Trump Administration Live Updates: President to Meet Salvadoran Leader as U.S. Ramps Up Deportations
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Deportations: President Trump will meet with President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador at the White House on Monday as the administration steps up its use of a notorious Salvadoran prison to hold migrants deported by the United States. On Sunday, the administration again tried to resist a federal judge’s order to return a Maryland man who was unlawfully deported to the prison, known as CECOT. Read more ›
Layoffs: Federal agencies are facing a Monday deadline to present plans for another round of mass firings, part of the administration’s drive to shrink the government and reshape the civil service. The cuts come at the direction of the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, the government overhaul initiative led by Elon Musk. Read more ›
Tariffs: Mr. Trump signaled on Sunday that he would pursue new tariffs on the computer chips inside smartphones and other technologies, two days after his administration excluded some electronics from the import taxes applied on goods arriving from China. The administration has scrambled to explain its shifting strategy, after it said that no company or industry would be shielded from the levies. Read more ›
Goldman Sachs is expected to give its take on how tariffs are impacting its business during the bank’s regularly scheduled quarterly earnings call this morning. Some twitchiness, however, is in the air; during a briefing with reporters earlier, a spokeswoman repeatedly cut in to discourage questions about the White House and the trade environment. David M. Solomon, Goldman’s chief executive, said in a statement: “We are entering the second quarter with a markedly different operating environment than earlier this year.”
Federal agencies are facing a deadline on Monday to present their plans for another round of mass firings, the next step in the Trump administration’s drive to shrink the government that figures to further reshape a civil service that has endured tens of thousands of departures.
Some agencies, such as the Department of Health and Human Services, have already announced their layoffs for this round of dismissals, which follows the terminations in February of thousands of probationary federal employees. The cuts have come at the direction of the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, the government overhaul initiative led by the tech billionaire Elon Musk.
President Trump will meet with President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador at the White House on Monday as the administration ramps up its use of a notorious Salvadoran prison for holding migrants deported by the United States.
In Mr. Bukele, who has referred to himself as the world’s “coolest dictator,” Mr. Trump has found a willing partner in a plan for deportations with little or no due process. The removal of the migrants to the prison, known as CECOT, has become a flashpoint in the administration’s attempt to skirt normal immigration practice and the role of the courts in reviewing Mr. Trump’s executive power.
The Trump administration on Sunday evening doubled down on its assertion that a federal judge cannot force it to bring back to the United States a Maryland man who was unlawfully deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador last month.
In a brief legal filing, the Justice Department reiterated its view that courts lack the ability to dictate steps that the White House should take in seeking to return the man, Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, to U.S. soil, because the president alone has broad powers to handle foreign policy.
President Trump signaled on Sunday that he would pursue new tariffs on the powerful computer chips inside smartphones and other technologies, just two days after his administration excluded a variety of electronics from the steep import taxes recently applied on goods arriving from China.
The push came as Mr. Trump’s top economic advisers scrambled to explain their shifting strategy, after having insisted for weeks that they would shield no company or industry from any of the fees they have levied in a bid to reset U.S. trade relationships."
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