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Live updates on Trump’s executive orders and actions on the first full day of the second term

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Inside the inaugural balls Trump attended for his 2025 swearing-in celebration

Mr Trump and first lady Melania Trump attended three inaugural presidential balls to celebrate his Inauguration in 2025 Monday evening: the Commander-in-Chief Ball, the Liberty Ball and the Starlight Ball.

After giving several speeches and signing a series of speeches earlier in the day executive orders – including one about allocation leniency to the January 6 defendantsseveral op immigration policyand another about his plans to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement – Mr Trump headed out to celebrate with supporters and deliver brief remarks at each of the three balls.

Read more here.


21m ago

Watch live: Elise Stefanik faces senators today during the confirmation hearing for the UN ambassador

Republican representative. Elise Stefanik faces questions from senators Tuesday as she defends her record and qualifications to become the next U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.

Stefanik, one of Trump’s most trusted allies in Congress, heads to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for her confirmation hearing less than 24 hours after Trump was sworn in. Mr Trump hopes his top Cabinet picks will pass confirmation and take their posts once he becomes president on January 20. Stefanik will likely be confirmed when the full Senate votes.

Stefanik, 40, would be the youngest US ambassador ever to the UN. The New York Republican has held a leadership position as chairman of the Republican conference and served on the House Armed Services Committee and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. And those skills she honed in Congress will serve her well, says John Alterman, senior vice president and director of the Middle East program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

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Watch her confirmation hearing here.

By Kathryn Watson

38m ago

Marco Rubio, Trump’s new secretary of state, says his “sole focus” is on American interests


Marco Rubio discusses the Secretary of State’s confirmation and goals in President Trump’s second term

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Marco Rubio, confirmed On Monday, the Senate unanimously said as secretary of state that his “sole focus” will be to ensure that U.S. interests are central to the State Department’s priorities.

“Our foreign policy must refocus on the national interest of the United States,” Rubio said on CBS Mornings.

Rubio has represented Florida in the Senate since 2011 and resigned Monday. On Tuesday morning he was officially sworn in as Minister of Foreign Affairs.

Rubio sidestepped questions about Mr. Trump’s far-reaching impact pardon of January 6 rioterssaying his focus is on his new role and tackling the country’s foreign policy.

“I work for Donald J. Trump, the new President of the United States, the 47th President who has a clear mandate to reorient our foreign policy toward one that re-centers America and our interests,” Rubio said.

Rubio, the son of Cuban immigrants, said his entire life and career were influenced by his parents’ decision to come to the U.S. in 1956 with nothing more than “dreams of a better life.”

“I think it reminds us that this remains the one place on earth where anyone, anywhere can achieve anything,” Rubio said.

By Kaia Hubbard

53m ago

Marco Rubio sworn in as Secretary of State

Vice President J.D. Vance swore Rubio in as secretary of state Tuesday morning after the Senate confirmed him 99-0 Monday night.

Rubio said Trump has “given us a very clear mandate,” saying “everything we do has to be justified” by whether it makes the nation stronger, safer or more prosperous. Rubio said this is the promise his administration will help him keep.

The secretary of state said, “It’s a moment of transformation,” adding that the U.S. is “moving into a new era that I believe will make the world a safer place.”

“Yesterday, President Trump made clear in his inaugural address that one of the most important objectives of American foreign policy is the promotion of peace,” Rubio said, adding that this includes “peace through strength” and the promotion of peace without “to give up our values. “

By Kaia Hubbard

Updated 9:25 am

Trump pardons about 1,500 January 6 defendants

President Trump on Monday pardoned approximately 1,500 defendants convicted of crimes on January 6, 2021, fulfilling his longtime promise to acquit those who took part in the killing. attack on the US Capitol of misconduct.

The president’s action follows his own first day back in the White House and just hours after he was sworn for a second term. Trump has repeatedly tried to downplay the events of January 6, when a mob of his supporters breached the Capitol in an attempt to stop Congress from reaffirming Joe Biden’s victory over him in the 2020 presidential election.

Mr. Trump extended clemency to those convicted of violent and serious crimes, including assaulting police officers and seditious conspiracy. He also ordered the attorney general to dismiss all pending charges related to the Capitol riot, essentially reversing Biden’s Justice Department’s massive efforts to hold accountable those who participated in the attack. to nullify.

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“These are the hostages, about 1,500 for pardons, full pardons,” Trump said during remarks from the Oval Office. “This is a big one.”

Read more about the January 6 pardon here.

Melissa Quinn, Rob Legare


Updated 9:25 am

Read the full transcript of Trump’s inauguration speech

President Trump delivered his second inaugural address On Monday he promised a “common sense revolution” and announced “we are at the dawn of an exciting new era of national success.”

In the 30 minute speech in the Capitol Rotunda, he promised a “wave of change” and rescue from what he said was the “decline” caused by the policies of his predecessor, former President Joe Biden.

To that end, he is expected to sign approximately 200 executive orders, actions and proclamations following his speech.

“America’s golden age begins now,” Trump said. “From this day on, our country will prosper and be respected again around the world.”

Read the full transcript here of Mr. Trump’s second inaugural address, provided by the Associated Press, and watch the full speech in the player below.


Trump delivers inauguration speech as 47th US president

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Updated 9:25 am

Trump signs a series of executive actions and memos on Day 1

Mr. Trump signed approximately 200 executive actions, memoranda and proclamations on his first day in office, undoing the Biden administration’s mandates and implementing his “America first” policies.

Mr. Trump signed executive actions related to immigration, including invoking presidential powers to impose a a drastic approach to immigrationcharge the military with border enforcement, designate cartels and gangs as terrorist groups and halt the admission of asylum seekers and refugees, declare a national emergency at the southern border, order the Defense Department to deploy heavier military resources there, order officials to deploy additional troops to the border.

Mr. Trump has also taken steps to dismantle birthright citizenship, which the U.S. government has long interpreted the Constitution to mean that those born on U.S. soil are citizens at birth regardless of their parents’ immigration status, meaning that the executive action will likely be challenged legally. .

Mr. Trump also signed an executive action ordering federal employees to return to the office, ending diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives within the federal government and directing the Justice Department to suspend the TikTok ban for 90 days cannot be enforced.

By Kathryn Watson

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