Live updates: Trump, Viktor Orbán to meet; Admin asks for pause on SNAP ruling amid government shutdown – NBC News

November 07, 2025, 1:31 PM EST

Trump suggested that Hungary shouldn’t face any secondary sanctions for buying oil from Russia, unlike other European countries, because he said it’s “very difficult” for Hungary to “get the oil and gas from other areas.”

“It’s a big country, but they don’t have sea, they don’t have the ports. And so they have a difficult problem,” Trump told the press before his bilateral lunch with Orbán.

Trump said that many other European countries that continue to purchase Russian oil don’t face those same problems.

“They don’t have those problems, and they buy a lot of oil and gas from Russia. And as they know, I’m very disturbed by that,” he said.

Trump just welcomed Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán inside the White House.

“Great leader,” Trump said about Orbán, as he pointed to the prime minister.

The two are slated to have a bilateral lunch.

Trump greets Orban at the White House today. Saul Loeb / AFP – Getty Images

A coalition of nonprofits has responded to the Trump administration’s motion for an emergency stay of a judge’s decision that the administration must fully fund food benefits today, doubling down on the urgency of the situation.

The organizations says the Trump administration has been refusing “to provide full funding to provide relief for children and families who are going hungry today. Time is of the essence.”

“Defendants’ claimed desire to conserve those funds for Child Nutrition programs—programs that have $23 billion on hand and require only $3 billion per month to operate—is facially implausible,” they wrote. “Tapping Child Nutrition funds poses no realistic threat of leaving those programs underfunded.”

The response comes as we await a ruling from the First Circuit on the administration’s request for an emergency stay.

U.S. consumer sentiment fell to a nearly three-year low, according to a new survey from the University of Michigan.

The survey also showed that consumers’ view of current economic conditions fell to a record low.

“With the federal government shutdown dragging on for over a month, consumers are now expressing worries about potential negative consequences for the economy,” the survey’s director, Joanne Hsu, said.

“This month’s decline in sentiment was widespread throughout the population, seen across age, income and political affiliation,” she added.

However, those with large stock portfolios bucked the trend, reporting an increase in economic sentiment. Despite the government shutdown, markets have remained unfazed and have repeatedly set records over the course of the 37-day shutdown.

Trump pardoned former Tennessee House Speaker Glen Casada and his former chief of staff, Cade Cothren.

Casada, a Republican, was sentenced in September to 36 months in prison after being convicted on 17 charges, including wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering. Cothren received a shorter sentence.

Casada confirmed the pardon in a statement to NBC affiliate WSMV in Nashville, saying: “Yes the president called me today and granted me a full pardon. I am grateful of his trust and his full confidence in my innocence through this whole ordeal.”

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The Trump administration is asking the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals for an emergency stay — or pause — of U.S. District Judge John McConnell’s order requiring it to fully fund SNAP by today by using other funding sources. 

“This Court should allow USDA to continue with the partial payment and not compel the agency to transfer billions of dollars from another safety net program with no certainty of their replenishment,” it writes.

“To the extent they require USDA to expend funds beyond the SNAP contingency fund, the Court should stay the district court’s orders of October 31 and November 6 pending appeal and grant an immediate administrative stay.”

The court has asked the plaintiffs in the SNAP lawsuit, a group of nonprofit organizations, to respond to this emergency stay motion by noon ET.

The Senate is scheduled to convene at noon today and while roll call votes are expected, it’s unclear whether there will be votes aimed at ending the government shutdown.

There have been discussions about a potential plan to end the shutdown in the Senate that could involve a vote on the House-passed CR for a 15th time. If that legislation receives the 60 votes needed to begin consideration of the bill, Republicans could amend it with a new short-term spending bill, as well as a package of three full-year appropriations bills.

If this plan were to proceed, it’s not clear how an assurance that a vote on Obamacare fixes would be included in the agreement. And of course, even if this effort succeeds in the Senate, the House would also need to vote on it before it’s sent to the president’s desk.

Former Sen. John E. Sununu’s comeback attempt in New Hampshire has Democrats there warning about a tougher-than-expected Senate race that could complicate the party’s effort to flip control of the chamber next year.

Sununu — a Republican who served one Senate term two decades ago and whose younger brother, Chris Sununu, was more recently the state’s popular four-term governor — jumped into the race last month.

The GOP establishment quickly rallied around Sununu in a primary that also includes Scott Brown, who served as an ambassador in Trump’s first term and as a senator from neighboring Massachusetts in the early 2010s.

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Building a nuclear-powered submarine in the South Korean-owned Philly Shipyard is not “realistic,” a South Korean official said, after Trump said it would be built in Philadelphia.

Trump, who visited South Korea last week, made the remark on social media after saying he had given the U.S. ally approval to build a nuclear-powered submarine, which would make it one of only a handful of countries to possess one.

Trump is set to host Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán at the White House today for a bilateral lunch.

The president is welcoming his U.S. ally after the Trump administration recently sanctioned Russia’s two largest oil companies. Hungary is among the European countries that purchase Russian oil and Trump noted last week that Orbán has asked for an exemption from sanctions on Russian oil.

“We haven’t granted one, but he’s a friend of mine,” Trump told reporters last week.

In September, Trump was asked to address Orbán on his refusal to stop buying Russian oil.

“Well, he’s a friend of mine. I have not spoken to him, but I have a feeling if I did, he might stop, and I think I’ll be doing that,” he said at the time.

GOP Rep. Elise Stefanik is launching a run for governor in New York, blaming Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul for the state’s high cost of living and tying the governor to New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani.

Stefanik’s  2½-minute launch video focuses largely on affordability. And while Stefanik is a staunch ally of Trump, her campaign video does not make any references to the president.

“There’s no question: New York is facing an affordability crisis,” a narrator says in Stefanik’s launch video, which also features commentators calling Hochul the “worst governor in America.” 

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A routine journey to the skies may result in long lines and a change of plans as airlines abide by a Federal Aviation Administration order to cut flights by 4% in high traffic airports starting today.

The cuts are building up to a 10% reduction in capacity at 40 locations, designed to ease pressure points and address fatigue among air traffic controllers as the government shutdown drags on.

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