Closing summary
This ends our live coverage of the second Trump administration for the day, but we will be back at it on Wednesday. In the meantime, here are some of the day’s developments:
Elon Musk, who played a leading role in the Trump administration until last week, denounced the massive spending and tax bill the president wants to sign as “a disgusting abomination”. “Shame on those who voted for it: you know you did wrong”, he added. One Republican who did vote for it, Scott Perry, quickly piped up to say that he agreed with Musk, even though his single vote could have stopped it from passing the House.
The White House gloated on social media about the arrests of the wife and five children of Mohamed Sabry Soliman, the suspected Boulder attacker, and joked about providing them with “six one-way tickets”.
In the 48 hours since the firebomb attack in Boulder, Colorado, on a demonstration in support of Israelis held hostage in Gaza, Republicans politicized the attack, attempting to blame Democrats, including the state’s multiple Jewish leaders.
Democrats denounced the Trump administration’s “cruel” decision to rescind health department guidance issued in the wake of the 2022 Dobbs decision, striking down the right to an abortion, that required hospitals to provide abortions to women in medical emergencies even in state’s with local bans on the procedure.
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Law professor suggests spike in court orders against Trump might be because he is more 'lawless' than other presidents
At a Senate hearing on Tuesday, Senator Josh Hawley, a Missouri Republican, pressed Kate Shaw, a law professor and host of the liberal podcast Strict Scrutiny, to explain why so many more injunctions were issued against Donald Trump than against other presidents.
As Hawley had a chart displayed showing the comparison, and asked: “You don’t think this is a little bit anomalous?” Shaw replied: “A very plausible explanation, Senator, you have to consider, is that he is engaged in much more lawless activity than other presidents.”
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