Closing summary This concludes our live coverage of the second Trump administration for the day, but we will be back at it on Thursday. Here are the latest developments:
Donald Trump was presented with yet another award apparently invented just for him, when he received a trophy for being the “undisputed champion of beautiful, clean coal” from an industry executive. There is no such thing as clean coal.
In what just seems like a plot from Veep, the Pentagon gave the people guarding the border an anti-drone laser and border protection officers used it to shoot down a party balloon, causing the cancellation of all commercial flights in El Paso, Texas.
A document held by the US attorney general, Pam Bondi, during her combative appearance before the House judiciary committee suggests that the justice department is keeping a record of what lawmakers look at when they view unredacted copies of the Epstein files.
The narrowly divided US House passed the Republican-sponsored Save America Act, which would required proof of citizenship to register to vote and photo ID at the polls, imposing a barrier to voting that, research shows, more than 9% of US citizens of voting age, or 21.3 million people, do not have readily available.
The US House passed a resolution terminating the supposed national emergency declared by Trump to justify imposing tariffs on Canada. The president was not amused, but the fate of his tariffs is likely to be decided by the supreme court.
Evidence made public on Wednesday showed that Gregory Bovino, a border patrol chief who was the face of the Trump administration’s mass deportation efforts until last month, praised a federal agent who shot a Chicago woman last year.