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President Donald J. Trump scored a major legal victory Thursday as the U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for his administration to enforce a new passport policy recognizing only biological sex at birth.
The ruling reverses lower court decisions that had blocked the policy, marking a key moment in Trump’s broader push to restore what he calls “truth and reality” in federal documentation.
“This is a massive win for common sense,” Attorney General Pam Bondi said after the decision. “There are two sexes — male and female — and the Supreme Court just confirmed the president has the authority to say so.”
The move cements Trump’s stance against gender ideology — and delivers another victory in his expanding judicial winning streak.
Catch the rest of today’s Trump news below!
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🔔 Federal Judge Orders Trump to Fully Fund SNAP
⚖️ Court Hands Trump Legal Win Over Presidential Immunity
✈️ Trump Says More Nations to Join Abraham Accords
💬 Trump Reacts to Pelosi Retirement
🛂 Trump Orders Global Visa Crackdown
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The Trump administration has been ordered by a federal judge to fully fund the SNAP program by Friday despite no resolution in the government shutdown, with both President Trump and Vice President JD Vance expressing how this move is an overreach of federal courts. The Justice Department has announced plans to appeal the ruling, leaving the fate of 42 million Americans who depend on government assistance still in limbo as Trump insists the country must "remain very liquid" to handle unexpected crises.
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has announced her retirement after two decades in Congress, ending a long career that Trump called "a great thing for America" while accusing her of being "evil, corrupt, and only focused on bad things for our country." Politicians are already scrambling to honor Pelosi's legacy by passing the PELOSI Act, legislation that would ban congressional stock trading, though time will tell if such a bill could become law since it would require approval by the very same people who benefit from congressional insider trading.
Check out all the latest developments and more below!
⚖️ Court Hands Trump Legal Win Over Presidential Immunity
A federal appeals court ordered a lower court to reconsider a decision to keep President Trump's ongoing case to erase his hush money conviction in state court, with the three-judge panel of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that a federal judge failed to consider "important issues relevant" to Trump's request to move the New York case to federal court. Trump's legal team cited a Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity, with a spokesperson saying "President Trump continues to win in his fight against Radical Democrat Lawfare" and stating that "the Supreme Court's historic decision on Immunity, the Federal and New York State Constitutions, and other established legal precedent mandate that the Witch Hunt perpetrated by the Manhattan DA be immediately overturned and dismissed." The appeals court panel said the lower court's ruling failed to "consider whether certain evidence admitted during the state court trial relates to immunized official acts or, if so, whether evidentiary immunity transformed," with Trump's lawyers arguing that former presidents have a right to be tried in federal court for charges related to their time in office.
✈️ Trump Says More Nations to Join Abraham Accords
President Trump said more countries are lining up to join the Abraham Accords in an effort to normalize relations with Israel, with Kazakhstan expected to join the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Morocco, which had formalized relations with the Jewish state. Trump wrote on Truth Social that "Kazakhstan is the first Country of my Second Term to join the Abraham Accords, the first of many," adding that "this is a major step forward in building bridges across the World" and that "today, more Nations are lining up to embrace Peace and Prosperity through my Abraham Accords." Trump signaled that more nations, including Syria, may be joining the historic pact, with Saudi Arabia at the forefront of efforts to expand it, as Syria's interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa is expected to meet with Trump at the White House next week, followed by Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin-Salman. Trump wrote that "we will soon announce a Signing Ceremony to make it official, and there are many more Countries trying to join this club of STRENGTH," adding "so much more to come in uniting Countries for Stability and Growth — Real progress, real results. BLESSED ARE THE PEACEMAKERS!"
💬 Trump Reacts to Pelosi Retirement
President Trump celebrated the news of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's upcoming retirement, calling the nearing end to her long political career "a great thing for America" after Pelosi announced she will not run for re-election at the end of her twentieth congressional term in January 2027. Trump told Fox News's Peter Doocy that "the retirement of Nancy Pelosi is a great thing for America" because "she was evil, corrupt, and only focused on bad things for our country," adding that "she was rapidly losing control of her party" and that he was "very honored she impeached me twice and failed miserably twice." Trump called Pelosi "a highly overrated politician" who maintained a poor relationship with him during his second term, having skipped his inauguration and quickly made television appearances to slam his supposed "lack of sophistication in terms of intelligence" and to call on the pope to denounce his administration's immigration enforcement efforts. Just this week, Pelosi called the President a "vile creature" who is the "worst thing on the face of the Earth," continuing a pattern of attacks that included famously ripping up his 2020 State of Union address while seated behind him.
🛂 Trump Orders Global Visa Crackdown
A State Department cable directs U.S. embassies worldwide to enforce sweeping new visa screening rules under the so-called "public charge" provision of immigration law, reviving and expanding a Trump-era standard officials say was relaxed under President Biden. The guidance instructs consular officers to deny visas to applicants deemed likely to rely on public benefits, weighing a wide range of factors including health, age, English proficiency, finances and even potential need for long-term medical care, with any past use of government cash assistance or institutionalization being grounds for denial. The cable states that "self-sufficiency has been a longstanding principle of U.S. immigration policy" and that "the public charge ground of inadmissibility has been a part of our immigration law for more than 100 years," placing the burden of proof entirely on visa applicants. Older visa applicants nearing retirement age are to face particular scrutiny for their job prospects and whether they can support themselves once they stop working, with the memo noting that "long-term institutionalization (e.g., at a nursing facility) can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars per year and should be considered."
President Trump and Vice President JD Vance attend a dinner with the leaders of the Central Asian countries of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan, in the East Room of the White House on Thursday.
🔔 Federal Judge Orders Trump to Fully Fund SNAP🔔
A federal judge in Rhode Island ordered the Trump administration to fully fund the nation's Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program food aid program by Friday, rejecting the administration's effort to only partially fund the benefits program for some 42 million low-income Americans. U.S. District Judge Jack McConnell scolded the Trump administration for failing to comply with the order he issued last week, which required the U.S. Department of Agriculture to fund the SNAP benefits programs before its funds were slated to lapse on Nov. 1.
This marked the first time in the program's 60-year history that its payments were halted. McConnell said "people have gone without for too long" and that "it's likely that SNAP recipients are hungry as we sit here," ordering the USDA to tap other contingency funds as needed after Trump administration officials said they would pay just 65% of the roughly $9 billion owed for November.
Vice President JD Vance slammed the federal court ruling requiring the administration to fully fund SNAP, calling the decision "absurd" and an overreach during a government shutdown. Vance said during a roundtable with Central Asian leaders at the White House that "it's an absurd ruling because you have a federal judge effectively telling us what we have to do in the middle of a Democrat government shutdown," arguing that the court should not dictate how the administration prioritizes spending during a shutdown.
Vance said the administration wants to restore full funding once Democrats agree to reopen the government but stated that "in the midst of a shutdown, we can't have a federal court telling the president how he has to triage the situation," adding "we'll comply with the law, of course, but we're also going to make the government work for people in the best way we can."
President Trump told reporters at the White House that the United States needed to "remain very liquid" to handle unexpected crises, responding to the court ruling by saying "our country has to remain very liquid because problems - catastrophes, wars, could be anything" and that "we can't give everything away based on a number." The judge found the administration's approach to provide only partial payments arbitrary and likely to cause "irreparable harm" to beneficiaries, directing the government to present a full-funding plan by the end of the week and stating "the evidence shows that people will go hungry, food pantries will be overburdened, and needless suffering will occur."
Administration lawyers argued they lacked legal authority to use broader emergency funds and warned that states could face delays of several weeks in adjusting systems to disburse full benefits, with the White House now having until Friday to outline how it will comply with the ruling and restore full food aid payments.
The Justice Department said it will appeal the ruling, leaving the fate of SNAP benefits for millions of Americans uncertain as the historic government shutdown continues into its 37th day. The Trump administration had planned to halt SNAP payments amid the shutdown, but McConnell's ruling followed two lawsuits demanding that benefits continue uninterrupted, with the judge having required the administration to exhaust a $5 billion SNAP contingency fund that falls short of the roughly $9 billion needed to fully cover November benefits.
The showdown between Trump and federal judges over SNAP funding exemplifies the unprecedented nature of the record-breaking shutdown, with the administration refusing to bow to judicial orders it views as overreach while Democrats remain emboldened to keep the government closed.
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🛂 The Trump administration said it has rescinded tens of thousands of nonimmigrant visas since January, with the State Department announcing that 80,000 visas have been revoked this year, more than twice the number revoked last year. More than 8,000 student visas were among those affected, with the top reasons for these revocations being assault, theft and driving under the influence, accounting for nearly half of the revoked visas. The agency said it pulled more than 16,000 visas for DUIs, more than 12,000 for assault and more than 8,000 for theft.
💰 Lawmakers called for the passage of the PELOSI Act to ban congressional stock trading in honor of Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi's retirement, with Sen. Josh Hawley telling reporters "she'll be the opportunity to finally ban stock trading by members of Congress. Nobody made more, I think, than her." Rep. Greg Steube said Speaker Johnson "should immediately call for a vote on the PELOSI Act" and that "I can't think of a better tribute than to pass this legislation named in her honor." President Trump accused Pelosi and her husband Paul of insider trading in August after they "beat every Hedge Fund in 2024," writing on Truth Social that "these two very average 'minds' beat ALL of the Super Geniuses on Wall Street, thousands of them. It's all INSIDE INFORMATION!"
🚢 Senate Republicans blocked an attempt to end President Trump's ability to continue attacks against alleged drug boats in the Caribbean, with Senate Democrats led by Sen. Tim Kaine forcing a vote on a war powers resolution that would have halted the administration's strikes against alleged Venezuelan drug boats. The push failed largely along party lines except for Sen. Rand Paul and Sen. Lisa Murkowski, who voted with Democrats, with the administration having carried out 16 strikes against vessels in the region that led to a death toll of 66 people. Trump earlier this week ordered that the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford head to the Caribbean as part of his administration's ongoing fight against drugs.
⚖️ The Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration is allowed to require that the sex listed on a person's US passport be that of their biological sex, allowing the administration's rule to go into effect while the case plays out. The order stated that "displaying passport holders' sex at birth no more offends equal protection principles than displaying their country of birth. The US State Department under President Biden had allowed those seeking passports to select "M", "F", or "X" as their sex marker without corresponding to biological sex, but Trump changed this on his first day in office with an executive order requiring government-issued identification documents to "accurately reflect the holder's sex." Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan dissented from the ruling.
🛂 The Trump administration's border crackdown delivered October 2025 as the lowest number of illegal border crossings in CBP history, marking the sixth straight month of zero releases by U.S. Border Patrol with just 30,561 encounters nationwide, down 79% from October 2024. Border Patrol agents apprehended approximately 8,000 migrants who illegally crossed the border between ports of entry, representing an arrest rate of 258 illegal aliens per day, compared to the Biden administration's average apprehension rate of more than 5,100 per day. DHS Secretary Kristi Noem stated "history made: the lowest border crossings in October history and the sixth straight month of ZERO releases. This is (the) most secure border ever," thanking President Trump and DHS law enforcement for making "America proud."
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