Trump live: President unveils unprecedented first budget proposal of second term

The American Meteorological Society and the American Geophysical Union announced on Friday that they will collaborate to produce peer-reviewed research documents evaluating the current and future national impacts of climate change in the U.S.

Earlier this week, President Donald Trump’s administration informed about 400 scientists working on the National Climate Assessment that they were no longer needed and that the report was being reevaluated.

The report, which is issued every four to five years, is mandated by a federal law from 1990 and was expected around 2027. Preliminary budget documents indicate significant cuts in funding or the elimination of offices involved in coordinating the report, according to scientists and activists.

AGU President Brandon Jones says they “are filling in a gap in the scientific process.”

Key Senate Republicans have been quick to criticize the White House budget proposal released this morning, outlining a wishlist of spending priorities for President Donald Trump in the next fiscal year.

Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins of Maine publicly objected to the administration’s request to maintain military funding at approximately $893 billion. She criticized Trump’s proposed cuts to biomedical research, education support programs for low-income households, and subsidies to assist the poorest Americans in covering the costs of heating and cooling their homes.

Collins noted: “This request has come to Congress late, and key details still remain outstanding. Based on my initial review, however, I have serious objections to the proposed freeze in our defense funding.”

She was also unhappy with the White House’s proposed cuts, “and in some cases elimination” of non-defense programs.

Former Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, now chair of the upper chamber’s defense funding panel, slammed the White House budget office for asking Congress to freeze defense spending.

He said in a statement that extra cash Republican leaders are hoping to generate through the tax and spending megabill they hope to enact this summer is “not a substitute for full-year appropriations.”

“OMB accounting gimmicks may well convince Administration officials and spokesmen that they’re doing enough to counter the growing, coordinated challenges we face from China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, and radical terrorists. But they won’t fool Congress,” McConnell said.

“America cannot expect our allies to heed calls for greater annual defense spending if we are unwilling to lead by example. Fortunately, Presidential budget requests are just that: requests,” he said.

There was further condemnation from Senate Armed Services Chair Roger Wicker of Mississippi, who said the White House’s request would be “a cut in real terms” for the military.

In a statement, he agreed with McConnell that the additional $150 billion in military funding GOP leaders want to pass through their separate party-line package was not meant “to paper over” the White House budget office’s “intent to shred to the bone our military capabilities and our support to service members.”

Stephen Miller, President Donald Trump’s deputy chief of staff for policy, is a “top candidate” to become the next national security adviser, according to reports.

Miller, the architect behind some of the Trump administration’s most aggressive immigration policies, is in line to replace ousted Mike Waltz following the “embarrassing” Signalgate scandal, according to Axios.

Donald Trump’s administration has reached a settlement with the family of Ashli Babbitt, who was fatally shot by a Capitol Police officer on January 6, 2021 after joining a mob inside the halls of Congress.

May 2 marks the end of the “de minimis” exemption, a longstanding rule that applied to packages entering the U.S. worth under $800. Under the exemption, retailers overseas were allowed to sell products at lower prices by shipping them straight to consumers, bypassing domestic warehouses.

Rhian Lubin reports from New York.

President Donald Trump’s budget proposal, released today, asked Congress to approve $3.2 billion in contributions to the World Bank’s International Development Association (IDA), which provides low- or zero-interest loans to the world’s poorest countries.

International finance experts hailed the sum, to be paid over three years, as a welcome surprise, given recent concerns that Trump might skip any contribution to IDA.

Former President Joe Biden had pledged to contribute $4 billion, but that money has not yet been transferred.

Although the new amount is lower, it will still assist the World Bank in approaching its goal of raising $100 billion for IDA by leveraging countries’ contributions, sources familiar with the process said. The final decision rests with Congress.

When asked if the Trump administration would adhere to the $4 billion pledge, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent indicated that the amount would be determined in the budget, and much would depend on World Bank President Ajay Banga and the head of the International Monetary Fund getting back to basics.

The budget proposal unveiled by Trump on Friday cuts foreign aid by $49 billion, a senior official with the Office of Management and Budget told reporters.

Documents released by the White House showed a reduction of $555 million in funds for the African Development Bank and the African Development Fund, which it was “not currently aligned to Administration priorities.”

The budget proposal did include the $3.2 billion for IDA, adding that other donors and institutions should assume more of the costs.

“This fulfills the President’s promise to no longer dole out foreign aid dollars with no return on investment for the American people,” the document said.

With reporting from Reuters

Firebrand Georgia lawmaker Marjorie Taylor Greene took to X today to post a bizarre, rambling, angry condemnation of… the Trump administration.

Greene began her screed on Friday lunchtime by saying: “I represent the base, and when I’m frustrated and upset over the direction of things, you better be clear, the base is not happy.”

She then began by laying into the administration, perhaps to mark 100 days of Donald Trump’s second presidency in her own nonsensical, unique way.

Over 667 words and 16 paragraphs, Greene fumes at Trump over foreign wars, Covid-19 vaccines, “law fair” [sic], the work of DOGE, “gender lies”, treasonous judges, and election integrity.

“When you are losing MTG, you are losing the base,” she writes, before concluding, somewhat cryptically: “And Trump isn’t on the ballot in the future, so do the math on that.”

You can read the full diatribe here:

And here’s Greene (second from left) at President Trump’s National Day of Prayer event in the Rose Garden yesterday:

Perhaps she didn’t get a chance to share her feelings then?

Veterans Day, which takes place on November 11, was originally called Armistice Day in the U.S. by then-President Woodrow Wilson to honor “the heroism of those who died in the country’s service and with gratitude for the victory.” It was later renamed Veterans Day to honor all American military veterans.

Despite the pleas of its corporate boss to “delay sensitive” stories about Donald Trump, 60 Minutes is planning to run a segment on Sunday night that will focus on how the president is targeting “some of the biggest law firms in the country that he accuses of ‘weaponizing’ the justice system against him.”