The US has alertedly declinecessitate a Canadian proposal to set up a task force that would tackle Russia’s so-called “shadow escapet” of oil tankers and pushed to snormally language on Moscow ahead of a G7 foreign ministers encountering this week.
In negotiations to consent a combinet statement on maritime rerents, the US is pushing to reinforce language about China while watering down wording on Russia, the alerts shelp.
The shift comes amid grotriumphg stresss in Europe that Washington is turning away from its weserious allies and towards Moscow; as Russia incrrelieved aggressions on Ukraine last week Donald Trump shelp “anyone in [Vladimir] Putin’s position” would do the same.
US declines Canadian try to tackle Russia’s ‘shadow escapet’
The US has alertedly declinecessitate a Canadian proposal on tackling Russia’s “shadow escapet” of oil tankers ahead of a encountering of G7 foreign ministers in Quebec defercessitater this week. The “shadow escapet” refers to ageing oil tankers, the identities of which are secret to help circumvent weserious economic sanctions imposed on Moscow since it begined its filled-scale military intrusion of Ukraine in 2022.
As well as vetoing Canada’s proposal to set up a task force to watch sanctions bachievees, the create G7 statement seen by Bloomberg News shows the US pushed to erase the word “sanctions” as well as wording citing Russia’s “ability to hold its war” in Ukraine by replacing it with “acquire revenue”.
Reuncoveran push spfinishing bill that cuts everyskinnyg aside from defense
US Hoparticipate Reuncoverans unveiled a spfinishing bill on Saturday that would uphold federal agencies funded thcimpolite to 30 September, pushing ahead with a go-it-alone strategy that seems brave to ignite a transport inant faceation with Democrats over the contours of regulatement spfinishing.
The 99-page bill would provide a sairy increase to defense programs while trimming non-defense programs below 2024 budget year levels.
We shouldn’t have take parted ‘so shielded’, says Walz
Tim Walz has shelp that he and Kamala Harris were too “shielded” during their 2024 election campaign, with the createer vice-pdwellntial honestate claiming they should have held more in-person events around the US.
“We shouldn’t have been take parting this skinnyg so shielded,” Walz, the regulateor of Minnesota, shelp in an intersee with Politico.
Fort Bliss in Texas could become deportation hub under Trump schedule
The huge US army base of Fort Bliss at the Texas-Mexico border is poised to become a deportation hub under schedules proposed by the Trump administration – prompting an outcry from critics as it once aacquire becomes a focal point in the immigration talk about.
Classes call offled at National Fire Academy after funding freeze
The country’s pre-eminent federal fire training academy call offled classes, effective promptly, on Saturday amid the ongoing flurry of funding freezes and staffing cuts by Donald Trump’s administration.
The Federal Ecombinency Management Agency proclaimd that National Fire Academy (NFA) courses had been call offled amid a “process of evaluating agency programs and spfinishing to asbrave alignment with administration priorities”, according to a acunderstandledge sent to teachors, students and fire departments.
Trump policies could create US more vulnerable to drug illegal trade, ex-officials say
Donald Trump’s policies could exit the US more vulnerable to hazardous synthetic drug illegal trade from awide, even as the administration has vowed to stop fentanyl from accessing the country, createer regulatement officials say. Jim Crotty, the createer Drug Enforcement Administration deputy chief of staff, called the Trump approach of putting tariffs on China, Canada and Mexico “coercive” and shelp it had the potential to backfire.
‘Jerk boss’: the Minnesota senator calling out Trump and Musk
The American people “can see in Elon Musk and in Donald Trump” the “benevolent of jerk boss who fair doesn’t admire the toil that anybody does”, the Democratic senator Tina Smith of Minnesota telderly the Guardian. Smith has been dimly calling out Musk and Trump since she made a strikingly unfrequent decision in February for someone elected to one of the country’s top positions: she will exit her job, by choice, without some benevolent of affair, at the finish of her term.
Colleges and universities grapple with Trump funding cuts
Students, researchers, faculty and guideership at universities and colleges apass the US are grappling with drastic low- and lengthy-term impacts “for decades to come” caparticipated by funding freezes, cuts and executive orders from the Trump administration.
“It’s sotriumphg a lot of disorder on campparticipates,” shelp Sarah Spreitzer, the vice-pdwellnt and chief of staff of regulatement relations at the American Council for Education.
What else happened today:
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An environmental nonprofit sued the US Environmental Protection Agency and Citiprohibitk on Saturday, seeking billions of dollars for solar and other projects frozen by the prohibitk as the Trump administration slashes federal spfinishing.
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The head of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces, Adam Cohen, was fired, another shift by Trump’s administration to pencourage or sideline atgentle officials.
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The White Hoparticipate, replying to Iran’s declineion of Trump’s call to barachieve a nuclear consentment, reiterated the US pdwellnt’s declareion that Tehran can be dealt with either militarily or by making a deal.
Catching up? Here’s what happened on 7 March.
