The Latest: Trump to roll out new tariffs that he promises will free the US from foreign goods

President Donald Trump says Wednesday will be “Liberation Day” — when he plans to roll out a set of tariffs he promises will free the United States from foreign goods.

The details of Trump’s next round of import taxes are still sketchy. Most economic analyses say average U.S. families would have to absorb the cost of his tariffs in the form of higher prices and lower incomes. But an undeterred Trump is inviting CEOs to the White House to say they're investing hundreds of billions of dollars in new projects to avoid the import taxes.

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House committee weighs proof of citizenship proposal for voter registration

The House Committee on Rules is considering the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, known as the SAVE Act.

Voting by noncitizens is rare, but Republican Rep. Bryan Steil told the committee that “one noncitizen voting in U.S. elections is too much.” Top Republicans have said the SAVE Act “cements into law” Trump’s executive order last week that seeks a proof of citizenship requirement. A lawsuit challenging the order was filed Monday.

Democratic Rep. Joe Morelle spoke against the bill, saying it would force Americans into a “paperwork nightmare.”

Voting rights groups gathered in Washington, D.C., on Monday to highlight that millions of Americans do not have easy access to their birth certificates, only about half have U.S. passports, and married women would need multiple documents if they have changed their name.

Trump says administration likely will roll back auto efficiency requirements to 2020 standards

Trump said the subject came up when he met Monday with the chairman of automaker Stellantis, calling the 2020 requirements “a strong standard” and that tightening under President Joe Biden made “it impossible for people to build cars.”

Biden prioritized improving efficiency as to cut back on harmful greenhouse gas emissions and to encourage automakers to transition to electric vehicles. Trump asserts the standards change would make no difference for the environment.

Trump says he’s ‘happy’ that former daughter-in-law and Tiger Woods are dating

Trump said Woods had called to tell him about the relationship with Vanessa Trump, the ex-wife of Donald Trump Jr., and the mother of their five children.

The golfer recently confirmed the once-secret relationship in a social media post.

Asked about the possibility of Woods becoming a member of the Trump family, the president said, “Let ’em both be happy. They’re both great.”

“He told me about it, and I said, ‘Tiger, that’s good. That’s good.’ And I’m very happy for both,” Trump said.

Top Democrats say Senate GOP is using accounting gimmick to cover cost of Trump tax cuts

“Enacting tax cuts for the wealthy will mean the Treasury has to borrow trillions of dollars more than it otherwise would, and billionaires win while working families pay the price,” wrote Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and the ranking Democrats on the Budget and Finance committees in a letter to GOP leadership.

As Senate Republicans push their framework forward, the Democrats said it is “an obscene fraud and the American people won’t stand for it.”

Trump previews first foreign trip

Trump says the trip will include stops in Saudi Arabia, Qatar and possibly the United Arab Emirates and “other places also.”

Trump previewed the trip, which could come as soon as May, saying he wants to reward Saudi Arabia for its investment in the U.S. and says all three Gulf countries would be making commitments to creating jobs in the U.S. during his trip. He didn’t detail the other potential stops.

Trump decries France’s Marine Le Pen sentence and conviction

“That’s a big deal. That’s a very big deal,” Trump said of the conviction and sentencing of the far-right leader in France. “I know all about it. And a lot of people thought she wasn’t going to be convicted of anything.”

A French court on Monday convicted Le Pen of embezzlement and barred her from seeking public office for five years — a hammer blow to her presidential hopes and an earthquake for French politics.

“It sounds like this country,” Trump said.

Trump discusses who he’s considering for UN ambassador nomination

Trump says he’s considering nominating former U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman and his special envoy Ric Grenell among others to serve as U.S. Ambassador to the UN.

Trump pulled Rep. Elise Stefanik’s nomination last week over concerns for Republicans holding their narrow majority in the House. Trump says he’s had a lot of interest from people seeking to fill the role, calling it “a star-making position.”

Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley served in the role at the beginning of Trump’s first term in office. She later unsuccessfully challenged Trump for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.

Trump says his administration has opened a line of communication with North Korea

Trump, who met with leader Kim Jong Un three times in his first term, said Monday “there is communication” between the two countries. He called the line of dialog “important” because the North is a nuclear power, and said he and Kim would “probably do something at some point.”

The isolated country previously refused outreach from President Joe Biden’s administration.

Judge pauses Trump administration plans to end temporary legal protections for Venezuelans

The order by U.S. District Judge Edward Chen in San Francisco is a relief for 350,000 Venezuelans whose Temporary Protected Status was scheduled to expire April 7. The lawsuit was filed by lawyers for the National TPS Alliance and TPS holders across the country.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has also announced the end of TPS for an estimated 250,000 additional Venezuelans in September.

Chen said in his ruling that the action by Noem “threatens to: inflict irreparable harm on hundreds of thousands of persons whose lives, families, and livelihoods will be severely disrupted, cost the United States billions in economic activity, and injure public health and safety in communities throughout the United States.”

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Trump says he’d ‘love’ to run against Obama

The hypothetical matchup would require repealing the 22nd Amendment — which limits presidents to two terms — to bring about in reality.

The remarks come as Trump continues to muse about seeking a third term in office. “They do say there’s a way you can do it, but I don’t know about that, but I have not looked into it,” Trump told reporters about seeking a third term in the Oval Office.

He said of facing off against former President Barack Obama: “That would be a good one.”

Trump gets boost from Kid Rock for executive order on ticket sales

Trump introduced Kid Rock as his friend, and said he’s sometimes known as “Bob.”

Trump said he didn’t know too much about the issue, “but I checked it out and it is a big problem,” he told reporters in the Oval Office.

The president signed an executive order Monday that he says will help curb ticket scalping and bring “common-sense” changes to the pricing for live entertainment events.

Kid Rock, whose real name is Bob Ritchie, wore a bedazzled red suit with American flag and eagle motifs. He said artists never see any of that money and that the issue isn’t political.

Treasury Secretary meets with GOP senators at the Capitol on Trump tax cuts

Secretary Scott Bessent and the White House’s chair of the National Economic Council Kevin Hassett arrived on Capitol Hill for an evening huddle as Republicans try to resolve differences on what the president has called a “big, beautiful bill.”

GOP leaders are pushing this week to launch initial voting on a framework of some $4.5 trillion in tax cuts. But they are at odds over various provisions, including how much to offset the costs with spending cuts.

Hegseth orders fitness standards to be gender neutral for combat jobs. Many already are

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the military to make fitness standards for all combat jobs gender neutral, formalizing a process that largely exists for many of those jobs already.

In a new memo, Hegseth told leaders of the military branches to distinguish which jobs are considered combat arms — such as special operations or infantry that require “heightened entry level and sustained physical fitness” — and which are not.

The new order reflects Hegseth’s public complaints about fitness standards well before he took on the Pentagon job. While working as a Fox News commentator, Hegseth spoke about his opposition to women in combat jobs and his belief that standards were lowered to accommodate women.

The order, however, could require some complicated assessments as all the services try to determine which jobs are classified as combat. Should all intelligence officers who often serve on the front lines count? Or should all sailors on a warship that’s under fire be considered combat arms? The services have 60 days to come up with answers.

Nonprofit watchdogs sue Trump administration over election executive order

The Campaign Legal Center and the State Democracy Defenders Fund are suing the Trump administration over his sweeping executive order to overhaul the nation’s elections, including through a proof-of-citizenship requirement and new mail ballot deadline restrictions.

The lawsuit argues Trump’s order is unconstitutional and asks a court to block its implementation.

The lawsuit names three nonprofit plaintiffs it alleges are harmed by Trump’s demands: the League of United Latin American Citizens, the Secure Families Initiative and the Arizona Students’ Association.

This marks the first major legal challenge to last week’s executive order, which election lawyers have warned may violate the Constitution and assert power the president doesn’t have over an independent agency.

Trump and his supporters have maintained the order is necessary to secure U.S. elections.

Trump task force to review Harvard’s funding after Columbia bows to federal demands

Harvard University has become the latest target in the Trump administration’s approach to fight campus antisemitism, with the announcement of a new “comprehensive review” that could jeopardize billions of dollars for the Ivy League college.

A federal antisemitism task force is reviewing more than $255 million in contracts between Harvard and the federal government to make sure the school is following civil rights laws, the administration announced Monday. The government also will examine $8.7 billion in grant commitments.

The same task force cut $400 million from Columbia University and threatened to slash billions more if it refused a list of demands from Trump’s administration. Columbia agreed to many of the changes this month.

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EPA administrator closes agency museum

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin says he is closing a one-room museum at the agency’s Washington headquarters, saving taxpayers about $600,000 a year.

Zeldin, who has vowed to slash agency spending, said in a video posted Monday that the museum cost $4 million to build and attracted fewer than 2,000 visitors since it opened last year.

The museum is “yet another example of waste by the Biden administration,” he said in the video, which was filmed in the museum. The project was overly focused on environmental justice and climate change, two Biden administration priorities, Zeldin said.

While admission is free, the museum’s operating costs — coupled with low attendance — means it costs taxpayers about $315 per visitor, he said.

“This shrine to EJ (environmental justice) and climate change will now be shut down for good,″ Zeldin said.

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White House abruptly fires 2 career Justice Department prosecutors in latest norm-shattering move

The move is a sign of Trump’s tightening grip over a law enforcement agency known for its long tradition of political independence.

On Friday, an assistant U.S. attorney in Los Angeles was fired without explanation in a terse email from the White House Presidential Personnel Office shortly after a right-wing activist posted about him on social media, according to a person familiar with the matter. The person spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were concerned about potential retribution.

That followed the White House’s firing last week of a longtime prosecutor who had been serving as acting U.S. attorney in Memphis.

Justice Department political appointees typically turn over with a new administration, but rank-and-file career prosecutors remain with the department across presidential administrations and have civil service protections designed to shield them from being fired for political reasons. The breadth of terminations this year far outpaces the turnover typically seen inside the Justice Department.

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