Trump live: Border Patrol chief ordered to appear in court every day amid uproar over agents tear gassing kids in Chicago

Shocking video shows a chaotic scene on a quiet Chicago street as Border Patrol agents in tactical gear drag a 67-year-old man from his car while children in Halloween costumes look on in horror.

According to his running club, the man, who is a U.S. citizen, was returning from a team run when agents pulled him out of his vehicle, tackled him to the ground and kneeled on top of him, allegedly breaking six ribs and causing internal bleeding.

Senate Democrats are planning to force a vote Tuesday evening that will rescind Trump’s tariffs on Brazil.

A bill, led by Democratic Senator Tim Kaine and Republican Senator Rand Paul, would eliminate the national emergency that the president imposed in order to impose step tariffs on Brazil.

So far the only Republican to signal that they may vote with Democrats in pushing that bill forward is Senator Thom Tillis.

Democrats have branded the Trump administration’s decision to remove export restrictions on American-made firearms “a gift to violent cartels and drug traffickers.”

A group led by Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Texas Rep. Joaquin Castro wrote to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, criticizing the scrapping of a Joe Biden-era rule intended to frustrate the black market in illegal small arms sales.

“Eliminating firearm export rules is a gift to violent cartels and drug traffickers responsible for the deaths of Americans and innocent civilians around the world,” the lawmakers wrote in their letter, first reported by The Hill.

“By rescinding the rule, Commerce is empowering the very cartels and criminal organizations that this administration has sought to counter.”

A district court judge extended previous temporary restraining order that blocks the adminsitration from firing federal workers during the governemnt shutdown.

During a Tuesday hearing, Judge Susan Illston said she would extend a temporary restraining order to a preliminary injunction, preventing the administration from firing more employees amid the shutdown.

The temporary restraining order, also known as a TRO, typically only lasts for 14 days – or when the court schedules a hearing in the matter. A preliminary junction lasts up until a judge issues a final decision.

“Today’s ruling is another victory for federal workers and our ongoing efforts to protect their jobs from an administration hellbent on illegally firing them,” Lee Saunders the president of American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees said.

“Unlike the billionaires in this administration, public service workers dedicate themselves to serving their communities. These attempted mass firings would devastate both the workers and the people they serve. We will keep fighting to protect public service jobs against this administration’s unlawful efforts to eliminate them.”

Vice President JD Vance told reporters that the White House has figured out a way to pay military troops this week amid the government shutdown.

Paychecks, which are supposed to go out Friday, will be delivered – but not to everyone, the vice president said after a lunch meeting with Republicans.

However, it’s unclear where that money is coming from

The border patrol chief commanding dozens of federal agents in Chicago has been ordered to appear in court every day after he and his officers faced a wave of allegations that they violently detained protesters and indiscriminately fired tear gas into neighborhoods.

Republicans on the House Oversight Committee have written to Attorney General Pam Bondi claiming that former President Joe Biden’s “cognitive decline” was so severe he may not have been aware of pardons he allegedly signed by autopen.

Conservatives on the committee advise Bondi that the 4,245 presidential pardons and commutations issued by the Democratic president, 82, should therefore be placed under review and could be considered invalid.

The panel “deems void President Biden’s executive actions that were signed using the Autopen, and the committee determines that action by the Department of Justice is warranted to address the legal consequences of that determination,” it said in its letter to Bondi, published Tuesday.

This would potentially open up prosecution of the recipients, including Biden’s own son Hunter, currently protected by his clemency orders.

The National Capital Planning Commission, a board of 12 people who typically approve and oversee construction projects in the nation’s capital, is the committee tasked with approving Trump’s new White House ballroom.

But it appears that approval will be easy to seek, given that eight of the members are people closely aligned with the president.

The committee is headed by Will Scharf, the White House Staff Secretary, and Stuart Levenbach, the associate director for Natural Resources, Energy, Science, and Water.

Among the other Trump-aligned members are James Blair, the White House Deputy Chief of Staff; Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth; Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum; Republican Senator Rand Paul; Republican Rep James Comer; and Michael Rigas, the acting administrator of General Services Administration.

Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a known staunch Trump ally, reportedly lambasted House leaders for keeping the legislature out of session and not sharing plans to make healthcare more affordable, amid the government shutdown, on a call Tuesday.

Amid the nearly month-long shutdown, Greene has been a vocal critic of Republicans not introducing a plan to make healthcare more affordable – a task that Democrats have urged forward, ultimately shutting down the government for.

“Johnson said he’s got ideas and pages of policy ideas and committees of jurisdiction are working on it, but he refused to give one policy proposal to our GOP conference on our own conference call,” Greene complained in an X post.

Approximately 25 states have filed a lawsuit against the federal government seeking to stop President Donald Trump from suspending the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program SNAP benefits amid the government shutdown.

The lawsuit, filed in Massachusetts, is asking a judge to stop the administration from allowing funding for the government food assistance program to run out come November.

Approximately 42 million Americans rely on SNAP, also known as food stamps.

“[U.S. Department of Agriculture] has historically funded SNAP benefits during prior lapses in appropriations,” the 25 states said in the lawsuit. “USDA has also previously—in prior years and as recently as last month—taken the position that contingency funds are available to fund benefits during shortfalls.”

The administration said, in a memo, that it would not reconfigure funding to continue allowing SNAP benefits to roll out during the shutdown, claiming it would be illegal.

Despite that, the administration did reallocate funding to ensure members of the military are paid on time.