Trump plans to slash 80,000 jobs from top agency as DOGE takes ‘aggressive’ measures: Live updates

Defense secretary Pete Hegseeth and vice -president JD Vance left Washington, the morning after the joint session address of President Donald Trump.

The duo goes to the southern border.

Trump gave up his Pentagon Chief to take operational control over the southern border while redirecting troops to help the border patrol's efforts.

The Department of Veterans Affairs is planning to reorganize and cut 80,000 jobs according to an internal memo written by the Department staff Christopher Syrek.

The memo obtained by the Associated Press notes that the department wants to return to 2019 personnel level of just under 400,000.

The memo instructs VA officials to work with Doge to change the format and adjust it to the workforce of the mission and revised structure 'and' aggressive to go out, while a pragmatic and disciplined approach is followed '.

From Rob Crilly, Chief US Political Correspondent for DailyMail.com

The address of President Donald Trump at the congress was a hit with viewers, but Dailymail.com -Polling shows how part of his speech mainly resonated with neutral observers.

Fifteen minutes in Tuesday evening speech, he turns to one of the issues that have driven his election campaign.

“I signed an order that makes it the official policy of the US government that there are only two sexes, male and female,” he says.

When viewers' reaction is deported in real time, it shows that neutral like what they hear. According to analysis of pollsters, the 'worm' of their answers is ticking at JL Partners.

President Donald Trump was able to announce that some of the rates is being imposed on Canada and Mexico in Wednesday.

It only comes a few days after the US had imposed 25 percent rates on all the well -imported from the two neighboring countries who fluctuate the country in a trade war this week.

Trader Howard Lutnick appeared on Bloomberg on Wednesday morning, where he said the president is considering alleviating some rates.

“There will be rates, let's be clear, but what he thinks about is which parts of the market that may be possible, maybe he will consider giving them relief,” Lutnick said.

The secretary of the trade said that it could go until they are on April 2.

A sharply divided Supreme Court has rejected a Trump administration -push a push to reprimand a federal judge who imposed a quick deadline to release billions of dollars Foreign help – Feeding furiously pushback of the minority.

With 5-4 votes, the court told the American district judge Amir Ali to clarify his earlier order that required the Republican government released nearly $ 2 billion to help for work that had already been done.

Although the outcome is a short -term loss for president Donald TrumpThe administration, the non -profit organizations and companies that have been charged are still waiting for the money they say they are owing. One of the organizations was forced last week to dismiss 110 employees, according to judicial papers.

It is the second time that the new administration has searched for the Supreme Court and has not succeeded in convincing the Supreme Court to immediately hold a judge with a lower court in legal fights on actions that Trump undertaken.

Donald Trump was welcomed in the White House on Tuesday evening by a group of his closest advisers and relatives.

He told the House that it was a challenge to give the speech into a very divided joint session of the congress.

“If you think that was easy-it wasn't,” Trump said in a video of 32 seconds posted by the White House.

“You are a very special group and thank you very much,” the president added.

The video contained fast messages from Trump's youngest daughter Tiffany, who is pregnant, his press secretary and his daughter -in -law Lara, who is married to his middle son Eric.

White House Pers Secretary Karoline Leavitt came close to the camera and praised: “Best speech ever.”

Most viewers of Donald Trump's big speech think it was the right step to Rep. To cast green while he continued to interrupt the joint session.

The Democratic Congressman waved his stick to the president and shouted: “You don't have a mandate to cut Medicaid!”

He was accompanied by the sergeant at the arms without mercy.

An exclusive JL partners Snap survey of 774 viewers for DailyMail.com showed that 56 percent of the respondents agreed that he should have been cast out.

Less than a third thought it was the wrong decision.