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COLLINS: Is that AI video appropriate in your view?

ROGER MARSHALL: Look, I think sometimes the president plays with the press like a little boy and a flashlight and a dog

COLLINS: Just to be clear, you don't have objections to that video the president posted?

MARSHALL: I think it's said in jest

With a government shutdown looming in hours, President Trump decides to post a video, making fun of @SenSchumer and @RepJeffries and the whole Democratic Party with AI.

 

Trump’s shutdown plans: Mass layoffs, deregulation, military deployments​

The White House’s call for mass layoffs in a looming shutdown tracks with past administration efforts to defang much of the federal government.

Under the Trump administration’s plans for a government shutdown, the Labor Department would cut off most activities — then fire thousands of employees. National parks would close, and their staffs could face layoffs. Phone help lines at the Internal Revenue Service would go unstaffed, perhaps permanently.

National Guard deployments to major cities — D.C., Memphis and Portland — would continue. Immigration raids and deportation activities would be unaffected, though officers would work unpaid.

If Congress fails to fund the government next week, the White House is preparing for a shutdown that would reflect the purest version of President Donald Trump’s vision for the federal government, guided by White House budget director Russell Vought, an architect of the controversial Project 2025 playbook for Trump’s second term.

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The result, both during and potentially after a shutdown, could be a federal government dramatically reoriented to defense, immigration and law enforcement — and not much else.
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But Vought earlier this week told agencies to prepare for mass firings if a shutdown takes hold, and even after that to “retain the minimal number of employees necessary.”
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In a shutdown, agencies that interact directly with individuals and provide government services would largely suspend operations or face budget shortfalls.
The anti-hunger program for women, infants and children, known as WIC, generally keeps some contingency funds on hand, but those can run out after a number of weeks. Federal housing subsidy programs could face similar funding crunches.
The Small Business Administration would largely halt issuing new loans or providing support for existing loans. Agencies that review permits for everything from public demonstrations to transportation projects would be shuttered.
 
Hegseth: "If the words I'm speaking today are making your heart sink, they you should do the honorable thing and resign."



Defense Secretary Hegseth vows end of military diversity efforts, adding combat troops will have to meet "highest male standard." Follow live updates:
 
Hegseth: "You should not pay for an earnest mistake for your entire career. That's why today, at my direction, we're making changes to the retention of adverse information on personnel records."

 
Trump: I’m going to be meeting with generals and admirals and if I don’t like somebody, I’m gonna fire em right on the spot.

Also says this “was an expense and we would rather spend on bullets and rockets.”

 
Hegseth: "We unleash overwhelming and punishing violence on the enemy. We also don't fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill the enemies of our country. No more politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement."

 
The architect Stephen Miller who is behind Trump’s most severe immigration policies is seeking so-called “homeland defenders” as unofficial, MAGA-fied immigration officers to conduct Green Card interviews

 
Trump takes the stage at Quantico to pure silence


And states


Trump opens with a threat to the generals in the room:

"I've never walked into a room so silent before … Just have a good time. And if you want to applaud, you applaud. And if you want to do anything you want, you can do anything you want. And if you don't like what I'm saying, you can leave the room. Of course, there goes your rank, there goes your future. but you just feel nice and loose."

 
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