Trump administration deported the Venezuelans despite legal orders not to and claimed it had the right to continue flights once they had left US airspace

Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. I’m Tom Ambrose and I will be bringing you all the latest news lines over the next couple of hours.

We start with news that a federal judge has given the Trump administration a Tuesday deadline to provide details about plane loads of Venezuelans it deported despite orders not to, in a brewing showdown over presidential power.

Trump announced on Truth Social that he was ending secret service protections for Joe Biden’s adult children, Ashley Biden and Hunter Biden.

Trump also said the government would release all of the remaining classified documents related to the assassination of President John F Kennedy on Tuesday, something he had pledged to do during his campaign.

Trump also said Joe Biden’s pardon of January 6 committee lawmakers was “void”, and his press secretary later said, without evidence, that the former president may not have been of sound mind when he gave it.

Meanwhile, the CEO of the non-profit US Institute of Peace said Monday that employees of Elon Musk’s “department of government efficiency” had “broken into our building”, as part of an escalating standoff over the legal status of the Institute and whether Musk has authority over it.

Chuck Schumer, the Democratic senate minority leader, has reportedly canceled a book tour as he faces protests from members of his own party for providing votes crucial to the passage of a Republican spending bill.

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