CBS News reported that pledges are coming from corporations and wealthy donors, including Google, Booz Allen Hamilton, R.J. Reynolds, Palantir, and NextEra Energy. Lockheed Martin is said to have contributed $10 million to the project. They each may be rewarded by having their names etched into the White House.

President Donald Trump’s new White House ballroom is beginning to take shape. CBS News exclusively obtained updated architectural drawings on Thursday — which appear to show that the president’s project will outsize the White House once it is completed.

If the government isn't funded by next week, mass layoffs in federal agencies could occur, according to a White House office memo.

Federal agencies should implement mass layoffs of their workforces if the government shuts down next week, the White House told agencies on Wednesday, dramatically escalating the stakes of a potential funding lapse.

The White House budget office is telling federal agencies to prepare plans for mass firings in the event of a government shutdown, with instructions to target programs they are not legally required to continue.

"Replacing Biden's portrait with a picture of a pen? He gave decades of his life to public service," said one critic.

Trump is putting his mark on the White House in his second term, making changes to the building and its grounds. This week, he unveiled the “Presidential Walk of Fame” along the West Wing colonnade. Elsewhere,

Trump views the Turkish president as an ally who might serve as a valuable go-between in resolving the wars in Gaza and Ukraine.

Former White House lawyer Ty Cobb issued a dire warning following the indictment of former FBI Director James Comey.

The Trump administration warned Democrats risked a flood insurance lapse during the shutdown fight, endangering home sales and FEMA funds as hurricane season peaked.