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White House to initiate shutdown process as Congress hopes to keep duration minimal

Parts of the government are poised to shut down at midnight and the White House said it must go through the formal procedures that accompany that outcome, despite a resolution appearing imminent. The House is still in recess and will not return until Monday, meaning funding cannot be restored until that afternoon at the earliest.

White House slammed after mocking Don Lemon arrest in social media post

The post from the White House and the arrests of Lemon and Georgia Fort, an independent journalist in Minneapolis, is connected to their reporting of a protest inside a church, where demonstrators decried Trump’s ICE operations and the pastor’s alleged role as an ICE field director.

White House Scrambles to Fix Humiliating Math Errors

The Trump White House updated its projections of how much children could earn from the newly launched Trump Accounts after criticism that its earlier calculations were nonsensical. Following the accounts’ launch on Wednesday,

Top White House aide Stephen Miller acknowledges possible breach of protocol before Alex Pretti’s shooting

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller said Tuesday that officials were evaluating why Customs and Border Protection agents in Minneapolis “may not have been following” proper protocol before the fatal shooting of VA nurse Alex Pretti – a remarkable acknowledgment of possible wrongdoing from one of the Trump administration’s most influential and hardline operators on immigration enforcement.
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White House Calls Donald Trump 'Daddy' in New Cartoon Holiday Greeting

The White House's official Instagram account shared the holiday message on Wednesday, Dec. 3 ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP via Getty; The White House/Instagram A White House posted a holiday cartoon that shows Donald Trump in a Santa hat with the message ...
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I visited DC as a child. One look at the White House changed my life. | Opinion

What happened inside the President's House also helped shape some of the nation's earliest experiments in self-government.

Inside the White House frustrations with Sean Duffy

White House spokesperson KUSH DESAI praised Duffy as “the most transformational force at the Department of Transportation in a generation.” NATHANIEL SIZEMORE, a spokesperson for DOT, insisted that Trump “loves” Duffy and that’s “exactly why [Trump] wanted him out there during the shutdown — to communicate that air travel was safe.”

13 times Melania Trump broke with White House tradition and defied expectations as first lady

Melania Trump has made the first lady role her own by straying from presidential protocol and long-held White House traditions.