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Access to citizen data: Trump turns to the highest court
Updated on 03.05.2025 – 01:12 a.m.Reading time: 14 min.
Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney travels to Washington on Tuesday. US President Trump plans large budget cuts. All developments in the news blog.
In the dispute over the access of the Sparbemium Doge from Tech billionaire Elon Musk on sensitive citizen data, the US government has switched on the Supreme Court. With regard to the decision of a lower instance, President Donald Trump’s government wrote in her application to the Supreme Court that “blatant legal errors” was committed. Therefore, intervention of the Supreme Court is necessary.
The background is that lower instances Doge have temporarily prohibited access to sensitive data from the social security authority. Under flimsy suggestions, the committee received “unrestricted access” for “personal and private information from millions of Americans”, judge Ellen Lipton Hollander justified her injunction a few weeks ago.
The Footwear Distributors & Retailers of America (FDRA) trading group demands an exemption from customs for shoe brands such as Nike, Adidas America and Skechers in a letter from US President Donald Trump. The FDRA letter dated April 29 was signed by 76 shoe companies such as Deckers Brands, Capri Holdings, Under Armor and Vf Corp. “In view of the nature of the US shoe industry, American shoe companies and families are exposed to an existential threat through such significant cost increases.
Hundreds of companies are threatened by the closure, “says the letter. The trading group pointed out that the industry is already faced with significant taxes, including its infancy, which are often already taken into account with tariffs of 20 percent, 37.5 percent or more before the new tariffs are taken into account.
Elon Musk’s Starlink shops are causing a sensation. Democratic senators fear that he will take advantage of his position in the government. Read more about it here.
The US government has classified two notorious criminal gangs from Haiti as foreign terrorist organizations that are responsible for brutal attacks in the Caribbean state. It is the gang coalition Viv Ansanm and the allied group Gran Grif, said US Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Both gangs represented a direct threat to the United States’ national security interests in the region.
“The age of impunity for those who support violence in Haiti is over,” said Rubio. The criminals tried to overthrow the transitional government in the poorest country of the American continent. The classification as a terrorist group can take Washington harder against people or companies who support the gangs financially or in any other way.
After the victory of his liberal party in the parliamentary election in Canada, Prime Minister Mark Carney President Donald Trump wants to meet on Tuesday. The meeting is planned in the White House in Washington and will focus on tariffs and bilateral relationships, Carney said at his inaugural press conference in Ottawa.
Trump had repeatedly threatened to annex Canada as a 51st state-Carney won the choice through his sharp anti-trump course. “It is important to get involved immediately, that was always my intention and that was always his intention,” said Carney. He expects “difficult but constructive discussions”. “I will fight for the best deal for Canada and will only accept the best deal.”
Trump had put high tariffs against the neighboring country, the economy of which is very closely intertwined by the United States. After the victory of his party, Carney had promised in the parliamentary election at the beginning of the week to oppose the aggressive policy of the government in the neighboring country USA. Trump had already congratulated Carney on the election victory by phone.
The US tech billionaire Elon Musk sharply criticized the classification of the AfD as “secured right-wing extremist” by the Federal Constitutional Protection. A “prohibition of the AfD, Germany’s most popular party, would be an extreme attack on democracy,” wrote Musk, who also works for the government of US President Donald Trump, read more on his platform X.
The US position structure has hardly slowed down in April and thus after the customs announcements of President Donald Trump. There were 177,000 new jobs outside of agriculture, as can be seen from the government published on Friday. Economists surveyed had only expected an increase of 130,000, and after downward revised 185,000 (originally 228,000) in March. The unemployment rate determined separately remained at 4.2 percent.