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Trump said Wednesday will be “Liberation Day” when he announces reciprocal tariffs on nearly all US trading partners. Global stock markets were a sea of red on Monday and investors fled to gold amid recession fears.

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The Trump administration has announced a review of federal contracts and grants at Harvard University over allegations of antisemitism.

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  Senate majority leader John Thune said he believes Donald Trump is “probably messing with you” with his remarks on Sunday that there are “methods” by which he could run for a third term.

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  A coalition of civil rights groups filed a lawsuit on Monday seeking to block portions of Donald Trump’s executive order that would require voters to prove their citizenship in order to vote.

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  Trump took aim at ticket scalping in a new executive order signed today, which directs the Department of Justice and the FTC to crack down on ticket resellers who price-gouge.

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  Tens of millions of dollars is being withheld for Planned Parenthood chapters across the US in an attempt by the Trump administration to force the clinics to change their operations.

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  A federal judge has put the Trump administration plans to deport hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan immigrants on pause, ruling Monday that protections struck down by officials should be reinstated while lawsuits continue.

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Tens of millions of dollars is being withheld for Planned Parenthood chapters across the US in an attempt by the Trump administration to force the clinics to change their operations, Politico reports.

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The clinics, which provide important healthcare services for low-income Americans have been cited for “possible violations” of the president’s executive orders, according to letters issued to nine chapters on Monday.

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The Department of Health and Human Services has given the organization 10 days to provide evidence they will comply with the executive orders including those that ban diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.

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The administration referenced Planned Parenthood’s mission statements and other public-facing messaging that highlight their “commitment to black communities” and also stated the funding was being frozen due to the organization’s willingness to serve undocumented immigrants.

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Alexis McGill Johnson, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Action Fund, said in a statement that the withheld funds would cause ‘devastation.’

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‘We know what happens when health care providers cannot use Title X funding: people across the country suffer, cancers go undetected, access to birth control is severely reduced, and the nation’s STI crisis worsens,’ she said.

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Trump took aim at ticket scalping in a new executive order signed today, which directs the Department of Justice and the FTC to crack down on ticket resellers who price-gouge.

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“I didn’t know too much about it but I checked it out and it is a big problem,” Trump said before he signed the order, adding that his friend, Kid Rock – or Bob, as the president referred to him – had been trying to do something about it for 20 years.

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Robert Ritchie, better known by his moniker “Kid Rock”, was clad in a head-to-toe bright red ensemble, complete with an American flag decal emblazoned across his middle, and stood to Trump’s right with his hands folded until he was asked to speak.

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“It doesn’t matter your politics,” Kid Rock said, outlining how the issue has impacted his ability to offer lower-priced entry to his concerts for fans. “The artists don’t see any of that money and ultimately I think this is a great first step.”

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The order directs officials at the FTC and the justice department to ensure scalpers comply with tax rules and pushes for more price transparency through the ticket-selling process. But Kid Rock is hoping for more.

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“I would love down the road if there would be legislation and we can put a cap on the resale of tickets,” he said. “I am a capitalist and a deregulation guy,” he added with a laugh. “But they have tried this in some places in Europe and it seems to be the only thing for us as artists to be able to get the tickets into the hands of the fans at the prices we set.”

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Senate majority leader John Thune said he believes Donald Trump is “probably messing with you” with his remarks on Sunday that there are “methods” by which he could run for a third term.

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“You guys keep asking the question,” Thune told reporters on Monday, adding:

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I think he’s probably having some fun with it, probably messing with you.

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Asked if he thought Trump could serve a third term, Thune replied:

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Not without a change in the constitution.

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The Trump administration has announced a review of federal contracts and grants at Harvard University over allegations of antisemitism.

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The Task Force will review the more than $255.6 million in contracts between Harvard University, its affiliates and the Federal Government. The review also includes the more than $8.7bn in multi-year grant commitments to Harvard University and its affiliates,” the Education Department, Department of Health and the General Services Administration said in a joint statement, Reuters reports.

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  Donald Trump refused to say whether he was planning to leave office in 2029, after an interview with NBC where he said he was not joking about the possibility of seeking a third term.

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  Trump said Wednesday will be “Liberation Day” when he announces reciprocal tariffs on nearly all US trading partners. Global stock markets were a sea of red on Monday and investors fled to gold amid recession fears.

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  The White House said “this case has been closed” when asked about the status of the investigation into the now-infamous Signal chat in which officials conducted a high-level military operation on the unclassified commercial app and inadvertently included a journalist.

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  Attorney general Pam Bondi directed the justice department to dismiss a Biden-era lawsuit challenging a Republican-backed Georgia election law that was passed after Trump’s 2020 election loss in the state.

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  The US sent 17 more people accused of being gang members to El Salvador without providing their names or any other identifying information, the latest move in the Trump administration’s controversial method of deporting people to be imprisoned abroad without due process in the US.

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  The US announced sanctions against six Chinese and Hong Kong officials over their role in extraterritorial enforcement of the territory’s national security law, one of the first moves by the Trump administration to punish China over its crackdown on democracy advocates in Hong Kong.

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  Trump issued a full pardon to another person involved with the January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol and commuted the sentence of a former business associate of Hunter Biden.

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  An official allied with Elon Musk’s “department of government efficiency” (Doge) has been put in charge of the US Institute of Peace, a congressionally created and funded thinktank targeted by Donald Trump for closure.

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  The headquarters of the Republican party of New Mexico was set on fire on Sunday and “ICE=KKK” spray painted on the building in what the party called “a deliberate act of arson”.

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The White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt was asked about the status of the investigation into how a journalist was added into a high-level group chat about US military plans in Yemen.

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“This case has been closed here at the White House as far as we are concerned,” Leavitt told reporters.

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She said that Mike Waltz, the national security adviser, “continues to be an important part of his national security team”.

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“There have been steps made to ensure that something like that can, obviously, not happen again,” she added.

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Attorney general Pam Bondi has directed the justice department to dismiss a Biden-era lawsuit challenging a Republican-backed Georgia election law that was passed after Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss in the state.

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The law, signed by Georgia’s Republican governor Brian Kemp in 2021, makes it illegal to provide food or water to voters standing in lines to cast their ballots. The lawsuit, filed under Joe Biden, alleged the law was intended to suppress Black voter turnout.

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Bondi, in a press release on Monday announcing the lawsuit’s dismissal, accused the Biden administration of pushing “false claims of suppression”.

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“Georgians deserve secure elections, not fabricated claims of false voter suppression meant to divide us,” she said. She claimed Black voter turnout in Georgia “actually increased” after the law was passed.

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Analysis by the Brennan Center for Justice found that while the number of ballots cast by Black voters increased from 2020 to 2024, Black turnout actually declined by 0.6% because the increase in the number of ballots did not keep up with population increases, Associated Press reports.

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The Trump administration faces more than 130 lawsuits over his executive orders.

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Many of the lawsuits have been filed in liberal-leaning parts of the country as the court system becomes ground zero for pushback to his policies, the Associated Press reports.

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Federal judges have ruled against the administration more than 40 times, issuing temporary restraining orders and preliminary injunctions, the justice department said Friday in a supreme court filing.

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The issues include birthright citizenship changes, federal spending, transgender rights and deportations under a rarely used 18th-century law.

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On Air Force One after leaving Florida, following his interview with NBC where he said he was not joking about the possibility of seeking a third term, Donald Trumpclaimed he was being asked about it a lot.

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And the US president later refused to answer when asked point blank on board whether he was planning to leave office in 2029, Good Morning America reported on Monday morning.

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He refused to comment further on specifics, the network’s segment added.

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The talk of a third term has blared out at the start of a week where there are special elections tomorrow, new tariffs are expected on Wednesday and budget votes in the Senate on Thursday, so more busy days in US politics news ahead.

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Donald Trump’s repeated musings that there is scope for breaking with the US constitution’s explicit ban on running for a third term in office is attracting criticism from some in both parties.

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Changing the constitution so that it no longer forbids a third term is a very high hurdle to leap over. You need a two-thirds majority vote in the US Congress or two-thirds of US states agreeing to convene a constitutional convention at which an amendment would be proposed, NBC reports. Then agreement from such a vote would need to be ratified by three-quarters of the states.

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Trump talked about a possible third term before he was inaugurated and has brought it up at least twice more since he became the 47th president of the United States, in a return to the White House that has shaken the US government to its core.

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Texas congresswoman Jasmine Crockett, a Democrat, posted on X about the possibility of Trump service again: “So, that’s actually not allowed…The Constitution isn’t optional, sir. This isn’t a reality show — it’s reality. Two terms, that’s it.”

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Republican John Dean, from the Nixon era, talked of Trump trying an “end run”.

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Immigration remains a strength for Donald Trump, but his handling of tariffs is getting more negative feedback, according to a poll from the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.

n About half of US adults approve of Trump’s approach to immigration, the survey shows, but only about four in 10 have a positive view of the way he’s handling the economy and trade negotiations.

n The poll indicates that many Americans are still on board with Trump’s efforts to ramp up deportations and restrict immigration. But it also suggests that the Republican president’s threats to impose tariffs – which have been accompanied by tumbling consumer confidence and wild stock market swings – might be erasing his advantage on another issue that he made central to his winning 2024 campaign.

n The economy was a drag on then president Joe Biden, who saw the share of Americans who approved of his handling of the economy fall to a low of roughly three in 10 in 2023. Trump drew considerable strength in November from voters who prioritized the economy, but just before he took office in January, an AP-NORC poll found that few Americans had high confidence that he’d make progress on lowering prices in his first year.

n Views of Trump’s job performance overall are more negative than positive, the survey found. About four in 10 US adults approve of the way Trump is handling his job as president, and more than half disapprove.

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Wall Street is set to join the global sell-off when trading begins in around two hours.

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Investors in New York are increasingly anxious about the tariffs which Donald Trump plans to announce on Wednesday.

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Raffi Boyadjian, lead market analyst at XM, says:

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Hopes that this week’s reciprocal tariffs would not be as harsh as feared were dashed over the weekend after US President Trump doubled down on his pursuit of using import levies to ‘make America great again’. With just a couple of days to go until the White House outlines the details of the reciprocal tariffs – the broadest set of restrictions yet to be unveiled by the Trump administration – there is a growing sense of panic in the markets about the scale and implications of the April 2 announcement.

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Our business blog has more on how the markets are reacting.

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Goldman Sachs has raised the probability of a US recession to 35% from 20% and said it expects more rate cuts by the Federal Reserve, as Trump’s tariffs roil the global economy and upend financial markets.

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The brokerage also lowered its US GDP growth forecast for 2025 to 1.5% from 2.0% and projected three interest rate cuts each from the Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank from its previous expectation of two each.

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Trump said on Sunday his reciprocal tariffs, to be announced this week, would include all countries.

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Global stock markets were a sea of red on Monday and investors fled to gold ahead of a wave of US tariffs this week that have fuelled recession fears.

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Tokyo plunged more than 4%, leading losses across Asian and European markets, amid nerves Donald Trump’s latest tariff announcements due on his “Liberation Day” on Wednesday, Agence France-Presse reports.

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Adding to fears, Trump said on Sunday that tariffs would include “all countries”, not just those with the largest trade imbalances with the US.

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Automakers were hit particularly hard in the wake of Trump’s announcement that he would also impose 25% duties on imports of all vehicles and parts.

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In Europe, Porsche, Volkswagen and Stellantis, which owns several brands including Jeep, Peugeot and Fiat, all dropped around 3%.

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Toyota, the world’s biggest car-maker, plunged over 3%, along with Nissan and Mazda.

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Gold, seen as a safe haven asset in times of uncertainty, hit a record high over $3,100 an ounce.

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The Kremlin has said that Vladimir Putin was still “open” to speaking to Donald Trump after the US president said he was “very angry” with the Russian leader over little progress on a ceasefire in Ukraine.

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Trump earlier criticised Putin as he pushes to end more than three years of conflict in Ukraine.

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Trump told NBC he was “pissed off” at Putin for questioning Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s credibility as someone to negotiate with.

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“The president remains open to contact with President Trump,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters in a briefing call.

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He said there was no phone call scheduled between the two leaders, but that one could be “organised promptly” if deemed “necessary”.

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The federal government has cancelled dozens of grants to study how to prevent new HIV infections and expand access to care, decimating progress toward eliminating the epidemic in the United States, scientists say.

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Over the last month, more than 300 research projects funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have been terminated – 65 of them were specifically related to researching advancements in HIV care. Some scientists were notified about losing funding as recently as last Thursday. NIH, a division of the Department of Health and Human Services, is the largest funding source of medical research in the world, leaving many scientists scrambling to figure out how to continue their work.

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“The loss of this research could very well result in a resurgence of HIV that becomes more generalized in this country,” said Julia Marcus, a professor at Harvard Medical School who recently had two of her grants cancelled.

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Good morning, and welcome to our US politics blog amid news that Donald Trump is “not joking” about a possible third term.

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The comments on Sunday are the clearest indication yet he is considering ways to breach a constitutional barrier against continuing to lead the country after his second term ends at the beginning of 2029.

n “There are methods which you could do it,” Trump said in a telephone interview with NBC News from Mar-a-Lago. And he told host Kristen Welker: “I am not joking.”

n He elaborated later to reporters on Air Force One from Florida to Washington: “I have had more people ask me to have a third term, which in a way is a fourth term because the other election, the 2020 election, was totally rigged.” Trump lost that election to Joe Biden.

n Still, Trump added: “I don’t want to talk about a third term now because no matter how you look at it, we’ve got a long time to go.”

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As Associated Press reports, the 22nd amendment, added to the constitution in 1951 after President Franklin D Roosevelt was elected four times in a row, says “no person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice”.

n Any attempt to remain in office would be legally suspect and it is unclear how seriously Trump might pursue the idea. The comments nonetheless were an extraordinary reflection of the desire to maintain power by a president who had violated democratic traditions four years ago when he tried to overturn the election he lost to Biden.

n We’ll be bringing you more reaction from Trump’s allies and opponents as the day progresses. There are also plenty of other developments:

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  Donald Trump has said he is “pissed off” with Vladimir Putin over his approach to a ceasefire in Ukraine and threatened to levy tariffs on Moscow’s oil exports if the Russian leader does not agree to a truce within a month. You can read more on this in our Ukraine blog.

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  In the same NBC interview as Trump made his Putin and third term comments, he also threatened to bomb Iran, saying that if “they don’t make a deal” to curb their nuclear weapons programme, “there will be bombing. It will be bombing the likes of which they have never seen before.” You can read Iran’s reaction in our Middle East blog.

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  Trump spoke to the British prime minister, Keir Starmer, on Sunday evening as the UK seeks to avoid tariffs that the US president has threatened to impose on a wide range of trade partners on Wednesday. He is calling it “Liberation Day”, saying the world’s top economy has been “ripped off by every country in the world”. Starmer and Trump “agreed to stay in touch in the coming days”.

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  Elon Musk gave out $1m checks on Sunday to two Wisconsin voters, declaring them spokespeople for his political group, ahead of a Wisconsin supreme court election that the tech billionaire cast as critical to Trump’s agenda and “the future of civilization”. Musk and groups he supports have spent more than $20m to help conservative favourite Brad Schimel in Tuesday’s race, which will determine the ideological makeup of a court likely to decide key issues in a perennial battleground state.

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Summary of the day so far

• Trump said Wednesday will be “Liberation Day” when he announces reciprocal tariffs on nearly all US trading partners. Global stock markets were a sea of red on Monday and investors fled to gold amid recession fears.

• The Trump administration has announced a review of federal contracts and grants at Harvard University over allegations of antisemitism.

• Senate majority leader John Thune said he believes Donald Trump is “probably messing with you” with his remarks on Sunday that there are “methods” by which he could run for a third term.

• A coalition of civil rights groups filed a lawsuit on Monday seeking to block portions of Donald Trump’s executive order that would require voters to prove their citizenship in order to vote.

• Trump took aim at ticket scalping in a new executive order signed today, which directs the Department of Justice and the FTC to crack down on ticket resellers who price-gouge.

• Tens of millions of dollars is being withheld for Planned Parenthood chapters across the US in an attempt by the Trump administration to force the clinics to change their operations.

• A federal judge has put the Trump administration plans to deport hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan immigrants on pause, ruling Monday that protections struck down by officials should be reinstated while lawsuits continue.

Some GOP senators are speaking out against Trump’s tariffs on Canada and are considering signing on their support for a resolution blocking them, CNN reports.

Senator Rand Paul has signed on as a cosponsor of the resolution, expected to come to a vote tomorrow. Senator Susan Collins, meanwhile, highlighted how the brewing trade war could impact Maine.

“Imposing tariffs on Canada, which is our closest neighbor, a friendly ally, is a huge mistake and will cause disruption in the economies of both countries,” Collins told reporters on Monday, who noted that she wore a Canadian flag pin alongside a US flag pin on her lapel.

At least four Republicans must join the 47 Democrats who have pledged support for the resolution for it to pass. But, according to Politico, it’s unlikely to get a vote in the House.

GOP leadership worked language into the stopgap funding bill to bar any member of Congress from calling for a vote on Trump’s policies connected to declared national emergencies, including the fentanyl emergency cited as the justification for the tariffs.

Former congressman Anthony D’Esposito has been nominated by Trump as inspector general for the labor department. D’Esposito, a former NYPD detective who lost his bid for re-election in 2024 after just two years in office, came under fire last year after a NYT investigation revealed he had put a woman he was having an affair with and his fiancee’s daughter on his payroll. He paid them a combined total of $29,000 and the actions could have violated congressional code of conduct rules.

D’Esposito denied any wrongdoing at the time, and called the investigation a “partisan ‘hit piece’”.

The independent watchdogs are tasked with rooting out fraud, waste and abuse in federal agencies. The position has been vacant since Trump fired former labor department IG, Larry Turner, along with 16 other IGs during his first week in office.

Trump said at the time he would “put good people in there that will be very good”.

A federal judge has put the Trump administration plans to deport hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan immigrants on pause, ruling Monday that protections struck down by officials should be reinstated while lawsuits continue.

Temporary Protected Status (TPS) enables migrants escaping armed conflicts, natural disasters or other destabilizing issues to live and work in the US. Trump administration officials sought to end the humanitarian protections – which are codified by law – for Venezuelans who were granted 18-month extensions by the Biden administration.

Ending the initiative could enable officials to deport close to 350,000 people, the New York Times reports, with hundreds of thousands more facing uncertainty later this year.

Judge Edward M Chen, a federal judge in San Francisco, found that the actions, undertaken by homeland security secretary Kristi Noem, would inflict severe harm, both on migrants and their families, and on communities across the US.

From the NYT:

In his ruling on Monday, Judge Chen said the government had failed “to identify any real countervailing harm” in continuing the program for Venezuelan TPS holders. He said the plaintiffs had also demonstrated they were likely to succeed in showing that the actions taken by the Ms. Noem were “unauthorized by law, arbitrary and capricious, and motivated by unconstitutional animus.”

The secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, has issued an order to eliminate gender-specific physical fitness standards for combat roles in the military, a move that could mean fewer women will qualify for those positions.

“All combat roles are open to men and women but they must all meet the same, high standard,” Hegseth said in a post on social media. “No standards will be lowered and all combat roles will only have sex-neutral standards.”

Trump administration withholds tens of millions of dollars from Planned Parenthood – report

Tens of millions of dollars is being withheld for Planned Parenthood chapters across the US in an attempt by the Trump administration to force the clinics to change their operations, Politico reports.

The clinics, which provide important healthcare services for low-income Americans have been cited for “possible violations” of the president’s executive orders, according to letters issued to nine chapters on Monday.

The Department of Health and Human Services has given the organization 10 days to provide evidence they will comply with the executive orders including those that ban diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.

The administration referenced Planned Parenthood’s mission statements and other public-facing messaging that highlight their “commitment to black communities” and also stated the funding was being frozen due to the organization’s willingness to serve undocumented immigrants.

More from Politico:

Alexis McGill Johnson, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Action Fund, said in a statement that the withheld funds would cause ‘devastation.’

‘We know what happens when health care providers cannot use Title X funding: people across the country suffer, cancers go undetected, access to birth control is severely reduced, and the nation’s STI crisis worsens,’ she said.

Trump takes aim at ticket scalping in executive order

Trump took aim at ticket scalping in a new executive order signed today, which directs the Department of Justice and the FTC to crack down on ticket resellers who price-gouge.

“I didn’t know too much about it but I checked it out and it is a big problem,” Trump said before he signed the order, adding that his friend, Kid Rock – or Bob, as the president referred to him – had been trying to do something about it for 20 years.

Robert Ritchie, better known by his moniker “Kid Rock”, was clad in a head-to-toe bright red ensemble, complete with an American flag decal emblazoned across his middle, and stood to Trump’s right with his hands folded until he was asked to speak.

“It doesn’t matter your politics,” Kid Rock said, outlining how the issue has impacted his ability to offer lower-priced entry to his concerts for fans. “The artists don’t see any of that money and ultimately I think this is a great first step.”

The order directs officials at the FTC and the justice department to ensure scalpers comply with tax rules and pushes for more price transparency through the ticket-selling process. But Kid Rock is hoping for more.

“I would love down the road if there would be legislation and we can put a cap on the resale of tickets,” he said. “I am a capitalist and a deregulation guy,” he added with a laugh. “But they have tried this in some places in Europe and it seems to be the only thing for us as artists to be able to get the tickets into the hands of the fans at the prices we set.”

House majority leader Steve Scalise has dismissed the idea of Donald Trump seeking a third term, suggesting that the president’s remarks yesterday were designed to “get people talking”.

“I don’t know what he was referring to. I never saw it,” Scalise told NBC News, adding:

You know, you see it like with Greenland, like with Panama canal. There’s a lot of things the president talks about. Ultimately, it gets people talking and addresses some other issues too.

Asked if he would support changing the US Constitution to allow Trump to run for a third term, he said:

There’s no proposal to change the constitution right now.

Donald Trump is set to sign an executive order today aimed at protecting fans from “exploitative ticket scalping”, a White House official said.

The order directs the treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, and attorney general, Pam Bondi, to ensure that ticket scalpers are in full compliance with the tax-collecting Internal Revenue Service and others applicable law, according to a fact sheet seen by Reuters.

The order directs the Federal Trade Commission to ensure that competition laws are appropriately enforced in the concert and entertainment industry, it said.

Florida congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna, a Republican, has left the hard-right House Freedom caucus, according to multiple reports.

“With a heavy heart, I am resigning from the Freedom Caucus,” Luna wrote in a letter obtained by Axios. Luna, a strong Trump ally, is the fourth member that the Freedom caucus has lost or ejected in the last two years, it says.

According to reports, her withdrawal comes amid a break with her colleagues on whether the House should allow proxy voting for new parents.