Trends

President Trump posted the meme, which Representative Hakeem Jeffries called racist and bigoted. Vice President JD Vance said the president was “joking, and we’re having a good time.” Read full article

During past shutdowns, the federal news agency continued broadcasting to authoritarian countries, as it was considered essential to national security. Read full article

The inboxes of some employees of the Small Business Administration are returning automated email replies that deliver a partisan message on the shutdown. Read full article

Two Democratic senators and one independent who caucuses with them crossed party lines to support the G.O.P. plan to keep government funding flowing. Read full article

Justice Department lawyers are asking judges to pause their cases until funding resumes. Read full article

E.P.A. employees said that they were working without pay, and that Trump administration officials had not told them how long the funding would last. Union officials said they were “highly confused.” Read full article

A series of arrests captured on video reveal how immigration officers have worked with other law enforcement agencies to identify migrants during stops for minor infractions. Read full article

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth faced a room of hundreds of generals and admirals whom he had summoned from across the globe, and made his case for shaking up a force that he said had gone soft and “woke.” Greg Jaffe, the Pentagon reporter for The New York Times, discusses Hegseth’s speech. Read full article

Shutdowns started having significant effects after an attorney general in the 1980s argued that it was illegal for the government to spend money without congressional appropriations. Read full article

Dueling proposals to extend government funding both failed for the third time in two weeks, as neither party could muster the bipartisan coalition needed to move forward. Read full article