The headlong rush to cut government funding for anything that sounds too much like “diversity, equity and inclusion” to the new administration’s shockingly young shock troops appears to have brought an abrupt halt to a program that supported young leaders struggling for a better future for Myanmar, the country formerly known as Burma, which is now ruled by a military dictatorship engaged in ethnic conflict.

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On Wednesday, Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency boasted on his social media platform that a program to provide what it called “$45m in DEI scholarships in Burma” had been cancelled.

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But as the former congressman and veteran diplomat Tom Malinowskipointed out, the funding was for USAid’s Lincoln scholarships, “which help young people struggling for freedom in Burma’s dictatorship – a cause America has supported under Republican & Democratic presidents”.

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“What could be ‘woke’ or ‘DEI’ about these scholarships?” Malinowksi asks. “The only clue is that USAID says they’re for students ‘of diverse backgrounds’ (oh no, diversity!). This is essential for Burma, where the military has exploited ethnic and religious divisions to stay in power.”

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The program description on the USAid website does indeed say that the aim of investing in “135 young Myanmar leaders from diverse backgrounds” is to help “the next generation of leaders to guide Myanmar along a path of inclusive socio-economic development”.

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Given the new administration’s horror at the prospect of young people fleeing conflict zones to build better lives in the United States, wouldn’t a modest investment in helping young people carve out a common future in a country divided by sectarian violence make sense?

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Malinowksi added that, in his career as a senator, the new secretary of state, Marco Rubio, supported human rights in Burma and urged the Biden administration to do even more to help the persecuted Rohingya ethnic minority.

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“It looks like these geniuses are just going through grant awards and killing anything that uses words like ‘diversity’ and ‘inclusion,’ even though in countries where ethnic and religious minorities are murdered and persecuted, these have long been American goals,” Malinowski concluded.

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A new executive order signed by Donald Trump on Wednesday “to combat antisemitism” asks federal agencies to explore ways to deport pro-Palestinian activists, including student protesters, who are found to have broken the law during protests.

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As our colleague Marina Dunbar reports, the order appears to target students and other activists who engaged in demonstrations against the Israeli war in Gaza following the Hamas attack on Israel on 7 October 2023.

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The text of the order says that action is necessary because the Hamas attack on Israel on “unleashed an unprecedented wave of vile anti-Semitic discrimination, vandalism, and violence against our citizens, especially in our schools and on our campuses”.

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If Not Now, an organization of American Jews “organizing our community to end US support for Israel’s apartheid system”, denounced the order.

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“We are disgusted that Trump and his antisemitic, neo-Nazi allies are planning to deport students and other immigrants for protesting [against] the Israeli military’s assault on Gaza, while gutting academic freedom by threatening to withhold billions in federal funding for universities,” the group said ina statement. “This attack – fueled by anti-Palestinian racism – is all part of Trump’s broad-based attack on immigrants, our education system, and our democracy.”

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Layla Saliba, a Palestinian American graduate student at Columbia University, reported on social media that student protesters there were being monitored by the police as they rallied on Wednesday evening.

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“Just outside the Columbia University gates, students are hosting a vigil in honor of Hind Rajab,” Saliba wrote on X. “Hind was a six-year-old Palestinian girl killed by the Israeli military. [The] NYPD is monitoring and filming students as they read poetry.”

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There has been a wave of criticism from across the country and around the globe to Donald Trump’s executive order instructing the military to prepare to house 30,000 immigrants at the US naval base in Cuba.

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“Guantánamo Bay has been the site of torture, indefinite detention without charge or trial and other unlawful practices by the US government,” Amnesty International said in a statement. “President Trump should be using his authority to finally close the prison there, not re-purposing the facility for offshore immigration detention.”

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“Guantánamo is a stain on our nation’s honor,” Representative Jerry Nadler, a New York Democrat, wrote in response to Trump’s comments on the order. “For years, I have advocated for its closure, condemning the abuses and glaring lack of accountability that persist there. This massive expansion into a mass detention camp is morally indefensible & raises significant civil liberties concerns.”

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“This darkly harkens back to why Guantánamo was chosen to hold ‘war on terror’ detainees in the first place,” the historian of Cuba Andrés Pertierraobserved. “The US sent Haitian refugees fleeing in the early 90s to Guantánamo because it existed in a legal grey area in international law, limiting their rights and US obligations.”

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“This is horrific,” Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib wrote. “We cannot allow this level of dehumanization to become normalized. We need to shut down Guantánamo once and for all.”

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“Hours after Holocaust Memorial Day, Trump opens a prison for immigrants at Guantánamo,” Guy Verhofstadt, the former prime minister of Belgium, wrote on X.

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Chuck Ezell, the acting director of the Office of Personnel Management, sent a memo to federal agencies on Wednesday instructing them to take immediate and far-reaching steps to comply with Trump’s executive order, “Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism”.

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The memo, posted on X, orders agencies to go to great lengths to remove anything that might be defined as promoting “gender ideology” from public websites and social media accounts, and even to make sure that internal email systems, like Outlook, are set to turn off prompts that ask users for their pronouns.

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Agency leaders are required to notify employees to abide by the order, and undertake a review of programs, contracts and grants by 5pm on Friday, and “terminate any that promote or inculcate gender ideology”.

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They are also instructed to report back to the OPM by no later than noon on 7 February with a complete list of all steps taken to comply with the order and the guidance in the memo.

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A memo sent to reporters by the White House communications team directs the new the secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, and the secretary of homeland security, Kristi Noem, to act on his executive order to prepare a huge detention facility at Guantánamo Bay that could be used to hold up to 30,000 immigrants deported from the US.

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Here is the full text of the memo from Trump:

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I hereby direct the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Homeland Security to take all appropriate actions to expand the Migrant Operations Center at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay to full capacity to provide additional detention space for high-priority criminal aliens unlawfully present in the United States, and to address attendant immigration enforcement needs identified by the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security.

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This memorandum is issued in order to halt the border invasion, dismantle criminal cartels, and restore national sovereignty.

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This memorandum is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.

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Cuba has responded to Donald Trump’s announcement that he plans to open a detention center for migrants at Guantánamo Bay, with the foreign minister claiming the idea “shows contempt towards the human condition and international law”.

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Writing on X, the US social media site owned by Trump backer Elon Musk, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla condemned “the US government’s decision to imprison migrants at the Guantánamo naval base, in an enclave where it created torture centers and indefinite detention”.

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Also writing on X, Cuba’s president, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, called the plan “an act of brutality”.

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It’s nearly 4.30pm in Washington DC. Here’s a round-up of key US politics news so far:

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  The White House Office of Management and Budget has rescinded its memo regarding the pause in federal grants and loans. The news comes a day after a federal judge temporarily halted the policy, which had prompted mass confusion and concern across the country.

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  But the White House has created further confusion over the announcement with a cryptic statement. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitttold NBC News: “In light of the injunction, OMB has rescinded the memo to end any confusion on federal policy created by the court ruling and the dishonest media coverage. The executive orders issued by the president on funding reviews remain in full force and effect and will be rigorously implemented by all agencies and departments.”

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  Donald Trump has signed the Laken Riley Act – named after a murdered nursing student – the first legislation to receive his signature since taking office last week. At a desk in the White House’s East Room, Trump was surrounded by legislative sponsors of the bill as well as members of Riley’s family. The bill directs authorities to detain and deport immigrants who are accused, though not convicted, of theft-related crimes if they are unlawfully present in the US.

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  During the speech, Trump also said he was planning to sign an executive order opening a detention center at Guantánamo Bay that would hold up to 30,000 people in the US illegally. Trump said the camp would be used “to detain the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people”.

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  Robert F Kennedy Jr defended his record in a contentious hearing before the Senate finance committee. Kennedy, Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of health and human services, faced pointed questions from Democrats about his past comments criticizing vaccines and his reversal on supporting abortion access.

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  The top Democrat on the finance committee accused Kennedy of having “embraced conspiracy theories”. “The receipts show that Mr Kennedy has embraced conspiracy theories, quacks, and charlatans, especially when it comes to the safety and efficacy of vaccines,” Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon said. “This is the profile of somebody who chases money and influence wherever they lead, even if that means the deaths of children and other vulnerable people.”

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  Republicans voiced support for Kennedy, but his path to confirmation remains unclear. Senator Mike Crapo, the Republican chair of the finance committe, told Kennedy: “I think you have come through well and deserve to be confirmed.” But Kennedy’s habit of flip-flopping on crucial health-related issues could jeopardize his confirmation.

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  A judge sentenced former New Jersey senator Bob Menendez to 11 years in prison on Wednesday on federal bribery and corruption charges. Menendez, 70, a three-term Democratic senator, was found guilty last year by a jury in a Manhattan courtroom of 16 counts of corruption, including bribery, extortion and acting as a foreign agent. He resigned from the Senate shortly after the conviction.

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A judge sentenced former New Jersey senator Bob Menendez to 11 years in prison on Wednesday on federal bribery and corruption charges.

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Menendez, 70, a three-term Democratic senator, was found guilty last year by a jury in a Manhattan courtroom of 16 counts of corruption, including bribery, extortion and acting as a foreign agent. He resigned from the Senate shortly after the conviction.

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A years-long investigation found Menendez had accepted bribes in the form of cash and gold bars in exchange for helping the governments of Qatar and Egypt.

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In his bill signing remarks, Trump said he was planning to sign an executive order opening a detention center at Guantánamo Bay that would hold up to 30,000 people in the US illegally.

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Trump said the camp would be used “to detain the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people”.

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Of the camp in Cuba, used to hold terrorism suspects, Trump said: “That’s a tough place to get out of.”

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Trump has signed the Laken Riley Act, the first legislation to receive his signature since taking office last week. At a desk in the White House’s East Room, Trump was surrounded by legislative sponsors of the bill as well as members of Riley’s family.

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The controversial measure was approved over the concerns of legal experts and immigration advocates who warned that the measure tramples immigrants’ right to due process while failing to address very real problems with the country’s overwhelmed immigration system. The bill directs authorities to detain and deport immigrants who are accused, though not convicted, of theft-related crimes if they are unlawfully present in the US.

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It does not include additional funding for implementation, a concern raised in a memo from the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

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Donald Trump is speaking at the White House, where he is expected to sign the immigration detention bill, the Laken Riley Act.

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But first he is taking a victory lap, touting the size of his electoral (and popular vote) win as well as his administration’s blitz of executive actions. “We’ve broken decades of failed Washington policies and restored common sense and sanity to our government,” Trump declared.

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He said his administration has informed federal workers that “they must show up to the office on time and on schedule”.

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“Show up or be terminated,” he said.

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Trump also made a number of claims about the border, rescinding Biden administration policies on energy and DEI. He added that the “water has now begun flowing in California”.

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Trump has claimed that the US military entered the state and “turned on the water” – which the California department of water resources clarified, explaining that the military did not enter the state and that federal pumps had been temporarily offline for maintenance.

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Here’s where the day stands so far:

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  The White House Office of Management and Budget has rescinded its memo regarding the pause in federal grants and loans. The news comes a day after a federal judge temporarily halted the policy, which had prompted mass confusion and concern across the country.

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  But the White House has created further confusion over the announcement with a cryptic statement. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitttold NBC News: “In light of the injunction, OMB has rescinded the memo to end any confusion on federal policy created by the court ruling and the dishonest media coverage. The executive orders issued by the president on funding reviews remain in full force and effect and will be rigorously implemented by all agencies and departments.”

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  Robert F Kennedy Jr defended his record in a contentious hearing before the Senate finance committee. Kennedy, Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of health and human services, faced pointed questions from Democrats about his past comments criticizing vaccines and his reversal on supporting abortion access.

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  The top Democrat on the finance committee accused Kennedy of having “embraced conspiracy theories”. “The receipts show that Mr Kennedy has embraced conspiracy theories, quacks, and charlatans, especially when it comes to the safety and efficacy of vaccines,” Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon said. “This is the profile of somebody who chases money and influence wherever they lead, even if that means the deaths of children and other vulnerable people.”

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  Republicans voiced support for Kennedy, but his path to confirmation remains unclear. Senator Mike Crapo, the Republican chair of the finance committe, told Kennedy: “I think you have come through well and deserve to be confirmed.” But Kennedy’s habit of flip-flopping on crucial health-related issues could jeopardize his confirmation.

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The blog will have more coming up, so stay tuned.

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The White House is sending mixed messages about the implications of the announcement from the Office of Management and Budget that it was rescinding its memo freezing federal funding.

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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told NBC News: “In light of the injunction, OMB has rescinded the memo to end any confusion on federal policy created by the court ruling and the dishonest media coverage.

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“The executive orders issued by the president on funding reviews remain in full force and effect and will be rigorously implemented by all agencies and departments. This action should effectively end the court case and allow the government to focus on enforcing the president’s orders on controlling federal spending. In the coming weeks and months, more executive action will continue to end the egregious waste of federal funding.”

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The statement will almost certainly spark even more confusion about the status of federal grants and loans. Stay tuned for updates.

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Senator Susan Collins, a Republican of Maine and the chair of the Senate appropriations committee, celebrated the White House Office of Management and Budget’s decision to rescind its order pausing federal grants and loans.

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“I am pleased that OMB is rescinding the memo imposing sweeping pauses in federal programs,” Collins said in a new statement.

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“While it is not unusual for incoming administrations to review federal programs and policies, this memo was overreaching and created unnecessary confusion and consternation.”

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The Senate finance commitee’s confirmation hearing for Robert F Kennedy Jr, Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of health and human services, has concluded.

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Mike Crapo, the Republican chair of the committee, told Kennedy: “I think you have come through well and deserve to be confirmed.”

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But it remains unclear whether Kennedy will have the necessary support for confirmation, particularly after Democrats pressed the nominee on his past comments criticizing vaccines and his long history of support for abortion access.

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As Kennedy left the hearing room, his supporters cheered for him, with one yelling: “Make America healthy again!”

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According to Reuters, a White House official confirmed the order had been rescinded. The news comes one day after the federal judge temporarily halted the funding pause.

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Senator Bernie Sanders attempted to place Robert F Kennedy Jr on the record about whether he believed that healthcare is a human right, but the cabinet nominee repeatedly dodged the question.

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“Do you agree with me that the United States should join every other major country on earth and guarantee healthcare to all people as a human right? Yes, no?” Sanders asked.

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Kennedy replied: “Senator, I can’t give you a yes or no answer to that question.”

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Senator Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat of Massachusetts, highligted Kennedy’s pledge to keep corruption and corporate influence out of the department of health and human services and asked him about his post-government plans.

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“Here’s an easy question. Will you commit that when you leave this job, you will not accept compensation from a drug company, a medical device company, a hospital system or a health insurer for at least four years, including as a lobbyist or a board member?” Warren asked.

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Kennedy asked Warren to repeat the question before asking: “Who? Me?”

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“Yes, you,” Warren said, as some laughs broke out in the hearing room.

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Kennedy then said that he would commit to that pledge, prompting Warren to ask: “Will you also agree that you won’t take any compensation from any lawsuits against drug companies while you are secretary and for four years afterwards?”

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“I’ll certainly commit to that while I’m secretary,” Kennedy said, before launching into a defense of his record without addressing his post-government plans.

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Warren again pressed Kennedy on not taking compensation from lawsuits, and he continued to quibble with her questioning, avoiding a concrete answer to her queries.

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“If you get confirmed, you could influence every single one of those lawsuits,” Warren said. “And I am asking you to commit right now that you will not take a financial stake in every one of those lawsuits so that what you do as secretary will also benefit you financially down the line.”

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“I’ll comply with all of the ethical guidelines,” Kennedy said.

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“That is not the question,” Warren shot back. “No one should be fooled here.”

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Although Robert F Kennedy Jr has previously identified as “pro-choice,” he fully backed Donald Trump’s view on abortion during his Senate confirmation hearing.

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“I agree with President Trump that every abortion is a tragedy. I agree with him that we cannot be a moral nation if we have 1.2 million abortions a year. I agree with him that the states should control abortion,” Kennedy told Republican senator James Lankford.

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He added: “I serve at the pleasure of the president. I’m going to implement his policies.”

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Asked about access to the abortion medication Mifepristone, Kennedy suggested that federal agencies should examine potential “safety issues” related to the drug.

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“We need to understand the safety of every drug – Mifepristone and every other drug,” Kennedy said. “[Trump] is not taking a position yet on Mifepristone, a detailed position, but he’s made it clear to me that he wants me to look at the safety issues, and I’ll ask NIH [the National Institutes of Health] and FDA [the Food and Drug Administration] to do that.”

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Senator Mark Warner, a Democrat of Virginia, pressed Robert F Kennedy Jr on whether he would move to dismiss longtime staffers at the Department of Health and Human Services, as Donald Trump’s other cabinet picks have already started doing at other agencies.

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“I will commit to not firing anybody who is doing their job,” Kennedy said.

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Warner asked, “Based upon your opinion, or your political agenda, or Mr Trump’s political agenda?”

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“Based upon my opinion,” Kennedy replied.

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Warner remarked, “So I guess that means a lot of the folks who have had any type of views on vaccines will be out of work.”

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Senator Michael Bennet, a Democrat of Colorado, said that he agreed with Robert F Kennedy Jr on some of his criticism of the US healthcare system, but he painted Kennedy as woefully unqualified to lead the department of health and human services.

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“What is so disturbing to me is that out of 330 million Americans, we’re being asked to put somebody in this job who has spent 50 years of his life not honoring the tradition that he talked about at the beginning of this conversation, but peddling in half-truths, peddling in false statements, peddling in theories that create doubt about whether or not things we know are safe are unsafe,” Bennet said.

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Bennet then launched into a series of damning, rapid-fire questions about Kennedy’s past comments on a range of healthcare topics, including the coronavirus pandemic and Aids.

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“Did you say that Covid-19 was a genetically engineered bioweapon that targets Black and white people, but spared Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese people?” Bennet said.

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Kennedy replied: “I didn’t say it was deliberately targeted. I just quoted an NIH-funded and NIH-published study.”

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Ron Wyden, the top Democrat on the Senate finance committee, criticized Robert F Kennedy Jr for having “spent years pushing conflicting stories about vaccines”.

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As he began his questioning, Wyden quoted some of Kennedy’s podcast interviews in which he claimed that “no vaccine is safe and effective” and that he regretted vaccinating his own children. But in his opening statement, Kennedy denied being anti-vaccine.

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“Mr Kennedy, all of these things cannot be true,” Wyden said. “So, are you lying to Congress today when you say you are pro-vaccine, or did you lie on all of those podcasts? We have all of this on tape.”

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Kennedy replied that his previous comment about vaccines’ safety had been truncated and had since been corrected, telling Wyden, “You know about this, Senator Wyden, so bringing this up right now is dishonest.”

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Wyden retorted that Kennedy has “a history of trying to take vaccines away from people,” citing his signature on a 2021 petition calling for the Food and Drug Administration to block access to coronavirus vaccines. Kennedy suggested that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had mishandled the recommendation process for those vaccines.

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Another protester then interrupted the hearing.

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Robert F Kennedy Jr dedicated most of his opening statement to detailing his vision for addressing “chronic disease” if confirmed as the secretary of health and human services, but he took a moment to address his past comments attacking vaccines.

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“News reports have claimed that I am anti-vaccine or anti-industry. I am neither,” Kennedy said.

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He was disrupted by a protester who appeared to yell in response: “You lie!”

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The protester was escorted out of the hearing room, and then Kennedy was then able to continue his opening statement, saying, “I am pro-safety.”

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The top Democrat on the Senate finance committee, Ron Wyden of Oregon, delivered a scathing rebuke of Robert F Kennedy Jr in his opening statement at the cabinet nominee’s confirmation hearing.

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“The receipts show that Mr. Kennedy has embraced conspiracy theories, quacks, and charlatans, especially when it comes to the safety and efficacy of vaccines,” Wyden said.

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“He’s made it his life’s work to sow doubt and discourage parents from getting their kids life-saving vaccines. It’s been lucrative for him and put him on the verge of real power. This is the profile of somebody who chases money and influence wherever they lead, even if that means the deaths of children and other vulnerable people.”

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Wyden noted that, if confirmed as the next secretary of health and human services, Kennedy would play a key role in issuing medical recommendations for the nation, and the Democrat expressed fear that Kennedy might use his authority to restrict access to the abortion medication Mifepristone.

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“Women deserve to know if Mr Kennedy will abuse his power as our country’s chief health officer to essentially implement a national abortion ban by restricting access to this safe and legal medication,” Wyden said.

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He concluded, “After a careful review of Robert F Kennedy Jr’s statements, actions, associations and views, I have reached the conclusion that he should not be entrusted with the health and well-being of the American people. When he’s taken every side of every issue, how can this committee and the American public believe anything he has to say?”

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The chair of the Senate finance committee, Republican Mike Crapo of Idaho, has kicked off the confirmation hearing for Robert F Kennedy Jr, Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of health and human services.

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After Kennedy entered the hearing room, he walked up toward the dais to shake the hands of committee members while photographers swirled around him to capture the scene.

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The hearing will begin with opening statements before senators have the opportunity to question Kennedy, who has faced intense criticism over allegations of sexual harassment and his shifting stance on vaccines.

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Stay tuned.

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The Senate confirmation hearing for Robert F Kennedy, Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of health and human services, will get underway in about 30 minutes, and Democrats are expected to grill Kennedy on allegations of sexual harassment and his shifting stance on vaccines.

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The Guardian’s Joseph Gedeon reports: “Robert F Kennedy Jr, the environmental lawyer turned anti-vaccine activist, faces a watershed moment this week as the Senate confirmation hearings begin on his nomination as the US’s top health official, setting up what could be the most contentious cabinet battle of Donald Trump’s second administration.

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“The 71-year-old Kennedy, whose nomination has sparked fierce resistance from the scientific establishment, would take control of a sprawling $1.8tn healthcare apparatus at a time when public trust in medical institutions remains deeply fractured along partisan lines.

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“As health and human services secretary, Kennedy would oversee everything from vaccine policy to food safety, wielding enormous influence over public health decisions affecting millions of Americans. His controversial views – including debunked claims about vaccines and autism, fluoride safety and raw milk regulations – have put him at odds with mainstream medical consensus.

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“Kennedy told NPR in December that as a member of the administration, he is ‘not going to take vaccines away from anybody’, but he also added he wanted people to make ‘informed choices’.”

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Read Joseph’s full report:

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President Trump has issued an executive order restricting gender transition treatment for people under 19.

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The order said medical professionals across the country were “maiming and sterilizing a growing number of impressionable children under the radical and false claim that adults can change a child’s sex through a series of irreversible medical interventions”.

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“Countless children soon regret that they have been mutilated and begin to grasp the horrifying tragedy that they will never be able to conceive children of their own or nurture their children through breastfeeding,” it said.

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“Moreover, these vulnerable youths’ medical bills may rise throughout their lifetimes, as they are often trapped with lifelong medical complications, a losing war with their own bodies, and, tragically, sterilization.

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“Accordingly, it is the policy of the United States that it will not fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support the so-called ‘transition’ of a child from one sex to another, and it will rigorously enforce all laws that prohibit or limit these destructive and life-altering procedures.”

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The order also directed the US health secretary to “take all appropriate actions to end the chemical and surgical mutilation of children, including regulatory and sub-regulatory actions”.

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In another part of its efforts to reshape the US government, the Trump administration has offered federal workers buyouts worth more than seven months’ salary to leave their jobs.

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A memo circulated on Tuesday evening set out four mandatory directives, including a full-time return to the office for most employees. It also said that the federal workforce would be subjected to “enhanced standards of suitability and conduct” and warned that most agencies would be downsized.

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It said the offer to leave would remain open until 6 February.

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The US government is roughly the nation’s 15th-largest workforce, with more than 3 million employees. Project 2025, the conservative manifesto that has guided much of Trump’s policy goals, calls for mass firings of federal workers and suggests replacing many with political appointees.

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Denouncing the offer, the president of the American Federation of Government Employees union, Everett Kelley, said it was part of an attempt to pressure workers not considered loyal to the new administration to leave their jobs.

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“Purging the federal government of dedicated career federal employees will have vast, unintended consequences that will cause chaos for the Americans who depend on a functioning federal government,” a statement read.

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Read the full story here:

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More now on the news that a federal judge has blocked a move by President Trump to pause trillions of dollars in federal loans, grants, and other financial assistance.

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Federal grants and loans reach into virtually every corner of Americans’ lives, with hundreds of billions of dollars flowing into education, healthcare and anti-poverty programmes, housing assistance, disaster relief, infrastructure, and a host of other initiatives.

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A two-page internal memo which had been due to take effect at 5pm eastern time on Tuesday told all federal agencies to “temporarily pause all activities related to obligations or disbursement of all federal financial assistance”.

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The memo was met with widespread confusion in Washington, where civil servants struggled to understand its full extent scope and application.

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The US constitution gives Congress control over spending matters, but Trump has said he believes the president has the power to withhold money for programmes he dislikes.

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A letter from senior Democrats on the House Committee on Appropriations expressed “extreme alarm about the Administration’s efforts to undermine Congress’s power of the purse”, adding that this and other directives had “sown immense confusion across the country, with some reports indicating that they could immediately halt all federal funding for any grant or loan”.

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US district judge Loren AliKhan granted the temporary halt after several advocacy groups argued the freeze would devastate programmes ranging from healthcare to road construction. The court will revisit the issue on Monday.

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Good morning and welcome to our live coverage of all the latest developments from US politics.

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We start with the news that a federal judge has temporarily blocked a move by President Donald Trump to pause trillions of dollars in federal loans, grants, and other financial assistance.

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A two-page internal memo had told all federal agencies to “temporarily pause all activities related to obligations or disbursement of all federal financial assistance” and that “the use of Federal resources to advance Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal social engineering policies is a waste of taxpayer dollars”.

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The directive was seen as part of Trump’s desire to end programs related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). The court order came moments before it was due to take effect and will prevent it from being implemented until at least next Monday, 3 February.

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The administrative stay came in response to a lawsuit filed by four groups representing non-profits, public health professionals and small businesses in which they said the directive was illegal and would have a “devastating impact on hundreds of thousands of grant recipients who depend on the inflow of grant money”.

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Stay with us for more on that and all the latest updates throughout the day.

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Another very full day of news from the Trump restoration draws to a close, but your Guardian livebloggers will be back on Thursday to chronicle events as they unfold. Here are some of the main developments from the past few hours:

• Donald Trump ordered the US military to detain up to 30,000 undocumented immigrants at Guantánamo Bay, prompting widespread backlash from rights groups, Democrats and the Cuban government.

• The Office of Personnel Management sent a memo to federal agencies instructing them to take immediate and far-reaching steps to comply with Trump’s executive order to crack down on “Gender Ideology Extremism”.

• A federal judge agreed to issue a temporary restraining order blocking Trump’s freeze on federal spending after the White House press secretary undermined the administration’s argument in a tweet.

• Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency celebrated the end of what it called “DEI scholarships in Burma”, which a former diplomat explained was really a bipartisan program to help young people struggling for an end to that country’s sectarian military dictatorship.

• Trump’s executive order “to combat antisemitism” asks federal agencies to explore ways to deport pro-Palestinian activists, including student protesters.

• Former New Jersey senator Bob Menendez added his name to the list of officials accused or convicted of public corruption hoping for Trump to show them mercy.

Why is Elon Musk’s Doge picking on young people hoping to end Myanmar’s nightmare autocracy?

The headlong rush to cut government funding for anything that sounds too much like “diversity, equity and inclusion” to the new administration’s shockingly young shock troops appears to have brought an abrupt halt to a program that supported young leaders struggling for a better future for Myanmar, the country formerly known as Burma, which is now ruled by a military dictatorship engaged in ethnic conflict.

On Wednesday, Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency boasted on his social media platform that a program to provide what it called “$45m in DEI scholarships in Burma” had been cancelled.

But as the former congressman and veteran diplomat Tom Malinowskipointed out, the funding was for USAid’s Lincoln scholarships, “which help young people struggling for freedom in Burma’s dictatorship – a cause America has supported under Republican & Democratic presidents”.

“What could be ‘woke’ or ‘DEI’ about these scholarships?” Malinowksi asks. “The only clue is that USAID says they’re for students ‘of diverse backgrounds’ (oh no, diversity!). This is essential for Burma, where the military has exploited ethnic and religious divisions to stay in power.”

The program description on the USAid website does indeed say that the aim of investing in “135 young Myanmar leaders from diverse backgrounds” is to help “the next generation of leaders to guide Myanmar along a path of inclusive socio-economic development”.

Given the new administration’s horror at the prospect of young people fleeing conflict zones to build better lives in the United States, wouldn’t a modest investment in helping young people carve out a common future in a country divided by sectarian violence make sense?

Malinowksi added that, in his career as a senator, the new secretary of state, Marco Rubio, supported human rights in Burma and urged the Biden administration to do even more to help the persecuted Rohingya ethnic minority.

“It looks like these geniuses are just going through grant awards and killing anything that uses words like ‘diversity’ and ‘inclusion,’ even though in countries where ethnic and religious minorities are murdered and persecuted, these have long been American goals,” Malinowski concluded.

Nancy Pelosi, the former House speaker, has endorsed Ben Wikler for Democratic National Committee chair, just days before the party elects a new leader.

Wikler, who leads the Wisconsin Democrats and is the only former writer for the Onion in the race, shared Pelosi’s endorsement on Bluesky.

It is the honor of a lifetime to receive Speaker Emerita Pelosi’s endorsement for a DNC Chair campaign that is surging at this decisive moment.Together we will unite our party, fight through this moment of crisis, and win victories that make a difference in people’s lives.

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The DNC will elect a new chair on Saturday.

While Pelosi remains a powerful force in Democratic party politics, Wikler’s main rival for the leadership of the DNC, Ken Martin of Minnesota, touted the endorsement of a much younger party leader, Tennessee state representative Justin Pearson.

So incredibly honored to have @justinjpearson1.bsky.social on Team Ken. He knows what it means to stand up against Republican extremism—which is exactly what we need to do at the DNC.

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A federal judge in Rhode Island agreed to issue a temporary restraining order blocking Donald Trump’s freeze on federal spending after the White House press secretary undermined the Trump administration’s argument that it had rescinded the memo from the White House budget office that ordered a freeze.

As Mattathias Schwartz reports for the New York Times, lawyers for 22 states and the District of Columbia, which had filed suit, introduced as evidence a social media post from the White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, in which she insisted that, despite the memo, “the federal funding freeze” was still in effect.

US district court judge James McConnell Jr agreed that the harm caused by Trump’s freeze was ongoing, in part because, “based on comments by the president’s press secretary”, the impact of the withdrawal of the budget office memo was “hugely ambiguous”. The judge also pointed to extensive testimony from state officials that they had been locked out of systems that provide reimbursements for Medicaid and other government programs.

Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortezmocked Leavitt in a post on the platform formerly known as Twitter, noting that her “tweets were so bad today she earned the entire administration a federal restraining order. Keep talking and tweeting, girl! You’re doing great!”

Trump order on antisemitism targets pro-Palestinian protesters

A new executive order signed by Donald Trump on Wednesday “to combat antisemitism” asks federal agencies to explore ways to deport pro-Palestinian activists, including student protesters, who are found to have broken the law during protests.

As our colleague Marina Dunbar reports, the order appears to target students and other activists who engaged in demonstrations against the Israeli war in Gaza following the Hamas attack on Israel on 7 October 2023.

The text of the order says that action is necessary because the Hamas attack on Israel on “unleashed an unprecedented wave of vile anti-Semitic discrimination, vandalism, and violence against our citizens, especially in our schools and on our campuses”.

If Not Now, an organization of American Jews “organizing our community to end US support for Israel’s apartheid system”, denounced the order.

“We are disgusted that Trump and his antisemitic, neo-Nazi allies are planning to deport students and other immigrants for protesting [against] the Israeli military’s assault on Gaza, while gutting academic freedom by threatening to withhold billions in federal funding for universities,” the group said ina statement. “This attack – fueled by anti-Palestinian racism – is all part of Trump’s broad-based attack on immigrants, our education system, and our democracy.”

Layla Saliba, a Palestinian American graduate student at Columbia University, reported on social media that student protesters there were being monitored by the police as they rallied on Wednesday evening.

“Just outside the Columbia University gates, students are hosting a vigil in honor of Hind Rajab,” Saliba wrote on X. “Hind was a six-year-old Palestinian girl killed by the Israeli military. [The] NYPD is monitoring and filming students as they read poetry.”

Trump order to turn Guantánamo Bay into migrant detention center sparks outcry

There has been a wave of criticism from across the country and around the globe to Donald Trump’s executive order instructing the military to prepare to house 30,000 immigrants at the US naval base in Cuba.

“Guantánamo Bay has been the site of torture, indefinite detention without charge or trial and other unlawful practices by the US government,” Amnesty International said in a statement. “President Trump should be using his authority to finally close the prison there, not re-purposing the facility for offshore immigration detention.”

“Guantánamo is a stain on our nation’s honor,” Representative Jerry Nadler, a New York Democrat, wrote in response to Trump’s comments on the order. “For years, I have advocated for its closure, condemning the abuses and glaring lack of accountability that persist there. This massive expansion into a mass detention camp is morally indefensible & raises significant civil liberties concerns.”

“This darkly harkens back to why Guantánamo was chosen to hold ‘war on terror’ detainees in the first place,” the historian of Cuba Andrés Pertierraobserved. “The US sent Haitian refugees fleeing in the early 90s to Guantánamo because it existed in a legal grey area in international law, limiting their rights and US obligations.”

“This is horrific,” Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib wrote. “We cannot allow this level of dehumanization to become normalized. We need to shut down Guantánamo once and for all.”

“Hours after Holocaust Memorial Day, Trump opens a prison for immigrants at Guantánamo,” Guy Verhofstadt, the former prime minister of Belgium, wrote on X.

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Ron DeSantis has ramped up his spat with Florida’s Republican-dominated legislature over who has the most extreme immigration policies by promising to veto a bill they passed on Tuesday night called the Trump Act in deference to the new president.

The Republican governor has been fuming since lawmakers abruptly shut down a special session he summoned them to on Monday to advance his anti-immigration agenda, then moved ahead with their own plans instead.

The humiliated DeSantis, in a flurry of posts to X, appearances on Fox News, and even a hastily convened “roundtable” on Wednesday morning, denounced the Tackling and Reforming Unlawful Migration Policy (Trump) Act as “weak” and “toothless”, even though it was written with White House help to support the president’s deportation plans, according to the Sun-Sentinel.

On Wednesday, the governor posted to X that his “veto pen is ready”, in part because it would removed authority for immigration enforcement from his oversight and place it in the hands of a cabinet member with whom he has been feuding.

Agriculture commissioner Wilton Simpson, among those tipped to succeed DeSantis as governor when his term ends in 2027, hit back in a post of his own.

He highlighted the support of “Florida’s conservative legislature” to Trump’s agenda of raids, arrests and deportations of undocumented migrants, and reminded DeSantis: “I’m not the one who opposed and ran against President Trump”, a reference to his disastrous challenge for last year’s Republican presidential nomination.

Student groups and immigration advocates protested across the state Tuesday against a measure included in the Trump Act and DeSantis’s proposals to charge undocumented people out-of-state tuition rates to attend Florida colleges and universities.

Meanwhile, Florida’s Democrats appear to be enjoying DeSantis’s squirming. In a postto X, the party condemned the act it says “kicks Dreamers out of college and gives police bonuses for working with Ice [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] ”.

“Will our lame duck Governor veto this bill or go home with egg on his face?” it asked.

Federal agencies ordered to change email settings to remove prompts for pronouns

Chuck Ezell, the acting director of the Office of Personnel Management, sent a memo to federal agencies on Wednesday instructing them to take immediate and far-reaching steps to comply with Trump’s executive order, “Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism”.

The memo, posted on X, orders agencies to go to great lengths to remove anything that might be defined as promoting “gender ideology” from public websites and social media accounts, and even to make sure that internal email systems, like Outlook, are set to turn off prompts that ask users for their pronouns.

Agency leaders are required to notify employees to abide by the order, and undertake a review of programs, contracts and grants by 5pm on Friday, and “terminate any that promote or inculcate gender ideology”.

They are also instructed to report back to the OPM by no later than noon on 7 February with a complete list of all steps taken to comply with the order and the guidance in the memo.

Add the name of former New Jersey senator Bob Menendez to the list of Democrats in legal trouble angling for Donald Trump to do them a favor.

Speaking to reporters outside federal court in New York, where he was just sentenced to 11 years in prison for taking bribes, including 13 gold bars found in his New Jersey home during a 2022 raid by the FBI, Menendez unsubtly invoked Trump in his remarks.

“Welcome to the southern district of New York, the wild west of political prosecutions,” Menendez said. “President Trump is right: this process is political and it’s corrupted to the core. I hope President Trump cleans up the cesspool, and restores the integrity to the system.”

Like New York’s Democratic mayor, Eric Adams, if Menendez wants Trump to intervene on his behalf, he will have to walk back previous comments denouncing the president. The former senator’s YouTube channel, for instance, still features video of him raising, on the Senate floor in 2019, what he called then, “the entirely legitimate question of whether Donald Trump could be compromised by the Russian government”.

If Menendez and Adams hold out hope, it could be because Trump has a track record of throwing a life line to former officials charged with public corruption.

In 2020, Trump commuted the 14-year sentence Rod Blagojevich, the former governor of Illinois and Celebrity Apprentice contestant, was serving after being convicted on corruption charges.

Trump called Blagojevich’s punishment “a tremendously powerful ridiculous sentence in my opinion” and Blagojevich emerged from prison calling himself a “Trumpocrat”.

Trump orders officials to expand migrant detention facility at Guantánamo

A memo sent to reporters by the White House communications team directs the new the secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, and the secretary of homeland security, Kristi Noem, to act on his executive order to prepare a huge detention facility at Guantánamo Bay that could be used to hold up to 30,000 immigrants deported from the US.

Here is the full text of the memo from Trump:

I hereby direct the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Homeland Security to take all appropriate actions to expand the Migrant Operations Center at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay to full capacity to provide additional detention space for high-priority criminal aliens unlawfully present in the United States, and to address attendant immigration enforcement needs identified by the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security.

This memorandum is issued in order to halt the border invasion, dismantle criminal cartels, and restore national sovereignty.

This memorandum is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.

Cuba denounces Trump plan to detain migrants at Guantánamo Bay

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Cuba has responded to Donald Trump’s announcement that he plans to open a detention center for migrants at Guantánamo Bay, with the foreign minister claiming the idea “shows contempt towards the human condition and international law”.

Writing on X, the US social media site owned by Trump backer Elon Musk, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla condemned “the US government’s decision to imprison migrants at the Guantánamo naval base, in an enclave where it created torture centers and indefinite detention”.

Also writing on X, Cuba’s president, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, called the plan “an act of brutality”.