Week 47 — The Return

This week we see an increasingly unbridled Trump, taking previously unthinkable actions in the light of day, and facing little or no pushback, nor consequence. Trump finally got his wish for retribution against former FBI director James Comey, with his newly installed U.S. attorney, garnering an indictment — although barely. Rather than retreat, Trump bragged to reporters that there would be more indictments of his perceived enemies coming.

Comedian Jimmy Kimmel’s show returned to air to a record audience, with Nexstar and Sinclair shortly after agreeing to air the show again, in a victory for free speech. Financial media reported that the lesson parent company Disney learned may be a turning point for previous capitulation by media companies. There were also several court rulings this week in favor of free speech, and against the Trump regime.

Defense Department (aka Department of War if Trump gets his way) Secretary Pete Hegseth convened a remarkable meeting at Quantico, flying generals and admirals stationed around the world back to Virginia, to deliver what turned out to be his standard anti-DEI, warrior stump speech. Trump also made his way to address the audience in a 73 minute rambling speech, 44 minutes of which was a repeat of random, unrelated remarks he had made in recent speeches. When Trump did turn to matters related to the military, his first remark was related to using the U.S. military on the country’s own citizens, and allowing Democratic-run cities to be “training grounds” for the military.

As the week closed out, the government shut down, as Democrats at long last did not capitulate to Trump’s desires. Trump and Republicans lied repeatedly about what was happening, and sought to place the blame on Democrats, as Trump threatened to cut hundreds of thousands more federal workers. It was unclear if this was possible, given, as we have covered in this project, several agencies have already sought to hire back employees fired by the regime. Trump also suffered a rare Supreme Court loss as the court ruled Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook could stay in place, hours after private company ADP showed more negative employment data, and the day after Trump pulled his nominee to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

1. ABC News reported Trump disparaged former president Joseph Biden, replacing a portrait of him in a new presidential portrait gallery installed by Trump, called the “Presidential Walk of Fame,” with an image of an autopen. The White House posted about the change.
2. Trump also posted a video on Truth Social, panning over the gold used to decorate the Oval Office, and bragging it was “some of the highest quality 24 Karat Gold,” saying foreign leaders will “freak out” when they see it and adding, “Best Oval Office ever, in terms of success and look!!!”
3. On Thursday, the DOJ escalated its efforts to obtain personal information on voters, suing California, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, New Hampshire, and Pennsylvania, to get their voter rolls information. The regime has already sued Maine and Oregon.
4. The six lawsuits marked the most aggressive effort by the regime to amass the largest national voter roll ever collected, as part of an effort by Trump and his allies to prove the baseless claim that droves of undocumented immigrants have voted illegally.
5. In a scathing order, a magistrate judge in D.C. scolded the Trump regime lawyers, after learning that when they failed to get a federal grand jury indictment they took the case to a local grand jury. He called it an “end around” that was breaking “decades-long norms and the rule of law.”
6. A federal judge disqualified Nevada’s acting U.S. attorney Sigal Chattah, saying she was “not validly serving as acting U.S. attorney,” and her involvement in the case “would be unlawful.” The judge also disqualified her from supervising “any attorneys” handling the case.
7. The Knight First Amendment Institute, a free-speech group, filed a mandamus petition, asking an appeals court to intervene, citing a Trump-appointed judge’s prolonged inaction on releasing a special counsel’s report about Trump’s retention of classified documents.
8. WAPO reported the Trump regime is considering a new plan that would change how universities are awarded research grants, from being based on scientific merit to giving an advantage to schools that pledge to adhere to Trump’s agenda in admissions, hiring, and other matters.
9. The return of Jimmy Kimmel’s late night show was viewed by 6.26 million viewers, far more than the show’s 1.42 million average viewers, despite Sinclair and Nexstar not showing it on 23% of ABC networks. The show also garnered 26 million views on YouTube and social platforms.
10. Bloomberg reported Disney is gearing up for a legal fight with Trump over the show. After consulting with legal experts, Disney is confident it will win any case over broadcast licenses; however, the fate of current and future transactions by the company may be impacted.
11. YouTube, a subsidiary of Google, agreed to pay $24.5 million to settle a 2021 lawsuit brought by Trump over the suspensions of his account following Jan. 6. Of the amount, $22 million will go to Trump, and the rest to other plaintiffs in the case. Meta and X had already settled.
12. A federal judge reinstated a South Dakota professor who had been fired over a Facebook post calling Charlie Kirk “a hate spreading Nazi” after the shooting, saying he “is entitled to First Amendment protection” and that the school failed to produce “any evidence of disruption.”
13. In a blistering ruling, a federal judge said the Trump regime unlawfully targeted noncitizens in academia who protested in support of Palestinians by threatening them with deportation, in violation of the First Amendment, as part of the regime’s efforts to stamp out activism.
14. In a letter, every former chair of the Federal Reserve, as well as scores of ex-Treasury secretaries and White House economic advisors, urged the Supreme court to block Trump from firing Fed governor Lisa Cook, saying it would threaten “independence and erode public confidence.”
15. On Saturday, Trump posted a cartoon on Truth Social depicting him pointing a finger at Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, with a caption “YOU’RE FIRED!” The post drew confusion as many believed that the post meant that Trump had actually fired Powell, which he had not.
16. Bloomberg reported that Wall Street has rejected Trump’s newest appointee to the Fed Stephen Miran’s arguments to lower interest rates to guard against inflation, calling them “questionable,” “incomplete,” and “non persuasive,” and “there is no support” for his suggestions.
17. Trump withdrew his nomination of E.J. Antoni to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Tuesday. No reason was given. The move came the day before private company ADP released a jobs report, showing payrolls in September unexpectedly dropped by 32,000 jobs.
18. Hours later, the Supreme Court ruled that Cook could keep her job as Fed governor pending oral arguments in January 2026, a rare loss for Trump in the court, as he had repeatedly tried to terminate her.
19. On Wednesday, WSJ reported Trump’s newly appointed U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia and DOJ officials were racing to charge former FBI director James Comey at Trump’s behest, before the statute of limitations runs out next week.
20. On Thursday, a federal grand jury indicted Comey, following years of threats by Trump. Comey was indicted on one count of making a false statement and one count of obstruction of a congressional proceeding for his testimony before a Senate committee in September 2020.
21. The two page indictment was signed only by Lindsey Halligan. Typically such indictments are endorsed by career prosecutors. Halligan failed to get the grand jury to indict on a second false statement charge. Only 14 of the 23 grand jurors voted to indict, with the threshold being 12.
22. NYT reported Halligan, a Trump loyalist appointed just days before, initially entered the wrong courtroom for the Comey hearing, and then stood on the wrong side of the judge, and appeared confused about the paperwork she had just signed.
23. NYT reported the indictment contained so little information, including no details on evidence, that it was hard for legal experts to assess its merits. Most expected it to fail. Richard Painter, former chief ethics lawyer for George W. Bush, said this is what happens “in dictatorships.”
24. Trump celebrated the indictment on Truth Social, posting, “JUSTICE IN AMERICA!” adding, “One of the worst human beings this Country has ever been exposed to is James Comey, the former Corrupt Head of the FBI,” and “He has been so bad for our Country, for so long.”
25. FBI director Kash Patel and AG Pam Bondi both posted about the indictment on social media: Patel cited, “previous corrupt leadership and their enablers weaponized federal law enforcement,” and Bondi cited the DOJ’s “commitment to holding those who abuse positions of power accountable.”
26. While Democrats spoke out against the indictment, calling it a “Constitutional crisis,” a “disgraceful attack on the rule of law,” and a “new low,” Republicans who spoke out publicly only offered praise.
27. In a video response, Comey referred to words by his daughter Maurene, who was fired by the DOJ, saying, “fear is the tool of a tyrant,” adding, “she’s right, but I’m not afraid, and I hope you’re not either,” and saying he looked forward to vindicating himself, and reminded people to vote.
28. Shortly after the indictment, Troy Edwards Jr., Comey’s son-in-law, who prosecuted Jan. 6 insurrectionists including members of the Oath Keepers, resigned from the office that brought charges against Comey, saying he left to “uphold his duty to the Constitution and country.”
29. On Friday, Trump told reporters the indictment is “about justice, really,” claiming, “It’s not revenge,” then adding, “They did it with me for four years. They went after me.” Trump denied there was a list of targets, saying, “It’s not a list,” but added, “I think there will be others.”
30. NYT reported a senior DOJ official issued a directive to more than a half dozen U.S. attorneys’ offices, instructing them to draft plans to investigate George Soros’s Foundation, on orders from Trump, a major breach of the firewall separating the president and the DOJ.
31. The memo states that on Trump’s orders, specific people or groups be subject to criminal investigation. Possible charges include racketeering, arson, wire fraud, and material support for terrorism. Trump has publicly demanded in the past that Soros be thrown in jail.
32. On Wednesday, a 29 year-old man opened fire from a roof top on a Dallas Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility, killing one detainee and wounding two. Initially, the Department of Homeland Security had said two were dead and one injured, but later issued a clarification.
33. Hours later, FBI Director Patel released images of recovered bullets, with one reading “ANTI-ICE. ” Shortly after, while the investigation was just starting, Vice President JD Vance said the the shooter was a “left-wing extremist” who was “politically motivated.”
34. Reuters reported that footage of a deadly ICE shooting in a Chicago suburb challenged the DHS narrative that the agent fired his weapon in self-defense, when he shot and killed Silverio Villegas Gonzalez. The Illinois governor and Mexican president have called for further investigation.
35. Both shootings, and the Kirk shooting, were examples of the Trump regime getting out ahead of the facts in an effort to set the narrative and blame the left. Motivations for the Kirk killing are still not known. Vance blamed the left in the Dallas shooting before facts were known.
36. On Thursday, Trump blamed the “radical left” for the shooting in Dallas, after Patel told reporters that the shooter, Joshua Jahn, 29, was targeting ICE agents, not detainees, citing the bullet and a note left by Jahn.
37. On Wednesday, Treasury Department Sec. Scott Bessent said in a post on X that the U.S. was preparing a $20 billion rescue package for Argentina, to help Trump ally President Javier Milei as he tries to regain investor confidence ahead of a crucial midterm vote next month.
38. NYT reported that Trump and the U.S. stood alone by not attending the UN Climate Summit, as other countries, including China, Russia, Japan, and Germany made new pledges to reduce planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions over the next decade.
39. WAPO reported that while solar produces the most of the electric capacity added to the power grid last year, Trump and his regime have attacked solar as unreliable and expensive, with Energy Secretary Chris Wright saying solar panels are “just a parasite” on the grid.
40. NYT reported that oil and gas executives are expressing concern about Trump’s political meddling in energy, specifically his attacks on wind energy. The chief executive of Exxon Mobile said Trump’s “ever-changing policy” is “not good for” business, the economy, or people.
41. AP reported Trump’s Transportation Department has pulled back grants in at least six states that were already awarded under Biden’s infrastructure law for recreational trails and bicycle lanes, telling local officials that the projects are “hostile to motor vehicles.”
42. The Trump regime outlined plans to buoy the coal industry, the largest contributor to climate change, opening 13.1 million acres of federal land for coal mining, and offering $625 million to upgrade existing coal plants, which have been closing, in order to extend their life spans.
43. WAPO reported after the Texas flood, key staff members of the Federal Emergency Management Agency could not reach acting administrator David Richardson for 24 hours, slowing the deployment of resources. FEMA’s urban search-and-rescue teams did not arrive for four days.
44. WAPO reported the National Weather Service is at a “breaking point” having shed 1 in 7 employees under the Trump regime, as storm season approaches. Staffers were working double shifts or operating on a “buddy system” with adjacent offices helping understaffed ones.
45. Trump posted on his Truth Social an AI generated video promoting “medbeds,” a conspiracy theory that has roots in the QAnon movement and falsely claims that cure-all medical beds exist and are being kept from the public, in a fake Fox News segment. He later deleted it.
46. On Thursday, after Trump canceled a scheduled meeting with Democratic leaders to discuss keeping the government funded, Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought threatened mass firings that would be permanent if a shutdown occurred.
47. Bloomberg reported that as the government appeared headed for a shutdown, the Trump regime used federal websites and employee email lists to falsely claims that Democrats were to blame, saying, “The Radical Left are going to shut down the government and inflict massive pain.”
48. Notably, a government shutdown may help House Speaker Mike Johnson, by allowing him to delay the swearing in of Democrat Adelita Grijalva, who won a special-election, and would give enough votes to advance a discharge petition to release the Jeffrey Epstein files.
49. House Oversight Democrats released partially redacted Epstein files received under their subpoena, which included notes and itineraries indicating Epstein was in touch with Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and Bill Gates, and with former Trump White House advisor Steve Bannon.
50. On Thursday, the Trump regime said it would withhold $65 million in federal grants from magnet schools in New York City, Chicago, and Fairfax, Va., after the Education Department accused the schools of violating civil rights law over the schools gender and DEI policies.
51. A survey by the American Association of Professors found that many professors in the South, particularly in Florida, South Carolina, and Texas, are feeling “fear and hopelessness,” with one in four saying they applied for a job in another state.
52. WSJ reported the Trump regime said in a letter to the president of Harvard University on Monday that its Office for Civil Rights is taking steps toward debarment of the school over alleged antisemitism on campus, a process which would make it ineligible for federal grants.
53. Trump claimed to be close to a deal with Harvard on Tuesday, telling reporters, “they’ll be paying about $500 million and they’ll be operating trade schools,” adding, “They’re going to be teaching people how to do AI and lots of other things.” Harvard had no comment.
54. On Friday, NPR asked a federal judge to block the Corporation for Public Broadcasting from transferring $57.9 million in satellite funding to a new nonprofit, saying CPB, which is winding down, is illegally re-appropriating Congressionally approved funds to another group.
55. On Thursday, Trump unilaterally unveiled a sweeping new series of tariffs, including 100% duties on patented drugs and 25% levies on heavy-duty trucks. The tariffs were set to take effect next week, triggering uncertainty after a short period of calm.
56. Trump also posted on Truth Social on Monday that movie production “has been stolen’’ from Hollywood and the U.S., and that he would impose a “100% tariff on any and all movies that are made outside of the United States.’’
57. Trump signed a proclamation on Monday, unilaterally imposing a 10% tariff on imports of softwood timber and lumber, and 25% levies on kitchen cabinets, vanities, and upholstered wood products. Home builders expressed concerns that it could deter home investments.
58. On Thursday, speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, Trump attacked two Black women in Congress, Reps. Jasmine Crockett and Ilhan Omar, calling Crockett a “very low IQ person,” a common refrain Trump uses for Black woman. On Omar, he said that Somalia “might want to take her back.”
59. Trump also signed an executive order to bring back the death penalty in Washington D.C. It was unclear if he had the power to do this, as the city abolished capital punishment in the 1980s.
60. As part of his effort to crack down on Democratic-aligned groups, Trump signed a presidential memorandum against “domestic terrorism” and “organized political violence,” aimed at creating a regime-wide response.
61. When asked by reporters on whom the regime might target next, Trump mentioned Reid Hoffman, a prominent Democratic donor, saying, “I hear about him, I don’t know.” Notably, Reid had funded E. Jean Carroll’s lawsuits against Trump. Trump also mentioned Soros.
62. Trump baselessly claimed Reid and Soros are “bad, and we’re going to find out if they are funding these things,” adding, “You’re going to have some problems because they’re agitators, and they’re anarchists.” Trump continued to baselessly blame the far-left for Kirk’s death.
63. Several studies and experts have noted that the biggest terrorist threat to Americans in recent decades has come from far-right extremists, some studies showing a 5-to-1 margin over far-left extremists.
64. Alex Soros, the son of George Soros, said on a panel that the philanthropic organization he now leads has done nothing wrong, and that it would back away from its human rights work “over my dead body.”
65. Trump also signed an executive order outlining the terms to transfer TikTok to U.S. owners of his choosing, all his cronies, with no competitive bid process, calling them, “Great investors. The biggest. They don’t get bigger.” China did not publicly comment on the deal.
66. Among the owners named by Trump would be MGX, with a 15% ownership stake. MGX is headed by Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the U.A.E.’s national security adviser, and brother to the country’s president, and in Week 26 used a stablecoin developed by the Trump family.
67. Bloomberg News reported in Trump’s deal, Oracle will remain in partnership with China-based ByteDance Ltd. to protect U.S. data in “Project Texas,” which the Biden administration had found insufficient in addressing U.S. national security concerns.
68. NYT reported that Steve Witkoff, Trump’s Middle East envoy, has parlayed his relationship with Trump in the past to help secure funding from a Qatari sovereign wealth fund to rescue him and his co-investor from an underwater real estate deal.
69. Since Witkoff took the role in the second regime, his son Alex, who currently manages the family’s real estate business, has pitched deals to Middle East investors in the shadow of his father’s official visits. The other son has secured crypto deals for his business with Trump’s son.
70. WSJ reported a key to private equity firm Silver Lake being able to complete a $55 billion purchase of Electronic Arts, the largest leveraged buyout in history, after years of trying, was its co-chief executive forging a relationship with Jared Kushner, and including his fund in the deal.
71. On Friday, Trump demanded on Truth Social that Microsoft fire Lisa Monaco, the company’s global affairs head, who formerly served as deputy AG under Biden, claiming, “She is a menace to U.S. National Security,” citing “the major contracts” Microsoft has with government.
72. On Friday, Patel fired roughly 20 FBI agents, including agents who appeared in a photo kneeling during protests for George Floyd in 2020. Agents groups said the firing was a “dangerous pattern” that was weakening the agency.
73. On Friday, the DOJ issued a subpoena for the travel history records of Fani Willis, the Georgia district attorney who charged Trump with election interference in the 2020 election. It was unclear if Willis was the target of the inquiry, or what charges she might face.
74. NYT reported Trump fired Michele Beckwith, the acting U.S. attorney in Sacramento, in July, less than six hours after she issued a warning to Gregory Bovino, Trump’s California Border Patrol chief, to abide by court-ordered restrictions on immigration raids.
75. On Monday, two civil rights lawyers, Palmer Heenan and Paul Osedebe, were fired by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, after speaking out about the Trump regime’s efforts to limit enforcement of the Fair Housing Act.
76. WAPO reported the Trump regime is seeking to block fired federal workers from appealing to the Merit Systems Protection Board, claiming it must follow DOJ guidance. The move would test the independence of the agency which hears appeals of government actions.
77. On Friday, the Trump regime asked the Supreme Court to uphold his executive order ending birthright citizenship, signed on Trump’s first day in office. A number of federal judges have issued temporary pauses on the order since.
78. NYT reported the Trump regime had deported a planeload of about 100 Iranians back to Iran, after reaching a deal with Tehran. The identities of those deported, and their reasons for trying to immigrate, were not made public. For decades the U.S. has given fleeing Iranians shelter.
79. On Friday, the Supreme Court ruled in Trump’s favor, allowing him to withhold $4 billion in foreign aid funding that had been appropriated by Congress, saying in its brief order that Trump’s flexibility to engage in foreign affairs outweighed “the potential harm” faced by aid recipients.
80. On Friday, AG Bondi posted on X that she had deployed DOJ agents to federal immigration facilities across the country, adding she instructed the Joint Terrorism Task Forces “to disrupt and investigate all entities and individuals engaged in acts of domestic terrorism.”
81. On Friday, the Des Moines Public Schools superintendent, Ian Roberts, was detained by ICE in a “targeted enforcement operation.” ICE said he was in the country illegally from Guyana and serving as superintendent despite having “a final order of removal and no work authorization.”
82. On Saturday, Trump ordered troops to Portland, Oregon, to quell anti-ICE protests, claiming he directed Hegseth and Kristi Noem “to provide all necessary Troops to protect War ravaged Portland, and any of our ICE Facilities under siege from attack by Antifa.”
83. Trump said he is authorizing the military to use “full force” in Portland, where protests at a federal ICE detention facility have been going on since June. The deployment marked Trump’s fourth, including Los Angeles, Washington D.C., and more recently, Memphis.
84. WAPO reported defense officials were caught off guard by Trump’s social media post, which was sent while he was at his golf club in Virginia, and were seeking clarity, including on whether he planned to deploy active-duty troops or National Guard members, or both.
85. Portland Mayor Keith Wilson, who said he learned of the deployment on social media, said, “The number of necessary troops is zero, in Portland and any other American city,” adding Trump “will not find lawlessness or violence here unless he plans to perpetrate it.”
86. NYT reported Trump’s interest was prompted by Fox News, which mixed images of small nightly protests from the summer in with videos of the much larger 2020 protests. The Oregonian reported that the number of arrests outside the facility had declined over the past three months.
87. On Sunday, Oregon sued the Trump regime to block Trump from deploying the state’s troops for 60 days. Hegseth said in a memo on Sunday that 200 members of the Oregon National Guard would be activated to support Trump’s plans.
88. Reuters reported that Hegseth ordered senior U.S. military officials from around the world to a meeting in Quantico, Virginia. It was unclear why Hegseth had ordered generals and admirals to be in one place on such short notice, adding up to millions in travel costs.
89. WAPO reported that last minute on Sunday, Trump said he planned to attend Hegseth’s gathering of top military officials. Trump’s attendance not only overshadowed Hegseth, but also added new security concerns to the massive and nearly unprecedented military event.
90. WAPO reported multiple top military leaders have expressed concern over Hegseth’s new Pentagon strategy, which focuses on perceived threats to the homeland, narrowing U.S. competition with China, and downplaying America’s role in Europe and Africa.
91. Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine is among those increasingly frustrated that the plan, which is centered on Trump’s agenda, is myopic and potentially irrelevant to current day problems. There is also concern with Trump’s contradictory and highly personal approach.
92. At the meeting, Hegseth railed against diversity, saying, “No more climate change worship, no more division, distraction or gender delusions,” and vowing to get rid of “woke” and “dudes in dresses.” He mentioned his book on “warriors,” and extolled physical fitness, decrying “fat troops.”
93. Hegseth, a week after eliminating a 75 year-old advisory committee on women in the military, added of his new physical standards, “If women can make it, excellent. If not, it is what it is. If that means no women qualify for some combat jobs, so be it.”
94. Hegseth said new policies would revamp inspector general and equal opportunity programs, saying, “I call it the ‘no more walking on eggshells’ policy,” adding, “We are liberating you,” and “No more frivolous complaints, no more anonymous complaints.”
95.  Hegseth said the officers who did not like what he said “should do the honorable thing and resign,” saying those who were inculcated by the culture of previous administrations were led by “foolish and reckless political leaders” that created the “Department of Woke.”
96. Before traveling to Quantico to address military leaders, Trump told reporters he would be meeting with the military leaders, and “if I don’t like somebody, I’m going to fire them right on the spot.”
97. At Quantico, Trump echoed Hegseth, saying the military would be “bringing back a focus on fitness, ability, character and strength,” adding, “That’s because the purposes of American military is not to protect anyone’s feelings. It’s to protect our republic.”
98. Trump revived the idea of Canada becoming the 51st state, saying their leaders expressed interest in being part of a military defense shield, “They want to be part of it, to which I said, ‘Why don’t you just join our country?…it does make a lot of sense,” citing the impact of his tariffs.
99. Trump baselessly claimed that Portland “looks like a war zone” and “this place is a nightmare,” adding their “liberal governor” told him not to send troops, and he said, “‘Well, unless they’re playing false tapes, this looks like World War II, your place is burning down.’”
100. Trump claimed the country was having a “war from within,” saying he was refocusing the military to help law enforcement, adding of Democratic-led cities, “They’re very unsafe places,” and we “should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military.”
101. Trump closed by saying there would be more announcements in the coming months to “fully embrace the identity of the Department of War,” adding, “I love the name. I think it’s so great. I think it stops wars.” Congress has yet to vote on changing the name.
102. Trump tried repeatedly during to get the military leaders to laugh when he made remarks mocking his predecessors or used his usual political lines, saying, “Just have a good time. And if you want to applaud, you applaud,” but they did not, and he eventually stopped trying.
103. Trump’s speech lasted for 73 minutes, the first 44 minutes of which was the same speech he had given repeatedly in recent days, unrelated to the military. At the 44 minutes mark, he started with the idea of using Democratic-run cities, “as training grounds for our military.”
104. Retired Army Maj. General Paul D. Eaton said, “Hegseth spent millions to fly in all of our generals and admirals to rant about facial hair and brag about how many pull-ups he can do, and have Donald Trump sleepwalk through a list of partisan gripes.”
105. On Wednesday, the government shut down, after Trump and top Republicans failed to reach a deal with top Democrats. The shutdown could leave hundreds of thousands of federal employees without pay and delay key economic reports, including jobs data.