Vice President JD Vance and White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt during a press briefing at the White House on Oct. 1, 2025. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times Vice President JD Vance on Sunday said there will be deeper cuts to the federal workforce the longer the government shutdown goes on, adding to the uncertainty facing
White House deputy chief of Staff Dan Scavino sits in the Situation Room as they monitor the mission that took out three Iranian nuclear enrichment sites, at the White House on June 21, 2025. Daniel Torok/The White House via Getty Images One of President Donald Trump’s longtime advisers, Dan Scavino, is going to be in
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) campus in Cambridge, Mass., on May 25, 2025. Learner Liu/The Epoch Times The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has declined to sign onto the Trump administration’s proposed compact, which would mandate campus reforms in exchange for preferential access to federal funding. MIT President Sally Kornbluth announced the decision on
Members of the Texas National Guard stand guard at an army reserve training facility in Elwood, Ill., on Oct. 7, 2025. Scott Olson/Getty Images A federal appeals court has ruled the Trump administration can continue to keep National Guard troops in Illinois under federal control but cannot deploy them in Chicago while the appeals process
President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington on Oct. 6, 2025. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images President Donald Trump said on Oct. 11 that his administration has located funds to keep active-duty service members paid during the government shutdown, saying he will not let Democrats hold the military “hostage” as
White House border czar Tom Homan speaks with the media at the White House on June 30, 2025. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times The Trump administration’s border czar, Tom Homan, said that the Justice Department has launched an investigation into the sources of funding for what he called “organized” attacks on federal immigration enforcement agents, amid
President Donald Trump returns to the White House from a visit to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Washington, on Oct. 10, 2025. Anna Rose Layden /Getty Images News Analysis President Donald Trump announced the imposition of an additional 100 percent tariff on Chinese goods and export controls on critical software, effective Nov. 1,