Weekend Report: What's going on?

Republicans continue losing the shutdown. Federal judge orders ICE unmasked and badged. Trump administration admits deportation are threatening nation's food supply.

Donald Trump has now ordered mass firings of federal workers in an effort to force Democrats to cave on the shutdown. Yet it has only emboldened Democrats further as House Speaker Mike Johnson got scorched by voters on C-SPAN and expressed the GOP fears of next week’s No Kings protests by calling them “hate America” rallies. But even Marjorie Taylor Greene, one of the most rabid right-wing forces in the House, is now calling for ending the shutdown and extending Obamacare subsidies, showing Republicans are in disarray as Democrats are unified.

As one federal judge issued an order stopping Trump from sending the National Guard into Chicago, another federal judge has issued a temporary restraining order in Chicago demanding that federal law enforcement remove masks and must wear badges. The order also protects journalists who’ve been targeted. It’s unclear why it’s taken so long and if this will stand up on appeal.

A Trump administration document shows Trump’s government is terrified of food shortages and the impact on agriculture because of mass deportations, something critics have warned about and which even farmers have desperately complained to Trump about. It notes that, contrary to the agriculture secretary’s claims that Americans will fill the jobs of farm workers, the jobs are vacant. “Unless the Department acts immediately to provide a source of stable and lawful labor,” the document says, “this threat will grow.”