‘Emergency situation’: Trump says he will order payments to TSA agents amid turmoil at US airports – as it happened

This concludes our live coverage of US politics in the second Trump administration for the day. We’ll be back on Friday. Here are the latest developments:

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The Senate again failed to advance a bill to fund part of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which has now been shut down for almost six weeks. By a vote of 53-47, mostly along party lines, the upper chamber fell short of the 60 votes needed to move the legislation forward – the seventh failed attempt. More here.

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President Trump announced he would sign an executive order directing the secretary of homeland security (DHS) to grant immediate payments to 50,000 airport security officers amid the DHS shutdown. “I am using my authorities under the Law to protect our Great Country, as I always will do!,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social. “Therefore, I am going to sign an Order instructing the Secretary of Homeland Security, Markwayne Mullin, to immediately pay our TSA Agents in order to address this Emergency Situation, and to quickly stop the Democrat Chaos at the Airports.” More here.

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US markets saw their biggest slump since the start of the US-Israel war with Iran on Thursday as Donald Trump said the conflict’s impact on oil prices had not been as bad as he expected. The Dow closed 450 points down, while the S&P 500 dipped 1.7%. The tech-heavy Nasdaq fell 2.3%, plunging into correction territory, which happens when an index falls at least 10% below its most recent peak. More here.

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The department of treasury announced that US paper currency will soon feature President Donald Trump’s signature to commemorate the country’s 250th anniversary. The move marks the first time a sitting US president’s signature will appear on legal tender. To accommodate this change, the treasurer’s signature will be removed for the first time since 1861. More here.

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The Senate failed to achieve 60 votes needed to pass an amendment to the Save America act that would require voters to present photo ID to cast a ballot. The chamber voted 52-47, falling short of the two-thirds majority needed for it to pass. No Democrats voted for it. Earlier today, Trump urged Republicans to terminate the Senate filibuster.

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During a cabinet meeting today, Donald Trump said that Iran was letting 10 oil tankers through the strait of Hormuz as an apparent goodwill gesture in the supposed negotiations. He also repeated his earlier remarks that Iran is “begging to make a deal”.

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Donald Trump wants to renovate the White House’s treaty room, traditionally a meeting space for diplomats and statesman, into a guest bedroom with an en suite bathroom, according to the New York Times.

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President Trump announced he would sign an executive order directing the secretary of homeland security (DHS) to grant immediate payments to 50,000 airport security officers amid the DHS shutdown.

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“I am using my authorities under the Law to protect our Great Country, as I always will do!,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social. “Therefore, I am going to sign an Order instructing the Secretary of Homeland Security, Markwayne Mullin, to immediately pay our TSA Agents in order to address this Emergency Situation, and to quickly stop the Democrat Chaos at the Airports.”

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Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agents have been working without pay since mid-February amid a budget stalemate in the Senate, which has led to hours-long delays at airports nationwide.

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The department of treasury announced that US paper currency will soon feature President Donald Trump’s signature to commemorate the country’s 250th anniversary.

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The move marks the first time a sitting US president’s signature will appear on legal tender. To accommodate this change, the treasurer’s signature will be removed for the first time since 1861.

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“Under President Trump’s leadership, we are on a path toward unprecedented economic growth, lasting dollar dominance, and fiscal strength and stability,” said secretary of the treasury Scott Bessent in a statement. “There is no more powerful way to recognize the historic achievements of our great country and President Donald J. Trump than U.S dollar bills bearing his name, and it is only appropriate that this historic currency be issued at the Semiquincentennial.”

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The first $100 bills with Trump’s signature and that of Bessent will be printed in June, followed by other bills in subsequent months, according to Reuters.

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“As the 250^th anniversary of our great nation approaches, American currency will continue to stand as a symbol of prosperity, strength, and the unshakable spirit of the American people under President Trump’s leadership,” said treasurer Brandon Beach in a statement.

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Earlier, we noted that according to the Washington Post, several Senate Republicans are pressing the White House to declare a national emergency to free up money to pay TSA agents if lawmakers fail to reach a deal, citing people familiar with the matter.

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In response to the Post’s reporting, Karoline Leavitt said in a statement that the White House “is having discussions about a number of ideas to blunt the impact of the Democrat shutdown crisis, but no preparations or plans are currently underway”.

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The press secretary added that “the best and easiest way to pay TSA Agents is to fund DHS.”

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At a cabinet meeting today, Trump continued to blame Democrats for the deadlock on Capitol Hill. “They need to end the shutdown immediately, or we’ll have to take some very drastic measures,” he said, without going into detail.

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Senate majority leader John Thune has said he believes that DHS funding talks are beginning to make progress again, as the partial shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security enters its sixth week, per Punchbowl News. The Democrats are in possession of “what I think is our last and final” offer, the reporter quotes Thune as saying, giving no further details.

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The Senate failed to achieve 60 votes needed to pass an amendment to the Save America act that would require voters to present photo ID to cast a ballot. The chamber voted 52-47, falling short of the two-thirds majority needed for it to pass. No Democrats voted for it. Earlier today, Trump urged Republicans to terminate the Senate filibuster.

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During a cabinet meeting earlier, Donald Trump said that Iran was letting 10 oil tankers through the strait of Hormuz as an apparent goodwill gesture in the supposed negotiations. As a reminder, my colleagues are covering all the latest from the Middle East here.

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Donald Trump wants to renovate the White House’s treaty room, traditionally a meeting space for diplomats and statesman, into a guest bedroom with an en suite bathroom. This is according to the New York Times.

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The deposed Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro again appeared in a Manhattan federal court for his “narco-terrorism” case after his capture by US military forces earlier this year. The full report by Victoria Bekiempis and Tom Phillips is here.

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The Washington Post reports that “unilateral action” is a possibility if Democrats and Republicans cannot reach agreement on funding the Department of Homeland Security.

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The Republican Senate majority leader, John Thune, laid out the plan to fellow GOP senators at a closed-door lunch, the Post reported.

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It would mean Congress being sidestepped at a time when passengers are facing record security delays.

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The deposed Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro again appeared in a Manhattan federal court on Thursday for his “narco-terrorism” case after his capture by US military forces earlier this year, Victoria Bekiempis and Tom Phillips report.

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The hearing opened with the defense and prosecution arguing over whether Maduro should be allowed to use Venezuelan government funds to pay for his defense. The defense has insisted that the US is violating the deposed leader’s constitutional rights by blocking government money from being used for his legal costs.

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The full report is here

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The Senate failed to achieve 60 votes needed to pass an amendment to the Save America act that would require voters to present photo ID to cast a ballot.

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The amendment had been sponsored by senator Jon Husted, of Ohio. The chamber voted 52-47, falling short of the two-thirds majority needed for it to pass. No Democrats voted for it.

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Here’s more on the proposed legislation from the Guardian’s Rachel Leingang:

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The Save America act is a rebranded and expanded version of last year’s Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (Save) act, which passed in the US House but didn’t get a vote in the Senate. This year’s version includes expansive documentary proof of citizenship requirements and criminal liability for election officials from the initial Save act, in addition to a very strict voter ID requirement for casting a ballot and a provision that requires states to regularly turn their voter rolls over to the Department of Homeland Security.

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Amid an aggressive war in Iran, heightening and devastating pressure on Cuba, immigration enforcement operations throughout the country and a partial government shutdown, the lead Republican in the House has given Donald Trump a newly concocted award, the Guardian’s José Olivares writes.

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Democrats, lawmakers and commentators are criticizing and ridiculing the “America First” award given to Trump on Wednesday evening during the National Republican Congressional Committee fundraiser.

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“The president has done so much for the American people and we want to honor him, in some small way, some token of our appreciation for his leadership,” said Mike Johnson, the US House speaker. “So, tonight, we have created a new award.”

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Johnson then introduced the “America First” award, made up of a golden eagle statue.

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Read the rest of José’s report here

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Having demolished the east wing, the president has set his sights on another part of the presidential mansion to transform out of recognition, the New York Times reports.

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The latest plan is to turn the treaty room – traditionally a meeting space for diplomats and statesman – into a guest bedroom with an en suite bathroom.

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The room is one of the most storied in the White House, having seen the signing of the peace protocol at the end of the 1898 Spanish-American war, as well as John F Kennedy’s signing of the nuclear test ban treaty of 1963. It was also the setting for wartime addresses by George W Bush and Joe Biden and was once known as the “Monroe room” after President James Monroe, who used it as his work space.

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Trump also told the cabinet meeting that Iran was letting 10 oil tankers through the strait of Hormuz as an apparent goodwill gesture in the supposed negotiations.

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They said, to show you the fact that we’re real and solid and we’re there, we’re going to let you have eight boats of oil, eight boats, eight big boats of oil. I guess they were right, and they were real, and I think they were Pakistani-flagged … It ended up being 10 boats.

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The White House did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for more details on the vessels.

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The president on Tuesday had baffled some observers when he said that Iran had given the United States an expensive, energy-related concession. At the time, he declined to elaborate on exactly what he meant, telling reporters:

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They gave us a present and the present arrived today, and it was a very big present, worth a tremendous amount of money.

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My colleague Tom Ambrose is covering all the latest from the Middle East here:

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During the cabinet meeting earlier, Donald Trump repeated his earlier remarks that Iran is “begging to make a deal”.

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Just so we set the record straight, because I’ve been watching the Wall Street Journal’s fake news and all these stories that get printed like, oh, I want to make a deal. They are begging to make a deal. Not me. They’re begging to make a deal.

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Iran were “lousy fighters but great negotiators”, he added.

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They are begging to work out a deal. I don’t know if we’ll be able to do that. I don’t know if we’re willing to do that. They should have done that four weeks ago. They should have done it two years ago.

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According to Punchbowl News, Senate majority leader John Thune has said he believes that DHS funding talks are beginning to make progress again, as the partial shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security enters its sixth week.

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The Democrats are in possession of “what I think is our last and final” offer, the reporter quotes Thune as saying, giving no further details.

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It signifies a more optimistic tone than the leader took yesterday on the prospects of striking a deal, when he balked at a Democratic counteroffer to reopen the department, telling reporters there was “no point” in the GOP even issuing a response to it.

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Minority leader Chuck Schumer had called the offer a “reasonable, good faith proposal”.

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A reminder that lawmakers have been in an impasse as they scramble to reach an agreement before the two-week recess for spring break and Easter that begins on Friday, with Democrats demanding significant changes and oversight for ICE and its operations.

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Amid the partial DHS shutdown airports across the country are experiencing the “highest wait times in TSA history”, the acting head of the Transportation Security Administration said yesterday, with sprawling security lines and the transfer of ICE agents to some airports.

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The president addressed the revelations that he had voted by mail ballot despite trying to all-but abolish the practice, which he has said is an agent of mass voter fraud.

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“I was going to vote by mail in ballot because I couldn’t be there because I had a lot of different things. But, you know, we have exceptions for mail in ballots.

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“You do know that, right? So if you’re away, you have an exception. If you’re in the military, we have an exception. If you are on a business trip, we have an exception. If you’re disabled, we have an exception. And if you’re ill, if you’re not feeling good when.

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So I was away mostly in Washington DC, so I used a mail ballot. But I appreciate the question because I know it was so well meaning.”

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Steve Wifkoff, Trump’s chief negotiator, earlier announced to the cabinet: “I can report to you today that we have, along with your foreign policy team, presented a 15-point action list that forms the framework for a peace deal. This has been circulated through the Pakistani government, acting as the mediator, and this has resulted in strong and positive messaging and talks, as you just indicated to the press.”

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This comes after Trump’s press secretary Karoline Leavitt castigated reporters for asking about the 15-point plan: “I saw a 15-point plan that was floated in the media. I would caution reporters in this room from reporting about speculative points, speculative plans from anonymous sources. The White House never confirmed that plan.”

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Trump then diverts to attack the UK and Nato for their alleged failure to support the war effort.

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“I’ll say it publicly, we’re very disappointed with Nato. Because Nato has done absolutely nothing. I said 25 years ago that Nato was a paper tiger. But more importantly, that we’ll come to their rescue but they will never come to ours.”

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A reminder here: Nato’s Article 5 on collective security – meaning an attack on one member of the alliance is an attack on all – has been invoked only once in its 77-year history; when the US was attacked by Al Qaeda on 11 September, 2001.

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The cabinet meeting has started and Trump has introduced the new homeland security secretary, Markwayne Mullin to a round of applause from fellow cabinet members.

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You can watch live here:

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The deposed Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro is again scheduled to appear in a Manhattan federal court on Thursday for his “narco-terrorism” case after his capture by US military forces earlier this year, the Guardian’s Victoria Bekiempis and Tom Phillips write.

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US special forces captured Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, on 3 January in a controversial pre-dawn raid during an assault on Caracas that reportedly killed 100 people.

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Charging papers allege that Maduro spearheaded a “corrupt, illegitimate government that, for decades, has leveraged government power to protect and promote illegal activity, including drug trafficking”.

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Donald Trump has been “truthing” on his Truth Social platform early today, urging Republicans to terminate the Senate filibuster in his quest to have the Save America Act mandating tough voter ID enacted into law.

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Two posts contain a barely veiled warning to Republicans against compromising with the Democratic Senate leader, Chuck Schumer, over funding the Department of Homeland Security, which has been partially shuttered in a dispute over immigration patrols – leading to disrupted security services and delays at airports.

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Schumer has signalled in recent days that Democrats are open to a deal but Trump has said he will be unhappy with any compromise.

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Instead, he wants Republicans to press ahead and abolish the filibuster, which decrees a 60-vote threshold for any new legislation.

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“When is ‘enough, enough’ for our Republican Senators,” he wrote in a screed posted at 6.51am ET. “There comes a time when you must do what should have been done a long time ago, and something which the Lunatic Democrats will do on day one, if they ever get the chance. TERMINATE THE FILIBUSTER, and get our airports, and everything else, moving again.

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Also, add the complete, all five items, SAVE AMERICA ACT items. Go for the Gold!!! President DJT”

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In a second post, barely half an hour later, he writes in withering terms about Schumer – an opponent he has frequently lampooned -saying he has lost control of his party and that he “will make a deal now because he thinks that if he doesn’t, Republicans will TERMINATE THE FILIBUSTER, something which they should do whether he makes a deal or not!!!”

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The US and Iran are engaged in “indirect talks”, Pakistan’s foreign minister, Ishaq Dar, has said, confirming his country has been relaying messages.

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According to Dar, Iran has been “deliberating” on the proposal, although no Iranian official has publicly confirmed this.

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In a post on X, Dar wrote:

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There has been unnecessary speculation in the media regarding peace talks to end ongoing conflict in the Middle East. In reality, US-Iran indirect talks are taking place through messages being relayed by Pakistan. In this context, the United States has shared 15 points, being deliberated upon by Iran.

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This latest news comes as Israeli defence minister Israel Katz said the Iranian naval commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), Alireza Tangsiri, has been killed along with other “senior officers of the naval command” in a strike overnight.

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You can follow the latest updates on the US-Israel war on Iran in our dedicated live blog:

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Donald Trump will hold a cabinet meeting later today, his first since the US started its war with Iran.

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It is due to be held at 10am ET, with the president and defense secretary Pete Hegseth expected to give a rosy view of the US military campaign.

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Ousted Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro returns to a Manhattan court on Thursday where he will argue that drug trafficking charges against him should be thrown out more than two months after he and his wife were captured in a surprise US military raid in Caracas.

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Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, have been embroiled in a dispute over US sanctions that prevent the Venezuelan government from paying for the couple’s legal defense, Reuters reported.

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Maduro, 63, and Flores, 69, have each pleaded not guilty to charges including narcoterrorism conspiracy and are jailed in Brooklyn pending trial.

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They have asked US district judge Alvin Hellerstein to dismiss the charges, saying their inability to rely on Venezuelan public funds is interfering with their right to have a lawyer of their choosing under the sixth amendment of the US constitution.

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Their lawyers have said Maduro and Flores cannot afford to pay their defense fees on their own.

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Maduro’s lawyer, Barry Pollack, who represented WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, has said he wants to withdraw from the case if Hellerstein doesn’t dismiss the charges and the Venezuelan government cannot pay his fees.

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Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog.

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There was no breakthrough in talk to reopen the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Wednesday as the shutdown extends to almost six weeks with no end in sight.

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Democratic lawmakers demanded new restrictions on federal agents carrying out the president’s deportation crackdown. But Republicans rejected the proposal, offering instead to remove money for immigration enforcement from the homeland security spending bill.

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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.

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But that gained no traction with the GOP. “Get serious, folks,” the Senate majority leader, John Thune, said, in response to the Democrats’ counteroffer.

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The funding lapse has led to lengthy lines at Transportation Security Administration (TSA) checkpoints at some major airports, including including Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta international airport and George Bush intercontinental airport in Houston, prompting the president to this week deploy ICE agents in a bid to relieve congestion.

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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed yesterday that nearly 500 TSA officers have quit since what she called “the Democrat shutdown” began.

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“This is a dire situation,” the acting TSA administrator Ha Nguyen McNeill testified at a House hearing Wednesday.

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The standoff seems likely to prolong the partial government shutdown, which began in mid-February after Democrats refused to approve funding for the department overseeing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), border patrol and other agencies involved in Donald Trump’s mass deportation push, without reforms demanded in response to the deaths of two US citizens in Minneapolis at the hands of federal agents.

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Meanwhile, Schumer has sought to place the blame on Republicans for the travel chaos, saying its most recent proposal disrupted talks that had been nearing a compromise.

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“We thought there had been some progress. Then Republicans sent us their offer yesterday, and it contained none of what we talked about, none of the reforms we had been discussing,” Schumer said on the Senate floor. “So if anyone is slowing down negotiation and hurting TSA workers, it is the Republican leadership, who did not include one single reform.”

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Read our full story here:

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In other developments:

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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This concludes our live coverage of US politics in the second Trump administration for the day. We’ll be back on Friday. Here are the latest developments:

The Senate again failed to advance a bill to fund part of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which has now been shut down for almost six weeks. By a vote of 53-47, mostly along party lines, the upper chamber fell short of the 60 votes needed to move the legislation forward – the seventh failed attempt. More here.
President Trump announced he would sign an executive order directing the secretary of homeland security (DHS) to grant immediate payments to 50,000 airport security officers amid the DHS shutdown. “I am using my authorities under the Law to protect our Great Country, as I always will do!,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social. “Therefore, I am going to sign an Order instructing the Secretary of Homeland Security, Markwayne Mullin, to immediately pay our TSA Agents in order to address this Emergency Situation, and to quickly stop the Democrat Chaos at the Airports.” More here.
US markets saw their biggest slump since the start of the US-Israel war with Iran on Thursday as Donald Trump said the conflict’s impact on oil prices had not been as bad as he expected. The Dow closed 450 points down, while the S&P 500 dipped 1.7%. The tech-heavy Nasdaq fell 2.3%, plunging into correction territory, which happens when an index falls at least 10% below its most recent peak. More here.
The department of treasury announced that US paper currency will soon feature President Donald Trump’s signature to commemorate the country’s 250th anniversary. The move marks the first time a sitting US president’s signature will appear on legal tender. To accommodate this change, the treasurer’s signature will be removed for the first time since 1861. More here.
The Senate failed to achieve 60 votes needed to pass an amendment to the Save America act that would require voters to present photo ID to cast a ballot. The chamber voted 52-47, falling short of the two-thirds majority needed for it to pass. No Democrats voted for it. Earlier today, Trump urged Republicans to terminate the Senate filibuster.
During a cabinet meeting today, Donald Trump said that Iran was letting 10 oil tankers through the strait of Hormuz as an apparent goodwill gesture in the supposed negotiations. He also repeated his earlier remarks that Iran is “begging to make a deal”.
Donald Trump wants to renovate the White House’s treaty room, traditionally a meeting space for diplomats and statesman, into a guest bedroom with an en suite bathroom, according to the New York Times.

Shrai Popat

Graham Platner, the Democratic frontrunner in Maine’s US Senate race, leads governor Janet Mills by 27 points, according to new polling from Emerson College.

The survey shows Platner — an oysterman and former marine now contending with several controversies from his past — at 55%, while Mills, the 78‑year‑old governor backed by the Senate’s top Democrat, sits at 28%.

The poll also finds both Democrats ahead of incumbent Republican senator Susan Collins in hypothetical general‑election matchups: Platner leads 48% to 41%, while Mills holds a narrower 46% to 43% edge.

Collins, a longtime GOP moderate who has represented Maine in the Senate since 1997, is expected to face a competitive race regardless of which Democrat emerges from the primary.

Last week, I reported that Elizabeth Warren became the fourth senator to endorse Platner, joining Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Democrats Ruben Gallego of Arizona and Martin Heinrich of New Mexico in backing the populist candidate.

Platner and Mills will face off in the Democratic primary in June.

Democratic congressman Tom Suozzi, co-chair of the bipartisan Congressional Problem Solvers Caucus, said he’s “happy the president’s taking this type of action,” referring to Trump’s announcement on the planned executive order directing the DHS secretary to pay TSA workers, though “we have to find out if it’s legal.”

Suozzi joined CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on Thursday evening, joined by Republican representative Brian Fitzpatrick, also co-chair of the caucus.

“I wish he had done it weeks ago,” Suozzi said.

Chris Stein

In a speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference outside Dallas, Mike Davis, a conservative lawyer with ties to the Trump administration, repeatedly warned that “justice is definitely coming” for Donald Trump’s enemies.

He singled out former CIA director John Brennan, who has long been in Trump’s crosshairs for how the agency handled the investigation of Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election. The justice department announced a criminal investigation into Brennan last July.

“I would say to people like John Brennan, your days as a free man may be numbered,” Davis told CPAC, to applause.

He went on to warn of retribution to come for former special counsel Jack Smith, who indicted Trump but abandoned the cases after he won re-election, and other Joe Biden and Barack Obama administration officials who he alleged “politicized and weaponized the intel agencies and law enforcement”.

“That is textbook conspiracy against rights,” Davis said, something that is illegal under federal law. “This is ongoing. Because it’s an ongoing conspiracy … they’re not going to be able to hide from the statute of limitations.”

Trump’s record of retaliating against his enemies is mixed. Last year, an inexperienced federal prosecutor handpicked for the job attempted to bring charges against former FBI director James Comey and New York attorney general Letitia James, but quickly saw the indictments dismissed by a federal judge.

Meanwhile, Democratic representative Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut said she was “very glad that these workers are finally being paid,” following Trump’s plans to direct DHS secretary Markwayne Mullin to pay TSA officers, who haven’t received a full paycheck since 14 February.

“It is shameful the Trump administration chose not to pay them for 41 days,” DeLauro said in a social media post. “Why couldn’t it have been done sooner?”

Senate majority leader John Thune told the AP that Trump’s announcement that he will pay TSA agents “takes the pressure off” negotiations over funding the entire department of homeland security (DHS), but it is a “short term solution.”

Thune said he would have more to say about next steps later Thursday evening, but senators want “to fund everything.”

“We’re going to try to fund as much of the DHS budget as we possibly can,” Thune said.

It remains unclear whether the Senate would stay in session ahead of a two-week recess to figure out how to fund the rest of the department.

Republicans on Thursday praised President Donald Trump after announcing he would sign an executive order directing the secretary of homeland security to cover the salaries of airport transportation security officers.

“I very much appreciate President Trump’s decisive leadership to get TSA back to full capacity and to end the debacle created by the Democrats’ resistance,” said senator Lindsey Graham.

“President Trump is doing absolutely the right thing to get TSA agents paid,” said Republican senator John Barrasso of Wyoming, in a social media post. “President Trump is showing leadership at a time the Democrats are continuing to fight against the hardworking, freedom loving people of our country.”

It remains unclear exactly where the money to fund paychecks for 50,000 airport security agents will come from as the partial government shutdown continues without a definitive resolution in sight.

Senate Democrats have stated their willingness to reopen DHS if Republicans agree to make significant changes and oversight for ICE and its operations.

Trump to sign executive order directing DHS to pay TSA agents amid funding standoff

President Trump announced he would sign an executive order directing the secretary of homeland security (DHS) to grant immediate payments to 50,000 airport security officers amid the DHS shutdown.

Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agents have been working without pay since mid-February amid a budget stalemate in the Senate, which has led to hours-long delays at airports nationwide.

Trump’s signature to appear on US paper currency, Treasury says

The department of treasury announced that US paper currency will soon feature President Donald Trump’s signature to commemorate the country’s 250th anniversary.

The first $100 bills with Trump’s signature and that of Bessent will be printed in June, followed by other bills in subsequent months, according to Reuters.

The Trump administration has opened investigations into medical school admissions at Stanford, Ohio State, and the University of California, San Diego, according to a department of justice official.

Harmeet K Dhillon, DoJ’s assistant attorney general for civil rights, reposted a report by the New York Times about the news on social media and said “We did this yesterday. Among other things!”

This is the latest step in the Trump administration’s efforts to dismantle diversity, equity and inclusion programs that officials say exclude white and Asian American students.

According to the report from the Times, the administration is seeking information about medical school applicants from each of the past seven years, including test scores, home ZIP codes and any familial relationships to alumni or ties to university donors. DoJ is also requesting copies of any internal messages at the universities about diversity, equity and inclusion and any correspondence between school officials and pharmaceutical companies about admissions policies.

Since Trump took office, his administration has warned schools and colleges they could lose federal money over “race-based preferences” in admissions, hiring, scholarships and all aspects of campus life.

“At this time, our investigation will focus on possible race discrimination in medical school admissions,” Dhillon wrote in each of the letters to the universities, per the Times.

David Smith

The Guardian’s David Smith brings us more details about today’s cabinet meeting:

They have become so notorious for displays of flattery and obsequiousness that critics have drawn comparisons with North Korea. Thursday’s cabinet meeting at the White House was no different.

Doug Burgum, the US interior secretary, outflanked his fellow praise singers by saying he believes that Venezuela – which the US attacked in January – intends to honour the president with a statue.

Trump had brought up the subject by claiming the raid that captured president Nicolás Maduro, who was replaced by interim leader Delcy Rodríguez, was a win-win situation.

“We’ve made a lot of money and they’ve made a lot of money,” Trump declared. “I am the highest polling person. In other words, after the presidency I think I may go to Venezuela and run for president against Delcy. I may run against Delcy. It’s an option. They love me in Venezuela.”

Later in the meeting, Burgum, who recently visited Venezuela with oil and mining executives, sensed his opportunity. He said: “I literally think they’re going to put up a statue to President Trump and I’m not being – it’s not a political statement.”

Read the full story:

White House pushes back on report that Trump considering bypassing Congress to pay TSA staff

Shrai Popat

The press secretary added that “the best and easiest way to pay TSA Agents is to fund DHS.”

President Donald Trump said he was postponing any strikes against Iran’s power plants for 10 days, extending the pause to 6 April at 8pm Eastern Time.

“Talks are ongoing and, despite erroneous statements to the contrary by the Fake News Media, and others, they are going very well,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social.

Here’s a recap of today’s events

Senate majority leader John Thune has said he believes that DHS funding talks are beginning to make progress again, as the partial shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security enters its sixth week, per Punchbowl News. The Democrats are in possession of “what I think is our last and final” offer, the reporter quotes Thune as saying, giving no further details.
The Senate failed to achieve 60 votes needed to pass an amendment to the Save America act that would require voters to present photo ID to cast a ballot. The chamber voted 52-47, falling short of the two-thirds majority needed for it to pass. No Democrats voted for it. Earlier today, Trump urged Republicans to terminate the Senate filibuster.
During a cabinet meeting earlier, Donald Trump said that Iran was letting 10 oil tankers through the strait of Hormuz as an apparent goodwill gesture in the supposed negotiations. As a reminder, my colleagues are covering all the latest from the Middle East here.
Donald Trump wants to renovate the White House’s treaty room, traditionally a meeting space for diplomats and statesman, into a guest bedroom with an en suite bathroom. This is according to the New York Times.
The deposed Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro again appeared in a Manhattan federal court for his “narco-terrorism” case after his capture by US military forces earlier this year. The full report by Victoria Bekiempis and Tom Phillips is here.

‘Emergency situation’: Trump says he will order payments to TSA agents amid turmoil at US airports – as it happened

Closing summary

Trump to sign executive order directing DHS to pay TSA agents amid funding standoff

Trump’s signature to appear on US paper currency, Treasury says

White House pushes back on report that Trump considering bypassing Congress to pay TSA staff

Here’s a recap of today’s events

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