Trump tariffs live: US president says ‘something substantial’ with tariffs coming to EU and plans to tax chips, oil and gas

On Thursday, the Trump administration ordered the US agriculture department to remove its websites documenting or referencing the climate crisis.

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By Friday, the landing pages on the United States Forest Service website for key resources, research and adaptation tools – including those that provide vital context and vulnerability assessments for wildfires – had gone dark, leaving behind an error message or just a single line: “You are not authorized to access this page.”

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In a directive issued by the United States Department of Agriculture’s office of communications, officials instructed website managers across the agency to “identify and archive or unpublish any landing pages focused on climate change”, according to Politico. It also included a Friday deadline to list the mentions in a spreadsheet for further review. As of publication, the USDA’s Climate Hubs – helpful sites that connect producers to local programs and research – are still live.

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The move is just one in a dizzying flurry of orders issued in the first two weeks of the Trump administration as it attempts to drastically reshape the federal government and halt key investments made to blunt the effects of global heating.

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Trump repealed environmental protections put in place by Joe Biden, declared a misguided energy emergency to hasten already-booming fossil fuel extraction, and withdrew from the Paris climate agreement.

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The administration also added confusion and chaos within federal agencies by halting hiring and pausing projects, along with issuing a widespread buyout offer that would guarantee federal workers pay and benefits through September 2025 if they resign within the next week.

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It’s unclear what the agencies will do with the websites or the policies and studies once detailed on them; links to the landing pages are still live, even if the information on each page has been blocked.

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Read more:

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CBS News is reporting that most federal government websites are expected to go dark at 5 pm ET.

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We’ll update as we get more details.

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A large number of federal employees have taken the Trump administration’s offer of a financial buyout to resign.

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Deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller said he didn’t have an exact number of federal employees who had taken the financial payout to resign from their posts, but that initial briefings indicate it’s a significant number of workers, according to Reuters.

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Trump offered about 2 million federal employees buyouts in an effort to drastically reduce the size of the federal government.

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Hi there, Johana Bhuiyan taking over.

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We have a few more details from Donald Trump on the tariffs he plans to impose on Canada, Mexico and China. The US president told reporters that he plans to place tariff on products like chips, oil and gas and that the tariffs on oil and gas should be expected by 18 February.

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Earlier, he said he planned to impose a 25% tariff on Mexico, 25% tariff on Canada, and 10% tariff on China. Now, he has said he will decrease the tariffs on Canadian oil to 10%, according to Reuters.

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He also said he plans on “doing something substantial” with tariffs on the European Union.

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His earlier announcement of tariffs sparked a stock market sell-off, as Wall Street fears a coming trade war. Trump said he wasn’t worried about the stock market disruptions and acknowledged that tariffs may result in “short-term” disruptions and that the costs are sometimes passed down to consumers, according to Reuters.

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US state department employees must scrub gender pronouns from their email signatures by Friday evening, according to an internal email obtained by the Guardian.

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The directive came from former ambassador Tibor P Nagy, now the acting under-secretary for management, writing to staff that the department was also launching a comprehensive review to eliminate what he called “gender ideology” from government communications and programs.

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“The Department of State is reviewing all agency programs, contracts and grants that promote or incubate gender ideology,” Nagy wrote in the email. “All employees are required to remove any gender identifying pronouns from email signature blocks by 5pm today.”

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The Trump administration is set to expand a purge of career law enforcement officials by firing FBI agents who had been engaged in investigations into Donald Trump, according to multiple reports.

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Officials acting at the direction of the administration have spent the last week working to identify individual employees who participated in politically sensitive investigations for possible termination, Associated Press reports.

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It is not yet clear how many agents will be affected. At least six senior FBI agents have been ordered to retire, resign or be fired by Monday, CNN reports. According to Reuters, the senior FBI officials are based in major cities including Miami, Philadelphia, Washington, New Orleans and Las Vegas.

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The FBI Agents Association has called the reported planned firings “outrageous actions by acting officials [that] are fundamentally at odds with the law enforcement objectives outlined by President Trump and his support for FBI Agents”.

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Here’s a look at where things stand:

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  White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt has said reports of tariffs from 1 March are false before announcing new tariffs Donald Trump plans to impose on countries from tomorrow, including: “25% tariffs on Mexico, 25% tariffs on Canada, and a 10% tariff on China for the illegal fentanyl that they have sent to our country, which has killed 10s of millions of Americans.”

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  Mexico is awaiting any potential US tariffs with a “cool head”, its president, Claudia Sheinbaum, said on Friday. “We will always defend the dignity of our people, respect for our sovereignty and a dialogue as equals without subordination,” she said.

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  The Senate confirmed the former North Dakota governor Doug Burgum as interior secretary late on Thursday. The vote was 79-18, with the majority of Senate Democrats joining every Republican in voting for Burgum.

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  Venezuela’s president Nicolás Maduro will meet with Richard Grenell, Donald Trump’s envoy for special missions, the country’s communications ministry has confirmed. As we reported earlier, Grenell is expected to discuss deportation flights among other things during his trip to Venezuela.

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  Canada will respond immediately with a series of forceful countermeasures if Donald Trump goes ahead with a threat to impose tariffs, Canada’s prime minister Justin Trudeau said. On Thursday, Trump repeated his threat to impose tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico that would begin at 25% and “may or may not rise with time”.

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  Colombia’s president, Gustavo Petro, has urged undocumented Colombians in the US to quit their jobs “immediately” and return to Colombia as soon as possible. “Wealth is only produced by the working people,” Petro said on X. “Let’s build social wealth in Colombia.”

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  David Lebryk, the top-ranking career official in the treasury department, is departing after a clash with allies of Elon Musk over access to sensitive payment systems, the Washington Post reports. The report, citing sources, said Lebryk and Musk’s surrogates clashed over access to a sensitive system used to pay out more than $6tn a year in social security and Medicare benefits as well as federal salaries, government contract payments and tax refunds.

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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt has said reports of tariffs taking effect on 1 March are false before announcing new tariffs Donald Trump plans to impose on countries from Saturday, including:

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“25% tariffs on Mexico, 25% tariffs on Canada, and a 10% tariff on China for the illegal fentanyl that they have sent to our country, which has killed 10s of millions of Americans.”

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Leavitt’s claim that tens of millions of Americans has died is false. The National Institute on Drug Abuse believes fatalities are in the tens of thousands in recent years.

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Reuters had earlier reported a new tariff regime would begin on 1 March.

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Leavitt also said Trump had not made up his mind about a timeline for implementing tariffs against the European Union.

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She declined to say whether any future tariff would be one-size fits all or different for each EU member state.

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Mexico is awaiting any potential US tariffs with a “cool head”, its president, Claudia Sheinbaum, said on Friday.

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“We will always defend the dignity of our people, respect for our sovereignty and a dialogue as equals without subordination,” she said.

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We will wait, as I have always said, with a cool head, when taking decisions. We are prepared and we maintain this dialogue.

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Sheinbaum added that the Mexican government is in ongoing dialogue with the Trump administration, where they have “discussed various topics”.

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Sources told the news agency that they did not have details on a final tariff rate, but noted Trump has consistently said that he plans to impose a 25% tariff on imports from the two countries.

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Separately, an administration official said Trump was reviewing tariff plans, which may allow for some specific exemptions for certain imports, Reuters reports.

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Any exemptions would be “few and far between”, the official said.

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The Senate confirmed the former North Dakota governor Doug Burgum as interior secretary late on Thursday.

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The vote was 79-18, with the majority of Senate Democrats joining every Republican in voting for Burgum.

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Burgum, a billionaire former businessman, was governor of North Dakota, the third largest oil and natural gas producer in the country, between 2016 and 2024.

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As interior secretary, he will manage US federal lands including national parks and wildlife refuges, as well as oversee relations with 574 federally recognized Native American tribes.

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Venezuela’s president Nicolás Maduro will meet with Richard Grenell, Donald Trump’s envoy for special missions, the country’s communications ministry has confirmed.

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As we reported earlier, Grenell is expected to discuss deportation flights among other things during his trip to Venezuela.

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As Donald Trump threatens to slap steep tariffs on many countries, he is boasting that his taxes on imports will be a boon to the US economy, but most economists strongly disagree.

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Many say Trump’s tariffs will increase inflation, slow economic growth, hurt US workers and result in American consumers footing the bill for his tariffs.

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“Virtually all economists think that the impact of the tariffs will be very bad for America and for the world,” said Joseph Stiglitz, an economics professor at Columbia University and a winner of the Nobel memorial prize in economic sciences. “They will almost surely be inflationary.”

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“It’s inconceivable that other countries won’t retaliate,” said Stiglitz, who was chair of Bill Clinton’s council of economic advisers.

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Even if some of the governments might not want to retaliate, their citizens will demand that you can’t allow yourself to be beaten up. When you make like a gorilla thumping on his chest, are countries just going to say, ‘Are we chopped liver?’ Their politics will demand that they do something.

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The tariffs, tensions and fears of retaliation and a trade war will likely cause many businesses to reduce their planned investments, and that, economists say, will hurt economies worldwide.

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A US national is among three hostages set to be released by Hamas under the terms of the ceasefire deal with Israel.

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In a post to Telegram on Friday, Abu Obeida, a spokesperson for Hamas’s armed wing, said Israeli-American Keith Siegel would be freed on Saturday alongside Yarden Bibas and Ofer Kalderon.

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Siegal, 65, was taken hostage with his wife, Aviva, and was seen in a video released by Hamas last year.

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His wife was released in the first hostage-for-prisoner exchange in November 2023.

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You can follow all the latest on the latest exchanges on our Middle East live blog.

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Good morning and welcome to our live coverage of the latest from US politics and Donald Trump’s second week in office.

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First up, the US president has repeated his threat to impose tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico, saying they will be introduced on Saturday.

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Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, he said the tariffs would begin at 25% and “may or may not rise with time”.

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He also repeated threats to impose new tariffs on goods from China, citing its role in the fentanyl trade, and on the Brics countries.

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We haven’t seen any federal websites that have gone dark as of yet, though Reuters is reporting the US Census website is down for some. We were still able to access it for the moment.

Trump orders USDA to take down websites referencing climate crisis

Gabrielle Canon

On Thursday, the Trump administration ordered the US agriculture department to remove its websites documenting or referencing the climate crisis.

By Friday, the landing pages on the United States Forest Service website for key resources, research and adaptation tools – including those that provide vital context and vulnerability assessments for wildfires – had gone dark, leaving behind an error message or just a single line: “You are not authorized to access this page.”

In a directive issued by the United States Department of Agriculture’s office of communications, officials instructed website managers across the agency to “identify and archive or unpublish any landing pages focused on climate change”, according to Politico. It also included a Friday deadline to list the mentions in a spreadsheet for further review. As of publication, the USDA’s Climate Hubs – helpful sites that connect producers to local programs and research – are still live.

The move is just one in a dizzying flurry of orders issued in the first two weeks of the Trump administration as it attempts to drastically reshape the federal government and halt key investments made to blunt the effects of global heating.

Trump repealed environmental protections put in place by Joe Biden, declared a misguided energy emergency to hasten already-booming fossil fuel extraction, and withdrew from the Paris climate agreement.

The administration also added confusion and chaos within federal agencies by halting hiring and pausing projects, along with issuing a widespread buyout offer that would guarantee federal workers pay and benefits through September 2025 if they resign within the next week.

It’s unclear what the agencies will do with the websites or the policies and studies once detailed on them; links to the landing pages are still live, even if the information on each page has been blocked.

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A government memo sent on Wednesday directed agencies to strip “gender ideology” from websites, contracts and emails by Friday 5 PM ET.

Some changes that were implemented:

• The Office of Personnel Management directed staff to remove pronouns from email signatures, shutter employee resource groups.

• Bureau of Prisons changes a website titled “inmate gender” was renamed to “inmate sex” and no longer included a list of trans inmates.

• The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention took down health information including a fact sheet about HIV and trans people; lessons on how to create a supportive environment in schools for trans and non binary students, information about National Transgender HIV Testing Day and information about contraception.

Trump administration planning to pause most federal government websites – report

CBS News is reporting that most federal government websites are expected to go dark at 5 pm ET.

We’ll update as we get more details.

The Justice Department announced that John Harold Rogers, a former senior adviser to the Federal Reserve, was arrested for allegedly conspiring to steal trade secrets and share it with China, according to Reuters.

Rogers was an adviser in the division of international finance between 2010 and 2021. Rogers allegedly shared economic data and sensitive information about interest-rate discussions with Chinese co-conspirators while pretending to teach in China.

Trump official claims large number of federal employees have taken buyout offer

A large number of federal employees have taken the Trump administration’s offer of a financial buyout to resign.

Deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller said he didn’t have an exact number of federal employees who had taken the financial payout to resign from their posts, but that initial briefings indicate it’s a significant number of workers, according to Reuters.

Trump offered about 2 million federal employees buyouts in an effort to drastically reduce the size of the federal government.

Trump says ‘something substantial’ with tariffs coming to EU and details products affected

Hi there, Johana Bhuiyan taking over.

We have a few more details from Donald Trump on the tariffs he plans to impose on Canada, Mexico and China. The US president told reporters that he plans to place tariff on products like chips, oil and gas and that the tariffs on oil and gas should be expected by 18 February.

Earlier, he said he planned to impose a 25% tariff on Mexico, 25% tariff on Canada, and 10% tariff on China. Now, he has said he will decrease the tariffs on Canadian oil to 10%, according to Reuters.

He also said he plans on “doing something substantial” with tariffs on the European Union.

His earlier announcement of tariffs sparked a stock market sell-off, as Wall Street fears a coming trade war. Trump said he wasn’t worried about the stock market disruptions and acknowledged that tariffs may result in “short-term” disruptions and that the costs are sometimes passed down to consumers, according to Reuters.

Schools and universities responding to complaints of sexual misconduct must return to policies created during Donald Trump’s first term, according to new guidance issued on Friday by the education department.

In a memo to education institutions across the nation, the agency clarified that Title IX, a 1972 law barring discrimination based on sex, will be enforced according to a set of rules created by the former education secretary Betsy DeVos.

The rules govern how complaints of misconduct are investigated and how to settle cases where students present differing accounts.

Colleges have already been returning to DeVos’s 2020 rules in recent weeks since a federal judge in Kentucky overturned the Biden administration’s Title IX rules. The court’s decision in effect ordered a return to the earlier Trump administration rules.

A statement from the education department called Biden’s rules an “egregious slight to women and girls”.

State department workers ordered to remove pronouns from email signatures by end of day

Joseph Gedeon

US state department employees must scrub gender pronouns from their email signatures by Friday evening, according to an internal email obtained by the Guardian.

The directive came from former ambassador Tibor P Nagy, now the acting under-secretary for management, writing to staff that the department was also launching a comprehensive review to eliminate what he called “gender ideology” from government communications and programs.

“The Department of State is reviewing all agency programs, contracts and grants that promote or incubate gender ideology,” Nagy wrote in the email. “All employees are required to remove any gender identifying pronouns from email signature blocks by 5pm today.”

Trump administration to fire FBI agents involved in investigations of Trump – reports

The Trump administration is set to expand a purge of career law enforcement officials by firing FBI agents who had been engaged in investigations into Donald Trump, according to multiple reports.

Officials acting at the direction of the administration have spent the last week working to identify individual employees who participated in politically sensitive investigations for possible termination, Associated Press reports.

It is not yet clear how many agents will be affected. At least six senior FBI agents have been ordered to retire, resign or be fired by Monday, CNN reports. According to Reuters, the senior FBI officials are based in major cities including Miami, Philadelphia, Washington, New Orleans and Las Vegas.

The FBI Agents Association has called the reported planned firings “outrageous actions by acting officials [that] are fundamentally at odds with the law enforcement objectives outlined by President Trump and his support for FBI Agents”.

Donald Trump will meet with Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on Tuesday.

The US president invited the Israeli prime minister earlier this week to be the first foreign leader to visit the White House, in a major concession to a US ally who is wanted by the international criminal court for war crimes.

A letter from the US leader said it would be his “honor” to host Netanyahu as his first foreign leader during his second term to “discuss how we can bring peace to Israel and its neighbors, and efforts to counter our shared adversaries”.

“There will be a single working meeting 4 February and more details will soon be forthcoming,” Reuters reports, citing a US official.