Closing summary
And that’s all for today’s lives coverage of the second Trump administration. We’ll be back on Tuesday. Here are the latest developments:
The US government shutdown entered its second week as the Senate again rejected rival bills to restart funding and Donald Trump suggested he might be open to negotiating with Democrats over the healthcare subsidies they have put at the heart of the stalemate. A fifth Senate vote to advance a Republican-written bill that would reopen the government failed on a 52-42 tally – well below the 60-vote threshold needed for advancement. The Democrats’ proposal was defeated in a 50-45 party-line vote. No lawmakers changed their votes from recent days, though there were a handful of absences. Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer rejected Donald Trump’s claim that negotiations with Democrats are underway. More here.
A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deploying any national guard units to Oregon a few hours after the California governor, Gavin Newsom, announced he would sue the president over the planned deployment of his state’s troops. Both states sought the temporary restraining order after the president sent guard members from California to Oregon earlier in the day. On Saturday, the same judge temporarily blocked the administration from deploying Oregon’s national guard troops to Portland. More here.
Donald Trump signed an executive order to allow construction of an access road to the Ambler mining district in Alaska and unlock domestic supplies of copper and other minerals, reversing an order from former President Joe Biden. The Biden administration had rejected a 211-mile road intended to enable mine development in the north central Alaskan region. Biden’s interior department had cited risks to caribou and fish populations that dozens of native communities rely on for subsistence. More here.
The Trump administration has said that funds from a US government program that subsidizes commercial air service to rural airports are set to expire as soon as Sunday because of the government shutdown. The US transportation department said the subsidies in the Essential Air Service program are expected to expire as soon as Sunday after the department transferred unrelated funding from the Federal Aviation Administration as an advance. The department is in the process of notifying carriers of the shortfall and alerting communities of the potential effects. More here.
Social security administration commissioner Frank Bisignano was named to the newly created position of CEO of the IRS today, making him the latest member of the Trump administration to be put in charge of multiple federal agencies. As IRS CEO, Bisignano will report to treasury secretary Scott Bessent, who currently serves as acting commissioner of the IRS, the Treasury Department says. It is unclear whether Bisignano’s newly created role at the IRS will require Senate confirmation.
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Trump baselessly claimed that an insurrection is taking place in Portland, Oregon, as he looks to deploy National Guard troops to the city amid what he describes as surging crime.
He made the comments during an interview on Newsmax.
Earlier on Monday, Trump told reporters in the Oval Office he might invoke the Insurrection Act of 1792, which would allow troops to directly participate in civilian law enforcement, for which there is little recent precedent.
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