Robert Tait, The Guardian Journalist Profile

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Aid groups voice alarm as US pushes Israeli plan for Gaza assistance

6 days ago | theguardian.com | Robert Tait

Aid groups have voiced alarm at US moves to pressure them into accepting an Israeli proposal to resume limited humanitarian assistance to the war-ravaged territory under strictly controlled conditions. The Trump administration has attempted to strong-arm international agencies – including the United Nations’ World Food Programme (WFP) – into accepting Israel’s stringent rules for resuming deliveries, according to sources familiar with the discussions and news reports.
House panel on campus antisemitism likened to cold-war ‘un-American’ committee

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Robert Tait

A congressional panel investigating antisemitism on US college campuses on Wednesday was accused of trying to chill constitutionally protected free speech and likened to a cold-war era committee notorious for wrecking the lives of people suspected of communist sympathies.
Identity of second man illegally deported to El Salvador prison revealed

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Robert Tait

The identity of a second man illegally deported from the US by the Trump administration in defiance of a court order and now in detention in El Salvador has been revealed. Daniel Lozano-Camargo, a 20-year-old Venezuelan, was deported to El Salvador’s notorious Cecot terrorism confinement facility in March under the White House’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act, Politico reported.
Newsom offers to work with Trump on $7.5bn tax credit plan to boost US films

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Robert Tait

The California governor, Gavin Newsom, has proposed a $7.5bn tax credit program and offered to work with Donald Trump to boost US film production after the president threatened to slap 100% tariffs on films made abroad, alarming industry executives in Hollywood and abroad. Newsom – who has had an often fractious relationship with Trump – unveiled his idea after Hollywood reacted nervously to the president’s tariffs plan, which sent share values in some film and media companies plummeting.
Mike Pence rebukes Trump over tariffs and ‘wavering’ support for Ukraine

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Robert Tait

Donald Trump’s tariffs policy will trigger a “price shock” and possible shortages, and lead to public pressure on him to change his approach, the former vice-president Mike Pence has said.
Historians alarmed as Trump seeks to rewrite US story for 250th anniversary

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Robert Tait

Donald Trump, it could be said, takes a breezy, Sam Cooke style approach to history. Like the legendary “king of soul” in his 1960 hit Wonderful World, the US president has admitted to not knowing much about historical events or figures of the past – even when faced with authorities on the subject.
Trump proposes cutting $163bn in non-defense funds and boosting military

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Robert Tait

Donald Trump is proposing massive cuts to social programmes like health and education while planning substantial spending increases on defense and the Department of Homeland Security, in a White House budget blueprint that starkly illustrates his preoccupation with projecting military strength and deterring migration.
Rubio comes a long way to become most dominant US diplomat since Kissinger

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Robert Tait

Marco Rubio, you have come a long way. From being ridiculed as “Little Marco” by Donald Trump during the 2016 Republican primaries, the former Florida senator now stands – on paper, at least – as the US’s most powerful diplomat since Henry Kissinger half a century ago after his former nemesis appointed him acting national security adviser to replace the departing Mike Waltz.
US ex-ambassadors warn of slide into authoritarianism amid ‘climate of fear’

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Robert Tait

The US is treading the path followed by democracies who descended into authoritarianism and dictatorship, former ambassadors to countries that underwent autocratic takeovers have warned.
Tracking Trump - everything that’s happened in the president’s first 100 days

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Hugo Lowell |Joseph Gedeon |Joan E. Greve |David SMith |David Smith |Rachel Leingang | +3 more

Donald Trump has completed an extraordinary return to power as the 47th president, vowing to impose his vision and re-altering the political and cultural landscape of the nation. To keep up with the dizzying array of executive orders, directives, firings and policy changes, the Guardian tracked the major developments of the second Trump administration’s first 100 days, just like we did during the first 100 days of Trump’s first presidency in 2017.