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Let's wrap-up some of the key moments from the last few hours on the one-week anniversary of Donald Trump's return to the White House.

In a wide-ranging address in Miami, Trump told a Republican congressional retreat that he intends to sign three executive orders which relate to transgender military service members, reinstating troops who were discharged for refusing the Covid vaccine, and diversity, equity and inclusion programmes.

Trump also said he would sign another executive order to start building an "Iron Dome" air defence system for the United States - similar to the one that Israel has used to intercept thousands of rockets.

He also said news of the Chinese DeepSeek app, which was launched last week and has overtaken rivals including ChatGPT to become the most downloaded free app in the US, should serve as a "wake-up call" to the US tech industry.

Also on Monday, Trump's pick for treasury secretary was confirmed by the Senate in a 68-29 vote, and several Department of Justice staffers who had worked under Special Counsel Jack Smith were dismissed.

Elsewhere in government, nearly 60 diversity, equity and inclusion staffers from the Department of Veteran's Affairs were put on leave.

We are ending our live coverage of today's events in US politics, but you can stay up to date on the major news lines below.

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Tom Bateman
BBC State Department correspondent, Washington DC

The Trump administration has placed dozens of senior officials at its international development agency USAID on administrative leave, accusing unnamed staff of trying to “circumvent” the president’s executive orders.

A memo seen by the BBC sent to staff by acting administrator Jason Gray says “a number” of employees have been placed on administrative leave with full pay and benefits “until further notice while we complete our analysis of these actions”.

The move appears to amount to a cull of senior officials at the agency after Friday’s “stop work” order by the administration, which froze nearly all US foreign aid work. That followed Trump’s executive order saying the “foreign aid industry and bureaucracy” was “not aligned with American interests”.

The order has sent shockwaves through the global humanitarian and development community, leading to large numbers of US funded projects around the world being suspended, thought to range from health provision in developing countries to emergency shelter and water sanitation in conflict zones.

The United States is the world's biggest international aid donor spending $68bn in 2023.

USAID has been approached for comment.

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Let's bring you some details of a phone conversation between the new US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and his British counterpart David Lammy.

According to State spokeswoman Tammy Bruce, the pair discussed a "range of pressing global issues".

"They affirmed the depth of the US-UK special relationship and the crucial nature of our partnership in addressing issues like the conflict in the Middle East, Russia's war against Ukraine, and China's malign influence," Bruce says.

Rubio's call with the British foreign secretary has been one of many today with various European and African diplomats.

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The Senate has voted this evening to confirm Trump's pick for treasury secretary, Scott Bessent.

Bessent will take on one of the most influential roles in government, with oversight of tax policy, public debt, international finance, sanctions and tariffs.

He received 68 votes in favour and 29 votes again his confirmation.

Bessent, 62, is a Wall Street financier who once worked for George Soros. He was an early backer of Trump's 2024 bid and brings a relatively conventional resume to the role.

US tech giant Google says its Google Maps feature will change the name of "Gulf of Mexico" to "Gulf of America" for US users, once the name of the body of water is officially updated in the US Geographic Names System.

Posting on X, Google says the change will be visible in the US, but it will remain "Gulf of Mexico" in Mexico.

Outside of the two countries, users will see both names, Google said following news on Friday that Donald Trump administration's Interior Department said it had officially changed the name, external of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, and the Alaskan peak Denali to Mount McKinley.

"We’ve received a few questions about naming within Google Maps. We have a longstanding practice of applying name changes when they have been updated in official government sources," Google says.

During his address to congress Republicans, Trump expressed his belief that the Chinese company DeepSeek coming up with a "faster" and "cheaper" method of AI is "good".

"You don't have to spend as much money, and I view that as a positive," he told the gathered House members.

"I really think if it is fact and if it is true - and nobody knows if it is - but I view that as a positive because you will be doing that too. You won't be spending as much and get the same result hopefully.

"The release of DeepSeek AI from a Chinese (company) should be a wake up call for our industries that we need to be laser-focused on competing to win, because we have the greatest scientists in the world - even Chinese leadership told me that."

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President Donald Trump has just finished his speech in Miami, Florida, where he was speaking to Republican House members.

He ended by thanking everyone in the room, promising "one of the greatest four years" in US history under his leadership.

"If we stick and if we fight together, there's no one that can stop us," he tells Republican lawmakers.

As he finishes speaking, YMCA by the Village People starts playing - a track that has featured prominently during Trump's events on the campaign trail and after his win.

Trump references his intended changes to the US military in his speech, reiterating a criticism that the military had become too "woke".

He touts the Senate's confirmation of Pete Hegseth as defence secretary. Hegseth, who was confirmed in a 51-50 vote, with Vice-President JD Vance casting the tie-breaking vote, has espoused a similar philosophy.

The White House signalled earlier today that he will once again seek to ban transgender troops from serving in the military, bar diversity, equity, and inclusion programmes from the military, and reinstate personnel who were discharged for refusing the Covid-19 vaccine.

Anthony Zurcher
North America correspondent

As we just mentioned, while speaking to congressional Republicans in Florida, Trump has made his first public comments on yesterday's Colombia dispute.

"As you saw yesterday, we made it clear to every country that they would be taking back the people we are sending out... and if they don't they will pay a very high economic price."

Later, he compared the flights to Colombia to the Nicholas Cage movie "Con Air" - that the deportees needed to be shackled because they were murderers and drug dealers.

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Trump again calls to end birthright citizenship in the United States for children born to undocumented or temporary residents, which he sought to stop by executive order his first week as president.

Birthright citizenship is enshrined in federal law and the right is based on the US constitution.

In his speech, Trump says that the 14th Amendment of the constitution, which was enacted after the abolition of slavery in the 19th century, was only intended to apply to the children of formerly enslaved people.

"It has to stop," he said. He believes the courts should side with his view.

Trump's birthright citizenship order was hit with multiple lawsuits and a federal judge in Seattle, Washington temporarily halted the order, saying it was "blatantly unconstitutional."

Donald Trump has addressed his row with Colombia's president publicly for the first time, saying that America is now being respected again.

The row began when Gustavo Petro, the president of Colombia, refused over the weekend to allow two US military planes to land in his country. The planes were carrying Colombian citizens who had been deported from the US.

"The US can't treat Colombian migrants like criminals," Petro had said on social media.

Trump responded by threatening a steep tariff of 25% on all Colombian exports into the US.

President Petro at first said Colombia would retaliate with its own tariffs, but quickly backed down and later told the White House that his country would accept the migrants without delay.

Trump says his win over Colombia is a sign that his message is resonating with foreign leaders.

"As you saw yesterday, we've made it clear to every country that they will be taking back the people that we're sending out," Trump says. "And if they don't they will pay a very high economic price."

He then makes his oft-repeated statement that 'tariff' is "the most beautiful word in the dictionary."

• You can read more here about how the row between Petro and Trump played out on Sunday night

Donald Trump begins his remarks to congressional Republicans in Florida by ticking through the long list of of executive orders issued in his first week back in office.

He mentions some with potentially widespread impact, like his orders banning diversity, equity, and inclusion programmes and offices in the government, which he calls "lawless."

Trump claims he "abolished 60 years of prejudice and hatred".

One of Trump's executive orders revoked a Civil Rights era directive, signed by former President Lyndon B Johnson in 1964, that prohibited federal contractors from discriminating on the basis of race, colour, religion, sex or national origin when hiring.

Trump also touts his decision to withdraw the US from the World Health Organisation (WHO) and his crackdowns on illegal immigration.

He digresses somewhat to talk about the multiple criminal cases he faced in recent years, claiming he was prosecuted more than Al Capone and the fictional gangster from "Scarface."

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Donald Trump was given a short introduction by Speaker of the House Mike Johnson ahead of his speech to House Republicans in Miami, Florida, where they are all gathered for a retreat.

In his introduction, Johnson echoes Trump's recent comments about a new "golden age" for America taking shape, adding that "America is back".

He speaks of a new atmosphere since Trump has taken office, and says that people are excited around the country.

Johnson adds that Trump's first week in office has been "the most momentous" of any administration, and says that Republicans in the House and Senate are poised to help the new president achieve his "America First" agenda.

Next up, Trump takes to the stage to address the House members, which you can watch live at the top of this page.

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Several Department of Justice staffers who worked under Biden-era Special Counsel Jack Smith have been dismissed, according to the the BBC's US partner CBS News.

Smith had led two federal prosecutions of Donald Trump, one over allegations of mishandling classified documents after he left the presidency and another involving Trump's alleged attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, which he lost to Joe Biden. Both prosecutions ended after Trump's 2024 election victory due to longstanding department policy against prosecuting sitting presidents.

About a dozen Justice Department employees were sacked, according to CBS.

A Department of Justice spokesperson told Fox News that department leadership did not trust these "officials to assist in faithfully implementing the President's agenda."

Trump has vowed to end the "weaponisation" of the Justice Department and has set about nominating and appointing allies to top posts in the department.

Smith himself resigned from the Justice Department shortly before Trump took office, and both federal cases have effectively ended.

A New York judge recently upheld Trump's conviction for business fraud without sentencing the president, and a state prosecution in Georgia - also related to allegations he tried to interfere with the 2020 presidential election - remains open but stuck in a series of delays.

We're expecting to hear from Donald Trump shortly - we're poised here in the newsroom to bring you all the key lines, and you can watch his remarks live at the top of this page.

In the meantime - let's have a quick look at what we might expect.

This morning, the newly confirmed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told the media that more executive orders would be coming today.

Among those, he said, would be reinstating troops who had been pushed out under Covid mandates, as well as "removing DEI" within the Pentagon.

As a reminder, DEI programmes aim to promote participation in workplaces by people from a range of backgrounds.

Their backers say they address historical underrepresentation and discrimination against certain groups, including racial minorities, but critics say such programmes can themselves be discriminatory.

Also on the cards this afternoon is an update on the installation of an Iron Dome air defence system for America similar to Israel's.

Stay with us - we'll be following Trump's remarks and any other US politics news.

We've been following two important stories surrounding US President Donald Trump on the one-week anniversary of his return to the White House.

The first is Trump's intentions to sign a series of executive orders that will remove diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives from the defence department.

These orders are also expected to formulate a policy on transgender troops and reinstate military personnel who were discharged for refusing COVID-19 vaccines.

• Read more about these executive actions.

We've also been covering the flurry of immigration-related executive orders Trump has signed into law, paving way for a widespread effort to crack down on undocumented migrants in the US.

Nearly 1,000 immigration arrests were carried out on Sunday.

• Read here for the details on immigration changes under Trump

Hundreds of protesters gathered in Dallas and Fort Worth in Texas yesterday to protest Trump's new immigration policies which includes allowing officials to arrest illegal immigrants in schools, churches and hospitals.

One of the protesters in Dallas was Yanelley Rodriguez, whose parents came to the US from Mexico.

"Every human deserves the opportunity for a better life," she says, holding up a sign which reads "Proud daughter of Mexican immigrants".

Cachella Smith
Reporting from Washington DC

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One week after inauguration day and here from the Washington DC newsroom we're continuing to follow developments coming from the Trump administration.

The president is spending the day in Florida before returning to the White House this evening - and we're expecting to hear from him later this afternoon.

If you're just joining us now, or are in need of a catch-up, here are some key lines from this morning:

• 956 arrests of migrants were made on Sunday as Trump's immigration crackdown gets well underway, including raids in a number of sanctuary cities like Chicago and Miami

• The Trump administration has claimed victory after a row with Colombia over deportation flights. Late last night Colombian Foreign Minister Luis Gilberto Murillo said the country would accept returned citizens following Trump threatening to raise tariffs to 50%
• Meanwhile, Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum has confirmed that four thousand deported migrants from the US have arrived in Mexico. Most are Mexican, she said, adding that the figure does not represent a "substantial" increase
• It's not just illegal immigration that is the focus of the new administration. CBS reported this morning that officials have been told to stop allowing immigrants on parole programmes to the country - likely affecting Afghan and Ukrainians refugees
• Elsewhere, in the tech space, the launch of a new AI chatbot built by a Chinese firm has caused market turmoil - leaving the US's place in the AI race questioned by investors
• Looking forward, the newly confirmed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told the media this morning to expect more on "removing DEI [diversity, equity and inclusion]" within the Pentagon today, as well as on the installation of an Israeli-style Iron Dome air defence system

As we reported earlier, Trump is expected to sign three executive orders today - all related to the US military.

One order reportedly will include the removal of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) bureaucracy as well as a review of teaching materials at US service academies.

Hours after he was sworn in as president, Trump called DEI programmes "radical and wasteful" and signed an executive order banning such programmes in the federal government.

The move led the US Air Force to review material on the role of black and female pilots during World War Two from its training programmes. The Air Force has since said it will keep teaching about these pilots.

Another order Trump is expected to sign involves unvaccinated military service members who were discharged due to the Pentagon's Covid vaccine mandate.

Trump has previously promised to reinstate the 8,000 personnel who were discharged, with full backpay expected to be given.

This move would follow his revoking of a mandate that federal workers must be vaccinated against Covid introduced by Joe Biden, one of a number of reversals of his predecessors policies.

The final executive order is anticipated to instruct the Department of Defense to determine a policy regarding transgender service members.

Bernd Debusmann Jr
Reporting from the White House

The Department of Veteran Affairs has placed almost 60 employees on leave as it works to implement Donald Trump's order to eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programmes from the federal workforce.

In a statement, the department says that the salary of the employees - who were solely focused on DEI initiatives - were collectively paid about $8m, an average of about $136,000 (£109,000) per year.

One employee was making over $220,000 a year.

Additionally, the department is taking down DEI-related media from its websites - and has identified contracts for training and consulting worth $6.1m that it plans to cancel.

The department's director of media affairs, Morgan Ackley, says that the VA is now "laser-focused on providing the best possible care and benefits to veterans, their families, caregivers, and survivors".

"We are proud to have abandoned the divisive DEI policies of the past and pivot back to VA’s core mission," she adds. "We look forward to reallocating the millions of dollars the department was spending on DEI programs and personnel to better serve the men and women who have bravely served our nation."