Trump marks first 100 days in office with rally in Michigan and ABC interview. See how it unfolded.

By Rita Chandler and Tonya Alanez, Globe Correspondent and Globe Staff

A few dozen students gathered in the Harvard Science Center Plaza Tuesday evening to speak out, the day before the university’s deadline to reply to the Department of Homeland Security’s demand for information on international students.

If Harvard does not comply, it risks losing its authorization to admit international students, the Globe reported.

Students are both concerned about the deadline and afraid to protest, especially international students, organizers said.

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By the Associated Press

Florida is poised to become the second state to ban fluoride in public drinking water, over the concerns of dentists and public health advocates who say the mineral is a safe, effective way to protect people of all ages from developing cavities.

Florida lawmakers gave final approval to the bill Tuesday after Utah became the first state to pass a ban last month. The Republican-led states are following a push led by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is setting the gears of government in motion to stop fluoridating water.

The Florida measure now goes to the desk of Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, whose administration has advocated against the fluoridation of community water systems, arguing high levels could pose a risk to children’s intellectual development.

By the Associated Press

The president dismissed concerns that he is acting like an authoritarian leader.

“No, I would hate them to think that,” he said of people who hold such concerns. “I’m doing one thing: I’m making America great again.”

He continued: “We had a country that was failing, we have a country that was laughed at all over the world, we had a leader that was grossly incompetent.”

Trump said, “our country’s coming back, and we’re respected again.”

By the Associated Press

Republican Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks told her Iowa constituents during a telephone town hall meeting Tuesday that she and fellow House Republicans were enthusiastically backing key parts of Trump’s agenda.

Miller-Meeks represents one of the nation’s tightest swing districts. She praised Trump’s first 100 days in office, even as the president’s approval rating has dropped significantly in recent polls.

“President Trump is restoring order and securing the border, and House Republicans are backing him every step of the way,” she said.

Miller-Meeks also said the Trump administration has taken a step to keep transgender athletes out of women’s sports and was trying to bring manufacturing jobs back to America.

She did not specifically comment on Trump’s tariffs, which are a major concern for Iowa farmers who have long worked to broaden markets for their products in China and elsewhere.

By the Associated Press

Trump’s lead trade negotiator, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, came to the Senate on Tuesday and told senators that a number of deals that have been negotiated or are close to being finalized, U.S. Sen. David McCormick said.

A key step will be showing the deals to the public so investors and companies know what they look like, McCormick said. That, he said, will give the U.S. more negotiating leverage with China.

By the Associated Press

The president indicated that he personally chose Terry Moran to conduct the interview for ABC for his first 100 days in office.

The comments came as the two sparred over deported El Salvador native Kilmar Abrego Garcia and evidence — or lack thereof — that he was a member of the MS-13 gang, designated by the U.S. as a “foreign terrorist organization.”

“They’re giving you the big break of a lifetime, you know, you’re doing the interview,” he said. “I picked you because frankly, I never heard of you, but that’s OK.”

Trump then stressed again that he picked Moran for the interview, “but you’re not being very nice.”

By the Associated Press

One-fifth of U.S. states are seeing active outbreaks of a disease that had been considered eliminated for more than two decades among unvaccinated populations.

“Do I recommend it? Yes, I do,” Trump told ABC. “Do I mandate it? No.”

Trump added: “The governors are making the decisions.”

Measles is caused by a highly contagious virus that’s airborne and spreads easily when an infected person breathes, sneezes or coughs. It is preventable through vaccines and has been considered eliminated from the U.S. since 2000.

By the Associated Press

US Sen. David McCormick, a former hedge fund CEO, said during a telephone town hall that he supports Trump’s tariffs plan as a way to create fairness in the nation’s trading relationships.

“But it’s a bumpy transition,” the Republican from Pennsylvania said. “It’s going to be a challenge because we have big dependency on China, which by the way is the worst cheater of them all in terms of fair trade. And so it’s created anxiety among businesses, among consumers, and the risk, of course, is that slows down investment and people start buying less and it slows down the economy.”

By the Associated Press

Trump said in an interview Tuesday with ABC News, “I can’t have a major trial for every person that came in illegally.”

Asked whether he would commit to giving people due process, Trump said, “They get whatever my lawyers say.”

Trump insisted that his administration is “careful” in how it is going about deportations, despite the well-publicized case in which El Salvador native Kilmar Abrego Garcia was deported there even though a federal judge had ordered he not be returned to the Central America country over concerns for his safety — an error acknowledged by Trump’s own attorneys.

“I’m not the one making this decision,” Trump said, adding that he relies on his lawyers.

By the Associated Press

Trump, in an interview taped Tuesday morning that was aired later on ABC, called Hegseth “a talented guy” who is going to be “a very good defense — hopefully a great defense secretary.”

But when anchor Terry Moran asked him if he had 100% confidence in Hegseth, the president said, “I don’t have — a hundred percent confidence in anything, OK? Anything,” Trump said. “Do I have a hundred percent? It’s a stupid question.”

By Malcolm Gay, Globe Staff

The Mellon Foundation announced Tuesday that it will provide $15 million in emergency funding to the Federation of State Humanities Councils in an effort to counter federal funding cuts earlier this month that affected state humanities councils across the country.

The emergency funding to the membership group comes after the National Endowment for the Humanities eliminated some $65 million in grants to state humanities councils. The grant will provide up to $250,000 to all 56 state and jurisdictional humanities councils, including Mass Humanities. The foundation added that without “immediate intervention” many state councils face financial peril or even closure.

“The places where American communities come together to read, learn, and engage with the humanities’ vast and varied forms of knowledge and creativity are often those supported by these Councils,” Elizabeth Alexander, president of the Mellon Foundation, said in a statement. “At stake are both the operational integrity of organizations like museums, libraries, historical societies in every single state, as well as the mechanisms to participate in the cultural dynamism and exchange that is a fundamental part of American civic life.”

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By the Washington Post

President Trump hugged Gov. Gretchen Whitmer upon landing Tuesday in Michigan to announce a new fighter mission at Selfridge Air National Guard Base. He lavished praise on her during a speech at the base, referring to her as simply “Gretchen” more than once. And when he was done speaking, he invited the Democrat to the lectern to give remarks she said she was not planning.

“I am so, so grateful that this announcement was made today, and I appreciate all the work,” Whitmer said, without specifically praising Trump.

Trump’s announcement that he would “save Selfridge” with the new fighter mission marked a long-sought victory for Whitmer and her battleground state. But the scene also illustrated the political minefield that Whitmer, a potential 2028 presidential candidate, has had to navigate as she has sought to build a working relationship with Trump at a time when other ambitious Democrats are spoiling for a fight.

Trump wasted little time acknowledging the bipartisan moment as he spoke Tuesday with Whitmer in the background. He complimented her as “very effective.”

“I’m not supposed to do that. She’s a Democrat,” Trump said. “They say: ‘Don’t do that. Don’t have her here.’ I said, ‘No, she’s going to be here.’ She’s done a very good job, frankly, and she was very much involved with the Republicans” on Selfridge.

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By the Associated Press

A panel of the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver has declined the Trump administration’s request to immediately overturn the temporary halt on removals from Colorado under a rarely used 18th century wartime law.

District Court Judge Charlotte N. Sweeney issued the hold last week. She’s one of multiple judges who’ve blocked deportations under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798.

The panel will consider whether to overturn the hold later, while the judge is hearing arguments for whether to make her temporary order longer lasting.

By the Associated Press

The Department of Justice has dismissed a school desegregation case it filed against a Louisiana school district in 1966, saying the case had remained open unnecessarily for nearly half a century.

In a statement Tuesday, the department said the Plaquemines Parish School Board had properly integrated schools by 1975. The U.S. sued the district in 1966, but it was subject to federal demands and oversight for decades.

Louisiana’s Republican Gov. Jeff Landry praised the decision on X, saying federal judges had imposed “unnecessary requirements” that cost schools tens of millions of dollars.

Attorney General Liz Murrill said her office would be working closely with other school boards interested in evaluating similar cases to “help them officially put the past in the past.”

By the Associated Press

The Republican ended as he always did on the campaign trail, proclaiming he will “fight, fight, fight” and “win, win, win.”

The Village People’s “YMCA” then began blaring, and as he did as a candidate, the president began dancing, doing some fist pumps and rocking his hips to the music.

By the Associated Press

Trump gave a special shoutout to CNN commentator Scott Jennings, a Republican consultant that the president said is “defending me all the time on CNN.”

He then beckoned Jennings to the stage but then seemed to question whether Scott was allowed by CNN to appear on stage with the president.

“Oh, CNN, this is the end of Scott. Who cares? Don’t worry, we’ll take care of you, Scott,” Trump said.

Jennings then spoke briefly and said he wanted to get a farm in Michigan.

By the Associated Press

The president told the crowd that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was among those in attendance and he has “so much confidence in him.”

“The fake news is after him, really after him. But he’s a tough cookie,” the president said.

By the Associated Press

The president, like he did on the campaign trail, played a video for rallygoers, but this time he showed a video of alleged gang members being deported to El Salvador.

The video, set to ominous music, had the crowd cheering as images showed deportees having their heads shaved.

By the Associated Press

The FBI took Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan into custody Friday morning. She’s accused of escorting a man and his lawyer from her court through the jury door after learning that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were in the building and seeking his arrest.

She faces federal charges of concealing an individual to prevent his discovery and arrest and obstructing or impeding a proceeding.

The state Supreme Court says it is in the public interest to temporarily relieve her of her duties.

Her attorney had no immediate comment.

Democrats have accused the Trump administration of trying to chill the nation’s judiciary.

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By the Associated Press

Trump’s 100-days rally feels exactly like one of his campaign rallies, but this time the presidential seal is affixed to the lectern where he’s standing and delivering a freewheeling speech.

The Republican president is hitting a lot of the same points he made during his typically 90-minute campaign gatherings, lobbing insults at former president Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris and shouting out all loyal supporters who journey to his rallies — including a man who wears a brick suit to symbolize Trump’s US-Mexico border wall.

By the Associated Press

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Trump entered to his favorite song from the campaign, Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the U.S.A.” He stood on stage basking in cheers and mouthing some of the lyrics at the end of the song.

Signs in the expo center where the rally is being held said “JOBS! JOBS! JOBS!”, “THE GOLDEN AGE,” and “BUY AMERICAN HIRE AMERICAN,” among other messages.

By the Associated Press

The pro-democracy media outlet has been at risk of going dark for the first time in 75 years.

US District Judge Royce Lamberth granted the temporary restraining order for the US Agency for Global Media to disburse money for April 2025 for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty pending the outcome of a lawsuit seeking to keep the station on the air.

Lamberth, who was appointed by President Ronald Reagan, found that the administration could not unilaterally revoke funding approved by Congress.

By the Associated Press

As the party’s base voters have encouraged lawmakers to speak out more, Democrats have held several all-nighters in the Senate to give speeches about Trump’s presidency. Earlier this month, New Jersey Senator Cory Booker spoke for more than 24 hours to protest Trump’s sweeping government spending cuts.

Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer said the Democrats would speak about what he said is an “economic ticking time bomb” under Trump.

By the Associated Press

After disembarking Air Force One, Trump shared a surprising hug with a longtime antagonist, Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

Whitmer has softened her stance toward Trump in hopes of finding common ground — with securing a new air mission to keep Selfridge Air National Guard Base operating remaining a top priority.

After the hug, Whitmer climbed in the president’s motorcade to ride to the base for the joint event.

By the Associated Press

Trump has dismissed many of former president Joe Biden’s nominees to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, including Doug Emhoff, the husband of former Vice President Kamala Harris.

Emhoff, who is Jewish, led the Biden administration’s efforts to combat antisemitism.

He criticized the action, saying, “Let me be clear: Holocaust remembrance and education should never be politicized.” He called it “dangerous” to “turn one of the worst atrocities in history into a wedge issue.”

By Washington Post

Trump called Amazon founder Jeff Bezos on Tuesday morning to complain about a news report that said the e-commerce giant would display the costs of the administration’s new tariffs to consumers, according to two people familiar with the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe the private conversation.

Amazon disputed the news report. In an emailed statement, company spokesman Tim Doyle said the team that runs Haul, Amazon’s low-cost Temu competitor, “has considered listing import charges on certain products.” But it “was never a consideration for the main Amazon site,” Doyle said, “and nothing has been implemented on any Amazon properties.” In an updated statement later, the company said that “this was never approved and is not going to happen.”

Talking to reporters Tuesday afternoon, Trump praised Bezos and said the Amazon founder had done “the right thing.”

“Jeff Bezos is very nice. Terrific,” Trump said, according to a pool report. “He solved the problem very quickly. He did the right thing. Good guy.”

By the Associated Press

The Education Department says it is investigating whether a Chicago Public Schools program meant to improve outcomes for Black students violates anti-discrimination laws.

The investigation comes in response to a complaint filed by Defending Education, an advocacy group founded to root out what it views as activist agendas in public schools.

The complaint alleges that the district’s “Black Student Success Plan” violates civil rights laws because it is only meant to help Black students, despite students of all races facing academic struggles.

The school system did not immediately respond to a message seeking comment.

Alaska US senator tells those worried about Trump administration to ‘continue to raise your voice’ — 4:17 p.m.

By the Associated Press

Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski, a moderate who has shown a willingness to challenge Trump, urged Alaskans who have been protesting or calling members of Congress with concerns about the administration and federal government to not give up.

“Keep the engagement up,” she said during a call-in radio program on Alaska Public Media on Tuesday.

Areas touched on during the hourlong program included concerns about the privacy of personal information, status of federal funding to certain programs, and potential Medicaid cuts.

She said that if people stop speaking out, it will send a message to lawmakers that they’re OK with things.

“And I don’t think that — as I’ve listened to Alaskans — I don’t think Alaskans are saying things are OK now,” she said.

By the Associated Press

A key player in the government’s battle to combat the flow of deadly fentanyl is a team at a little-known research lab in northern Virginia that’s working to analyze seized narcotics and gather intelligence to find ways to stop the supply.

Attorney General Pam Bondi traveled to the Drug Enforcement Administration lab on Tuesday to meet with chemists who are tasked with identifying the ever-evolving tactics employed by cartels to manufacture drugs flowing across the southern border.

“We are trying to reverse engineer what the cartels are doing at any given time,” senior DEA research chemist David Guthrie told Bondi. “Whenever something new shows up, it’s our job to figure out how that got in there. Did they change the recipe? Are they using a new compound?”

By the Associated Press

The Trump administration has approved a $1.3 billion sale of hundreds of Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missiles to NATO ally Poland, a neighbor of Ukraine that has expressed concerns about possible concessions to Russia in US efforts to mediate an end to the Russia-Ukraine war.

The State Department said it had notified Congress of the sale to Poland of 400 AMRAAM missiles and related equipment, including spare parts, guidance systems and engineering and technical support.

The department said the sale would “support the foreign policy goals and national security of the United States by improving the security of a NATO ally that is a force for political and economic stability in Europe” and contribute to Poland’s self-defense capabilities.

By the Associated Press

Trump arrived ahead of an evening rally to commemorate his first 100 days in office.

Trump landed at Selfridge Air National Guard Base, where he is set to make an announcement with Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a Democrat.

Whitmer and other Michigan officials have long advocated for a new fighter mission at the base to secure its future, and before departing for Michigan on Tuesday, Trump pledged to keep Selfridge open.

By The New York Times

A Venezuelan family is calling for a 2-year-old to be returned to her mother after US authorities deported the mother to Venezuela on Friday without the child.

The girl’s father was sent to a prison in El Salvador in March.

The toddler, Maikelys Antonella Espinoza Bernal, remains in foster care in the United States, according to the Department of Homeland Security. Officials said in a statement that the child was removed from her parents and from the manifest of her mother’s deportation plane for her own “safety and welfare.”

The Trump administration claims the girl’s parents are members of Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan gang, but it has not offered evidence to back this up.

The girl, known to many in her family as Antonella, is one of several children who have been swept up in President Trump’s immigration crackdown in recent days. At least three children who are US citizens were sent to Honduras this month with their mothers, decisions protested by the families’ lawyers.

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By Emily Sweeney, Globe Staff

Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey blasted the Trump administration Tuesday for policies she says are making the country “weaker and less competitive” as Trump marks 100 days in office.

In an interview on NPR’s “Morning Edition,“ host A Martínez asked Healey, a Democrat, about the pressure the Trump administration is putting on Harvard and other institutions of higher education, cuts to federal funding, and what actions Democrats are taking in response.

Read the takeaways.

Trump jokes that he’d like to be the next pope, plugs NY cardinal — 3:36 p.m.

By the Associated Press

“I’d like to be pope. That would be my number one choice,” Trump joked with reporters as he left the White House to travel to Michigan.

He said he doesn’t have a preference on who should succeed Pope Francis, but he put in a plug for Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the archbishop of New York.

Trump and Dolan saw each other at Francis’ funeral in Rome last Saturday.

“I must say we have a cardinal that happens to be out of a place called New York who’s very good, so we’ll see what happens,” Trump said.

By the Associated Press

The Trump administration says that Russia and Ukraine must now produce concrete proposals to end the conflict or the US will walk away from efforts to mediate peace.

After several says of Trump’s increasing public frustration over the slow pace of developments, the State Department ramped up pressure on both sides to move quickly.

Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce quoted Secretary of State Marco Rubio as telling her that “we are now at a time where concrete proposals need to be delivered by the two parties on how to end this conflict.”

“How we proceed from here is a decision that belongs now to the president,” she told reporters, relating a conversation she had with Rubio. “If there is not progress, we will step back as mediators in this process.”

By Mike Damiano and Brooke Hauser, Globe Staff

Jewish students described being treated as pariahs. Arab and Muslim students said they were “second-class citizens.” Both groups said their peers viewed them with suspicion, leading them to play down their identities.

Those were some of the findings of two searing reports on antisemitism and anti-Arab or anti-Muslim bias Harvard University released in the midst of its extraordinary confrontation with the Trump administration, which has accused the school of violating the civil rights of its Jewish students.

The reports each made recommendations for how Harvard should address the issues, some of which the school is already acting on.

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By the Associated Press

White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt played a round “Trump trolling or Trump truthing” with a questioner at a special briefing Tuesday for organizations they consider “new media.”

Asked about “Trump 2028,” Leavitt said, “it’s Trump trolling.” She added that hats promoting another Trump campaign for president “are flying off the shelves.”

The Constitution limits presidents to two terms, and the 78-year-old Trump just hit the 100 day mark of his second term.

But he also has encouraged – rather than shut down -- speculation about a potential 2028 campaign, citing unspecified “loopholes” for how a third term could be achieved.

In other “trolling” or “truthing” responses from Leavitt:

Greenland joining America? “Definitely Trump truthing,” she replied.

And Canada as the 51st state? “Trump truthing all the way,” Leavitt said.

Eliminating the IRS? “I think that is an optimistic goal … so I would say we’re on the side of truthing there for sure,” she said.

By the Associated Press

“This trend cannot continue,” Derrick Johnson said in a statement. “We refuse to go back to Jim Crow. And we refuse to return to pre-1776, when America answered to a monarch. The rule of law matters. That’s why we’ve been fighting the Trump Administration for its unlawful and unconstitutional actions — and why we’re organizing nationwide to mobilize the masses.”

“This is no time to stay silent,” Johnson added. “Our democracy is on the brink of extinction. Everyone’s voice matters now more than ever.”

By The New York Times

Senator Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., made a personal request Tuesday to President Donald Trump to return a Salvadoran national and Maryland resident who was mistakenly deported last month and remains imprisoned in El Salvador, accusing Trump of “gross violations of the Constitution and due process rights” in Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s case.

In the lengthy letter, Van Hollen scolded Trump for willfully ignoring a Supreme Court decision instructing his administration to “facilitate” the man’s return.

Justice Department lawyers said not long after Abrego Garcia’s removal that his deportation had been an “administrative error.” Van Hollen traveled to El Salvador last week and was allowed to meet briefly with Abrego Garcia after the government arranged for him to be temporarily released from a Salvadoran detention center.

Van Hollen gave Trump a detailed recounting of his meeting with Vice President Félix Ulloa of El Salvador, noting that their conversations made clear that his country had “no independent legal basis” to imprison Abrego Garcia and had done so only because of a financial deal with the Trump administration to hold any deportee it sends.

“The Trump administration’s whole argument is this sham claim that El Salvador is a sovereign country and it’s up to them whether or not Abrego Garcia gets released,” Van Hollen said in an interview. “But the government of El Salvador says exactly the opposite.”

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By Washington Post

The Environmental Protection Agency plans to cancel a total of 781 grants issued under President Joe Biden, EPA lawyers wrote in a little-noticed court filing last week, nearly twice the number previously reported.

The filing in the case Woonasquatucket River Watershed Council v. Department of Agriculture marks the first time the agency has publicly acknowledged the total number of grants set for termination, which includes all of its environmental justice grants. It comes amid ongoing court fights over whether the EPA has violated its legal obligations when clawing back the funds.

“EPA is in the process of sending out the formal termination/cancellation notices to all of the impacted grantees,” EPA career official Daniel Coogan wrote in the filing. “EPA has already sent out formal notices to approximately 377 grantees. For the remaining approximately 404 grantees, EPA plans to issue notices within the next two weeks.”

By Sam Brodey and Jim Puzzanghera, Globe Staff

It’s no surprise that upon returning to power, President Trump moved quickly to undo the liberal policies of his predecessor, Joe Biden.

What’s more counterintuitive is that Trump has taken steps in the first 100 days of his second term to cast aside, or outright undo, key aspects of his own first term.

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By The Associated Press

Americans’ confidence in the economy slumped for the fifth straight month to the lowest level since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic as anxiety over the impact of tariffs takes a heavy toll.

The Conference Board said that its consumer confidence index fell 7.9 points in April to 86, its lowest reading since May 2020. Nearly one-third of consumers expect hiring to slow in the coming months, nearly matching the level reached in April 2009, when the economy was mired in the Great Recession.

By The Associated Press

Executives at some of the world’s biggest companies are faced with the tricky task of explaining how Trump’s tariffs are impacting their business as they discuss the latest financial results. Some are making their best estimate based on what they know at the moment; others are pulling their outlooks altogether.

The only certainty is that they’ll use a variation of the phrase “uncertain times” at least once as they speak with analysts.

Trump has imposed tariffs against key US trading partners, while also postponing other tariffs to give companies a chance to negotiate. The process has left business and consumers uncertain amid a constantly shifting landscape. Over the last few months, tariffs have been announced and in some cases withdrawn within days.

By The Associated Press

The Senate confirmed former Senator David Perdue as ambassador to China, just as the US and China are locked in a tariff showdown that threatens to redefine diplomatic relations between the world’s two largest economies.

Perdue, a Republican who served one term as a US senator from Georgia, was confirmed 67-29 with some Democratic support. At his confirmation hearing this month, the former business executive called the US relationship with China the “most consequential diplomatic challenge of the 21st century.”

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By The Associated Press

Speaker Mike Johnson said at a news conference that he had already spoken with Trump twice on the morning of his 100th day in the White House and dismissed polling showing dips in the president’s approval rating.

“In any new administration, it’s a rollercoaster, right?” Johnson said. Those “bumps in the road” are expected as Trump sets out to become the most “consequential president of the modern era,” he added.

By The Associated Press

Vance and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin are set to tour Nucor Steel Berkeley in Huger, South Carolina, Vance’s office announced Tuesday.

Both will speak about the Trump administration’s manufacturing agenda in the first 100 days.

A $425 million expansion creating 50 jobs at the plant was announced in 2022, with groundbreaking a year ago.

By The Associated Press

US agriculture and energy products are the country’s largest exports to China and among the worst hit by Beijing’s retaliatory tariffs, according to a report released Tuesday by the US-China Business Council.

US exports to China support more than 860,000 jobs in the US, especially in sectors such as agriculture, aerospace and aviation, and semiconductors, the council said.

The state-by-state report shows companies, workers and farmers in the American Midwest and South are the most exposed.

“This two-way tariff shock feels like a 2018 flashback, except worse. No one is spared this time.” said Sean Stein, the council’s president.

By The Associated Press

The White House hasn’t provided details ahead of Trump’s signing of an executive order on the changes.

Arthur Laffer, whom Trump gave the Presidential Medal of Freedom to during his first term, said in a private analysis that the 25 percent tariffs without any modifications could add $4,711 to the cost of a vehicle.

The modifications come as Trump marks 100 days back in the White House by going to Michigan, a state Trump won last year by promising to increase factory jobs.

By The Associated Press

The Conference Board said Tuesday that its consumer confidence index fell 7.9 points in April to 86 as anxiety over the impact of tariffs weigh down growth expectations.

There’s a rapidly souring mood as most consumers expect prices to rise because of Trump’s taxes on imports. About half of Americans are worried about a potential recession, according to a survey by The Associated Press-NORC Center.

How this gloom translates into spending, hiring, and growth will become clearer in the coming days and weeks as the normally resilient American job market also responds to Trump’s purges of federal workers and the deportation of immigrants working in the United States illegally.

US employers posted 7.2 million vacancies in March, 300,000 below forecasts, and down from 8.1 million the year before.

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By The Associated Press

The Danish King Frederik X is in Greenland, the semiautonomous territory Trump wants to annex.

The king wore a jacket with emblems of the Danish and Greenlandic flags as he disembarked to applause on Tuesday, following the new Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen’s visit to Copenhagen this week.

Frederik’s visit includes meeting with the new Greenlandic government and attending a traditional “coffee break” with Greenlanders.

The trip comes after US Vice President JD Vance visited a remote US military base on the island and accused Denmark of underinvesting in it. Trump hasn’t ruled out taking the island by military force, even though Denmark is a NATO ally.

By The Associated Press

Canada won’t know until later Tuesday whether the party of Prime Minister Mark Carney will have an outright majority or need help in Parliament.

One politician who won’t count is populist Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre. In the lead until Trump took aim at Canada with a trade war and annexation threats, Poilievre was voted out of his Parliament seat, according to Canadian Broadcasting Corporation projections, capping a swift decline in fortunes for the firebrand who only months ago appeared to be a shoo-in for prime minister and for shepherding Conservatives back into power.

By The Associated Press

Stronger-than-expected profits keep piling higher for companies, but CEOs also say they’re unsure how long it can last because of uncertainty around Trump’s trade war.

The S&P 500 was 0.3% lower early Tuesday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 48 points, and the Nasdaq composite was down 0.4%.

UPS is among the companies saying it won’t update its forecasts because of “macro-economic uncertainty.”

Investors fear Trump’s tariffs could cause a recession by sending prices higher, but the erratic way they’re being rolled out is also causing confusion among businesses and households.

By The Associated Press

Karoline Leavitt declined to provide details of the relief for autos and auto parts before Trump signs Tuesday’s executive order. Bessent said the goal is to enable automakers to create more domestic manufacturing jobs. Trump himself has suggested the changes would come.

Automakers and independent analyses have indicated that Trump’s tariffs could raise prices, hurt sales and make the US sector less competitive worldwide.

“President Trump has had meetings with both domestic and foreign auto producers, and he’s committed to bringing back auto production to the U.S.,” Bessent said. “So we want to give the automakers a path to do that, quickly, efficiently and create as many jobs as possible.”

By The Associated Press

The White House is cheering Trump’s economic management despite a down stock stock market and depressed consumer sentiment.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the economy has added 345,000 jobs since Trump took office, including 9,000 manufacturing jobs. Leavitt also took credit for lower oil prices, even though some of the decline reflects expectations of slower economic growth worldwide because of Trump’s tariffs. And she said deregulating would lead to savings for US families.

“As President Trump has said before, the best is yet to come,” Leavitt said.

By The Associated Press

The import taxes imposed by Trump threaten to increase prices on consumers and businesses and worsen inflationary pressure. Companies want customers to understand the source of these higher prices.

Leavitt suggested at Tuesday’s briefing with reporters that such transparency is un-American, saying “Amazon has partnered with a Chinese propaganda arm.”

By The Associated Press

Scott Bessent says the economic uncertainty upending global financial markets is a tool Trump can use as he negotiates tariffs and trade deals. “President Trump creates what I would call strategic uncertainty in the negotiations,” he told reporters at the White House.

“I think the aperture of uncertainty will be narrowing and, as we start moving forward announcing deals, then there will be certainty,” Bessent said. “But certainty is not necessarily a good thing in negotiating.”

To those with questions about the market uncertainty, Leavitt added: “I would say, trust in President Trump.”

By The Associated Press

China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs released a short social media video Tuesday in response to US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s comments Monday that China is responsible for escalating tariffs since it sold vastly more goods to the US than vice versa.

Amid soaring rhetoric and scenes of charged moments in US-China relations, the narrator says China would never “kneel down” before Trump, as “kneeling only invites more bullying.”

“When the rest of the world stands together, the US is just a small, stranded boat,” said the narrator.

China has called for the US to completely remove all tariffs on Chinese goods if they want to hold negotiations.

By The Associated Press

The Trump administration has frozen, stalled or otherwise disrupted some $430 billion in federal funds — from disease research to Head Start for children to disaster aid — in what top Democrats say is an “unprecedented and dangerous” assault on programs used by countless Americans.

Senator Patty Murray of Washington and Representative Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut on Tuesday released an online tracker that is compiling all the ways Trump and his adviser, Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, are interrupting the flow of federal funds, often going up against the law.

“Instead of investing in the American people, President Trump is ignoring our laws and ripping resources away,” said Murray and DeLauro, who are the top Democrats on the Appropriations committees in Congress.

The tally is far from complete or exhaustive, the lawmakers said, but a snapshot in time. It comes in a rapidly changing political and legal environment as the Trump administration faces dozens of lawsuits from state and local governments, advocacy organizations, employees and others fighting to keep programs intact.

By The Associated Press

The weeks since Trump returned to office have been a whirlwind of activity to show Americans that his administration is relentlessly pursuing his promises.

With a compliant Republican-controlled Congress, Trump has had a free hand to begin overhauling the federal government and upending foreign policy.

As Trump hits his 100th day in office, his imprint is everywhere. But the long-term impact is often unclear.

Some of the Republican president’s executive orders are statements of intent or groundwork to achieve what has yet to be done.

Trump’s goals occasionally conflict with each other. He promised both to lower the cost of living and to impose tariffs on foreign goods, which will most likely increase prices. Other issues are languishing.

Very much unsettled is whether Trump has run up his scorecard lawfully. He has faced lawsuits over some of his actions, meaning much of what he’s done could be undone as cases play out.

By The Associated Press

Trump is holding a rally in Michigan on Tuesday to mark the first 100 days of his second term, staging his largest public event since returning to the White House in a state that has been especially rocked by his steep trade tariffs and combative attitude toward Canada.

He will make an afternoon visit to Selfridge Air National Guard Base for an announcement alongside Democratic Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer. He’s expected to speak at a rally at Macomb Community College, north of Detroit, allowing him to revel in leading a sprint to upend government and social, political and foreign policy norms.

Michigan was one of the battleground states Trump flipped from the Democratic column. But it’s also been deeply affected by his tariffs, including on new imported cars and auto parts.

By Sam Brodey and Jim Puzzanghera, Globe Staff

It’s no surprise that upon returning to power, President Trump moved quickly to undo the liberal policies of his predecessor, Joe Biden.

What’s more counterintuitive is that Trump has taken steps in the first 100 days of his second term to cast aside, or outright undo, key aspects of his own first term.

Take the U.S.-Canada-Mexico free trade agreement, or USMCA, which Trump brokered during his first term. Just weeks into his second term, Trump put major strain on the agreement by threatening Canada and Mexico with 25 percent tariffs, claiming he needed to force the two nations to address security concerns at their borders and also revitalize the domestic auto industry.

While Trump has adjusted the threats and tariff timeline, trade analysts say the health of the USMCA is very much in doubt.

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By The New York Times

The Trump administration said it plans to announce measures as early as Tuesday to ease the impact of tariffs on imported cars and car parts to give automakers more time to relocate production to the United States.

Tariffs of 25 percent on imported vehicles and on auto parts will remain in place. But the tariffs will be modified so that they are not “stacked” with other tariffs, for example on steel and aluminum, a White House spokesperson said. Automakers will not have to pay tariffs on those metals, widely used in automobiles, on top of the tariffs on cars and parts.

In addition, automakers will be reimbursed for some of the cost of tariffs on imported components. The reimbursement will amount to up to 3.75 percent of the value of a new car in the first year, but will be phased out over two years, the spokesperson confirmed.

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