{"id":135989,"date":"2025-05-03T04:58:36","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T04:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-news-at-a-glance-president-floats-pentagon-budget-boost-army-may-hold-parade-for-his-birthday-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2025-05-03T04:58:36","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T04:58:36","slug":"trump-news-at-a-glance-president-floats-pentagon-budget-boost-army-may-hold-parade-for-his-birthday-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-news-at-a-glance-president-floats-pentagon-budget-boost-army-may-hold-parade-for-his-birthday-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump news at a glance: president floats Pentagon budget boost; army may hold parade for his birthday – The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

Military spending plans would also see $163bn cuts in non-defense spending \u2013 key US politics stories from Friday 2 May at a glance
The Trump administration<\/a> is considering cuts worth $163bn to departments including health and education as well as environmental schemes while increasing spending on defense, according to a White House budget blueprint.
In contrast to the squeeze on discretionary social programmes, the administration is planning a 13% rise \u2013 to more than $1tn \u2013 in the Pentagon budget, a commitment at odds with Donald Trump\u2019s frequent vows to end the US\u2019s involvement in \u201cforever wars\u201d in the Middle East and elsewhere.
The budget draft was circulated as reports emerged of a huge military parade planned to mark the 250th anniversary of the founding of the US army as well as Trump\u2019s birthday.
Here are the key stories at a glance:
Donald Trump<\/a> is proposing huge cuts to social programmes like health and education while planning substantial spending increases on defense and the Department of Homeland Security, in a White House budget blueprint that starkly illustrates his preoccupation with projecting military strength and deterring migration.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
Detailed army plans for a potential military<\/a> parade on Trump\u2019s birthday in June call for more than 6,600 soldiers, at least 150 vehicles, 50 helicopters, seven bands and possibly a couple of thousand civilians, the Associated Press has learned.
At the same time, Fox News reported that the parade was a definite go-ahead and would happen on 14 June, the 250th birthday<\/a> of the US army as well as Trump\u2019s own birthday, when he will turn 79.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
A federal judge on Friday permanently struck down Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s executive order that targeted the firm Perkins Coie, which once worked with his 2016 presidential election rival Hillary Clinton, after declaring in an extraordinary ruling that the order was unconstitutional and unlawful.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
The US supreme court justice Ketanji Brown Jackson<\/a> has condemned the Trump administration\u2019s attacks on the judiciary in a cutting speech at a judicial conference.
Without mentioning Donald Trump<\/a> by name, Jackson spoke of \u201cthe elephant in the room\u201d and rhetoric from the White House<\/a> \u201cdesigned to intimidate the judiciary\u201d.
\u201c\u200aAcross the nation, judges are facing increased threats of not only physical violence, but also professional retaliation just for doing our jobs,\u201d Jackson said on Thursday evening, according to the New York Times<\/a>. \u201cAnd the attacks are not random. They seem designed to intimidate \u200athose of us who serve in this critical capacity.\u201d
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
The US president has signed an executive order that seeks to cut public funding for National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service, accusing them of leftwing bias. The order, signed late on Thursday, directs the board of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which sends funds to NPR<\/a> and PBS, to \u201ccease federal funding\u201d for the two outlets.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
The Trump administration<\/a> has agreed not to freeze funds to Maine schools, a win for a state that was targeted by the president over its support of transgender rights.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
The justice department\u2019s pardon attorney, who was recently fired<\/a>, has claimed on social media that Trump\u2019s recent wave of pardoning white-collar criminals has erased more than \u201c$1bn in debts owed by wealthy Americans\u201d to the public purse.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
Hiring in the US slowed in April, according to official figures, with the workforce adding 177,000 jobs as Trump\u2019s aggressive trade strategy clouded the economic outlook. As the White House pressed ahead with sweeping tariffs on overseas imports, claiming this would revitalize the US economy<\/a>, employers across the country continued to add jobs at a steady pace.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
Marco Rubio is slated to keep his dual roles as secretary of state and national security adviser for at least six months<\/a> and the positions could even become permanent, according to Politico<\/a>. Rubio\u2019s placement was not meant to be a temporary slot-in, reports Politico, which cites three senior White House officials.
Photographs taken at Trump\u2019s cabinet meeting this week have revealed that top White House officials are now communicating using an even less secure version of the Signal messaging app<\/a> than was at the center of a huge national security scandal<\/a> last month.
The Trump administration<\/a> has ordered the closure of 25 scientific centers that monitor US waters for flooding and drought<\/a>, and manage supply levels to ensure communities around the country don\u2019t run out of water.
Trump said again on Friday that he would be \u201ctaking away\u201d Harvard\u2019s tax-exempt status<\/a> as a non-profit in a legally questionable move that escalates his ongoing feud with the elite university.
The White House plans to cut staffing at the Central Intelligence Agency<\/a> (CIA) by 1,200 positions while other intelligence agencies including the National Security Agency (NSA) will also shed thousands of jobs, the Washington Post has reported.
A mother deported to Cuba<\/a> reportedly had to hand over her 17-month-old daughter<\/a> to a lawyer while her husband, a US citizen, stood outside unable to say goodbye.
Catching up? Here\u2019s what happened on 1 May 2025<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n

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