Tonight, the president floats San Francisco as the next target for his crime crackdown.

Then a judge temporarily blocked Trump shutdown layoffs as the White House says the number of people fired could be north of 10,000.

And the Supreme Court hears a case that could devastate the landmark voting rights act and hand more seats in Congress to Republicans

as the 11th hour gets underway on this Wednesday night.

Good evening. Once again, I am Stephanie Ruhl, and welcome to the midweek nightcap. It is day

269 for those of you who are counting of the second Trump administration.

And this afternoon, the president held a press conference touting the surge of federal agents to

American cities that he claims are struggling with crime. Trump was joined in the Oval Office by FBI

director. You know him well, Cash Mattel and Attorney General Pam Bondi, who both helped

him make his case for the crackdown. And the president floated the next city that could soon see

a deployment of federal forces. I'm going to be strongly recommending at the request of government

officials, which is always nice, that you start looking at San Francisco.

I think we can make San Francisco one of our great cities 10 years ago, 15 years ago, now it's a mess.

And we have great support in San Francisco.

So I'd like to recommend that for inclusion, maybe in your next group.

I want to know, was it the government officials in San

Francisco that asked for it? Who knows? The administration has already sent the National Guard,

of course, to Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., Memphis, and Chicago. He also ordered troops to

Portland, but a judge there has blocked the move for now. Most of the cities are run by Democrats

who say Trump's actions are not necessary. Most of the cities are run by Democrats who say Trump's

actions are not necessary. Meanwhile, the government has been shut down for a total of 15 days

with no sign of reopening. The Senate failed to pass the House StopGap funding bill for the

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