Trump to host GOP senators at White House amid demolition work and government shutdown – US politics live

<p>The president will host a lunch for Republicans in the Rose Garden as construction is carried out on the White House’s east wing</p><p><strong>US district and appeals courts are increasingly rebuking Donald Trump’s radical moves on tackling crime, illegal immigration and other actions where administration lawyers or Trump have made sweeping claims of emergencies that judges have bluntly rejected as erroneous and undermining the rule of law in America.</strong></p><p>Legal scholars and ex-judges note that strong court pushback has come from judges appointed by Republicans, including Trump himself, and Democrats, and signify that the administration’s factual claims and expanding executive powers face stiff challenges that have slowed some extreme policies.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/oct/21/donald-trump-republicans-white-house-ballroom-government-shutdown-troops-us-politics-live-news-updates">Continue reading...</a>