Democrats have focused on trying to keep Affordable Care Act subsidies from expiring for millions of Americans who purchase insurance on Obamacare exchanges. Without this federal support, costs are expected to soar across the health care economy. Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson said he "won't negotiate" unless Democrats first agree to reopen the government, losing their leverage for any deal.
Public health experts and others are still trying to determine the exact impact of the latest government layoffs at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But one union estimates that the Atlanta-based agency has lost roughly a quarter of its workforce so far this year.
The American Federation of Government Employees held a call with reporters Tuesday, in which it estimated that of the more than 13,000 CDC employees at the beginning of this year, more than 3,000 have left through layoffs, buyouts, retirements or other ways.
AFGE officials were reacting to questions about more than 1,300 CDC received reduction-in-force notices that went out Friday — of which about 700 were late revoked in follow-up notices.
Government officials attributed to chaos to a coding error, but have not responded to questions about how a mistake of that magnitude happened, and what CDC programs and staff are being eliminated in this latest round.
"He helped make it happen," the Republican president said. Without Kirk, "maybe you would have Kamala standing her today," referring to former Vice President Kamala Harris who was his Democratic opponent last year. "That would not be good."
Trump opened the ceremony for Charlie Kirk's posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom by noting how beautiful the day was out in the Rose Garden.
He said that the weather was supposed to be terrible and rainy but instead it was sunny, allowing the event to be moved from indoors to outdoors.
"I was telling Erika, God was watching," Trump said of Kirk's widow. "And he didn't want that for Charlie."
A high-speed chase involving Border Patrol agents pursuing a suspect led to a crash Tuesday afternoon in a residential street on Chicago's East Side, authorities said. Footage from the scene shows bystanders gathering before agents deployed a tear gas to disperse them.
While Border Patrol agents conducted an immigration enforcement operation, DHS officials said a person suspected of being in the country illegally used a vehicle to ram into a Border Patrol vehicle before fleeing. The agents chased the suspect's vehicle until the suspect stopped and attempted to run away on foot, according to DHS.
As agents arrested the suspect, a crowd began to form and "crowd control methods were used," DHS officials said.
The Chicago Police Department confirmed that federal agents deployed tear gas into the street.
Footage from ABC shows dozens of protesters waving flags as several federal agents and local police officers hold them back from the street. Border Patrol agents can be seen throwing tear gas cannisters into the crowd, enveloping the street in a white gas as protesters cough and run from the area.
In a Truth Social post, he called Beijing's decision not to buy U.S. soybeans "an Economically Hostile Act."
He wrote that the U.S. can "easily produce Cooking Oil ourselves" and doesn't need to buy it from China. China has been the biggest foreign buyer of American soybeans for many years but hasn't bought any since May.
The post is the latest escalatory rhetoric after trade tensions flared up last week when Beijing imposed extra export rules on rare earths products. However, both sides also have made off-ramp remarks, with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent telling Fox News on Monday that the leaders still plan to meet at the end of the month in South Korea.
More than 200 civil rights workers at the U.S. Education Department are being laid off after an appeals court cleared the way for their dismissal.
An appeals court last month reversed a lower court decision that blocked the March firings. Department officials cited the ruling in a layoff notice that was sent to Office for Civil Rights workers on Monday and obtained by The Associated Press.
It adds to more than 400 other layoffs the department announced last week as the Trump administration pressures Democratic lawmakers over the federal shutdown.
A department spokesperson did not immediately comment.
Mass layoffs in March nearly halved the Education Department, but a federal judge halted the firing of about 260 Office for Civil Rights workers. Many were being brought back to the agency when an appeals court reversed the decision.
The president says his administration is using the government shutdown to target federal programs that Democrats like and "they're never going to come back, in many cases."
"We are closing up Democrat programs that we disagree with and they're never going to open again," he said.
Trump added: "We're being able to do things that we were unable to do before" during the shutdown, which he blames on Democrats. Democrats blame Republicans, who control both chambers of Congress and the White House.
Trump said officials will present a list of targeted programs on Friday.
He didn't provide further details except to say his administration is seeking to terminate "some of the most egregious socialist - semi-communist" programs.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the Pentagon press corps that has objected to the policy should have been "front and center across the board on wanting to give credit to the president" for his ceasefire deal in Gaza, but "Instead, what they want to talk about is a policy about them."
Outlets including The Associated Press, New York Times and Newsmax have refused to agree to the policy, saying it threatens to punish them for routine news gathering protected by the First Amendment.
Trump said he thought the press is "very dishonest" and said he could see why Hegseth is "bothered" by the press access to the Pentagon.
"It bothers me to have soldiers and, you know, even high-ranking generals walking around with you guys on their sleeve," Trump said.
Trump suggested he might move the White House press corps out of the building and said, "You're lucky I'm president because we could move them very easily across the street."
"We could take them away," the president said of games in the city that he said were already sold out.
"If somebody is doing a bad job, and if I feel there's unsafe conditions, I would call Gianni - the head of FIFA who's phenomenal -- and I would say, "Let's move into another location" and they would do that."
Trump meant FIFA head Gianni Infantino. He said Infantino "wouldn't love to do it, but he'd do it very easily."
The president didn't offer specifics, but suggested that crime threats were hurting Boston and that his administration could solve those.
He's already deployed National Guard troops to Washington and Memphis, and Trump's efforts to increase military presence in Chicago and Portland, Oregon, have sparked legal fights.
As the government shutdown leaves many federal workers furloughed or working without pay, its impact is increasingly being felt in missed paychecks.
The union representing members of the U.S. Capitol Police — who protect the Capitol, members of Congress and their staff — said that on Friday, officers did not receive a full paycheck.
"The longer the shutdown drags on, the harder it becomes for my officers," said Gus Papathanasiou, chairman of the union. "Banks and landlords do not give my officers a pass because we are in shutdown - they still expect to be paid."
Trump, seeming to refer to Argentina's crucial midterm elections later this month that will be a referendum on Milei's policies, said that "If he loses, we are not going to be generous with Argentina."
It's not the first time this year Trump has sought to insert himself in the domestic affairs of another country to protect a leader seen as an ally.
The comments came a day after Trump, while speaking at the Knessett, called for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to be pardoned in the corruption trial he faces. Trump branded the trial a "witch hunt," a term he used for his own court cases while he was running for president last year.
The president also called the prosecution against former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, for attempting to overturn his 2022 election, a "witch hunt." Trump then imposed 50% tariffs on the Latin American country and sanctioned its main justice in retaliation.
Scott Bessent met with Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko to reaffirm the U.S.' "unwavering support for Ukrainian sovereignty."
A Treasury readout of the meeting states that Bessent stressed the need for European allies to ratchet up pressure on Russia, and any country that purchases Russian oil.
He said the move could come in retaliation for Spain now following other NATO members and increasing its military spending.
Trump added that Spain is "doing very well off our backs." He was referring to Spain being the sole member of the 32-nation alliance not to commit to increasing military spending to 5% of GDP.
Trump said that geography ensures that Spain gets NATO protection "automatically" but that what the country had done was "very disrespectful to NATO."
Trump has previously suggested Spain should be expelled from NATO. He didn't say that this time, but said of imposing possible tariffs, "I may do that" and that, "I think they should be punished."
That's despite Trump's administration already having negotiated tariff rates with the European Union, which includes Spain.
Trump says he wants dead hostages held in Gaza back and warns Hamas if "they don't disarm, we will disarm them."
The U.S. president made the comment while speaking at the White House during Argentinian President Javier Milei's visit.
It comes after an Israeli military agency declared a "violation" of the truce agreement that it would respond to by halving the number of trucks allowed to bring humanitarian aid into the devastated territory.
The glowing letter that the Argentine leader wrote expressed his "deepest admiration" for Trump and his "commitment to peace."
Trump has long sought a Nobel Peace Prize but suggested he may never be awarded it.
Trump received nominations for the prize this year but many of them occurred after the February deadline for the 2025 award. That fell just a week and a half into his second term.
Foreign leaders who've sought close relations with the White House have suggested Trump should win the award or said they will nominate him.
The U.S. is establishing a $20 billion currency swap line to prop up the Argentine peso — and that assistance is to help a "great philosophy take over a great country," Trump says.
"Argentina is one of the most beautiful countries that I've ever seen," Trump said.
The president also stressed that it was helping "our neighbors."
Secretary of State Marco Rubio added that Argentina was "foremost" among Latin American countries that have "aligned with the United States on issue after issue."
"I think this is important," Trump said. "This is our hemisphere."
The two leaders are holding a working lunch in the Cabinet Room at the White House.
"He's MAGA all the way," Trump said of the Argentine leader. It usually refers to Trump's campaign slogan, "Make America Great Again," but in this instance, Trump was also using it to say "Make Argentina Great Again."
Milei, speaking in Spanish, said he was "very honored, especially in this moment when we are giving thanks for Trump's great leadership."
"We can follow a peaceful route and make Argentina a strong example for freedom and prosperity," Milei said.
He said in a post on social media that six people were killed in the strike on the vessel suspected of carrying drugs off the waters of Venezuela. No U.S. forces were harmed.
It's the fifth deadly strike in the Caribbean as the Trump administration has asserted that it is treating alleged drug traffickers as unlawful combatants who must be met with military force.
Frustration with the administration has been growing on Capitol Hill among members of both major political parties. Some Republicans are seeking more information from the White House on the legal justification and details of the strikes. Democrats contend the strikes violate U.S. and international law.