Trump Suggests Trade Deals Are Coming Soon
On the early edition of Balance of Power, Bloomberg Correspondent David Gura discusses President Donald Trump's suggestion over the weekend that his administration could strike trade deals with some countries as soon as this week. On today's show, Bloomberg's Tyler Kendall, New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham, Center for the Study of the Presidency & Congress Senior Democracy Fellow Jeanne Sheehan Zaino, Echo Canyon Consulting CEO Jon Seaton and Citi CEO Jane Fraser. (Source: Bloomberg)
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Proposed federal funding cuts to tribal colleges spark fear
Kaiya Brown stands on campus at Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute before heading to her internship at a local, Native nonprofit on June 10, 2025. (Bella Davis/New Mexico In Depth) Kaiya Brown was at work last week when she started getting the texts. Her friends were asking if she'd seen the news: The Trump administration wants to cut funding for tribal colleges by nearly 90%. Brown (Diné) is in her first year at Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute in northwest Albuquerque, one of 37 tribal colleges and universities in the country and four in New Mexico, many of which offer free tuition to tribal citizens. If Congress approves the administration's budget request released last Monday, funding for the schools will drop from over $183 million to about $22 million in the next fiscal year, starting in October. Federal funding makes up 74% of total revenue for tribal colleges and universities, ICT reported in January. This story was originally published by New Mexico In Depth. 'It's really scary,' Brown said. 'I don't think enough people understand the importance of tribal colleges and what they do for our communities. They provide opportunities that many students would have never had. It makes me really emotional, honestly, because they don't understand how this would impact so many lives.' Brown is studying early childhood education with hopes of going into social work to advocate for Native children. Part of why she chose a tribal college was because she didn't feel safe or supported at her Rio Rancho high school. In one instance, Brown wore her regalia, including moccasins and jewelry, to school, and a teacher asked, 'Where's your feathers?' Another time, she and a couple other Native students were carrying frybread for a sale, and a group of their peers started mocking them. One of the students told them, 'I thought we killed all your people.' Her experience so far at college, Brown said, couldn't be more different. 'We're all so close to one another. We all want to see each other succeed,' she said. 'And I truly feel that from the staff and from my instructors. These are Native instructors, people that look like me and know my ways.' She's also enjoyed the small class sizes. Last fall, 215 students were enrolled, according to data from the college, which was founded in 1971. The largest class Brown is in right now has five students total. Instead of getting lost in a lecture hall with a hundred other people, she's able to get more hands-on help from instructors. But the mood on campus hasn't been the same lately, Brown said. The community has been reeling from a round of layoffs earlier this year. The institute, along with Haskell Indian Nations University in Kansas, is federally operated. In February, the Bureau of Indian Education laid off dozens of faculty and staff members at the two institutions in response to Trump's directives to reduce the federal workforce. Many classes were left without instructors, and a power outage in Brown's dorm lasted 13 hours because there weren't enough maintenance workers available to fix it. A few weeks later, some employees were re-hired, but it was unclear whether the hirings were permanent or temporary. That's according to a lawsuit against the federal government brought by the Native American Rights Fund in March. Brown is a plaintiff, along with four Haskell students and three tribal nations, including Isleta Pueblo. 'Tribal nations and the federal government should be working together to best serve our Native students,' Isleta Pueblo Gov. Eugene Jiron said in a statement. 'Instead, the administration is randomly, without preparation and in violation of their federal trust responsibility, taking away teachers and staff from already-underserved facilities. Our students deserve better.' The layoffs worsened problems caused by chronic understaffing at the schools, the lawsuit argues. Congress has underfunded tribal colleges by $250 million a year, ProPublica reported in 2024. The re-hirings brought some relief, Brown said, but the proposed cuts have stirred up fear among students and employees again. 'These schools have done so much for our people,' she said. 'So many passionate people and talented artists have come from these schools. They give us the tools to pursue our dreams. It's like our stepping stone into the world. And taking that away will be devastating to a lot of students, including myself.' New Mexico is home to three other tribal colleges: Diné College, which has campuses in Shiprock and Crownpoint, as well as in Arizona; the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe; and Navajo Technical University, with a main campus in Crownpoint. In fall 2024, an estimated 3,378 students were enrolled at the schools, according to the state Higher Education Department. In a statement last week, Robert Martin, president of the Institute of American Indian Arts, said, 'I know that we will prevail in the end, but we can't take that for granted. We have strong Congressional support but they need to hear from all of our constituents.'
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Army's patriotic image falls flat with Gen Z amid gun violence fears
June 13 (UPI) -- The U.S. Army will celebrate its 250th birthday on Saturday with a parade in Washington, in which about 6,600 soldiers and heavy pieces of military equipment will roll through the streets. The parade aims to display the Army's history and power. "It's going to be incredible," President Donald Trump recently said. Trump's 79th birthday also occurs on Saturday. Despite the festivities, however, the parade will occur amid bleak times for the U.S. military, as it experiences a multiyear decline in recruitment numbers. In the face of a pandemic and a strong civilian job market, the Army, Air Force and Navy all missed their recruitment goals in 2022 and 2023. In 2022, the Army missed its quota by 25%. In 2024, the U.S. military met its recruitment target, which supports the argument that the bump is not due to Trump, as recruitment levels began to rise again before his reelection. But in some cases, the U.S. military has met its recruitment goals by lowering target numbers. And as a scholar of terrorism and targeted violence, I believe a close reading of available data on military recruitment suggests U.S. gun violence may be largely to blame for the lack of interest in joining the military. Gun violence data Regardless of one's personal politics, the data on U.S. gun violence makes for painful reading. Almost 47,000 Americans died from gun-related injuries in 2023. In 2022, there were 51 school shootings in which students were injured or killed by guns. And gun injuries are the leading cause of death for Americans between ages 1 and 19. Data about the perceptions of gun violence is equally staggering, especially among American youth between ages 14 and 30. Four out of five American youth believe gun violence to be a problem, and 25% have endured real active-shooter lockdowns, according to data compiled by Everytown for Gun Safety, where I serve as a survivor fellow, the Southern Poverty Law Center and American University's Polarization and Extremism Research and Innovation Lab. Moreover, these perceptions have considerable impacts on youth mental health and their sense of safety. Studies have linked concern over school shootings among adolescents with higher rates of anxiety and trauma-related disorders. As Arne Duncan, who served as President Barack Obama's secretary of education during the Sandy Hook tragedy, said in 2023: "Unfortunately, what's now binding young people across the country together is not joy of music, or sports, or whatever, it's really the shared pain of gun violence - and it cuts through race and class and geography and economics." National security threat In the past couple of years, polls taken of Generation Z youth, born between 1997 and 2012, suggest mental health and mass shootings are among the most important political issues motivating this band of voters. Gun violence, in other words, is a national security emergency, undermining the U.S. government's ability to protect its citizens in their schools, places of worship and communities. As former Marine Gen. John Allen wrote in 2019: "Americans today are more likely to experience gun violence at home than they might in many of the places to which I deployed in the name of defending our nation." Rewriting American culture Accordingly, gun violence has undercut American patriotism, corroding the U.S. government's soft power within its own borders. Generation Z, termed by some as the "lockdown generation," is often derided as less patriotic than its predecessors. Also, the belief in American exceptionalism is dropping among millennials, born between 1981 and 1996. That perception is combined with less confidence in U.S. global engagement and the efficacy of military solutions. American culture has long inspired military service, with recruits seduced by action movies and promises of heroic returns to the U.S. But American culture today is being rewired into one of suffering, pain and victimhood. A fear of violence Gun violence destroys youth tolerance for the violence that defines a career in the U.S. military. Internal U.S. military surveys of young Americans show that "the top three reasons young people cite for rejecting military enlistment are the same across all the services: fear of death, worries about post-traumatic stress disorder and leaving friends and family -- in that order." Generations already suffering a shattered sense of safety and place do not see the military as a viable option. The explanations the U.S. Defense Department gives for dismal recruitment levels focus on the younger generation's supposed lack of backbone or hatred of America. Republicans, including Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, have blamed alleged "wokeness" for low recruitment levels. And the Trump administration's statements about improving recruitment numbers over the past several months overlook both a late Biden-era surge after a pandemic slump as well as the reality that numbers remain depressed due to military services repeatedly lowering their recruitment goals. Very rarely are introspective questions publicly debated today about the objective attractiveness of military service or the appetite for violence among young people. The problem, I believe, is not that young people are insufficiently patriotic - it's that they have already been fighting a war, daily, for their entire lives. In reversing the slide in recruitment, then, the military could improve its sensitivity to these important concerns. Highlighting the range of careers within the services that do not involve front-line combat and physical danger could encourage more reluctant would-be recruits to volunteer. Mental health support also could be made an essential element of military training and lifestyle − not a resource only for those bearing the hidden side-effects of life in the ranks. Encouraging those suffering from treatable mental health issues to seek meaning in service could also boost recruitment numbers. Jacob Ware is an adjunct professor of domestic terrorism at Georgetown University. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. The views and opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the author.
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Kilmar Abrego Garcia pleads not guilty to federal human trafficking charges
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Salvadoran national mistakenly deported from the US three months ago, has pleaded not guilty to federal human trafficking charges. Abrego Garcia is in court Friday morning wearing a red detention uniform. He faces counts of conspiracy to unlawfully transport illegal aliens for financial gain and unlawful transportation of illegal aliens for financial gain. The allegations relate to a traffic stop when Abrego Garcia drove a Chevrolet Suburban with nine Hispanic male passengers through Tennessee in 2022. Prosecutors allege he transported undocumented people in the US on more than 100 trips between Texas, Maryland and other states. Prosecutors allege that over several years, Abrego Garcia 'operated in the illicit world of an international smuggling ring.' His attorneys, in filings arguing for his release, question the severity of the allegations Abrego Garcia faces. They argue the law shouldn't even prompt the court to consider detaining him and holding a hearing like Friday's, let alone decide he should stay behind bars awaiting trial. 'The Court cannot find that Mr. Abrego Garcia poses a serious risk of international flight simply because he's charged with a crime that the government finds distasteful,' his lawyers wrote to the Tennessee court this week. For months, the Trump administration has been locked in an intense standoff with the federal judiciary over court orders for the government to 'facilitate' Abrego Garcia's return from El Salvador, which experts, members of Congress and judges have perceived as a Constitutional crisis between the branches of government. The Tennessee indictment, approved under seal by a grand jury in late May, and accompanying arrest warrant are what enabled the US government to ask the Salvadoran government to return him, officials have said. Attorney General Pam Bondi held a news conference touting Abrego Garcia's indictment last week, calling an aspect of the conspiracy, where children allegedly were transported for profit, 'disturbing.' The indictment also alleges he trafficked drugs and firearms. 'These facts demonstrate Abrego Garcia is a danger to our community,' Bondi said. While Bondi and the indictment emphasized the danger of human smuggling operations and suspected ties to the gang MS-13 – a focus of law enforcement as the Trump administration bears down on undocumented immigrants in the US – the grand jury indictment stopped short of alleging he was a mastermind in the conspiracy. In a filing last week, the prosecutors told the judge they believe Abrego Garcia also has a history of violence, linked to gangs in El Salvador before he came to the US. Abrego Garcia's lawyers contest the allegations linking him to infractions against minors can't be used to keep him detained. They also say children he is alleged to have transported aren't victims or at risk of harm because they were riding on the floorboard of his SUV, meaning some of the Justice Department's arguments to keep Abrego Garcia detained may not be enough for the judge to agree. He is not charged with any violent crimes or crimes against children. In a separate federal court proceeding in Maryland, Abrego Garcia's attorneys are arguing for Trump administration officials to be sanctioned because of their handling of his deportation situation, and the lack of information they provided to his legal team following multiple court orders, while Abrego Garcia was in El Salvador this year. This story has been updated with additional details.
