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New York Times editor Kathleen Kingsbury wrote Saturday that a small minority of Republicans attempted to block President Donald Trump’s unilateral tariffs on Brazil — and that action said a lot about what they haven't done.

While the votes were not enough to successfully stymie Trump’s tariff — thanks to Republican leaders’ curtailing the power of that vote — Kingsbury said the move indicated the party’s first meager effort to control their party’s leader and his authoritarian-style push for more power.

President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social Friday that he's asking "the Court to clarify how we can legally fund SNAP as soon as possible," after a federal judge ordered his administration to continue funding the program during the shutdown.

But Trump already knows how to shuffle money, says the New York Times Editorial Board. He’s already been funneling it wherever he wants for months, regardless of rules.

Despite promising transparency on the president’s planned White House ballroom, the Trump administration has withheld the identities of several donors – among them individuals who conducted business with the administration, The New York Times reported Saturday.

“The rush of major business interests to fund a pet project of Mr. Trump’s has reinforced a perception in corporate America that the ballroom is a way to curry favor with, or seek protection from, a president who has repeatedly demonstrated a willingness to use the levers of government to help allies and punish foes,” wrote Times reporter Kenneth Vogel.

President Donald Trump reignited his calls to deport a sitting member of Congress Saturday after sharing an old video of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) – a naturalized U.S. citizen – speaking positively about the country in which she was born, Somalia.

“She should go back!” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social, alongside a video of Omar speaking at an event and declaring Somalia to be her “home,” a video that was first shared last year by the far-right X user “End Wokeness” which has frequently targeted Muslims and spread misinformation, including theories about Haitian immigrants eating pets.

President Donald Trump's new deal with South Korea that he proudly boasted would bring in $950 billion is already falling apart after several South Korea companies have either pulled or paused planned investments into the United States, citing concerns over a chaotic immigration raid at a Hyundai plant in Georgia in September.

“It's too risky with the unpredictability of the U.S. market right now and determined it’s better to do their expansion in Korea,” said Tami Overby, an international business consultant, speaking with The Washington Post about a Korean firm that had decided against investing in the United States out of concern over Trump’s deportation policies, he told the outlet in its report Saturday.

President Donald Trump's approach to the upcoming elections is lacking the bluster of previous fights — and insiders suggest he thinks Republicans have already lost, the Washington Post reported Saturday.

The president has kept a strategic distance from candidates in races, including in Virginia and New Jersey — and has refused to pour the millions of dollars into contests that he has in the past.

As 42 million Americans missed their first food assistance payment Saturday amid the ongoing government shutdown, President Trump attended a Great Gatsby–themed Halloween party at his Mar-a-Lago resort — sparking outrage from critics who described the event as ‘tone deaf.”

“Trump and Rubio at the Mar-a-Lago Halloween Party, on day 31 of the shutdown,” wrote Danny Kemp, the White House correspondent for AFP, in a social media post on X Friday night. “Official theme is Gatsby and ‘a little party never killed nobody,’ we’re told.”

In a landmark immunity case last year, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts argued that sweeping presidential immunity was necessary to prevent an executive branch that "cannibalizes" itself. Roberts claimed that without such protection, a president would be "free to prosecute his predecessors, yet unable to boldly and fearlessly carry out his duties for fear that he may be next."

But that sweeping protection might have just been thrown away by President Donald Trump, two experienced federal law experts warned Saturday.

The White House confidently predicted a swift resolution to the government shutdown as it started last month — with White House officials believing Democrats would quickly capitulate.

The fact that it's still going has left President Donald Trump dumbfounded — and furious, insiders told Politico.

As the shutdown enters its second month, the administration's miscalculation has become increasingly apparent, the report stated. "Trump, he's had it with these people, because he knows they're playing politics," said an anonymous White House source. "Nobody thought it was going to last this long."

As millions of families across the U.S. face loss of food aid over the weekend, President Donald Trump on Friday decided to show off photos of a White House bathroom that he boasted had been refurbished in “highly polished, statuary marble.”

Trump posted photos of the bathroom on his Truth Social platform, and explained that he decided to remodel it because he was dissatisfied with the “art deco green tile style” that had been implemented during a previous renovation — which he described as “totally inappropriate for the Lincoln Era.”