Trump threatens to revoke citizenship of naturalized immigrants convicted of fraud

In his winding speech today, Donald Trump threatened to “reverse citizenship of any naturalized immigrant from Somalia or anywhere else who is convicted of defrauding our citizens”.

He spent a portion of his remarks in Detroit today heaping invective on the Somali community throughout the country, particularly in Minnesota and Maine.

The president repeated xenophobic remarks about Democratic congresswoman Ilhan Omar – who came to the US as a refugee from Somalia when she was 12, and became a US citizen at 17.

“She lives in Somalia. They don’t have a government, they don’t have a military, they don’t have police, they don’t have anything. All they have is murder and robbing ships,” Trump said today. “She comes here and she tells us about our constitution … I guess she’s she’s a total scam artist.”

A reminder that earlier today, the Department of Homeland Security confirmed that it would be ending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Somali immigrants.

In a winding speech in Detroit, billed to tout the Trump administration’s affordability achievements, the president veered off-course on several occasions. Throughout his remarks he threatened to “reverse citizenship of any naturalized immigrant who is convicted of defrauding our citizens”, falsely claimed that grocery prices and rent are down, bemoaned the embattled Fed chair, reaffirmed to protesting Iranians that “help is on its way”, and said that he would stop federal funding to sanctuary cities.

Oversight committee chair James Comer said that he will move to hold former president Bill Clinton in contempt of Congress for refusing to testify as part of the ongoing investigation into the Jeffrey Epstein case. This comes legal representatives for both Bill and Hillary Clinton sent an eight-page letter to Comer notifying him that they would not comply with the subpoenas compelling them to appear before the committee to deliver in-person testimony.

Prior to journeying to Detroit, Donald Trump has told the people of Minnesota to “FEAR NOT”, as a “DAY OF RECKONING & RETRIBUTION IS COMING” to the North Star state. In a post on Truth Social, the president slammed the ongoing protests against federal immigration agents in Minneapolis, after the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good last week.

The US supreme court on Tuesday appeared poised to uphold laws banning transgender girls and women from competing in female sports in two conservative states, in a landmark legal battle that could carry profound implications for trans rights across US society. During oral arguments on two cases of trans students who sued over Republican-supported laws in West Virginia and Idaho that barred them from girls sports, one member of the court’s conservative majority after another voiced skepticism about the students’ cases.

According to the latest data by the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), about 800,000 fewer people have enrolled in Affordable Care Act healthcare plans compared to this time last year. This comes as the threat of spikes in monthly premiums looms – short of Congress passing legislation to extend Covid-era subsidies.

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In his winding speech today, Donald Trump threatened to “reverse citizenship of any naturalized immigrant from Somalia or anywhere else who is convicted of defrauding our citizens”.

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He spent a portion of his remarks in Detroit today heaping invective on the Somali community throughout the country, particularly in Minnesota and Maine.

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The president repeated xenophobic remarks about Democratic congresswoman Ilhan Omar – who came to the US as a refugee from Somalia when she was 12, and became a US citizen at 17.

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A reminder that earlier today, the Department of Homeland Security confirmed that it would be ending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Somali immigrants.

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The president said today that, starting 1 February, the federal government will not make payments “to sanctuary cities or states having sanctuary cities” because they do “everything possible to protect criminals at the expense of American citizens”.

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Last year, a judge temporarily blocked the administration from withholding federal funds to sanctuary cities, calling the move unconstitutional and a “coercive threat”.

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Trump touted that “grocery prices are starting to go rapidly down” and “rent is down”.

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Both statements are untrue. According to the latest data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics today, the cost of food was up 0.7% in December, while the cost of “shelter” rose by 0.4%.

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In a meandering address, the president spent time calling out moderate Republican lawmakers who have broken from the party recently, while noting that Democrats “stick together”.

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“They don’t have a Rand Paul that votes against everything. I got him elected twice. He was stone cold loser,” the president said of the Kentucky senator who co-sponsored a war powers resolution that would curb the Trump administration’s ability to conduct further military operations in Venezuela without approval from Congress. “And you have Lisa Murkowski, and you have Susan Collins – disasters.”

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Donald Trump has just started his speech to the Detroit Economic Club. He kicked off his remarks by recounting his 2024 election victory, and what he sees as the crowning achievements of his first year back in office.

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“Now after less than 12 months in office, I’m back in Michigan to report to you on the strongest and fastest economic turnaround in our country’s history,” he said. A reminder that the latest inflation data released today showed that the price of goods rose 2.7% in the past year. This remains significantly above the Federal Reserve’s target for 2%.

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Trump, however, claimed that inflation was “defeated” in his speech today.

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According to the latest data by the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), about 800,000 fewer people have enrolled in Affordable Care Act healthcare plans compared to this time last year. This comes as the threat of spikes in monthly premiums looms – short of Congress passing legislation to extend Covid-era subsidies.

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A reminder that while the House has passed a bill that would extend Obamacare tax credits for three years, that same legislation previously failed in the Senate. Lawmakers in the upper chamber are now trying to introduce an alternative, shorter extension with more restrictions.

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Thomas Dans, Donald Trump’s Artic commissioner, has said that US action on Greenland could come within “weeks or months.”

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Speaking to USA Today, Dans said: “This is a train route with multiple stops,” adding: “Things could move on an express basis, skip the local stops and go direct to the main station. That’s where president Trump wants to move it − at high speed.”

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He went on to say: “We need to get the people of Greenland on board… Things can happen quickly from a transactional standpoint…[but there will be] a process to gain trust and support of the Greenlandic people and this will require time and effort from the US side.”

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Trump has long expressed interest in Greenland, first publicly floating the idea of acquiring the territory in 2019 during his first presidency. The proposal met swift opposition from Danish and Greenlandic leaders.

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Meanwhile, Greenlanders have repeatedly expressed their refusal to be part of the US, with 85% of the population rejecting the idea, according to a 2025 poll. Polling shows only 7% of Americans support the idea of a US military invasion of the territory.

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Tony Dokoupil, who began last week as anchor of the CBS Evening News, is interviewing President Donald Trump in Detroit on Tuesday for a segment that will appear on this evening’s edition of the show.

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The interview will be conducted after Trump tours a Ford factory in Dearborn, Michigan.

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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters aboard Air Force One that Trump will be doing the interview as a “pull-aside” after the tour. Trump will do the interview before he speaks at the Detroit Economic Club.

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The timing for Trump’s trip works out perfectly for Dokoupil and the Evening News, which will be broadcast from Detroit on Tuesday as part of a tour of cities around the country.

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Dokoupil’s broadcasts – and statements on social media – have been closely scrutinized since he began anchoring the show, with the host coming in for criticism when some viewers have argued that he has not sufficiently challenged members of the Trump administration. He faced particular blowback for an interview with Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth about the U.S. incursion into Venezuela.

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In that context, Dokoupil’s interview of Trump will be closely watched and scrutinized on Tuesday evening.

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A reminder that my colleague, Lucy Campbell, is helming our coverage of arguments at the supreme court today.

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Two cases are before the justices, concerning trans students who sued over the Republican-backed laws in Idaho and West Virginia, that stopped them from participating in girls athletic programs.

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At issue is whether these state bans violate the US constitution’s 14th amendment, which ensures the law applies equally to all, or Title IX, which prohibits sex discrimination.

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Earlier, justice Neil Gorsuch chimed in with a big question about whether transgender people should be considered a legally protected class.

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Gorsuch, a member of the court’s conservative majority, is one of the most closely watched justices in this case. He wrote a key 2020 decision upholding workplace discrimination protections for transgender people, but in 2025 joined the majority in allowing states to ban certain healthcare for transgender youth.

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Alan Hurst, Idaho’s solicitor general arguing in defense of the state’s ban, replied saying that he did not question there has been “some discrimination against transgender people, significant discrimination” in the US, but said it did not compare with that historically faced by Black people and women.

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Oversight committee chair James Comer said that he will move to hold former president Bill Clinton in contempt of Congress for refusing to testify as part of the ongoing investigation into the Jeffrey Epstein case. Speaking to reporters, the Republican lawmaker from Kentucky said that he will begin the proceedings during the committee’s markup period next week.

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This comes legal representatives for both Bill and Hillary Clinton sent an eight-page letter to Comer notifying him that they would not comply with the subpoenas compelling them to appear before the committee to deliver in-person testimony.

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“To my knowledge, former president Clinton has never answered questions about Epstein, and we just had questions,” Comer said today. “I think anyone would admit they spent a lot of time together while Bill Clinton was president and post-presidency.”

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Depending on the type of contempt citation, Clinton could either be forced to comply with the subpoena by a federal court, or even face prosecution by the justice department.

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Speaking to reporters today, Republican House speaker Mike Johnson repeated his claims that the criminal probe of Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell is a “serious allegation”.

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“If there’s a credible allegation or concern someone’s lied to Congress, then the DoJ should investigate,” Johnson said. “Across the board, no matter who it is, no one is immune from that. If he’s innocent, as he says, then that will come out in the investigation, and all of us need to reserve judgment and wait for that to happen.”

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This comes after a chorus of GOP lawmakers rebuked the investigation into Powell, and warned against any attempt to curb the central bank’s independence.

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Former president Bill Clinton, and former secretary of state Hillary Clinton have refused to testify before the House oversight committee, as part of the ongoing investigation into the handling of Jeffrey Epstein’s case.

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The Clintons were due to testify today and tomorrow, but in an eight-page letter – first obtained by the New York Times – their lawyers told the committee’s Republican chair, James Comer, that they would not be testifying.

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Their counsel called the subpoenas compelling the Clintons to appear in-person as “nothing more than a ploy to attempt to embarrass political rivals” of Donald Trump, calling them “invalid and legally unenforceable”.

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They add that the former president and secretary of state have received “very different treatment” from other witnesses.

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In a post to Truth Social, the US president, Donald Trump, has said:

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Iranian Patriots, KEEP PROTESTING – TAKE OVER YOUR INSTITUTIONS!!! Save the names of the killers and abusers. They will pay a big price. I have cancelled all meetings with Iranian Officials until the senseless killing of protesters STOPS. HELP IS ON ITS WAY. MIGA!!! PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP

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It is not clear what Trump means by “help is on its way” but the White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, told journalists yesterday that airstrikes were among the “many, many options” that the president was considering, though she added that diplomacy “was always the first option”.

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A reminder that my colleague, Jakub Krupa, is covering the latest at our dedicated Europe live blog.

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He just reported on the remarks by Greenland’s prime minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen. Who, standing alongside Denmark’s leader – Mette Frederiksen – said that that Greenland is not for sale, and insists that if the territory was to choose, it would “choose Denmark over the US”.

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“One thing must be clear to everyone: Greenland does not want to be owned by the US,” he said. “We choose the Greenland we know today, which is a part of the Kingdon of Denmark.”

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Follow along here:

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Prior to journeying to Detroit, Donald Trump has told the people of Minnesota to “FEAR NOT”, as a “DAY OF RECKONING & RETRIBUTION IS COMING” to the North Star state.

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In a post on Truth Social, the president slammed the ongoing protests against federal immigration agents in Minneapolis, after the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good last week.

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“Do the people of Minnesota really want to live in a community in which there are thousands of already convicted murderers, drug dealers and addicts, rapists, violent released and escaped prisoners,” he wrote in a post on Truth Social. “All the patriots of ICE want to do is remove them from your neighborhood and send them back to the prisons and mental institutions from where they came, most in foreign Countries who illegally entered the USA though Sleepy Joe Biden’s HORRIBLE Open Border’s Policy.”

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The latest inflation data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that consumer prices rose 0.3 % in December and were up 2.7 % from the year prior.

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It still is a far cry from the Federal Reserve’s desired 2 %, but ultimately remains constant with November’s rate. But data collection for that report was muddied due to the record-breaking US government shutdown.

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A reminder that my colleagues are tracking the latest in our dedicated business blog:

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Donald Trump is heading to Detroit, Michigan today, where he’ll tour a Ford factory in Dearborn.

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The president will deliver remarks to the Detroit Economic Club at 2pm ET, to continue his “affordability” tour, where he’s expected to tout the administration’s commitment to revitalising manufacturing and keeping costs down.

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We’ll bring you the latest lines as that gets under way.

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The top court is considering the rights of transgender youth athletes on Tuesday in a major hearing on state laws banning trans girls from girls sports teams.

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Oral arguments center on two cases of trans students who sued over the Republican-backed laws in Idaho and West Virginia prohibiting them from participating in girls athletic programs.

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The cases could have far-reaching implications for civil rights, with a ruling against the athletes potentially eroding a range of protections for trans youth and LGBTQ+ people more broadly.

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In West Virginia v BPJ, 15-year-old Becky Pepper-Jackson challenged the state’s 2021 law banning her from track.

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In the second case, Little v Hecox, Lindsay Hecox, a trans college student pursuing track, sued to overturn Idaho’s first-in-the-nation 2020 law categorically banning trans women and girls from women’s sports teams.

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Twenty-seven states have now restricted trans youth access to school sports – most with laws targeting trans girls, but some applying to all trans youth.

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Eleven central bank leaders have issued an extraordinary joint statement offering “full solidarity” to the US Federal Reserve chair, Jerome Powell, in the face of the latest threat to his independence from Trump’s White House.

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“The independence of central banks is a cornerstone of price, financial and economic stability in the interest of the citizens that we serve. It is therefore critical to preserve that independence, with full respect for the rule of law and democratic accountability,” the statement said.

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Trump has repeatedly criticised Powell, whom he appointed in 2018, for failing to cut interest rates fast enough. The Fed has cut interest rates three times since last summer, but Trump has urged it to move faster, and personally attacked Powell as a “numbskull”.

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The bank’s governors pay testament to Powell’s “integrity” and “unwavering commitment to the public interest”, calling him a “respected colleague who is held in the highest regard by all who have worked with him”.

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Powell is due to step down as chair of the Fed board in May, and Trump is expected to announce his successor in the coming weeks.

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Former US Fed chairs Alan Greenspan, Ben Bernanke and Janet Yellen condemned the threat to Powell on Monday, saying the move could have “highly negative consequences”.

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“This is how monetary policy is made in emerging markets with weak institutions, with highly negative consequences for inflation and the functioning of their economies more broadly,” their statement said.

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Vice-president JD Vance and secretary of state Marco Rubio will meet the foreign ministers of Denmark and Greenland on Wednesday, the Danish foreign minister said on Tuesday, amid Trump’s push to take control of the Arctic island.

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Danish foreign minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen and his Greenlandic counterpart Vivian Motzfeldt had requested the meeting after Trump last week stepped up threats to take over Greenland, an autonomous territory under the Kingdom of Denmark.

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Trump first floated the idea of the US taking over Greenland in 2019 during his first term in office and ramped up pressure last week after his administration kidnapped and removed the Venezuelan leader Nicholas Maduro.

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Eleven of the world’s top central bankers have released a statement of support for Fed chair Jerome Powell, after the US Department of Justice opened a criminal investigation into him which he argued was politically driven.

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In an unprecedented move, top central bank chiefs including the Bank of England’s Andrew Bailey, and Christine Lagarde of the European Central Bank, have backed Powell, and warned against undermining central bank independence.

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The heads of the Swedish, Denmark, Swiss, Australian, Canadian, South Korean, and Brazilian central banks have also signed, as have two top officials at the Bank of International Settlements (known as the “central bank for central banks”). Others may yet sign the letter.

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The bank chiefs say:

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We stand in full solidarity with the Federal Reserve System and its Chair Jerome H. Powell.

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The independence of central banks is a cornerstone of price, financial and economic stability in the interest of the citizens that we serve. It is therefore critical to preserve that independence, with full respect for the rule of law and democratic accountability.

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Chair Powell has served with integrity, focused on his mandate and an unwavering commitment to the public interest. To us, he is a respected colleague who is held in the highest regard by all who have worked with him.

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The letter is signed by:

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Christine Lagarde, President of the European Central Bank on behalf of the ECB Governing Council

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Andrew Bailey, Governor of the Bank of England

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Erik Thedéen, Governor of Sveriges Riksbank

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Christian Kettel Thomsen, Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Danmarks Nationalbank

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Martin Schlegel, Chairman of the Governing Board of the Swiss National Bank

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Michele Bullock, Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia

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Tiff Macklem, Governor of the Bank of Canada

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Chang Yong Rhee, Governor of the Bank of Korea

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Gabriel Galípolo, Governor of the Banco Central do Brasil

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François Villeroy de Galhau, Chair of the Board of Directors of the Bank for International Settlements

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Pablo Hernández de Cos, General Manager of the Bank for International Settlements

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China has threatened to retaliate against Donald Trump for the new 25% tariffs on any countries doing business with Iran.

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Trump, who is still reviewing a range of military options against the Iranian regime, said the new tariffs would be “effective immediately”, without providing further details about whether there would be any exemptions, including for countries that only trade humanitarian goods such as medicines.

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More than 140 countries still trade with Iran, according to the World Bank, but sometimes only in minuscule amounts.

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China though is by far Iran’s biggest trading partner, buying 77% of its oil exports in 2024, according to the data firm Kpler. It has just ended a tariff war with Trump.

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Liu Pengyu, the spokesperson for the Chinese embassy in Washington, said Beijing would “take all necessary measures” to safeguard its rights and interests.

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Liu wrote on X: “Tariff wars and trade wars have no winners, and coercion and pressure cannot solve problems. Protectionism harms the interests of all parties.”

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Other countries that trade heavily with Iran are India, the United Arab Emirates, Japan and South Korea. Japan and South Korea have just completed free trade deals with the US after a bruising confrontation over tariffs. Both countries ended up with a baseline 15% tariff, but now find themselves back in a potential crisis.

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Trump’s wider policy of imposing tariffs through executive order is under legal pressure as the US supreme court is considering striking down a broad swathe of the president’s existing tariffs.

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Donald Trump has said “it would be a complete mess” if the US supreme court were to strike them down.

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In a lengthy post on social media, the US president said “WE’RE SCREWED” if the supreme court rules against the tariffs. The decision is expected as soon as Wednesday. It is a crucial legal test of his controversial economic strategy and his power.

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Trump said it would be difficult to reverse the tariffs as businesses and countries could claim refunds, saying “it would take many years to figure out what number we are talking about and even, who, when, and where, to pay”. He added: “It would be a complete mess, and almost impossible for our Country to pay.”

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In November, the supreme court appeared sceptical of the legal basis of the Trump administration’s sweeping global tariff regime when justices questioned the president’s authority to impose the levies. Justices heard oral arguments on the legality of Trump’s tariffs.

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Good morning and welcome to our US politics live blog.

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Donald Trump has announced a 25% tariff on any countries doing trade with Iran – which at first glance would appear to apply to China, India, United Arab Emirates and Turkey among others.

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This is the first concrete action from the US president who on the weekend had said he was considering taking “very strong” military action against Tehran for its deadly crackdown on anti-regime protesters.

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Yesterday, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said that although diplomacy remained Trump’s “first option”, he was “unafraid to use the lethal force and might of the United States military if and when he deems that necessary”.

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Elsewhere, central banks around the world have rallied around Fed chairman Jerome Powell, long criticised by Trump for refusing to lower interest rates and now facing federal investigation. The banks have issued a statement in recent hours calling for the independence of the Fed in setting monetary policy to be protected.

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Alice Speri

Several faculty groups have denounced the Trump administration’s efforts to obtain information about Jewish professors, staff and students at the University of Pennsylvania – including personal emails, phone numbers and home addresses – as government abuse with “ominous historical overtones”.

The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is demanding the university turn over names and personal information about Jewish members of the Penn community as part of the administration’s stated goal to combat antisemitism on campuses. But some Jewish faculty and staff have condemned the government’s demand as “a visceral threat to the safety of those who would find themselves identified because compiling and turning over to the government ‘lists of Jews’ conjures a terrifying history”, according to a press release put out by the groups’ lawyers.

The EEOC sued Penn in November over the university’s refusal to fully comply with its demands. On Tuesday, the American Association of University Professors’ national and Penn chapters, the university’s Jewish Law Students Association and its Association of Senior and Emeritus Faculty, and the American Academy of Jewish Research filed a motion in federal court to intervene in the case.

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Chris Stein

Progressives in the US Congress on Tuesday vowed to oppose legislation funding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) unless it included significant reforms to immigration enforcement following the killing of a US citizen in Minnesota last week.

The declaration by the Democratic-aligned Congressional Progressive caucus comes as the Senate and House of Representatives race to meet an end-of-the-month deadline to approve a series of funding bills or risk a partial government shutdown.

The debate over DHS funding has been rocked by last week’s fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent after the Trump administration ordered a surge of federal officers into the city amid its push for mass deportations.

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The AP reports that the justice department says it currently sees no basis to open a criminal civil rights investigation into the killing of Renee Nicole Good, who was shot by a federal immigration officer in Minneapolis last week, citing a senior official.

The department’s Civil Rights Division was told last week that it would not be involved in the inquiry even though an FBI investigation is ongoing, according to officials who spoke with the news wire.

On Tuesday, deputy attorney general Todd Blanche told CNN that “there is currently no basis for a criminal civil rights investigation.”

A video released by TMZ shows President Donald Trump raising the middle finger during an appearance at a Ford plant in Detroit today, where he appears to be responding to a worker in the crowd yelling at him.

Trump was touring the Ford F-150 plant ahead of a speech at the Detroit Economic Club when someone began shouting at him from the floor, the video shows. The full remark is unclear, though the TMZ video appears to capture the words “pedophile protector.” Trump is shown returning an insult.

White House communications director, Steven Cheung, said in a statement: “A lunatic was wildly screaming expletives in a complete fit of rage, and the President gave an appropriate and unambiguous response.”

The worker’s remarks appear to reference Trump’s past association with the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

CBS News’ Tony Dokoupil asked President Donald Trump what message he would send the father of Renee Nicole Good, the woman who was fatally shot in Minneapolis by a federal agent last week. Her father is a “big supporter” of Trump, according to Dokoupil.

“I want to say to the father that I love all our people. They can be on the other side,” Trump said during an interview with CBS News.

“I would bet you that she under normal circumstances, she was a very solid, wonderful person, but her actions were pretty tough,” he added.

President Donald Trump called Jerome Powell a “lousy Fed chairman” during an interview with Tony Dokoupil on CBS Evening News.

“He’s either corrupt or incompetent,” Trump added.

When asked whether the justice department’s investigation into Powell was retaliation, he said, “I can’t help what it looks like.”

The Trump administration designated three Muslim Brotherhood chapters as “terrorist” groups, claiming they “pose a threat to the United States” and provided “material support to Hamas,” according to a statement by the state department.

The state department designated the Lebanese Muslim Brotherhood as a “Foreign Terrorist Organization”, and also labeled the group’s leader, Muhammad Fawzi Taqqosh, as a “Specially Designated Global Terrorist.”

The treasury department also designated the Egyptian and Jordanian chapters in the latter category, accusing them of supporting Hamas.

Foreign nationals who are representatives or members of a designated organization are barred from entering the United States and may be subject to deportation, according to US law. The treasury department can require US financial institutions to freeze the group’s assets and block any transactions involving funds or property under their control.

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon warned that the justice department’s investigation into Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell could push inflation and interest rates higher, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Dimon said that “anything that chips away” at the central bank’s independence “is not a good idea.”

“I want to say that I don’t agree with everything the Fed has done,” Dimon said. “I do have enormous respect for Jay Powell the man.”

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is carrying out what it calls its “largest DHS operation in history,” deploying hundreds of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents on top of the thousands of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) officers in Minneapolis, Minnesota, CBS News reports.

A DHS official told the news outlet that there are currently 800 CBP agents and 2,000 Ice officials in the Minneapolis area as tensions have risen in recent days.

“This is the largest DHS operation in history,” the official told CBS News.

On Tuesday, students in Minnesota held walkouts to protest ongoing Ice operations, while federal officers dropped tear gas and sprayed eye irritants at activists in other parts of the state, the Associated Press reports.

The surge comes on the same day several federal prosecutors in the state and Washington DC resigned in protest over the justice department’s decision not to hold a civil rights investigation into the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good by a federal immigration agent in Minneapolis.

My colleague Lucy Campbell just shared an excerpt from CBS’s interview with Donald Trump, slated to be aired later today, in our dedicated Iran live blog:

Donald Trump has said the United States would take “very strong action” if the Iranian government starts hanging protesters, but did not elaborate on what those actions would be.

“I haven’t heard about the hanging. If they hang them, you’re going to see some things … We will take very strong action if they do such a thing,” Trump told CBS News in Dearborn, Michigan.

Trump said he was aware a “pretty substantial number” of people have been killed over the more than two weeks of demonstrations, and reiterated that “there’s a lot of help on the way” for Iranian citizens in “different forms” including economic assistance.

He also mentioned the US airstrikes last year targeting three of Iran’s nuclear facilities to CBS News, though he didn’t give any further specifics.

When asked what his end game is in Iran, the US president said:

The end game is to win. I like winning.

And asked what “winning” means, he reeled off a list of military operations from his first and second terms, adding:

We don’t want to see what’s happening in Iran happen. And you know, if they want to have protests, that’s one thing, when they start killing thousands of people, and now you’re telling me about hanging — we’ll see how that works out for them. It’s not going to work out good.

Chair of the Democratic National Committee, Ken Martin, reacted to Donald Trump’s claims on the economy earlier today in Michigan, including that inflation has been “defeated” and that “grocery prices are starting to go rapidly down,” despite data showing US consumer prices rose 2.7% annually in December.

“Under Donald Trump’s failed economic policies, Michiganders are seeing their paychecks get tighter, and jobs disappear. And today, Trump tried to gaslight Michigan families once again — but they weren’t fooled — because new polling shows that Donald Trump is disastrously unpopular in Michigan,” Martin said.

He added: “While Donald Trump keeps choosing billionaires and gilded ballrooms over the needs of hardworking Michigan families, Democrats won’t stop fighting to lower families’ costs and keep health care prices in check.”

Defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, responded to a lawsuit filed by senator Mark Kelly yesterday seeking to block the secretary’s attempt to strip the military veteran of his rank and pension in retaliation for speaking out against the Trump administration.

“‘Captain’ Kelly knows exactly what he did, and that he will be held to account,” Hegseth said Tuesday in a post on X, reposting Kelly’s remarks about the lawsuit. “Thats why he’s so worried and cranky.”

Here’s a recap of the day so far

In a winding speech in Detroit, billed to tout the Trump administration’s affordability achievements, the president veered off-course on several occasions. Throughout his remarks he threatened to “reverse citizenship of any naturalized immigrant who is convicted of defrauding our citizens”, falsely claimed that grocery prices and rent are down, bemoaned the embattled Fed chair, reaffirmed to protesting Iranians that “help is on its way”, and said that he would stop federal funding to sanctuary cities.
Oversight committee chair James Comer said that he will move to hold former president Bill Clinton in contempt of Congress for refusing to testify as part of the ongoing investigation into the Jeffrey Epstein case. This comes legal representatives for both Bill and Hillary Clinton sent an eight-page letter to Comer notifying him that they would not comply with the subpoenas compelling them to appear before the committee to deliver in-person testimony.
Prior to journeying to Detroit, Donald Trump has told the people of Minnesota to “FEAR NOT”, as a “DAY OF RECKONING & RETRIBUTION IS COMING” to the North Star state. In a post on Truth Social, the president slammed the ongoing protests against federal immigration agents in Minneapolis, after the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good last week.
The US supreme court on Tuesday appeared poised to uphold laws banning transgender girls and women from competing in female sports in two conservative states, in a landmark legal battle that could carry profound implications for trans rights across US society. During oral arguments on two cases of trans students who sued over Republican-supported laws in West Virginia and Idaho that barred them from girls sports, one member of the court’s conservative majority after another voiced skepticism about the students’ cases.
According to the latest data by the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), about 800,000 fewer people have enrolled in Affordable Care Act healthcare plans compared to this time last year. This comes as the threat of spikes in monthly premiums looms – short of Congress passing legislation to extend Covid-era subsidies.

It’s important to note that there are fairly narrow criteria when it comes to the process of “denaturalization”.

For example, a person would have been found guilty of committing fraud while applying to become a citizen. Namely, if they concealed that they were part of a terrorist organization, or totalitarian party.

A Somali-born US citizen who has committed financial or welfare fraud, would be subject to the same due process as any American, and – if convicted – they would be subject to fines or prison time.

Their citizenship, however, would not be revoked.