US politics live: America to ‘aggressively revoke’ Chinese student visas

The US says it will “aggressively revoke visas” of Chinese students, including those with “connections to the Chinese Communist Party or studying in critical fields”.

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio has announced the US will “begin revoking visas of Chinese students, including those with connections to the Chinese Communist Party or studying in critical fields”.

It came as Elon Musk confirmed his official exit from his Donald Trump’s administration, after leading the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) in a controversial effort to reduce federal spending.

The billionaire, whose time as a “Special Government Employee” was limited by statute, took to X to thank President Trump “for the opportunity to reduce wasteful spending”. But the Tesla CEO, in a rare split with Mr Trump, earlier publicly criticised the President’s “big, beautiful” spending bill.

“I was disappointed to see the massive spending bill, frankly, which increases the budget deficit, not just decreases it, and undermines the work that the DOGE team is doing,” Mr Musk said.

Meanwhile, America’s International Court of Trade, a federal-level court which governs America’s interactions with international trade laws, has ruled that Mr Trump’s executive orders unilaterally imposing tariffs on other countries are illegal.

That means most — not all — of Mr Trump’s tariffs are now null and void, pending an appeal from the Trump administration.

The court’s ruling notes that the US Constitution gives Congress, not the President, “the exclusive powers to lay and collect ‘taxes, duties, imposts and excises’ and to ‘regulate commerce with foreign nations’”.

The judges have “set aside” certain tariffs that were specifically challenged by several American states, run by Mr Trump’s opposition party, the Democrats. Those “tariff orders will be vacated and their operation permanently enjoined”, they say.

The Trump administration has immediately appealed the decision.

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