The Latest: Canada's prime minister in Washington for high-stakes meeting with President Trump

Canada’s caller premier minister, Mark Carney, who won with a committedness to face U.S. President Donald Trump's aggression, has the accidental to bash that in Tuesday's face-to-face Oval Office meeting. The Trump medication sided with the Biden medication successful asking a justice to flip retired a lawsuit against telehealth entree to the termination medicine mifepristone, efficaciously kicking the contented down the road. Another justice has ordered the Trump medication to admit immoderate 12,000 refugees. And the White House says Harvard University volition person nary caller grants. The letter to Harvard’s president escalates Trump’s targeting of the Ivy League school. His medication besides is pushing to strip the school of its tax-exempt status.

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What’s successful Trump’s large bill? Money for migrant clampdown but taxation breaks and programme cuts deed ‘bumps’

Congress is heavy into drafting Trump’s big measure of taxation breaks, spending cuts and beefed-up backing to halt migrants, but it’s “bumpy,” 1 Republican president says, with overmuch enactment up to conscionable House Speaker Mike Johnson’s extremity of passing the bundle retired of his enclosure by Memorial Day.

In fact, the taxation cuts information is inactive a enactment successful progress. As are the reductions successful Medicaid, nutrient stamps and different mainstay authorities programs. Mostly, the Republicans, who person the bulk successful Congress, person made advancement connected parts that would summation spending, adding immoderate $350 billion to the Pentagon and Homeland Security, including wealth for the U.S-Mexico borderline wall.

All told, immoderate 11 committees successful the House are compiling their bills, and astir fractional person finished up.

Once each the committees are done, the antithetic pieces of authorities volition beryllium rolled unneurotic astatine the Budget Committee into what Trump calls “one big, beauteous bill.”

▶ Read much about the Trump administration’s spending bill

Trump medication says Harvard volition person nary caller grants until it meets White House demands

Harvard University volition person nary caller national grants until it meets a bid of demands from Trump’s administration, the Education Department announced Monday.

The enactment was laid retired successful a missive to Harvard’s president and amounts to a large escalation of Trump’s battle with the Ivy League school. The medication antecedently froze $2.2 cardinal successful national grants to Harvard, and Trump is pushing to strip the school of its tax-exempt status.

Harvard has pushed backmost connected the administration’s demands, mounting up a closely watched clash successful Trump’s effort to force alteration astatine universities that helium says person go hotbeds of liberalism and antisemitism.

In a property call, an Education Department authoritative said Harvard volition person nary caller national grants until it “demonstrates liable absorption of the university” and satisfies national demands connected a scope of subjects. The prohibition applies to national probe grants and not to national fiscal assistance that helps students screen assemblage tuition and fees.

▶ Read much about the clash betwixt Harvard and Trump

Judge orders Trump medication to admit astir 12,000 refugees

A justice connected Monday ordered the Trump medication to admit immoderate 12,000 refugees into the United States nether a tribunal bid partially blocking the president’s efforts to suspend the nation’s exile admissions program.

The order from U.S. District Judge Jamal Whitehead followed arguments from the Justice Department and exile resettlement agencies implicit however to construe a federal appeals tribunal ruling that importantly narrowed an earlier determination from Whitehead.

The exile program, created by Congress successful 1980, is simply a signifier of ineligible migration to the U.S. for radical displaced by war, earthy catastrophe oregon persecution — a process that often takes years and involves important vetting. It is antithetic from asylum, by which radical recently arrived successful the U.S. tin question support to stay due to the fact that they fearfulness persecution successful their location country.

Upon opening his 2nd word connected Jan. 20, President Donald Trump issued an enforcement bid suspending the program.

▶ Read much about the judge’s order

The national Bureau of Prisons has tons of problems. Reopening Alcatraz is present 1 of them

Even arsenic the Bureau of Prisons struggles with abbreviated staffing, chronic unit and crumbling infrastructure astatine its existent facilities, Trump is counting connected the bureau to fulfill his imaginativeness of rebooting the infamously inescapable situation known successful movies and popular civilization arsenic “The Rock.”

People circuit the main compartment location connected Alcatraz Island successful San Francisco, March 15, 2021, arsenic the historical land situation was reopened to visitors aft being closed since Dec. 2020, due to the fact that of the coronavirus threat. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)

Trump declared successful a societal media station Sunday that a “substantially enlarged and rebuilt” Alcatraz volition location the nation’s “most ruthless and convulsive Offenders.” It volition “serve arsenic a awesome of Law, Order, and JUSTICE,” helium wrote connected Truth Social.

Newly appointed Bureau of Prisons Director William K. Marshall III said Monday that the bureau “will vigorously prosecute each avenues to enactment and instrumentality the President’s agenda” and that helium has ordered “an contiguous appraisal to find our needs and the adjacent steps.”

“USP Alcatraz has a affluent history. We look guardant to restoring this almighty awesome of law, order, and justice,” Marshall said successful a statement, echoing Trump’s post. “We volition beryllium actively moving with our instrumentality enforcement and different national partners to reinstate this precise important mission.”

▶ Read much about Trump’s vow to reopen Alcatraz

Canadian Prime Minister Carney arrives successful Washington for a high-stakes gathering with President Trump

Trump and Carney volition conscionable successful the Oval Office and person lunch. Carney has stressed that helium was elected to specifically “stand up” to the U.S. president and that Canada is “in a once-in-a-lifetime crisis.” Carney said helium expects “difficult” but “constructive” conversations with his U.S. counterpart.

Trump has shattered a decades-old confederation by saying helium wants to marque Canada the 51st U.S. authorities and levying steep tariffs against an indispensable spouse successful the manufacturing of autos and the proviso of oil, energy and different goods. The outrage provoked by Trump enabled Carney’s Liberal Party to people a stunning comeback victory past period arsenic the ongoing commercialized warfare and attacks connected Canadian sovereignty person outraged voters.

Trump told reporters connected Monday that helium wasn’t rather definite wherefore Carney was visiting.

“I’m not definite what helium wants to spot maine about,” Trump said. “But I conjecture helium wants to marque a deal.”

▶ Read much about Carney’s sojourn to the White House

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