Most of the federal government may be shut down — with rank and file employees forced to stay home on furlough or work without pay under threat of layoffs — but that isn’t stopping President Donald Trump from enjoying a couple’s night out.
The president, joined by First Lady Melania Trump, left the White House on Thursday for the first time since government funding lapsed two days earlier for a six-minute motorcade along closed-off streets to a neighbor’s house — Vice President JD Vance’s official residence at the U.S. Naval Observatory.
