Closing summary
This concludes our live coverage of the second Trump administration for the day, but we will be back on Wednesday to pick up the thread. Here are some of the day’s developments:
Five Democratic lawmakers traveled to Louisiana on Tuesday to meet with Rumeysa Ozturk and Mahmoud Khalil, two graduate students who were arrested by federal immigration officials over pro-Palestinian activism. Representative Jim McGovern called them “political prisoners”.
Donald Trump told reporters he was “entitled” to deport migrants without trials.
Trump brushed off questions about whether he would try to remove the heading of Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, saying: “I don’t want to talk about because I have no intention of firing him”.
Tesla reported that its first quarter profits were down 71% apparently due to anger at the role of CEO Elon Musk in dismantling the federal government.
A federal judge ordered the administration to restore the jobs of journalists at Voice of America, calling the shuttering of the congressionally-funded broadcaster “an affront” to Congress.
Secretary of state Marco Rubio announced a proposed sweeping reorganisation of the US state department as part of what he called an effort to reform it amid criticism from the Trump White House over the execution of US diplomacy.
The US supreme court appeared inclined to rule in favor of religious parents in Maryland seeking to keep their elementary school children out of certain classes when storybooks with LGBTQ+ characters are read.
Four House Democrats who traveled to El Salvador this week were denied visits with Kilmar Ábrego García, a man who the Trump administration wrongly deported from the United States, Representative Maxwell Frost told reporters.
The Trump administration was ordered by a federal judge in Colorado to give Venezuelan migrants detained in that state notice 21 days in advance before any deportations under the Alien Enemies Act, and to inform them of their right to challenge their removal.
JD Vance described the US-India partnership as the cornerstone of global progress, warning that the 21st century could be “a very dark time for all of humanity” if the two countries fail to cooperate.
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Arizona Democrat Yassamin Ansari, back from El Salvador, explained due process to Laura Ingraham, a former supreme court law clerk.
Ansari, who visited El Salvador this week to push for the release of Kilmar Ábrego García, who was wrongly deported by the Trump administration, was asked on Tuesday night by Fox host Laura Ingraham why she made the trip.
“To me, there is nothing more American than due process and the rule of law,” Ansari replied. “The fact that Donald Trump is defying a 9-0 supreme court order that has said very clearly that the United States must facilitate the return of Kilmar Ábrego García is extremely, extremely important and the fact that the president continues to defy that supreme court order.”
Ansari went on to point out to Ingraham, a lawyer who clerked for supreme court Justice Clarence Thomas before her career in television, that “this is also a bipartisan issue”.
“We have had a conservative-leaning supreme court say that he must be returned, a Reagan-appointed judge say that this should be shocking to every American, and also Joe Rogan who has said due process is one of the foundations of our freedom,” Ansari said. “So I want to make sure that the president abides by the law, an actually follows the law.”
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