Trump affords Canada tariff exemption for goods lined by free swap agreement

Donald Trump has signed an executive exclaim that can immediate exempt Canadian goods lined by a continental free swap agreement from his tariff knowing.

Goods imported to the US beneath the US–Mexico–Canada Settlement will be exempted from Trump’s 25% tariffs for one month, primarily based fully on the exclaim Trump real signed in the Oval Plan of labor, which will also affect the the same for goods from Mexico.

Nonetheless the president said he was peaceful in a position to impose “reciprocal” tariffs on both Canada and Mexico next month, which could extra disrupt swap family across the continent.

“All over this period in-between period between now and April 2, this makes it grand extra favorable for our American car producers,” Trump said.

This concludes our live coverage of the day in US politics. We will return on Friday to resume our real-time chronicle of the second Trump administration.

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Here are some of the day’s developments:

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Donald Trump once again put a central part of his trade war on pause, temporarily exempting from tariffs Mexican and Canadian goods covered by the continental free trade agreement he negotiated in his first term. However, the president said he was still ready to impose “reciprocal” tariffs on both Canada and Mexico next month.

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Trump told his cabinet secretaries that they are in charge of hiring and firings at their agencies, not Elon Musk.

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The House has voted to censure Democratic congressman Al Green for disrupting Trump’s address to this week’s joint session of Congress. The motion was approved with 224 votes in favor and 198 opposed, with 10 Democrats in support.

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In an escalation of his pressure campaign, Trump said the US will not fight for Nato allies who don’t spend enough on their own defense.

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US district judge Beryl Howell ruled on Thursday that Donald Trump’s firing of a Democratic member of the National Labor Relations Board was illegal and ordered that she be reinstated to her post.

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Axios reports that the state department is hunting for evidence that foreign students who express support for Palestinians under Israeli occupation while studying in the US are “pro-Hamas”, and can have their visas revoked, based on an AI review of their social media accounts.

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Trump thanked a reporter for the partisan outlet Breitbart for asking him a friendly question in the Oval Office, which teed him up to attack Democrats. The White House excluded non-partisan reporters from Reuters and the Associated Press to make room for Breitbart and One America News, two pro-Trump outlets.

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Trump signed an executive order on Thursday evening to establish a “strategic bitcoin reserve”, a day before meeting with executives from the cryptocurrency industry at the White House.

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The Canadian prime minister, Justin Trudeau, who reportedly endured a profanity-laced tirade from Trump, was asked about his foreign minister’s comment that dealing with the US was now “a psychodrama”. “How would you characterize it?” a reporter asked. “Thursday”, Trudeau replied.

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Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday evening to establish a strategic bitcoin reserve, a day before meeting with executives from the cryptocurrency industry at the White House.

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According to the White House crypto czar, billionaire David Sacks, who announced the order in a post on Elon Musk’s social media platform Twitter/X, the reserve “will be capitalized with bitcoin owned by the federal government that was forfeited as part of criminal or civil asset forfeiture proceedings”.

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Reuters reports that attendees at Friday’s White House crypto summit expect the event to serve as a stage for Trump to formally announce his plans to build a strategic reserve containing bitcoin and four other cryptocurrencies.

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Earlier this week, Trump announced the names of five digital assets he expects to include in this reserve, spiking the market value of each.

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Now that the White House has seized full control over which media outlets get to attend events such as today’s signing of executive orders by the president in the Oval Office, and reporters from two non-partisan wire services, the Associated Press and Reuters, have been excluded, there has been a noticeable decrease in challenging questions.

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That dynamic was on full display on Thursday when Trump took a question from a reporter standing to his right, near the Fox Business anchor Maria Bartiromo.

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“The other night, we saw Democrats’ behavior during your joint address to Congress,” the reporter said. “Do you think it shows just how out of touch they are with the American people, especially given that 79%, according to a CBS poll, approved of your speech?”

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“I love this guy,” Trump said. “Who are you with?”

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“My name’s Nick Gilbertson, with Breitbart News.”

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“I see. I really liked your questions,” Trump said. “The answer is – just – Nick, and I know your name very well. Good job you do … the answer is, I thought it was very embarrassing for the Democrats what happened the other night.”

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According to the White House, the non-partisan reporters allowed into the Oval Office on Thursday to ask Trump questions came from just one wire service, Bloomberg, and one print outlet, the New York Times.

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In addition to the Breitbart reporter, the rest of the pool included correspondents from two pro-Trump broadcasters, Fox and One America News, a radio reporter from Fox and photographers from Reuters, the Times, Getty and AFP.

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The One America News correspondent, Daniel Baldwin, also asked Trump a friendly question, which included praise for his administration triggering “the renaissance of domestic manufacturing”.

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Trump had previously praised Baldwin for asking, during his contentious meeting with Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, a question that included praise for what the reporter called the president’s “moral courage and conviction” to engage in talks with Russia. “Boy, I love this guy,” Trump said. “Who are you with?”

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“One America News, sir,” Baldwin replied.

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“One America News does a great job,” Trump said.

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The fact that Reuters and the Associated Press have been excluded is no surprise to observers of Trump’s first term in office.

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When Trump met Vladimir Putin in Helsinki in 2018, the two most explosive questions of the news conference, which set Trump off, came from AP White House reporter Jonathan Lemire and Jeff Mason of Reuters. After Mason asked the Russian president why Americans should believe Russia did not intervene in the 2016 election, given the evidence that US intelligence agencies have provided, Lemire followed up by pressing Trump to say whether he believed Putin or his own intelligence agencies more.

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Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office on Thursday, Donald Trump dodged a question about whether he still plans to meet the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, in Saudi Arabia soon, but said that he will be visiting the country soon after his demand that the Saudis agree to spend $1tn on US military equipment and other goods was met.

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“I’m going to Saudi Arabia,” Trump said. “I made a deal with Saudi Arabia.”

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Normally, the president said, a first foreign visit would be to the UK, but “last time I went to Saudi Arabia, they put up $450bn … We had American companies that took in $450[bn]. I said: ‘Well, this time, they’ve gotten richer, we’ve all gotten older. So I said: ‘I’ll go if you pay a trillion dollars,’ $1tn to American companies, meaning the purchase over a four-year period of a trillion dollars, and they’ve agreed to do that, so I’m going to be going there”

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Axios reports that the state department is hunting for evidence that foreign students who express support for Palestinians under Israeli occupation while studying in the US are “pro-Hamas”, and can have their visas revoked, based on an AI review of their social media accounts.

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“The effort – which includes AI-assisted reviews of tens of thousands of student visa holders’ social media accounts –marks a dramatic escalation in the U.S. government’s policing of foreign nationals’ conduct and speech” the Axios correspondent Marc Caputo wrote. “The reviews of social media accounts are particularly looking for evidence of alleged terrorist sympathies expressed after Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel, officials say.”

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Among the more alarming aspects of the plan is the fact that the definition of support for Hamas could be so broad that it includes any support for “intifada”, which is an Arabic word used by Palestinians to describe uprisings against the 58-year-old Israeli occupations of the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza, including non-violent protests and armed resistance.

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When he was a senator, Marco Rubio, the current secretary of state, repeatedly equated all calls for “intifada” with support for terrorism.

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“We see people marching at our universities and in the streets of our country … calling for ‘intifada’, celebrating what Hamas has done” Rubio told Fox News in October 2023: “Those people need to go.”

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In a subsequent press release, Rubio wrote: “We cannot allow foreign nationals who support terrorist groups like Hamas and march in our streets calling for ‘intifada’ to enter or stay in our country.”

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The same month, as Israel’s mass killing of civilians in Gaza began, Rubio introduced a Senate resolution calling on the Biden administration to revoke the visas of foreign students who took part in protests in support of the Palestinians, labelling them all as supporters of Hamas.

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As he signed executive orders in the Oval Office this afternoon, including his on-again, off-again tariffs on Canada and Mexico, Trump was asked by Peter Doocy of Fox News about the sharp decline in the stock market since he started his trade war.

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Trump said that he blamed “globalists”, a term that is often used as code for Jewish people by antisemites.

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“What’s your thought about why the markets are so spooked? Do you think they don’t like the tariffs, or do they not like the uncertainty with some of the changes and the carve-outs?” Doocy asked.

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“Well a lot of them are globalist countries and companies that won’t be doing as well because we’re taking back things that have been taken from us many years ago,” Trump replied. “We’ve been treated very unfairly as a country. We protect everybody; we do everything for all these countries,” he added: “we just weren’t treated right; we were ripped off.”

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The term “globalist” is an entry in the Anti-Defamation League’s glossary of extremism and hate. According to the ADL:

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White supremacists and other antisemites frequently use the term as an antisemitic dog whistle, wielding it as a codeword for Jews or as a pejorative term for people whose interests in international commerce or finance ostensibly make them disloyal to the country in which they live, or who are willing to undermine the financial security of their neighbors in order to benefit transnational interests …

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Antigovernment extremists also use the term globalist, usually without the antisemitic connotations, in references to conspiracy theories about the “New World Order.”

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Trump’s claim that the United States is foolish for providing military protection to allies is one of his oldest and most consistent beliefs. In 1987, as he reportedly weighed a run for the presidency, Trump paid to publish an open letter to the American people as a full-page ad in the New York Times in which he claim that US military allies and trade rivals were scamming the US and, as a result, “the world is laughing at America’s politicians.”

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At the end of the press availability, Trump reiterated the comment when he was asked again about the plunging value of stocks that make up a large share of many Americans retirement plans.

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“I think it’s globalists that see how rich our country is going to be, and they don’t like it,” he said. “They’ve been ripping off this country for years and now – and they’re going to do great, everyone’s going to do great, but we can’t let this continue to happen to America.”

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US district judge Beryl Howell ruled on Thursday that Donald Trump’s firing of a Democratic member of the National Labor Relations Board was illegal and ordered that she be reinstated to her post.

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The decision restores a quorum of three members at the labor board, which had been paralyzed and unable to decide cases involving private-sector employers after Trump removed Gwynne Wilcox in January.

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As our colleague Michael Sainato reports, Wilcox was the first member of the NLRN to be removed by a US president since the board’s inception in 1935.

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The framers of the US constitution, the judge wrote in the ruling, “made clear that no one in our system of government was meant to be king – the President included – and not just in name only”.

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Read the full story here:

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In an escalation of his pressure campaign, Donald Trump said the US will not fight for Nato allies who don’t spend enough on their own defense.

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“I think it’s common sense,” the president said. “They don’t pay, I’m not going to defend them.”

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He went on to accuse Nato allies of not being willing to defend the United States, if the roles were reversed:

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If the United States was in trouble, and we called them, we said we got a problem, France, we got a problem, couple of others, I won’t mention –you think they’re going to come and protect us? They’re supposed to, I’m not so sure.

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It’s worth noting that after the September 11 attacks, Nato allies rallied to the US’s defense and participated in the invasion of Afghanistan, remaining in the country for two decades.

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All that said, Trump reiterated that he did not intend to leave Nato:

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I view Nato as potentially good, but again … it’s very unfair what’s been happening.

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Donald Trump told reporters in the Oval Office that he will “probably” extend TikTok’s deadline to find a US buyer or face a ban.

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On the day he took office, the president gave the popular social media app a 75-day exemption from a law Congress passed that was intended to force its China-based owned to divest. Speaking to reporters, Trump said that if necessary, he was willing to allow TikTok to continue operating while the search for a buyer continues.

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“We have a lot of interest in TikTok. China is going to play a role, so hopefully China will approve of the deal,” Trump said.

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He declined to say how long of an extension he would be willing to give.

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Donald Trump has signed an executive order that will temporarily exempt Canadian goods covered by a continental free trade agreement from his tariff plan.

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Goods imported to the United States under the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement will be exempted from Trump’s 25% tariffs for one month, according to the order Trump just signed in the Oval Office, which will also do the same for goods from Mexico.

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However the president said he was still ready to impose “reciprocal” tariffs on both Canada and Mexico next month, which could further disrupt trade relations across the continent.

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“During this interim period between now and April 2, this makes it much more favorable for our American car manufacturers,” Trump said.

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Most Democrats opposed censuring congressman Al Green, who heckled Donald Trump during his speech to a joint session of Congress and was thrown out of the House chamber for it.

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But 10 Democrats went along with the Republican-backed resolution, with several explaining that they felt they had no option if they want to hold their opponents to account in the future. Here’s Connecticut’s Jim Himes, encapsulating the sentiment:

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Years ago, I voted to hold Joe Wilson accountable for yelling ‘you lie’ at Barack Obama. Today, I voted to censure Al Green for a larger disruption. Unlike Republicans, I believe that rules, accountability and civility should not be torched. And certainly not just because the other side does so. If we cannot act with the principle and seriousness our nation deserves, our government will continue to devolve into a MAGA cesspool.

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Perennially endangered Washington congresswoman Marie Gluesenkamp Perez said it was a matter of respect:

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Today, I voted to censure a fellow member of Congress. When you knowingly break House rules, as Rep. Green did, it shouldn’t be surprising to face consequences. Congress should respect the co-equal office of the Presidency, regardless of who holds the job, do our constitutional duty, and stop with the theatrics at these events.

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Pennsylvania’s Chrissy Houlahan says she thinks many more people in the chamber should be censured, and told House speaker Mike Johnson as much:

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I did indeed have a heated conversation with Speaker Johnson on the House floor after I voted yes to censure my colleague. I called Speaker Johnson out on his and his party’s hypocrisy and reminded him of the many instances in which Republicans have blatantly broken the rules of conduct without consequence. He told me if he punished each instance, he’d have to censure half the House. I suggested he do just that. Rules are rules.

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There appears to be more to Donald Trump’s meeting with cabinet secretaries than he let on. Politico reports that the president told them that they are in charge of hiring and firings at their agencies, not Elon Musk.

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The president’s message came after signs of tensions between his secretaries and Musk’s “department of government efficiency” (Doge) flared. Doge was linked to an email sent to federal workers demanding details of their work that many agencies told their employees not to respond to, while some Republican lawmakers have said it should be up to agency heads to decide who to hire and fire.

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Here’s more on the meeting, from Politico:

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President Donald Trump convened his Cabinet in person on Thursday to deliver a message: You’re in charge of your departments, not Elon Musk.

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According to two administration officials, Trump told top members of his administration that Musk was empowered to make recommendations to the departments but not to issue unilateral decisions on staffing and policy. Musk was also in the room.

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The meeting followed a series of mass firings and threats to government workers from the billionaire Tesla founder, who helms the Department of Government Efficiency, that created broad uncertainty across the federal government and its workforce.

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The president’s message represents the first significant move to narrow Musk’s mandate. According to Trump’s new guidance, DOGE and its staff should play an advisory role — but Cabinet secretaries should make final decisions on personnel, policy and the pacing of implementation.

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Musk joined the conversation and indicated he was on board with Trump’s directive. According to one person familiar with the meeting, Musk acknowledged that DOGE had made some missteps — a message he shared earlier this week with members of Congress.

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Trump stressed that he wants to keep good people in government and not eject capable federal workers en masse, according to one of the officials. It is unclear whether the new guidance will result in laid off workers getting rehired.

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The timing of the meeting was influenced by recent comments from Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.), who said on CNN Tuesday that Cabinet secretaries should retain the full power to hire and fire, according to one official. The official said Trump has been flooded with similar concerns from other lawmakers and Cabinet secretaries.

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Donald Trump restated his support for Elon Musk’s “department of government efficiency”, and vowed to continue helping him cut down federal agencies.

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The president’s comments came as judges nationwide consider challenges to Trump and Musk’s moves, including their attempts to shutter USAid. Yesterday, the supreme court ruled that the Trump administration must abide by a judge’s order for the aid agency to pay $2b to its partners, a sign that the conservative-dominated court may not be entirely onboard with the unorthodox downsizing campaign.

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“DOGE has been an incredible success, and now that we have my Cabinet in place, I have instructed the Secretaries and Leadership to work with DOGE on Cost Cutting measures and Staffing,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

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He continued:

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We just had a meeting with most of the Secretaries, Elon, and others, and it was a very positive one. It’s very important that we cut levels down to where they should be, but it’s also important to keep the best and most productive people. We’re going to have these meetings every two weeks until that aspect of this very necessary job is done. The relationships between everybody in that room are extraordinary. They all want to get to the exact same place, which is, simply, to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

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Doge continues to face substantial, though not necessarily durable, pushback as it spreads its campaign across the federal government:

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Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said that “virtually all” of Mexico’s trade with the US is under the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement, known as USMCA, which will be exempt from tariffs until 2 April.

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“Practically all the trade we have with the United States is within the Mexico, United States, Canada Agreement” Sheinbaum said at a news conference on Thursday, as reported by CNN. “There is a part that has to do with rules of origin, but everything is practically within the trade agreement.”

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On tariffs, Donald Trump’s latest Truths raise more questions than they answer.

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What we know:

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Products exported from Mexico to the US will not face tariffs, for now.

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What we don’t know:

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What about products exported from Canada to the US?

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What has changed since Tuesday, when tariffs were imposed?

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What about products exported from Mexico after Tuesday, but before 11.29am on Thursday, when Trump announced they were shelved?

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What happens after 2 April?

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What has Mexico done that Canada hasn’t?

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Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum describes the phone call with President Donald Trump as “excellent and respectful” and says that the countries will continue to work together.

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In a post on social media, Sheinbaum confirmed the agreement between Mexico and the US to pause tariffs on Mexico’s USCMA compliant goods until April 2.

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She said that the two countries will continue to work together, particularly on migration and security issues.

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The agreement between the US and Mexico is in place until 2 April, she said, which is when the United States plans to announce reciprocal tariffs for all countries.

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A federal judge extended a block barring the Trump administration from freezing grants and loans, potentially totaling trillions of dollars.

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On Thursday, US District Court Judge John McConnell in Rhode Island indefinitely prohibited the federal government from freezing or otherwise impeding the disbursement of appropriated federal funds to state governments.

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The ruling comes in response to a lawsuit filed by nearly two dozen Democratic states following the Trump administration’s plan for a sweeping pause on federal spending caused great concern across the US.

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McConnell said in his ruling that the executive branch was trying to put itself above Congress and by doing so “undermines the distinct constitutional roles of each branch of our government.”

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President Donald Trump has announced that after speaking with Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum he has agreed that Mexico will not be required to pay tariffs on anything that falls under the US-Mexico-Canada-Agreement until 2 April.

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His post reads:

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After speaking with President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico, I have agreed that Mexico will not be required to pay Tariffs on anything that falls under the USMCA Agreement. This Agreement is until April 2nd. I did this as an accommodation, and out of respect for, President Sheinbaum. Our relationship has been a very good one, and we are working hard, together, on the Border, both in terms of stopping Illegal Aliens from entering the United States and, likewise, stopping Fentanyl. Thank you to President Sheinbaum for your hard work and cooperation!

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But, Mexico was not required to pay tariffs in the first place.

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Tariffs are not paid by countries, but importers who buy products from businesses in the targeted countries. In this case, US tariffs on products from Mexico are paid by the US companies importing those products.

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Donald Trump is set to sign unspecified executive orders at 2pm ET today, and reports have emerged that one will order the closing of the department of education.

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But White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt says that is not the case. On X, she referred to the Wall Street Journal’s reporting on the matter, and said:

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More Fake News! President Trump is NOT signing an Executive Order on the Department of Education today.

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That said, all signs point to the education department being in the Trump administration’s crosshairs:

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The House has voted to censure Democratic congressman Al Green for disrupting Donald Trump’s joint session of Congress.

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The motion was approved with 224 votes in favor and 198 opposed, with 10 Democrats crossing party lines to support reprimanding their colleague for shouting at Trump as he delivered the first speech to Congress of his new term.

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After the vote, Green and allied lawmakers gathered in the well of the House, and appeared to chant and sing in his support.

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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt has denied Reuters’s report that the Trump administration plans to end a program that protected Ukrainians who fled Russia’s invasion from deportation.

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“This is more fake news from Reuters based on anonymous sources who have no idea what they are talking about,” Leavitt said on X. “The truth: no decision has been made at this time.”

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The House of Representatives will today vote on censuring Democratic congressman Al Green for disrupting Donald Trump’s speech to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday.

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Republican House speaker Mike Johnson ordered Green removed from the chamber after he repeatedly yelled at the president.

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The censure motion appears to have the votes to pass. Yesterday, the House narrowly voted to reject an attempt by Democrats to prevent its consideration.

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Donald Trump is planning to revoke deportation protections for Ukrainians who fled to the United States after Russia’s invasion, Reuters reports, citing a senior Trump official and three sources familiar with the matter.

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The move, expected as soon as next month, comes as his administration moves to end programs implemented under Joe Biden that protected a range of nationalities from deportation. Here’s more on the decision, from Reuters:

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The planned rollback of protections for Ukrainians was underway before Trump publicly feuded with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy last week. It is part of a broader Trump administration effort to strip legal status from more than 1.8 million migrants allowed to enter the U.S. under temporary humanitarian parole programs launched under the Biden administration, the sources said.

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U.S. Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said the department had no announcements at this time. The White House and Ukrainian embassy did not respond to requests for comment.

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A Trump executive order issued on January 20 called for DHS to “terminate all categorical parole programs.”

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The administration plans to revoke parole for about 530,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans as soon as this month, the Trump official and one of the sources familiar with the matter said, requesting anonymity to discuss internal deliberations. The plan to revoke parole for those nationalities was first reported, opens new tab by CBS News.

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Migrants stripped of their parole status could face fast-track deportation proceedings, according to an internal ICE email seen by Reuters.

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Immigrants who cross the border illegally can be put into the fast-track deportation process known as expedited removal, for two years after they enter. But for those who entered through legal ports of entry without being officially “admitted” to the U.S. – as with those on parole – there is no time limit on their rapid removal, the email said.

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The battle over USAid will continue in federal court today, as a judge weighs a request to unfreeze future funding for the agency that Donald Trump wants to dismantle, Reuters reports.

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The hearing before judge Amir Ali comes after the supreme court yesterday rejected a request by the Trump administration to stop his order that USAid pay $1.5b in contracts to its partners. Reuters reports that Ali has ordered the government to detail how they will comply with his ruling in light of the supreme court decision. Here’s more, from Reuters:

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Despite the Supreme Court’s action, the future of the funding remains unclear. The administration said last week it has made final decisions to terminate more than 90% of USAID foreign aid contracts and more than $58 billion in overall U.S. assistance worldwide, meaning that in its view the original freeze that Ali had blocked was no longer in effect.

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The Supreme Court’s ruling acknowledged that the administration said it was unable to comply with Ali’s deadline and asked the judge to clarify what the government must do with “due regard for the feasibility of any compliance timelines.” Ali asked both sides to submit a report on the government’s compliance with his order in advance of Thursday’s hearing.

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The plaintiffs have accused Trump of exceeding his authority under federal law and the U.S. Constitution by effectively dismantling an independent federal agency and canceling spending authorized by Congress.

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They also have said the administration did not conduct a genuine review before canceling contracts. They are asking Ali, who was appointed by the Republican president’s Democratic predecessor Joe Biden, for an order called a preliminary injunction directing the administration to restore funding while their lawsuit proceeds.

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European Union leaders are holding emergency talks today on ways to quickly increase their military budgets after the Trump administration signaled that Europe must take care of its own security and also suspended assistance to Ukraine.

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In just over a month, president Donald Trump has overturned old certainties about US reliability as a security partner, as he embraces Russia and withdraws American support for Ukraine, AP reported.

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On Monday, Trump ordered a pause to US military supplies to Ukraine as he sought to press president Volodymyr Zelenskyy to engage in negotiations to end the war with Russia, bringing fresh urgency to the EU summit in Brussels.

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To follow the summit, see our Europe live blog here.

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Action to curb global warming is at risk from a “triple negative” effect triggered by the return of US president Donald Trump to the White House, Brazil said on Thursday, as it prepares to host UN climate talks later this year.

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Trump has withdrawn from the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, launched a trade war with Canada, China and Mexico, and upended US policy on the war in Ukraine.

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Brazil’s environment and climate change minister Marina Silva told reporters in Delhi, speaking through a translator, the “increasingly complex geopolitical context”, characterised by turmoil and trade tariffs, risked disrupting progress on curbing climate change.

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“They may drain resources, and they also may hamper the environment of confidence and trust among parties. We have a triple negative effect because the less action we see, the less money we see, resulting in less cooperation across countries,” Silva said.

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The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has said that Republicans cannot meet their own budget target to pass Donald Trump’s legislative priorities without imposing cuts on Medicare or Medicaid.

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The House Republican budget blueprint envisions the House Energy and Commerce Committee will cut spending by $880bn, however, when its spending on Medicare and Medicaid are excluded from its spend, it only has $581bn of expenditure with which to make the savings.

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Rep Frank Pollone of New Jersey is quoted by NBC News saying:

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This letter from CBO confirms what we’ve been saying all along: the math doesn’t work without devastating Medicaid cuts. Republicans know their spin is a lie, and the truth is they have no problem taking health care away from millions of Americans so that the rich can get richer.

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Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. I’m Tom Ambrose and will be bringing you all the latest news lines over the next few hours.

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We start with the news that president Donald Trump is expected this week to direct the secretary of education to dissolve the US Department of Education by executive order, according to reports.

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ABC News reports that sources familiar with a draft of the executive order say it instructs Linda McMahon to close the department by taking all the available steps “permitted by law”.

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McMahon herself has previously suggested it would require congressional approval to shutter the department, which has over 4,000 employees and an annual budget of about $240bn.

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ABC News reports the draft order says “The federal bureaucratic hold on education must end. The department of education’s main functions can, and should, be returned to the states.”

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The order is then reported to describe the agency as an “experiment of controlling American education through Federal programs and dollars.”

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Education has been a cabinet level department in the federal government since the 1860s, with the department taking its present form in 1980 after a reorganisation by the late president Jimmy Carter.

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Trump’s order is expected to say that this has “failed our children, our teachers, and our families”. McMahon is a former CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment.

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In other developments:

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The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has said that Republicans cannot meet their own budget target to pass Trump’s legislative priorities without imposing cuts on Medicare or Medicaid

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Hundreds of diplomats at the state department and US Agency for International Development USAid have written to the secretary of state, Marco Rubio, protesting against the dismantling of USAid, saying it undermines US leadership and security and leaves power vacuums for China and Russia to fill

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The supreme court has upheld a federal judge’s order that USAid disburse $1.5b in payments to its partners, a setback in the Trump administration’s attempts to dismantle the agency

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US president Donald Trump has temporarily spared carmakers from sweeping US tariffs on goods from Canada and Mexico, one day after an economic strike on the US’s two biggest trading partners sparked warnings of widespread price increases and disruption

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An independent federal board has ordered the US Department of Agriculture to temporarily reinstate nearly 6,000 employees who were fired as part of the Trump administration’s efforts to reduce the size of the federal workforce

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A congressional hearing designed to criticize sanctuary city policies unexpectedly shifted yesterday, as a planned attack by Republican lawmakers instead dissolved into a platform that amplified Democratic mayors’ arguments about immigration and urban safety

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Trump has posted a fresh ultimatum to Hamas, bypassing the Israeli-Hamas negotiating teams, demanding the release of all hostages held in Gaza. The White House confirmed that the US is in direct negotiations with Hamas for the first time since the group was formed, despite it being a designated foreign terrorist organization since 1997

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Senate Democrats introduced a series of resolutions condemning Russia for the invasion of Ukraine, and daring Republicans to object. Republicans did object

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This concludes our are living protection of the day in US politics. We are in a position to return on Friday to renew our staunch-time fable of the 2nd Trump administration.

Right here are one of the most important day’s traits:

Donald Trump once extra assign a central section of his swap war on quit, immediate exempting from tariffs Mexican and Canadian goods lined by the continental free swap agreement he negotiated in his first term. Nonetheless, the president said he was peaceful in a position to impose “reciprocal” tariffs on both Canada and Mexico next month.
Trump prompt his cabinet secretaries that they’re responsible of hiring and firings at their companies, no longer Elon Musk.
The Home has voted to censure Democratic congressman Al Inexperienced for disrupting Trump’s cope with to this week’s joint session of Congress. The circulation was accredited with 224 votes in decide on and 198 adverse, with 10 Democrats in reinforce.
In an escalation of his stress marketing campaignTrump said the US is no longer going to strive in opposition to for Nato allies who don’t use ample on their very acquire protection.
US district acquire Beryl Howell ruled on Thursday that Donald Trump’s firing of a Democratic member of the National Labor Household contributors Board was unlawful and ordered that she be reinstated to her post.
Axios reports that the divulge division is attempting for evidence that foreign college students who specific reinforce for Palestinians beneath Israeli occupation whereas studying in the US are “pro-Hamas”, and can acquire their visas revoked, in line with an AI analysis of their social media accounts.
Trump thanked a reporter for the partisan outlet Breitbart for asking him a friendly quiz in the Oval Plan of labor, which teed him as much as attack Democrats. The White Home excluded non-partisan newshounds from Reuters and the Associated Press to compose room for Breitbart and One The United States News, two pro-Trump stores.
Trump signed an executive exclaim on Thursday evening to place a “strategic bitcoin reserve”, a day forward of assembly with executives from the cryptocurrency industry at the White Home.
The Canadian prime minister, Justin Trudeauwho reportedly persisted a profanity-laced tirade from Trump, was asked about his foreign minister’s comment that facing the US was now “a psychodrama”. “How would you order it?” a reporter asked. “Thursday”, Trudeau answered.

Trump indicators executive exclaim to compose ‘strategic reserve’ of bitcoin

Donald Trump signed an executive exclaim on Thursday evening to place a strategic bitcoin reserve, a day forward of assembly with executives from the cryptocurrency industry at the White Home.

In line with the White Home crypto czar, billionaire David Sackswho announced the exclaim in a post on Elon Musk’s social media platform Twitter/X, the reserve “will be capitalized with bitcoin owned by the federal authorities that was forfeited as section of felony or civil asset forfeiture complaints”.

Reuters reports that attendees at Friday’s White Home crypto summit request the tournament to wait on as a stage for Trump to formally bellow his plans to procedure a strategic reserve containing bitcoin and four other cryptocurrencies.

Earlier this week, Trump announced the names of 5 digital resources he expects to incorporate on this reserve, spiking the market cost of every.

With AP banished, Trump thanks Breitbart reporter for easy quiz

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Donald Trump fields questions from newshounds after signing executive orders in the Oval Plan of labor of the White Home in Washington, on Thursday. Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Photos

Now that the White Home has seized paunchy build a watch on over which media stores pick as much as again occasions reminiscent of nowadays’s signing of executive orders by the president in the Oval Plan of labor, and newshounds from two non-partisan wire services, the Associated Press and Reuters, had been excluded, there has been a noticeable lower in no longer easy questions.

That dynamic was on paunchy express on Thursday when Trump took a quiz from a reporter standing to his real, shut to the Fox Industry anchor MARIA BANKING.

“The different evening, we noticed Democrats’ habits at some point of your joint cope with to Congress,” the reporter said. “Fabricate you mediate it shows real how out of contact they are with the American folk, especially provided that Seventy nine%, primarily based fully on a CBS ballot, accredited of your speech?”

“I esteem this man,” Trump said. “Who are you with?”

“My title’s Nick Gilbertsonwith Breitbart News.”

“I hit upon. I really most in model your questions,” Trump said. “The answer is – real – Nick, and I know your title thoroughly. Factual job you affect … the solution is, I thought it was very embarrassing for the Democrats what happened the opposite evening.”

In line with the White Home, the non-partisan newshounds allowed into the Oval Plan of labor on Thursday to search info from Trump questions came from real one wire carrier, Bloomberg, and one print outlet, the Recent York Times.

To boot to the Breitbart reporter, the rest of the pool incorporated correspondents from two pro-Trump broadcasters, Fox and One The United States News, a radio reporter from Fox and photographers from Reuters, the Times, Getty and AFP.

The One The United States News correspondent, Daniel 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdleyalso asked Trump a friendly quiz, which incorporated praise for his administration triggering “the renaissance of home manufacturing”.

Trump had previously praised 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley for asking, at some point of his contentious assembly with Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy A Typ that incorporated praise for what the reporter known as the president’s “most attention-grabbing courage and conviction” to have interaction in talks with Russia. “Boy, I esteem this man,” Trump said. “Who are you with?”

“One The United States News, sir,” 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley answered.

“One The United States News does a nice job,” Trump said.

The reality that Reuters and the Associated Press had been excluded is rarely any surprise to observers of Trump’s first term in divulge of commercial.

When Trump met Vladimir Putin In Helsinki in 2018,”https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-president-putin-russian-federation-joint-press-conference/” info-hyperlink-title=”in body link”>the two most explosive questions of the knowledge conference, which role Trump off, came from AP White Home reporter Jonathan Lemire and Jeff Mason of Reuters. After Mason asked the Russian president why Individuals could peaceful factor in Russia did no longer intervene in the 2016 election, given the evidence that US intelligence companies acquire offered, Lemire adopted up by pressing Trump to claim whether he believed Putin or his acquire intelligence companies extra.

Police in Oregon are working with the FBI to investigate gunshots fired at a Tesla dealership overnight in one of the up-to-date instance of vandalism at one in every of the firm’s retail stores.

No one was injured in the early morning shooting in Tigard outdoors Portland. Surveillance video indicated the shots had been fired at round 1.46am when the constructing was no longer occupied.

Photos from a local info broadcast confirmed shattered house windows on the dealership and bullet holes in two autos.

A order on vandalism at a Tesla dealership in Tigard, Oregon from the CBS News affiliate KOIN.

Investigators factor in at least seven shots had been fired, negative three autos and shattering house windows, Tigard police said in an announcement. One bullet went by technique of an divulge of commercial wall and into a laptop video show.

Because the Associated Press reportsthe shooting comes a week after federal prosecutors in Denver charged a girl in reference to vandalism in opposition to a Tesla dealership in Colorado, including Molotov cocktails being thrown at autos and the phrases “Nazi autos” spray painted on the constructing.

Earlier this month, police in Salem, Oregon, arrested a man in reference to two incidents after a order that any individual threw Molotov cocktails at a Tesla dealership, the Salem Statesman-Journal reported.

Trump claims he asked Saudi Arabia use $1tn on US goods to stable his refer to to country

Talking to newshounds in the Oval Plan of labor on Thursday, Donald Trump dodged a quiz about whether he peaceful plans to meet the Russian president, Vladimir Putinin Saudi Arabia soon, nonetheless said that he’ll be visiting the country soon after his search info from that the Saudis comply with use $1tn on US protection power tools and other goods was met.

“I’m going to Saudi Arabia,” Trump said. “I made a take care of Saudi Arabia.”

In general, the president said, a first foreign refer to could be to the UK, nonetheless “last time I went to Saudi Arabia, they assign up $450bn … We had American companies that took in $450[bn]. I said: ‘Properly, this time, they’ve gotten richer, we’ve all gotten older. So I said: ‘I’ll walk must you pay one trillion bucks,’ $1tn to American companies, which capacity that the acquisition over a four-yr period of one trillion bucks, and so they’ve agreed to affect that, so I’m going to be going there”

In a public filing, Elon Musk’s The United States Pac reports spending $1m on voter turnout and canvassing operations in the Wisconsin Supreme Courtroom stoop, primarily based fully on Daniel Bice of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

As Bice notes on Musk’s social-media platform X, that brings the Pac’s spending to over $4.2m on the marketing campaign of conservative acquire Brad Schimel. One other Musk-funded community, Constructing The United States’s Future, has spent one other $2 million on TV commercials to elect Schimel.

To boot to supporting the customary Republican divulge approved expert long-established, Constructing The United States’s Future has also quietly bankrolled a misleading marketing campaign of attack commercials placed on Instagram, Fb that appear to be from his rival, Dane County Desire Susan Crawford.

The commercials, that are offered as messages in reinforce of Crawford, nonetheless falsely body her as a left-flit extremist who will “come up for immigrants” and promote a justice plot that offers criminals “2nd possibilities” had been really paid for by the Musk-funded community.

Because the Associated Press explainsthe commercials are attributed to a fictional community, Growth 2028, which ran untrue commercials last October made to acquire out about as despite the undeniable fact that they came from Democrats backing the presidential marketing campaign of Kamala Harris. Those untrue commercials claimed, incorrectly, that Harris supported policies reminiscent of placing off gas-powered autos and giving voting rights to undocumented immigrants living in the US.

Constructing The United States’s Future also paid to send misleading messages to Jewish voters in Michigan boasting that Harris was pro-Palestinian, and messages to Arab-American voters in the divulge calling her a champion of Israel.

The stoop has nice implications in swing divulge Wisconsin, with majority build a watch on of the divulge’s top likely court on the highway because it is miles anticipated to face points that can affect abortion and reproductive rightsthe strength of public sector unionsvoting principles and congressional district boundaries.

Instruct division plans to revoke foreign college students’ visas over pro-Palestinian social media posts flagged by AI

Axios reports that the divulge division is attempting for evidence that foreign college students who specific reinforce for Palestinians beneath Israeli occupation whereas studying in the US are “pro-Hamas”, and can acquire their visas revoked, in line with an AI analysis of their social media accounts.

“The misfortune – which involves AI-assisted opinions of tens of thousands of pupil visa holders’ social media accounts –marks a dramatic escalation in the U.S. authorities’s policing of foreign nationals’ conduct and speech” the Axios correspondent Marc Caputo wrote. “The opinions of social media accounts are in particular shopping for evidence of alleged terrorist sympathies expressed after Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel, officials negate.”

Amongst the extra alarming aspects of the knowing is the undeniable fact that the definition of reinforce for Hamas will be so broad that it involves any reinforce for “intifada”, which is an Arabic note earlier by Palestinians to order uprisings in opposition to the 58-yr-aged Israeli occupations of the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza, including non-violent protests and armed resistance.

When he was a senator, Marco Rubiothe sizzling secretary of divulge, in most cases equated all calls for “intifada” with reinforce for terrorism.

“We hit upon folk marching at our universities and in the streets of our country … calling for ‘intifada’, celebrating what Hamas has carried out” Rubio prompt Fox News in October 2023: “Those folk must walk.”

In a subsequent press unencumberRubio wrote: “We are in a position to no longer allow foreign nationals who reinforce terrorist groups esteem Hamas and march in our streets calling for ‘intifada’ to enter or build in our country.”

The the same month, as Israel’s mass killing of civilians in Gaza started, Rubio launched a Senate option calling on the Biden administration to revoke the visas of foreign college students who took section in protests in reinforce of the Palestinians, labelling them all as supporters of Hamas.

Elon Musk is telling Republican lawmakers in non-public meetings that he is no longer accountable for the mass firings of federal group which could be causing arouse amongst their constituents, the Associated Press reports.

Following on reports from earlier on Thursday that Trump prompt cabinet secretaries are in a roundabout diagram responsible of hiring and firings at their companies, no longer Musk, the AP reports that, in non-public talks this weekthe billionaire prompt lawmakers experiencing blowback for the firings of thousands of federal groupincluding veteransthat those choices are left to the many federal companies.

No topic copious evidence that Musk has acted as if he has the authority to fireplace federal group, Representative Richard Hudson, who leads the Home Republicans’ marketing campaign arm said on Thursday: “Elon doesn’t fireplace folk.”

“He doesn’t acquire hiring and firing authority,” Hudson said after a assembly with Musk over pizza in the basement of the Capitol. “The president’s empowered him to walk exclaim this info, that’s it.”

Musk’s makes an are attempting to centralize administration of the authorities personnel and usurp the energy of Congress to acceptable federal bucks has lead to a slew of court cases, by which the authorities has claimed, confusingly, that Musk is no longer the head of the “division of authorities efficiency” initiative. In Trump’s cope with to a joint session of Congress this week, he contradicted that tell, and the president’s statement was immediate launched as evidence in one swimsuit.

A federal acquire in San Francisco expressed considerations that layoffs violated the regulationsleading administration officials to express that it was person companies – no longer Musk or the Plan of labor of Personnel Administration – calling the shots.

Trump blames market promote-off on ‘globalists’, invoking antisemitic trope

As he signed executive orders in the Oval Plan of labor this afternoon, including his on-but one more time, off-but one more time tariffs on Canada and Mexico, Trump was asked by Peter Doocy of Fox News relating to the spirited decline in the inventory market since he started his swap war.

Trump said that he blamed “globalists”, a term that is continuously earlier as code for Jewish folk by antisemites.

“What’s your thought to be why the markets are so spooked? Fabricate you mediate they don’t esteem the tariffs, or affect they no longer esteem the uncertainty with one of the most important changes and the gash-outs?” Doocy asked.

“Properly a form of them are globalist worldwide locations and companies that obtained’t be doing as neatly because we’re taking again issues which had been taken from us a long time previously,” Trump answered. “We’ve been handled very unfairly as a country. We defend everybody; we affect all the pieces for all these worldwide locations,” he added: “we real weren’t handled real; we had been ripped off.”

The term “globalist” is an entry in the Anti-Defamation League’s glossary of extremism and detest. In line with the ADL:

White supremacists and other antisemites regularly issue the term as an antisemitic dogs whistle, wielding it as a codeword for Jews or as a pejorative term for folk whose interests in world commerce or finance ostensibly compose them disloyal to the country by which they are living, or who are spirited to undermine the monetary security of their neighbors in exclaim to again transnational interests …

Antigovernment extremists also issue the term globalist, in most cases with out the antisemitic connotations, in references to conspiracy theories relating to the “Recent World Present an explanation for.”

Trump’s tell that the US is foolish for providing protection power protection to allies is one in every of his oldest and most consistent beliefs. In 1987, as he reportedly weighed a bustle for the presidency, Trump paid to post an open letter to the American folk as a paunchy-page ad in the Recent York Times by which he tell that US protection power allies and swap opponents had been scamming the US and, which capacity that, “the enviornment is laughing at The United States’s politicians.”

On the tip of the press availability, Trump reiterated the comment when he was asked but one more time relating to the plunging cost of stocks that compose up a mountainous share of many Individuals retirement plans.

“I mediate it’s globalists that hit upon how rich our country is going to be, and so they don’t esteem it,” he said. “They’ve been ripping off this country for years and now – and so they’re going to affect nice, everybody’s going to affect nice, nonetheless we can’t let this continue to happen to The United States.”

Federal acquire principles Trump illegally fired labor board member, reinstates her

US district acquire Beryl Howell ruled on Thursday that Donald Trump’s firing of a Democratic member of the National Labor Household contributors Board was unlawful and ordered that she be reinstated to her post.

The option restores a quorum of three contributors at the labor board, which had been disquieted and unable to resolve cases appealing non-public-sector employers after Trump removed Gwynne Wilcox in January.

As our colleague Michael Sainato reportsWilcox was the first member of the NLRN to be removed by a US president because the board’s inception in 1935.

The framers of the US constitution, the acquire wrote in the ruling“made certain that no-one in our plot of authorities was intended to be king – the President incorporated – and never real in title easiest”.

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Trump says US is no longer going to defend Nato worldwide locations that hang no longer use ample on protection

In an escalation of his stress marketing campaign, Donald Trump said the US is no longer going to strive in opposition to for Nato allies who don’t use ample on their very acquire protection.

“I mediate it’s general sense,” the president said. “They don’t pay, I’m no longer going to defend them.”

He went on to accuse Nato allies of no longer being spirited to defend the US, if the roles had been reversed:

If the US was in misfortune, and we known as them, we said we purchased an self-discipline, France, we purchased an self-discipline, couple of others, I obtained’t mention –you mediate they’re going to reach and defend us? They’re supposed to, I’m no longer so certain.

It’s worth noting that after the 11th of September assaults, Nato allies rallied to the US’s protection and participated in the invasion of Afghanistanfinal in the country for twenty years.

All that said, Trump reiterated that he did no longer intend to walk away Nato:

I glimpse Nato as doubtlessly most attention-grabbing, nonetheless but one more time … it’s very unfair what’s been happening.

Trump says he’ll ‘most certainly’ lengthen reprieve from TikTok ban if deal is no longer made

Donald Trump prompt newshounds in the Oval Plan of labor that he’ll “most certainly” lengthen TikTok’s time restrict to acquire a US purchaser or face a ban.

On the day he took divulge of commercial, the president gave the in model social media app a 75-day exemption from a regulations Congress passed that was intended to power its China-primarily based fully owned to divest. Talking to newshounds, Trump said that if important, he was spirited to allow TikTok to continue working whereas the gaze a purchaser continues.

“We acquire a form of curiosity in TikTok. China is going to play a operate, so confidently China will approve of the deal,” Trump said.

He declined to claim how long of an extension he could be spirited to present.

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