The New Mexico senator called the matter a "profound betrayal" and "shameful failure" of the federal government's responsibility to tribes.

New Mexico Senator Ben Ray Lujan (D) said Donald Trump’s Administration has blocked hundreds of billions of dollars for programs that support Indian Country and native communities. The United States Senate Committee on Appropriations released a tracker of the cuts made by DOGE in President Trump’s first 100 days.

Lawyers for Oregon and 11 states attorneys general argued no relationship exists between “extraordinary” threats Trump wants to confront and tariffs he’s imposed President Donald Trump is misusing a 1977 law and falsely claiming an “unusual and extraordinary threat” to the United States to justify costly tariffs on nearly all imported goods,

Trump and his aides have repeatedly shifted their stance on tariffs in the weeks since the president’s “Liberation Day” announcement.

Long-threatened tariffs from U.S. President Donald Trump have plunged the country into trade wars abroad — all while on-again, off-again new levies continue to escalate uncertainty. Trump launched a trade war during his first term as well,