02/09/2025 10:36
The Guardian
Republicans and Democrats are at loggerheads over funding, while Donald Trump is to make a mystery announcement from the Oval Office later today As Labor Day rallies took place across the US, the Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson sharply denounced the Trump administration’s threat to deploy federal troops to the city as part of an immigration crackdown.“No federal troops in the city of Chicago,” said Johnson on Monday to a gathered crowd at the “Workers over Billionaires” demonstration in Chicago’s West Loop neighborhood.President Donald Trump is scheduled to make an announcement from the Oval Office on Tuesday afternoon at 2pm ET, according to the White House, which has yet to release further information.Some speculation suggests the announcement could be to do with plans to send national guard troops to Chicago. The Department of Homeland Security secretary, Kristi Noem, and the border tsar, Tom Homan, have both said Ice raids will intensify nationwide starting this week, possibly including staging operations from the Great Lakes naval station near north Chicago. The city’s mayor said his office is preparing for the deployment of federal officers by the end of the week.Representatives Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna plan to hold a news conference tomorrow with survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse as the political fallout from the saga continues to engage Congress on several fronts. The two lawmakers hope to receive the necessary signatures on their discharge petition to force a floor vote on a measure compelling the release of the Epstein files, ABC News reports.Missouri Republicans are poised to redraw their state’s congressional lines to help maintain the Republican majority in the House. Governor Mike Kehoe announced a special legislative session to draw a new voting map would start on Wednesday.Trump’s attempt to influence the US Federal Reserve could pose a “very serious danger” for the world economy, the head of the European Central Bank has warned. Christine Lagarde, the president of the ECB, said Trump undermining the independence of the world’s most powerful central bank would have an impact for the US and other countries.Nine former officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have said that Robert F Kennedy Jr’s leadership of the US health and human services department is “unlike anything our country has ever experienced” and “unacceptable”. They also warned that Kennedy’s leadership “should alarm every American, regardless of political leanings”.Guatemala is ready and willing to receive about 150 unaccompanied children of all ages each week from the US, the country’s president has said, a day after a US federal judge halted the deportation of 10 Guatemalan children. Those children had already boarded a plane when a court responded to an emergency appeal on Sunday. They were later returned to the custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement.The president said on Monday he would award Rudy Giuliani the nation’s highest civilian honour, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, two days after his longtime political ally was seriously injured in a car crash. The decision places the award on a man once lauded for leading New York after the 11 September 2001 attacks and later sanctioned by courts and disbarred for amplifying false claims about the 2020 US presidential election. Giuliani, the former New York mayor, was also criminally charged in two states; he has denied wrongdoing.Hundreds of protests organised as part of the national “workers over billionaires” effort – a mass action calling for the protection of social safety – were held in cities large and small across the country, including New York, Houston, Washington DC and Los Angeles on Monday. As the Labor Day rallies took place, Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson sharply denounced the Trump administration’s threat to deploy federal troops to the city as part of an immigration crackdown.Woody Allen wants Donald Trump to star in another of his films, apparently. Trump shared the Variety story on Truth Social. “I’m one of the few people who can say he directed Trump. I directed Trump in [‘Celebrity’],” Allen said. “He was a pleasure to work with and a very good actor.” Continue reading...
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