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The latest news on President Donald Trump's return to the White House and the new Congress.
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The meeting represented the outpouring of weeks of building tensions between the head of DOGE and President Donald Trump's top political officials.
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Ten members of his party joined Republicans in voting to officially condemn the Texas Democrat after he was ejected from the president's joint address to Congress on Tuesday. Mr. Green voted "present."
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"They cut everything at once." ProPublica reporter Brett Murphy is tracking the aftermath of the "haphazard" and "draconian" dismantling of USAID, which experts warn will lead to a dangerous rise in disease epidemics around the world, including risking the resurgence of Ebola and tuberculosis. Despite the administration's claims in court, says Murphy, "this is the opposite of a careful review," and has left in its wake wasted resources, unpaid workers and an end to "literally lifesaving work." Much of this demolition has been spearheaded by Trump ally Peter Marocco, whose alignment with Christian nationalist movements, says Murphy, appears to be influencing the current direction of U.S. foreign aid.
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President Donald Trump signs an order postponing tariffs for one month on certain Mexican and Canadian goods that fall under an existing free-trade agreement.
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Republicans are pitching the strategy as a way of avoiding a politically damaging shutdown fight while giving President Trump more power to go around Congress and set funding levels himself.
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Without Congress, President Trump cannot dismantle the agency. No modern president has ever tried to unilaterally shut down a federal department.
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Dr. Marty Makary will testify before the Senate health committee on Thursday. Lawmakers may press him over staff reductions and changes in agency direction on issues like vaccines.
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The Social Security Administration's acting commissioner said members of Elon Musk's cost-cutting team are outsiders who are unfamiliar with the nuances of the agency's programs.
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Judge Amir H. Ali set a noon Friday deadline for the Trump administration and aid organizations to clarify how much more the groups are owed.
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The Supreme Court has rejected a request by the Trump administration to continue refusing to pay out nearly $2 billion for work completed by USAID, with Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Amy Coney Barrett joining the court's three liberal justices in the majority. However, the court's decision did not specify when the money must be released, allowing Trump's team to further dispute the issue in lower courts. We speak to two people involved in the lawsuit brought by the AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition, or AVAC. The Trump administration's decision to unilaterally slash foreign assistance, including funding critical to stop the spread of HIV/AIDS, "for no good reason and with no clear strategy," was an unlawful "abuse of executive power," says attorney Nicolas Sansone, who serves as counsel for the plaintiff. "People will die," adds Mitchell Warren, the executive director of AVAC. Warren condemns the "willful ignorance" and "disregard of science" being promoted by Trump and his allies, many of whom are former supporters of bipartisan global health initiatives.
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Trump hit another major law firm that worked for his political rivals with an executive order seeking to limit its ability to work for the U.S. government.
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The continent is seeking new ways to defend itself without relying on U.S. support.
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Marty Makary, Trump's pick for FDA commissioner, testified before the Senate health committee Thursday.
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The order against the firm, which did work for Democrats during the 2016 campaign, represents an escalation of efforts to punish groups the president sees as aiding his enemies.
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Political gravity does apply to Trump after all, it seems.
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American officials, including in the C.I.A., are concerned about mass closures hampering national security work. And China has overtaken the United States in global diplomatic footprint.
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Amid ongoing chaos and outrage stemming from the Trump administration's gutting of the U.S. Agency for International Development, we hear a critique of USAID and the "humanitarian-industrial complex" from South African anthropologist Kathryn Mathers. "USAID is very much a part of a system and industry that not only depends on global inequality … but in many ways produces it," she says. Funding for foreign assistance, much of which actually flows back to the United States, ultimately "does its job of supporting U.S. interests" and "renders the causes of global inequality invisible, hiding the ways that often U.S. policies, U.S. trade agreements and other forms of extractive capitalism are often the causes." Mathers emphasizes, however, that Trump's abrupt cuts to the agency, rather than resolving the "paradox" of humanitarian aid, are "doing only harm."
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From April, an offender's ethnicity or faith will be a bigger factor in deciding whether to jail them.
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Many liberal members of Congress and activists believe they must loudly channel the growing outrage among Democrats over Trump's drastic actions.
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Democrats argue that Elon Musk's criticism of the program and push to squeeze savings from it is a prelude to benefit cuts. Republicans and President Trump say they plan no such thing.
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The latest news on President Donald Trump's return to the White House and the new Congress.
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At a mostly friendly closed-door meeting, the billionaire carrying out President Trump's bid to shrink the federal bureaucracy fielded queries about how senators could be more involved in the effort.
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Party leaders opted for a soberly delivered, centrist counter to the president's speech, but the dominant image of Democratic pushback was a liberal congressman waving his cane in protest.
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The leaders of Boston, Chicago, Denver and New York testified for hours before a largely hostile House committee that accused them of abetting violent migrants.
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The president's lead criminal defense attorney takes the key role of running day-to-day operations of federal prosecutors.
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At a House hearing, the mayors of Boston, Chicago, Denver and New York City rejected accusations that they were harboring criminals by not aiding deportation efforts.
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President Trump's comments on tariffs and Social Security sent something of a chill through the House chamber.
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President Trump has signed a number of anti-trans executive orders in the first month of his second term. He has attempted to ban trans women from sports, declared that there are only two sexes, and placed restrictions on gender-affirming care for trans youth. Trump continues to target trans people with hateful rhetoric, leaving trans people uncertain of their futures. "The Trump administration has declared war on trans people," Imara Jones, founder and CEO of TransLash Media and host of its investigative podcast, The Anti-Trans Hate Machine, tells Democracy Now!
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