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, 4:37 PM EST

State Department moving to evacuate USAID staff worldwide: Sources

The State Department has begun working to assist in evacuating all USAID staff who are on foreign assignments worldwide, sources familiar with the effort told ABC News.

The Department is aiming to recall all USAID employees, including family members, to the United States by Saturday, according to multiple sources.

On Tuesday, new deputy administrator for USIAD Pete Marocco told State Department officials that if the evacuation wasn't completed, the military would step in, a source familiar with the conversion told ABC News.

A federal worker described the move to ABC News as a sudden recall of thousands of foreign service officers, forcing families to uproot with just days' notice—spouses quitting jobs, kids leaving schools, and even pets being relocated.

"To uproot them and call them back to Washington like criminals while dealing with families and logistics is cruel. These people have kids in school," a former USAID employee told ABC News.

-ABC News' Will Steakin and Lucien Bruggeman

Feb 04, 2025, 4:26 PM EST

Speaker Johnson to Musk: ‘Continue the effort … to restore fiscal sanity’

House Speaker Mike Johnson texted Elon Musk in the last hour, urging him to keep up his work with DOGE and telling him to "continue the effort, because it's really important for us to get to restore fiscal sanity."

When asked if he's comfortable with Elon Musk's role and access to federal agencies, Johnson emphasized the "very important service for the people" that Musk is doing, and that he is "encouraging him to continue digging."

Johnson also said "it's not that simple" when asked if Trump has the authority to shut down government agencies without Congress, adding that it "all depends on the details."

"If they're executive branch agencies, the executive is in charge of them. Congress funds them. But there are important, you know, questions to be asked about all the parameters of that. So, I don't have all the -- it's not an easy answer," Johnson said.

In regards to USAID, Johnson said, "there have been a lot of abuses in that agency" and said there will be "an appropriate action," though he added that they "haven't yet sorted out exactly what's happening with it" and he would not say whether the executive order to dismantle USAID violates the constitution.

– ABC News' Arthur Jones II and Lauren Peller

Feb 04, 2025, 4:24 PM EST

Trump defends reported youth of DOGE aides

President Donald Trump pushed back on criticism against the qualifications of some of Musk’s DOGE team, who are reportedly as young as 19 years old, saying, "That’s good."

The president said he hadn't seen any of those employees but claimed they worked out of the White House.

President Donald Trump speaks before signing two executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House on Feb. 4, 2025 in Washington.
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"They're smart people, unlike what they do in the control towers, where we need smart people. We should use some of them in the control towers," he said before making a reference to his baseless claims about air traffic control tower employees.

-ABC News' Fritz Farrow

Feb 04, 2025, 4:03 PM EST

Trump says he's given instructions to 'obliterate' Iran over assassination threats

President Donald Trump, who signed an EO that took aim at Iran, was asked about the threats the nation has made against him.

The president said they "would be obliterated" if they did that.

"I've left instructions. If they do it, they get obliterated. There won't be anything left, and they shouldn't be able to do it," he said.

"I can't imagine they do that," Trump later added.