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Last Updated: April 13, 2025, 11:58 PM EDT

President Donald Trump held a Cabinet meeting with his top officials, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, as well as Elon Musk, on Thursday.

It follows Trump on Wednesday changing course on his tariff policy, instituting a 90-day pause in higher taxes for most countries while ramping up the rate against China to 145%.

On Capitol Hill, Republican leaders pushed through a budget blueprint to fund Trump's domestic agenda despite some GOP hard-liner opposition.

Apr 10, 2025, 3:44 PM EDT

US ambassador to Ukraine will depart

State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce confirmed reports that U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bridget Brink would depart her post, but she didn’t give an exact timeline for when that was expected to happen.

"Ambassador Brinks has been ambassador at the embassy in Ukraine for three years during a time of war -- for those three years, an extraordinary performance there, and we wish her well," Bruce said.

Brink is a career diplomat and was nominated to the post in 2022 by then-President Joe Biden and confirmed that same year.

-ABC News' Shannon Kingston

Apr 10, 2025, 3:05 PM EDT

Rubio sounds off student visas, warns against 'lunatics' on campus

During Thursday's Cabinet briefing, Secretary of State Marco Rubio addressed the Trump administration's crack down on student visa holders who it alleges are breaking the law.

Rubio claimed that the United States is open to student visas but warned of people who allegedly "vandalize a library, take over a campus and do all kinds of crazy things."

President Donald Trump listens as Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks during a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, April 10, 2025.
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"So when we identify lunatics like these, we take away their student visa. No one's entitled to a student visa," he said.

"The press of student visa is like there's some sort of birthright. No, a student visa is like me inviting you into my home. If you come into my home and put all kinds of crap on my couch, I'm going to kick you out of my house," he added.

Apr 10, 2025, 1:30 PM EDT

Trump claims administration will slow deportation for farm, hotel workers

President Donald Trump claimed during the meeting that the administration will provide some relief to farmers and hotel operators who employ immigrants lacking legal status.

"We have to take care of our farmers, their hotels and, you know, various, various places where they're usually where they need the people," he said.

"A farmer will come in with a letter concerning certain people saying they're great, they're working hard. We're going to slow down a little bit for them, and then we're going to ultimately bring them back. They'll go out, they're going to come back as legal workers," he explained.

Apr 10, 2025, 1:29 PM EDT

Gabbard says more files to be released on RFK, MLK assassinations

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said during the Cabinet meeting that more files related to the assassinations of Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. will be released in the coming days.

"These have been sitting in boxes in storage for decades. They have never been scanned or seen before. We'll have those ready to release here within the next few days," Gabbard said.

This comes after the National Archives and Records Administration last month released thousands of pages of declassified records related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963.

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