Today’s facts 09-30-2025

Today’s facts …

In a shutdown:

  • Museums, national parks, monuments close

  • Mail continues

  • Social Security and Medicare benefits continue

  • Active-duty troops, air traffic controllers, and federal law enforcement officers stay on the job; they are not paid until the shutdown ends

  • Some federal workers will be fired

Trump posted a racist deep fake video of Democratic leaders.

The sticking point of the government shutdown is the cost and availability of healthcare to Americans.

Trump has announced a future direct-to-consumer website for prescription drug purchases called TrumpRX.

Beloved — and once-bullied — librarian Mychel Threets is stepping in to lead Reading Rainbow.

Bad Bunny is a US citizen.

People born in Puerto Rico are US citizens.

There is not a war zone in Portland.

Artists do not pay to play at the Super Bowl halftime show.

From Hegseth’s military meeting today:

  • No more beards, shaving standards restored

  • New weight standards including the generals

  • An end to politically correct leadership in the US military

  • Loosening disciplinary rules

  • Weakening hazing protections

Immigrants make up between 32 to 40% of workers in US home care settings, 24% in residential care, and 21% in nursing facilities.

Democratic senators want to stop taxpayer reimbursements for Jan 6 rioters’ fines.

The 274 FBI agents who responded to the Capitol Jan. 6 were not agitators or insurrectionists.

Erika Kirk did not start a Christian dating app.

FBI Director Kash Patel gave New Zealand officials 3D-printed replica pistols that are illegal under local gun laws and had to be destroyed.

YouTube will pay Trump $24.5 million for suspending his account after Jan. 6.

An ICE officer relieved of duties after pushing a woman to the ground is back at work.

No artists have refused to perform a planned tribute to Charlie Kirk at the 2026 Super Bowl.

Nazi leader Joseph Goebbels banned comedians for joking about the Nazi Party and Hitler.

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Today’s facts 09-29-2025