holidays

The new administration’s mass reduction of the federal workforce will endanger the relatively few and short holidays Americans take.

"We had holidays, nice houses - everything that constitutes a normal family," said one.

So it isn’t “efficient” to endanger, or make more difficult and expensive, the relatively few and short summer holidays Americans do take.

Pool reporters are on-duty every day - including weekends and holidays - both at the White House or when the president is travelling.

She said friends, council employees and a disability organisation had suggested she "give up work" when she struggled to find suitable care for her daughters during the school holidays.