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Trump Administration Live Updates: Birthright Citizenship Order Blocked Indefinitely

Migrants from Venezuela at the U.S.-Mexico border in January.Paul Ratje for The New York Times

"Where Things Stand

  • Birthright citizenship: A federal judge in Maryland issued a nationwide injunction blocking President Trump’s executive order that sought to unilaterally eliminate automatic citizenship for children born to undocumented or temporary immigrants on U.S. soil. The preliminary injunction is a more durable block than the 14-day restraining order issued last month by a court in Seattle. Read more ›

  • Worker purge expands: The Elon Musk-led effort to drastically shrink the federal work force has expanded to the C.I.A., which began offering employees the option to stop working and leave the agency effective Sept. 30. National security-related agencies had previously been exempted from the offers. The nation’s largest federation of unions has begun a campaign to push back called the Department of People Who Work for a Living — a play on Mr. Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.

  • Gaza takeover: Palestinian and other officials rejected President Trump’s suggestion that the United States should take over the Gaza Strip and that all Palestinians should leave the enclave, which could be rebuilt into “the Riviera of the Middle East.” Follow live ›

A Tesla showroom at an auto show in Munich in 2023. The company’s sales have been sliding there.Felix Schmitt for The New York Times

Tesla’s sales in Germany plunged 59 percent in January, the month when Elon Musk, the company’s chief executive and a close adviser to President Trump, chided Germans for focusing too much on “past guilt” for Nazi-era crimes and urged voters to support a nationalist party in the country’s general election.

As Mr. Musk has been intent on slashing the U.S. budget through an initiative he calls the Department of Government Efficiency, the electric vehicle company he runs has been steadily losing market share across Europe.

President Vladimir Putin of Russia with the Kremlin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, in November.Turar Kazangapov/Reuters

The Kremlin confirmed on Wednesday it has established contact with the Trump administration, as discussions begin about the possibility of holding peace talks to end the war in Ukraine.

“There are indeed contacts between individual departments, and they have intensified recently, but I cannot tell you any other details,” Dmitri S. Peskov, the spokesman for President Vladimir V. Putin, said during a call with reporters.

Glenn Thrush
Feb. 5, 2025, 12:03 p.m. ET

Pam Bondi, who was confirmed as attorney general last night, has been sworn in during a ceremony at the White House. She now leads the Justice Department, which is in turmoil over firings and forced transfers at the department.

Glenn Thrush
Feb. 5, 2025, 12:03 p.m. ET

Bondi vowed to “restore order” and told Trump, “I’ve known you for many years, and I will not let you down.” Trump predicted Bondi would do her job in a nonpartisan way -- mostly. “I know I’m supposed to say, ‘She’s going to be totally impartial with respect to Democrats,’ and I think she will be as impartial as a person can be,” he said.

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Aishvarya Kavi
Feb. 5, 2025, 11:41 a.m. ET

A few hundred people, including members of Congress and former leaders of U.S.A.I.D., are rallying in a park just north of the Capitol to call on President Trump and Congress to restore foreign aid. The crowd is chanting, “Elon Musk has got to go!”

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Aishvarya Kavi
Feb. 5, 2025, 11:41 a.m. ET

Senator Chris Van Hollen, Democrat of Maryland, is speaking to the crowd and called the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. “a gift to our adversaries” and an illegal act that violates the authority of Congress.

Sophie Park for The New York Times

A Federal District Court judge in Maryland issued a preliminary injunction on Wednesday blocking President Trump’s attempt to unilaterally eliminate automatic U.S. citizenship for children born to undocumented or temporary immigrants on U.S. soil.

The nationwide injunction, issued by Judge Deborah L. Boardman, who was nominated to the bench by President Biden, applies nationally and is more permanent than the 14-day temporary restraining order issued on Jan. 23 by a federal judge in Seattle. In most cases, a preliminary injunction remains in force until a case is resolved or a higher court overturns it.

Mattathias Schwartz
Feb. 5, 2025, 11:25 a.m. ET

A Federal District Court judge in Maryland has issued a preliminary injunction blocking President Trump’s attempt to unilaterally eliminate the automatic citizenship granted to children born on U.S. soil to undocumented or temporary immigrants. The injunction is more durable than a restraining order that was issued last month in Seattle.

Luke Broadwater
Feb. 5, 2025, 11:13 a.m. ET

House Republicans this morning blocked a motion from Democrats that would have forced Elon Musk to testify before Congress about his aggressive incursion into the federal government. Representative Gerry Connolly of Virginia, the top Democrat on the Oversight Committee, moved to subpoena Musk, saying he and President Trump “are using a wrecking ball to systematically dismember our government piece by piece.” Republicans had to scramble to get their members to block the subpoena.

Rebecca Davis O’Brien
Feb. 5, 2025, 11:00 a.m. ET

Gwynne Wilcox, a member of the National Labor Relations Board who was ousted last week by President Trump in a late-night email, filed a lawsuit Wednesday in federal court in Washington saying her removal violated labor law. Her removal left the board – an independent body that adjudicates labor relations disputes – paralyzed: It cannot hear cases without at least three members and now has two. According to the complaint, the email in which Wilcox was fired cited no actual failure to do her job, instead it cited Trump’s belief that “heads of agencies within the Eexecutive branch must share the objectives” of his administration.

Tucked within the Treasury Department, the Bureau of the Fiscal Service operates a system that channels about 95 percent of the payments for an economy that spent about $6 trillion last year.Julia Nikhinson for The New York Times

The first weeks of President Trump’s second term have been dominated by a blizzard of executive orders aimed at reversing diversity policies, trade wars with major American trading partners and intrigue over the most important federal office that most Americans have never heard of in the Bureau of the Fiscal Service.

Tucked within the Treasury Department, the bureau is staffed by career civil servants who operate a system that channels about 90 percent of the payments for the United States government, which spent about $6.75 trillion last fiscal year.

Groups protesting Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency in Washington on Tuesday.Jason Andrew for The New York Times

The nation’s largest federation of unions is starting a campaign to push back on Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, who has been empowered by President Trump to carry out a largely unchecked attempt to purge the federal work force.

The campaign by the A.F.L.-C.I.O. is called the Department of People Who Work for a Living, a play on Mr. Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.

The C.I.A. director, John Ratcliffe, in Washington last month.Doug Mills/The New York Times

The C.I.A. is offering its employees what it is calling “deferred resignation,” an option to quit but continue to be paid through September, as part of the Elon Musk-led efforts to shrink the size of the federal work force, officials said.

National security-related agencies had originally been exempted, at least partially, from the governmentwide “fork in the road” offer to leave their jobs that was extended last week. But John Ratcliffe, the C.I.A. director, pushed to have a version of the offer extended to his work force.

David E. Sanger
Feb. 5, 2025, 8:38 a.m. ET

President Trump made his most explicit case yet for negotiating a new Iran nuclear deal this morning, saying he wanted “a Verified Nuclear Peace Agreement, which will let Iran peacefully grow and prosper.” But he offered no details. It was Trump who withdrew from the last verified agreement, the 2015 nuclear accord that Iran negotatiated with the Obama administration. Under that deal Iran turned over 97 percent of its nuclear material and limited its research and development work, but did not dismantle all of its facilities. 

Enjoli Liston
Feb. 5, 2025, 7:57 a.m. ET

President Trump congratulated Pam Bondi on her confirmation as attorney general in an early-morning post on Truth Social. “Congratulations to our wonderful and very talented United States Attorney General, Pam Bondi, who gets sworn in today amid tremendous support, and the respect of ALL!” he wrote. “I know Pam well, it was an honor to appoint her, and my prediction is that she will go down as one of the best and most consequential Attorney Generals in the history of our Country.”

A U.S.A.I.D. cargo container in Manila on Tuesday. The scope of the agency is extensive and covers a variety of humanitarian relief efforts.Jam Sta Rosa/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

When Elon Musk set about “feeding U.S.A.I.D. into the wood chipper,” as he put it, it wasn’t only supporters of President Trump’s “America First” agenda who were cheering the dismantlement of the foreign aid agency.

The Kremlin was, too.

A U.S. Air Force plane carrying deported Indians landing in Amritsar, a city in Punjab State in northwestern India, on Wednesday.Narinder Nanu/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

A U.S. military plane with at least 100 migrants aboard landed in India on Wednesday, officials said, the longest such deportation flight since President Trump took office and a sign that countries whose leaders he favors will not be spared his immigration crackdown.

It appeared to be the first use of an American military aircraft to deport people to India, which is one of the top sources of unauthorized immigration to the United States. More than 1,000 Indians were sent back to the country last year on commercial flights.

President Trump signed an executive order to end America’s involvement in the U.N.’s Human Rights Council.Eric Lee/The New York Times

President Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday calling for a general review of U.S. funding and involvement in the United Nations, casting uncertainty on the leadership role the United States has played as the global body’s top donor.

“I’ve always felt that the U.N. has tremendous potential,” Mr. Trump said before signing the order in the Oval Office. “It’s not living up to that potential right now.”

Pam Bondi during a hearing last month in Washington for her candidacy as attorney general.Kenny Holston/The New York Times

The Senate confirmed Pam Bondi as attorney general on Tuesday evening, putting in place a steadfast loyalist to President Trump to oversee a Justice Department he has bitterly denounced.

Ms. Bondi, 59, was confirmed by a vote of 54 to 46, with one Democrat, John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, joining the Republican majority."

Trump Live Updates: Musk-Led Federal Buyouts Expand to CIA - The New York Times

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