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Merz leaves book for immigrants in Washington residence
Updated on 05.06.2025 – 9:49 a.m.Reading time: 8 min.
Many Germans do not trust the Chancellor to do much. The Foreign Minister also sees Merz before a difficult trip. All developments in the news blog.
Anyone who stays in the US President’s guest house leaves a book there. This is a tradition that Chancellor Friedrich Merz also adheres to. According to a government spokesman, the CDU politician brought a collection of letters from German immigrants to the Blair House, which Walter Kamphoefner put together in 1988 under the title “News from the Land of Freedom. German Immigrants Write Home” (in German: News from the Land of Freedom Hikers write home). The letters come from farmers, workers or home employees between 1830 and 1900.
According to a statement by the White House, US President Donald Trump has signed a regulation that limited the award of US visa to foreign students who want to study at the Harvard Elite University. In the past month, the US State Department had already instructed the United States foreign missions to check all visa applications for people who wanted to visit the university particularly thoroughly.
Because of a court ruling, the Trump government had to move away from its plans for the time being to ban Harvard University the further admission of international students. US President Donald Trump said that he wanted to change in Harvard-and other top universities in the USA-because he believes that they had taken the left-wing ideas and became bastion of anti-Semitism.
The US government examines whether Joe Biden has used a signature machine due to mental weakness. Donald Trump even suspects a cover -up. Read more about it here.
According to the White House, US President Donald Trump has signed a regulation that prohibits people from a number of countries to enter the United States. The US television broadcaster CBS had previously reported that Trump had banned the entry for people from twelve countries to the USA: Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, Congo, Equatorialguinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen, Trump said. He also decided to partially limit the entry of nationals from seven other countries. Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela are affected by this. With the entry bans, the President protects the US citizens from “foreign terrorists”, the document signed on Wednesday and published by the White House.
Donald Trump has their sights on the next products on his customs list: aircraft parts. However, he violates an agreement. Read more about it here.
US President Donald Trump is determined to get his tax package through the US Senate, despite the resistance of the billionaire and former boss of Trump’s Efficiency Authority, Elon Musk. This is what a representative of the White House says that does not want to be named. The White House will not consult Elon Musk with every political decision.
The Tesla boss and former savings advisor from Trump, Elon Musk, once again knew against the U.S. government’s Great Tax Act. After his first loud criticism of the project that Trump calls “Great Nice Law”, Musk now followed his platform X. “Prevent the law,” he calls. The design has already passed the House of Representatives and is now at the Senate. Musk criticizes that with the issues planned in it, the United States becomes “debt slaves”. “Call your senators and MPs. To bankrupt America is not ok!” He criticizes that debt can grow to $ five trillion.
