Closing summary
This brings us to the end of another day of live coverage of Donald Trump’s second presidency. We will continue to chronicle events in the days and weeks ahead. In the meantime, here are some of the day’s developments:
The Trump administration will revoke the temporary legal status of 530,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans in the United States, according to a Federal Register notice on Friday.
Columbia University agreed to a series of changes demanded by the Trump administration as a pre-condition for restoring $400m in federal funding the government pulled this month amid allegations that the school tolerated antisemitism on campus.
A US appeals court refused to pause a judge’s ruling requiring the administration to reinstate 25,000 workers at 18 federal agencies who lost their jobs as part of Trump’s purge of the federal workforce.
The Trump administration has moved to fire almost all employees at the homeland security department’s civil rights office, the New York Times reported.
At a hearing on whether or not the administration violated a judge’s order to turn around planes that were in the act of deporting people to El Salvador, the judge James Boasberg pledged to “get to the bottom of whether they violated my order”.
The representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the senator Bernie Sanders reported on social media that 34,000 people turned out for their just-completed rally in Denver “to take on billionaires and win our country back”. They were preceded by an unusual opening act: Alvaro Bedoya, one of the FTC commissioners fired by Trump.
Steve Witkoff, the real estate developer tasked with ending the wars in Gaza and Ukraine, revealed that Russian president Vladimir Putin sees Trump as “his friend”.
According to a memo obtained by ABC News, the Trump administration cut off legal aid for 26,000 unaccompanied immigrant children on Friday.
The Department of Homeland Security asked a Cornell University student who sued the Trump administration seeking to stop the president’s order aimed at foreign students accused of “antisemitism” was asked to “surrender” to immigration officials.
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Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez rally over 30,000 in Denver
The US representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the senator Bernie Sanders reported on social media that 34,000 people turned out for their just-completed rally in Denver “to take on billionaires and win our country back”.
Ocasio-Cortez wrote on Bluesky: “This was the largest political gathering in Denver since Obama in 2008. Also bigger than the 2024 DNC. And the largest ever rally in Bernie’s career (and obviously, mine too).”
“It tells me,” Sanders wrote on X, “that the American people will not allow Trump to move us into oligarchy and authoritarianism. We will fight back. We will win.”
The massive rally also heard from Alvaro Bedoya, one of the FTC commissioners who said he had been illegally fired by Donald Trump.
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