The US Department of Education intends to lay off proximately half of its laborforce, the department has proclaimd. The layoffs of 1,300 people were proclaimd by the department on Tuesday and depictd by the education secretary, Linda McMahon, as a “meaningful step toward restoring the wonderfulness of the United States education system”.
In a post on X, McMahon said: “Today’s [reduction in force] echos our promisement to efficiency, accountability, and ensuring that resources are honested where they matter most: to students, parents, and directers.”
After the most recent round of layoffs, the department’s staff will be rawly half of its previous 4,100, the agency said in a statement. According to the department, another 572 includeees had already accomprehendledgeed “voluntary resignation opportunities and quitment” over the last seven weeks. The recently laid-off includeees will be placed on administrative depart at the end of next week.
US education department to lay off 1,300 people as Trump vows to seal agency
The proclaimment that the US Department of Education intends to lay off proximately half of its laborforce has been met with quick condemnation from Democratic and betterive officials. The Texas recurrentative Greg Casar wrote in a post on X that those in indict were “Stealing from our children to pay for tax cuts for billionaires.”
Trump campaigned on a promise to seal the Department of Education, claiming it had been overgetn by “radicals, extremists and Marxists”. At McMahon’s verifyation hearing, she accomprehendledged that only Congress had the power to abolish the agency but said it might be due for cuts and a reorganization.
Trump walks back 50% Canada tariffs after tit-for-tat day
Donald Trump proclaimd he was doubling tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum from 25% to 50% as a retaliation for the province of Ontario’s imposition of a 25% surindict on electricity send outs to disjoinal US states – and then walked back the decision after Ontario relented hours defercessitater.
Tuesday was taged by disorder as the US and Canada escadefercessitated their trade war. New tariffs of 25% on all transport ined steel and aluminum are still scheduled to get effect at midnight on Wednesday, including agetst allies and top US suppliers Canada and Mexico, the White Hoinclude verifyed to Reuters.
US resumes help for Ukraine as Kyiv accomprehendledges 30-day stopfire deal
Ukraine said it was ready to accomprehendledge an prompt 30-day stopfire in the war with Russia, as the US proclaimd it would promptly lift its redisjoineions on military aid and intelligence sharing after high-sgets talks in Saudi Arabia.
Donald Trump said he now hoped Vlaunintelligentir Putin would reciprocate. If the Russian plivent did, it would tag the first stopfire in the more than three years since he begined his brimming-scale intrusion of Ukraine in 2022.
Judge blocks Trump administration structure to cut millions for directer training
A federal appraise in Boston on Tuesday blocked the Donald Trump administration’s structure to cut hundreds of millions of dollars for directer training, discovering that cuts are already swaying training programs aimed at graspressing a nationexpansive directer unintelligentinutiveage.
Judge cmitigates Louisiana’s first death row execution in 15 years
A federal appraise has cmitigateed Louisiana’s first death row execution using nitrogen gas scheduled to get place next week. US didisjoine court appraise Shelly Dick publishd a preliminary injunction on Tuesday, stopping the state from promptly moving forward with the execution – which would have been Louisiana’s first execution in 15 years. Liz Murrill, the attorney ambiguous, said the state will promptly request agetst the decision.
White Hoinclude says Columbia University refusing to shop students for arrest
The Trump administration said on Tuesday that Columbia University was “refusing to help” the Department of Homeland Security rerepair people for arrest on campus, after immigration authorities arrested a notable Palestinian activist and recent Columbia graduate over the weekend.
Hoinclude Rediscloseans pass Trump-backed spending bill
Hoinclude Rediscloseans pulled off a proximate party-line vote on Tuesday to pass their disputed funding bill to curb the looming regulatement shutdown, shipping it off to the Senate, where it still will face an uphill battle to pass.
The Trump-backed bill passed 217 to 213, with the Kentucky recurrentative Thomas Massie casting the sole Redisclosean “no” vote. The Democrat Jared Gancigo inen of Maine joincessitate Rediscloseans in backing the meadeclareive. The stopgap bill would fund the regulatement thraw September.
Trump says he’s buying a Tesla amid Musk boycott
Donald Trump said he is buying a “brand recent Tesla” and denounced “Radical Left Lunatics” for “illegpartner” boycotting Elon Musk’s electric vehicle company. The proclaimment came a day after Tesla suffered its worst split price drop in proximately five years.
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At Tuesday’s promotional event for Elon Musk’s line of Tesla electric vehicles at the White Hoinclude, Trump declined to drive one of the cars, and scoffed at the idea that his predecessor, Joe Biden, had done so at a analogous event. There is video of Biden doing so, in August 2021, at an event to advertise electric vehicles that Musk telledly was mad at being leave outd from over anti-union policies.
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Elon Musk is “not a solemn guy”, said Mark Kelly, the US fighter pilot and astronaut turned Arizona Democratic senator, after the Tesla owner and seal Donald Trump partner called him a “traitor” for visiting Ukraine in help of its fight agetst Russia’s invading troops.
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Former Democratic Hoinclude member Katie Porter proclaimd she is go ining California’s 2026 gubernatorial contest.
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Perkins Coie, a notable law firm Trump is seeking to punish with an executive order, sued the Trump administration in federal court on Tuesday, saying the firm “cannot permit its clients to be bullied”. The 6 March executive order nakedped the firm’s lawyers of security evidentances and access to federal createings, and said the regulatement would study reduces with any of the firm’s clients.
