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"...Trump Hit With Jaw-Dropping 20-Year Record Number of Layoffs
NOT SO HOT!
The latest troubling jobs data comes after Trump took a victory lap over his economic achievements..."

"...Chicago judge to issue injunction limiting use of force by ICE..."

There are other issues besides ACA subsidies.

GOP makes new funding offer, opens door to reversing mass firings
Republicans delivered their latest proposal just ahead of a crucial Democratic lunch meeting.
11/06/2025, 11:28am ET

Republicans made a new offer to Senate Democrats Thursday in hopes of cutting a deal that would end the 37-day government shutdown and advance a package of three full-year spending bills, according to four people granted anonymity to disclose the private discussions.

The new offer arrived just ahead of a crucial closed-door lunch where Democratic senators will discuss the path forward. Republicans have thrown a new sweetener in the mix, according to two of the people — that they are willing to discuss rehiring federal workers who have been laid off during the shutdown as part of a deal to end it.

Democrats have pressed for weeks to make President Donald Trump’s “reductions in force” part of a shutdown-ending deal. What exactly the rehiring terms would be is undecided, but the two people said it was now part of the negotiations.

The package of appropriations legislation would include the Agriculture-FDA, Military Construction-VA and Legislative Branch funding bills, according to three of the people.
 It does not include a date on a new CR. Some full year funding bills wouldn't be enough to open government.
It does not address ACA issue

 Trump announces lower prices, Medicare coverage for popular weight-loss drugs

President Donald Trump announced a deal Thursday, Nov. 6 with drugmakers Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk to cut prices of their popular weight-loss drugs and expand Medicare coverage of these medications for older adults.

The negotiated deals will allow Medicare and Medicaid coverage for Lilly's Zepbound and Novo's Wegovy, and consumers will be able to purchase drugs at discounted prices through the federal government's direct-to-consumer website, TrumpRx, which will launch in 2026.

Governor Gavin Newsom replaces Donald Trump on the world stage by announcing that he will attend the United Nations climate summit in Brazil that the MAGA leader refused to send a delegation to.
Big Oil owns Trump but they don't own his ascendant arch-nemesis...
COP30, the conference in question, will be held on Friday and Newsom will be the highest-profile American government official in attendance. The appearance, which will supercharge interest in his 2028 presidential run, comes in the wake of his historic redistricting victory on Tuesday.
The governor told Politico that he's making the trip “because of the complete abdication of the Trump administration that is joining the Saudis and Russia and the Gulf states.”
“It’s doubled down on hydrocarbons as the rest of the world is sprinting ahead on low-carbon green growth,” he said. “For me, it is about our economic competitiveness, period, full stop.”
Newsom's angle here is a smart one. Climate change is an existential crisis for the survival of our species, but it's also an enormous economic opportunity for those countries that are willing to adopt clean energy quickly and efficiently. Either the United States rises to meet demand or China will.
Trump has repeatedly dismissed climate change as a "hoax" and a "con job" despite the overwhelming evidence and proliferation of extreme weather events. Fossil fuel companies helped foist him into power and he's paying them back tenfold at the cost of our planet.
“I just want to make sure everyone understands we’re maybe 2,000 miles from 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., but we’re a world away in terms of our mindset on these issues,” Newsom added.
Tens of thousands of diplomats, scientists, experts, and activists are attending the conference which will unfold over two weeks in Belém, a city close to the mouth of the Amazon River. Newsom will have a strong legacy to tout during his trip since California has been leading America in renewable energy on numerous fronts.
The rest of the world is eager to speak with the United States and so Newsom will have an opportunity to boost his international standing even further—
“The U.S. will not play a major role. The world is collectively outraged, and so we will focus — as will everyone else — on engaging in talks with those who are driving the process forward," said Jochen Flasbarth,  undersecretary in the German Ministry of Environmental Affairs."
Thanks to Gavin Newsom, the world doesn't have to count America out just yet. We need not surrender our global leadership. It's time to recommit to our responsibilities.

DOJ BOMBSHELL — Epstein files reportedly “even worse for Trump” than Republicans feared.
The panic inside the Republican party — due to its decisive losses in Tuesday’s elections — just got even more frantic.
Multiple House Republicans are reportedly freaking out after hearing from the Department of Justice that the unreleased Jeffrey Epstein files are especially compromising for Donald Trump.
According to veteran reporter David Shuster — who’s worked for MSNBC, CNN, and Fox News — “rumors are sweeping through the GOP caucus” that the Epstein evidence includes photos of Trump with half-naked teenage girls.
Shuster says several Republicans told him they’d been quietly warned by contacts inside DOJ and the FBI that the material is even worse than the claims made by Trump biographer Michael Wolff, who described seeing “a dozen Polaroids” of Trump and Epstein with topless young women “spread out like a deck of cards.”
You read that right.
Trump’s own biographer says he personally saw the pictures — and the DOJ supposedly has copies.
Now Republicans are reportedly “spooked.”
And after Attorney General Pam Bondi refused to answer Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse’s direct question about whether she’d seen those photos, the tension exploded behind closed doors.
Bondi tried to dodge by throwing out false attacks about Democratic donors — but Whitehouse fired back, calling her statement a flat-out lie.
Let’s be clear: If this report is true, the Epstein files could expose a massive cover-up involving Trump and his allies. Republicans know it — and that’s why they’re terrified.
While Trump rants about “witch hunts” on Truth Social, his old friend Epstein’s ghost keeps coming back to haunt him. And this time, it’s not Democrats he has to fear — it’s the truth.
And hopefully, the truth shall set us free.

Houston police dept recruiting New York police officers.

Almost everyone in Texas has a gun.