https://youtu.be/ok6C-A91cUw?si=uPSZdwQkWoKRcKAL

President Trump on Wednesday impersonated Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his absence during a stop in South Korea.

“He’s a killer, he’s tough as hell,” Trump said at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit. Changing his voice, Trump said, “‘No we will fight!’ I said, ‘Whoa, is this the same man that I know?'”

Trump was referring to the brief conflict between India and Pakistan in May. He called Modi “the nicest-looking guy” and said both countries were “nuclear nations” that wanted to fight each other.
“They both said that,” Trump said. “They’re warring — they’re strong people.”

Modi did not attend the summit over the worry that Trump would bring up Pakistan, Bloomberg reported. Indian officials worried that Trump would take credit for the ceasefire between India and Pakistan, fueled by Pakistan nominating Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize.

India denies Trump’s involvement in the four-day conflict with Pakistan, Bloomberg wrote.

Trump and Modi spoke on Wednesday about India no longer buying oil from Russia. Trump told reporters in the Oval Office that he was “not happy” about India buying Russian oil, but Modi assured him that oil purchases had ceased.

>Modi did not attend the summit over the worry that Trump would bring up Pakistan

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5579439-trump-impersonates-modi-summit/

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/senate-trump-tariffs-canada/
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/10/28/congress/senate-votes-against-trumps-50-percent-tariff-on-brazil-00626437
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/senate-narrowly-passes-bill-repeal-trumps-tariffs-brazil/story?id=126955639

The Senate voted Wednesday to approve a resolution that would block President Trump's tariffs on Canada, a day after the chamber rebuked the president with another vote to block tariffs on Brazil.

In a 50 to 46 vote, four Republicans joined Democrats to approve the measure, which would terminate the national emergency used to impose tariffs on some goods from Canada. Republican Sens. Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, and Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul of Kentucky broke with their party to vote in favor of the resolution, which required a simple majority and was not subject to the 60-vote threshold needed for most legislation.

The move is mostly symbolic, since it is unlikely to be taken up in the GOP-controlled House. Republican leaders have taken steps to prevent lawmakers from forcing a vote on the president's tariffs in the lower chamber.

US airports have reported more than 20 incidents of air traffic controller shortages on Saturday, said Sean Duffy, transportation secretary, in the latest sign of the government shutdown’s impact.

A ground stop was issued by the agency at Los Angeles international airport due to the air traffic controller staffing shortages at around 11.30am ET (15.30 GMT). The restriction covered most of the southern California region and delays are likely when flights resume.

The Trump administration warned flight disruptions are expected to increase as they drag the shutdown on.

Duffy told the Fox News’s Sunday Morning Futures program that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Saturday had 22 “triggers” that indicated shortages of air traffic controllers. He said that figure was “one of the highest that we’ve seen in the system” since 1 October.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/26/air-traffic-controller-shortages-shutdown

https://newrepublic.com/post/202339/trump-79-wanders-off-meeting-japanese-prime-minister

He was immediately tested afterward for dementia.

Senate Democrats are becoming more partial to ending the Democrat Shutdown
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5577883-senate-democrats-government-shutdown-pressure/
Democrats wobble as pressure to end shutdown ramps up

Senate Democrats are taking a close look at a Republican proposal to pay all federal employees — including essential and furloughed workers — as they’re under new pressure from the nation’s largest federal workers union to pass a clean continuing resolution to stop shutting down the government.

They also plan to introduce legislation to pay for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits and extend funding for the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children, which provides essential nutrition assistance for lower income mothers.

The developments reveal Democrats are looking for a way to ease the impact of the four-week Schumer Shutdown on federal workers who are struggling to pay their daily expenses and on lower income Americans who may soon run out of food.

Publicly, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) and his leadership team are sticking to their arguments that President Trump needs to start negotiating on health insurance subsidies before they agree to reopen the government.

At the same time, Democrats are feeling intense pressure to end the Schumer Shutdown in a way that gives them a political win — or at least a face-saving off-ramp from the stalemate that has stalled Washington for nearly 30 days.

Democratic leaders say they want Trump to negotiate with them over rising health insurance premiums, but they haven’t yet said what exactly it would take to get enough votes for Democrats to agree to reopen the government.

5,698 days since the Affordable Care Act was signed into law, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga. 14th) laments Republicans have no plan to address rising healthcare costs.
Her grievance comes 27 days into the government shutdown under Republican leadership in the White House and Congress over expiring subsides implemented to keep healthcare costs affordable for millions of Americans.
The Republican majority is demanding Democrats agree to their bill to let the subsides expire and have so far offered nothing in return, going so far as to deliberately close channels for negotaition.
Republicans in the Senate, who could end the shutdown immediately by invoking the nuclear option, have instead chosen to put forth the bill 13 times, each time expecting a different outcome despite changing nothing.
This strategy has so far been unsuccessful.

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5577071-greene-johnson-health-care-plans-shutdown/

>Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green (R-Ga.) on Tuesday called out House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) for not providing any plans on a Republican alternative to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and tax subsidies set to expire at the end of the year.

>“You left out that I said I have no respect for the House not being in session passing our bills and the President’s executive orders,” Greene wrote on social platform X, in response to a post from Punchbowl News’s Jake Sherman following a recent GOP conference call.

>“And I demanded to know from Speaker Johnson what the Republican plan for healthcare is to build the off-ramp off Obamacare and the ACA tax credits to make health insurance affordable for Americans,” she added.

>“Johnson said he’s got ideas and pages of policy ideas and committees of jurisdiction are working on it, but he refused to give one policy proposal to our GOP conference on our own conference call,” the Georgia Republican continued. “Apparently I have to go into a SCIF to find out the Republican healthcare plan!!!”