More than 750,000 federal workers are either furloughed or working without pay after Republicans and Democrats failed to reach a funding deal, and Donald Trump is playing golf. The president’s motorcade reportedly left the White House at roughly 10 a.m. Saturday morning, bound for Trump National Golf Club in Virginia. Donald Trump departs the White House as he heads to Trump National Golf Club on October 4, 2025 in Washington, D.C. President Trump is spending the weekend in Washington amid the federal government shutdown. It is hardly the first time the president has golfed his way through a moment of national crisis. In early April 2017, Trump was spotted reading the green at Mar-a-Lago amid widespread alarm over North Korea conducting a series of ballistic missile tests.