All right, it is day 23. Day 23 of the government shut down, and the effects are hitting communities across the nation.

From missed paychecks to threats to food services, millions of Americans are feeling the strain.

But Donald Trump is focused on something else entirely. You know it. The White House itself.

Donald Trump has torn down the entire east wing of the White House, which belongs to the

American people, to add a ballroom named after himself. It's something President Barack Obama

actually joked about 14 years ago at the White House Correspondents Dinner.

Say what you will about Mr. Trump. He certainly would bring some change to the White House.

Let's see what we've got up there.

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Today, Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski said this when asked about the White House wrecking ball.

The optics are not good. And I mean, think about it.

Think about the scenario that people are looking at.

They're seeing the headlines that say snap benefits,

food benefits for lower income people may not be available next week.

Federal funding for nursing moms' WIC benefits

may not be available after the first of November. And then you have a White House where they're expanding a massive ballroom.

The optics? Is it the optics that are bad? Because cutting formula for babies born into poverty

while building a vulgar ballroom seems pretty bad in actuality. Just full stop. After that, Donald Trump's

latest reported demand that the American taxpayers give him $230 million for the federal

investigations into him. And now House Democrats are launching an investigation into what they

call Trump's blatantly illegal plan.

The top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, Congressman Jamie Raskin,

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