Trump 2nd term updates: Trump attends the Super Bowl

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

ByAlexandra Hutzler, Ivan Pereira, Emily Chang, Kevin Shalvey, Meredith Deliso, and Julia Reinstein
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 07, 2025, 6:13 PM EST

Trump fires Kennedy Center chairman, says he will fill role

President Donald Trump announced he will immediately terminate Kennedy Center Chairman David Rubenstein, as well as other members of the Board of Trustees in Washington, D.C., according to a new social media post.

Trump added that he will make himself the chairman.

His reasoning for the firing? Trump claimed the performing arts center featured drag shows that targeted the youth and that the Board of Trustees does not share the same vision of the "Golden Age" in arts and culture.

-ABC News' Kelsey Walsh

Feb 07, 2025, 5:35 PM EST

Ex-DOGE staffer to be brought back: Musk

Marko Elez, the 25-year-old Department of Government Efficiency staff member who resigned Thursday amid reports linking him to an account that allegedly posted racist comments on X, "will be brought back," Elon Musk said.

"To err is human, to forgive divine," Musk said on X.

The update comes after Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance both pushed for Elez to be reinstated on Friday.

Feb 07, 2025, 5:17 PM EST

Trump signs executive order to protect 2nd amendment

Trump signed an executive order Friday afternoon aimed at protecting Second Amendment rights.

The order directs Attorney General Pam Bondi to review violations on the right to bear arms that may have occurred during the Biden administration.

President Donald Trump pumps his fist as he boards Air Force One to depart from Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, Feb. 7, 2025.
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The order states the attorney general should look at rules enforced by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, policies related to "enhanced regulatory enforcement," reports issued by the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention and classifications of firearms and ammunition by federal agencies.

-ABC News' Kelsey Walsh

Feb 07, 2025, 5:08 PM EST

Trump-nominated judge temporarily blocks administration from placing USAID employees on leave

After an hourlong hearing this afternoon, Judge Carl J. Nichols, a Trump appointee, said he plans to issue a temporary restraining order that prevents President Donald Trump and the Department of Government Efficiency from placing 2,200 employees on administrative leave Friday night.

Nichols said the TRO would also prevent the "accelerated removal" of USAID from their posts overseas. He will issue a written order between now and midnight with a further explanation of the order.

PHOTO: A street sign with names of U.S. government agencies housed at the Ronald Reagan Building is pictured with one building occupant taped, on Feb. 7, 2025, in Washington, D.C.
A street sign with names of U.S. government agencies housed at the Ronald Reagan Building, including the United States Agency for International Development, or USAID headquarters in Washington, is pictured with one building occupant taped, on Feb. 7, 2025, in Washington, D.C.
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"This is about how employees are harmed in their capacity as employees, in the employee-employer relationship, and it seems to me that, for reasons I will discuss in this order, that I will enter there, the plaintiffs have established at least that there is irreparable harm as it relates to that relationship," Nichols said.

-ABC News' Katherine Faulders, Peter Charalambous and Alexander Mallin

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