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Washington — The Trump administration said Wednesday it is freezing roughly $18 billion in federal funding for a pair of New York City infrastructure projects, targeting the home state of both Democratic congressional leaders on the first day of the government shutdown.Russ Vought, head of the White House Office of Management and Budget, announced the freeze in a post on X, saying funding for the Hudson Tunnel Project and Second Avenue Subway would be halted pending a review that will be delayed due to furloughs during the funding lapse.New York is home to both Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and…

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, both from New York City, speak to reporters outside the White House Monday after meeting with Republican Leadership and US President Donald Trump. Trump has now frozen $18 billion in infrastructure funding for projects in New York. JIM WATSON/AFP hide caption toggle caption JIM WATSON/AFP On the first day of the federal government shutdown, the Trump administration fired a financial salvo at New York City, home to Senate Minority Leader Senator Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries by freezing $18 billion in infrastructure dollars budgeted by Congress.…

The names of the three people who were shot and killed at a North Carolina bar by a Marine veteran over the weekend were released on Wednesday, as a vigil is scheduled to remember the victims.The City of Southport identified 36-year-old Solomon Banjo of Charlottesville, Virginia, 64-year-old Joy Rogers of Southport and 56-year-old Michael Durbin of Galena, Ohio, as the patrons of the American Fish Company, a waterfront restaurant along the Cape Fear River, who were killed in the shooting on Saturday night. Five others were injured, but were not identified. People place flowers in front of the American Fish Company following a…

Politics / October 1, 2025 Trump and the defense secretary summoned top military leaders to the side of authoritarianism and abuse, but the officers did not thrill to the message. Ad Policy Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth at a podium gesticulating in front of a large American flag.(Alex Wong / Getty Images) Nobody knew why Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth summoned 800 of the top US military leaders, from posts all over the world, to the Marine Corps base in Quantico, Virginia, yesterday for the most costly and boring pep rally in world history. He wanted to liberate the “warrior ethos”…

Karoline Leavitt is back in the press secretary’s traditional office in the White House.Leavitt is reclaiming the roomy space with a fireplace that Taylor Budowich, President Trump’s deputy chief of staff for communications and cabinet affairs, occupied until he left the Trump administration this week.Leavitt will take over some of the duties that Budowich handled, along with Steven Cheung, the White House communications director, two sources told CBS News. As of now, Budowich’s role has not been filled.West Wing office real estate has long been a status symbol in official Washington, where proximity and access to the president can equate…

Manufacturers in the U.S. are cutting thousands of jobs even as President Trump pushes economic policies that he says will revitalize the industry. Employers shed 12,000 manufacturing jobs in August, while payrolls in the sector have shrunk by 42,000 since April, according to a new analysis from the Center for American Progress (CAP) that draws on government labor data. The nonpartisan policy institute attributes that decline to the Trump administration’s steep new tariffs; hardline stance on immigration; and the Republican-backed “big, beautiful bill,” a tax and spending package enacted by Mr. Trump in July that CAP says hurts renewable energy companies by phasing out certain…

The federal government shut down on Wednesday for the first time since December 2018. That shutdown lasted for five weeks, until January 2019. Alex Wroblewski/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Alex Wroblewski/AFP via Getty Images The federal government has shut down for the first time since 2018. The first shutdown in over five years began just after midnight on Wednesday, after a standoff between Senate Republicans and Democrats over healthcare spending culminated in their failure to pass a pair of last-ditch funding bills. Both parties are blaming each other, though a new NPR/PBS News/Marist poll shows that more…

Since President Trump returned to the White House in January, his administration has mounted an aggressive effort to crack down on cities, counties and states that aren’t participating in its mass deportation campaign, threatening these so-called “sanctuary” jurisdictions with lawsuits, funding cuts and other penalties.The Trump administration has also directed Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other federal agencies to surge deportation agents to sanctuary jurisdictions like Chicago and Los Angeles, where highly visible federal immigration raids have triggered massive protests and confrontations.But eight months into Mr. Trump’s second administration, the effort to exert pressure on these jurisdictions has yielded few…

Jon Wiener: From The Nation magazine, this is Start Making Sense. I’m Jon Wiener.  Later in the hour: None of us were prepared for the double whammy of last week’s White House press conference, where Trump made false claims not only about vaccines, but also about Tylenol causing autism.  We’ll have analysis from Gregg Gonsalves. He teaches at the Yale School of Public Health; he’s been an AIDS activist for 30 years; and he’s also a MacArthur Fellow — class of 2018.  And he’s The Nation’s public health correspondent.  But first: The Democrats challenged Trump on the budget & the…

Washington — The Supreme Court on Wednesday said it will hear arguments in January on whether President Trump can fire Lisa Cook from her position on the Federal Reserve Board of Governors.The high court said in a brief unsigned order that it is not yet acting on Mr. Trump’s request for emergency relief. The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court last month to allow the president to fire Cook while a legal challenge to her removal moved forward.By deferring a decision on the president’s bid for emergency relief, Cook can remain in her position on the Fed’s Board of Governors…