Flight cancellations hit airports as Trump administration cuts services over government shutdown: Live updates

Former Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, who worked for the first Trump administration, told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins Thursday night that the American people are “fatigued” amid the longest shutdown in U.S. history.

 “We don’t want to see it get worse. And so hopefully, the two sides will come to some kind of understanding and also agreement,” Chao said. “I think both sides are fatigued. The American people is fatigued. We are ready for an opening of the government, and both sides, I think, are just trying to find some way to come to some understanding.”

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Georgia Republican, told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins Thursday night it’s “absolutely pathetic” that House members aren’t in Washington, D.C., amid the ongoing government shutdown.

Former President Joe Biden has wished House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi “all the best” after she announced her planned retirement, despite a reported rift in their friendship.

During Biden’s final days in the 2024 presidential race, Pelosi said on MSNBC, “It’s up to the president to decide if he is going to run. We’re all encouraging him to make that decision because time is running short.”

Biden had already decided to stay in the race after a dismal debate performance against now-President Donald Trump. He later dropped out to make way for then-Vice President Kamala Harris to run.

Speaking to The Washington Post last January, then-first lady Jill Biden said of Pelosi, “We were friends for 50 years,” calling her shift in support “disappointing.”

President Donald Trump has announced an “incredible” trade deal between the U.S. and Uzbekistan.

“Over the next three years, Uzbekistan will be purchasing and investing almost $35 Billion Dollars and, in the next 10 years, over $100 Billion Dollars, in key American Sectors, including Critical Minerals, Aviation, Automotive Parts, Infrastructure, Agriculture, Energy & Chemicals, Information Technology, and others,” Trump wrote on Truth Social Thursday night.

“I want to thank Uzbekistan’s Highly Respected President, Shavkat Mirziyoyev. We look forward to a long and productive relationship between our Countries!” he added.

Trump hosted Mirziyoyev, along with the leaders of Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan, at the White House for dinner Thursday night.

Ivanka, the eldest daughter of President Donald Trump, has entered the food waste prevention business following her stint in the White House during her father’s first term. She’s the co-founder of Planet Harvest, a “profit-for-purpose” company that creates a market for produce that has cosmetic flaws but is still good to eat.

Ivanka highlighted her recent attendance at the Think Health Summit in Bentonville, Arkansas, in a Wednesday Instagram post, saying her company donated 5,000 “Planet Harvest Farmacy” food boxes to families in Northwest Arkansas.

“If food drives disease, food must be part of the cure, and if food is medicine, farmers are healthcare providers!” she wrote.

President Donald Trump bragged that he was delivering on affordability for Americans after Walmart shared that its annual Thanksgiving meal was cheaper than last year’s — though internet sleuths are skeptical whether that is actually the case.

Trump touted on his Truth Social platform Wednesday that Walmart’s Thanksgiving dinner this year was “down 25% since under Sleepy/Crooked Joe Biden.”

“AFFORDABILITY is a Republican Stronghold,” Trump, 79, claimed. “Hopefully, Republicans will use this irrefutable fact!”

The post, shared to X by the White House Rapid Response team, quickly got slapped with a Community Note. The correction from X users suggested that this year’s Walmart meal package only includes 15 items, compared to the 21 listed last year.

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Vice President JD Vance has listed some of the consequences of the ongoing government shutdown without blaming his side of the aisle.

When asked who is more to blame for the shutdown, 52 percent of registered voters said President Donald Trump and/or congressional Republicans, while 42 percent said Democrats in Congress, according to a recent NBC News poll.

President Donald Trump has continued to boast about Walmart’s affordable Thanksgiving meal without sharing all the facts.

“They announced today after many years…that Thanksgiving for the United States of America…is 25 percent less for a Thanksgiving meal with all the trimmings than it was under sleepy Joe Biden’s administration,” Trump said at a White House dinner with Central Asian leaders Thursday night.

Walmart’s meal package is cheaper this year compared to last year, but there are some differences. This year’s dinner comes with 15 items, instead of 21.

Read more about the differences in Walmart’s Thanksgiving meal packages from Isabel Keane:

Vice President JD Vance has called a court order to fully fund SNAP benefits through November an “absurd ruling.”

“You have a federal judge effectively telling us what we have to do in the midst of the Democrat government shutdown, which what we’d like to do is for the Democrats to open up the government of course, then we can fund SNAP,” Vance told reporters at a White House dinner with Central Asian leaders Thursday night.

The Trump administration has appealed the ruling made by a federal judge in Rhode Island earlier Thursday.

Read more on the court order from Alex Woodward:

It’s day 37 of the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, and Congress remains divided on what must be done to open it back up.

One Senate aide told CNN’s Annie Grayer, “Everybody is looking at the tea leaves. What if the tea has no leaves.”