Live updates and the latest news as President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump tour the Texas flood devastation and the U.S. prepares to impose blanket tariffs on trading partners.

The White House has called the sweeping tax and spending package dubbed the One Big Beautiful Bill a win for workers, families and America’s future, but some state lawmakers say the cuts will hurt Illinois’ most vulnerable residents and have ripple effects on other areas of the economy.

US State Department began laying off more than 1300 employees on Friday as part of President Donald Trump’s campaign to massively downsize the federal government workforce. A State Department official said 1107 members of the civil service and 246 Foreign Service employees were being informed that they were being fired.

The state department is firing over 1,300 on Friday to align with the Trump administration's plan to reorganize the government.

The U.S. Department of State is eliminating its Office of Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) as part of a sweeping round of layoffs affecting more than 1,350 employees that began on Friday, Raw Story has learned.

A federal judge on Thursday blocked the Trump administration from enforcing a contentious executive order ending birthright citizenship after certifying a lawsuit as a class action, effectively the only way he could impose such a far-reaching limit after a Supreme Court ruling last month.

Shannon Ellis, head of the union that represents Kansas City IRS employees, said the Trump administration won’t even confirm how many local federal workers have been lost. But she said that the layoffs and policy changes are demoralizing and delaying critical services.

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