Trump administration live updates: Trump set to deliver remarks in Rose Garden
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President Donald Trump told reporters that the ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran still stands as the countries traded fire along the Strait of Hormuz.
President Donald Trump is expected to deliver remarks from the Rose Garden today. Mark Schiefelbein / AP
What to know today
- IRAN CEASEFIRE: The U.S. and Iran exchanged fire near the Strait of Hormuz yesterday. President Donald Trump said in a post on Truth Social that the U.S. fired on Iranian ships after they attacked three U.S. military ships that were transiting through the strait. Trump told reporters the ceasefire still stands amid the exchange of fire.
- TENNESSEE REDISTRICTING: Tennessee's GOP-led legislature swiftly passed a new congressional map that divides the only majority-Black congressional district following the Supreme Court's redistricting ruling.
- ROSE GARDEN SPEECH: Trump is expected to deliver remarks from the Rose Garden of the White House this afternoon.
U.S. added 115,000 jobs in April as economy contends with Iran war impact
The U.S. economy added 115,000 jobs in April, a sign that the labor market retained its resiliency even in the face of a global energy shock triggered by the U.S. war with Iran. The unemployment rate remained steady at 4.3%.
Economists were expecting 55,000 jobs to be added and projected that the unemployment rate would remain steady at 4.3%, according to a survey from Dow Jones.
The report also showed significant revisions to prior months. Employment in February was revised down by 23,000 to negative 156,000, but March was revised up by 7,000 to an addition of 178,000 roles.
The report from the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics also arrives as oil prices remain higher by more than 50% since the start of the year and average retail gas prices hover above $4.55 per gallon, up 50% since the war with Iran started in late February.
After the consumer price index showed inflation rising to 3.3% in March as a result of the Iran war fallout, today’s report showed that average hourly wages continued a strong 3.6% pace from the same time a year ago.
Rubio says U.S. is expecting a response from Iran today on proposal to end war
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that the U.S. is expecting a response from Iran today on a proposal to end the war.
Speaking to reporters at the U.S. Embassy in Rome, Rubio said: "We should know something today. I mean, we’re expecting a response from them. We’ll see what the response entails."
"The hope is it’s something that it can put us into a serious process of negotiation," said Rubio, adding that the U.S. has seen reporting overnight that Iran is trying to establish some control of traffic in the Strait of Hormuz.
"That would actually be unacceptable," he continued. "And the world has to start asking itself, what is it willing to do if Iran tries to normalize a control of an international waterway? I think that’s unacceptable, so, but we’re expecting a response from them today at some point. We have not received that yet."
NAACP sues Tennessee over new congressional map dividing state's lone majority-Black district
The NAACP yesterday sued Tennessee over the state's move to divide the only majority-Black congressional district.
The lawsuit warned that unless the state is stopped, "NAACP’s members will be subjected to an unlawful redistricting scheme, affecting their voting rights going forward." The NAACP requested that the court issue an injunction.
"We’re outraged that the State, rather than seeking a more just and fair system, is seeking to roll Tennessee back to a time when many of us didn’t have equal rights. We will fight this map, tooth and nail," NAACP general counsel Kristen Clarke said in a statement.
The civil rights organization said it has already sued Texas and Missouri over redistricting.
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee, a Republican, signed the new congressional map into law yesterday, which positions the GOP to gain a House seat in the midterm elections this November. The new map carves up a Memphis-based seat held by longtime Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., into three districts.
The state made the changes in the wake of a Supreme Court ruling last week that weakened the Voting Rights Act.
Redistricting pits California Republican incumbents against each other in a fight for survival
Facing a tough election challenge is a cost of doing business for members of Congress. But when that challenge comes from a colleague, things can get personal quickly.
That’s what’s happening right now in Southern California, where tensions between Republican Reps. Ken Calvert and Young Kim are boiling over after Democratic redistricting forced them into a fight for their political lives ahead of June’s primary.
Kim is panning her colleague, a 30-year veteran of Congress, as a creature of Washington. Calvert is calling her insufficiently conservative on issues like immigration. And Calvert even accused Kim, after the recent attempt to assassinate President Donald Trump, of contributing to “the heated environment and violence we’ve seen” because she has criticized Trump in the past, leading Kim to retort that Calvert is running a “desperate” campaign.
The messy intraparty fight is a result of state Democrats’ aggressive redistricting efforts last year, which carved up Republican-held seats in Southern California to create more blue-leaning districts. Along the way, they crammed into one red district a powerful member of the House Appropriations Committee, Calvert, and a battle-tested incumbent who has won tough races in recent years, Kim.
“Love and war have rules,” said Rep. Darrell Issa, a retiring Republican also from Southern California. “Politics doesn’t.”
