White House released a list of donors funding Trump’s ballroom showing contributions from Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Lockheed Martin, and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s family.
Trump pardoned Binance founder Changpeng Zhao two months after reports his family’s crypto venture benefited from Binance partnership and after Zhao’s firm paid $450,000 to lobbyist friend of Donald Trump Jr.
Trump completed demolition of White House East Wing this week to build ballroom, breaking his pledge not to touch existing structures and exploiting exemption from historic preservation reviews.
Trump demolishes entire White House East Wing built in 1902 for $300 million ballroom funded by private donors after promising project wouldn’t interfere with building
USDA uses Commodity Credit Corporation’s permanent borrowing authority to reopen 2,100 offices and pay workers during shutdown, selectively operating to help farmers three weeks after Argentina trade deals angered Trump’s base.
Trump demolishes White House East Wing for $250 million ballroom during three-week shutdown as capacity expands from 650 to 999 people.
Trump says he will decide whether taxpayers pay him $230 million over Justice Department investigations into his conduct.
White House East Wing demolition begins for Trump’s 90,000-square-foot ballroom, months after he said construction wouldn’t touch the building.
Rubio abandoned DOJ-protected MS-13 informants to seal deal sending 250 Venezuelans to El Salvador’s CECOT prison, where they were beaten and held 5 months without lawyer contact.
Trump frees former Rep. George Santos after 84 days of a 7-year sentence for wire fraud and identity theft, with Santos now vowing prison reform.
Homeland Security is buying two private jets for Noem’s use through the Coast Guard, which requested one jet at $50 million, while the purchases will cost up to $200 million.
Trump commutes George Santos’s seven-year prison sentence three months into his term for wire fraud and identity theft convictions.
Sen. Shelley Moore Capito voted to confirm her son Moore Capito as U.S. Attorney for Southern District of West Virginia, with ethics watchdog citing a growing trend of senators voting for relatives.
U.S. prosecutors charge Smartmatic with foreign corruption for conspiring to pay over $1 million in bribes to a Filipino election official to secure $182 million in voting machine contracts.
Trump administration plans to install allies at IRS to pursue criminal inquiries of left-leaning groups and major Democratic donors including George Soros, who Trump wants charged under RICO, Wall Street Journal reports.
SC Election Commission chairman says fired director Howard Knapp falsified documents and misrepresented $32 million ballot scanner contract as $28 million, now under SLED investigation for wiretapping and misconduct.
NY man convicted of illegal straw donor scheme after recruiting people to donate to Trump’s 2019 campaign then reimbursing them with cash to secure Mar-a-Lago photo op tickets.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says U.S. is working to provide $20 billion in additional financing for Argentina to help Trump ally Javier Milei before Oct. 26 midterms, bringing total aid to $40 billion.
Trump hosts dinner at the White House for wealthy donors funding his $200 million ballroom and refuses to release attendee list.
Judge blocks Miami Dade College land transfer for Trump library, ruling college violated Florida Sunshine law with insufficient notice about 2.6-acre downtown property.
Investment fund with Trump Jr. as partner sold sponsorships for conference marketed as official Treasury AI summit where Bessent would unveil policy, before Treasury approved materials.
Jersey City’s Heights University Hospital seeks $25 million in emergency state aid amid $60 million shortfall less than two years after CarePoint Health bankruptcy.
Sen. Cantwell warns Big Ten presidents that proposed $2 billion private equity partnership could jeopardize schools’ tax-exempt status and conflict with academic goals as nonprofit institutions.
New York Attorney General Letitia James indicted for bank fraud by Trump-installed prosecutor despite career prosecutor determining no probable cause for charges.
Seattle paid Civic Hotel owners $2.7 million for empty shelter rooms after rejecting cheaper alternative, with Chief Deputy Mayor saying she wanted nonprofit leader “out of the homelessness business” despite superior placement rates.
Treasury defends $1 coin featuring Trump on both sides despite 1866 law banning living people on currency to avoid monarchy appearance, removes explanatory webpage.
Bessent names Social Security head Frank Bisignano as IRS’s seventh commissioner this year and first CEO, bypassing Senate confirmation as both agencies lose up to 25% of workforce from DOGE cuts.
Navajo company bids one-tenth of a penny per ton for 167 million tons of federal coal as only bidder after Trump reverses Biden climate ban, down from $1.10 at last sale.
Trump approves 211-mile Ambler mining road through Gates of the Arctic National Park despite local opposition, reversing Biden as US government invests $35 million in Canadian company developing the district.
Treasury confirms $1 coin draft with Trump on both sides for 250th anniversary despite 1866 law barring living persons to avoid monarchy appearance.
Speaker Johnson cancels House votes through Oct. 13 to pressure Democrats on shutdown while delaying Epstein files discharge petition set to succeed once new Democrat sworn in.
Administration empties Guantánamo migrant detention site that held fewer than 700 people since February despite plans for tens of thousands, while keeping more than 600 government workers deployed there.
National Archives ousts Eisenhower Library director who refused to allow removal of federal artifact from permanent collection for Trump to gift King Charles, citing federal law prohibitions.
Trump and budget director Vought plan to determine which “Democrat Agencies” to cut during shutdown after already canceling $18 billion in infrastructure funding for New York.
Administration cuts $7.6 billion in clean energy grants affecting 223 projects exclusively in 16 states that backed Harris and whose senators voted against the GOP funding bill during the shutdown.
White House withdraws Brian Quintenz nomination to lead CFTC after crypto billionaires Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss pressed Trump to reconsider, marking end of once-certain confirmation.
Trump strips funding from council that trains and equips 14,000 federal investigators who root out government waste, fraud and misconduct, calling watchdogs ‘corrupt.’
Florida transfers $66 million college property to Trump library foundation that will house Qatar plane retrofitted by taxpayers at hundreds of millions in costs before transferring to Trump after presidency.
Trump announces Harvard deal requiring $500 million for trade schools, contradicting university leaders who said days earlier they have ‘no idea’ about talks, as White House pursues debarment proceedings.
FTC sues Zillow and Redfin over $100 million deal to eliminate rental listing competition, alleging Redfin fired hundreds of employees who were then selectively rehired by Zillow.
FBI director gifts at least five New Zealand officials 3D-printed guns that violate the country’s firearms laws and must be destroyed after safety authority finds them potentially operable.
Former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale registers as foreign agent for Israel under $6 million deal to create pro-Israel content targeting Gen Z Americans and influence AI models like ChatGPT.
Senator Mark Kelly, who commanded Discovery on two space missions, joins effort to block shuttle’s $375 million relocation from free Smithsonian display to paid Houston museum, questioning why taxpayers should fund moving artifact already protected and accessible.
Trump threatens 100% tariff on movies made outside U.S. in vague threat targeting Newsom, despite his own Hollywood advisers’ plan calling for federal tax credits instead of tariffs.
YouTube agrees to pay Trump $24.5 million to settle lawsuit over Jan. 6 suspension, with $22 million funding White House State Ballroom construction through tax-exempt trust, the third platform to settle with Trump this year.
Trump administration opens 13 million acres of federal land for coal mining, triple what law required, and slashes royalty payments companies owe from 12.5% to 7% while investing $625 million in taxpayer funds to expand the coal industry.
Trump releases 20-point Gaza peace plan and will personally chair international board overseeing Gaza’s governance, promising Israel full U.S. backing to finish the war if Hamas rejects it.
Trump’s 18-year-old granddaughter launches clothing brand using White House as photo backdrop two days after riding Marine One to golf tournament.
Trump demands Microsoft fire global affairs chief Lisa Monaco after Laura Loomer alerts him to her Biden administration role.
Homeland Security Secretary Noem fast-tracks $11 million for Florida tourist pier after campaign donor intervenes, then dines with him.
