Trump heads back to D.C. to face markets crisis after day of protests: live updates

Ukrainians legally in the U.S. were told in an email mistakenly sent Friday by the Department of Homeland Security that their parole status had been withdrawn and that they had to self-deport, according to Politico.

The email, sent to an unidentified number of people, prompted widespread fear among those who came to the U.S. to flee the full-scale Russian invasion that began in February 2022. The refugees have been increasingly concerned about their legal status in the country, as President Donald Trump said last month that they could revoke their residency status.

DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin told the outlet that the U.S. has not yet revoked the temporary parole status handed to the 240,000 Ukrainians who came to the U.S., fleeing the war under former President Joe Biden.

A reversal, which has been indicated by the White House, could lead to the quick deportation of hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians.

Donald Trump’s secretary of Commerce seemingly admitted on Sunday that US workers would not see long-lost manufacturing jobs return as a result of the president’s new tariff strategy, which places duties on nearly all US imports.

Howard Lutnick appeared on CBS’s Face the Nation on Sunday and promised that “trillions” of dollars would flow into the US in the form of new investments in America’s manufacturing sector. Margaret Brennan, the show’s host, questioned whether those factories would be “automated”, as Lutnick had said previously.

Pointing out that the construction of new factories “takes years” and will do nothing to bring down costs of consumer goods for Americans in the short term, Brennan added: “You said that robots are going to fill those jobs. So those aren’t union worker jobs.”

“It’s automated factories,” Lutnick conceded, while promising that American workers would build and “operate” the factories brought to US shores in the coming months and years.

John Bowden has the story.

A White House internal investigation into how Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg was included in a group chat where top Trump officials were planning an attack on Houthi targets has produced a complicated explanation for the security failure.

According to the report, President Donald Trump’s national security adviser, Mike Waltz, accidentally added Goldberg’s number to his iPhone, thinking he was saving another official’s number.

It’s the process by which Goldberg’s number ended up in Waltz’s phone where things become complicated.

The unlikely series of events reportedly began in October, when Goldberg emailed the Trump campaign concerning a story that was running in the Atlantic focused on the then-candidate Trump’s comments about wounded military members.

The campaign disputed the story by including Waltz—who was serving as Trump’s national security surrogate—in the email.

Government watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington has sued the Trump administration after it “abruptly eliminated” the Freedom of Information Act office.

In a filing submitted in a federal Washington, DC court Friday, the group called the closure “contrary to law and arbitrary and capricious agency action.”

The group said it filed five FOIA requests on April 1 to the Centers for Disease Control via email, as the agency’s website dictates.

In response, the filing says, the group received an automated email saying: “Hello, the FOIA office has been placed on admin leave and is unable to respond to any emails.”

On April 2, the group received another email: “I cannot tell if our automated reply is functional, so I am responding while I am still able to access CDC systems. The entire CDC FOIA Office has been placed on administrative leave prior to a mandated June 2 separation date.”

As thousands came together on Saturday in nationwide protests to denounce President Donald Trump’s administration, several rallygoers held noteworthy signs emblazoned with clever phrases and imagery to relay messages of defiance.

Dubbed the “Hands Off” protests, rallies cropped up across the U.S. and the globe, with the sole purpose of putting a stop to the “most brazen power grab in modern history,” according to organizers.

While many attendees marched empty-handed, others displayed handmade signs featuring fighting words aimed at Trump, JD Vance, and tech billionaire Elon Musk, leader of the Department of Government Efficiency, which has cut tens of thousands of government jobs.

One Wisconsinite held a sign that read: “Wisconsin hates Elon Musk so much it could be one of his kids.” The message, in reference to the Tesla CEO’s strained relationships with his estranged daughter Vivian Jenna Wilson, appeared to entertain The Handmaid’s Tale actor Bradley Whitford, who shared a picture of the woman and her sign on X.

Inga Parkel has the story.

Attorney General Pam Bondi said in an interview this Sunday on Fox News that President Donald Trump is “probably finished” as commander-in-chief after his current term ends.

Bondi was speaking on Fox News Sunday with Shannon Bream when she was asked about Trump’s various remarks surrounding a third term in office.

“I wish we could have him for 20 years as our president, but I think he’s gonna be finished probably after this term.”

When questioned on her use of the word “probably,” Bondi replied: “We’d have to look at the constitution.”

Bondi picked up on Bream’s use of the phrase “heavy lift” when describing what actions would need to be taken in order to remain in office past 2028.

“There are methods which you can use,” Trump insisted on NBC News in a telephone interview last Sunday.

The Chinese Communist Party, apostle of free trade. In a strange new world, that was the strangest thing, as shares crashed in reaction to President Donald Trump’s opening salvo of tariffs in a global trade war.

“The market has spoken,” said the foreign ministry spokesman, Guo Jiakun, writing in English on Facebook – which is, by the way, banned in China. No double standards there, then. Beijing can always keep a straight face when it matters.

Politically, the Chinese government can scarcely believe its luck. It has stepped forward as a voice of reason and stability in a chorus of discord to promote the false narrative that it has been a model of good behavior since it joined the World Trade Organisation (WTO) on December 11, 2001, a date that seems destined to live in the textbooks as the peak of globalization.

The Trump tariffs “are a typical act of unilateral bullying”, complained a spokesman for China’s Commerce Ministry.

“This approach disregards the balance of interests achieved through years of multilateral trade negotiations and ignores the fact that the US has long gained substantial profits from international trade,” the spokesman added.

Read the story from Michael Sheridan.

There’s trouble in Trumpland; Tesla CEO and head of the Department of Government Efficiency, Elon Musk, has taken public swipes at Donald Trump’s adviser on trade and manufacturing, Peter Navarro, who helped shape the president’s reciprocal tariff policy that tanked markets across the world.

Musk is typically vocal in his support and defense of the president, but has been quiet since Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariff announcement that killed $2.5 trillion from the U.S. stock market — a loss of value that cost the Tesla CEO more than $30bn, according to CNBC.

On X, which Musk owns, he took swipes at Navarro, a Harvard-educated economist who advises Trump on trade. Navarro who was originally tapped for a spot in the White House by Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, is the author of books on China and the economic threats he says the nation poses to the U.S.

A user on X posted a video from CNN in which Navarro defends the tariffs, noting positively that he went to Harvard. Musk took issue with that, calling it a “bad thing.”

Graig Graziosi has the story.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. visited Texas after a second measles-related death of a child, according to the Associated Press.

The news comes after an 8-year-old girl died early on Thursday morning from “measles pulmonary failure” while she was being treated at a hospital in Lubbock, Texas, the New York Times reported.

Her death is the second tied to a measles outbreak in West Texas and the second tied to the disease in the U.S. in a decade. Dozens of residents in the region — including in bordering states — have been infected. She was not vaccinated, the UMC Health System said.

The first death in the region was also an unvaccinated child who died in February. There may be a third death — an unvaccinated individual in New Mexico — who tested positive for measles. Health officials are still trying to confirm if measles was the individual’s cause of death.

Graig Graziosi has the details.