Trump and Project 2025: President Trump once insisted he had “nothing to do with Project 2025," the right-wing policy plan that became a key flashpoint during the presidential campaign. But a year into his second term, many of the policies in that plan have been implemented, from cracking down on immigration to dismantling the Department of Education. White House Correspondent Franco Ordoñez explains. Special counsel defends Trump investigations: Former special counsel Jack Smith defended his decision to secure two criminal indictments against President Trump on Capitol Hill this week, and asserted his team had gathered enough evidence to convict. Trump and his Republican allies have decried Smith’s probes as politically motivated, and accused him of weaponizing the Department of Justice. Smith told a House committee Thursday, "I am not a politician, and I have no partisan loyalties…..No one should be above the law in our country, and the law required that [Trump] be held to account.”
SCOTUS seems skeptical of Trump Fed firing: The Supreme Court Wednesday seemed likely to block President Trump's attempt to immediately remove Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve's governing board. In a spirited argument that lasted more than two hours, all nine justices — liberal and conservative — expressed doubts about the president's claim of absolute power to fire members of the Fed board. Justice Brett Kavanaugh, for one, suggested that the administration’s argument would “shatter” the independence of the Fed.
“He’s unconstrained”: Throughout his first term, President Trump bristled at aides who reined in his impulses. In his second term, he’s faced less internal resistance from his staff, Cabinet and the Republican majority in Congress. One year in, senior White House Correspondent Tamara Keith looks at how Trump and his staff have been operating.
These Pennsylvania swing voters backed Trump in 2024: Some now say ICE is going too far. | 
