Trump administration live updates: Senate approves GOP budget plan to advance ICE and Border Patrol funding
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The measure would pave the way for reopening the Department of Homeland Security after a record-long shutdown.
President Donald Trump's administration ousted its Navy secretary yesterday. Daniel Heuer / Bloomberg via Getty Images
What to know today
- GOP APPROVES BUDGET: Senate Republicans voted largely along party lines to approve a budget measure early this morning that would pave the way for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol funding without any Democratic support.
- GOVERNOR CANDIDATES DEBATE: Six leading candidates for California governor sparred last night in their first debate since former Rep. Eric Swalwell, a Democrat, dropped out of the race amid multiple allegations of sexual assault — a scandal that was at issue during the debate.
- NAVY SECRETARY DISMISSED: Secretary of the Navy John Phelan was ousted from the Trump administration yesterday. Undersecretary Hung Cao will become the acting secretary.
NYC councilman arrested while protesting woman’s eviction from Brooklyn home
A member of the New York City Council was arrested in Brooklyn after protesting the eviction of a woman from her home in his district, according to his office.
Councilmember Chi Ossé was charged and taken into custody yesterday after his office said he was trying to help a constituent who was at risk of losing the Bedford-Stuyvesant home she has lived in for six decades.
Sen. Luján to introduce bill to provide bonuses to TSA personnel who worked during the shutdown
Sen. Ben Ray Luján, D-N.M., plans to introduce a bill to provide pay and a bonus to Transportation Security Administration personnel as the Department of Homeland Security shutdown continues, according to a fact sheet shared with NBC News.
The fact sheet says that the bill would set the base pay rate for TSA staff at $40,000 and ensure that they continue to receive pay despite what has become a record-long shutdown. It would also provide a $10,000 bonus to TSA personnel who have worked during the lapse in DHS funding.
About six weeks after the shutdown began, Trump directed DHS to pay TSA workers, and shortly after told the department to pay all of its employees.
Democratic lawmakers have offered up similar bills to try to fund TSA and other individual agencies during the shutdown amid the impasse with the Republican majority over the Democrats' proposed overhaul of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Sen. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., also introduced a bill in March to provide a bonus to TSA officers when the shutdown ends.
"Every day, TSA agents show up to work to protect travelers and make our country safer," Luján said in a statement shared in the fact sheet. "These hardworking men and women deserve to be properly compensated and shouldn’t miss paychecks in a political shutdown that Republicans created."
Republicans, meanwhile, have attempted to fund DHS without ICE and Border Patrol funding or the entire department. The Senate GOP advanced a budget resolution early this morning that would pave the way to funding the two immigration-related agencies and then separately fund the rest of DHS without Democratic support.
Federal judge dismisses Laura Loomer’s defamation suit against Bill Maher
A federal judge yesterday dismissed a defamation lawsuit from Laura Loomer, ruling in favor of comedian Bill Maher over a comment he made on his show that insinuated the far-right activist had an affair with President Donald Trump.
U.S. District Judge James Moody wrote in an 18-page ruling that Maher was clearly joking when he made the comment during a September 2024 episode of HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher.”
Navy Secretary John Phelan fired from administration amid Iran war
Navy Secretary John Phelan will leave the Trump administration “effective immediately,” the Pentagon announced yesterday, marking the latest departure of a top defense official this year.
“On behalf of the Secretary of War and Deputy Secretary of War, we are grateful to Secretary Phelan for his service to the Department and the United States Navy,” chief Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell said in a statement posted on X.
California governor candidates spar to get ahead after Eric Swalwell dropped out
Former Democratic congressman Eric Swalwell may have dropped out of the California gubernatorial race amid sexual misconduct allegations, but his scandal was still at issue in the first debate since his exit.
Last night, moderators turned the spotlight on Swalwell’s former colleague in the House, Xavier Becerra, asking what he knew about Swalwell’s behavior and whether he should have done something about it when Becerra was chair of the House Democratic Caucus.
Senate Republicans approve budget measure, teeing up bill to fund ICE and Border Patrol
WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans voted early this morning to approve a budget measure that would pave the way for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol funding without any Democratic support.
The vote was 50-48 after a marathon session last night. GOP Sens. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and Rand Paul, R-Ky., joined Democrats in voting against passage of the resolution.
