Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. I’m Tom Ambrose and I will be bringing you all the latest news lines over the next couple of hours or so.
Let’s start with the news thattheTrump administrationis racing to halt a major blow to thepresident’s sweeping tariffsafter a US court ruled they “exceed any authority granted to the president”.
A US trade court ruledthe president’s tariffs regimewas illegal on Wednesday in a dramatic twist that could block Trump’s controversial global trade policy.
On Thursday, an appeals court agreed to a temporary pause in the decision pending an appeal hearing. TheTrump administrationis expected to take the case to the supreme court if it loses.
The ruling by a three-judge panel at the New York-based court of international trade came after several lawsuits argued Trump had exceeded his authority, leaving US trade policy dependent on his whims and unleashing economic chaos around the world.
Here’s the full report:
Meanwhile, the president is expected to hold a press conference withElon Muskon what is supposed to be the tech billionaire’s final day working as part of the Trump administration.
Trump used his own Truth Social website to describe the X owner as “terrific” in what is clearly an attempt to quell rumours of a rift between the two men.
He wrote:
We will have all the key news lines, should any actually emerge, from that Oval Office presser later on.
In other developments:
One day after the nonprofit news site NOTUSdiscoveredthat at least seven of the studies cited in a new report from health secretaryRobert F Kennedy’s “Make America Healthy Again” commission do not exist, the report was quietly edited to remove at least some of the fiction.
China has lodged a formal protest over the US declaration that it will “aggressively” revoke the visas of Chinese students, with the foreign ministry saying it had objected to the announcement made a day earlier by Marco Rubio.
TheFederal Reserveissued a rare, strongly wordedstatementon Thursday after chair Jerome Powell spoke withDonald Trumpat the White House on Thursday morning, holding firm on the central bank’s independence amid pressure from Trump to lower interest rates.
Twenty two young Americans have filed a new lawsuit against theTrump administrationover its anti-environment executive orders. By intentionally boosting oil and gas production and stymying carbon-free energy, federal officials are violating their constitutional rights to life and liberty, alleges the lawsuit, filed on Thursday.
TheTrump administrationhas set aggressive new goals in its anti-immigration agenda, demanding that federal agents arrest 3,000 people a day – or more than a million in a year.
After a relatively long – for him – period of silence on his Truth Social platform, Trump resumed posting on Thursday, witha 500-word screedattacking the three judges who ruled against him over his tariffs policy.
Trump’s post began by noting that the order to unwind the tariffs had been paused temporarily by an appeals court, but then turned to baseless speculation that the three judges on the federal trade court must have been motivated by hatred for him.
“Where do these initial three Judges come from? How is it possible for them to have potentially done such damage to the United States of America? Is it purely a hatred of ‘TRUMP?’ What other reason could it be?” the president asked, without noting that he had appointed one of the judges himself in 2018.
He added:
Trump’s curiosity as to what could possibly explain the decision did not, apparently, extend to reading any ofthe 49-page explanationwritten by the court, because his post did not deal with any of the legal issues raised in the opinion.
Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. I’m Tom Ambrose and I will be bringing you all the latest news lines over the next couple of hours or so.
Let’s start with the news thattheTrump administrationis racing to halt a major blow to thepresident’s sweeping tariffsafter a US court ruled they “exceed any authority granted to the president”.
A US trade court ruledthe president’s tariffs regimewas illegal on Wednesday in a dramatic twist that could block Trump’s controversial global trade policy.
On Thursday, an appeals court agreed to a temporary pause in the decision pending an appeal hearing. TheTrump administrationis expected to take the case to the supreme court if it loses.
The ruling by a three-judge panel at the New York-based court of international trade came after several lawsuits argued Trump had exceeded his authority, leaving US trade policy dependent on his whims and unleashing economic chaos around the world.
Here’s the full report:
Meanwhile, the president is expected to hold a press conference withElon Muskon what is supposed to be the tech billionaire’s final day working as part of the Trump administration.
Trump used his own Truth Social website to describe the X owner as “terrific” in what is clearly an attempt to quell rumours of a rift between the two men.
He wrote:
We will have all the key news lines, should any actually emerge, from that Oval Office presser later on.
In other developments:
One day after the nonprofit news site NOTUSdiscoveredthat at least seven of the studies cited in a new report from health secretaryRobert F Kennedy’s “Make America Healthy Again” commission do not exist, the report was quietly edited to remove at least some of the fiction.
China has lodged a formal protest over the US declaration that it will “aggressively” revoke the visas of Chinese students, with the foreign ministry saying it had objected to the announcement made a day earlier by Marco Rubio.
TheFederal Reserveissued a rare, strongly wordedstatementon Thursday after chair Jerome Powell spoke withDonald Trumpat the White House on Thursday morning, holding firm on the central bank’s independence amid pressure from Trump to lower interest rates.
Twenty two young Americans have filed a new lawsuit against theTrump administrationover its anti-environment executive orders. By intentionally boosting oil and gas production and stymying carbon-free energy, federal officials are violating their constitutional rights to life and liberty, alleges the lawsuit, filed on Thursday.
TheTrump administrationhas set aggressive new goals in its anti-immigration agenda, demanding that federal agents arrest 3,000 people a day – or more than a million in a year.