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PHOTO: The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) building, Feb. 23, 2025, in Washington, D.C.
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By Kevin Shalvey, Alexandra Hutzler, Ivan Pereira
Last Updated: November 23, 2025, 12:50 PM

President Donald Trump on Thursday called several Democratic veterans and national security specialists "traitors" who should face the death penalty for releasing a joint video in which they said that U.S. service members could refuse illegal orders.

This week, the House and Senate overwhelmingly approved a measure to force the Department of Justice to release all files related to late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Trump signed the legislation on Wednesday night, starting the clock on the 30 days the DOJ has to release the documents.

Key Headlines

  • Trump says lawmakers who made military video 'SHOULD BE IN JAIL RIGHT NOW'
  • Judge blocks IRS-ICE data sharing
  • Trump on Zelenskyy and Ukraine peace plan: 'He'll have to like it'
  • Trump congratulates Mamdani: 'The better he does, the happier I am'
  • Trump says Thanksgiving is an 'appropriate time' for Ukraine to accept peace deal
Here's how the news is developing.

Nov 23, 2025 12:50 PM

Trump says lawmakers who made military video 'SHOULD BE IN JAIL RIGHT NOW'

President Donald Trump said Democratic lawmakers who made a video urging military members to refuse illegal orders should be in jail.

"THE TRAITORS THAT TOLD THE MILITARY TO DISOBEY MY ORDERS SHOULD BE IN JAIL RIGHT NOW, NOT ROAMING THE FAKE NEWS NETWORKS TRYING TO EXPLAIN THAT WHAT THEY SAID WAS OK," Trump posted on his social media platform on Saturday night.

Democrats, who released a joint video in which they said that U.S. service members could refuse illegal orders, defended their message saying they were standing up for the Constitution.

PHOTO: President Donald Trump steps off Marine One upon his arrival to the White House, Saturday, Nov. 22, 2025, in Washington.
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President Donald Trump steps off Marine One upon his arrival to the White House, Saturday, Nov. 22, 2025, in Washington.
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While the president has suggested this behavior by Democrats may be subject to punishments up to the death penalty, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said it may be "punishable by law" during a press briefing earlier this week.

"These three members of Congress, I will also add, knew exactly what they were doing," she said. "to signal to people serving under this commander in chief, Donald Trump, that you can defy him and you can betray your oath of office, that is a very, very dangerous message. And it perhaps is punishable by law. I'm not a lawyer. I'll leave that to the Department of Justice and the Department of War to decide."

"IT WAS SEDITION AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL, AND SEDITION IS A MAJOR CRIME," Trump said in the post Saturday. "THERE CAN BE NO OTHER INTERPRETATION OF WHAT THEY SAID!"

-ABC News' Lalee Ibssa


Nov 22, 2025 12:04 AM

Judge blocks IRS-ICE data sharing

A federal judge on Friday prohibited the IRS from sharing sensitive taxpayer data with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to aid its nationwide immigration crackdown.

U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly issued an injunction that bars the IRS from passing along the sensitive information -- including home addresses -- to aid in civil immigration enforcement, concluding the policy was arbitrary and violates a law that protects taxpayer confidentiality.

“Plaintiffs’ members face an imminent risk that the confidential address information they have provided to the IRS will be impermissibly used by ICE for civil immigration enforcement,” Judge Kollar-Kotelly wrote.

PHOTO: The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) building, Feb. 23, 2025, in Washington, D.C.
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The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) building, Feb. 23, 2025, in Washington, D.C.
Annabelle Gordon for The Washington Post via Getty Images

A coalition of small businesses and unions sued to stop the controversial policy, which marked a significant departure from the IRS’s earlier approach of strict confidentiality. In April, the IRS agreed to begin sharing confidential information about taxpayer’s addresses, and by August, the IRS disclosed information about approximately 47,000 taxpayers.

The judge's order expands on an earlier decision that temporarily blocked the sharing of taxpayer data.

-ABC News' Peter Charalambous


Nov 21, 2025 9:09 PM

Trump on Zelenskyy and Ukraine peace plan: 'He'll have to like it'

President Donald Trump, taking reporter questions in the Oval Office on Friday, spoke about the 28-point peace proposal his administration has drafted to bring an the Russia-Ukraine war.

The plan was presented to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskky on Thursday, a U.S. official said.
"He'll have to like it. And if he doesn't like it, then, you know, they should just keep fighting, I guess," Trump said of Zelenskyy and the plan.

PHOTO: President Donald Trump speaks during the Saudi Investment Forum at the Kennedy Center, Nov. 19, 2025, in Washington.
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President Donald Trump speaks during the Saudi Investment Forum at the Kennedy Center, Nov. 19, 2025, in Washington.
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"We think we have a way of getting peace. He's going to have to approve it," Trump said.



Nov 21, 2025 9:09 PM

Trump congratulates Mamdani: 'The better he does, the happier I am'

President Donald Trump congratulated New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani as they met at the White House on Friday.

"We've just had a great meeting. A really good, very productive meeting. We have one thing in common. We want this city of ours that we love to do very well. And I wanted to congratulate the mayor," Trump said, adding Mamdani ran an "incredible race."

"The better he does, the happier I am," Trump added.

PHOTO: President Donald Trump meets with New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, November 21, 2025.
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President Donald Trump meets with New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, November 21, 2025.
Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images


Mamdani also described the meeting as productive, and said their main focus was affordability.

"We spoke about rent. We spoke about groceries, we spoke about utilities. We spoke about the different ways in which people are being pushed out. And I appreciated the time with the president. I appreciated the conversation," Mamdani said.


Nov 20, 2025 5:51 PM

Trump admin expected to announce relief plan for farmers in early December

A USDA official confirmed to ABC News that the Trump administration intends to release its plan to provide relief for farmers in early December.

The official also confirmed comments made by Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins to Bloomberg about the plan.

"We've been able to really analyze, build our formulas around what is happening. We're obviously in a different place today than we were a couple of months ago. Having said that, we expect to release and announce that the first week of December," Rollins told Bloomberg.

For months, administration officials have discussed providing economic relief to farmers as President Donald Trump's tariff plan has greatly impacted them.

PHOTO: President Donald Trump meets Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the Oval Office of the White House, Nov. 18, 2025, in Washington.
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President Donald Trump meets Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the Oval Office of the White House, Nov. 18, 2025, in Washington.
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During Trump's Asia trip, Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed to resume purchasing soybeans from the U.S. as part of their larger trade framework.

In an interview with Fox Business in late October, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said that China has agreed to purchase 12 million metric tons of soybeans between now and January.

--ABC News' Hannah Demissie


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