Welcome to another edition of OnPolitics! Your host, politics reporter Kathryn Palmer, here. Let's jump into today's news: |
Trump wants a $230 million payout from the DOJ |
It appears the president wants to extract cash from the Department of Justice for its scrutiny of his actions. He reportedly demanded a multi-million-dollar payout to compensate him for the agency's past investigations of him. |
Trump has submitted two complaints through an administrative claims process, according to The New York Times, which cited people familiar with the matter, wanting compensation for the cost of Justice Department investigations during his first term and a legal case brought against him after he left office. |
"But I was damaged very greatly," Trump added. "And any money that I would get, I would give to charity." | President Donald Trump looks on during an event celebrating Diwali in the Oval Office of the White House on October 21, 2025 in Washington, DC. Trump held the event to honor the Hindu festival that symbolizes the victory of light over darkness. Anna Moneymaker, Getty Images |
Democratic senator surpasses 16-hour mark in Senate protest speech |
The drama of the now 22-day shutdown continues, this time on the Senate floor, as Oregon Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley engages in an oratory tactic as old as Congress itself: the filibuster. |
As of 11:30 a.m., the nearly 69-year-old senator had been talking for more than 17 hours. He began speaking at 6:21 p.m. Tuesday evening, giving a marathon speech to disrupt legislative business and protest the Trump administration's policies as lawmakers struggle to reopen the federal government. |
Merkley said his filibuster was an effort to sound the alarm about the government shutdown and Trump, whom he said was dragging the country "further into authoritarianism." |
Trump nominee withdraws after report of racist texts |
Paul Ingrassia, Trump's nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, withdrew from his confirmation hearing after Republican senators said they wouldn't vote for him following reports that he sent a series of racist and antisemitic texts. |
Ingrassia, 30, is a lawyer and former podcaster who supported Trump's efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss and has served in the Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security in Trump's second administration. He announced on social media on Oct. 21 that he was withdrawing from the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing set for Oct. 23, "because unfortunately I do not have enough Republican votes at this time." |
It's the latest in a string of failed nominations put forward by the Trump administration, with Ingrassia joining the ranks of several others, including Matt Gaetz, Ed Martin and E.J. Antoni, who ran up against GOP opposition after reports of offensive comments and behaviors. |
Questions, thoughts, concerns? Reach me at kapalmer@usatoday.com | | Democrats continue to insist on greater health care spending as a condition to reopen the government. But Republicans disagree. | | Donors to the ballroom construction include huge U.S. corporations, such as Lockheed Martin, Palantir, Alphabet's Google, Meta and Amazon. | | | | President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin are no longer meeting in Budapest as was announced just last week. | | | | Biden's daughter posted an Instagram video of her father at Penn Medicine ringing a bell, which is done to mark the end of a cancer treatment. | | | | The move aims to ensure that the Pentagon chief controls the military's message on Capitol Hill. | | | | | Sign up for the news you want | Exclusive newsletters are part of your subscription, don't miss out! We're always working to add benefits for subscribers like you. | | | | | |
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