Closing summary
Donald Trump has now retreated to the warm embrace of his private club in Florida for the weekend, so we will put our live coverage to bed for the night. Here are the latest developments:
The US supreme court granted the Trump administration’s emergency request to block a lower court’s order that it fully fund nutrition benefits for 42 million lower-income Americans
A federal judge in Oregon issued a permanent ban on the deployment of national guard troops to Portland, halting Donald Trump’s plan to use federalized troops to combat dozens of protesters in inflatable costumes.
Before leaving the White House for his resort in Florida, Trump posted a demand for senators to stay in Washington and continue working to end the government shutdown.
Republicans rejected a proposal made by the Senate’s Democratic leader, Chuck Schumer, which would have ended the longest government shutdown in US history by offering a deal to reauthorize funding in exchange for a one-year extension of tax credits that lower costs for Affordable Care Act health plans.
As Americans go hungry, Trump suggested that he could exempt the nation of Hungary from sanctions on importing oil from Russia.
Students, faculty and staff at more than 100 campuses across the US rallied against the Trump administration’s assault on higher education – the first in a planned series of nationwide.
Trump tried, once again, to mislead the public into believing his false claim that grocery prices are down, not up, by pointing to what he said was a sharp decline in the cost of making a Walmart Thanksgiving basket this year. The basket is cheaper, but also significantly smaller than it was last year.
Oregon's governor welcomes ruling to prevent 'gross abuse of power' by Trump
Oregon’s governor, Tina Kotek, welcomed a federal judge’s ruling that blocks Donald Trump from deploying federalized national guard troops in Portland.
In a statement, Kotek said:
This ruling, now the fourth of its kind, validates the facts on the ground. Oregon does not want or need military intervention, and President Trump’s attempts to federalize the guard is a gross abuse of power,” Governor Kotek said. “Oregon National Guard members have been away from their jobs and families for 38 days. The California National Guard has been here for just over one month. Based on this ruling, I am renewing my call to the Trump Administration to send all troops home now.
