That’s all for another day of our live coverage looking at Donald Trump’s first 100 days as US president.
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Donald Trump welcomed Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba to the White House for conventions, the couple hosted a joint press convention thereafter.
The US president said he would make an announcement on reciprocal tariffs next week, and told reporters he was in “no rush” to make his plan to put the US in charge of the Gaza Strip a reality.
After the Assembly with Ishiba, a White House official announced that Trump had signed an order on “serious human rights violations” in South Africa.
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And if you missed it, you catch up with our Trump 100 live Q&A with US correspondents Mark Stone and James Matthews here…
Judge Carl Nichols in Washington said he would issue the order following a lawsuit by the largest US government workers’ union and an association of foreign service workers.
The administration in a notice sent to the foreign aid agency’s workers yesterday said it will keep 611 essential workers on board at USAID out of a worldwide workforce that totals more than 10,000.
Some 2,200 USAID employees were scheduled to begin administrative leave tonight.
The former USAID chief under George W Bush said Trump’s management is achieving foreign aid because it is a simple objective.
Elon Musk, who leads a government review under the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), in the past said he spoke with Donald Trump, who agreed that the entire company was closed.
“I think they are looking to sound hard,” Andrew Natsios told Gillian Joseph.
“It is easy to do it because our main recipients are in the coming world, many of which in remote regions.
“They have no political strength in the United States. They don’t vote. Even the media in their own country do not even know what they are.
“Sometimes they are women who suffer from trafficking. They are deficient children. These are other people in refugee camps and displaced camps. “
Senate confirmations are underway for appointments to Donald Trump’s office.
All of the company’s positions require a majority vote of the senators to pass.
Republicans lately have a majority of 53 seats in the Senate, which means that Trump’s nominees cannot lose 3 Republican senators, assuming that the 50 Democrats oppose slightly.
A handful of nominees have made it through this process so far, including the secretary of state Marco Rubio, CIA director John Ratcliffe and defence secretary Pete Hegseth.
Hegseth needed JD Vance to cast a tie-breaking vote to see him confirmed after allegations of heavy drinking and aggressive behaviour toward women were made against the former Fox News host.
One of the maximum debatable options is Russell Vought, who showed that he directed the control and budget office, a role that occupied Trump’s first mandate.
He was very worried in project 2025, a conservative plan for Trump’s time whose president tried to distance himself from the campaign.
In other places, Chris Wright of the oil and fuel industry, a type without political experience, has been demonstrated as secretary of power.
He faced a complaint at his confirmation audience for challenging the links between climate replacement and the most common forest fires, being worried about the “media threshing. “
Former New York member of Congress Lee Zeldin also showed himself as administrator of the Environmental Coverage Agency.
He told Vermont senator Bernie Sanders in his confirmation hearing that he believed in the threat of climate change and the US must “with urgency be addressing these issues”.
But Zeldin seemed to make a complete 180 on this subject an interview with Breitbart this week, wondering the legitimacy of the existing climate science and saying the world’s deadlines, supposedly, “they came and left. “
Trump Pam Bondi’s best friend has demonstrated as a general prosecutor. She insisted that it would do so that the Ministry of Justice would remain independent of the White House. During his audience, he did not say that Trump had lost the 2020 elections.
Billionaire hedge fund manager Scott Bessent has been confirmed as treasury secretary, where he will have sway over America’s tax collections and its fiscal policy.
Trump’s forged Backer, Besent has rejected the concept that president’s policies would be inflationary.
Scott Turner, a former NFL player, was shown as secretary of Housing. He controlled the first mandate of the Blank Casa Revitalization and Revitalization Council.
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem has proven himself to be Secretary of Homeland Security.
Noem is a firm supporter for Trump’s hard-line immigration agenda. She made headlines last year when she released a book containing an account of her killing her hunting dog, as well as a false claim that she once met Kim Jong Un.
Doug Burgum has also been confirmed as interior secretary, while Doug Collins has been confirmed as veterans affairs secretary.
Congress members were prevented from a construction from the US Ministry of Education in Washington today.
This comes amid rumors that U. S. President Donald Trump may close the branch entirely.
The crews scratched the signaling that showed “the American firm for development” of the construction of Ronald Reagan in Washington, where the company’s headquarters before.
It follows Donald Trump’s resolve to radically stop the company after he signed an executive order to freeze foreign aid for 90 days last month.
Elon Musk’s Ministry of Government Effectiveness, or Doge, shared before and after X-shaped construction photographs.
The legend of the position, “unbog through what it was”, is a reference to Kamala Harris, who has continually used prayer in his electoral crusade and laughed.
Donald Trump has just boarded Air Force One on his way to Mar-a-Lago for a busy weekend.
The president of the United States returns to his home in Palm Beach, nicknamed the “White Winter House”, for a moment since he assumes the position.
Tonight, it will organize a personal dinner with the Republican Seguros Senators and their spouses.
On Sunday, he will move on to New Orleans for Super Bowl LIX.
Donald Trump has signed a decree to combat “serious violations of human rights” in South Africa, said a White House official.
The US president in the past declared that any investment in South Africa would decrease and said that “terrible things” are taking their position there.
He said last Sunday, “They remove the land, they confiscate the land, and they actually do things that would possibly be worse than that. “
Trump to refer to a new law in South Africa that provides government powers in safe land cases over the component of people.
South Africa is America’s biggest trade partner in Africa.
The Press Convention between Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has already ended, so we return to our normal news coverage . . .
Earlier, we heard from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who spoke alongside House Speaker Mike Johnson.
He said the alliance between Israel and the United States “has never been stronger” and said it “moved deeply” through the welcome it won in Washington this week.
Watch his remarks below…
Shigeru Ishiba is what Donald Trump has been since he arrived at the White House.
The Japanese prime minister says he watched Trump for “many years on TV” and that assembly was “quite exciting. “
“On television, it’s scary and has a very strong personality,” he says with a laugh in the room.
“But when I met him, in fact, he is very honest and very hard and with a strong will to the United States and the total world. “