Portland's mayor said he has not asked for an increase in federal officers.
President Donald Trump announced that he ordered federal troops to Portland, Oregon, due to what he alleged were threats from domestic terrorists.
Portland Mayor Keith Wilson, however, chastized the president and stressed that city leaders did not make any request to Washington.
President Donald Trump will welcome the leaders of Turkey and Pakistan on Thursday.
Trump will welcome Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at 11 a.m. ET for a bilateral meeting and lunch.
At 3:30 p.m. ET, Trump will sign executive orders.
Later Thursday afternoon, Trump will meet Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif.
The White House is alerting agencies to prepare for furloughs ahead of a possible government shutdown, but also threatening that mass firings could become permanent if a shutdown is not averted.
"Programs that did not benefit from an infusion of mandatory appropriations will bear the brunt of a shutdown, and we must continue our planning efforts in the event Democrats decide to shut down the government," the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) memo sent to federal agencies Wednesday said.
The memo directs agencies to make plans for the usual shutdown furloughs. But it also directs agencies to "use this opportunity to consider Reduction in Force (RIF) notices for all employees" who work in programs with discretionary funding that lapses, don't have other sources of funding or do not align with the president's agenda.
Once the shutdown ends, the OMB said that agencies should "revise" those mass layoffs to "retain the minimal number of employees necessary," meaning many of those job cuts could become permanent.
The cuts that OMB is advising agencies to make go far beyond the typical furloughs that a government shutdown typically causes, upping the stakes for negotiations on Capitol Hill.
The government runs out of funding on Oct. 1. There is not currently a clear path forward to keep the lights on. Democrats have said they won't support a clean stopgap measure to keep the government open unless they can secure health care wins.
It's a different position than ten Senate Democrats, including Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, took in March when they voted to fund the government while warning at the time that a shutdown would give OMB the power to make more sweeping federal cuts.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, one day after President Donald Trump's major shift toward Ukraine.
Trump, after meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, wrote on social media that he thinks Ukraine could win back its seized land. For months, Trump had said he believed Ukraine would have to cede territory in order to bring an end Russia's invasion.
Trump also said that Russia was a "paper tiger," citing its battlefield failures. Russia quickly pushed back, with Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov saying Russia "is a real bear."
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addressed the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Wednesday morning, where he called on member nations to stand with Ukraine against Russia.
"International law doesn't work fully unless you have powerful friends who are truly willing to stand up for it," Zelenskyy said. "And even that doesn't work without weapons. It's terrible, but without it, things will be even worse. There are no security guarantees except friends and weapons."
"If it takes pressure on Russia, it must be done and it must be done now otherwise Putin will keep driving the war forward, wider and deeper," Zelenskyy added. "We told you before, Ukraine is only the first and now Russian drones are already flying across Europe, and Russian operations are already spreading across countries ... No one can feel safe right now."
Zelenskyy said he had good meetings with President Trump and other world leaders this week. "Together we can change a lot," he said.
