Trump 2nd term updates: Trump attends the Super Bowl

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

ByAlexandra Hutzler, Ivan Pereira, Emily Chang, Kevin Shalvey, Meredith Deliso, and Julia Reinstein
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.

Key headlines:

Here's how the news is developing:
Feb 05, 2025, 5:50 PM EST

DOD pulls Esper's security detail: Official

The Defense Department has revoked former Defense Secretary Mark Esper's security detail, a U.S. official told ABC News.

Like other former officials who have recently had their security pulled, such as Gen. Mark Milley, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Esper was serving under Trump at the time of the 2020 killing of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani.

PHOTO: Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth speaks as US President Donald Trump listens during a press onference called in response to the fatal collision of a passenger airplane and a US military helicopter, at the White House in Washington, Jan. 30, 2025.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth speaks as US President Donald Trump listens during a press onference called in response to the fatal collision of a passenger airplane and a US military helicopter last night, at the White House in Washington, Jan. 30, 2025.
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-ABC News' Matthew Seyler and Luis Martinez

Feb 05, 2025, 5:48 PM EST

At least 40,000 federal workers have taken buyout: Officials

At least 40,000 federal workers have accepted the deferred resignation offer to leave the federal government, two administration officials told ABC News.

Those administration officials said they expect that number to grow, with the biggest spike Thursday.

-ABC News' Rachel Scott

Feb 05, 2025, 4:52 PM EST

Democrats call on Bessent to address the Democratic caucus on DOGE access to Treasury payment system

Senate Democrats are requesting that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent meet with the Democratic caucus to discuss the Department of Government Efficiency's access to its payment system.

In a letter to Bessent on Wednesday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and the ranking members of several major committees wrote, "Congress requires answers about the scope of 'DOGE's' activity."

U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent attends a joint press conference of U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the East Room at the White House in Washington, Feb. 4, 2025.
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The senators added that the Treasury Department's written responses on this have been "wholly insufficient, and even illusive, and evasive and, in many cases, the responses stand in direct conflict to Elon Musk's public statements and the work of 'DOGE.'"

– ABC News' Allison Pecorin

Feb 05, 2025, 4:54 PM EST

Hegseth says he does not want to get ahead of Trump on Gaza plan in regard to deploying military troops

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks next to General Charles Q. Brown Jr., Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Pentagon in Washington, Jan. 5, 2025.
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"The president is involved in very complex and high-level negotiations of great consequence to both the United States and the state of Israel, and we look forward to working with our allies, our counterparts, both diplomatically and militarily, to look at all option," he said.

-ABC News' Matt Seyler

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