{"id":166610,"date":"2025-10-03T00:58:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T00:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-news-at-a-glance-president-hails-shutdown-as-opportunity-to-further-campaign-of-cuts-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T00:58:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T00:58:10","slug":"trump-news-at-a-glance-president-hails-shutdown-as-opportunity-to-further-campaign-of-cuts-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-news-at-a-glance-president-hails-shutdown-as-opportunity-to-further-campaign-of-cuts-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump news at a glance: President hails shutdown as \u2018opportunity\u2019 to further campaign of cuts – The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

The government has already announced the cancellation of billions of dollars in federal funding for projects tied to Democrats. Key US politics stories from Thursday 2 October at a glance
As the US government shutdown stretched into its second day, Donald Trump<\/a> on Thursday hailed the funding lapse as an \u201cunprecedented opportunity\u201d to further his campaign of firing federal workers and downsizing departments.
The president announced on social media that he would sit down with Russell Vought, the White House office of management and budget chief, an architect of the mass firings and buyouts of federal workers.
\u201cI have a meeting today with Russ Vought, he of PROJECT 2025 Fame, to determine which of the many Democrat Agencies, most of which are a political SCAM, he recommends to be cut, and whether or not those cuts will be temporary or permanent,\u201d Trump wrote on Truth Social.
\u201cI can\u2019t believe the Radical Left Democrats gave me this unprecedented opportunity.\u201d
The government shut down on Wednesday at midnight, after Democrats refused to support<\/a> a Republican plan to continue funding unless it included a series of healthcare-focused concessions. Vought has threatened to use the shutdown to conduct further layoffs of federal workers, and on Wednesday announced the cancellation of billions of dollars in federal funding for projects tied to Democrats.
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Donald Trump has declared that drug cartels operating in the Caribbean are \u201cunlawful combatants\u201d and says the United States is now in a \u201cnon-international armed conflict\u201d, according to a White House memo obtained by the Associated Press on Thursday.
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Hamas is likely to provisionally accept Donald Trump\u2019s Gaza ceasefire proposal in the coming days \u2013 but only on condition there are significant revisions of some of its key elements, analysts and sources close to the group say.
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Any California universities that sign the Trump administration\u2019s proposed \u201cCompact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education\u201d will \u201cinstantly\u201d lose their state funding, California governor Gavin Newsom said in a statement.
The Trump administration on Wednesday offered nine prominent universities, including the University of Southern California, the chance to sign a \u201ccompact\u201d that asks the universities to close academic departments that \u201cpurposefully punish, belittle, and even spark violence against conservative ideas\u201d, limit the proportion of international undergraduate students to 15%, accept the administration\u2019s definition of gender and ban the consideration of race or sex in hiring and admissions, in exchange for \u201csubstantial and meaningful federal grants\u201d.
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An immigration judge in Baltimore has denied Kilmar \u00c1brego Garc\u00eda\u2019s bid for asylum on Thursday, but he has 30 days to appeal.
\u00c1brego\u2019s case has drawn national attention since the 30-year-old was wrongfully deported by the Trump administration to El Salvador in March. The Salvadorian national has an American wife and children and has lived in Maryland for years, but he originally immigrated to the US illegally as a teenager.
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Elon Musk, the multibillionaire and self-proclaimed \u201cfree speech absolutist\u201d<\/a><\/strong>, has in recent days trained his attention on getting people to cancel their Netflix subscriptions in protest of what he claims is the company\u2019s \u201cwoke bias\u201d and inclusion of LGBTQ+ characters.
The White House recently issued a press release with links to scientific studies to back up Trump\u2019s claim that use of acetaminophen<\/a><\/strong>, commonly referred to as Tylenol, during pregnancy causes autism, but those studies provided only \u201cweak\u201d and \u201cinconclusive\u201d evidence, according to physicians with expertise in reviewing medical research who spoke to the Guardian.
Catching up? Here\u2019s what happened 1 October 2025<\/a><\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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The government has already announced the cancellation of billions of dollars in federal funding for projects tied to Democrats. Key US politics stories from Thursday 2 October at a glanceAs the US government shutdown stretched into its second day, Donald Trump on Thursday hailed the funding lapse as an \u201cunprecedented opportunity\u201d to further his campaign […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":166611,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-us","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}