Trump calls for famed Alcatraz prison to be reopened, expanded

Democratic Sens. Chris Van Hollen and Tim Kaine, with the backing of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, filed a resolution Thursday to require the State Department to publish a human rights report on the prison conditions in El Salvador where Americans are being held, including if any U.S. aid has been used to assist with the deportation efforts.

"If you think you can take steps like this without Congress challenging your executive overreach, you're wrong. We're going to challenge your overreach at every instance when we can," Kaine said.

Van Hollen then explained that the resolution would force a floor vote within 10 days of it being filed, and should it pass, would force the report without House passage.

"If no report is produced within 30 days, the law specifies that all security assistance to El Salvador will be cut off. If the report is produced, whether it's good, bad, a whitewash, insufficient, you know, a two pager, we then have a privileged motion that we can bring up to terminate security assistance," he said.

-ABC News' Lalee Ibssa

The Trump administration will not renew $1 billion in Biden-era grants aimed at boosting mental health services in schools, a Department of Education spokesperson confirmed to ABC News on Thursday.

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Communications Madi Biedermann claimed in a statement that grant recipients "used the funding to implement race-based actions like recruiting quotas in ways that have nothing to do with mental health."

She did not provide more details.

The decision comes as the Trump administration takes action to eliminate DEI programs and alleged racial discrimination practices in schools.

However, multiple courts have partially blocked efforts to ensure schools certify compliance with the administration's demands.

-ABC News' Arthur Jones II

General Motors has cut its profit guidance and said that tariffs could cost up to $5 billion in a new shareholder letter. The company has not yet announced any price increases for consumers. Ford, another major U.S. automaker, has said it can't commit to not raising prices as a result of President Donald Trump's tariff policy.

"Is the administration open to doing more to give automakers relief?" ABC News Chief White House Correspondent Mary Bruce asked White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller at Thursday's briefing.

Miller did not directly respond to the question, instead saying U.S. automakers "have announced dramatic investments and expansions inside the United States. American auto plants are growing. They are expanding."

"But in the meantime, while manufacturing ramps up, American consumers may pay more. Do you agree?" Bruce asked Miller.

"They won't because, again, there's now a massive economic incentive for automobile producers to expand production in the United States and whatever they make here, there will be no tariffs," Miller said.

Elon Musk at the White House on Wednesday described his first 100 days in Washington leading his Department of Government Efficiency as "very, very intense," and, while he said he was proud of his team's work, he blamed what he called an "entrenched set of interests" for hindering their effectiveness so far.

Speaking to a small group of reporters in the Roosevelt Room, Musk was joined by fellow DOGE lieutenants Steve Davis and Antonio Gracias.

Musk was asked what he would have done differently with DOGE after 100 days and said while he believes they have made progress and have been effective, he said DOGE hasn't been "as effective as I'd like."

"I think we've been effective, not as effective as I'd like, I think we could be more effective, but we made progress."

Musk was pressed multiple times on whether he still believed his DOGE team would reach their $1 trillion cost-cutting goal – telling reporters he still believes it is "possible" but acknowledged "it's really difficult."

"I think it's possible to do that, but there's that. It's a long road to go and, you know, this, this, this really, it's really difficult," he said. "But our rate of savings per day is pretty good. You know, we're like, $1.6 billion a day, 100 days in."

Musk claimed that if DOGE is going to get to $1 trillion in cuts, it may come down to "how much pain is, you know, the cabinet and Congress going only to take. It can be done, but it requires dealing with a lot of complaints."

Asked by ABC News what specifically those obstacles were blocking him from reaching that $1 trillion goal, Musk blamed "an entrenched set of interests in the vast federal bureaucracy that wants to keep things as they were before and increase the expenses."

He described what he called the "default" of the federal bureaucracy as "spend what you did last year plus 5% indefinitely… So in order to change that, it's like changing the direction of a fleet of supertankers."

"We are making as much progress as we can… there's a lot of inertia in the government… So it's like, it's not easy. This is, this is a way to make a lot of enemies and not that many friends."

Pushed again, Musk said is it possible: "Absolutely."

But the biggest question is does Musk and DOGE have the support.

"Is there a sufficient political will in Congress and elsewhere to actually do that?" he said. "It remains to be seen. If we can do it. We will is it? Is it possible to do, Yes."

-ABC News' Will Steakin