This past weekend, President Donald Trump announced that golf courses managed by the federal government at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland will be restored " a development that comes as millions of Americans are in the depths of an affordability crisis. The courses are offered to presidents, military officers, Department of Defense officials, and family members of those individuals, Reuters reports. Trump, an avid golfer, has described the courses as "a great place that has been destroyed over the years through lack of maintenance." Although Trump once claimed he would be "too busy" being president to play golf, he has found time to play the game most weekends since his return to office. read more
Steve Witkoff is teaching a master class to Russian officials on how to get what they want from Donald Trump. On Oct. 14, Trump's special envoy advised Vladimir Putin's top foreign policy aide, Yuri Ushakov, on how the Russian dictator should curry favor with Trump before broaching a proposed peace plan between Russia and war-torn Ukraine, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday. During the five-minute call, Witkoff told Putin's henchman that the Russian president should personally phone Trump, 79, ahead of his planned meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky"where Zelensky hoped, but ultimately failed, to secure long-range Tomahawk cruise missiles" to congratulate him on the Gaza ceasefire.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been personally linked to the brutal ICE raids sweeping America. Her 11-year-old nephew's mother, Bruna Ferreira, is now in custody at an ICE facility at Louisiana, facing deportation to Brazil. Ferreira is the former fiance of Michael Leavitt, the press secretary's New Hampshire-based brother. They had a son who they raised together before they split. Ferreira's sister, Graziela Dos Santos Rodrigues, has started a GoFundMe campaign to raise money to fight the ICE charges and allow Bruna to remain in Boston. It has now raised over $14,000 of a $30,000 target.
President Donald Trump is still working on a proposal to address a spike in Obamacare health insurance premiums, but the eventual plan may differ significantly from details reported over the weekend, the White House said Monday. read more
"More explosive early resignations are coming," one Republican told Punchbowl. "It's a tinder box. Morale has never been lower. [House Speaker] Mike Johnson will be stripped of his gavel and they will lose the majority before this term is out." read more
This might be the first time Mamdani ever touched pork.
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