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Appearing with House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), who made his daily sojourn to speak to reporters and blame Democrats for the government shutdown, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy warned travelers that he can’t guarantee what will happen next week.

With no end in sight for the shutdown coming to an end, despite Republican control of the White House and both chambers of Congress, Duffy stated that next week, already-stressed air traffic controllers will not get paid as normal and there is no telling how that would impact flight schedules.

President Donald Trump is backing off his troop deployment to San Francisco for now after speaking with the city's mayors and some friends who live in the area.

Mayor Daniel Lurie said Trump called him Wednesday night to discuss the planned crackdown by federal law enforcement, and he told the president that he welcomed increased coordination with federal agents, but he warned that militarized immigration enforcement could set the city back.

President Donald Trump continues to face public backlash over his complete teardown of the East Wing of the White House, prompting the co-hosts of "The View" to recall the uproar when Michelle Obama planted a vegetable garden.

"I want us to recognize that this is not a left or right issue," host Whoopi Goldberg said about the demolition of the White House building. "This is an issue of being an American and being able to say 'this is what we like and this is what we don't like.,' and I don't know anybody who thinks that a president should not have to go to the Senate or Congress or to someone for some oversight!"

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) faced backlash from a key Trump insider after she refused to drop calls to release files on sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and urged Republicans to negotiate with Democrats on lowering health care costs.

MAGA influencer Laura Loomer claimed on X that President Donald Trump was no longer on speaking terms with Greene.

The House Judiciary and Oversight and Reform Committee Democrats announced on Thursday that they will be investigating President Donald Trump's alleged shakedown of the Justice Department for $230 million.

The New York Times reported this week that Trump wants $230 million in restitution from his own DOJ over the investigations he faced during his first term and after his 2020 election loss.

Changpeng Zhao, the billionaire founder of crypto exchange Binance, received a pardon after months of boosting a crypto venture owned by President Donald Trump's family.

According to The Wall Street Journal, Trump signed off on the pardon on Wednesday. Advisers said that the president sympathized with claims that the Biden administration prosecuted Zhao for political reasons.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is representing Sam O'Hara, who was arrested in Washington, D.C., when he began playing the "Imperial March" from "Star Wars" at National Guard soldiers marching through the streets. Now he's fighting back.

A new lawsuit filed on Thursday details the story of O'Hara's encounter on Sept. 11, playing the song while doing nothing more than walking behind the Guard, noted Slate legal reporter Mark Joseph Stern.

“This is dangerous. What are you doing?” was one of the responses to Donald Trump after he agreed to nominate former South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem to be his Department of Homeland Security director.

That is according to excerpts from a new book by journalist Jonathan Karl titled, “Retribution: Donald Trump and the Campaign That Changed America,” and published by The Guardian.

House Republicans’ faith in House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) winning the battle for public opinion in the government shutdown is looking more and more misplaced, reported the Washington Post.

According to a Thursday report, Johnson sent his caucus home after sending their budget bill to the GOP-majority Senate in the belief the Senate Democrats would fold under pressure from Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) – but that has turned into a big bust.

Real America's Voice host Emily Finn said she did not believe the White House "looks destroyed" after President Donald Trump demolished the building's East Wing to make room for his $250 million gilded ballroom project.

"President Trump is having some renovations done at the White House," the pro-MAGA host told reporter Brian Glenn on Thursday. "Many on the left claim it's unprecedented. Earlier this week, even Hillary Clinton posted on X, saying it's not his house, it's your house, and he's destroying it."

A Republican congressman was fact-checked for suggesting that former President Barack Obama had demolished parts of the White House to build a basketball court.

President Donald Trump has provoked outrage by ordering the demolition of the East Wing to build a $250 million gilded ballroom that would dwarf the main White House, and Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) raced to his defense to suggest that other presidents had carried out similar destruction of the historic building.