{"id":137762,"date":"2025-05-17T10:55:56","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T10:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-news-at-a-glance-president-sees-setbacks-in-the-courts-and-congress-as-controversial-gulf-tour-ends-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2025-05-17T10:55:56","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T10:55:56","slug":"trump-news-at-a-glance-president-sees-setbacks-in-the-courts-and-congress-as-controversial-gulf-tour-ends-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-news-at-a-glance-president-sees-setbacks-in-the-courts-and-congress-as-controversial-gulf-tour-ends-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump news at a glance: President sees setbacks in the courts and Congress as controversial Gulf tour ends – The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

The supreme court blocks White House bid to resume deportations as lawyers say Venezuelans face \u2018torture\u2019 in El Salvador. Key US politics stories from Friday 16 May at a glance
Donald Trump faced setbacks in the courts and Congress on Friday, as the president finished a visit to the Middle East that included stops in Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates but not Israel.
Trump posted on social media: \u201cTHE SUPREME COURT WON\u2019T ALLOW US TO GET CRIMINALS OUT OF OUR COUNTRY!\u201d, after the court rejected the Trump administration\u2019s request to remove a temporary block on deportations of Venezuelans under a rarely used 18th-century wartime law.
Meanwhile, rightwing lawmakers derailed Trump\u2019s signature legislation in the House of Representatives, preventing its passage through a key committee and throwing into question whether Republicans can coalesce around the massive bill that would extend tax cuts enacted during Trump\u2019s first term.
The supreme court<\/a> on Friday rejected the Trump administration<\/a>\u2019s appeal to quickly resume deportations of Venezuelans under a 227-year-old law. Over two dissenting votes, the justices acted on an emergency appeal from lawyers for Venezuelan men who have been accused of being gang members, a designation the administration says makes them eligible for rapid removal from the US under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798.
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Lawyers for 252 Venezuelans deported<\/a> by the Trump administration and imprisoned in El Salvador<\/a> for two months have alleged that the migrants are victims of physical and emotional \u201ctorture\u201d.
A law firm hired by the Venezuelan government said it had been unable to visit the migrants in the mega-prison where they are locked up and are seeking \u201cproof of life\u201d, but have come up against a wall of silence from President Nayib Bukele\u2019s administration and the Central American nation\u2019s justice system.
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At a House budget committee hearing on Friday intended to advance Donald Trump\u2019s signature legislation, four Republican members of the far-right Freedom Caucus joined with the Democrats to block it from proceeding, arguing the legislation does not make deep enough cuts to federal spending and to programs they dislike.
The party has spent weeks negotiating a measure dubbed the \u201cone big, beautiful bill<\/a>\u201d that would extend tax cuts enacted during Trump\u2019s first term, fund mass deportations of undocumented immigrants and temporarily make good on his campaign promise to end the taxation of tips and overtime. To offset its costs, Republicans have proposed cuts to the federal safety net<\/a>, including Medicaid and the supplemental nutrition assistance program.
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Donald Trump has said people are starving in Gaza and the US would have the situation in the territory \u201ctaken care of\u201d as it suffered a further wave of intense Israeli airstrikes<\/a>.
On Friday, Israel announced a major new offensive in the territory just as Trump wrapped up his tour of the Gulf region. On the final day of trip, the US president told reporters in Abu Dhabi: \u201cWe\u2019re looking at Gaza<\/a>. And we\u2019re going to get that taken care of. A lot of people are starving.\u201d
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Donald Trump<\/a> accused the former FBI director James Comey<\/a> on Friday of calling for his assassination in a coded social media post written in seashells.
Comey has said it did not occur to him that the numbers 8647 \u2013 which he spotted spelled out in seashells on a beach, and posted on social media \u2013 could be interpreted as a call to assassinate the president, as many Trump supporters have claimed.
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Trump angrily insulted Bruce Springsteen<\/a><\/strong> after the veteran musician said the president was heading a \u201ccorrupt, incompetent and treasonous administration\u201d.
A major military parade \u2013 which also coincides with Trump\u2019s 79th birthday<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 could cost up to $45m and involve thousands of soldiers, hundreds of vehicles and dozens of warplanes and tanks.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) effectively misled a judge<\/a><\/strong> in order to gain access to the homes of students it sought to arrest for their pro-Palestinian activism, attorneys say.
Catching up? Here\u2019s what happened on 15 May 2025<\/a><\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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