Trump Says He Wants Alcatraz Restored as a Prison
The project would be extraordinarily expensive at a time when the administration already plans to cut billions of dollars from the Justice Department’s budget.
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The project would be extraordinarily expensive at a time when the administration already plans to cut billions of dollars from the Justice Department’s budget.
President Trump confirmed on Sunday that he had raised the idea with his Mexican counterpart, Claudia Sheinbaum, who rejected it.
Enrique Tarrio said he told Mr. Trump that he had saved his life by including him in a blanket grant of clemency for Jan. 6 defendants.
President Trump, who has frequently raised the idea of pursuing a third term in defiance of the Constitution, told “Meet the Press” that his vice president and his secretary of state were potential successors.
President Trump repeatedly answered “I don’t know” when asked in a TV interview whether every person on American soil was entitled to due process, as guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment.
Beyond the politics is a brew of resentment and reverence that the president, an Ivy League graduate himself, has long harbored for a club that has never accepted him.
His White House advisers considered giving him such a test to prove his fitness for a second term, but they worried it would draw new attention to his age, according to a forthcoming book.
Clinicians at the Department of Veterans Affairs say the president’s return-to-office order is forcing many of them to work from makeshift spaces where it is difficult to guarantee patient privacy.
More than $800 million in N.I.H. grants canceled as of early May — nearly half of those terminated to date — covered the health of sexual and gender minority groups, The Times found.
The lawsuit, which names the governor and mayor as defendants, is the latest move by the White House to try to get local governments to cooperate more with its immigration agenda.