Trump to attend Saudi-backed conference in Miami and sign more executive orders today: Live updates

The Division of Authorities Effectivity claimed they’d saved $8 billion by reducing a single contract – however the precise worth was $8 million.

Elon Musk’s cost-cutting staff, tasked with gutting the federal authorities, claims it has saved a complete of $55 billion, however a not too long ago printed checklist of contracts it has canceled to date solely accounts for $16.6 billion, Bloomberg experiences.

DOGE, upon additional inspection, seems to have overstated the worth of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement company contract, which has since been corrected.

Right here’s the president’s offended Fact Social response to his Ukrainian counterpart after he accused him of being taken in by Russian “disinformation” earlier, by which he even goes as far as to consult with him as a “dictator” and accuse him of presiding over a corrupt regime embezzling protection donations:

“Consider it, a modestly profitable comic, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, talked the US of America into spending $350 Billion {Dollars}, to enter a Struggle that couldn’t be gained, that by no means needed to begin, however a Struggle that he, with out the U.S. and “TRUMP,” won’t ever be capable of settle. America has spent $200 Billion {Dollars} greater than Europe, and Europe’s cash is assured, whereas the US will get nothing again. Why didn’t Sleepy Joe Biden demand Equalization, in that this Struggle is much extra vital to Europe than it’s to us — We’ve a giant, stunning Ocean as separation. On high of this, Zelenskyy admits that half of the cash we despatched him is “MISSING.” He refuses to have Elections, may be very low in Ukrainian Polls, and the one factor he was good at was enjoying Biden “like a fiddle.” A Dictator with out Elections, Zelenskyy higher transfer quick or he’s not going to have a Nation left. Within the meantime, we’re efficiently negotiating an finish to the Struggle with Russia, one thing all admit solely “TRUMP,” and the Trump Administration, can do. Biden by no means tried, Europe has didn’t deliver Peace, and Zelenskyy most likely needs to maintain the “gravy prepare” going. I like Ukraine, however Zelenskyy has accomplished a horrible job, his Nation is shattered, and MILLIONS have unnecessarily died – And so it continues…..”

That rocket comes as particular envoy Keith Kellogg meets with Andriy Yermak, head of the Ukrainian Presidential Workplace, in Kyiv.

The president will attend a gathering hosted by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund in Miami, Florida, immediately earlier than making a belated return to Washington, D.C.

Trump will be a part of world financiers and tech executives for a convention that can reportedly give attention to U.S. investments and enterprise, in accordance with a White Home official.

The president is predicted to ship an tackle on the gathering following his name in January for Riyadh to take a position $1 trillion in the US but additionally follows the nation objecting to his proposal to relocate Palestinians from Gaza as a part of an American-led rebuilding plan.

This was Trump a short time in the past en path to the occasion:

Federal Decide Anthony J Trenga has quickly blocked the president’s transfer to pressure the dismissal of 11 CIA brokers briefly assigned to range, fairness and inclusion (DEI) packages inside the company.

The ruling comes after a bunch of nameless intelligence officers, who had been quickly reassigned to roles implementing DEI initiatives, filed a lawsuit towards the U.S. Workplace of the Director of Nationwide Intelligence (ODNI) and the CIA – now occupied by Tulsi Gabbard and John Ratcliffe – to oppose their ousting.

The lawsuit, filed within the U.S. District Courtroom for the Japanese District of Virginia, names ODNI, the CIA, and their respective heads as defendants.

The plaintiffs, recognized solely as “John Does 1-6” and “Jane Does 1-5,” argue they’re being unfairly focused, with Decide Trenga agreeing and granting an administrative keep, which means these involved will stay on go away with full pay and advantages till the court docket guidelines additional on the matter.

Right here’s the president utilizing his bully pulpit to hustle Congress into passing his most popular model of an upcoming reconciliation invoice combining all of his “America First” initiatives, issuing a really public smackdown to the South Carolina senator within the course of for daring to defy him.

Over on X, Elon, as is his manner, has meandered into a reasonably random dialog about vaccines, commenting on an previous clip of Joe Rogan interviewing JD Vance by which the vp describes being exhausting hit by the coronavirus jab.

Luckily, Musk concludes his anecdote a few comparable expertise by providing his non-expert opinion that “analysis ought to proceed”.

On the identical topic, new public well being czar Robert F Kennedy Jr has carried out a serious U-turn on childhood vaccine schedules, saying he may have them “examined” after beforehand promising the Senate he wouldn’t makes any modifications.

Martin O’Malley, the previous commissioner of the Social Safety Administration, ripped into “co-presidents” Trump and Musk on Tuesday, together with DOGE’s band of “19-year-old nitwits,” calling them the “greatest menace” to the continued existence of the 90-year-old program so essential to hundreds of thousands of People.

O’Malley, a former governor of Maryland who ran the company over the past yr of the Biden administration, mocked Musk’s claims that hundreds of thousands of “zombies” from the age of 100 to 159 are amassing Social Safety advantages.

“He has no concept what he’s speaking about,” he informed CNN anchor Boris Sanchez.

“There may be not like a zombie apocalypse of individuals, cadavers working round with Social Safety checks popping out of their pockets.”

Elon Musk’s Division of Authorities Effectivity has compelled the U.S. Division of Agriculture into an embarrassing walkback after it was revealed that staffers who had been engaged on combatting the present hen flu epidemic had been mistakenly fired.

Madeline Sherratt has this report.