Trump live updates: President exploring the legality of deporting U.S. citizens to Central American prisons

The State Department is looking to close dozens of embassies and consulates overseas as part of its effort to dramatically reduce the United States’ diplomatic presence abroad, according to internal documents obtained by CNN.

The information, part of the FY 2026 budget proposal, proposes sweeping changes that are apparently meant to reduce federal spending – a goal of the Department of Government Efficiency and senior adviser Elon Musk.

Ariana Baio looks at the proposal.

Ever since the result of the Brexit referendum pushed the question towards the top of Britain’s economic agenda, albeit not a constant presence there, a free trade agreement with the United States has become a pressing concern for successive prime ministers. Until now – and in the highly unlikely circumstances of a global trade war unleashed by an increasingly erratic White House – it has rarely been much of a realistic prospect. But things may be stirring.

Just as with other universities, the Trump administration demanded the university cooperate with federal agencies engaged in prosecuting and, in the case of foreign-born students, targeting for deportation, college students who engaged in a broad range of activities in opposition to the Israeli government’s siege of Gaza. It also would have forced Harvard to end diversity-based hiring policies.

A letter sent to the government in response was itself filled with subtle jabs. It was signed by two familiar faces: Robert Hur, the former Justice Department attorney who oversaw the probe of Joe Biden’s handling of classified materials, and William Burck, outside ethics counsel for the Trump Organization.

Fox News anchor Harris Faulkner literally employed the Just Asking Questions trope on Tuesday to openly speculate whether Barack Obama is “antisemitic” because the former president praised Harvard for rejecting the Trump administration’s “ham-handed” effort to regulate the university.

Justin Baragona has the story.

Republicans are eyeing cuts to Medicaid that could kick young Americans off of the program — though many still insist the program won’t be touched.

Despite assurances from a wide range of party figures, including President Donald Trump, it appears as if the upcoming GOP budget proposal will take one big swing at the expansion of Medicaid to cover lower-income Americans.

Speaker Mike Johnson on Sunday, when he spoke to Sunday Morning Futures host Maria Bartiromo.

John Bowden reports from Washington, D.C.

Lawyers for a wrongfully deported Maryland man will be allowed to depose Trump administration officials to determine whether they complied with a Supreme Court ruling to “facilitate” his return from a brutal El Salvador prison.

“Cancel vacations, cancel other appointments,” Maryland District Judge Paula Xinis told lawyers for the government on Tuesday.

Alex Woodward has the latest.

President Donald Trump participated in a Commander-in-Chief Trophy Presentation to the Navy Midshipmen of the United States Naval Academy this afternoon at which he was gifted a football and appeared to reveal his aide Walt Nauta’s apparent ambition to be governor of Guam.

The event in the East Room of the White House also marked the apparent return of an Associated Press reporter to official events at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, having been banned for a refusal to use the term “Gulf of America.”

John Bowden reports from Washington, D.C.