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The senate judiciary subcommittees are holding a joint hearing on the judicial branch’s check on executive power, amid federal judges halting several of Donald Trump’s orders with nationwide injunctions. I’ll bring you any key lines here.

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Donald Trump was not informed in advance of Ukraine’s drone attacks on Russia, Karoline Leavitt said.

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On Sunday, Ukraine said it launched 117 drones in an astonishing operation code-named “Spider’s Web” to attack Russian nuclear-capable long-range bomber planes at airfields in Siberia and the far north of the country.

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Donald Trump will sign an executive order today making official his vow to double tariffs on steel and aluminum, Karoline Leavitt told reporters.

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Last Friday Trump announced that he would increase tariffs on the two metals from 25% to 50%. Yesterday, Us steel and aluminum prices jumped while shares of foreign steelmakers fell.

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The White House said that it is aware of reports of Israeli troops firing on Palestinian people seeking aid near a food distribution site in southern Gaza.

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“We’re going to look into reports before we confirm them from this podium or before we take action,” Karoline Leavitt told reporters.

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At least 27 people were killed by Israeli fire as they waited for food at a distribution point set up by an Israeli-backed foundation in Gaza, according to health officials in the strip – the third such incident in three days. Israel admitted on Tuesday for the first time that its forces shot at individuals who were moving towards them.

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Elon Musk has significantly upped the ante in his criticism of Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful” tax and spending cut bill, calling it a “massive, outrageous, pork-filled … disgusting abomination” that will expand the “already gigantic” budget deficit.

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The billionaire, who only formally left his top role in the White House last week, wrote on his X platform:

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I’m sorry, but I just can’t stand it anymore. This massive, outrageous, pork-filled Congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination. Shame on those who voted for it: you know you did wrong. You know it.

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It will massively increase the already gigantic budget deficit to $2.5 trillion (!!!) and burden America citizens with crushingly unsustainable debt.

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Asked about Musk’s criticism, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said: “Look, the president already knows where Elon Musk stood on this bill.”

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“It doesn’t change the president’s opinion. This is one big, beautiful bill, and he’s sticking to it,” she added.

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Last week, Musk had sharply criticised Trump’s spending plan, saying he was “disappointed” with the response to the federal cost-cutting efforts of his signature “department of government efficiency” (Doge) that would increase the budget deficit.

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In an interview with CBS News, he called the bill too expensive and a measure that would “undermine” his work to make the government more “efficient”.

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At the same time, data seen by the Guardian has showed that more than a dozen National Weather Service (NWS) forecast offices along the hurricane-prone Gulf of Mexico coast are understaffed as the US plunges into an expected active season for ruinous storms. There is a lack of meteorologists in 15 of the regional weather service offices along the coastline from Texas to Florida, as well as in Puerto Rico – an area that takes the brunt of almost all hurricanes that hit the US. Several offices, including in Miami, Jacksonville, Puerto Rico and Houston, lack at least a third of all the meteorologists required to be fully staffed.

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Donald Trump will attend a summit of the transatlantic Nato alliance at The Hague later this month, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said.

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Donald Trump’s first batch of judicial nominees is set to go before a Senate panel as the president looks to further reshape a judiciary whose members have stymied parts of his agenda.

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Five of the 11 judicial nominees Trump has announced so far are slated to appear tomorrow before the Republican-led Senate judiciary committee, which will weigh whether to recommend them for the full Senate’s consideration.

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Those nominees all have conservative bona fides that their supporters say will help Trump shift the ideological balance of the judiciary further to the right after making 234 appointments in his first term, which was a near-record for a president’s first four years in office.

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Trump’s first-term appointees included three members of the supreme court, which since gaining a 6-3 conservative majority has curtailed abortion rights, rejected affirmative action policies on university campuses and limited the power of administrative agencies.

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White House spokesperson Harrison Fields said in a statement that Trump was committed to “restoring integrity to the judicial system, which begins with appointing America First judges, not unelected politicians in robes”. Among Wednesday’s nominees is Whitney Hermandorfer, who as a lawyer serving under Tennessee’s Republican attorney general has defended the state’s abortion ban and challenged federal protections for transgender youth.

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Hermandorfer, who is nominated to a seat on the Cincinnati-based 6th US circuit court of appeals, will appear before the Senate panel with four nominees to fill trial court vacancies in Missouri. Those include Joshua Divine, Missouri’s solicitor general, who challenged Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness efforts and has defended abortion and transgender healthcare restrictions.

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Mike Davis, whose conservative Article III Project backs Trump’s judicial nominees, said that in his second term Trump “doesn’t need to appease the DC establishment with weak and timid judges”.

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He is picking bold and fearless judges, like Emil Bove, who will follow the constitution instead of seeking establishment favor.

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Bove, a justice department official who previously served as Trump’s defense lawyer in the New York criminal trial over hush money paid to an adult film star, was nominated last week to join the Philadelphia-based 3rd US circuit court of appeals, which if approved by the Senate would be a lifetime tenure.

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His nomination drew criticism from Democrats and Ed Whelan, a conservative legal commentator who in a piece in the National Review called Bove’s nomination “disturbing”.

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Millions of legal immigrants may be left unable to work after the Social Security Administration quietly instituted a rule change to stop automatically issuing them social security numbers.

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The Enumeration Beyond Entry program is an agreement between the SSA and the Department of Homeland Security, where US Citizenship and Immigration Services would provide social security with information from applicants for work authorization or naturalization.

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The program began in 2017 under the first Trump Administration.

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Without any public notice, on 19 March, the program was halted, impacting millions of immigrants every year and burdening Social Security Administration offices, as those applicants will now have to visit a Social Security Administration office and apply separately to receive a social security number.

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Following the freeze, the Trump administration issued a memo on 15 April aimed at preventing undocumented immigrants from receiving social security benefits, but provided no evidence of it being an issue.

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Trump and Elon Musk, billionaire former leader of the so-called “department of government efficiency” (Doge) have falsely claimed these programs are being used to attract unauthorized immigrants to vote for Democrats.

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“Unauthorized immigrants are not eligible for Medicare or social security retirement benefits. Nor does any evidence exist that unauthorized immigrants fraudulently receive benefits in large numbers,” wrote Geoffrey Sanzenbacher, an economics professor at Boston College, in a blog post.

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Baldwin says that during her confirmation hearing McMahon had said funds appropriated by Congress “should be disseminated”.

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“Now we have a budget request that significantly cuts funding for public schools, students and educators,” Baldwin says, adding that $8bn remains “unallocated”.

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“Are you going to allocate all of the funding that Congress appropriated for students and schools … across the country this year?” she asks McMahon.

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She interrupts as McMahon begins to answer to say that the question isn’t “nuanced”. “Congress passed a law appropriating this funding, you said in your confirmation hearing that you would spend funding Congress appropriated.

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“If the answer isn’t simply ‘yes’, based on all the evidence before us that leads me to believe that you are planning to withhold funding and shortchange students and families across America.”

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Baldwin says she is “deeply concerned” the administration is planning to “illegally impound [congressionally appropriated] funds and dismantle the department of education” adding: “It will be students who pay the price.”

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“But if the executive branch is allowed to do that and ignore the laws we [Congress] pass, I’m not sure what we’re doing here,” Baldwin says.

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Secretary of education, Linda McMahon, is testifying before the Senate appropriations committee on the education department’s budget 2026 request. I’ll bring you all the key lines here.

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The Pentagon is poised to shift its oversight of Greenland by putting it under US Northern Command, “a symbolic gesture that would more closely align the island territory with the US”, Politico reports, adding: “The switch is the most concrete step yet in the Trump administration’s months-long effort to gain ownership over the autonomous island.”

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The shift in oversight would see Greenland moved from European Command’s jurisdiction to Northern Command, which is responsible for overseeing the security of North America – and could come as soon as this week, a DOD official and two people familiar with the planning told Politico. Denmark and the semi-autonomous Faroe Islands, on the other hand, would remain under European Command, “creating a symbolic and operational split between those territories and Greenland”.

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From the perspective of geography, the move makes some sense. From a political perspective, however, this clearly is going to worry Europe.

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Donald Trump has privately complained that the supreme court justices he appointed have not sufficiently stood behind his agenda, CNN reports, citing multiple sources familiar with the conversations, with particular ire at Justice Amy Coney Barrett, his most recent appointee.

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The president has also expressed frustration about Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, the sources told CNN, and his complaints have gone on for at least a year.

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According to the sources, Trump’s private anger at Barrett “has been fuelled by allies on the right who have told Trump privately that Barrett is ‘weak’ and that her rulings have not been in line with how she presented herself in an interview before Trump nominated her to the bench in 2020”.

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Causing anger in Trump’s orbit was Barrett’s vote in March to reject the president’s plan to freeze nearly $2bn in foreign aid, her decision that allowed Trump to be sentenced in his New York hush money case last year, and her decision to recuse herself from a high-profile case questioning whether a Catholic charter school in Oklahoma should be entitled to taxpayer funding (she had ties to the attorneys representing the school).

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CNN notes:

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Much of the criticism from the right has overlooked the fact that Barrett remains a reliable vote for conservative outcomes at the supreme court. She did not dissent in recent cases allowing Trump to enforce his ban on transgender service members, end temporary deportation protections for Venezuelans, fire board members at independent agencies and cut millions in education grants.

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And yet Barrett is nevertheless one of the most important justices to watch because she does, at times, break with the more rigid conservativism embraced by [Clarence] Thomas and [Samuel] Alito. A year ago, when the supreme court was hearing arguments about whether to grant Trump sweeping immunity from criminal prosecution, it was Barrett who was at the center of some of the most compelling exchanges with Trump’s attorney. Barrett was one of several justices who prodded Trump’s attorney to agree that a president’s ‘private’ actions would not qualify for immunity.

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But when the court’s decision landed in July, Barrett ultimately sided with the court’s conservatives to grant immunity to Trump.

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A Biological Male competed in California Girls State Finals, WINNING BIG, despite the fact that they were warned by me not to do so. As Governor Gavin Newscum fully understands, large scale fines will be imposed!!!

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He appeared to be referring to 16-year-old AB Hernandez, a transgender athlete who took home gold in the girls high jump and the triple jump at the California high school track and field championship last weekend.

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The California Interscholastic Federation (CIF), the governing board for California high school sports, changed the rules ahead of the competition to allow more cisgender girls to compete and medal in events in which Hernandez competed. CIF announced the change after Trump threatened last week to pull federal funding from California unless it bars transgender athletes from competing in girls’ sports.

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The immigration status of the man who allegedly attacked people with a makeshift flame-thrower and other incendiary devices at an event for Israeli hostages in Boulder, Colorado, has become further fodder for the Trump administration’s deportation agenda.

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Mohamed Sabry Soliman, a 45-year-old who came to the US in 2022 from Egypt and overstayed his initial tourist visa, according to the US government, allegedly planned his attack on the event specifically to target Zionists, federal authorities said. He shouted “Free Palestine” while carrying out the attack, which the FBI has called an “act of terrorism”, and he was charged on Monday with a federal hate crime.

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The attack combines two frequent enemies of the right – anti-Israel speech and actions, and illegal immigration – and is already being used on the right to garner support for more deportations. The response stands in contrast to how the right has reacted to attacks against Palestinians and Muslims in the US and to the conservative response to the war in Gaza. The Trump administration has also used support for Palestinians as an underpinning for deportations among college students.

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The Gateway Pundit, a rightwing outlet, is referring to Soliman as “Biden’s Illegal Alien from Egypt”. Stephen Miller, Donald Trump’s deputy chief of staff, said the “terror attack” was committed by an “illegal alien”.

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“He was granted a tourist visa by the Biden Administration and then he illegally overstayed that visa. In response, the Biden Administration gave him a work permit,” Miller wrote on X. “Suicidal migration must be fully reversed.”

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In a post on Truth Social, Trump blamed the attack on Biden’s “ridiculous Open Border Policy”.

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“He must go out under ‘TRUMP’ Policy,” Trump wrote. “Acts of Terrorism will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the Law. This is yet another example of why we must keep our Borders SECURE, and deport Illegal, Anti-American Radicals from our Homeland.”

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Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. I’m Tom Ambrose and I will be bringing you all the latest news lines over the next few hours.

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We start with the news that a man accused of using a makeshift flame-thrower and an incendiary device to attack a US group bringing attention to Israeli hostages in Gaza has been charged with a federal hate crime.

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Mohammed Sabry Soliman, 45, told police he had planned it for a year and targeted what he described as the “Zionist group”, the FBI said.

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CNN reviewed a Facebook account matching his name and date of birth. It reported:

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On the account’s page, which was last updated about 10 years ago, Soliman said he attended high school and college in Egypt and later moved to Kuwait, where he had an accounting job, according to the page. That account featured photos of Mohamed Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood leader who served as Egypt’s president from 2012 to 2013, when he was ousted in a military coup that triggered mass protests and sit-ins in Cairo.

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Posts on the Facebook page expressed support for the Muslim Brotherhood protests against the removal of Morsi. One post from August 2013 featured a four-finger salute with a yellow background, a symbol supportive of the Rabaa al-Adawiya square encampment, which was violently dispersed by Egyptian security forces loyal to Egypt’s then-defense minister and current president, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.

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Twelve people were injured in the attack in Colorado, some with burns, as a group was concluding a weekly demonstration to raise visibility for the hostages who remain in Gaza, AP reported. Witnesses reported the man shouted “Free Palestine” during the attack.

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An FBI affidavit says Soliman confessed to the attack after being taken into custody on Sunday and told the police he would do it again. The affidavit was released in support of a federal hate crime charged filed by the Justice Department on Monday.

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The attack happened on the beginning of the Jewish holiday of Shavuot, which is marked with the reading of the Torah, and barely a week after a man who also yelled “Free Palestine” was charged with fatally shooting two Israeli embassy employees outside a Jewish museum in Washington.

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Federal and state prosecutors filed separate criminal cases against Soliman, charging him with a hate crime and attempted murder, respectively. He faces additional state charges related to the incendiary devices, and more charges are possible in federal court, where the justice department will seek a grand jury indictment.

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During a state court hearing on Monday, Soliman appeared briefly via a video link from the Boulder County Jail wearing an orange jumpsuit.

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  The head of Ice defended his agency’s decision to arrest an 18-year-old Massachusetts high school student on his way to volleyball practice. US district judge Richard Stearns later ordered a 72-hour stay to “provide a fair opportunity for the judge who will be randomly assigned to this case” to review merits and rule on any contested issues in the case of Marcelo Gomes Da Silva.

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  Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) barred its 2025 class president from attending her graduation ceremony on Friday after she delivered a speech during a commencement event the day before condemning Israel’s war in Gaza and criticizing the university’s ties to Israel.

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  China accused the US of “seriously violating” and undermining the agreements reached in Geneva in May.

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  Prosecutors in Milwaukee charged a man on Monday with four felonies for attempting to frame an undocumented immigrant he is accused of assaulting, by sending forged letters in the immigrant’s name with a threat to kill Donald Trump.

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  New York’s lieutenant governor, Antonio Delgado, announced on Monday that he is running for governor, setting up a Democratic primary battle against the sitting governor, Kathy Hochul, who selected him for the job as her deputy.

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  Chuck Schumer, the Senate’s senior Democrat, released a social media video on Monday in which he seemed to taunt Donald Trump for supposedly being too “chicken” in negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program.

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Key events

Senate judiciary committees hearing on judicial branch’s oversight of executive authority

The senate judiciary subcommittees are holding a joint hearing on the judicial branch’s check on executive power, amid federal judges halting several of Donald Trump’s orders with nationwide injunctions. I’ll bring you any key lines here.

Trump was not informed of Ukraine drone attacks in advance, says White House

Donald Trump was not informed in advance of Ukraine’s drone attacks on Russia, Karoline Leavitt said.

On Sunday, Ukraine said it launched 117 drones in an astonishing operation code-named “Spider’s Web” to attack Russian nuclear-capable long-range bomber planes at airfields in Siberia and the far north of the country.

Trump to sign order doubling metals tariffs, White House says

Donald Trump will sign an executive order today making official his vow to double tariffs on steel and aluminum, Karoline Leavitt told reporters.

Last Friday Trump announced that he would increase tariffs on the two metals from 25% to 50%. Yesterday, Us steel and aluminum prices jumped while shares of foreign steelmakers fell.

White House says it is aware of reports of Israelis firing on Palestinian people seeking aid in Gaza

The White House said that it is aware of reports of Israeli troops firing on Palestinian people seeking aid near a food distribution site in southern Gaza.

“We’re going to look into reports before we confirm them from this podium or before we take action,” Karoline Leavitt told reporters.

At least 27 people were killed by Israeli fire as they waited for food at a distribution point set up by an Israeli-backed foundation in Gaza, according to health officials in the strip – the third such incident in three days. Israel admitted on Tuesday for the first time that its forces shot at individuals who were moving towards them.

‘A disgusting abomination’: Musk tears into Trump budget bill days after leaving White House

Elon Musk has significantly upped the ante in his criticism of Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful” tax and spending cut bill, calling it a “massive, outrageous, pork-filled … disgusting abomination” that will expand the “already gigantic” budget deficit.

The billionaire, who only formally left his top role in the White House last week, wrote on his X platform:

I’m sorry, but I just can’t stand it anymore. This massive, outrageous, pork-filled Congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination. Shame on those who voted for it: you know you did wrong. You know it.

It will massively increase the already gigantic budget deficit to $2.5 trillion (!!!) and burden America citizens with crushingly unsustainable debt.

Asked about Musk’s criticism, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said: “Look, the president already knows where Elon Musk stood on this bill.”

“It doesn’t change the president’s opinion. This is one big, beautiful bill, and he’s sticking to it,” she added.

Last week, Musk had sharply criticised Trump’s spending plan, saying he was “disappointed” with the response to the federal cost-cutting efforts of his signature “department of government efficiency” (Doge) that would increase the budget deficit.

In an interview with CBS News, he called the bill too expensive and a measure that would “undermine” his work to make the government more “efficient”.

White House says it’s monitoring China’s compliance with trade deal

The White House said that it is actively monitoring China’s compliance with last month’s tariff agreement, in response to questions on how it is handling Beijing’s curbs on rare earth minerals.

Karoline Leavitt also reiterated that Donald Trump would soon be speaking with Chinese president Xi Jinping.

“I can assure you that the administration is actively monitoring China’s compliance with the Geneva trade agreement,” she told reporters. “Our administration officials continue to be engaged in correspondence with their Chinese counterparts.”

Fema ‘taking hurricane season seriously’, says White House after agency head ‘joked’ that he didn’t know about it

The White House said that Fema (the Federal Emergency Management Agency) is taking severe storms seriously, following a Reuters report that the head of the agency said he was not aware of hurricane season.

“We know that we are into hurricane season now, and I know Fema is taking this seriously, contrary to some of the reporting we have seen based on jokes that were made and leaks from meetings,” Karoline Leavitt told reporters.

Reuters reported that David Richardson, who has led Fema since early May, had told baffled staff he had not been aware that the US has a hurricane season. It was not clear to staff whether he meant it literally, as a joke, or in some other context.

A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security, Fema’s parent agency, told Reuters the comment was a joke and that Fema is prepared for hurricane season.

Trump has said Fema should be shrunk or even eliminated, arguing states can take on many of its functions, as part of a wider downsizing of the federal government. About 2,000 full-time Fema staff, one-third of its total, have been terminated or voluntarily left the agency since the start of the Trump administration in January.

At the same time, data seen by the Guardian has showed that more than a dozen National Weather Service (NWS) forecast offices along the hurricane-prone Gulf of Mexico coast are understaffed as the US plunges into an expected active season for ruinous storms. There is a lack of meteorologists in 15 of the regional weather service offices along the coastline from Texas to Florida, as well as in Puerto Rico – an area that takes the brunt of almost all hurricanes that hit the US. Several offices, including in Miami, Jacksonville, Puerto Rico and Houston, lack at least a third of all the meteorologists required to be fully staffed.

And the National Hurricane Center (NHC), the Miami-based nerve center for tracking hurricanes, is short five specialists, the Guardian has learned, despite assurances from the Trump administration that it is fully staffed ahead of what’s anticipated to be a busy hurricane season that officially started on Sunday.

Experts have warned the turmoil unleashed by Trump upon the NWS and Fema, which has had multiple leadership changes and still does not have a completed plan for this year’s hurricane season, will dangerously hamper the response to a summer that will likely bring storms, floods and wildfires across the US.

Trump will attend Nato summit, White House says

Donald Trump will attend a summit of the transatlantic Nato alliance at The Hague later this month, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said.

Defense secretary Pete Hegseth will testify before the Senate armed services commitee at a 18 June hearing on the administration’s budget request, NBC is reporting, citing a source.

It will mark Hegseth’s first time appearing publicly before Congress since his confirmation.

Anna Betts

A federal prosecutor who helped lead the Department of Justice’s investigation into the January 6 attack on Congress has resigned – and, in a new interview, he criticized Donald Trump’s decision to pardon or commute the sentences of about 1,500 people charged in connection with the Capitol attack, saying that it “sends a terrible message to the American people”.

Longtime assistant US attorney Greg Rosen, the former chief of the justice department’s Capitol siege section, sat down with CBS News after resigning over the weekend.

In the interview, Rosen said that he was “shocked, if not stunned” by the breadth of the pardons Trump issued to those involved in the 6 January 2021 attack just hours after his second presidential inauguration.

“I think the message that they send is that political violence towards a political goal is acceptable in a modern democratic society,” Rosen said. “That, from my perspective, is anathema to a constitutional republic.”

Laura Loomer, the far-right influencer behind some of the Trump administration’s firings, met privately with JD Vance at the White House this morning, CNN is reporting, citing sources.

The vice president met alone with Loomer at the Eisenhower executive office building, the outlet reports. It is not known what the pair discussed.

After Loomer’s last known visit to the White House in April, Donald Trump fired several national security council staffers whom she described as disloyal to the president.

The firings created the extraordinary situation where Loomer appeared to have more influence than Mike Waltz, who was the national security adviser at the time, over the NSC and undercut Waltz in having aides axed under him.

Ras Baraka, the mayor of Newark, has sued New Jersey’s top federal prosecutor over his arrest on a trespassing charge at an immigration detention center.

Baraka, who is also running for the Democratic nomination for New Jersey governor, alleges that he was arrested for trespassing without cause and maliciously prosecuted following a tense confrontation last month at a privately run immigration detention center in Newark.

The lawsuit names as defendants Alina Habba, the acting US attorney in New Jersey and former personal lawyer to Donald Trump, and Ricky Patel, a Homeland security department official who allegedly ordered the arrest.

The lawsuit seeks damages for “false arrest and malicious prosecution,” and also accuses Habba of defamation for comments she made about his case, which was later dropped.

“This is not about revenge,” Baraka said during a news conference.

Ultimately, I think this is about them taking accountability for what has happened to me.

Trump seeks to reshape judiciary as first nominees face Senate

Donald Trump’s first batch of judicial nominees is set to go before a Senate panel as the president looks to further reshape a judiciary whose members have stymied parts of his agenda.

Five of the 11 judicial nominees Trump has announced so far are slated to appear tomorrow before the Republican-led Senate judiciary committee, which will weigh whether to recommend them for the full Senate’s consideration.

Those nominees all have conservative bona fides that their supporters say will help Trump shift the ideological balance of the judiciary further to the right after making 234 appointments in his first term, which was a near-record for a president’s first four years in office.

Trump’s first-term appointees included three members of the supreme court, which since gaining a 6-3 conservative majority has curtailed abortion rights, rejected affirmative action policies on university campuses and limited the power of administrative agencies.

White House spokesperson Harrison Fields said in a statement that Trump was committed to “restoring integrity to the judicial system, which begins with appointing America First judges, not unelected politicians in robes”. Among Wednesday’s nominees is Whitney Hermandorfer, who as a lawyer serving under Tennessee’s Republican attorney general has defended the state’s abortion ban and challenged federal protections for transgender youth.

Hermandorfer, who is nominated to a seat on the Cincinnati-based 6th US circuit court of appeals, will appear before the Senate panel with four nominees to fill trial court vacancies in Missouri. Those include Joshua Divine, Missouri’s solicitor general, who challenged Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness efforts and has defended abortion and transgender healthcare restrictions.

Mike Davis, whose conservative Article III Project backs Trump’s judicial nominees, said that in his second term Trump “doesn’t need to appease the DC establishment with weak and timid judges”.

He is picking bold and fearless judges, like Emil Bove, who will follow the constitution instead of seeking establishment favor.

Bove, a justice department official who previously served as Trump’s defense lawyer in the New York criminal trial over hush money paid to an adult film star, was nominated last week to join the Philadelphia-based 3rd US circuit court of appeals, which if approved by the Senate would be a lifetime tenure.

His nomination drew criticism from Democrats and Ed Whelan, a conservative legal commentator who in a piece in the National Review called Bove’s nomination “disturbing”.

Millions of legal immigrants’ lives upended after social security freeze

Michael Sainato

Millions of legal immigrants may be left unable to work after the Social Security Administration quietly instituted a rule change to stop automatically issuing them social security numbers.

The Enumeration Beyond Entry program is an agreement between the SSA and the Department of Homeland Security, where US Citizenship and Immigration Services would provide social security with information from applicants for work authorization or naturalization.

The program began in 2017 under the first Trump Administration.

Without any public notice, on 19 March, the program was halted, impacting millions of immigrants every year and burdening Social Security Administration offices, as those applicants will now have to visit a Social Security Administration office and apply separately to receive a social security number.

Following the freeze, the Trump administration issued a memo on 15 April aimed at preventing undocumented immigrants from receiving social security benefits, but provided no evidence of it being an issue.

Trump and Elon Musk, billionaire former leader of the so-called “department of government efficiency” (Doge) have falsely claimed these programs are being used to attract unauthorized immigrants to vote for Democrats.

“Unauthorized immigrants are not eligible for Medicare or social security retirement benefits. Nor does any evidence exist that unauthorized immigrants fraudulently receive benefits in large numbers,” wrote Geoffrey Sanzenbacher, an economics professor at Boston College, in a blog post.

Republican senator Katie Britt asks about funding for charter school programs, which in the budget proposal is raised by $50m to $600m. She asks how these funds will be used to expand options particularly in rural and underserved communities so parents have “more choice” for their children.

McMahon says “no child should be trapped in a failing school”, which led Trump to want to expand funding for charter schools. She says the “freedom of choice” you get with charter schools is important.

For context, as my colleague Marina Dunbar wrote last month: “Charter schools are set up as alternatives to traditional public schools. They typically operate under private management and often feature small class sizes, innovative teaching styles or a particular academic focus.”

Last month the supreme court blocked an attempt led by two Catholic dioceses to establish in Oklahoma the nation’s first taxpayer-funded religious charter school in a major case involving religious rights in US education that challenged the constitutional separation of church and state.

Marina writes: “Opponents have said religious charter schools would force taxpayers to support religious indoctrination. Establishing them also could undermine non-discrimination principles, they argued, because religious charter schools might seek to bar employees who do not adhere to doctrinal teachings.”

Democratic senator Dick Durbin grills McMahon on why they’re cutting the borrower defense branch of the education department, which supports students who have been left “exploited” and struggling to pay off debt after attending for-profit schools.

After stumbling over what the department is doing to address the problem, McMahon points to counsellors in schools who can provide support to those students, before Durbin cuts her off to point out that, as we’ve just heard, the administration is reducing funding for those very counsellors too.

Republican senator, Shelley Moore Capito, asks how they plan to ensure that Jewish students are able to learn in an environment free from intimidation on college campuses given the budget proposes to decrease the office of civil rights.

Education secretary, Linda McMahon, says actions taken on Columbia University and also Harvard illustrate that the administration “will not tolerate antisemitism on campuses or discrimination of any kind”. Those actions include moves to prevent encampments and mask-wearing (a reference to pro-Palestine protests last year).

“We are actively enforcing that and we have defunded [programs at Columbia and Harvard,” McMahon says. “We’re saying we mean business.”

The Guardian