Trump 2nd term updates: Trump attends the Super Bowl

Trump becomes the first sitting president to attend a Super Bowl.

Last Updated: February 9, 2025, 7:18 PM EST

President Donald Trump's second administration continued its swift recasting of the federal government, prompting pushback from Democrats and legal challenges.

The president said Sunday that he will announce tariffs on all imported steel and aluminum on Monday but didn't say when they'll take effect.

Trump, meanwhile, is at Caesars Superdome in New Orleans on Sunday night to take in the Super Bowl. Trump picked the Kansas City Chiefs to beat the Philadelphia Eagles in an interview aired before the game on Fox.

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Feb 04, 2025, 9:48 AM EST

JD Vance to make 1st international trip as VP next week

JD Vance will travel to Europe next week for his first international trip as vice president, according to a spokesperson for the vice president.

He will attend the AI Action Summit in Paris, France and the Munich Security Conference in Germany, the spokesperson said.

-ABC News; Hannah Demissie

Vice President JD Vance speaks during a briefing about the mid-air crash between American Airlines flight 5342 and a military helicopter in Washington, in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, Jan. 30, 2025 in Washington.
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Feb 04, 2025, 9:27 AM EST

Trump to hold private dinner with Republican senators at Mar-a-Lago on Friday: ABC News exclusive

President Donald Trump is continuing his outreach to Senate Republicans -- critical to advancing his Cabinet nominees and aggressive agenda.

ABC News has exclusively obtained an invitation sent to GOP senators and their spouses to have dinner with Trump at Mar-a-Lago on Friday while they are in town for the National Republican Senatorial Committee's Annual Winter Meeting.

Read more here.

– ABC News’ Hannah Demissie

Feb 04, 2025, 1:59 AM EST

China announces retaliatory tariffs on select US goods

As the deadline passed for Trump's 10% tariffs on Chinese goods imported into the U.S., Beijing announced a series of retaliatory measures, including tariffs on some U.S. goods.

U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping are expected to talk in "the next couple days," White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Monday.

People walk past a Chinese flag along hutongs at a commercial area in Beijing, Monday, Feb. 3, 2025.
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China said it would impose a 15% tariff on U.S. coal and liquefied natural gas, along with a 10% tariff on other products, including crude oil, agricultural machinery and pickup trucks.

"China firmly opposes the US practice and urges the United States to correct its wrong practices immediately," the Chinese Ministry of Commerce said in a statement.

-ABC News’ Karson Yui

Feb 03, 2025, 10:19 PM EST

Rubio says El Salvador's president agreed to house American criminals

Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele Monday and said that "in an act of extraordinary friendship" Bukele had agreed not only to take in deported foreign nationals who committed crimes -- but also jailed American citizens and permanent residents.

"He has agreed to accept for deportation any illegal alien in the United States who is a criminal, from any nationality -- be they MS-13 or Tren de Aqua -- and house them in his jails," Rubio said.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio boards a plane at Panama Pacifico International Airport in Panama City, Feb. 3, 2025, en route to El Salvador.
Mark Schiefelbein/AP

"He has offered to house in his jails dangerous American criminals in custody in our country, including those of U.S. citizens and legal residents," he added.

Rubio called the deal the “most unprecedented and extraordinary migratory agreement anywhere in the world” and said, “No country has ever made an offer of friendship such as this."

President Donald Trump has previously mused about sending repeat offenders abroad, even if they are lawfully in the United States.

The president would need to clear several legal hurdles, given the 8th Amendment prohibits "cruel and unusual punishments," broadly considered to include exile.

-ABC News' Shannon Kingston

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