{"id":322197,"date":"2025-10-21T21:59:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T21:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/322197\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T21:59:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T21:59:10","slug":"live-updates-trump-hosts-senate-republicans-as-shutdown-drags-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/322197\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates: Trump hosts Senate Republicans as shutdown drags on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Republicans <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/shutdown-republicans-senate-trump-white-house-8cac539f2a553ced68bc9e0b32bc7b94\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">projected a unified front at the White House<\/a> Rose Garden Tuesday, arriving at <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">President Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s invitation as they refuse to yield to Democratic demands for <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/aca-credits-health-care-subsidies-government-shutdown-7f7a3609bf78dd7e43be9a041a090220\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">health care funds<\/a> into the fourth week of the government shutdown.<\/p>\n<p>While hosting, Trump praised the GOP leadership, singling out senators by name, trashed former President Joe Biden and previewed his own upcoming foreign travel and tariff policies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re a wealthy nation again,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The country, meanwhile, is feeling the financial hit of the shutdown, which is on track to become among the longest in U.S. history. Hundreds of thousands of federal workers are <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/shutdown-trump-furloughs-firings-economy-federal-workers-efced4c32282087c8c53aeab535230a0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">going without pay<\/a>, Head Start programs for preschoolers nationwide are <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/head-start-government-shutdown-education-10b7ea5cfcc2ae10c37533a09a1d1d0f\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">scrambling for funds<\/a>, and economists warn of curbed economic growth.<\/p>\n<p>Still, there are few signs of any end to the stalemate.<\/p>\n<p><b>Other news we\u2019re following:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul class=\"rte2-style-ul\" id=\"rte-39df7dc2-a8f4-11f0-b235-cff3d650f162\">\n<li><b>Trump-Putin summit is on hold, US official says: <\/b>The meeting between Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin aimed at <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/live\/donald-trump-news-updates-10-21-2025#0000019a-0799-d62d-adff-3fbfbd380000\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">resolving the war in Ukraine<\/a> was announced last week but is now uncertain following a call between U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, according to a U.S. official. The reversal is the latest bout of whiplash as Trump continues his efforts to end the war he previously boasted he <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-russia-ukraine-war-un-election-a78ecb843af452b8dda1d52d137ca893\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">could settle in one day<\/a> if he were elected to a second term. The meeting was supposed to take place in Budapest, although a date had not been set.<\/li>\n<li><b>Vance arrives in Israel: <\/b>The <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-news-10-21-2025-29925b9671834bba6e24adb5f2e35b51\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">vice president on Tuesday<\/a> joined special envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump\u2019s son-in-law Jared Kushner in the region to shore up the <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/video\/two-years-of-the-israel-hamas-war-in-gaza-by-the-numbers-2e9f5ce977a24e37b1967e071b6677ba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fragile U.S.-brokered ceasefire in Gaza<\/a>. Vance will meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and is expected to stay until Thursday.<\/li>\n<li><b>Construction begins on Trump\u2019s new ballroom: <\/b>Crews on Monday started <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-ballroom-white-house-east-wing-demolish-a3efb2973d4d4e45f98b02e55210c538\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tearing down part of the White House\u2019s East Wing<\/a> to build a new ballroom Trump has championed, despite lacking approval for construction from the federal agency that oversees such projects.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Senate Republicans projected a unified front at the White House Rose Garden Tuesday, arriving at President Donald Trump\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":322198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[327,69,2055,49089,50,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-322197","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"category-us","9":"tag-congress","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-government-and-politics","12":"tag-government-shutdown","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115414405382333280","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}