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In a post on Truth Social this morning, Trump said he’s “not happy” with Russia and Russian President Vladimir Putin for the overnight strikes in Kyiv, where at least eight people were killed and over 70 were injured.
“I am not happy with the Russian strikes on KYIV. Not necessary, and very bad timing. Vladimir, STOP! 5000 soldiers a week are dying. Lets get the Peace Deal DONE!” Trump wrote.
Trump’s statement comes as the U.S. is working with Russia and Ukraine to broker a peace deal to end the three-year war.
On Wednesday, Trump directed his ire at Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, accusing him of derailing negotiations when a peace deal was “very close.”
Attorney General Pam Bondi announced on X that the Justice Department has begun cutting grants to various organizations that she said are “wasteful.”
She wrote that $2 million was cut for “national listening sessions of individuals with lived experience,” $695,000 was cut for “a parallel convergent mixed-methods case study research design to assess the efficacy of police departments’ LGBTQ liaison services” and $250,000 was cut for “working with incarcerated transgender individuals providing gender affirming care to including housing in gender appropriate facilities.”
“Grants for programs that do not align with the administration’s priorities were rescinded but this Department of Justice will continue to ensure that services for victims are not impacted and any recipient will have the ability to appeal and restore any grant if direct impact on victims can be thoroughly established,” she said in a statement to NBC News.
Stacey Young, a former DOJ official who co-founded Justice Connection, a group dedicated to raising awareness about what’s happening at Trump’s DOJ, slammed the administration in a statement.
“This administration can’t claim to care about things like supporting crime victims, curbing gun violence, and reducing opioid deaths while slashing grants to entities that do the hard work to achieve these goals,” she said.
Trump is scheduled to participate in a town hall next Wednesday, April 30, on NewsNation to mark the first 100 days of his second term in the White House, according to the network.
Anchor Chris Cuomo will moderate the two-hour event, which will also include other members of the Trump administration such as Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
“The town hall will be held in front of a live studio audience comprised of Democrats, Republicans, and Independent voters,” the network said in a press release announcing the town hall.
Maryland U.S. District Judge Stephanie Gallagher issued an order yesterday requiring the Trump administration to facilitate the return to the U.S. of a 20-year-old Venezuelan man whom it deported to El Salvador.
The removal of the man, who is referred to by the pseudonym “Cristian” in court records, violated a previous court settlement from November 2024. He was part of a group of plaintiffs who sued the government in 2019, having come to the U.S. as an unaccompanied minor and later seeking asylum, according to the judge’s memorandum opinion.
The filing said U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement removed Cristian on March 15 — despite his pending asylum application — and he was sent to a prison in El Salvador.
Gallagher, who was appointed by Trump, wrote that the Trump administration removed the man “without adjudication of his asylum petition.” She said the administration has “provided no evidence or even any specific allegations, as to how Cristian, or any other Class Member, poses a threat to public safety.”
She referenced the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, saying that similar to the judge in that matter, “this Court will order Defendants to facilitate Cristian’s return to the United States so that he can receive the process he was entitled to under the parties’ binding Settlement Agreement.”
“Facilitation includes, but is not limited to, a good faith request by Defendants to the government of El Salvador to release Cristian to U.S. custody for transport back to the United States,” she wrote in the order.
The Trump administration, according to the judge’s opinion, argues that Cristian’s removal didn’t violate the original settlement agreement because it designated him as an “alien enemy” using the Alien Enemies Act, and therefore he’s no longer eligible for asylum.
The Department of Homeland Security and the White House didn’t immediately return requests for comment.
China today directly contradicted President Donald Trump’s claims that Beijing and Washington are actively discussing resolutions to a trade war that threatens to upend the global economy.
While Trump said yesterday that the world’s two largest economies are “actively” talking, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson responded that “China and the U.S. have not engaged in any consultations or negotiations regarding tariffs, let alone reached an agreement.”
The spokesperson, Guo Jiakun, made the comments at a briefing in Beijing, saying that reports of ongoing talks were false. He added that while China is open to negotiations, “if it’s a fight, we will fight to the end.”
At 145%, Trump’s tariffs are higher on China than any other country. As he ratcheted up tariffs on Chinese goods in recent weeks, citing unfair trade practices, Beijing has responded in kind, bringing its total tariff on U.S. goods to 125% — levels that amount to a mutual trade embargo.
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