Trump 2nd term updates: Trump attends the Super Bowl

Trump becomes the first sitting president to attend a Super Bowl.

Last Updated: February 9, 2025, 7:18 PM EST

President Donald Trump's second administration continued its swift recasting of the federal government, prompting pushback from Democrats and legal challenges.

The president said Sunday that he will announce tariffs on all imported steel and aluminum on Monday but didn't say when they'll take effect.

Trump, meanwhile, is at Caesars Superdome in New Orleans on Sunday night to take in the Super Bowl. Trump picked the Kansas City Chiefs to beat the Philadelphia Eagles in an interview aired before the game on Fox.

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Feb 04, 2025, 6:18 PM EST

Trump administration preparing further layoffs of federal workers who don't resign

The Trump administration is planning further layoffs of federal workers who don't accept the deferred resignation offer, an administration official told ABC News.

The layoffs could begin soon after the Thursday deadline for workers to accept the "buyouts" offering full salary and benefits through September from the Office of Personnel Management -- a package federal labor unions are advising members not to accept.

It's not clear how many workers would be targeted by the layoffs or how long the process would take.

"The reality is clear: A large-scale reduction, in response to the president’s workforce executive orders, is already happening. The government is restructuring, and unfortunately, many employees will later realize they missed a valuable, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. The misinformation campaign being spread by some unions only hurts the very workers they claim to represent, turning them into pawns in a political game instead of ensuring they can make informed, independent decisions," the administration official told ABC News.

-ABC News' Ben Siegel

Feb 04, 2025, 5:31 PM EST

Hamas responds to Trumps calls to relocate Gazans

A Hamas spokesman rejected Trump's calls to relocate Gazans Tuesday.

"American statements are racist belonging to the Middle Ages and reflect the absence of moral and humanitarian standards," Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem said in a statement. "Instead of holding the occupation accountable for the crime of genocide and displacement, it is not punished."

-ABC News' Will Gretsky

Feb 04, 2025, 5:19 PM EST

Trump continues to push idea that Gazans should leave Gaza

Trump doubled down on his belief that Gazans should be relocated out of Gaza while taking questions at the White House with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

"There's hardly a building standing, and the ones that are are going to collapse. You can't live in Gaza right now. And I think we need another location," Trump said.

President Donald Trump meets with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Feb. 4, 2025.
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The president repeatedly claimed that Gazans do not want to live in a dangerous region.

"If we can get a beautiful area to resettle people permanently and nice homes and where they can be happy and not be shot, not be killed, not be knifed to death, like what's happening in Gaza," he added as Netanyahu looked on.

"If they had an alternative, they'd much rather not go back to Gaza and live in a beautiful alternative that's safe," Trump added.

President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House in Washington, Feb. 4, 2025.
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The president reiterated that nations such as Jordan and Egypt can accept the Gazans. However, leaders in both nations have rejected such a mass relocation.

"It doesn't have to be one area, but you take certain areas and you build really good quality housing, like a beautiful town, like someplace where they can live and not die," Trump said.

Feb 04, 2025, 4:37 PM EST

State Department moving to evacuate USAID staff worldwide: Sources

The State Department has begun working to assist in evacuating all USAID staff who are on foreign assignments worldwide, sources familiar with the effort told ABC News.

The Department is aiming to recall all USAID employees, including family members, to the United States by Saturday, according to multiple sources.

On Tuesday, new deputy administrator for USIAD Pete Marocco told State Department officials that if the evacuation wasn't completed, the military would step in, a source familiar with the conversion told ABC News.

A federal worker described the move to ABC News as a sudden recall of thousands of foreign service officers, forcing families to uproot with just days' notice—spouses quitting jobs, kids leaving schools, and even pets being relocated.

"To uproot them and call them back to Washington like criminals while dealing with families and logistics is cruel. These people have kids in school," a former USAID employee told ABC News.

-ABC News' Will Steakin and Lucien Bruggeman

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