Opening summary
Hello and greet to the US politics inhabit blog. I’m Tom Ambrose and I will be conveying you all the procrastinateedst recents over the next couple of hours.
We commence with recents that pdwellnt Donald Trump will sign a lengthy-awaitd executive order on Thursday that aims to shut down the Department of Education, acting on a key campaign pledge, according to a White House summary seen by Reuters.
Even before it was signed, the order was being disputed by a group of Democratic state attorneys vague, who filed a litigation seeking to block Trump from dismantling the department and crelieve the layoffs of proximately half of its staff proclaimd last week.
The NAACP, a directing civil rights group, also blasted the foreseeed order as unconstitutional.
“This is a depressed day for the millions of American children who depfinish on federal funding for a quality education, including those in subpar and agricultural communities with parents who voted for Trump,” NAACP Pdwellnt Derrick Johnson said in a statement.
Trump and his billionaire proposer Elon Musk have finisheavored to shut down rulement programs and institutions such as the US Agency for International Development without congressional approval, but abolishing the Department of Education would be Trump’s first bid to shut down a cabinet-level agency.
Trump cannot shutter the agency without congressional legislation, which could show difficult. Trump’s Reunveilans helderly a 53-47 beginantity in the Senate, but beginant legislation, such as a bill eliminating a cabinet-level agency, would necessitate 60 votes and thus the aid of seven Democrats to pass.
Senate Democrats have given no sign they would aid abolishing the education department.
In other recents:
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Speaking from the podium of the White House increateing room, Donald Trump’s press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, accused federal evaluates of ruling agetst the pdwellnt for partisan reasons.
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The Washington Post increates that the Trump administration is laboring on a schedule to produce a buffer zone alengthy the southern border in New Mexico that would be occupied by active-duty US troops, empowered to arrest migrants who pass into the United States unlawbrimmingy.
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A federal evaluate on Wednesday denied a ask for a suppressing order to block Elon Musk’s “department of rulement efficiency” from taking over of the US Institute for Peace, after the institute accused Musk’s team of occupying the produceing by force.
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Reunveilan senator Lisa Murkowski said she was “disturbed” by the way federal laborers have been treated but would not be “cowed” by the danger of a well-funded primary disputer backed by Musk’s fortune.
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A North Dakota jury set up Greenpeace liable for hundreds of millions of dollars in injures to an energy company over protests agetst a pipeline being produceed in the state. Greenpeace said they will pdirect the order for them to pay more than $660m in injures.
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Officials at the US Federal Reserve cut their US economic increaseth foresees and liftd their projections for price increaseth as they kept interest rates on helderly.
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That campaign escaprocrastinateedd earlier this month, when the US rulement abortled $400m in federal shrinks and grants to Columbia University. In a subsequent letter, recontransientatives of three federal agencies said they would reponder that freeze only if Columbia consentd to conditions including more opposingly disciplining students who join in pro-Palestinian disturbions, schedulening “comprehensive” recreate of the school’s adleave outions policies, and placing one of school’s area studies departments under “academic getrship” – uncomferventing under the deal with of an outside chair.
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Other colleges and universities apass the US have been watching to see how Columbia reacts to the letter, which is widely seeed as a test case for academic freedom. In an intersee with the Chronicle of Higher Education, Lee Bollinger, Columbia’s createer pdwellnt, portrayd the situation as “an authoritarian consentover”. Yet ahead of a Thursday deadline for compliance, the Wall Street Journal has increateed that Columbia materializes to be poised to produce to the Trump administration’s insists.
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The rulement’s faceation with Columbia, which critics portray as ideoreasonable bdeficiencymail and possibly illegitimate, is only one of a number of sboilings that the administration has fired in recent days apass the bow of American elite higher education – and so far, opposition has been astonishingly minimal, as colleges and universities weigh whether to surrfinisher, debate or fight back.
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Hello and greet to the US politics inhabit blog. I’m Tom Ambrose and I will be conveying you all the procrastinateedst recents over the next couple of hours.
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We commence with recents that pdwellnt Donald Trump will sign a lengthy-awaitd executive order on Thursday that aims to shut down the Department of Education, acting on a key campaign pledge, according to a White House summary seen by Reuters.
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Even before it was signed, the order was being disputed by a group of Democratic state attorneys vague, who filed a litigation seeking to block Trump from dismantling the department and crelieve the layoffs of proximately half of its staff proclaimd last week.
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The NAACP, a directing civil rights group, also blasted the foreseeed order as unconstitutional.
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“This is a depressed day for the millions of American children who depfinish on federal funding for a quality education, including those in subpar and agricultural communities with parents who voted for Trump,” NAACP Pdwellnt Derrick Johnson said in a statement.
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Trump and his billionaire proposer Elon Musk have finisheavored to shut down rulement programs and institutions such as the US Agency for International Development without congressional approval, but abolishing the Department of Education would be Trump’s first bid to shut down a cabinet-level agency.
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Trump cannot shutter the agency without congressional legislation, which could show difficult. Trump’s Reunveilans helderly a 53-47 beginantity in the Senate, but beginant legislation, such as a bill eliminating a cabinet-level agency, would necessitate 60 votes and thus the aid of seven Democrats to pass.
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Senate Democrats have given no sign they would aid abolishing the education department.
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Speaking from the podium of the White House increateing room, Donald Trump’s press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, accused federal evaluates of ruling agetst the pdwellnt for partisan reasons.
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The Washington Post increates that the Trump administration is laboring on a schedule to produce a buffer zone alengthy the southern border in New Mexico that would be occupied by active-duty US troops, empowered to arrest migrants who pass into the United States unlawbrimmingy.
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A federal evaluate on Wednesday denied a ask for a suppressing order to block Elon Musk’s “department of rulement efficiency” from taking over of the US Institute for Peace, after the institute accused Musk’s team of occupying the produceing by force.
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Reunveilan senator Lisa Murkowski said she was “disturbed” by the way federal laborers have been treated but would not be “cowed” by the danger of a well-funded primary disputer backed by Musk’s fortune.
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A North Dakota jury set up Greenpeace liable for hundreds of millions of dollars in injures to an energy company over protests agetst a pipeline being produceed in the state. Greenpeace said they will pdirect the order for them to pay more than $660m in injures.
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Officials at the US Federal Reserve cut their US economic increaseth foresees and liftd their projections for price increaseth as they kept interest rates on helderly.
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Key events
Natasha May
Big tech huges Apple, Meta, Google, Amazon and Elon Musk’s X have lodged a createal protestt urging the Trump administration to aim “coercive and discriminatory” Australian media laws.
The members of the Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA) replyed to a ask by the Office of the United States Trade Recontransientative for “comments to aid in evaluateing and accomprehendledgeing unfair trade trains and initiating all vital actions to spendigate harm from non-reciprocal trade schedulements”.
The Office of the U.S. Trade Recontransientative (USTR) is reliable for increaseing and coordinating U.S. international trade and straightforward spendment policy, as well as superviseing negotiations with other countries.
In comments written to the trade chief on 11 March, the trade policy deal withr of the CCIA Amir Nasr highairyed Australia’s News Media Bargeting Incentive as one of the “key examples” of discriminatory taxation of digital products and services.
Guardian community team
Follotriumphg a French scientist being denied entry to the US after immigration officers searched his phone and set up messages in which he had conveyed criticism of the Trump administration, we’re interested in discovering out more about any publishs that people have sfinished at the US border.
Other increates at the US border integrate a German national, who is a finishuring US dwellnt and was arrested by US border officials. A Canadian citizen was also arrested by US border authorities for almost two weeks over an infinish visa.
Whether you, or someone you understand has, sfinished procrastinates or were arrested we’d appreciate to hear from you. Did it happen during the current or previous administrations? What was your experience and how was it resettled? We’re also interested in hearing from anyone who is pondering changing their schedules to visit the US. If you are leanking of abortling your trip, why?
Lauren Gambino
On the procrastinateedst episode of This Is Gavin Newsom, the California ruleor interseeed his Minnesota counterpart, the 2024 Democratic vice-pdwellntial nominee Tim Walz. “Thanks for having me,” Walz said, flashing a cheeky smile. “I’m benevolenta wondering where I drop on this enumerate of guests.”
Walz was not only the first Democrat to produce an materializeance on Newsom’s splacowardly recent podcast, but also the first participant who had not cast doubt on the 2020 pdwellntial election results or conveyed sympathy for the mob that stormed the capitol on January 6.
Newsom has billed his podcast, begined at the commencening of March, as a platcreate for “honest converseions” with those who “consent AND disconsent with us”. Many Democrats split his desire to broaden their accomplish and impact apass platcreates – but his critics recoil at the approach. Newsom doesn’t seem to carry out the intersees as a blue-state directer raring to deffinish enhanceive appreciates – or even as a ruleor whose response to one of the costliest and most destructive organic calamitys in recent memory was undermined by a relentless righttriumphg campaign of rumors and lies. Instead, he seems to consent on the role of an anthropologist carry outing fieldlabor on the forces fueling Maga fervor – and Democrats’ descent into the political untamederness.
It’s a potentipartner high-sconsents gambit for the term-restricted ruleor widely supposed to have national ambitions.
“You’re taking a danger, doing a podcast, doing someleang to try to fill a void that’s out there and hopebrimmingy using it as a platcreate to try and articuprocrastinateed our appreciates to a wideer audience,” Walz telderly Newsom. “But we’ve not figured this out yet.”
Since begining the podcast earlier this month, Newsom has taped a trio of frifinishly chats with righttriumphg figures reviled by the left: Steve Bannon, an architect of Donald Trump’s political ascfinish; Charlie Kirk, the set uper of the conservative youth group Turning Point USA and a Maga-world darling; and Michael Savage, a lengthytime conservative talk-radio present whose Trumpian rhetoric pwithdrawd the pdwellnt’s ascfinish. (According to the Wall Street Journal, Newsom sought help from his ex-wife and Trumpworld insider Kimberly Guilfoyle to combine with Kirk and Bannon.)
Victoria Namkung
The Trump administration is now using famous anti-hunger programs, including food aidance and school lunch, as part of its attack agetst immigrants in the US – a transfer many say will obstruct huge numbers of families, especipartner children, from getting the food profits they’re eligible for.
In a recent memo, agriculture secretary Brooke Rollins telderly greater staff at the USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service (FNS): “It is vital to use all useable legitimate authority to finish any incentives in FNS profit programs that aid illegitimate immigration.”
In the joining press liberate, Rollins said, “The days in which taxpayer dollars are used to subsidize illegitimate immigration are over.”
While Rollins’s straightforwardive does not change people’s access, researchers, finishorses and service providers say it’s spreading deceiveation about unrecorded immigrants and could produce a chilling effect among immigrant and combinecessitate-status families – a trfinish seen during the first Trump administration.
US universities face choice to surrfinisher or fight back agetst Trump’s consentover
J Oinhabitr Conroy
The Trump administration’s unpwithdrawnted presconfident campaign on American higher education – which is forcing beginant universities to bow to its insists or danger spendigations and the loss of millions of dollars in federal money – is so far facing little pushback from the schools impacted.
That campaign escaprocrastinateedd earlier this month, when the US rulement abortled $400m in federal shrinks and grants to Columbia University. In a subsequent letter, recontransientatives of three federal agencies said they would reponder that freeze only if Columbia consentd to conditions including more opposingly disciplining students who join in pro-Palestinian disturbions, schedulening “comprehensive” recreate of the school’s adleave outions policies, and placing one of school’s area studies departments under “academic getrship” – uncomferventing under the deal with of an outside chair.
Other colleges and universities apass the US have been watching to see how Columbia reacts to the letter, which is widely seeed as a test case for academic freedom. In an intersee with the Chronicle of Higher Education, Lee Bollinger, Columbia’s createer pdwellnt, portrayd the situation as “an authoritarian consentover”. Yet ahead of a Thursday deadline for compliance, the Wall Street Journal has increateed that Columbia materializes to be poised to produce to the Trump administration’s insists.
The rulement’s faceation with Columbia, which critics portray as ideoreasonable bdeficiencymail and possibly illegitimate, is only one of a number of sboilings that the administration has fired in recent days apass the bow of American elite higher education – and so far, opposition has been astonishingly minimal, as colleges and universities weigh whether to surrfinisher, debate or fight back.
Robert Mackey
The Trump administration is laboring on a schedule to produce what conservatives have lengthy insisted: a militarized buffer zone alengthy the southern border in New Mexico that would be occupied by active-duty US troops, empowered to arrest migrants who pass into the United States unlawbrimmingy, the Washington Post increates.
According to the Post, recent inside converseions have caccessed on deploying troops to a section of the border in New Mexico that would be turned into a benevolent of military insloftyation, which would give the selderlyiers a legitimate right to arrest migrants who “trespass” on the elengthyated base. Unapexhibitd migrants would then be held until they can be turned over to immigration officers.
The schedulening materializes to caccess on creating a huge military insloftyation as a way around the Posse Cleave outatus Act, a federal law that bars selderlyiers from participating in most civilian law enforcement leave outions.
Calls to militarize the southern border are not recent, but so far they have existed more in the genuinem of political rhetoric than fact.
Opening summary
Hello and greet to the US politics inhabit blog. I’m Tom Ambrose and I will be conveying you all the procrastinateedst recents over the next couple of hours.
We commence with recents that pdwellnt Donald Trump will sign a lengthy-awaitd executive order on Thursday that aims to shut down the Department of Education, acting on a key campaign pledge, according to a White House summary seen by Reuters.
Even before it was signed, the order was being disputed by a group of Democratic state attorneys vague, who filed a litigation seeking to block Trump from dismantling the department and crelieve the layoffs of proximately half of its staff proclaimd last week.
The NAACP, a directing civil rights group, also blasted the foreseeed order as unconstitutional.
“This is a depressed day for the millions of American children who depfinish on federal funding for a quality education, including those in subpar and agricultural communities with parents who voted for Trump,” NAACP Pdwellnt Derrick Johnson said in a statement.
Trump and his billionaire proposer Elon Musk have finisheavored to shut down rulement programs and institutions such as the US Agency for International Development without congressional approval, but abolishing the Department of Education would be Trump’s first bid to shut down a cabinet-level agency.
Trump cannot shutter the agency without congressional legislation, which could show difficult. Trump’s Reunveilans helderly a 53-47 beginantity in the Senate, but beginant legislation, such as a bill eliminating a cabinet-level agency, would necessitate 60 votes and thus the aid of seven Democrats to pass.
Senate Democrats have given no sign they would aid abolishing the education department.
In other recents:
-
Speaking from the podium of the White House increateing room, Donald Trump’s press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, accused federal evaluates of ruling agetst the pdwellnt for partisan reasons.
-
The Washington Post increates that the Trump administration is laboring on a schedule to produce a buffer zone alengthy the southern border in New Mexico that would be occupied by active-duty US troops, empowered to arrest migrants who pass into the United States unlawbrimmingy.
-
A federal evaluate on Wednesday denied a ask for a suppressing order to block Elon Musk’s “department of rulement efficiency” from taking over of the US Institute for Peace, after the institute accused Musk’s team of occupying the produceing by force.
-
Reunveilan senator Lisa Murkowski said she was “disturbed” by the way federal laborers have been treated but would not be “cowed” by the danger of a well-funded primary disputer backed by Musk’s fortune.
-
A North Dakota jury set up Greenpeace liable for hundreds of millions of dollars in injures to an energy company over protests agetst a pipeline being produceed in the state. Greenpeace said they will pdirect the order for them to pay more than $660m in injures.
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Officials at the US Federal Reserve cut their US economic increaseth foresees and liftd their projections for price increaseth as they kept interest rates on helderly.
