What to Know
- President Donald Trump said in a Truth Social post that he would seek to revoke Harvard’s tax-exempt status. The move comes after the university filed a lawsuit over the administration’s decision to freeze billions in funding.
- Trump signed an executive order late Thursday to end public funding of National Public Radio and PBS to stop what he called “biased and partisan news coverage.”
- Nonfarm payrolls increased a seasonally adjusted 177,000 for April, above the Dow Jones estimate for 133,000, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday.
- Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson rebuked Trump and his allies’ attacks on federal judges who have blocked the administration’s agenda, saying they “seem designed to intimidate those of us who serve in this critical capacity.”
Trump said on Truth Social that he will revoke Harvard University’s tax-exempt status. Follow along for live updates.