WASHINGTON — The insults continue to fly. As congressional lawmakers began to vote Tuesday on Democratic and Republican bills to keep the federal government funded, President Donald Trump posted ...

Is this what it takes to win the messaging battle in 2025?: Washington leaders have a new and unexpected weapon in their political arsenal for the 2025 government shutdown: trolling with memes.

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) told House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) that he should ignore the AI-doctored videos President Trump has posted picturing him in a sombrero, calling them a ...

Related Explainer: The Deeply Unserious Era: 'Hakeem Jeffries Sombrero,' 'Gavin Newsom's Minions' And How Politicians Are Weaponizing Memes Against Their Rivals On September 29th, 2025, President ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson on Thursday urged House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries to focus on resolving the government shutdown instead of complaining about President Donald Trump's sombrero memes.

see more of our stories on Google. Add Axios on Google President Trump in the Oval Office on August 14, 2025. Photo: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images.

Republicans and Democrats react to government shutdown, TIME interviews 'Wicked' actor Jonathan Bailey, and more Length: Long Speed: 1.0x The federal government shut down at midnight after a stalemate ...

Vice President JD Vance says he doesn’t think “it’s going to be that long” of a government shutdown. Watch White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt and Vice President JD Vance’s news briefing in ...

Vice President JD Vance assured House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) — and the nation — that “the sombrero memes will stop” if he ends the government shutdown that began at midnight on ...

The Plummer Community Corrections Center in Wilmington is scheduled to close by March of 2026. Delaware Correction Commissioner Terra Taylor said this will result in millions of taxpayer dollars being ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — South Dakota officials are speaking out after the government shut down Tuesday night. South Dakota Republican Rep. Dusty Johnson has released his statement in the wake of ...