Trump administration updates: Schumer continues to face calls for new leadership
The Senate minority leader says he's not going anywhere.
Sen. Chuck Schumer said Sunday he has no plans to step aside as Senate minority leader as criticism of Schumer and of Democrats' ineffectiveness in combatting President Donald Trump's agenda continues.
Meanwhile, the Trump administration sent another group of migrants to Guantanamo Bay, alleging many are members of the Venezuelan gang Tren De Aragua, an official with knowledge of the flight told ABC News. But deportation flights of Venezuelans to El Salvador remain on hold while the administration fights a judge's order to curtail those flights while their legality is decided.
Trump on Friday announced a new F-47 fighter jet with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and signed a series of presidential actions before departing the White House for his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey. The actions included one rescinding the security clearances of several former Biden officials and political opponents.
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Trump claims that fired fed workers will get better jobs
President Donald Trump was asked to respond to concerns from military families over more cuts given Elon Musk's meeting with the Pentagon and the calls to cut more federal jobs.
Trump claimed that "nobody has taken better care of the military."
"I know what Pete [Hegseth] doing is he's talking about a lot of the civilian staff, and we're going to get them other jobs," the president said. "But we don't want to have wasteful jobs ... and those were wasteful jobs."
Trump calls Tesla dealership vandals terrorists, compares actions to Jan. 6
President Donald Trump was asked about his harsh comments against the suspects accused of vandalizing Tesla dealerships in the country, hours after he vowed to send them to El Salvadorian prisons.
Trump continued his rhetoric and called the suspects "terrorists."
"You didn't have that on Jan. 6, I can tell you. You didn't have anything like that on January 6th, which is sort of amazing," he said before falsely claiming that the only person who died during the attack on the Capitol was one of the rioters.
Approximately 140 Capitol Police officers were injured by rioters.
Four officers who responded to the Capitol attack have since died by suicide.
Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick died after suffering multiple strokes hours after he was pepper sprayed by rioters.
Trump pardoned all of the suspects and convicted felons linked to Jan. 6 after returning to office in January.
There have been no deaths or injuries reported at the Tesla protests, however some cars have been set on fire and damaged, according to law enforcement.
Trump claims he'll give stranded astronauts OT from his pocket
President Donald Trump was asked about the newly returned Starliner crew members and whether they would get overtime for their extended stay on the International Space Station.
"Nobody's ever mentioned this to me. If I have to, I'll pay out of my own pocket," he claimed.
Trump denies Musk was going to be briefed on China war plan
After Elon Musk's meeting at the Pentagon earlier Friday, President Donald Trump continued to deny a New York Times report that Musk was going to receive a briefing on a top-secret military plan for potential war with China.
"I don't want to show that to anybody. But certainly, you wouldn't show it to a businessman who is helping us so much. He's a great patriot ... But I certainly wouldn't want -- you know, Elon has businesses in China, and he would be susceptible perhaps to that. But it was such a fake story," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Musk was at the Pentagon to talk about the Department of Government Efficiency.
"There was no war plans. There was no Chinese war plans. There was no secret plans. That's not what we were doing at the Pentagon," Hegseth said.