Senate Majority Leader John Thune is on a collision course with President Donald Trump over nixing a longstanding legislative tool to end the 36-day government shutdown. Thune, who pledged to defend the filibuster on Day One of his leadership tenure, reiterated on Wednesday that Republicans would not scrap the Senate’s 60-vote threshold to end the [.].
The post Private payrolls rose 42, 000 in October, more than expected and countering labor market fears, ADP says appeared com. A jobseeker speaks with a recruiter during a NYS Department Of Labor job fair at the Downtown Central Library in Buffalo, New York, US, on Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2025. Lauren Petracca | Bloomberg | Getty Images Payroll growth at private companies turned slightly stronger than expected in October, providing some hope that the labor market isn’t in danger of sinking, ADP reported Wednesday. Companies added 42, 000 jobs for the month, following a decline of 29, 000 in September and topping the Dow Jones consensus estimate for a gain of 22, 000. A revision for September showed 3, 000 fewer jobs lost, the payrolls processing firm said. A gain of 47, 000 in the trade, transportation and utilities grouping helped offset losses in multiple other categories. Education and health services also showed growth of 26, 000 while financial activities added 11, 000. Despite the artificial intelligence-fueled tech boom, information services saw a decline of 17, 000 positions. Other sectors posting losses included professional and business services (-15, 000), other services (-13, 000) and manufacturing (-3, 000), a sector that continues to struggle despite President Donald Trump’s tariffs aimed at bringing factory jobs back to the U. S. All of the job creation came from companies employing at least 250 workers. That category added 76, 000 jobs, while smaller businesses lost 34, 000. Despite the meager job growth, salaries continued to rise. Year-over-year pay for those staying in their jobs rose 4. 5%, the same as in September, while job switchers saw a 6. 7% increase, up slightly from a month ago. “Private employers added jobs in October for the first time since July, but hiring was modest relative to what we reported earlier this year,” said ADP chief economist Nela Richardson. “Meanwhile, pay growth has been largely flat for more than a year, indicating that shifts in supply and demand are balanced.” By ADP’s count, job.
As President Donald Trump grows increasingly shocked and frustrated that Democrats in Congress haven’t caved to him yet in the weekslong federal government shutdown, he is ramping up demands for Republicans in the Senate to do away with the legislative filibuster the rule requiring 60 votes to pass most bills and steamroll Democrats to reopen the government without them. “Republicans, you will rue the day that you didn’t TERMINATE THE FILIBUSTER!!! BE TOUGH, BE SMART, AND WIN!!!” Trump recently posted to Truth Social. “This is much bigger than the Shutdown, this is the survival of our Country!”But this would be a huge mistake, warned the conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board. In fact, he would deliver the whole GOP into a trap that hands Democrats far more power in the long run.”Republicans would be dumb and hurt the country by breaking the filibuster,” wrote the board. “Republicans could end the government shutdown on a partisan vote, but then what? The GOP will have taken the fraught step of breaking the filibuster for appropriations. Democrats will pound the table in faux outrage, but they’ll privately be cheering at what they’ll be able to pass the next time they control Washington perhaps as soon as 2029 when Mr. Trump is out of office. Break the filibuster for the shutdown, and it will soon be gone for all legislation too. The Senate will then operate like the House, where a simple majority rules,” wrote the board. Indeed, they noted, had the filibuster not been in place for the first two years of the Biden administration, Republicans may have been powerless to stop a parade of progressive legislation: “Bernie Sanders’s $17-an-hour national minimum wage; All of the Biden Build Back Better plan, with its huge tax increases and cradle-to-grave entitlement programs; Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse’s bill to restructure the Supreme Court; Nancy Pelosi’s bill to nationalize election law in all 50 states on the California model; Statehood for Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia, with four new Democratic Senators; The PRO Act that would repeal much of Taft-Hartley on unionization and ban right-to-work laws for voluntary union membership that exist in 26 states; [and] a national law codifying Roe v. Wade abortion standards.”Republicans may not even be able to reverse all these things with the filibuster gone when they take power next, the board wrote; “Look at the trouble Republicans are having even letting supercharged pandemic-era ObamaCare subsidies expire. The filibuster rule is often frustrating, but its virtue is that it serves as a check on passing extreme laws with narrow majorities,” the board argued in conclusion, warning, “Most Republicans understand this. But some Senators, hoping to curry favor, may start to echo the President’s short-term opportunism. The Democratic left is quietly cheering them on.”.
Trump be far from the first US president to leave his mark on the Executive Mansion, but to critics his remodel is yet more overreach.
Barack Obama is ready to throw his hat back into the political fray. The post REPORT: Obama Preparing to Step Up Efforts to Resist Trump ‘Not So Sure’ Country Will Survive His Presidency appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
(The Center Square) One San Diego County supervisor is concerned about civilians posing as U. S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents using fake ICE clothing and tactical gear and sowing fear and discord. Terra Lawson-Remer, chair of the Board of Supervisors, wrote in an Oct. 17 e-newsletter that she is leading efforts in the county [.].
WASHINGTON (AP) President Donald Trump is calling on the Senate to scrap the filibuster, so that the Republican majority can bypass Democrats and reopen.
As Chinese President Xi Jinping and U. S. President Donald Trump met Thursday, many people in China cheered the in-person meeting.
Trump and Xi Jinping meet as soybean trade war devastates U. S. farmers. China’s tariffs shifted $30 billion crop exports to Brazil, hitting rural America hard.
President Donald Trump prepares to meet China’s Xi Jinping after securing trade deals across Asia that he claims bring trillions of dollars back to the U. S.
