Trump’s sweeping tax lower and spending invoice heads to Home – US politics stay

The Trump administration has raised the potential for stripping Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic mayoral candidate for New York Metropolis, of his US citizenship as a part of a crackdown in opposition to foreign-born residents convicted of sure offences.

Karoline Leavitt, the White Home press secretary, appeared to pave the way in which for an investigation into Mamdani’s standing after Andy Ogles, a rightwing Republican consultant for Tennessee, known as for his citizenship to be revoked on the grounds that he might have hid his help for “terrorism” in the course of the naturalization course of.

Mamdani, 33, who was born in Uganda to ethnic Indian dad and mom, grew to become a US citizen in 2018 and has attracted widespread media consideration – and controversy – over his vocal help for Palestinian rights.

Donald Trump was requested on Tuesday about Mamdani’s pledge to “stop masked” Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) brokers “from deporting our neighbors”. The US president responded: “Well, then, we’ll have to arrest him,” Axios reported.

Mamdani posted an announcement on X in response. “The President of the United States just threatened to have me arrested, stripped of my citizenship, put in a detention camp and deported. Not because I have broken any law but because I will refuse to let Ice terrorize our city,” he wrote.

He continued: “His statements don’t just represent an attack on our democracy but an attempt to send a message to every New Yorker who refuses to hide in the shadows: if you speak up, they will come for you. We will not accept this intimidation.”

US president Donald Trump ought to go to Hiroshima to see the consequences of nuclear weapons after he in contrast the 1945 bombings to current airstrikes on Iran, the Japanese metropolis’s mayor mentioned.

Trump had advised reporters:

That hit ended the conflict. I don’t wish to use an instance of Hiroshima, I don’t wish to use an instance of Nagasaki, however that was basically the identical factor.

Chatting with reporters on Wednesday, mayor Kazumi Matsui mentioned:

It appears to me that he doesn’t absolutely perceive the truth of the atomic bombings, which, if used, take the lives of many harmless residents, no matter whether or not they have been good friend or foe, and threaten the survival of the human race.

I want that president Trump would go to the bombed space to see the truth of the atomic bombing and really feel the spirit of Hiroshima, after which make statements.

Ukraine known as the performing US envoy to the international ministry on Wednesday and harassed the significance of continuous crucial navy assist to combat Russia’s invasion, the ministry mentioned, after Washington halted some deliveries of ammunition and missiles to Kyiv.

In an announcement, it mentioned deputy international minister Mariana Betsa expressed gratitude to deputy chief of mission John Ginkel for US help, however warned {that a} cut-off in assist, notably air-defence programs, would embolden Russia, Reuters reported.

“The Ukrainian side emphasised that any delay or procrastination in supporting Ukraine’s defense capabilities will only encourage the aggressor to continue the war and terror, rather than seek peace,” it mentioned.

A federal choose has blocked the Trump administration’s bid to finish non permanent deportation protections and work permits for about 521,000 Haitian immigrants earlier than this system’s scheduled expiration date.

Earlier this yr, the Division of Homeland Safety rescinded Joe Biden’s extension of non permanent protected standing (TPS) for Haitians by 3 February. It known as for this system to finish on 3 August, and final week pushed again that date to 2 September.

The US district choose Brian Cogan in Brooklyn, nevertheless, mentioned the homeland safety secretary Kristi Noem didn’t comply with directions and a timeline mandated by Congress to rethink the TPS designation for Haitians.

“Secretary Noem does not have statutory or inherent authority to partially vacate a country’s TPS designation”, making her actions “unlawful”, Cogan wrote. “Plaintiffs are likely to (and, indeed, do) succeed on the merits.”

Cogan additionally mentioned Haitians’ pursuits in having the ability to stay and work in the US “far outweigh” potential hurt to the US authorities, which stays free to implement immigration legal guidelines and terminate TPS standing as prescribed by Congress.

CBS father or mother firm Paramount on Wednesday settled a lawsuit filed by Donald Trump over an interview broadcast in October, within the newest concession by a media firm to the US president, who has focused retailers over what he describes as false or deceptive protection.

Paramount mentioned it will pay $16m to settle the go well with with the cash allotted to Trump’s future presidential library, and never paid to Trump “directly or indirectly”.

“The settlement does not include a statement of apology or regret,” the corporate assertion added.

Trump filed a $10bn lawsuit in opposition to CBS in October, alleging the community deceptively edited an interview that aired on its 60 Minutes information program with then-vice-president and presidential candidate Kamala Harris to “tip the scales in favor of the Democratic party” within the election. In an amended criticism filed in February, Trump elevated his declare for damages to $20bn.

CBS aired two variations of the Harris interview wherein she seems to provide totally different solutions to the identical query in regards to the Israel-Hamas conflict, in line with the lawsuit filed in a federal court docket in Texas.

CBS beforehand mentioned the lawsuit was “completely without merit” and had requested a choose to dismiss the case.

The White Home didn’t instantly reply to a Reuters request for remark. Edward A Paltzik, a lawyer representing Trump within the civil go well with, couldn’t be instantly reached for remark.

Good morning and welcome to our stay protection of US politics as Donald Trump’s sweeping tax lower and spending laws is anticipated to go to the Home after it cleared the Senate final evening with the narrowest of margins.

The Senate handed the measure in a 51-50 vote with Vice President JD Vance breaking a tie after three Republicans – Thom Tillis of North Carolina, Susan Collins of Maine and Rand Paul of Kentucky – joined all 47 Democrats in voting in opposition to the invoice.

It adopted an extended debate wherein Republicans grappled with the so-called “one big beautiful” invoice’s price ticket – it’s set to lift the deficit by $5 trillion – and its affect on the US healthcare system.

The vote within the Home, the place Republicans maintain a 220-212 majority, is prone to be shut.

Mike Johnson, the Home speaker, mentioned throughout an interview with Fox Information’ Sean Hannity that Republican management would search to maneuver the laws by the Guidelines Committee this morning and get it earlier than all the Home earlier than Friday’s vacation, except journey plans have been upset by thunderstorms which have menaced the Washington space.

“Hopefully we’re voting on this by tomorrow or Thursday at latest, depending on the weather delays and travel and all the rest – that’s the wild card that we can’t control,” Johnson mentioned yesterday.

A White Home official advised reporters that Trump can be “deeply involved” in pushing Home Republicans to approve the invoice. “It’s a great bill. There is something for everyone,” Trump mentioned at an occasion in Florida. “And I think it’s going to go very nicely in the House.”

Is Trump’s optimism misplaced? You’ll be able to learn our report on the invoice’s progress to date and prospects for at present right here:

Entertainingly a minimum of, the invoice has reanimated the much-missed Musk-Trump feud, with the tech billionaire calling the laws “insane” and suggesting he might kind a brand new political celebration if it handed.

In response, Trump claimed he might “look into” deporting Musk. So stick with us for all of the developments.

In different information:

• Trump introduced on his social media platform that Israel has agreed to a 60-day ceasefire in its conflict in Gaza and urged Hamas to simply accept the phrases of the settlement. The information comes as Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is scheduled to go to the White Home on 7 July.

• Trump toured “Alligator Alcatraz”, a controversial new migrant detention jail within the distant Florida Everglades, and celebrated the cruel situations that folks despatched there would expertise. Florida governor, Ron DeSantis, and Homeland Safety secretary, Kristi Noem, mentioned detainees might arrive on the quickly constructed facility as quickly as tomorrow. Trump later revisited his thought of “renovating and rebuilding Alcatraz”, with a view to reopening the notorious island jail in San Francisco, which has been closed for over 60 years.

• The Pentagon has halted shipments of air protection missiles and different precision munitions to Ukraine over considerations that US stockpiles are too low. On Sunday, Moscow fired greater than 500 aerial weapons at Ukraine in a single day, in a barrage that Kyiv described as the largest air assault to date of the three-year conflict.

• USAID will formally cease implementing international assist beginning at present, secretary of state Marco Rubio mentioned. He added that the US’s help sooner or later can be focused and restricted, specializing in commerce fairly than assist.

• The Trump administration raised the chance of stripping Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic mayoral candidate for New York Metropolis, of his US citizenship over his vocal help for Palestinian rights. Democrat senator Chris Murphy slammed the concept as “racist bullshit”.