By April Ryan
Only 37% of Americans approve of President Trump. Those numbers are from a new October 2025 AP-NORC Center Poll, Meanwhile, over 7,000,000 people are estimated to have marched across the country on Saturday against President Donald Trump in No Kings Day 2.0, which aligns with the Associated Press poll’s findings.Protesters included former Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff and scores of others protesting the fate of democracy and the human condition under the Trump administration’s second term.
The White House and Congress have failed to resolve the financial expenditures, resulting in office closures, worker furloughs, and decreased services. Amid the growing angst from Americans surrounding the Saturday display of dissent, Speaker Mike Johnson called it the Hate America rally. Vice President JD Vance mocked the millions of people who showed up in protest of the administration. Trump similarly used an Artificial Intelligence video depicting himself wearing a crown and flying a military jet. The footage, highly criticized on social media, portrays the president’s plane dropping excrement on protesters. As people and families try to save themselves financially amid the furloughs, the president has said, “People ‘we want paid’ in shutdown will be.”
Meanwhile, there was an important victory for workers on the chopping block. On October 15th, a judge decided to temporarily halt worker firings. The White House confirmed over 4,000 jobs have been axed since the government shutdown. U.S. District Judge Susan Illston found the Trump administration’s actions appeared to be politically motivated and likely illegal. Illston cited President Donald Trump and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russell Vought’s public statements as evidence of political motivation, which cuts would target “Democrat agencies.” The New York Times recently detailed a breakdown of the firings!
Last week, Congresswoman Shantell Brown acknowledged that no president has ever fired federal workers during the government shutdown, but this president has. Federal workers in the Department of Education’s special education unit are now unemployed. The federal office that communicates essential information about recalls, toxins, and other concerns about medical devices like faulty pacemakers is also impacted. Last week, Congresswoman Shantell Brown acknowledged that no president has ever fired federal workers during the government shutdown, but this president has. Federal workers in the Department of Education’s special education unit are now unemployed.
The federal office that communicates essential information about recalls, toxins, and other concerns about medical devices like faulty pacemakers is also impacted. Congressional leaders are responding to this crisis. Congressman Kwiesi Mfume, a Democrat of Maryland, has asked that his net pay be withheld until an appropriations agreement has taken effect. The shutdown has created longer phone lines than normal for financial institutions that handle mortgages for those in the grips of no pay from the government shutdown.
