On October 15, 2025, the White House published the Fact Sheet President Donald J. Trump Announces Actions to Lower Costs and Expand Access to In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) and High-Quality Fertility Care announcing a deal with EMD Serono to bring down the cost of fertility treatments. The Fact Sheet also explains that medications approved in Europe but not yet approved in the US will have a reduced application time at the FDA bringing approval time to less than 2 months. This announcement also includes the creation of a New Benefit Option providing employers a legal pathway to offer fertility benefits directly to employees (similar to dental, vision, and life insurance supplemental policies). This newest agreement fulfills one of President Trump's campaign promises to give US Citizens increased access to IVF treatments by reducing the cost.
On October 16, 2025, the White House published the article Radical Left’s CNN Stunt Fails to Distract from Their Shutdown Stranglehold discusses the debacle created when AOC & Bernie Sanders were at the Town Hall on CNN. During this 8 minutes, Sanders was left stuttering when asked why he previously said shutdowns were "a serious and dangerous action that we must do everything possible to prevent" and yet he continues to vote for the government to remain shutdown. Neither actually answered questions by the attendees.
The Senate held a 10th vote on the CR to reopen government. The vote tally was:
51 yeas - Republicans plus Cortez Masto D-NV; Fetterman D-PA; and King I-ME
45 nays - Democrats plus Paul R-KY and Sanders I-VT
4 chose to not vote - Cassidy R-LA; Duckworth D-IL; Tillis R-NC; and Tuberville R-AL
OMB, OPM, and Federal Defendant Agencies; their officers, agents, servants, employees, and attorneys; and all persons acting by, through, under, or in concert with these Defendants are hereby enjoined and/or stayed, until further order of the Court, from:
1) taking any action to issue any Reduction in Force (“RIF”) notices to federal employees in any PPA (program, project, or activity) that includes any bargaining unit or member represented by any Plaintiff during or because of the federal government shutdown, including but not limited to by taking any action to implement or enforce the OMB Lapse Memorandum (dated September 24, 2025), the portions of the related OPM Guidance for Shutdown Furloughs (as revised September 28, 2025), the related OPM “Special Instructions for Agencies Affected by a Possible Lapse in Appropriations Starting on October 1, 2025” (dated September 28, 2025), or any other decision or directive that purports to authorize or require issuance of RIF notices during a shutdown;
2) taking any further action to administer or implement any RIF notices already issued beginning on October 10, 2025 to federal employees in any PPA (program, project, or activity) that includes any bargaining unit or member represented by any Plaintiff, including but not limited to by requiring federal employees to perform work to further administer or implement RIF notices and by enforcing or counting any days towards any period of notice with respect to those notices (i.e., the effective date of the RIF shall be stayed and Defendants shall therefore toll the running of all RIF notice periods).
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that, by 5:00 p.m. PDT on October 17, 2025, Defendants shall serve and file an accounting of all RIFs, actual or imminent, that are enjoined by this TRO, including but not limited to a description of the agency that imposed or is planning to impose the enjoined RIF, the number of employees included in the enjoined RIF, and description of the PPAs that Defendants included in the enjoined RIF.
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that, by 5:00 p.m. PDT on October 17, 2025, each Defendant shall file a declaration(s) verifying that they have complied with this Order and the steps they have taken to do so.
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the Court GRANTS the order to show cause why a preliminary injunction shall not issue.
Notice that the actual RIF process did not begin until the first "delayed" paycheck on October 10, 2025 yet this lawsuit was filed on September 30, 2025.
In the lawsuit Illinois v. Trump docket # 25-2798 Appeal of 1:25-cv-12174 filed in 7th Circuit Court of Appeals on October 10, 2025 about the National Guard Deployment, the stay was partially denied on October 16, 2025. Judges Robner, Hamilton, and St Eve decided: Because we conclude that the factors weigh against a stay of the deployment order pending appeal, IT IS ORDERED that the motion to stay pending appeal is GRANTED in part and DENIED in part. We continue to STAY the district court’s October 9, 2025, order only to the extent it enjoined the federalization of the National Guard within the state. The administration remains barred from deploying the National Guard of the United States within Illinois. Apparently, the Trump Administration is not allowed to send National Guard members from other States to Illinois at this time.
A new lawsuit Chamber of Commerce v. Department of Homeland Security docket # 1:25-cv-03675 filed in District Court District Court of Columbia on October 16 about the H-1B Visa Program Changes. The lawsuit seeks the following relief: 1) Declare that the Proclamation and any implementing agency action exceed the executive branch’s lawful authority; 2) Enjoin defendants from implementing, enforcing, or otherwise carrying out the provisions of the Proclamation as to Plaintiff and each of its members; 3) Vacate and set aside, under the APA, any agency actions taken to implement the Proclamation; 4) Award Plaintiff reasonable attorney’s fees and costs; and 5) Award Plaintiff such other and further relief as the Court may deem just and proper.
Today we begin with the Bill of Rights AKA the first 10 Amendments to the US Constitution. These Amendments explain the rights of Citizens in relation to their government.
The 1st Amendment covers religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Private entities, such as social media, are not bound by the 1st Amendment. Your speech at work can get you fired! Free speech does have limitations, such as obscenities, true threats, defamation, and incitement to imminent lawless action. Which leads me to question how domestic terrorists manage to incite to lawless action using social media without any legal action being taken (such as arrests).
Those are some of the exact words used by Google’s censors, aka 'Orwellian content police,' in describing many of our controversial stories. Stories later proven to be truthful and light years ahead of the mainstream media. But because we reported those 'inconvenient truths' they're trying to bankrupt ANP.
