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Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents patrolling a federal court building in New York last month.
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Subscribed with another email? Logout and Login with that one. Account subscription benefits alongside Premium Stories, Editorials, Opinions and more. Unlock these with Subscription Updated - July 02, 2026 04:39 am IST - WASHINGTON Bill Pulte, acting director of national intelligence, also currently leads the Federal Housing Finance Agency and will remain as ODNI until Jay Clayton is confirmed by the Senate. File | Photo Credit: AP U.S. Clayton’s confirmation hearing in an effort to force Congress to pass a strict voter identification bill. “Bill’s there, just, you know, for maybe a month or two months or something,” Mr. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the office of Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Tom Cotton did not respond to requests for comment on Mr. Clayton is confirmed by the Senate. Trump has said legislation known as the SAVE Act would deliver his fellow Republicans a “guaranteed” win in November as they seek to maintain their slim control of Congress. Trump’s low approval ratings to recapture at least the House of Representatives or the Senate.
A federal judge in the United States has blocked proposed restrictions on mail-in voting that were championed by President Donald Trump. On Wednesday in Washington, DC, District Judge Emmet Sullivan sided with the NAACP, a civil rights organisation, in its case against the US Postal Service (USPS). Sullivan found that the restrictions would likely violate a 2021 settlement requiring expedited handling for mail-in ballots. He therefore granted the NAACP’s motion to enforce compliance with the settlement, dealing another setback to the Trump administration’s efforts to reshape the US voting landscape. “NAACP has plausibly suggested — and the Postal Service has not disputed — that the Proposed Rule is already having a ‘real impact on present day affairs’,” Sullivan wrote in his ruling. The case revolves around a rule the Postal Service put forward in May that would require states to provide lists of absentee and mail-in voters. Ballots that do not conform to the list would be returned. The decision comes less than five months before the November 3 midterm elections, which will decide whether Trump’s Republican Party retains control over both chambers of Congress. In March, Trump issued an executive order called “Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections”. But in another blow to Trump, the Supreme Court on Monday upheld a state law that allows mail-in ballots to be counted even if they were received after Election Day, so long as they were postmarked on or before that date. The president’s executive order has also been blocked by lower courts.
Harry Truman left the White House without any income other than his Army pension of $113 (£85) per month. The 33rd US president later wrote that it was wrong to "commercialize on the prestige and dignity of the office of the presidency". George W Bush put his investments in a blind trust before running for president, and said in his last week in office that he had no idea how the 2008 economic crisis affected his net worth. Donald Trump, in contrast, made at least $2.2bn (£1.7bn) in his first year back in office, according to a new financial disclosure report - a sum historians said was unprecedented and shattered the norm of US presidents avoiding financial conflicts of interest in the White House. "There's just no precedent for this," said Barbara Perry, a presidential historian at the University of Virginia's Miller Center. "It's beyond anything we've ever seen in the presidency." Trump's massive 2025 earnings laid bare just how much he has benefited from his return to office, through money-making ventures that often blurred the line between official government policymaking and private business dealings by the president, his family and close advisers. Bibles, Home Alone and perfume: Six things about how Trump made money in 2025 Trump made more than $1bn from crypto in first year back in office Trump made $1.4bn in the cryptocurrency industry alone, according to the mandatory financial disclosure that was made public on Tuesday. Trump reported $635m in royalties from Celebration Coins, the entity thought to be behind the $TRUMP meme coin he launched just before starting his second term. The president also reported more than $500m from the cryptocurrency business World Liberty Financial. Last July, Trump signed legislation supporting stablecoins, a form of cryptocurrency, just four months after World Liberty Financial launched its own digital currency venture.
