Trump 2nd term updates: Trump excludes low-value shipments from looming tariffs

The Senate Health Education Labor and Pension’s committee voted to advance Lori Chavez-DeRemer’s nomination to serve as Labor Secretary Thursday by a vote of 13-9.

Democratic Senators Tim Kaine, Maggie Hassan and John Hickenlooper voted to advance her nomination. Republican Sen. Rand Paul voted against her.

Her nomination will now head to the Senate floor, where she is expected to be confirmed.

-ABC News' Allison Pecorin

President Donald Trump is continuing his threat to place tariffs on Canada and Mexico next week if the amount of fentanyl crossing the border does not go down.

"We cannot allow this scourge to continue to harm the USA, and therefore, until it stops, or is seriously limited, the proposed TARIFFS scheduled to go into effect on MARCH FOURTH will, indeed, go into effect, as scheduled. China will likewise be charged an additional 10% Tariff on that date. The April Second Reciprocal Tariff date will remain in full force and effect. Thank you for your attention to this matter. GOD BLESS AMERICA!" Trump wrote on his social media platform.

-ABC News' Hannah Demissie

USAID officials decried the State Department's seemingly rushed review of foreign aid grants as a legal maneuver to avoid having to comply with a deadline to pay foreign aid groups that was in place until it was stayed by the Supreme Court.

"Instead of complying with a court order to reimburse USAID partners by midnight tonight for the nearly $2 billion owed for programming already provided prior to Trump's inauguration, and to resume USAID programs that had not been reviewed, Director of the Office of Foreign Assistance and acting USAID Deputy Administrator, Pete Marocco, chose to shut down thousands of programs by terminating the awards," the officials said in a circulated release on Wednesday.

"It appears this may have been done to make the case that the entire suit brought by the plaintiffs was moot because the review had been completed or as an excuse for not making the payments yet because the review consumed the majority of the administration's time so they were unable to make the payments," they continued.

-ABC News' Shannon Kingston

President Donald Trump will meet United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer at 12:15 ET at the White House.

The two leaders will hold a bilateral meeting in the Oval Office before a press conference in the East Room at 2 p.m. ET.

The meeting comes after Europe was boxed out of talks between Russia and the U.S. on how to end Vladimir Putin's invasion in Ukraine. Trump has since said Europe will have to bear primary responsibility for any security guarantees for Ukraine.

"Well, I'm not going to make security guarantees beyond very much," Trump said at his first Cabinet meeting on Wednesday. "We're going to have Europe do that because it's in you know, we're talking about Europe is the next-door neighbor, but we're going to make sure everything goes well."