Trump news today: White House attacks journalist in Signal chat as an ‘anti-Trump hater’ and blames leak on media

President Donald Trump has announced that cars and light trucks imported into the U.S. will be subject to a 25 percent tariff in addition to any existing tariffs.

Cars manufactured in the U.S. will not be subject to the new tax, regardless of the company’s country of origin.

He will sign an executive order shortly but has not said at what point the tariffs will take effect.

Trump also has not said if there will be any exemptions, such as for cars built in Canada and Mexico under USMCA.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said those requests would be filled by the National Security Council, White House Counsel’s Office and Musk’s DOGE team.

A federal appeals court in Washington, D.C. has rejected Donald Trump’s attempt to throw out a lower-court ruling that has blocked the administration from deporting immigrants under the Alien Enemies Act.

Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act for the fourth time in U.S. history at some point before three planes with dozens of Venezuelans were sent to El Salvador’s notorious prison, where they do not have access to legal counsel and face the prospect of indefinite detention.

The D.C. appeals court has denied Donald Trump’s attempt to throw out Judge James Boasberg’s order that blocks him from deporting immigrants under the Alien Enemies Act.

It’s a 2-1 decision, with George HW Bush-appointed judge Karen Henderson and Obama-appointed judge Patricia Millett denying Trump’s request to set the judge’s order aside.

Here’s our previous reporting:

Judge Beryl Howell denies the Trump administration’s attempt to kick her off the lawsuit challenging Trump’s EO against law firm Perkins Coie.

She lays into the administration’s “feckless impugning of the decision-making” and the motion to remove her, which she said sounds like “a talking point from a member of Congress rather than a legal brief from the United States Department of Justice, has no citation to any legal authority for the simple reason that the notion expressed reflects a grave misapprehension of our constitutional order.”

She also slammed the administration for its attacks against court rulings in other courts, noting that “a quick survey of the cases over which this Court is presiding challenging the current Administration’s actions show that, contrary to the defendants’ posturing, the outcomes have followed the facts and the law.”