Trump Government Shut Down

Trump, Congress

Trump looms large as Congress faces shutdown threat and ‘dizzying’ to-do list

Donald Trump won’t arrive back in the White House until January. But he’ll have fingerprints over every piece of the lame duck Congress.

The Washington Post on MSN · 3d

Congress set to extend government shutdown deadline into Trump’s term

With Republicans on cusp of unified control of Washington, Congress appears primed to extend federal funding well into President-elect Donald Trump’s term.

Hosted on MSN · 6d

Shutdown standoff looms in Congress' final weeks before Trump's return to White House

The 118th Congress is likely to have at least one final political standoff before the balance of power shifts, and it's over how to fund the federal government through September 2025.

CBS News (Video) on MSN · 3d

Orientation for new members of Congress begins as government shutdown looms

Orientation is underway in Congress for new members as important matters loom, including funding the government to avoid a shutdown. CBS News' Scott MacFarlane reports.

Trump, Third Term and House Republicans

Government Executive · 1d

House Republicans say they’ll confer with Trump on shutdown avoidance plans

House Republicans are planning to strategize with President-elect Trump on their path forward to funding the government past the current Dec. 20 deadline, leaders of the conference said on Tuesday.

Yahoo · 1d

Donald Trump Tells House Republicans He Won't Seek a Third Term Unless They 'Figure' Out a Way to Allow It

Trump has thrown out the idea of a third White House term before, despite an amendment to the Constitution that established term limits for presidents

Newsweek on MSN · 1d

Donald Trump Quips About Running for Third Term

"I suspect I won't be running again, unless you say, 'he's so good, we've got to figure something else," the president-elect said.

Trump, Department of Education

The New York Times · 1d

Could Trump Shut Down the Department of Education?

Donald Trump said he would use the department to further his priorities. He also said he would close it. Both options would face difficulties.

Newsweek on MSN · 13h

What Parents Should Know About Trump's Plan to Dismantle Dept. of Education

Trump wants to not just shake up but eliminate the federal education bureaucracy and send it back to the states. Students could get stuck in the middle.

USA Today · 11h

What Trump's plans for Dept. of Education could mean for public schools in Memphis

Memphis Shelby County Schools got more than 30% of the district's budget from the Department of Education in the last fiscal year.

Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy and Trump

USA TODAY on MSN · 1d

Trump taps Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy to lead new 'Department of Government Efficiency'

The move comes after Musk became one of Trump's staunchest supporters, and biggest financial backers, during the last stage of his presidential campaign

Fox News · 1d

Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy face a 'very powerful beast' as Trump seeks to create DOGE

OpenTheBooks CEO John Hart discusses President-elect Trump's push to cut out bureaucracy and wasteful spending on 'The Ingraham Angle.'

YAHOO!News · 1d

Vivek Ramaswamy wants to shut the FBI with Elon Musk. Here’s what they’ll need to succeed

The FBI should be closed down and 1.5million government workers sacked under Donald Trump’s new cost-cutting department.

3don MSNOpinion

Opinion: Will Republicans prove Trump haters right, or do their jobs and govern like adults?

Republicans have consistently trashed President Joe Biden's economic agenda and his handling of our immigration crisis. Can ...

ABC15 Arizona2d

Trump wants to shut down the Department of Education: Here’s what that could mean

President-elect Donald Trump has pledged to abolish the Department of Education. Here’s what the Department of Education does ...

Washington Examiner on MSN1d

RFK Jr. calls some of the food Trump eats ‘really, like, bad’

Trump ordered the feast mainly because workers in the White House kitchen had been furloughed in the government shutdown, but it gave further insight into his dining preferences. Kennedy hasn’t ...

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Trump wins tip scales for GOP on government funding

Republican electoral wins in both the presidential race and the Senate are changing the game on government funding, as ...

Opinion

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Trump’s win seals the end of a long, painful election. But the struggle is only beginning.

Trump has, among other things, promised to pardon Jan. 6 insurrectionists, which would effectively grant immunity to extremists. Who will stop him?

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Trump looms over Congress as Republicans pick leaders, plan overhaul

With the GOP on the brink of a governing trifecta in Washington, Trump looms larger than ever, particularly on Capitol Hill, where his influence looks set to grow.

Gov. Bill Lee would ‘welcome the opportunity’ of U.S. Dept. of Education shutdown

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee said he's all for president-elect Donald Trump's proposed plan to shut down the U.S. Department of ...

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Small and 'chaotic' House Republican majority poses challenges for the new Trump era

Republicans win the House as well as the Senate, giving Donald Trump a clear path to pass legislation. But the small majority ...

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