Trump’s DOGE ‘identifies next targets’ for job cuts as nuclear experts fired: Live

Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s plan to slash thousands of jobs across agencies is already leaving large holes in the government, and may soon begin affecting everyday Americans,

Thousands of workers have been laid off from the Education Department, the Office of Personnel Management, the Department of Veterans Affairs and multiple others.

At the U.S. Forest Service, where some 3,400 workers are slated to be cut, wildfire prevention will be curtailed even in the aftermath of devastating LA wildfires.

At Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, half of the agency’s 2,800 probationary employees were cut while about 400 employees appear to have taken Trump’s “buy-out” offer.

More than 300 staffers at the National Nuclear Security Administration were reportedly fired Thursday night, with Trump officials seemingly unaware that the agency oversees the U.S. nuclear stockpile.

The layoffs were part of broader Energy Department layoffs, CNN reported, citing four sources. The sources told the outlet the officials did not seem to know this agency oversees America’s nuclear weapons.

An Energy Department spokesperson disputed the number of personnel affected, telling CNN that “less than 50 people” were “dismissed” from NNSA, and that the dismissed staffers “held primarily administrative and clerical roles.”

The agency began rescinding the terminations Friday morning.

“No one has taken anytime to understand what we do and the importance of our work to the nation’s national security,” a source told CNN.

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky has not yet signed a draft agreement to hand over half of his country’s rare earth minerals to U.S. companies in exchange for military support, contrary to Donald Trump’s claims.

“The deal was not signed yet. Sides are discussing the details,” a Ukrainian official familiar with the negotiations told Politico.

“Lawyers are working on it. In their draft, the U.S. has described a very complicated way how they want to get 50 percent [of Ukraine’s rare earths].”

On Tuesday, Trump said Ukraine had “essentially agreed” to a deal over its earth minerals.

“I told them that I want the equivalent of like $500 billion worth of rare earths, and they’ve essentially agreed to do that,” he said.

Quebec Vasquez came to America when she was a kid. She built a life here and had a family.

Now, in response to the climate of fear caused by Donald Trump’s mass deportations, she has decided to return to the country of her birth, Richard Hall writes…

UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer is on a collision course with Donald Trump over the future of Ukraine and the president’s latest threat to impose tariffs on the UK, as the two leaders face their first major test since the Republican took office.

The policy published by the White House included VAT as a target – which analysts have suggested could knock around £24bn off UK GDP over the next two years.

Millie Cooke reports from London.

As the Trump administration works to dismantle and erase any mention of climate change on a federal level, a new report has found that the majority of Americans believe the Earth’s warming is affecting weather across the country.

Two-thirds of those recently surveyed by the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication and the George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication said they think global warming is impacting U.S. weather. Those who believe global warming is happening outnumber those who believe it is not by a ratio of more than five to one, the survey also found.

Federal prosecutors faced an ultimatum on Friday, agree to dismiss the charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams’s criminal case – or else.

Emil Bove III, the No. 2 in the Justice Department and President Donald Trump’s former criminal defense attorney, issued the directive after being stonewalled a day earlier on the same request. He had pushed for dropping the bribery case, but Manhattan federal prosecutors resigned instead of signing it themselves. That led to the Friday showdown.

What is unclear is why Bove, a lawyer, didn’t just sign them himself.

While it is uncommon for the acting deputy attorney general to do so, nothing prevents him from taking action.

Ariana Baio has the story.

In another setback for President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, Judge Amir Ali issued the order Thursday in a lawsuit brought by companies that receive U.S. funding for the programs.