Թրամփը պաշտպանում է մաքսատուրքերը որպես «ազգային անվտանգության» խնդիր՝ ասելով, որ դրանց դեմ Գերագույն դատարանի որոշումը «որոշակի աղետալի» կլինի.

The former House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, announced she will not seek re-election to Congress in 2026. “I look forward to my final year of service as your proud representative,” said the 85-year-old lawmaker, who represents most of San Francisco and has spent almost 40 years in office. In 2007 she became the first female speaker of the House, and is currently serving her 20th term in Congress.

Reaction to Pelosi’s retirement has been, expectedly, partisan. With Democrats heaping praise on the speaker emerita. House minority leader, Hakeem Jeffries, called Pelosi an “iconic, heroic, trailblazing, legendary and transformational leader” in a statement. “She is the greatest Speaker of all time,” he added. Senator Adam Schiff, of California, said that Pelosi has been “an indelible part of every major progressive accomplishment in the 21^st century”, while describing her as a “mentor and friend”. Meanwhile, primary challengers Saikat Chakrabarti and Scott Wiener praised the legislator for passing the baton to the next generation.

Many Republicans, however, were less adulatory. Donald Trump even told Fox News that Pelosi’s retirement is “great thing for America”. He added that Pelosi “was evil, corrupt and only focused on bad things for our country”, as well as calling her a “highly overrated politician”. House speaker Mike Johnson claimed that Pelosi’s decision to not seek re-election is a direct consequence of the internal fighting within the Democratic party. “Even the famous San Francisco liberal is not far left enough for the neo-Marxists,” he said.

On day 37 of the record-breaking government shutdown, Donald Trump continued to urge GOP lawmakers to eliminate the filibuster. After he made an announcement in the Oval Office about slashing prices of obesity drugs, the president took questions from reporters and insisted that abolishing the procedural mechanism was the only way forward for Republicans (despite lawmakers consistently pouring cold water on the idea).

Trump also said that if the supreme court rules against sweeping tariffs it would be “devastating” for the US and could cost “trillions of dollars”. He also noted that tariffs were ultimately a matter of “national security”, repeating part of the US solicitor general’s argument on Wednesday that revenue from tariffs is merely “incidental”.

The supreme court has allowed the Trump administration to enforce a policy that would mean sex designations on passports align only with assignments at birth, in a blow to the transgender and non-binary community. The decision reverses Biden-era rules that allowed Americans to self-select their gender or use “X” – an option for non-binary, intersex and gender non-conforming applicants. The emergency order, which will remain in place as the case makes its way through the lower courts, is also another shadow-docket victory for the Trump White House, as it continues to roll-back several LGBTQ+ policies.

A former justice department employee, who threw a sandwich at a federal agent during the early days of Donald Trump’s law enforcement surge in Washington DC, was found not guilty of a misdemeanor assault charge on Thursday. A video showing paralegal Sean Dunn shouting at Custom and Border Patrol agents in the nation’s capitol, before throwing a subway sandwich at one of them and running away, went viral.