Today’s recap
Nearly 100 days in office and Donald Trump continued to steadily address his campaign promises to crack down on immigration and focus on law and order. The president issued three new executive orders on Monday, which included taking aims at so-called “sanctuary cities” and shoring up legal protections for police accused of misconduct.
The orders come as the so-called “department of government efficiency” continued to pursue federal job cuts at the Department of Defense and, for the first time, the Peace Corps.
Here’s what else happened today:
Prosecutors filed charges against Mario Bustamante Leiva for allegedly stealing Homeland security secretary Kristi Noem’s purse.
Trump creates a “Fema review council” to “fix a terribly broken system” of delivering aid to Americans struck by disasters, naming defense secretary Pete Hegseth and Noem to the council.
House Republicans proposed paying tens of billions of dollars for Trump’s border wall construction.
Trump threatened to veto the bipartisan Senate resolution focused on “liberation day” tariffs.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials are seeking unaccompanied immigrant children, sparking fears of a “backdoor family separation”.
As Canadians headed to the polls, Trump issued a statement threatening Canada’s independent sovereignty, describing the border between the two nations as an “artificially drawn line from many years ago”.
Treasury secretary Scott Bessent and top GOP negotiators are due to meet Monday evening to likely discuss next steps for the GOP’s party-line budget megabill.
Congressman Gerry Connolly, the top Democrat on the oversight committee, announced he will not run for re-election after being diagnosed with a recurrence of cancer.
China insisted that “no phone call” took place recently between President Xi Jinping and Trump. This comes after Trump said he had spoken with the Chinese leader.
More than 300 law enforcement officers from at least 10 federal agencies raided a nightclub in Colorado Springs, arresting more than 100 people.
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The third executive order Donald Trump signed on Monday seeks to require all professional truck drivers to be proficient in English. If the driver cannot speak and read English, the order says, the Department of Transportation has the authority to place them “out-of-service”.
“Proficiency in English … should be a non-negotiable safety requirement for professional drivers,” reads the order. Trumps says his the order is to support truckers and make the roads safer.
The transportation secretary, Sean Duffy, released a statement on Monday saying his agency would be taking action on the executive order. “This commonsense standard should have never been abandoned,” Duffy said.
It’s unclear how many truck drivers don’t speak English and what sort of impact that has on roadways. The executive order comes the same day as Trump announced he was ramping up his immigration crackdown.
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