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Trump admin live updates: Trump rescinds security clearances for former opponents

Those whose clearances were revoked include Kamala Harris and Antony Blinken.

Last Updated: March 22, 2025, 8:09 PM GMT

President Donald Trump on Friday afternoon announced a new F-47 fighter jet with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and signed a series of presidential actions before departing the White House for his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey.

The actions included one rescinding the security clearances of several former Biden officials and political opponents.

Earlier Friday, Billionaire Elon Musk visited the Pentagon on Friday for an 80-minute meeting with Hegseth.

Meanwhile, fallout continued after Trump signed an executive order to begin dismantling the Department of Education.

Mar 21, 2025, 4:05 PM GMT

Trump continues to attack judge over deportations

President Donald Trump continued to go after the federal judge who ordered to stop the deportations over this weekend.

ABC News' Karen Travers asked if Trump had the authority to round up people and deport them and was "under no obligation to a court to show evidence against them."

The president claimed that Secretary of State Marco Rubio had the power to curb illegal immigration.

"He's got the authority to get bad people out of our country," the president said of Rubio. "And you can't stop that with a judge sitting behind a bench that has no idea what goes on, who happens to be a radical left lunatic."

President Donald Trump delivers remarks in the Oval Office at the White House, in Washington, Mar. 21, 2025.
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Judge James Boasberg, the judge overseeing the case, was appointed by President George W. Bush.

Mar 21, 2025, 3:52 PM GMT

Trump says 'nothing earth shattering' in released JFK files

President Donald Trump was asked about the newly released files on the John F. Kennedy assassination by the Dept. of Justice and admitted there was "nothing earth-shattering" in the documents.

"You'll have to make that determination in those," he said.

President Donald Trump delivers remarks with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in the Oval Office at the White House, in Washington, Mar. 21, 2025.
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Mar 21, 2025, 3:51 PM GMT

Hegseth: New fighter jet will give US generations of air dominance

"This is a big day. This is a big day for our warfighters, a big day for our country and a big day for the world," Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said after President Donald Trump announced a new fighter jet.

The F-47 fighter jet, Hegseth said, would give the United States generations of air dominance.

President Donald Trump delivers remarks, as an image of an F-47 is displayed near him, in the Oval Office at the White House, in Washington, Mar. 21, 2025.
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"It sends a very direct clear message to our allies that we're not going anywhere and to our enemies that we will be able to project power around the globe unimpeded for generations to come," he said.

Mar 21, 2025, 3:45 PM GMT

Trump says student loan program will move from Education Department to SBA

In the Oval Office for remarks with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, President Donald Trump elaborated more on his plan to dismantle the Department of Education after his executive order signing on Thursday.

Trump said the Small Business Administration will handle "all of the student loan portfolio" while the Department of Health and Human Services will "be handling special needs and all of the nutrition programs."

Administrator of the Small Business Administration Kelly Loeffler, waves as she speaks at Vantage Plastics in Bay City, Michigan, Mar. 14, 2025.
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Trump still needs an act of Congress to dissolve the department completely. As Trump spoke, a rally was taking place outside the Education Department headquarters in Washington in protest of his effort to gut the agency.

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