🗞️IRS furloughs 50% of workforce

...plus Former FBI Director Comey pleads not guilty and Trump says Gaza peace deal is close

October 08, 2025

October 8th, 2025

What happened today 🇺🇸,

IRS furloughs nearly half of its workforce due to government shutdown

The IRS furloughs came on the same day that the Senate again fell short of passing a funding resolution that would end the federal government shutdown.

www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/10/08/irs-furloughs-workers-government-shutdown.html

  • The IRS is furloughing nearly 50% of its workforce, which is around 34,000 employees, due to the ongoing U.S. government shutdown

  • Former FBI Director, James Comey, pleaded not guilty to charges of making false statements and obstructing a congressional proceeding stemming from his 2020 Senate testimony…the case is set for trial on January 5th, 2026

  • President Trump took to social media to say that Chicago Mayor, Brandon Johnson, and Illinois Governor, JB Pritzker, should be in jail for failing to protect Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers during immigration enforcement operations

  • Joan Bennett Kennedy, the first wife of the late Massachusetts Senator Edward "Ted" Kennedy, has passed away at the age of 89

  • Elon Musk's AI startup xAI is raising $20 billion in a round that combines equity and debt, with Nvidia investing up to $2 billion and supplying processors for xAI's new Memphis data center called Colossus 2

  • Microsoft has withdrawn its proposal for a data center in Caledonia, Milwaukee, after facing significant opposition from local residents and elected officials concerned about environmental impact, community character, and resource use

  • Elon Musk has agreed to settle a $128 million lawsuit brought by four former top Twitter executives over unpaid severance following his 2022 acquisition of the company…read more here

  • Domino's Pizza unveiled its first major brand refresh in 13 years, featuring a bolder logo with more vibrant red and blue colors, new employee uniforms, redesigned pizza boxes, and updated restaurant signage…also for the first time in its 65-year history Domino's is introducing a catchy, name-based jingle called "Dommmino's," performed by Grammy-nominated artist Shaboozey

  • About 486,000 people live full-time in an RV in the U.S., which is more than twice as many in 2021…this increase reflects a growing trend driven largely by rising housing costs, causing many Americans to seek more affordable living arrangements

  • DOW was flat on the day / S&P up .58%

  • President Trump announced Israel and Hamas have agreed to the first phase of a peace plan that would see all hostages released

Bonus: A look at America’s homeless population by state

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