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Melanie Zanona<\/span>Melanie Zanona is a Capitol Hill correspondent for NBC News.<\/span><\/span><\/span>
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will visit Capitol Hill this afternoon for a meet-and-greet session with House Republicans, according to Rep. Lisa McClain, R-Mich., chair of the House GOP Conference, as Trump seeks to implement new tariffs and quickly pass his policy agenda.
Bessent\u2019s timely visit, first reported by NBC News, is the latest in a string of meetings between House Republicans and key Trump administration officials called the \u201cMeet the Cabinet\u201d series, which McClain recently started orchestrating on Capitol Hill. In her leadership position, McClain is in charge of the House GOP\u2019s messaging arm, as well as member services.
Read the full story.<\/em><\/strong><\/a>
Gary Grumbach<\/span>Gary Grumbach is a NBC News Legal Affairs Reporter, based in Washington, D.C.<\/span><\/span><\/span>
Patrick Smith<\/span><\/span><\/span>
The United States government accidentally deported a man to El Salvador because of an \u201cadministrative error,\u201d landing him in a\u00a0notorious mega-jail<\/a>\u00a0and leaving him stuck there in legal limbo, according to legal papers filed yesterday.
Kilmar Arbrego Garcia came to the U.S. in 2011 from El Salvador and is a legal resident protected by a 2019 court order that prevented him from being sent back to his home country.
Read the full story.<\/em><\/strong><\/a>
Yixuan Tan<\/span><\/span><\/span>
The conviction of French far-right leader\u00a0Marine Le Pen<\/a>, which bars her from holding public office for five years, is \u201ca very big deal,\u201d Trump said.
Le Pen, leader of the National Rally party and one of the best-known figures in far-right European politics, was found guilty in Paris yesterday of embezzling European Union funds and sentenced to four years in prison. She had been considered a front-runner in France\u2019s 2027 presidential election, campaigning in part on anti-immigration and other policies that have drawn comparisons to Trump.
\u00a0\u201cThat\u2019s a big deal. That\u2019s a very big deal,\u201d Trump said from the Oval Office yesterday evening. \u201cI know all about it, and a lot of people thought she wasn\u2019t going to be convicted of anything.\u201d
\u201cBut she was banned for running for five years, and she\u2019s the leading candidate. That sounds like this country, that sounds very much like this country,\u201d Trump continued, in an apparent reference to the multiple legal cases he faced before returning to office.
Le Pen\u2019s lawyer said she would appeal the verdict, though she will remain ineligible for office in the meantime.
Berkeley Lovelace Jr.<\/span><\/span><\/span>
Layoffs began widely this morning at the Department of Health and Human Services as the agency sets out to cut some\u00a010,000 full-time jobs<\/a>\u00a0as the Trump administration works to drastically shrink the size of the federal government.
The \u201creduction in force\u201d plan, announced last Thursday and led by Elon Musk\u2019s Department of Government Efficiency, aims to shrink the health department\u2019s workforce from 82,000 to 62,000 across several of its agencies,\u00a0including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health.
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Frank Thorp V<\/span>producer and off-air reporter<\/span><\/span><\/span>
Megan Lebowitz<\/span><\/span><\/span>
As morning alarms roused people on the East Coast for their work days, Sen. Cory Booker<\/a> still hadn\u2019t returned home from the night before. Instead, he was delivering an hourslong overnight speech on the Senate floor<\/a>, which was ongoing 12 hours later this morning.
Booker showed no signs of slowing down after 7 a.m., speaking with animated gestures as he slammed the Trump administration.<\/a>
Read the full story.<\/em><\/strong><\/a>
Andy Eckardt<\/span><\/span><\/span>
Reporting from Mainz, Germany
The European Union has a \u201cstrong plan\u201d to retaliate against U.S. tariffs if necessary, the E.U. chief warned, as Trump is poised to impose a 25% auto tariff in addition to reciprocal tariffs on countries around the world.
The 27-member bloc is willing to negotiate but is also prepared to protect its interests, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said today in a speech to the European Parliament in Strasbourg.
\u201cWe do not necessarily want to retaliate, but we have a strong plan to retaliate if necessary,\u201d she said.
Von der Leyen said she understood American complaints that \u201cothers have taken advantage of the rules.\u201d
\u201cI agree. We also suffer from it. So let us work on it,\u201d she said. \u201cBut tariffs across the board make things worse, not better.\u201d\u00a0
Steve Kornacki<\/span><\/span><\/span>
While Wisconsin\u2019s Supreme Court race is officially nonpartisan, Democrats and Republicans have both picked sides and are pouring fortunes into their efforts. As the votes are tallied tonight, the ability to claim political momentum amid the upheaval of President Donald Trump\u2019s second term will be on the line.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
What is being tested, though, is not so much whether large numbers of voters have changed their minds in the five months since the presidential election. When it comes to Trump himself, Wisconsin is an especially polarized state, with three straight presidential elections decided by less than 1 point. More likely, the outcome hinges on whether the pro-Trump side has become more engaged in an election like this than it has been up to this point.
Read the full story.<\/em><\/strong><\/a>
Adam Edelman<\/span><\/span><\/span>
Bridget Bowman<\/span><\/span><\/span>
Ben Kamisar<\/span><\/span><\/span>
Kailani Koenig<\/span><\/span><\/span>
The first major elections of President Donald Trump\u2019s second term will take place today as voters head to the polls in Wisconsin, a perennial battleground, and in Trump-friendly territory in Florida.\u00a0
Tens of millions of dollars have poured into Wisconsin ahead of today\u2019s state Supreme Court race in a contest that could have huge national implications. It\u2019s the first major statewide contest in a battleground<\/a> since the 2024 election \u2014 and it\u2019s happening in the state where Trump had his narrowest margin of victory in November.
Read the full story.<\/em><\/strong><\/a>
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