Trump praises ICE agents he sent to US airports and again suggests deploying national guard amid DHS shutdown – as it happened

Trump praises ICE agents he sent to airports and again suggests deploying national guard ‘if we need to’

Donald Trump praised US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents after he ordered their deployment to airports nationwide to help alleviate security line delays amid the partial government shutdown.

“We decided to use our great patriots of ICE,” he said on Wednesday. “These people are great. They have endured so much punishment.”

“They didn’t need any rehabilitation, but they did in terms of the fake news, and they’re doing such an unbelievable job at the airports,” he said.

Trump also said that he would send “the national guard if we need to.”

Donald Trump attends the National Republican Congressional Committee’s annual fundraising dinner at Union Station on 25 March in Washington DC. Photograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Trump claimed ICE agents reduced wait times at airport security checkpoints from four hours to half an hour.

Earlier today, Ha Nguyen McNeill, the TSA’s acting administrator, said multiple airports are experiencing callout rates higher than 40%, and air travelers are experiencing the TSA’s highest wait times ever.

This concludes our live coverage of US politics for the day. We’ll be back on Thursday. Here is a summary of today’s developments:

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“We decided to use our great patriots of ICE,” he said on Wednesday. “These people are great. They have endured so much punishment.”

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“They didn’t need any rehabilitation, but they did in terms of the fake news, and they’re doing such an unbelievable job at the airports,” he said.

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Trump also said that he would send “the national guard if we need to.”

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Trump claimed ICE agents reduced wait times at airport security checkpoints from four hours to half an hour.

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The US Postal Service plans to introduce its first-ever fuel surcharge on packages to offset rising energy costs, according to a statement.

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The surcharge, set at 8%, is expected to take effect on 26 April and remain in place until 17 January 2027 under the current plan.

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Packages under Priority Mail Express, Priority Mail, USPS Ground Advantage and Parcel Select will be affected by the surcharge.

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“Transportation costs have been increasing, and our competitors have reacted with a number of surcharges,” reads the statement by the USPS. “We have steadfastly avoided surcharges and this charge is less than one-third of what our competitors charge for fuel alone, so even with this change, the Postal Service continues to offer great value in shipping with some of the lowest rates in the industrialized world.”

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Democrats were quick to voice their concern.

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“Groceries. Gas. Now packages. Is there anything Donald Trump hasn’t made more expensive? Call it what it is: the Trump Mail Tax,” said JB Pritzker, governor of Illinois, in a post on social media.

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“Trump has messed up on affordability so badly that he’s even managed to make the mail more expensive,” the US senator Raphael Warnock said in a post.

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At a House homeland security committee hearing, Ha Nguyen McNeill, the acting administrator of the TSA, said that her agency has been shut down for 50% of the fiscal year so far. This includes the record-breaking lapse in federal funding last year that lasted 43 days. “This Friday, we will have reached nearly $1bn in missed paychecks,” she told members of Congress at today’s hearing. McNeill also said that since it takes four to six months to train transportation security officers (TSOs), any newly hired officers will not be able to work on the checkpoint until well after the 2026 FIFA World Cup.

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More on the DHS shutdown: Victoria Barton, an official at Fema, told lawmakers on the House homeland security committee that a portion of her agency’s staff was able to continue working thanks to the Disaster Relief Fund. The fund, though, only has $3.6bn remaining, which could be depleted “pretty rapidly” were there to be a major storm.

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At the hearing, Democratic representative Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, the ranking member of the House homeland security committee, said he was “extremely troubled” by the deployment of ICE to several US airports as the TSA is overwhelmed.

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Some airports are officially advising travelers to arrive four hours before their scheduled flights as TSA staff, who have been working without pay for over a month, are not reporting for duty amid the standoff.

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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt blamed Democrats for the long lines at airports, accusing them of “robbing [Transportation Security Administration] officers and other federal workers of their hard-earned paychecks that they use to feed their families.”

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Federal prosecutors examined whether Donald Trump showed a classified map to people on his plane after his first term, including to his now White House chief of staff, Susie Wiles, according to justice department materials produced to the House judiciary committee. The incident was described in a 13 January 2023 briefing memo prepared for the then attorney general, Merrick Garland – roughly six months before special counsel Jack Smith charged Trump with retaining classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago club.

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Leavitt, addressing journalists at a White House briefing, turned the heat on Democrats over the ongoing partial closure of the Department of Homeland Security – which has affected airport security staff.

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“Democrats in Congress are forcing American travelers to wait in hours long lines at airports across the country, robbing [Transportation Security Administraton] officers and other federal workers of their hard-earned paychecks that they use to feed their families, and causing billions of dollars in damage to our economy,” she said.

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She said nearly 500 TSA officers have quit since what she called “the Democrat shutdown” began.

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On the deployment of Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to airports, she added: “President Trump, to alleviate this pressure, made the decision to send some of our amazing ICE agents to help alleviate that stress and address the long wait times. And for all of the critics of this solution, a few days ago, when it was proposed by the president, it is yielding results. Wait times have improved since ICE arrived, and they are doing everything in their power to help their fellow federal service members.”

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Donald Trump’s scheduled visit to China will take place on 14 and 15 May, the White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, has announced.

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That is more than six weeks after Trump was meant to travel to Beijing for a summit with Xi Jinping, the Chinese communist leader. Trump announced last week that he had asked China for a postponement, citing the Iran war.

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Leavitt said Xi and his wife would visit Washington later this year for a reciprocal visit, on a date yet to be fixed.

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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt will speak to reporters shortly, we’ll bring you all the key lines here.

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Federal prosecutors examined whether Donald Trump showed a classified map to people on his plane after his first term, including to his now White House chief of staff, Susie Wiles, according to justice department materials produced to the House judiciary committee.

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The incident was described in a 13 January 2023 briefing memo prepared for the then attorney general, Merrick Garland – roughly six months before special counsel Jack Smith charged Trump with retaining classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago club.

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The memo also described the documents Trump retained as some of the most protected materials held by the federal government, estimating that one document was accessible to only six people, and alleging that the documents were pertinent to his business interests.

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Trump’s alleged disclosure of the map, as described in the memo, would mark the second known time he waved around a classified map in front of Wiles. The indictment charging Trump also described an incident where he showed a classified map to people at his Bedminster club in New Jersey.

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Here’s the story:

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Throughout today’s hearing, Victoria Barton, an official at Fema, told lawmakers on the House homeland security committee that a portion of her agency’s staff was able to continue working thanks to the Disaster Relief Fund.

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However, she later said that the fund only has $3.6bn remaining. If there was another major storm, depending on the magnitude, the fund could be depleted “pretty rapidly”.

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During today’s hearing, Democratic representative Seth Magaziner shared a montage of news clips showing the violent tactics used by federal immigration agents during crackdowns across the country, including the fatal shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis.

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He also noted that Democratic lawmakers in the House have crafted a bill to separate funding for the TSA, Cisa, Fema and the coast guard – to ensure these agencies can function – as long as Republicans reject reforms for ICE agents.

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“Firing Kristi Noem is a good start, but it is not enough,” Magaziner said of Donald Trump’s former DHS secretary, recently replaced by Markwayne Mullin. “ICE needs to act like every other law enforcement agency, with warrants, with badge numbers, with standards of conduct.”

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He urged lawmakers to pass legislation that would end the impact on several DHS agencies, while continuing to negotiate over “the much-needed changes to ICE”.

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McNeill also noted that since it takes four to six months to train transportation security officers (TSOs), any newly hired officers will not be able to work on the checkpoint until well after the 2026 FIFA World Cup.

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“This is a dire situation,” she said. “We are facing a potential perfect storm of severe staffing shortages and an influx of millions of passengers at our airports for the World Cup games in less than 80 Days.”

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Ha Nguyen McNeill, the acting administrator of the TSA, said that her agency has been shut down for 50% of the fiscal year so far. This includes the record-breaking lapse in federal funding last year that lasted 43 days.

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“This Friday, we will have reached nearly $1bn in missed paychecks,” she told members of Congress at today’s hearing.

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“Many in our workforce have missed bill payments, received eviction notices, had their cars repossessed and utilities shut off, lost their childcare, defaulted on loans, damaged their credit line and drained their retirement savings. Some are sleeping in their cars, selling their blood and plasma and taking on second jobs to make ends meet,” she added.

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McNeill added that prior to this most recent shutdown, only 4% of TSA employees would not report to work. Now she said that “multiple major airports are experiencing days where 40 to 50% of their staff are calling out” because they cannot afford to work without pay.

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Top officials at agencies affected by the ongoing Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shutdown are testifying on Capitol Hill on Wednesday. The lapse in funding for the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Coast Guard and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), has lasted 40 days with little end in sight.

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During opening remarks, the Republican chair of the House homeland security committee, Andrew Garbarino, said that the shutdown has caused “massive disruptions” across airports, “weakened our nation’s cybersecurity posture” and “left states unsupported with less than 100 days until the start of major events across the United States, such as FIFA World Cup”.

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Garbarino continued to blame his colleagues across the aisle for employees across affected agencies going without pay. “The shutdown is not a game, and frankly, I’m tired of it being treated like one,” he said during his opening remarks. “Mistakes are too high, we owe it to the American people to stop the political games to fund DHS and to get back to regular order.”

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Democratic representative Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, the ranking member of the House homeland security committee, opens the hearing with a reminder about the violence caused by ICE, a branch of the partially shut down department of homeland security, earlier this year.

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“Democrats want to ensure that before we give even more money to ICE and CBP, which is already flush with cash, that we rein in the deadly abuses we saw in Minneapolis. We owe Renee Good and Alex Pretti that much as Good’s family implored the committee in a letter this week.”

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Thompson went on to say he was “extremely troubled” by the deployment of ICE to several US airports as the TSA is overwhelmed.

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“These agents cannot do TSA’s job, nor should they,” he said. “And they aren’t trained to do it. So we see images of ICE agents standing around or walking through terminals, doing nothing to reduce the lines at security checkpoints, while TSA personnel continue to do their jobs without pay because Republicans refuse to vote for legislation to fund TSA. It’s ridiculous and maddening, but not surprising.”

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The House committee on homeland security is about to hold a hearing on the DHS shutdown with officials from its affected agencies.

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The speakers include a TSA official as agency staffing shortages result in longer-than-usual security lines across US airports.

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We’ll bring you the latest lines from this hearing.

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The partial shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security continued on Wednesday, as longer-than-usual lines at major US airports have caused turmoil for travelers this week.

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Some airports are officially advising travelers to arrive four hours before their scheduled flights as Transportation Security Administration (TSA) staff, who have been working without pay for over a month, are not reporting for duty amid the standoff.

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On Tuesday, Delta partly suspended its speciality service desk for members of Congress until funding for the TSA is restored. The service desk is used to help members of Congress book flights at special government rates, secure airport escorts and make last-minute flight changes.

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On Wednesday, a CBS reporter spotted a familiar face on a long line at Houston’s international airport: former Trump attorney general Bill Barr.

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A Cambodian man deported by the United States to the African kingdom of Eswatini under the Trump administration’s third-country program was released on Wednesday to be repatriated after spending five months in detention at a maximum-security prison with other deportees, his lawyer told the Associated Press.

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Pheap Rom was deported to the southern African nation in October and held at the Matsapha Correctional Center. He took a commercial flight to Johannesburg, South Africa, to start his journey to Cambodia, his US-based lawyer, Tin Thanh Nguyen, told The AP.

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The US has sent 19 migrants from other countries to Eswatini in three batches since July. Rom is the second to be repatriated after a Jamaican man was flown home in September.

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Gavin Newsom, the California governor, has described Elon Musk as “one of the great disappointments of our time” and accused the billionaire Tesla owner of ceding the electric vehicle market to China.

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Talking to Axios, Newsom – widely seen as a frontrunner for the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination – that Musk had all but given up on the American EV market that he pioneered by pivoting towards robotics.

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“It breaks my heart,” he said, comparing Musk to Thomas Edison.

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“I got one of the first Teslas off the line. I’ve been one of their biggest proponents. It was regulation in California that created the conditions that allowed him to take the risk to become the multi-billionaire, maybe trillionaire, that he’s become.

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“He is going to allow the greatest own-goal – one of the most significant own-goals in the next decade is ceding the EV space to China. They have 70% of the global EV market. It’s about statecraft with them…It’s a national security play and I really fear what’s going to happen to American legacy automobile manufacturers.”

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He attributed some of Musk’s loss of interest in EVs to Donald Trump, who has frequently criticized the cars as a “hoax” and “too expensive.”

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The White House says Donald Trump “did nothing wrong”, amid reports that he showed off a classified map on a 2022 flight to his New Jersey golf club.

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The president also held on to a record from his first term that was so sensitive only six people would have had access to it, according to a letter released on Wednesday by a top House Democrat.

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The letter from representative Jamie Raskin of Maryland, the leading Democrat on the House judiciary committee, adds to the public understanding of the investigation into Trump’s retention of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida.

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It quotes from a newly disclosed Department of Justice memo from January 2023 in which prosecutors cited evidence they said they had accumulated as they moved toward a felony indictment of Trump that would be filed months later.

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Responding to Raskin’s letter, the White House said he was not credible. “It’s pathetic that Democrats with zero credibility like Jamie Raskin are still clinging to deranged Jack Smith and his lies in 2026,” White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson said.

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“President Trump did nothing wrong, which is why he easily defeated the Biden DOJ’s unprecedented lawfare campaign against him and then won nearly 80m votes in a landslide election victory.”

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Violence continued across much of the Middle East a day after Donald Trump said the US was in “very good” talks with Iran to end the war in the region soon. Iranian barrages targeted Israel, Gulf Arab states and northern Iraq on Tuesday, while Israeli and US warplanes continued to carry out strikes across Tehran and on other targets in the Islamic Republic. More here.

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Democrats managed to flip a seat in the Florida state house in the district that is home to Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago. Emily Gregory, a Democrat, defeated Republican Jon Maples, who had an endorsement from the US president, in the special election in Florida’s 87th state house district. The Associated Press called the race on Tuesday evening, with Gregory, a public health expert and small business owner, leading by more than two percentage points. More here.

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Donald Trump on Tuesday swore in Markwayne Mullin as secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), while Senate Republicans unveiled a compromise that would restart funding to most of the agency but appears to exclude the reforms to immigration enforcement that Democrats have demanded. More here.

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Donald Trump has described voting by mail as “cheating” at an event in Memphis, Tennessee, just days after casting a mail‑in ballot himself. “Mail-in voting means mail-in cheating. I call it mail-in cheating, and we got to do something about it all,” the US president said on Monday, in remarks to a roundtable on his administration’s crime taskforce. More here.

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Workers with the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) are reeling from the White House’s deployment of immigration law enforcement into airports as TSA workers enter their sixth week without pay as the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shutdown continues. More than 400 TSA workers have quit since the shutdown began in February, with major US airports reporting high call-out rates among workers, leading to longer security wait times. More here.

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The California governor, Gavin Newsom, backtracked on earlier remarks likening Israel to an “apartheid state” in a new interview with Politico published on Tuesday. In the interview, the Democrat, who is widely expected to launch a presidential bid in 2028, said that when he used the term three weeks ago, he meant it to apply to Israel’s future should it continue on its present trajectory. More here.

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This concludes our live coverage of US politics for the day. We’ll be back on Thursday. Here is a summary of today’s developments:

The Senate remained deadlocked on Wednesday over funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), after Republicans proposed legislation that would restart all of its operations with the exception of those involved in deportations, but exclude reforms that Democrats want. The Senate minority leader, Chuck Schumer, quickly shot down the offer, and said Democrats had countered with a measure that coupled DHS funding with a host of new guardrails on immigration enforcement operations – something the party has insisted on for months. More here.
The acting head of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) said on Wednesday that airports across the country are experiencing the “highest wait times in TSA history”, as the partial shutdown of the DHS enters its sixth week. At a House homeland security committee hearing, Ha Nguyen McNeill said her agency has been shut down for 50% of the fiscal year so far – a stretch that includes last year’s record-breaking 43‑day lapse in federal funding. She told lawmakers that by Friday, TSA employees will have missed $1bn in paychecks as a result of the closures. More here.
The US has launched another strike on a vessel in the Caribbean, killing four people, the US Southern Command said. The command, which oversees combatant operations in Latin America and the Caribbean, announced on X that it had conducted a “lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations”. More here.
Progressive lawmakers have unveiled a new policy to place a moratorium on the construction of AI datacenters. The policy, announced by Bernie Sanders, an independent senator from Vermont, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a New York Democratic representative, aims to ensure the AI boom protects the environment and communities, and benefits workers instead of harming them. More here.
The Trump administration’s federal housing director Bill Pulte is asking prosecutors to investigate New York attorney general Letitia James for insurance fraud, according to criminal referrals reported by MS Now and CBS News. The referrals to prosecutors in Florida and Illinois allege that James may have committed mortgage insurance fraud. The allegations center on applications made to Universal Property Insurance company, which is based in Florida, and Allstate in Illinois. More here.

President Trump seized on the death of the 18-year-old student who was shot last week, echoing his anti-immigrant agenda after a Venezuelan migrant was charged in connection with the death.

He went as far as to call the suspect an “illegal alien monster” during his remarks at tonight’s dinner.

Sheridan Gorman, 18, was killed on Thursday near Loyola University Chicago. Earlier this week, Trump accused the Venezuelan citizen of entering the US “through the open door policy” of the Biden administration.

Trump praises ICE agents he sent to airports and again suggests deploying national guard ‘if we need to’

“We decided to use our great patriots of ICE,” he said on Wednesday. “These people are great. They have endured so much punishment.”

“They didn’t need any rehabilitation, but they did in terms of the fake news, and they’re doing such an unbelievable job at the airports,” he said.

Trump also said that he would send “the national guard if we need to.”

Trump claimed ICE agents reduced wait times at airport security checkpoints from four hours to half an hour.

At tonight’s dinner, Donald Trump once again slammed mail-in voting despite having cast a mail-in ballot himself just days earlier.

According to the Palm Beach county supervisor of elections website, his ballot was for the special election in House District 87, where his Mar-a-Lago golf club is located. (He voted for Republican candidate, Jon Maples, who lost against Democrat Emily Gregory on Tuesday).

“I hate mail-in ballots,” he said on Wednesday. “I’ve won with mail-in ballots, but I hate mail-in ballots because basically, it’s a way of cheating.”

Donald Trump has just begun to address Republicans and donors at the annual National Republican Congressional Committee fundraising dinner at Union Station in Washington.

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson announced that Trump will receive a so-called “America First” award. He also said that the dinner set a new fundraising record, bringing in $37m.

The White House will miss a Thursday deadline to name a permanent director for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), leaving acting director Jay Bhattacharya in charge of the agency.

The CDC has faced leadership instability since August, when President Trump dismissed director Susan Monarez over policy disagreements with Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr.

Bhattacharya has served as acting CDC director since mid-February, but federal rules impede him from serving any longer than this week.

“Dr. Bhattacharya will continue to oversee the CDC by performing the delegable duties of the CDC director,” Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) spokesman Andrew Nixon told The Washington Post.

Bhattacharya, who also leads the National Institutes of Health, is the third person to head the agency in seven months, following a brief tenure by Health and Human Services deputy secretary Jim O’Neill.

Senate Republicans today launched a probe into abortion pill manufacturers and called on the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to curb online sales of the drug mifepristone, the latest move in the Trump administration’s broader push to limit abortion access nationwide.

The probe is being led by Bill Cassidy, chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, and comes amid a broader push by conservatives to restrict access to mifepristone following the 2022 overturning of Roe v Wade.

“Chemical abortion drug makers profit off killing innocent children while putting mothers’ lives at risk,” said Cassidy in a statement. “These manufacturers and websites have facilitated the explosion in online sales of these harmful drugs without regard for women’s health and safety while opening the door for coercion and abuse. FDA should act within its existing authorities to curb this abuse and immediately reinstate safeguards such as the in-person dispensing requirement.”

Republicans are arguing that, even though there are still Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy requirements in place, manufacturers are not demonstrating how they ensure that the doctors and pharmacies selling their drugs are actually following those rules, “especially when pills are sold online and without the in-person oversight of a medical professional.”

Senators are seeking detailed compliance records from all three FDA-approved manufacturers: Danco Laboratories, GenBioPro and Evita Solutions, including production sites, prescriber certifications, pharmacy audits, adverse event reports, sales data and reasons for any prescriber or pharmacy decertifications.

A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to return a recipient of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (Daca) to the US, ruling that her deportation to Mexico last month was a “flagrant violation” of the legal protections afforded to immigrants who arrived in the country as children.

Judge Dena Coggins said in her Monday ruling the administration must return Maria de Jesus Estrada Juarez, a Daca recipient, to the US within seven days. She was arrested on 18 February in Sacramento during her green-card appointment, and was deported to Mexico the next day.

“Less than 24 hours after the petitioner’s good-faith appearance to pursue lawful permanent resident status in this country”, Coggins wrote, “she was removed to a nation where she had not lived in over 27 years, pursuant to an order purportedly entered against her when she was 15 years old.”

Estrada Juarez said in a statement that she was “overwhelmed with relief and hope after learning about the court’s decision”.

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The racial justice organization NAACP, which has organized along grassroots groups across the country in support of local moratoria on AI datacenters, applauded the new federal proposal for a temporary ban on the facilities which Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez unveiled on Wednesday.

“Part of the reason why the NAACP called for a moratorium on AI data center build-outs in many places is that they’re essential where there is no transparency, no real community say and no clear plan for long-term impacts – both economic and environmental,” said Abre’ Conner, NAACP’s environmental and climate justice director. “AI and the dirty datacenters that run it pose grave threats to communities across the country.”

The justice department has reached an undisclosed financial settlement with Michael Flynn, a retired army lieutenant general who served as Trump’s national security adviser in his first term, resolving his lawsuit that sought millions of dollars for alleged wrongful prosecution.

The lawsuit stems from the fallout of the 2017 investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and potential obstruction by Trump and his allies. Flynn twice pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his conversations with the Russian ambassador in the weeks before Trump’s inauguration.

He later tried to withdraw his plea, claiming prosecutors violated his rights and duped him into a plea agreement.

In 2023, Flynn sued the justice department, alleging he was maliciously prosecuted as part of the investigation by then special counsel Robert Mueller. His lawsuit sought at least $50m in damages.

The settlement was revealed in a brief filing in federal court in Tampa, Florida, according to the Associated Press.

USPS plans to introduce first-ever fuel surcharge on packages amid rising fuel costs

The US Postal Service plans to introduce its first-ever fuel surcharge on packages to offset rising energy costs, according to a statement.

The surcharge, set at 8%, is expected to take effect on 26 April and remain in place until 17 January 2027 under the current plan.

Packages under Priority Mail Express, Priority Mail, USPS Ground Advantage and Parcel Select will be affected by the surcharge.

Democrats were quick to voice their concern.

“Trump has messed up on affordability so badly that he’s even managed to make the mail more expensive,” the US senator Raphael Warnock said in a post.

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USPS plans to introduce first-ever fuel surcharge on packages amid rising fuel costs

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