the removal of one particularly popular iPhone app. Such tracking puts Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers at risk, Bondi said. But users and app developers say they have a First Amendment right to…

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Media outlets including the New York Times and Newsmax say they will not sign the Pentagon rules document

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💥 Explore this insightful post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 Category: Associated Press,department of defense,Donald Trump news,first amendment,New York Times,Newsmax,pentagon,pete hegseth,press freedom 📌 Main takeaway: News organizations including The New York Times, The Associated Press and the conservative Newsmax television network said Monday they would not sign a Defense Department document on its new journalism rules, making it more likely that the Trump administration will expel their reporters from the Pentagon. Read more: Trump directs the Pentagon to use "all available funds" to pay troops despite the shutdown Those outlets say the policy threatens to punish them for…

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A Pennsylvania man pleads guilty to terrorism and arson attacking the governor’s mansion while the Shapiro family was asleep

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🔥 Explore this trending post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 Category: arson,Cody Balmer,Josh Shapiro,Pennsylvania ✅ Key idea: HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The man who scaled an iron security fence in the middle of the night, evaded police and used beer bottles filled with gasoline to ignite an occupied Pennsylvania governor's mansion pleaded guilty Tuesday to attempted murder and other charges. Cody Palmer, 38, also filed charges of terrorism, 22 counts of arson, arson, burglary, aggravated assault on Gov. Josh Shapiro, and 21 counts of reckless endangerment and loitering in the April 13 attack that caused millions of dollars…

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Watch the live broadcast: Trump meets with Argentine Miley as the United States prepares for a $20 billion rescue plan

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🚀 Check out this must-read post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 Category: argentina,Donald Trump news,Javier Milei ✅ Here’s what you’ll learn: BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA - Argentina's liberal leader heaped praise on Donald Trump ahead of his first White House meeting with the US president on Tuesday. It's a tactic that has helped turn President Javier Miley's cash-strapped nation into one of the Trump administration's closest allies. Trump and Miley are scheduled to meet at 1:15 p.m. ET. Watch in the player above. Such impassioned statements are nothing new for Milley — whose deep cuts in government spending and…

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