Jeff Mordock

White House won’t say if emergency funds would rescue SNAP during shutdown

Kevin Hassett, the director of the National Economic Council, insisted Friday that the Trump administration is doing everything it can to keep a nutrition program for low-income women and children afloat during the shutdown, but declined to say if the White House would tap into the program's contingency funds.

October 24, 2025

Trump heads to Asia to build alliances, cut trade deals, go eye-to-eye with China’s Xi

President Trump leaves Washington on Friday for a whirlwind tour of Asia with an ambitious to-do list of high-stakes meetings, including with Chinese President Xi Jinping, that could reshape a global economy grappling with his reordering of trade relations.

October 23, 2025

Trump vows more military strikes on alleged drug smugglers, calls cartels the ‘ISIS of the West’

President Trump likened drug cartels to the militant Muslim terrorist groups the U.S. has targeted during the war on terror and vowed to continue military strikes on alleged drug smugglers off the coast of Venezuela.

October 23, 2025

Trump pardons Changpeng Zhao, who founded one of the world’s largest crypto exchanges

President Trump has pardoned crypto executive Changpeng Zhao, who co-founded one of the world's largest cryptocurrency exchanges and was convicted under the Biden administration of charges related to money laundering.

October 23, 2025

Trump defends ballroom construction as criticism mounts

President Trump on Wednesday defended his decision to demolish a portion of the White House East Wing to build a ballroom, saying that the demolition was necessary "to do it properly."

October 22, 2025

Ingrassia withdraws nomination for special counsel position over ‘Nazi’ and racist texts

Paul Ingrassia, President Trump's pick to lead the Office of Special Counsel, withdrew his nomination late Tuesday after reports that he sent racist texts demeaning the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday and declaring he had "a Nazi streak."

October 21, 2025

Trump threatens to ‘eradicate’ Hamas if the Palestinian militant group doesn’t abide by ceasefire

President Trump threatened Monday to "eradicate" the Palestinian militant group Hamas if it doesn't follow through with its ceasefire deal with Israel.

October 20, 2025

Trump says Ukraine could win war with Russia, but it’s unlikely

President Trump said Monday that Ukraine could win its more than two-year war with Russia, but the odds of victory are unlikely.

October 20, 2025

How Trump rewrote the government shutdown playbook

The current government shutdown is like no previous shutdown in that, this time, the president has labored to reduce the pain on everyday Americans, putting the suffering almost exclusively on federal workers and congressional Democrats' pet projects.

October 18, 2025

Trump takes steps to reduce cost of fertility medicines

President Trump announced a plan to make in vitro fertilization more accessible to American women with an employer benefit option to offer coverage of the treatments directly to their workers.

October 16, 2025

Trump tariff threat spurs domestic pharmaceutical manufacturing

Some of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world this year are planning to announce an unprecedented $500 billion to bolster their American research and manufacturing amid President Trump's threat that drugmakers ramp up their domestic manufacturing or face steep tariffs.

October 16, 2025

Trump says there’ll be ‘no choice’ but to kill Hamas terrorists if they continue executions

President Trump said Thursday there would be "no choice" but to eliminate members of Hamas if they continue carrying out mass executions in Gaza as the terrorist group desperately tries to retain control of the enclave.

October 16, 2025

White House insists all Gaza hostages will be returned as Israelis’ anger grows over delays

The Trump administration expressed confidence Wednesday that the remains of all deceased hostages in Gaza will be returned, even as Hamas said it handed over all the bodies it has been able to recover.

October 15, 2025

Israel Defense Forces says a body returned by Hamas is not one of its hostages

A body returned to Israel by the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas as part of the first phase of the ceasefire deal is not one of its hostages, the Israel Defense Forces said Wednesday, potentially imperiling the fragile truce in Gaza.

October 15, 2025

Trump threatens to move World Cup and Olympics because of Democratic officials

President Trump on Tuesday threatened to press FIFA and the Olympic Committee to change locations for the World Cup and Olympics because of the policies of Democratic elected officials, calling out Boston Mayor Michelle Wu and California Gov. Gavin Newsom.

October 14, 2025

Trump warns Hamas to disarm, or ‘we will disarm them’

President Trump on Tuesday said if Hamas doesn't disarm as part of the second phase of his plan for peace in Gaza, the U.S. will step in to make that happen.

October 14, 2025

Trump confirms 5th ‘lethal’ attack on alleged drug boat off Venezuelan coast

President Trump said Tuesday he ordered another strike on a vessel off the coast of Venezuela, killing "six male narcoterrorists" and marking the fifth time he used lethal force to stop an alleged drug boat.

October 14, 2025

Biden, Blinken take credit for Gaza peace plan, hostage release

Former President Joseph R. Biden and his former secretary of state, Antony Blinken, took credit for the ceasefire in Gaza and the release of the 20 living hostages, accusing President Trump, who brokered the deal, of plagiarizing their own peace plan.

October 14, 2025

Johnson will team up with Israeli speaker to nominate Trump for Nobel Peace Prize

House Speaker Mike Johnson said Tuesday that he will work with Israeli Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana and other legislative leaders around the world to nominate President Trump for the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize.

October 14, 2025

Trump blasts Time magazine over ‘super bad’ cover photo

President Trump on Tuesday complained about Time magazine's new cover photo of him, saying the "super bad" picture overshadows what he described as a "relatively good" story about him.

October 14, 2025