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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…

Vice President JD Vance put the blame on the “far-left faction” of Senate Democrats for the shutdown on Wednesday, crediting moderates who voted with Republicans on a House-passed bill on Tuesday to extend government funding. “There are critical services that the Democrats have taken hostage because they have a policy disagreement that they are open to work with us on, but they shouldn’t be shutting the government down because of that policy disagreement,” Vance said Wednesday on “CBS Mornings.”Vance said “we’re going to have to make sure that as much of the peoples’ government remains open or functional as possible.””That’s…

Good morning. You’re reading the Up First newsletter. Subscribe here to get it delivered to your inbox, and listen to the Up First podcast for all the news you need to start your day. Today’s top stories Much of the federal government is now shut down after the Senate was unable to reach an agreement on two competing funding bills. The last government shutdown, which lasted 35 days and was the longest in U.S. history, occurred from December 2018 to January 2019. The Trump administration has used government websites and agency-wide emails to accuse Democrats of causing the shutdown. Some ethics experts say that…

Hurricane Imelda is eyeing Bermuda and Hurricane Humberto has already passed it but, the National Hurricane Center said early Wednesday, both are likely to bring dangerous conditions behind them to a significant stretch of the U.S. East Coast.”Swells generated by Hurricane Imelda and Hurricane Humberto are affecting the Bahamas, Bermuda, and much of the U.S. East Coast. These swells are likely to cause life-threatening surf and rip current conditions,” the Miami-based center said.The storms’ centers were several hundred miles apart, with Imelda swirling west-southwest of Bermuda and Humberto north-northwest of the British island territory. Imelda had maximum sustained winds of…