President Trump is pushing to reopen Alcatraz as a federal prison, but the plan faces major hurdles, including steep renovation costs, local opposition, and the need for Congressional approval.

Two federal officials traveled to California to visit the shuttered Alcatraz prison, part of a plan to soon announce the reopening of the infamous federal prison.

President Trump toured a new immigration detention center in South Florida that state officials are calling "Alligator Alcatraz."

President Trump said on July 4 that he hates half the country. Just to remind Trump-supporting William Z. Fox who wants all Americans to “work with him not against him,” no other president has ever stated that about the citizens he is elected to protect. I could go on, but you see the pattern.

Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi said the effort to reopen the dilapidated former prison is a "diversionary tactic."

Trump filed a $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the Journal and Murdoch on Friday because of the newspaper’s article about a sexually suggestive letter bearing Trump’s name that was included in a 2003 album compiled for alleged sex trafficker Epstein’s birthday. The president has denied having anything to do with it.

President Donald Trump is visiting Alligator Alcatraz, the temporary migrant detention center in Florida's Everglades, on July 1.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s tax and spending law will add $3.4 trillion to federal deficits through 2034, the Congressional Budget Office reported Monday, a slight increase in the projection that takes into account the final tweaks that Republicans made before getting the legislation over the finish line.