Trump Administration Live Updates: Immigration Crackdown Stiffens Rules for Release of Migrant Children
Where Things Stand
"Migrant children: The Trump administration toughened the security requirements for sponsors of migrant children, a move that could make it more difficult for minors who cross the border alone to be released from federal custody and united with family members in the United States. The policy is similar to one imposed during the first Trump administration, which sought to tighten the vetting process for those living with migrant children. Read more ›
Layoffs escalate: Around 1,000 federal workers were told they were losing their jobs at the Energy Department, and the Internal Revenue Service is preparing to lay off thousands of employees beginning as soon as next week as the Trump administration escalates its effort to slash the size of the federal work force. The job cuts followed an advisory from the government’s human resources division telling agencies to terminate most of an estimated 200,000 new workers still on probation.
Covid vaccination: President Trump signed an executive order halting federal funding for schools and universities that have Covid-19 vaccination mandates. The order’s impact was expected to be muted: No states still require K-12 students to be vaccinated against Covid. And only 15 colleges still required Covid vaccines for students as of late last year, according to No College Mandates, an advocacy group. Read more ›
In his first three weeks back in office, President Trump has set a dizzying pace of political and social change, issuing dozens of executive directives meant to dramatically remake the federal government and drive the country in a new direction.
Mr. Trump has continued his pursuit of an America First agenda through selective trade tariffs. At the same time, he has looked beyond American shores in proposing the forced relocations of Palestinians from Gaza to make way for redevelopment. And a fuller picture has emerged of Mr. Trump’s partnership with Elon Musk, a billionaire private citizen, who is barreling ahead with shrinking the government work force.
A federal judge declined on Friday to block the access of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency to records systems containing personal information at the Health and Human Services Department, the Labor Department and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a setback for unions and nonprofits trying to fight Elon Musk’s effort to cut and reshape government.
In an 11-page ruling, Judge John D. Bates of the Federal District Court in Washington wrote that he had grave concerns about the privacy issues raised by the case, particularly because the data in question “includes information on all Americans who rely on Medicare and Medicaid, as well as countless consumers.”
A federal judge denied eight former inspectors general who were fired by President Trump immediate reinstatement to their jobs on Friday and excoriated their lawyers, saying that their emergency request had wasted the court’s limited time.
The ruling by Judge Ana C. Reyes of the Federal District Court in Washington marked a rare victory for the Trump administration in the barrage of lawsuits that has followed its attempts to slash the federal work force, freeze funding, dismantle agencies and install officials loyal to the president. But it is not necessarily permanent: Judge Reyes criticized the case more on procedural than substantive grounds and allowed it to proceed on a less urgent schedule.
At the nation’s scientific and public health agencies, panic set in as officials braced for a wave of layoffs and, some feared, forced resignation of high-ranking officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health.
Some of the C.D.C.’s vaunted “disease detectives” corps, who track and respond to infectious disease outbreaks around the world, were told they would lose their jobs, according to one person familiar with the plans who was not authorized to speak publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity. Some are trainees in the first year of a two-year program.
The Trump administration on Friday toughened the security requirements for sponsors of migrant children, a move that could make it more difficult for minors who cross the border alone to be released from federal custody and united with family members in the United States.
The policy is similar to one imposed during the first Trump administration, which sought to tighten the vetting process for those living with migrant children.
President Trump has been busy upending the federal government, reorienting U.S. foreign policy, threatening trade wars and winning confirmation for his Cabinet choices.
But he has managed to find time for a project closer to home: He has told associates that he wants to rip up the grass in the Rose Garden, one of the White House’s most iconic and meticulously maintained spots, and replace it with a hard surface to resemble a patio like the one he has at Mar-a-Lago.
The Internal Revenue Service is preparing to lay off thousands of employees as soon as next week, according to three people familiar with the matter, as the Trump administration pushes to dramatically shrink the size of the federal work force.
The Office of Personnel Management, the federal government’s human resources department, ordered agencies across the government this week to terminate probationary employees, who are relatively new to their positions and do not enjoy as much job protection. It was unclear on Friday exactly how many I.R.S. employees would be affected by the order."
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