Trump confirms $12bn in assistance for American farmers amid concerns over trade and high prices – live

President Donald Trump will allow the chipmaker Nvidia to sell its H200 artificial intelligence chips to China, according to a post on Truth Social.

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“I have informed President Xi, of China, that the United States will allow NVIDIA to ship its H200 products to approved customers in China, and other Countries, under conditions that allow for continued strong National Security,” Trump wrote on Monday. “President Xi responded positively!”

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Trump said the commerce department was finalizing details of the arrangement and the same approach would apply to other AI chip firms such as Advanced Micro Devices and Intel.

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“We will protect National Security, create American Jobs, and keep America’s lead in AI,” Trump wrote. “NVIDIA’s U.S. Customers are already moving forward with their incredible, highly advanced Blackwell chips, and soon, Rubin, neither of which are part of this deal.”

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Transportation secretary Sean Duffy said earlier today that he wants airlines and airports to offer travelers healthier food options, exercise equipment and family-friendly features like playspaces and nursing facilities.

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To do so, he announced“$1bn in funding for grant programs to make the experience better in airports”.

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Duffy said that he had reached out to a majority of major US airline CEOs asking them what they could do to improve the experience.

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“I’m looking forward to hearing back from airlines on what they have in their future plans to improve the experience when we get on their airplanes and fly safely through the national airspace,” Duffy said at Reagan National airport in Washington DC.

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Last month, Duffy asked airlines to add healthier options and remove salty pretzels and calorie-laden cookies. Duffy also urged airports to add more dedicated spaces for young children and exercise equipment and to boost places for mothers to nurse their children.

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At his roundtable in the White House’ cabinet room, Donald Trump announced $12bn in assistance for American farmers. “We love our farmers,” the president said. “They’re the backbone of our country.”

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Trump also noted that China had committed to buying $40bn in American soybeans. “I asked president Xi if he could even up it, and I think he’ll do that,” the president added.

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The package comes as farmers – some of Trump’s most loyal supporters – have expressed frustration at the rising costs associated with the president’s sweeping tariffs, and the repercussions of escalating trade tensions with China.

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Donald Trump’s former lawyer, Alina Habba, has stepped down from her position as the acting US attorney for the district of New Jersey.

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Her announcement comes after an appeals court ruled last week that Habba has been serving unlawfully as the top federal prosecutor in the Garden state. The panel of judges sided with a lower court’s decision earlier this year.

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“This decision will not weaken the justice department and it will not weaken me,” Habba wrote in a statement. “My fight will now stretch across the country. As we wait for further review of the court’s ruling.”

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She added that she would continue to serve as the senior adviser to the attorney general, Pam Bondi.

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“Make no mistake, you can take the girl out of New Jersey, but you cannot take New Jersey out of the girl,” Habba concluded.

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After more than two hours of oral arguments in the high-stakes case of Slaughter v Trump, the nation’s highest court appeared poised to back a historic expansion of executive power, signaling support for Donald Trump’s firing of independent board members that for almost a century have been protected from presidential whims.

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At the heart of the issue is Trump’s March decision to fire Rebecca Slaughter from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) before the end of her term, despite a federal law designed to insulate the agency from political interference.

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John Yoo, who served as a justice department lawyer under George W Bush, told Reuters the case presents “one of the most important questions over the last century on the workings of the federal government”. “The future of the independence of the administrative state is at issue,” he said.

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The justices appeared pretty firmly split down partisan lines, with the 6-3 conservative wing – including the sometimes swing vote of Justice Amy Coney Barrett – seeming to side with the Trump administration’s argument that the president should be able to fire members of independent agencies, and expressing scepticism to concerns raised by the other side that this could lead to a significant remaking of the federal government.

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Solicitor general John D Sauer repeatedly argued that independent agencies like the FTC are a “headless fourth branch” with limited government oversight and that, in general, “independent agencies are not accountable to the people”. He argued that the key 90-year precedent, Humphrey’s Executor, “must be overruled”, describing the ruling as a “decaying husk with bold, and particularly dangerous pretensions”.

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Regarding the 1935 precedent ruling, chief justice John Roberts said, that historic precedent has “nothing to do with what the FTC looks like today”. That decision, he said, “was addressing an agency that had very little, if any executive power”. Justice Samuel Alito also said he was skeptical of wide-ranging ramifications of allowing the president to fire leaders of multi-member independent commissions. Justices Bret Kavanaugh, Roberts and Coney Barrett also aimed to draw distinctions between the FTC and the Federal Reserve, seeming likely to back continuing to shield the Fed from political interference.

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The liberal justices, on the other hand, appeared sympathetic to Slaughter’s lawyer’s warning that “there are real-world risks that are palpable” in allowing a president the power to fire leaders of independent agencies. Doing so meant that “everything is on the chopping block”, Amit Agarwal said.

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Sounding the alarm, liberal justice Sonia Sotomayor said that independent agencies had existed throughout US history. “You’re asking us to destroy the structure of government and to take away from Congress its ability to protect its idea that a government is better structured with some agencies that are independent,” she said. Justice Elena Kagan warned that the court should not ignore “the real-world realities” of what its decisions do. “The result of what you want is that the president is going to have massive, unchecked, uncontrolled power,” she told Sauer. “What you are left with is a president … with control over everything.”

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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson also expressed doubt that more presidential firing power is better for democracy and emphasized that centering so much power under presidential control would undermine issues that Congress decided should be handled by non-partisan experts in independent agencies. “Having a president come in and fire all the scientists, and the doctors, and the economists and the PhDs, and replacing them with loyalists and people who don’t know anything is actually not in the best interest of the citizens of the United States,” she said.

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A decision in the case is expected before the end of June next year.

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After more than two hours of oral arguments, the court appeared poised to back the Trump administration’s argument that the president should be able to fire independent board members that for almost a century have been protected from presidential interference.

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The justices appeared pretty firmly split down partisan lines, with the conservatives – including the sometimes swing vote of Justice Amy Coney Barrett – seeming to side with the administration.

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The bench just wrapped its questions to the administration’s lawyer, solicitor general D John Sauer.

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Arguing on behalf of Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, the fired Democratic member of the FTC, is Amit Agarwal.

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“Multi-member commissions with members enjoying some kind of removal protection have been part of our story since 1790,” Agarwal said in his opening remarks. “So if petitioners are right, all three branches of government have been wrong from the start.”

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Justice Sonia Sotomayor, one of three liberal justices on the bench, seemed unconvinced with the administration’s argument off the bat.

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“You’re asking us to destroy the structure of government,” she told solicitor general D John Sauer. “To take away from Congress its ability to protect its idea that a government is better structured with some agencies that are independent.”

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Arguments in the case that will decide whether Donald Trump can fire officials from independent agencies have started.

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First up is solicitor general D John Sauer, arguing on behalf of the Trump administration.

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He kicks off his opening remarks by arguing that the key 90-year precedent, known as the Humphrey’s Executor, “must be overruled”.

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He describes the ruling as a “decaying husk with bold, and particularly dangerous pretensions” that ultimately creates a “headless fourth branch insulated from political accountability and democratic control”.

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In less than an hour, the supreme court will here arguments in a landmark case that tests Donald Trump’s ability to fire officials.

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Earlier this year, the president moved to fire Rebecca Slaughter, a Democratic member of the Federal Trade Commission. Trump actually appointed her to the position back in 2018, and she was re-confirmed for a second term under Joe Biden that was set to expire in 2029.

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One of the main questions the nine-justice bench will consider today is whether to overturn a key 1935 decision which established that the president requires Congress’ signoff to fire an official from an independent government agency, and it needs to be “for cause”.

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Slaughter’s case is the latest emergency appeal that the supreme court will hear from the Trump administration, after a lower court judge blocked her firing, and an appeal court upheld that decision. A reminder that, in May, the court allowed Trump to remove two Democratic members of the National Labor Relations Board and Merit Systems Protection Board – despite job protections for these posts – while litigation challenging those removals proceeded. And in September, they deferred action on the Department of Justice’s request to allow Trump to fire Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook, at least until it hears oral arguments on the case in January.

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Axios broke the news of Pamela Smith’s resignation. Speaking to the outlet, she said: “There comes a time when you just know it’s time.”

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Smith, who has 28 years of law enforcement experience, said her decision is not related to the deployment of national guard troops to the city.

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Speaking to Fox 5 about her decision to resign, the outgoing police chief said it was a “tough” decision and was made to spend more time with her family.

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She said:

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I have been going nonstop. I have missed many amazing celebrations, birthdays, marriages, you name it, within our family.

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And being able to come home for thanksgiving two years after my mum passed really resonated with me and has allowed me to make a decision that I think is necessary not just only for me but also for my family.

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Smith is expected to step down on 31 December and the mayor’s office will name an interim chief shortly, according to Axios.

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In a statement, Pamela Smith said she was “deeply humbled, grateful and deeply appreciative” of her time in her role, which she described as the “greatest honor” of her career. She gave thanks to the mayor for appointing her in 2023 and supporting her throughout her tenure, which she acknowledged had been both “challenging and rewarding”.

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Smith adds that “tremendous progress” has been made but the city is not at “zero percent crime” yet.

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She said:

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I am confident that the department is in a strong position and that the great work will continue, moving in a positive trajectory to combat crime and enhance public safety. Washington, DC is an extraordinary place to live, visit, and work, and I remain inspired by the resilience and spirit of this community.

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I am profoundly grateful for the opportunity to serve in this capacity as Chief of Police. It has been an honor to lead the men and women of the Metropolitan Police Department, and I will always carry with the me the pride of having served this city.

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Here is Bowser’s full statement on Smith stepping down:

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When Chief Smith stepped up to lead the Metropolitan Police Department, we had no time to waste. She came in at a very challenging time for our community, when there was significant urgency to reverse the crime trends our city was facing post pandemic. Within a year of her tenure, we opened the Real-Time Crime Center.

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We deployed newer and better technology. We worked with the Council to pass comprehensive legislation that prioritizes accountability. And Chief Smith got all of this done while also navigating unprecedented challenges and attacks on our city’s autonomy.

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Chief Smith dramatically drove down violent crime, drove down the homicide rate to its lowest levels in eight years, and helped us restore a sense of safety and accountability in our neighborhoods. We are grateful for her service to Washington, DC.

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Pamela Smith, the chief of the Metropolitan police department, is stepping down after two and a half years on the job, the Washington DC mayor, Muriel Bowser, has announced.

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Bowser appointed Smith to the position in July 2023, when she became the second woman and first Black woman to permanently run the agency since its founding in 1861.

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That killing has been met with intense scrutiny and accusations of war crimes after the Washington Post reported defense secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill them all”.

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Adm Frank Bradley of the US navy, who oversaw the attack, told lawmakers on Thursday there was no such order – and the Pentagon has defended the legality of the attack. Experts have said the defense is legally shaky.

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“If the Pentagon and our defense secretary are so proud of what they’re doing, let the American people see that video,” Adam Schiff, a Democratic senator from California, said during an interview on Sunday on NBC’s Meet the Press.

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“Let the American people see two people standing on a capsized boat, or sitting on a capsized boat, and deliberately killed and decide for themselves whether they’re proud of what the country is doing. I can’t imagine people would be proud of that.”

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You can read the full story here:

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A proposal to redraw Indiana’s congressional boundaries faces its first public test in the state Senate later today, with uncertainty over whether it will pass.

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Redistricting is typically done once a decade after the census. But Donald Trump has put pressure on GOP states in recent months to redraw their maps ahead of next year’s midterms, with the president wanting to protect the Republicans’ thin majority in the House.

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Several Republican senators have indicated their opposition to the redrawing of the map mid-decade despite the pressure coming from the White House. Republicans currently hold seven of the state’s nine districts.

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The newly drawn map – passed by the Republican super majority in the state House on Friday – splits the city of Indianapolis into four districts, distributed across other Republican-leaning areas. It also groups the cities of East Chicago and Gary with a wide swath of rural counties in northern Indiana. The contours would eliminate the districts of the state’s two Democratic congressional representatives.

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Good morning, and welcome to our live coverage of US politics. Lawmakers have unveiled an annual defense policy bill authorizing a record $901bn in national security spending next year.

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The budget for the defense department is $8bn more than the $892.6bn in the Trump administration’s budget request for the department.

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The sweeping 3,000-page bill includes a 4% raise for enlisted troops, with the legislation seeking to codify some of Donald Trump’s executive orders, including those aimed at accelerating American manufacturing of drones, and developing the so-called “Golden Dome” missile defense system that the White House envisions will protect the US from possible foreign strikes.

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Diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives will be cut under the bill, which will see troops deployed to the south-west US border to apparently intercept undocumented immigrants and drugs.

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House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Louisiana Republican, said the legislation would advance Trump’s agenda by “ending woke ideology at the Pentagon, securing the border, revitalizing the defense industrial base, and restoring the warrior ethos.”

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European officials will be pleased to read that the bill prevents the Pentagon from cutting the number of troops permanently stationed or deployed to Europe below 76,000 for more than 45 days.

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This is unless the defense secretary and head of the US European Command certify to Congress that the deployment is against America’s national security interest, and will have to provide assessments of the withdrawal’s impact, among other requirements.

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The bill also provides $400m in military assistance to Ukraine, reflecting Kyiv’s need to defend itself against Russia’s continuing aggression.

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On another foreign policy front, the bill repeals two resolutions authorizing the use of military force in Iraq in 1991 and 2002. Stay with us as we bring you more on this story and the other major political developments from the US.

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Jeremy Barr

David Ellison’s Paramount Skydance is not giving up in its aggressive campaign to acquire Warner Bros Discovery (WBD), launching a hostile bid for the entertainment company despite the announcement on Friday that Netflix had agreed to buy its studio and streaming operation.

Netflix’s bid for WBD’s storied Hollywood movie studio, as well as its premier HBO cable network, valued the company at $82.7bn. But it did not agree to acquire WBD’s traditional television assets, including the news network CNN and the Discovery channel.

Paramount’s all-cash tender offer sent directly to shareholders on Monday morning would be for the entire company, and puts a total enterprise value of $108.4bn on WBD, a major premium to its stock price.

In making its case to shareholders, Paramount claimed its acquisition of the company provides significantly better value for shareholders, and would be much likelier to survive regulatory scrutiny. WBD said it would “carefully review and consider” the bid, and advise its shareholders on how to respond within two weeks.

David Ellison and his father, the billionaire tech mogul Larry Ellison, whose family is financially backing the offer, are both friendly with the Trump administration, which had previously indicated that it supported a Paramount purchase of WBD. Larry Ellison, founder of Oracle, had even had early conversations with a senior Trump aide about what changes he might want to see at CNN.

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In a post on Truth Social, Donald Trump threatened to add an extra 5% tariff on Mexico, alleging the country violated a water-sharing treaty.

“The U.S needs Mexico to release 200,000 acre-feet of water before December 31st, and the rest must come soon after. As of now, Mexico is not responding, and it is very unfair to our U.S. Farmers who deserve this much needed water,” Trump said on Monday.

He added: “That is why I have authorized documentation to impose a 5% Tariff on Mexico if this water isn’t released, IMMEDIATELY. The longer Mexico takes to release the water, the more our Farmers are hurt. Mexico has an obligation to FIX THIS NOW.”

Brooke Rollins, the agriculture secretary, was asked to clarify the funding source for the $12bn farm aid package announced earlier today, to which she replied that the money will be coming from Commodity Credit Corporation funds.

“We are using CCC funds, so we have set aside 12bn,” Rollins told reporters on Monday. “We had to, kind of, you know, move some things around, but we’ve got that 12bn set aside. 11bn announced today, 1bn we’re holding back for specialty crops, but as the president said today, he’s open to more.”

Her remarks come after the administration announced one-time payments directed toward crop farmers in bridge payments.

Monday’s statement on the aid reads: “The $12bn in farmer bridge payments, including those provided through the FBA Program, are authorized under the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) Charter Act and will be administered by the Farm Service Agency (FSA).”

Trump says the ​​US will allow Nvidia H200 chip shipments to China

President Donald Trump will allow the chipmaker Nvidia to sell its H200 artificial intelligence chips to China, according to a post on Truth Social.

“I have informed President Xi, of China, that the United States will allow NVIDIA to ship its H200 products to approved customers in China, and other Countries, under conditions that allow for continued strong National Security,” Trump wrote on Monday. “President Xi responded positively!”

Trump said the commerce department was finalizing details of the arrangement and the same approach would apply to other AI chip firms such as Advanced Micro Devices and Intel.

“We will protect National Security, create American Jobs, and keep America’s lead in AI,” Trump wrote. “NVIDIA’s U.S. Customers are already moving forward with their incredible, highly advanced Blackwell chips, and soon, Rubin, neither of which are part of this deal.”

Transportation secretary announces $1bn in grants for airports to improve experiences for families

Transportation secretary Sean Duffy said earlier today that he wants airlines and airports to offer travelers healthier food options, exercise equipment and family-friendly features like playspaces and nursing facilities.

To do so, he announced“$1bn in funding for grant programs to make the experience better in airports”.

Duffy said that he had reached out to a majority of major US airline CEOs asking them what they could do to improve the experience.

“I’m looking forward to hearing back from airlines on what they have in their future plans to improve the experience when we get on their airplanes and fly safely through the national airspace,” Duffy said at Reagan National airport in Washington DC.

Last month, Duffy asked airlines to add healthier options and remove salty pretzels and calorie-laden cookies. Duffy also urged airports to add more dedicated spaces for young children and exercise equipment and to boost places for mothers to nurse their children.

Lawmakers could withhold a quarter of defense secretary Pete Hegseth’s travel budget unless he provides unedited videos of military strikes on boats in the southern Caribbean and eastern Pacific, Politico reports.

The demand was subtly tucked into the final draft of the annual defense policy bill, which calls for “unedited video of strikes conducted against designated terrorist organizations in the area of responsibility of the United States Southern Command” to the House and Senate armed services committees.

Members of Congress have been demanding more information for weeks about the administration’s plans for Venezuela.

Donald Trump has said he has no problem releasing the video. But, despite the president’s statement, Hegseth did not commit to doing so over the weekend.

Since August, the Trump administration has put a $50m bounty on the Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro’s head, launched the biggest naval deployment in the Caribbean Sea since the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, and carried out a series of deadly airstrikes on alleged drug boats that have killed more than 80 people.

Shrai Popat

I’ve been speaking with Carl Tobias, a professor at the University of Richmond School of Law, about today’s supreme court arguments. He notes that while the court may side with the administration in Slaughter’s case, they “might not do that in a sweeping way, and take each independent agency as it comes to them”.

Tobias added that the justices seemed to acknowledge that the Federal Reserve “deserves unique treatment”, which is relevant in the case of governor Lisa Cook – who the president sought to fire this year. The supreme court said that Cook could remain on the Fed board while they prepare to hear her case in January.

Slaughter’s removal, and today’s arguments, ultimately “undermines” Congress as a co-equal branch of government, according to Tobias. “I don’t think we’re having a wholesale end of the modern administrative state, but each one of these is hopefully going to be taken up on its own merits,” he added.

As reported earlier, Crockett entered the Senate race in Texas after former Democratic representative Colin Allred announced he was dropping out.

Here’s what the former Dallas congressman said in a statement:

“In the past few days, I’ve come to believe that a bruising Senate Democratic primary and runoff would prevent the Democratic party from going into this critical election unified against the danger posed to our communities and our constitution by Donald Trump and one of his Republican bootlickers Paxton, Cornyn, or Hunt. That’s why I’ve made the difficult decision to end my campaign for the US Senate.”

Allred also expressed that he is “nowhere near done serving my community and our state” and that he is running in the new 33rd District, a Democratic seat that was redrawn by a Republican-led redistricting effort.

“The 33rd district was racially gerrymandered by Trump in an effort to further rig our democracy but it’s also the community where I grew up attending public schools and watching my mom struggle to pay for our groceries … It’s the community where I was raised, and where Aly and I are now raising our two boys. It is my home,” Allred said.

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Representative Jasmine Crockett of Texas filed to run for US Senate, a move expected to shake up the race after rising to fame amid her fierce clashes with Republicans, especially during Texas’ controversial mid-decade redistricting effort.

Crockett, one of Congress’ most outspoken Democrats, entered the race on the final day of qualifying in Texas. The 44-year-old is running for the Senate seat held by Republican John Cornyn, who is seeking reelection in the GOP-dominated state.

Crockett’s announcement came hours after former representative Colin Allred ended his own campaign for the Democratic nomination in favor of attempting a House comeback bid.

She faces a 3 March primary against Democratic state representative James Talarico, a former teacher with a rising national profile fueled by viral social media posts challenging Republican policies such as private school vouchers and requiring the Ten Commandments in classrooms.

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In another back and forth with Scott – this time on the topic of Obamacare subsidies that are set to expire at the end of this year – the president was forthright that he wants to “pay the people”.

“I want the money to be paid to the people to go out and buy their own healthcare instead of paying to the you know, the insurance companies,” he said.

If the tax credits do lapse, it will mean that premium payments would more than double, according to an analysis from KFF.