Closing summary
This concludes our live coverage of the second Trump administration for the day. Here are the latest developments:
A federal appeals court ruled that most of Donald Trump’s tariffs are illegal, but can stay in effect until 14 October, to give time for a supreme court appeal.
Trump suggested that the court decision, which affirmed a lower court ruling in May, could spell the end of the United States of America, but added that he expects the supreme court to help him win.
Charles Borges, chief data officer of the Social Security Administration, resigned after filing a whistleblower complaint alleging that more than 300 million Americans’ Social Security data was put at risk by staffers from Elon Musk’s so-called “department of government efficiency”, who uploaded sensitive information to an insecure cloud server.
In 2014, Jim O’Neill, the former biotech investor and current deputy health secretary who was named acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this week, suggested that the FDA should just let people use drugs before doing any research to show that they work.
The Missouri governor, Mike Kehoe, has moved to help the Republican party gain an additional seat in Congress, calling a special legislative session to redraw congressional districts in his state.
The homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, fired two dozen “deep-state” employees of the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s information technology department, including its top leaders, following what she called an unspecified “breach” of its network by a “threat actor”.
A federal appeals court in San Francisco blocked Noem from moving ahead with her plan to strip temporary protected status from 600,000 Venezuelans who have permission to live and work in the United States amid turmoil in their homeland.
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Social Security whistleblower who says DOGE mishandled sensitive data resigns
Charles Borges, chief data officer of the Social Security Administration, resigned on Friday due to what he called the agency’s actions against him since he filed a whistleblower complaint this week.
In his complaint, Borges alleged that more than 300 million Americans’ Social Security data was put at risk by staffers from Elon Musk’s so-called “department of government efficiency” who uploaded sensitive information to a cloud account not subject to oversight.
“I have suffered exclusion, isolation, internal strife, and a culture of fear, creating a hostile work environment and making work conditions intolerable,” Borges wrote in his resignation letter.
The Project Government Accountability Office, which is representing him in his whistleblower case, posted the letter on its website.
Borges’ attorney said he “no longer felt that he could continue to work for the Social Security Administration in good conscience, given what he had witnessed.” It added that he would continue to work with the proper oversight bodies.
Edward Coristine, a 19-year-old software engineer, was among the Doge officials named by Borges as part of the project to duplicate Americans’ Social Security data and put it on an insecure server.
It was Coristine’s recent beating, by two 15-year-olds on a Washington DC street, that Donald Trump used as a pretext for his federal takeover of the capital’s policing.
