Closing summary
This concludes our chronicle of the second Trump administration for the day, but we will be back at it on Tuesday. Here are the latest developments:
By a 6-3 vote along partisan lines, the Republican-dominated US supreme court granted Alabama’s request to vacate a federal court order barring the state from using a Congressional map drawn to eliminate a majority-Black district.
Donald Trump once again nominated Cameron Hamilton to lead the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) just over a year after Hamilton was fired for publicly opposing plans to abolish the agency.
Virginia Democrats filed an emergency application to the US supreme court on Monday, asking the Republican-dominated body to set aside a state court decision and permit Virginia to use a new map of congressional districts for this years’s midterms that was approved by voters in a referendum last month.
The US supreme court extended a short-term order to continue allowing nationwide access to mail-order mifepristone, an abortion medication, in a shadow-docket decision on Monday.
Chuck Schumer, the Senate minority leader, vowed that Democrats will block Republicans from passing a bill that confers $72bn for federal immigration enforcement, which includes $1bn for security measures for Trump’s ballroom.
Seventeen tech and finance executives will join the president this week in Beijing, a White House official confirmed to the Guardian. Elon Musk will be in attendance, as well as Apple’s Tim Cook, BlackRock’s Larry Fink, Dina Powell McCormick of Meta and Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg.
In paved-over Rose Garden, Trump boasts of renovating the 'reflective pond' and the White House, claiming it was 'a shit house'
In a rambling set of remarks to administration officials and law enforcement officers gathered for dinner on the patio that used to be the lawn of the White House Rose Garden, Donald Trump said he was taking a night off from trying to stop the war he started with Iran and instead boasted about his cut-rate renovation of the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool, the $1bn ballroom he is building where the demolished East Wing of the White House used to be, and claimed that before he arrived the White House was “a shit house”.
Trump also repeatedly claimed that the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool is “called the reflective pond”.
He went on to survey the assembled diners about whether they would like JD Vance or Marco Rubio better as the 2028 Republican nominee for president.
