Secretary of War Pete Hegseth paid a visit to the Demilitarized Zone between South and North Korea on Monday with South Korean Defense Minister Ahn Gyu-back — marking the first trip to the highly secure border by a Pentagon chief since then-Defense Secretary James Mattis visited in October 2017.

"I visited the DMZ with my ROK counterpart, Minister Ahn, to meet the brave troops of the U.S., ROK, and UN Command that maintain the military armistice on the Peninsula," Hegseth wrote on X.

"Our forces remain ready to support President Trump’s efforts to bring lasting peace through strength."

Hegseth also greeted military officers at a US Army base near the truce village of Panmunjom.

The DMZ stop comes after Hegseth attended the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Defense Ministers' Meeting in Malaysia at the beginning of the month, and made separate trips to Japan and Vietnam to meet with his counterparts.

SNAP will get partial funding to keep feeding millions of Americans despite the program running out of cash at the start of the month due to the ongoing government shutdown, the Trump administration confirmed in court documents Monday.

Details about how much of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program will remain funded and for how long it will be kept afloat are unclear. The Trump administration had been ordered by two courts to continue payments despite the shutdown.

"Per orders issued by the United States District Courts for the Districts of Massachusetts and Rhode Island, FNS [Food and Nutrition Service] intends to deplete SNAP contingency funds completely and provide reduced SNAP benefits for November 2025," a Department of Agriculture official attested in court documents.

SNAP had about $6 billion worth of contingency funds intended for emergencies such as hurricanes and other natural disasters that could spark an urgent need for food assistance.

Each month, the government spends about $8 billion on SNAP. While it's not fully clear how much of a reduction in benefits SNAP beneficiaries will see, the Department of Agriculture indicated that people will be able to petition their benefits.

"In addition to adjusting eligibility and benefit issuance files to accommodate the reduction, States must notify all SNAP households of the reduction, as well as handle any requests for fair hearings from SNAP households related to the reduction," the official added.

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President Trump will hold last-minute tele-rallies for GOP gubernatorial candidates Jack Ciattarelli in New Jersey and Winsome Earle-Sears in Virginia. Both candidates are trailing in polls, as Republicans hope for a repeat of the 2021 Virginia upset.

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President Trump endorsed Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman in Tuesday’s election — giving a last-minute boost to the Republican’s re-election bid.

Trump threw his support behind Blakeman in a Sunday Truth Social post, calling him an “America First Patriot” as he urged Nassau residents to vote for the incumbent.

“Bruce has been with us from the very beginning, and is 100% MAGA,” Trump posted Sunday.

“He is working tirelessly with the Brave Heroes of Law Enforcement, ICE, and Border Patrol to Safeguard our Communities, Ensure LAW AND ORDER, Defend our always under siege Second Amendment, Keep our now very Secure Border, SECURE, End Migrant Crime, and Stop Communism from ruining our once Great Cities,” the president added.

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The Trump administration faces a noon deadline today to brief a federal judge on how it will fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) amid a lapse caused by the government shutdown.

Last week, a federal court directed the Agriculture Department to tap into a contingency fund to keep SNAP afloat for a few more weeks. Trump later said he was eager to do so but needed clarification from the courts due to instructions from another court that were contradictory.

Funding for SNAP had run out on Saturday, in a blow to the 42 million Americans who depend on it for food. The federal judge ordered the administration to fund the program by Wednesday.

“President Trump just Truthed out that he’s very anxious to get this done,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday about addressing the funding lapse.

“There’s a process that has to be followed. So we got to figure out what the process is. President Trump wants to make sure that people get their food benefit.”