We’re closing the blog for today, thanks for following along. Here are some key links and stories from the day:

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  In extraordinary blunder, top Trump cabinet members added the Atlantic magazine editor to a Signal group chat discussing secret military plans for recent attacks in Yemen.

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  The major security breach sparked bipartisan outrage and calls from one Democratic group for Pete Hegseth to resign as defense secretary.

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  Hegseth said that “nobody was texting war plans” and attacked the Atlantic, but did not refuse specifics of the magazine’s reporting.

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  An appeals court judge said Monday that Nazis were given more rights to contest their removal from the US during the second world war than Venezuelan migrants deported by the Trump administration.

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  Foreign workers at US government-backed media outlets being cut by the Trump administration say they face deportation to their home countries, where some risk imprisonment or death at the hands of authoritarian governments.

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  The US postmaster general, Louis DeJoy, who said earlier this month that he had asked the government team led by Elon Musk for assistance with a number of issues, announced he was resigning immediately.

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  A Columbia University student who took part in pro-Palestinian protests at the university is suing Donald Trump’s administration for attempting to deport her.

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  Trump’s administration is seeking sponsors for the White House Easter Egg Roll, in a break with tradition that is likely to draw further scrutiny over his government’s relationship with corporate backers.

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  Hundreds of firings inside the federal government’s student aid department have sparked concern among workers and student loan advocates, who warn that the student loan system is at risk.

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  A federal judge has ruled that the US government cannot remove two transgender men from the Air Force, the latest courtroom victory for LGBTQ+ rights advocates challenging Trump’s order banning trans people from military service.

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A Columbia University student who took part in pro-Palestinian protests at the university is suing Donald Trump’s administration for attempting to deport her.

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Attorneys for Yunseo Chung, a 21-year-old who has legally resided in the US since childhood, filed a complaint on Monday describing the government’s actions as “shocking overreach” and an “unprecedented and unjustifiable assault” on her rights.

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Chung has participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations on campus since 2023, and was arrested earlier this month while protesting the university’s “excessive punishments” of student activists, according to the lawsuit, which was first reported by the New York Times.

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Read the full story here:

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The Trump administration has canceled at least 68 grants to 46 institutions related to LGBTQ+ health, including HIV prevention research and studies related to youth suicide, the AP reported.

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The grants totaled nearly $40m when they were awarded, but some funds had already been spent, according to the AP. The revoking of funds is part of Donald Trump’s broad attacks on LGBTQ+ rights, with a focus on institutions and organizations that serve trans people. The impacted grants came from the National Institutes of Health, which is part of the US Health and Human Services agency.

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One canceled project was at at Vanderbilt University and was studying the health of 1,200 LGBTQ+ people age 50 and older, according to the AP.

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Pete Hegseth, the US defense secretary, has responded to the growing scandal surrounding his and other senior Trump administration officials’ text conversation about airstrikes in Yemen in a group text that inadvertently included a journalist.

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“Nobody was texting war plans, and that’s all I have to say about that,” the head of the defense department said in brief remarks when questioned by reporters about the extraordinary leak of highly sensitive messages on Signal, a commercial chat app.

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.@SecDef Hegseth on @JeffreyGoldberg: "You're talking about a deceitful and highly discredited so-called journalist who's made a profession of peddling hoaxes time and time again…This is a guy who peddles in garbage…Nobody was texting war plans and that's all I have to say." pic.twitter.com/IEYyMPYQBz

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On Monday, Jeffrey Goldberg, editor in chief of the Atlantic, revealed that he had been accidentally added to a Signal group that included Hegseth, vice-president JD Vance, secretary of state Marco Rubio and other key Trump administration figures.

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The group was named “Houthi PC small group”, and in it, officials discussed “operational details of forthcoming strikes on Yemen, including information about targets, weapons the US would be deploying, and attack sequencing”, Goldberg said. A “TEAM UPDATE” posted by an account bearing Hegseth’s name contained information that if “read by an adversary of the United States, could conceivably have been used to harm American military and intelligence personnel, particularly in the broader Middle East, Central Command’s area of responsibility”, the journalist said.

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Goldberg said he learned strikes would be taking place in Yemen hours before they occurred, and saw how, after the attacks, members of the group offered congratulatory messages.

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In his brief remarks when pressed by a reporter about the scandal, Hegseth also called Goldberg a “deceitful and highly discredited so-called journalist”, but did not specifically refute any facts of the Atlantic story. A US national security council spokesperson confirmed to the Atlantic that the chat was authentic.

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Goldberg’s story says the conducting of a national-security-related action on Signal “may have violated several provisions of the Espionage Act” and that Signal is “not approved by the government for sharing classified information”. Delaware senator Chris Coons earlier said in a statement that members of the thread had “committed a crime – even if accidentally”.

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The White House has released Donald Trump’s executive order sanctioning countriesthat purchase oil or gas from Venezuela, a move the president announced earlier today as his administration faces intense scrutiny for its deportations of Venezuelans.

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The order says that starting on 2 April, a tariff of 25% “may be imposed on all goods imported into the United States from any country that imports Venezuelan oil, whether directly from Venezuela or indirectly through third parties”.

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The executive order includes false and unsubstantiated claims that the Biden administration had “open-borders policies”, with Trump earlier repeating his baseless assertion that “Venezuela has purposefully and deceitfully sent to the United States, undercover, tens of thousands of high level, and other, criminals, many of whom are murderers and people of a very violent nature”.

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The order came soon after an appeals court judge sharply rebuked the Trump administration, saying Nazis were given more rights to contest their removal from the US during the second world war than Venezuelan people recently deported.

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Louis DeJoy, the US postmaster general, is resigning effective immediately after five years heading the Postal Service and after recent protests by postal workers concerned about the Trump administration’s threats to USPS.

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DeJoy has led the agency since 2020 and had earlier this year asked his governor board to identify a successor, but his abrupt departure today came as a surprise, AP reported.

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DeJoy had said he planned to cut 10,000 workers and billions of dollars from the Postal Service’s budget and that he was working with Elon Musk, the AP noted.

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Musk has said USPS should be privatized, sparking widespread backlash, and Donald Trump has said he was considering merging USPS with the commerce department, a move Democrats and other critics have said would be unlawful and would strip the agency of independence. Postal workers have been protesting across the country. More background here:

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Ken Martin, chair of the Democratic National Committee, has called on Pete Hegseth to resign or be fired from his position as defense secretary over the escalating scandal surrounding the administration’s accidental leak of highly sensitive military plans to a journalist.

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Martin said in a statement late Monday:

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Pete Hegseth was unfit to lead the Defense Department even before he risked our national security through his own sloppy handling of sensitive military information. Just like his boss Donald Trump, Hegseth – and everyone else involved – put on a stunning display of recklessness and disregard for our national security. Hegseth should resign, and if he doesn’t resign, he should be fired. It’s crystal clear that our men and women in uniform deserve better – and that our national security cannot be left in Hegseth’s incompetent and unqualified hands.

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Martin’s comments follow a piece from Jeffrey Goldberg, editor in chief of the Atlantic magazine, revealing that he was inadvertently added to a group chat of senior Trump administration officials discussing plans to bomb Houthi targets across Yemen. Goldberg, a prominent US journalist, remained on the chat on Signal, a private messaging app, apparently undetected.

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The chat included Hegseth, vice-president JD Vance, secretary of state Marco Rubio and director of national intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. Goldberg said he was connected to the group via Michael Waltz, Trump’s national security adviser. The messages included sensitive policy discussions between Rubio and Hegseth. The national security council confirmed to the Atlantic that the group was authentic and said it was investigating how an “inadvertent number” was added.

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A New York Times columnist also called on Hegseth to resign, and one critic noted that in 2023, Hegseth had sharply criticized Joe Biden for handling classified information “flippantly”, saying there should be “accountability … at the very top”.

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A White House spokesperson said Trump “continues to have the utmost confidence in his national security team, including national security adviser Mike Waltz”.

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Hillary Clinton, who faced widespread media scrutiny for using a private email server while serving as secretary of state, has commented on the Trump administration’s extraordinary leak of secretive war plans when officials accidentally included a prominent journalist on a group chat.

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“You have got to be kidding me,” the 2016 Democratic nominee for president wrote on X. She shared a link to Atlantic story written by the magazine’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, which revealed he had been added to a group on Signal, a private messaging app, that included vice-president JD Vance, secretary of state Marco Rubio, secretary of defense Pete Hegseth and other major Trump administration figures discussing plans for airstrikes on Houthi rebels in Yemen.

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Journalists and pundits have been comparing Clinton’s email scandal, which impacted her 2016 race against Trump, to the current breach. Some have shared 2016 comments by Marco Rubio, then a senator, in which he said Clinton should be “held accountable” and was not “above the law”.

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Donald Trump will nominate Dr Susan Monarez, the acting director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to permanently lead the agency, the White House said on Monday.

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The announcement came after the president earlier this month abruptly pulled the nomination for his first choice, David Weldon, a 71-year-old doctor and former Republican Florida congressman who was closely scrutinized for anti-vaccine views. Monarez has been acting director of the CDC since January and previously worked at the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, another federal agency, the AP reported.

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The president said in a post on Monday: “As an incredible mother and dedicated public servant, Dr Monarez understands the importance of protecting our children, our communities, and our future … Americans have lost confidence in the CDC due to political bias and disastrous mismanagement.”

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A federal judge has ruled that the US government cannot remove two transgender men from the Air Force, the latest courtroom victory for LGBTQ+ rights advocates challenging Donald Trump’s executive order banning trans people from military service, the AP reports.

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On Monday, Christine O’Hearn, a US judge in New Jersey, issued a two-week restraining order barring the enforcement of Trump’s policy on the impacted plaintiffs. O’Hearn’s ruling comes days after a similar ruling by a federal judge in Washington DC.

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O’Hearn said the trans plaintiffs, Master Sgt Logan Ireland and Staff Sgt Nicholas Bear Bade, had shown that their removal from service would cause lasting damage to their careers and reputations, the AP reported. The judge said they were likely to prevail on equal protection grounds as they had been singled out due to their sex, and that the US could not justify the discriminatory treatment. The restraining order said, in part:

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The loss of military service under the stigma of a policy that targets gender identity is not merely a loss of employment; it is a profound disruption of personal dignity, medical continuity, and public service.

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Last week, Judge Ana Reyes of Washington DC sharply criticized Trump’s executive order, saying the ban on trans service members was “soaked in animus,” adding: “Its language is unabashedly demeaning, its policy stigmatizes transgender persons as inherently unfit, and its conclusions bear no relation to fact.”

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The US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, subsequently mocked Reyes and subjected her to personal attacks.

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Donald Trump has now been asked about his cabinet members accidentally leaking war plans to an Atlantic journalist who was mistakenly copied on a Signal group chat.

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“I don’t know anything about it,” he responded at a briefing, before criticizing the Atlantic as a magazine “going out of business”. The president reiterated that he was not aware of the story, saying: “You’re telling me about it for the first time.”

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The use of Signal, a private commercial app, to discuss highly sensitive national security matters and war plans – and the undetected inclusion of a journalist – has sparked widespread, bipartisan outrage. More on the White House response from the Guardian’s Joseph Gedeon:

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The White House confirmed the leak. National Security Council spokesperson Brian Hughes told the Guardian: ‘This appears to be an authentic message chain, and we are reviewing how an inadvertent number was added to the chain.’

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But the White House attempted to defend the communications, with Hughes describing the messages as an example of ‘deep and thoughtful policy coordination between senior officials’.

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‘The ongoing success of the Houthi operation demonstrates that there were no threats to troops or national security,’ Hughes said.

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The White House’s shocking leak of secret military plans to a journalist, who was accidentally included in a group chat, has sparked widespread, bipartisan outrage.

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The Atlantic magazine’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, revealed in a stunning story today that he had been inadvertently invited into a chat group on Signal, a private messaging app, that included vice-president JD Vance, secretary of state Marco Rubio, national security adviser Mike Waltz, secretary of defense Pete Hegseth and other high-profile figures in Donald Trump’s administration. Goldberg was apparently undetected in the chat as cabinet members discussed upcoming attacks on the Houthi armed group in Yemen.

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Elected officials are expressing disbelief and anger at the extraordinary security blunder, the Guardian’s Joseph Gedeon reports.

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Delaware senator Chris Coons said: “Every single one of the government officials on this text chain have now committed a crime – even if accidentally.” Senator Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said: “This administration is playing fast and loose with our nation’s most classified info, and it makes all Americans less safe.”

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Republican senator John Cornyn called it “a huge screw-up” and said it was being investigated. New York Republican representative Mike Lawler said: “Classified information should not be transmitted on unsecured channels – and certainly not to those without security clearances. Period.” More reactions here:

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A spokesperson for the US state department has repeatedly refused to comment on the administration’s extraordinary blunder of discussing secret military plans on a chat that included a prominent journalist.

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Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor of the Atlantic magazine, revealed today that key figures in Donald Trump’s cabinet – including vice-president JD Vance, defense secretary Pete Hegseth, Marco Rubio, and the director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard – used the commercial chat app, Signal, to discuss plans for US attacks on the Houthi armed group in Yemen. The chat inadvertently included Goldberg, who was added by one of its members and apparently was unnoticed by the rest of the group.

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At a briefing, a reporter pressed Tammy Bruce, state department spokesperson, about the scandal, asking, “Why was the cabinet … discussing a potential military operation on Signal, which is a public app, and why didn’t they notice a phone number that was not part of their group, and how concerned is the secretary about the implications of this?”

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Bruce responded: “We will not comment on the secretary’s deliberative conversations … You should contact the White House.” Bruce continued to refuse to comment as the reporter asked for the perspective of Marco Rubio, the secretary of state. The national security council has said it is investigating the matter.

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More background here:

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  The US treated alleged Nazis better during World War Two than the Trump Administration treated Venezuelan migrants last week, a federal appeals judge told a Justice Department lawyer during a contentious court hearing. “There were plane loads of people. There were no procedures in place to notify people,” US circuit judge Patricia Millett said. “Nazis got better treatment under the Alien Enemies Act than has happened here.

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  It came hours after US federal judge James Boasberg ruled that the migrants deserved to have a court hearing before their deportations to determine whether they belonged to the Tren de Aragua gang. He thwarted the Trump administration’s bid to vacate restraining orders protecting Venezuelans accused of gang ties from deportation, instead insisting on due process for those contesting the allegations. “The named Plaintiffs dispute they are members of Tren de Aragua; they may not be deported until a court decides the merits of their challenge,” Boasberg wrote.

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  A law firm will present a habeas corpus lawsuit to El Salvador’s supreme court in defense of 30 Venezuelan citizens jailed in the Central American nation’s so-called “mega-prison” after being deported there by the US. The lawsuit, which will seek to question the legality of their detention, comes after the US sent some 238 Venezuelans to El Salvador, accusing them of being members of Tren de Aragua.

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  In an extraordinary blunder, the White House accidentally texted top-secret military plans for recent US attacks on the Houthi armed group in Yemen to a journalist. Key figures in the Trump administration – including vice-president JD Vance, defense secretary Pete Hegseth, Marco Rubio and the director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard – used the commercial chat app Signal to convene and discuss plans – while also including a prominent journalist in the group. The breach was revealed by Jeffrey Goldberg, editor of the Atlantic magazine, who discovered that he had been included in the chat. The National Security Council said: “This appears to be an authentic message chain, and we are reviewing how an inadvertent number was added to the chain.”

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  Trump announced that any country that buys oil or gas from Venezuela will pay a 25% tariff on trades made with the US. This “secondary tariff” will take effect on 2 April, the president said in a Truth Social post. He cited “numerous reasons” for the move, including his baseless repeated claim that “Venezuela has purposefully and deceitfully sent to the United States, undercover, tens of thousands of high level, and other, criminals, many of whom are murderers and people of a very violent nature”. China is the largest buyer of Venezuelan oil, with Spain, Italy, Cuba and India also consumers.

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  On the issue of tariffs, Trump said he will in the very near future announce tariffs on automobiles, aluminum and pharmaceuticals. The president said the US would need all those products if there were problems including wars.

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  Greenlandic leaders criticised an upcoming trip by a high-profile American delegation to the semi-autonomous Danish territory that Trump has suggested the US should annex. The delegation, which will visit an American military base and watch a dogsled race, will be led by Usha Vance, wife of vice-president JD Vance, and include White House national security adviser Mike Waltz and energy secretary Chris Wright. Greenland’s outgoing prime minister Mute Egede called this week’s visit a “provocation” and said his caretaker government would not meet with the delegation. “Until recently, we could trust the Americans, who were our allies and friends, and with whom we enjoyed working closely,” Egede said. “But that time is over.”

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  The agency responsible for unaccompanied migrant minors will be allowed to share sponsors’ immigration status with law enforcement agencies under a regulatory change, a move critics say could discourage families from claiming their children. The US Office for Refugee Resettlement (ORR), which cares for the children until they can be released, will also scrap regulatory language that had prohibited it from denying release solely based on a sponsor’s immigration status.

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  Trump appointed his former lawyer Alina Habba, who was previously sanctioned for filing a frivolous lawsuit, to serve as interim US attorney for the district of New Jersey. Habba represented Trump in the E. Jean Carroll case, which he lost, and again in the civil case against the Trump Organization’s civil fraud case, which he also lost. She said she looks forward to “going after the people we should be going after – not the people that are falsely accused”, but declined to elaborate further.

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That’s all from me, Lucy Campbell, for today. But stay tuned, my colleague Sam Levin is here to steer you through the rest of the day’s developments.

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Members of Congress and national security staffers have been left stunned after top Trump administration officials, including the vice-president and the defense secretary, discussed war plans on Signal – and mistakenly added a journalist to the group chat.

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Jeffrey Goldberg, editor of the Atlantic, wrote:

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The world found out shortly before 2pm eastern time on March 15 that the United States was bombing Houthi targets across Yemen. I, however, knew two hours before the first bombs exploded that the attack might be coming. The reason I knew this is that Pete Hegseth, the secretary of defense, had texted me the war plan at 11:44am. The plan included precise information about weapons packages, targets, and timing. This is going to require some explaining.

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He goes on:

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I had very strong doubts that this text group was real, because I could not believe that the national-security leadership of the United States would communicate on Signal about imminent war plans. I also could not believe that the national security adviser to the president would be so reckless as to include the editor in chief of The Atlantic in such discussions with senior US officials, up to and including the vice president.

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The National Security Council confirmed it was real and said it was investigating. Democrats are already demanding hearings as concerns arise about the security of classified communications.

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Democratic senator Jack Reed, the ranking member of the senate armed services committee, said in a statement:

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If true, this story represents one of the most egregious failures of operational security and common sense I have ever seen. Military operations need to be handled with utmost discretion, using approved, secure lines of communication, because American lives are on the line. The carelessness shown by President Trump’s cabinet is stunning and dangerous. I will be seeking answers from the Administration immediately.

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Democrat Pat Ryan an Army veteran who also sits on the armed services committee, wrote on X:

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Only one word for this: FUBAR.

If House Republicans won’t hold a hearing on how this happened IMMEDIATELY, I’ll do it my damn self. pic.twitter.com/uGihDr5xZa

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Marine veteran and Democratic Arizona senator Ruben Gallego said: “If I handled classified and sensitive information in this way when I was in the Marines … oh boy … ”

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Amateur hour. These are the genuises that are also selling out Ukraine and destroying our alliances all around the world. No wonder Putin is embarrassing them at the negotiation table. https://t.co/I8qv0AMV31

— Ruben Gallego (@RubenGallego) March 24, 2025

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The US treated alleged Nazis better during World War Two than the Trump Administration treated Venezuelan migrants last week, a federal appeals judge told a Justice Department lawyer during a contentious court hearing on Monday.

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“There were plane loads of people. There were no procedures in place to notify people,” US circuit judge Patricia Millett said at the hearing in Washington. “Nazis got better treatment under the Alien Enemies Act than has happened here.”

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Judge Millett noted that alleged Nazis were given hearing boards and were subject to established regulations, while the alleged members of Tren De Aragua were given no such rights.

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There’s no regulations, and nothing was adopted by the agency officials that were administering this. They people weren’t given notice. They weren’t told where they were going. They were given those people on those planes on that Saturday and had no opportunity to file habeas or any type of action to challenge the removal under the AEA. What’s factually wrong about what I said?

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Deputy assistant attorney general Drew Ensign responded: “We certainly dispute the Nazi analogy.” He argued that some of the men were able to file habeas petitions.

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Prior to the Trump administration’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act, the law had been used just three times in US history, most recently to intern and remove Japanese, German and Italian immigrants during the second world war.

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It comes hours after US federal judge James Boasberg ruled that the migrants deserved to have a court hearing before their deportations to determine whether they belonged to the Tren de Aragua gang.

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This report is from Reuters:

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The agency responsible for unaccompanied migrant minors will be allowed to share sponsors’ immigration status with law enforcement agencies under a regulatory change, a move critics say could discourage families from claiming their children.

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The US Office for Refugee Resettlement (ORR), which cares for the children until they can be released, will also scrap regulatory language that had prohibited it from denying release solely based on a sponsor’s immigration status, according to a Federal Register notice due to be published on Tuesday.

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From ORR custody, children are released to sponsors – usually parents or relatives – as immigration authorities weigh their cases.

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ORR argued that existing regulations put in place under former president Joe Biden conflicted with federal law, which it said prohibited government agencies from withholding any individual’s citizenship or immigration status.

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Critics, however, say that sharing sponsors’ information with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) could make parents and other relatives reluctant to come forward to claim their children due to fear they could be detained or deported.

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An Ice official in 2018 estimated that 80% of sponsors and family members lacked legal immigration status.

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Migrant advocacy groups said the Trump administration last week largely shuttered a federal program that provided legal representation to unaccompanied children in court. They urged the administration to restore it.

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“Ending this long-standing program is a direct attack on due process,” Shayna Kessler, a director at Vera Institute of Justice, one of the groups providing legal services to unaccompanied children, said in a statement on Friday.

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The Administration for Children and Families, ORR’s parent agency, did not immediately respond to a request for comment regarding the suspension of the program.

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A law firm will on Monday present a habeas corpus lawsuit to El Salvador’s supreme court in defense of 30 Venezuelan citizens jailed in the Central American nation’s so-called “mega-prison” after being deported there by the US, according to Reuters.

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The lawsuit, which will seek to question the legality of their detention, comes after the US sent some 238 Venezuelans to El Salvador, accusing them of being members of the Tren de Aragua gang.

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The judges in charge of the case are allies of President Nayib Bukele, who has offered to hold US prisoners in its prison system and accepted payment from the US to do so.

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Outside the court, lawyer Jaime Ortega told reporters that while 30 Venezuelan nationals had granted them the powers of attorney to represent them, they would request habeas corpus for the rest of the Venezuelans detained in the country.

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Some 137 of the group of Venezuelans were deported under an obscure US wartime law targeting “alien enemies” that was quickly blocked by a US federal judge, who ordered the flight carrying the Venezuelan citizens to turn around.

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However, the Venezuelan citizens were later received in El Salvador where they were taken into custody in a massive anti-terrorism prison, under a deal in which Washington is paying El Salvador’s government $6m, according to the White House.

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Lawyers and family members of many of the migrants deny they are members of Tren de Aragua and the US judge James Boasberg on Monday ruled they must be given the chance to challenge the government’s claim that they are gang members.

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The judge also cited accounts of poor prison conditions, including beatings, humiliations, irregular access to food and water and having to sleep standing up because of overcrowding.

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El Salvador’s presidential office did not respond to Reuters’ request for comment regarding the prison conditions.

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Donald Trump is appointing his former lawyer Alina Habba, who was previously sanctioned for filing a frivolous lawsuit, to serve as interim US attorney for the district of New Jersey.

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Habba represented Trump in a variety of civil litigation, including a trial in which a jury found Trump liable for defaming writer E. Jean Carroll after she accused him of raping her in the mid-1990s in a department store dressing room.

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She also represented Trump in a New York civil fraud case brought by the state’s attorney general Letitia James over his real estate company’s business practices. A judge in the case found him liable and ordered him to pay $454 million. Trump has appealed the ruling.

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“There is corruption. There is injustice. There is a heavy amount of crime right in Cory Booker’s backyard and right under Governor Murphy,” Habba told reporters on Monday, referring to New Jersey Democratic senator Cory Booker and New Jersey’s Democratic governor Phil Murphy, after her appointment was made.

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Habba added that she looks forward to “going after the people we should be going after – not the people that are falsely accused”, but declined to elaborate further.

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In 2023, a federal judge in Florida sanctioned Trump and Habba and ordered them to pay $1m for filing a frivolous lawsuit which alleged that Hillary Clinton and others conspired to damage Trump’s reputation in the investigation into Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. Trump and Habba are appealing that ruling.

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Habba is the latest in a string of Trump’s former attorneys to be appointed to key roles in the justice department. Todd Blanche, Emil Bove and Kendra Wharton, three of his defense attorneys, are currently serving as deputy attorney general, principal associate deputy attorney general and associate deputy attorney general, respectively.

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Trump’s pick to serve as solicitor general, John Sauer, represented Trump before the Supreme Court in the presidential immunity case, while attorney general Pam Bondi previously represented him during his 2019 impeachment trial.

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Donald Trump has said he will in the very near future announce tariffs on automobiles, aluminum and pharmaceuticals.

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Speaking to reporters at the White House on Monday, the president said the US would need all those products if there were problems including wars.

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The Trump administration asked the supreme court on Monday to halt a ruling ordering the rehiring of thousands of federal workers dismissed in mass firings aimed at dramatically downsizing the federal government.

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The emergency appeal argues that the judge cannot force the executive branch to rehire some 16,000 probationary employees.

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The order came from US district judge William Alsup in San Francisco, who found the firings did not follow federal law and required immediate offers of reinstatement be sent.

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The agencies include the Departments of Veterans Affairs, Agriculture, Defense, Energy, the Interior and the Treasury.

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The temporary restraining order came in a lawsuit filed by a coalition of labor unions and organizations as the Republican administration moves to reduce the federal workforce.

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Alsup expressed frustration with what he called the government’s attempt to sidestep laws and regulations governing a reduction in its workforce – which it is allowed to do – by firing probationary workers who lack protections and cannot appeal.

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The case is among multiple lawsuits challenging the mass firings, and a second judge also ordered the rehiring of thousands of probationary workers the same day.

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A federal court has thwarted the Trump administration’s bid to deport Venezuelan immigrants under a roughly 225-year-old war powers law, ruling that individuals must receive hearings before their removal.

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US district judge James Boasberg on Monday rejected the government’s attempt to vacate restraining orders protecting Venezuelans accused of gang ties from deportation, instead insisting on due process for those contesting the allegations.

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“The named Plaintiffs dispute they are members of Tren de Aragua; they may not be deported until a court decides the merits of their challenge,” Boasberg wrote.

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The clash is rooted in Donald Trump’s 15 March proclamation invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, which permits deportation of foreign nationals during wars or “invasions”. The administration claims activities of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua constitute such an invasion.

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One of the deported alleged gang members is a 23-year-old gay makeup artist with no apparent gang affiliations, who was shipped to El Salvador’s notorious Cecot prison without a hearing alongside hundreds of Venezuelan men. His attorney, Lindsay Toczylowski, went on MSNBC last week and claimed he was “disappeared” despite having a scheduled immigration court appearance, after officials misinterpreted his tattoos as gang symbols.

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Related:‘Deported because of his tattoos’: has the US targeted Venezuelans for their body art?

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According to Boasberg’s order, five Venezuelan immigrants had secured emergency relief – hours before the Trump administration said it would use the Alien Enemies Act – fearing immediate deportation without a chance to contest their alleged gang membership. Several of the migrants who filed the lawsuit argue they actually fled Venezuela to escape the gang.

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Trump has called Boasberg, an Obama-appointed judge, a “radical left lunatic” and called for his impeachment, prompting supreme court chief justice John Roberts to issue a rare rebuke.

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Boasberg explained Monday that his orders don’t block normal immigration enforcement, noting the administration had already designated Tren de Aragua a Foreign Terrorist Organization, allowing deportations through standard channels.

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Canada’s new prime minister Mark Carney said on Monday he was available for a call with Donald Trump but would do so “on our terms as a sovereign country”.

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Calls with the US president traditionally take place soon after the election of a new leader, but the two men have yet to speak since Carney was elected leader of the ruling Liberal Party on 9 March, automatically becoming prime minister.

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Speaking to reporters in Newfoundland, Carney said he assumed Trump was waiting to see who won the general election before calling the winner. He added:

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I’m available for a call, but you know, we’re going to talk on our terms as a sovereign country, not as what he pretends we are.

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Carney on Sunday triggered an election for 28 April, a contest that is widely expected to focus on the strained relationship with the US amid threats to Canada’s economic and political future.

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Trump has figured prominently into Canada’s political narrative, repeatedly threatening to wage economic war on the US’s closest ally and one of its largest trading partners, with the end goal of annexing the country’s northern neighbor.

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Those threats, and the prospect of painful tariffs on Canadian goods, have electrified the country, with a groundswell of patriotism, calls to boycott American goods and an “elbows up” rallying cry.

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You can read more on that from my colleague Leyland Cecco here:

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Donald Trump said on Monday that any country that buys oil or gas from Venezuela will pay a 25% tariff on trades made with the US.

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This “secondary tariff” will take effect on 2 April, the president announced in a Truth Social post. He cited “numerous reasons” for the move, including his baseless repeated claim that “Venezuela has purposefully and deceitfully sent to the United States, undercover, tens of thousands of high level, and other, criminals, many of whom are murderers and people of a very violent nature”.

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He adds: “Among the gangs they sent to the United States, is Tren de Aragua, which has been given the designation of ‘Foreign Terrorist Organization’.” Tren de Aragua has been the organisation cited by Trump when he controversially invoked the Alien Enemies Act, a 1798 law meant only to be used in wartime, to deport more than 250 mainly Venezuelan alleged gang members to El Salvador last week. It was formally designated a “foreign terrorist organization” by the US last month.

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In his post, Trump goes on: “In addition, Venezuela has been very hostile to the United States and the freedoms which we espouse.”

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Finally, he referred to 2 April as “LIBERATION DAY IN AMERICA”.

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In February, Trump announced the US would scrap a license granted to Chevron since 2022 to operate in Venezuela and export its oil and gave the company until April to wind down its operations there, after he accused President Nicolás Maduro of not making progress on electoral reforms and migrant returns.

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Last week, the Wall Street Journal reported that Trump was considering a plan to extend Chevron’s license by 60 days and impose financial penalties on other countries that do business with the South American nation. It followed a meeting with Chevron’s CEO Mike Wirth and other top oil executives.

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This report is from Reuters.

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A group of 199 Venezuelan migrants deported from the US arrived on Monday after the two countries reached an agreement to restart flights, Venezuela’s interior minister Diosdado Cabello said.

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A diplomatic spat last week inflamed already tense relations as the US accused Venezuela of refusing to accept deportations flights, while Caracas accused Washington of blocking them. As that unfolded, a plane-load of deported Venezuelans had arrived from Mexico, a country that has agreed to accept migrants from other countries sent by the US.

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Cabello said flights have been inconsistent “not because of Venezuela,” adding that they will “depend on the United States.” The US sent the deportees first to Honduras, where they were picked up by Venezuelan state airline Conviasa and arrived in Caracas at 1am local time. The US does not deport migrants directly to Venezuela due to the strained diplomatic relationship between the two countries.

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“We expect to see a consistent flow of deportation flights to Venezuela going forward,” the US state department’s bureau of western hemisphere affairs said in a post on X confirming the flight.

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It comes after Donald Trump invoked an obscure wartime law to rapidly deport people who were, according to the White House, members of Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, which Washington has declared a terrorist group and alien enemy.

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Despite a judge quickly blocking the measure, the Trump administration deported more than 200 Venezuelans – 137 under the wartime act – to El Salvador where they are being detained in the country’s massive anti-terrorism prison.

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Venezuela denies the migrants’ involvement in the criminal group, which the government claims was eradicated. Lawyers and family members of the migrants also deny their gang ties and say some may have been deported because of their tattoos, which they said US immigration authorities claimed imply gang ties.

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Cabello said on Monday that the Venezuelans in El Salvador were being “held hostage” and demanded that their rights be respected.

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The US supreme court is hearing a case this morning that could upend Louisiana’s congressional map and have significant implications for the makeup of the US Congress and voting rights.

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At the center of the case is Louisiana’s 6th congressional district. State lawmakers drew the oddly shaped district in 2022 after they were ordered to add a second majority-Black district in order to comply with the Voting Rights Act. A group of non-Black voters challenged that district, saying lawmakers had unlawfully sorted voters based on their race. The supreme court allowed the map to be used for elections last year and Cleo Fields, a Black Democrat, won the seat.

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The supreme court has long said that lawmakers can consider race if it serves a “compelling interest” and its use is “narrowly tailored” to that interest. Those challenging the map say the state did not meet that standard.

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The case is being closely watched both because of the close partisan balance of the US House and to see whether the court will further weaken protections for minority voters when it comes to redistricting.

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We’ll bring you more on this as we get it.

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Donald Trump’s forceful attack on the American judiciary hits the appeals court today for a high-stakes hearing over the president’s controversial use of wartime powers to deport foreign migrants.

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Politico reports that the Trump administration will urge a three-member appeals panel to overturn federal judge James Boasberg’s temporary restraining order blocking use of the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to deport planeloads of migrants without due process. Justice Department lawyers will also demand Boasberg be thrown off the case following a ferocious weeklong effort to publicly discredit him led by the president himself. The hearing starts in Washington at 1.30pm ET, each side will be allocated 30 minutes to make their case.

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The hearing will mark a significant test of the president’s ability to compel the entire US justice system to fall into line. At a hearing last Friday, Boasberg condemned government lawyers for using “intemperate and disrespectful language I’m not used to hearing from the United States”.

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Politico notes that all eyes today will be on the two Republican appointees on the panel: George W. Bush appointee Karen Henderson and Trump appointee Justin Walker. (The third judge is Patricia Millett, a Barack Obama appointee.) Will they embrace Trump’s expansive view of executive power, or will they show concern about what Boasberg has called the “very frightening” possibility of almost any migrant being rapidly expelled to a third country based solely on the say-so of the executive branch?

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Trump continued his attacks on Boasberg over the weekend, calling him a “constitutional disaster” in a post to his Truth Social platform on Sunday.

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We’ll bring you all the latest on this afternoon’s hearing as we get it.

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The former Democratic VP nominee’s tour around the US is part brand redemption, part Democratic catharsis, part rally, writes my colleague Rachel Leingang from Rochester, Minnesota.

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Tim Walz is trying to regroup to help Democrats fight the Trump administration, but he’s still trying to figure out why he and his party lost in November.

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“I knew it was my job to try and pick off those other swing states, and we didn’t,” he said about the 2024 election. “I come back home to lick my wounds and say, goddamn, at least we won here.”

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Walz was speaking on Saturday in Rochester, Minnesota – in the district he once represented in Congress, as part of his soul-searching tour around the country after the Democrats’ bruising 2024 defeat. He hasn’t ruled out a 2028 run for president, though neither have most 2028 hopefuls.

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Walz told a crowd of roughly 1,500 people that filled an auditorium and spilled into an overflow room on a Saturday morning:

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I thought it was a flex that I was the poorest person and the only public school teacher to ever run for vice-president of the United States. They chose the billionaire. We gotta do better.

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Thinking about the path forward for Democrats, Walz acknowledges he doesn’t have a solid answer, but said Democrats need to do better at articulating their values and the ways their policies would improve people’s lives. He likes the idea of a “shadow cabinet”, borrowing a UK tradition where opposition parties have their own versions of cabinet members to speak out against the ones in power.

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He also said Democrats shouldn’t let Republicans capture the narrative on issues like trans rights.

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He sees the Trump administration as an “existential threat” that will chip away at programs such as social security, but wonders how Democrats aren’t able to message these popular, middle-class issues against oligarchs. “How did this happen?” he pondered.

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Once Democrats get back in office, it’s time to shore up the programs they want to protect, he said.

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Donald Trump is on his revenge and retribution tour. Well, I said I’ll be on one, too. I’m going to bring revenge just raining down on their heads with their neighbors getting healthcare. They’re gonna rue the day when we got re-elected because our kids with special needs are going to get the care that they need.

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You can read the full piece here:

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The US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is reportedly nearing a deal to allow immigration officials to use tax data to support Donald Trump’s deportation agenda, according to reports by the Washington Post.

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Under the proposed data-sharing agreement, said to have been in negotiations for weeks, Immigration And Customs Enforcement (Ice) could hand over the names and addresses of undocumented immigrants to the IRS, raising concerns about abuse of power from the Trump administration and the erosion of privacy rights.

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If access to this confidential database is agreed upon, it would mark a significant shift, likely becoming the first time immigration officials have relied on the tax system for enforcement assistance in such a sweeping way.

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Under the agreement, the IRS would cross-reference names of undocumented immigrants with their confidential taxpayer databases, a move that would breach the longstanding trust in the confidentiality of tax information. Such data has historically been considered sensitive and thereby closely guarded, so the reported deal has raised alarm bells at the IRS, according to the Washington Post.

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Greenlandic leaders have criticised an upcoming trip by a high-profile American delegation to the semi-autonomous Danish territory that Donald Trump has suggested the US should annex, Reuters reports.

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The delegation, which will visit an American military base and watch a dogsled race, will be led by Usha Vance, wife of vice-president JD Vance, and include White House national security adviser Mike Waltz and energy secretary Chris Wright.

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Greenland’s outgoing prime minister Mute Egede called this week’s visit a “provocation” and said his caretaker government would not meet with the delegation.

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“Until recently, we could trust the Americans, who were our allies and friends, and with whom we enjoyed working closely,” Egede told local newspaper Sermitsiaq. “But that time is over.”

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The Greenlandic government, Naalakkersuisut, is now in a caretaker period after a 11 March general election won by the Democrats, a pro-business party that favors a slow approach to independence from Denmark.

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Jens-Frederik Nielsen, leader of the Democrats, called for political unity and said the visit by the US delegation during coalition talks and with municipal elections due next week, “once again shows a lack of respect for the Greenlandic people.”

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Waltz and Wright plan to visit the Pituffik space base, the US military base in Greenland. The White House said they will get briefings from US service members there. They will then join Vance to visit historical sites and attend the national dogsled race.

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Brian Hughes, spokesperson for the White House national security council, said the US team is “confident that this visit presents an opportunity to build on partnerships that respects Greenland’s self determination and advances economic cooperation.”

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“This is a visit to learn about Greenland, its culture, history, and people and to attend a dogsled race the United States is proud to sponsor, plain and simple,” Hughes said.

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Trump has made US annexation of Greenland a major talking point since taking office for a second time on 20 January. Greenland’s strategic location and rich mineral resources could benefit the US. It lies along the shortest route from Europe to North America, vital for the US ballistic missile warning system.

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We’re closing the blog for today, thanks for following along. Here are some key links and stories from the day:

• In extraordinary blunder, top Trump cabinet members added the Atlantic magazine editor to a Signal group chat discussing secret military plans for recent attacks in Yemen.

• The major security breach sparked bipartisan outrage and calls from one Democratic group for Pete Hegseth to resign as defense secretary.

• Hegseth said that “nobody was texting war plans” and attacked the Atlantic, but did not refuse specifics of the magazine’s reporting.

• An appeals court judge said Monday that Nazis were given more rights to contest their removal from the US during the second world war than Venezuelan migrants deported by the Trump administration.

• Foreign workers at US government-backed media outlets being cut by the Trump administration say they face deportation to their home countries, where some risk imprisonment or death at the hands of authoritarian governments.

• The US postmaster general, Louis DeJoy, who said earlier this month that he had asked the government team led by Elon Musk for assistance with a number of issues, announced he was resigning immediately.

• A Columbia University student who took part in pro-Palestinian protests at the university is suing Donald Trump’s administration for attempting to deport her.

• Trump’s administration is seeking sponsors for the White House Easter Egg Roll, in a break with tradition that is likely to draw further scrutiny over his government’s relationship with corporate backers.

• Hundreds of firings inside the federal government’s student aid department have sparked concern among workers and student loan advocates, who warn that the student loan system is at risk.

• A federal judge has ruled that the US government cannot remove two transgender men from the Air Force, the latest courtroom victory for LGBTQ+ rights advocates challenging Trump’s order banning trans people from military service.

Hakeem Jeffries, the Democratic minority leader, has addressed the Trump administration’s accidentally inclusion of a journalist on a group chat discussing planned attacks in Yemen, saying the leak of “sensitive national security information” on a “non-classified system” was “completely outrageous and shocks the conscience”. His statement continued:

It is yet another unprecedented example that our nation is increasingly more dangerous because of the elevation of reckless and mediocre individuals, including the secretary of defense [Pete Hegseth] . If House Republicans are truly serious about keeping America safe, and not simply being sycophants and enablers, they must join Democrats in a swift, serious and substantive investigation into this unacceptable and irresponsible national security breach.

Earlier today, Senate minority leader, Chuck Schumer, said “this kind of carelessness is how people get killed”, adding: “It is how our enemies take advantage of us. It is how our national security falls into danger … It is bad enough that a private citizen was added to this chain, but it is far worse that sensitive military information was exchanged on an unauthorized application – especially when that sensitive military information was so, so important.”

The Democratic leaders’ statements came after the Atlantic magazine revealed that its editor in chief was added to a group chat on Signal, the messaging app, in which Hegseth, vice-president JD Vance, secretary of state Marco Rubio and other key figures discussed “operational details of forthcoming strikes on Yemen, including information about targets, weapons the US would be deploying, and attack sequencing”.

More here:

Columbia student protester sues to block deportation: ‘Shocking overreach’

Dani Anguiano

A Columbia University student who took part in pro-Palestinian protests at the university is suing Donald Trump’s administration for attempting to deport her.

Attorneys for Yunseo Chung, a 21-year-old who has legally resided in the US since childhood, filed a complaint on Monday describing the government’s actions as “shocking overreach” and an “unprecedented and unjustifiable assault” on her rights.

Chung has participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations on campus since 2023, and was arrested earlier this month while protesting the university’s “excessive punishments” of student activists, according to the lawsuit, which was first reported by the New York Times.

Read the full story here:

Trump administration cancels 68 grants related to LGBTQ+ health

The Trump administration has canceled at least 68 grants to 46 institutions related to LGBTQ+ health, including HIV prevention research and studies related to youth suicide, the AP reported.

The grants totaled nearly $40m when they were awarded, but some funds had already been spent, according to the AP. The revoking of funds is part of Donald Trump’s broad attacks on LGBTQ+ rights, with a focus on institutions and organizations that serve trans people. The impacted grants came from the National Institutes of Health, which is part of the US Health and Human Services agency.

One canceled project was at at Vanderbilt University and was studying the health of 1,200 LGBTQ+ people age 50 and older, according to the AP.

Pete Hegseth on his leaked military strikes chat: ‘Nobody was texting war plans’

Pete Hegseth, the US defense secretary, has responded to the growing scandal surrounding his and other senior Trump administration officials’ text conversation about airstrikes in Yemen in a group text that inadvertently included a journalist.

“Nobody was texting war plans, and that’s all I have to say about that,” the head of the defense department said in brief remarks when questioned by reporters about the extraordinary leak of highly sensitive messages on Signal, a commercial chat app.

.@SecDef Hegseth on @JeffreyGoldberg: "You're talking about a deceitful and highly discredited so-called journalist who's made a profession of peddling hoaxes time and time again…This is a guy who peddles in garbage…Nobody was texting war plans and that's all I have to say." pic.twitter.com/IEYyMPYQBz

— CSPAN (@cspan) March 24, 2025

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.@SecDef Hegseth on @JeffreyGoldberg: “You’re talking about a deceitful and highly discredited so-called journalist who’s made a profession of peddling hoaxes time and time again…This is a guy who peddles in garbage…Nobody was texting war plans and that’s all I have to say.” pic.twitter.com/IEYyMPYQBz

— CSPAN (@cspan) March 24, 2025

On Monday, Jeffrey Goldberg, editor in chief of the Atlantic, revealed that he had been accidentally added to a Signal group that included Hegseth, vice-president JD Vance, secretary of state Marco Rubio and other key Trump administration figures.

The group was named “Houthi PC small group”, and in it, officials discussed “operational details of forthcoming strikes on Yemen, including information about targets, weapons the US would be deploying, and attack sequencing”, Goldberg said. A “TEAM UPDATE” posted by an account bearing Hegseth’s name contained information that if “read by an adversary of the United States, could conceivably have been used to harm American military and intelligence personnel, particularly in the broader Middle East, Central Command’s area of responsibility”, the journalist said.

Goldberg said he learned strikes would be taking place in Yemen hours before they occurred, and saw how, after the attacks, members of the group offered congratulatory messages.

In his brief remarks when pressed by a reporter about the scandal, Hegseth also called Goldberg a “deceitful and highly discredited so-called journalist”, but did not specifically refute any facts of the Atlantic story. A US national security council spokesperson confirmed to the Atlantic that the chat was authentic.

Goldberg’s story says the conducting of a national-security-related action on Signal “may have violated several provisions of the Espionage Act” and that Signal is “not approved by the government for sharing classified information”. Delaware senator Chris Coons earlier said in a statement that members of the thread had “committed a crime – even if accidentally”.

Trump signs order imposing tariffs on countries importing Venezuelan oil

The White House has released Donald Trump’s executive order sanctioning countriesthat purchase oil or gas from Venezuela, a move the president announced earlier today as his administration faces intense scrutiny for its deportations of Venezuelans.

The order says that starting on 2 April, a tariff of 25% “may be imposed on all goods imported into the United States from any country that imports Venezuelan oil, whether directly from Venezuela or indirectly through third parties”.

The executive order includes false and unsubstantiated claims that the Biden administration had “open-borders policies”, with Trump earlier repeating his baseless assertion that “Venezuela has purposefully and deceitfully sent to the United States, undercover, tens of thousands of high level, and other, criminals, many of whom are murderers and people of a very violent nature”.

The order came soon after an appeals court judge sharply rebuked the Trump administration, saying Nazis were given more rights to contest their removal from the US during the second world war than Venezuelan people recently deported.

Head of US Postal Service resigns amid protests by workers

Louis DeJoy, the US postmaster general, is resigning effective immediately after five years heading the Postal Service and after recent protests by postal workers concerned about the Trump administration’s threats to USPS.

DeJoy has led the agency since 2020 and had earlier this year asked his governor board to identify a successor, but his abrupt departure today came as a surprise, AP reported.

DeJoy had said he planned to cut 10,000 workers and billions of dollars from the Postal Service’s budget and that he was working with Elon Musk, the AP noted.

Musk has said USPS should be privatized, sparking widespread backlash, and Donald Trump has said he was considering merging USPS with the commerce department, a move Democrats and other critics have said would be unlawful and would strip the agency of independence. Postal workers have been protesting across the country. More background here:

Democratic National Committee calls on Pete Hegseth to resign or be fired

Ken Martin, chair of the Democratic National Committee, has called on Pete Hegseth to resign or be fired from his position as defense secretary over the escalating scandal surrounding the administration’s accidental leak of highly sensitive military plans to a journalist.

Martin said in a statement late Monday:

Pete Hegseth was unfit to lead the Defense Department even before he risked our national security through his own sloppy handling of sensitive military information. Just like his boss Donald Trump, Hegseth – and everyone else involved – put on a stunning display of recklessness and disregard for our national security. Hegseth should resign, and if he doesn’t resign, he should be fired. It’s crystal clear that our men and women in uniform deserve better – and that our national security cannot be left in Hegseth’s incompetent and unqualified hands.

Martin’s comments follow a piece from Jeffrey Goldberg, editor in chief of the Atlantic magazine, revealing that he was inadvertently added to a group chat of senior Trump administration officials discussing plans to bomb Houthi targets across Yemen. Goldberg, a prominent US journalist, remained on the chat on Signal, a private messaging app, apparently undetected.

The chat included Hegseth, vice-president JD Vance, secretary of state Marco Rubio and director of national intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. Goldberg said he was connected to the group via Michael Waltz, Trump’s national security adviser. The messages included sensitive policy discussions between Rubio and Hegseth. The national security council confirmed to the Atlantic that the group was authentic and said it was investigating how an “inadvertent number” was added.

A New York Times columnist also called on Hegseth to resign, and one critic noted that in 2023, Hegseth had sharply criticized Joe Biden for handling classified information “flippantly”, saying there should be “accountability … at the very top”.

A White House spokesperson said Trump “continues to have the utmost confidence in his national security team, including national security adviser Mike Waltz”.

Hillary Clinton on leak scandal: ‘You have got to be kidding me’

Hillary Clinton, who faced widespread media scrutiny for using a private email server while serving as secretary of state, has commented on the Trump administration’s extraordinary leak of secretive war plans when officials accidentally included a prominent journalist on a group chat.

“You have got to be kidding me,” the 2016 Democratic nominee for president wrote on X. She shared a link to Atlantic story written by the magazine’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, which revealed he had been added to a group on Signal, a private messaging app, that included vice-president JD Vance, secretary of state Marco Rubio, secretary of defense Pete Hegseth and other major Trump administration figures discussing plans for airstrikes on Houthi rebels in Yemen.

Journalists and pundits have been comparing Clinton’s email scandal, which impacted her 2016 race against Trump, to the current breach. Some have shared 2016 comments by Marco Rubio, then a senator, in which he said Clinton should be “held accountable” and was not “above the law”.

Trump to nominate Susan Monarez for CDC director after abrupt withdrawal of first pick

Donald Trump will nominate Dr Susan Monarez, the acting director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to permanently lead the agency, the White House said on Monday.

The announcement came after the president earlier this month abruptly pulled the nomination for his first choice, David Weldon, a 71-year-old doctor and former Republican Florida congressman who was closely scrutinized for anti-vaccine views. Monarez has been acting director of the CDC since January and previously worked at the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, another federal agency, the AP reported.

The president said in a post on Monday: “As an incredible mother and dedicated public servant, Dr Monarez understands the importance of protecting our children, our communities, and our future … Americans have lost confidence in the CDC due to political bias and disastrous mismanagement.”

Judge blocks Trump’s removal of trans service members in another court victory for LGBTQ+ rights

A federal judge has ruled that the US government cannot remove two transgender men from the Air Force, the latest courtroom victory for LGBTQ+ rights advocates challenging Donald Trump’s executive order banning trans people from military service, the AP reports.

On Monday, Christine O’Hearn, a US judge in New Jersey, issued a two-week restraining order barring the enforcement of Trump’s policy on the impacted plaintiffs. O’Hearn’s ruling comes days after a similar ruling by a federal judge in Washington DC.

O’Hearn said the trans plaintiffs, Master Sgt Logan Ireland and Staff Sgt Nicholas Bear Bade, had shown that their removal from service would cause lasting damage to their careers and reputations, the AP reported. The judge said they were likely to prevail on equal protection grounds as they had been singled out due to their sex, and that the US could not justify the discriminatory treatment. The restraining order said, in part:

The loss of military service under the stigma of a policy that targets gender identity is not merely a loss of employment; it is a profound disruption of personal dignity, medical continuity, and public service.

Last week, Judge Ana Reyes of Washington DC sharply criticized Trump’s executive order, saying the ban on trans service members was “soaked in animus,” adding: “Its language is unabashedly demeaning, its policy stigmatizes transgender persons as inherently unfit, and its conclusions bear no relation to fact.”

The US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, subsequently mocked Reyes and subjected her to personal attacks.

Trump on the White House leak of Yemen plans: ‘I don’t know anything about it’

Donald Trump has now been asked about his cabinet members accidentally leaking war plans to an Atlantic journalist who was mistakenly copied on a Signal group chat.

“I don’t know anything about it,” he responded at a briefing, before criticizing the Atlantic as a magazine “going out of business”. The president reiterated that he was not aware of the story, saying: “You’re telling me about it for the first time.”

The use of Signal, a private commercial app, to discuss highly sensitive national security matters and war plans – and the undetected inclusion of a journalist – has sparked widespread, bipartisan outrage. More on the White House response from the Guardian’s Joseph Gedeon:

The White House confirmed the leak. National Security Council spokesperson Brian Hughes told the Guardian: ‘This appears to be an authentic message chain, and we are reviewing how an inadvertent number was added to the chain.’

But the White House attempted to defend the communications, with Hughes describing the messages as an example of ‘deep and thoughtful policy coordination between senior officials’.

‘The ongoing success of the Houthi operation demonstrates that there were no threats to troops or national security,’ Hughes said.

Outrage after Trump officials accidentally leak war plans to journalist: ‘A crime’

The White House’s shocking leak of secret military plans to a journalist, who was accidentally included in a group chat, has sparked widespread, bipartisan outrage.

The Atlantic magazine’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, revealed in a stunning story today that he had been inadvertently invited into a chat group on Signal, a private messaging app, that included vice-president JD Vance, secretary of state Marco Rubio, national security adviser Mike Waltz, secretary of defense Pete Hegseth and other high-profile figures in Donald Trump’s administration. Goldberg was apparently undetected in the chat as cabinet members discussed upcoming attacks on the Houthi armed group in Yemen.

Elected officials are expressing disbelief and anger at the extraordinary security blunder, the Guardian’s Joseph Gedeon reports.

Delaware senator Chris Coons said: “Every single one of the government officials on this text chain have now committed a crime – even if accidentally.” Senator Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said: “This administration is playing fast and loose with our nation’s most classified info, and it makes all Americans less safe.”

Republican senator John Cornyn called it “a huge screw-up” and said it was being investigated. New York Republican representative Mike Lawler said: “Classified information should not be transmitted on unsecured channels – and certainly not to those without security clearances. Period.” More reactions here:

State department on White House leak of war plans: ‘No comment’

A spokesperson for the US state department has repeatedly refused to comment on the administration’s extraordinary blunder of discussing secret military plans on a chat that included a prominent journalist.

Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor of the Atlantic magazine, revealed today that key figures in Donald Trump’s cabinet – including vice-president JD Vance, defense secretary Pete Hegseth, Marco Rubio, and the director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard – used the commercial chat app, Signal, to discuss plans for US attacks on the Houthi armed group in Yemen. The chat inadvertently included Goldberg, who was added by one of its members and apparently was unnoticed by the rest of the group.

At a briefing, a reporter pressed Tammy Bruce, state department spokesperson, about the scandal, asking, “Why was the cabinet … discussing a potential military operation on Signal, which is a public app, and why didn’t they notice a phone number that was not part of their group, and how concerned is the secretary about the implications of this?”

Bruce responded: “We will not comment on the secretary’s deliberative conversations … You should contact the White House.” Bruce continued to refuse to comment as the reporter asked for the perspective of Marco Rubio, the secretary of state. The national security council has said it is investigating the matter.

More background here: