March 14, 2025, 5:09 p.m. ET
Reporting from the Capitol
The Senate cleared a critical procedural hurdle to avert a government shutdown at midnight, after Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the Democratic leader, and nine other members of his caucus voted to thwart a filibuster by their own party. A final passage vote, ensuring federal funds will keep flowing, is expected this evening.
March 14, 2025, 5:00 p.m. ET
Reporting from the Capitol
Senator Brian Schatz, Democrat of Hawaii and an appropriator, has voted to proceed to a vote on the stopgap bill.
“Today’s vote on the continuing resolution was a difficult and close call, but, ultimately, I made the determination that a flawed bill was better than no bill at all,” Schatz said in a statement. “A shutdown would enable Donald Trump and Elon Musk to unilaterally determine that the vast majority of federal workers are not essential. And given the number of federal workers in Hawaii, mass furloughs would be deeply painful for people across the state.”
Credit…Kenny Holston/The New York Times
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March 14, 2025, 4:57 p.m. ET
Reporting from the Capitol
While President Trump was speaking at the Justice Department, the Senate started voting to clear the way for final passage of the Republican stopgap bill to avert a shutdown Saturday at 12:01 a.m. The vote is still open, but so far nine Democrats and an Independent have voted with Republicans to break a filibuster of the measure.
March 14, 2025, 4:44 p.m. ET
Reporting from the Justice Department
Trump’s speech ends with no major policy announcements. It served primarily as both a victory lap and public rebuke of everyone who once worked inside the Justice Department on the criminal cases against him.
March 14, 2025, 4:43 p.m. ET
Reporting on the White House
Trump’s language aside, the aggregate of the four indictments against him bothered some of his sharpest critics, who didn’t think all of the cases were worth prosecuting a former president over.
March 14, 2025, 4:43 p.m. ET
Reporting from the Justice Department
Trump’s speech at the Great Hall of the Justice Department ends with the pumping drumbeat of “Y.M.C.A.” by the Village People.
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March 14, 2025, 4:42 p.m. ET
Reporting from the Justice Department
Trump says he may never speak at the Justice Department again, and at first questioned whether it was appropriate. “It’s not only appropriate, I think it’s really important,” he said.
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March 14, 2025, 4:42 p.m. ET
Reporting from the Justice Department
Trump has circled back to his original complaint that he was unfairly prosecuted. He cites a famous legal phrase, “where law ends, tyranny begins,” and says that “somebody was allowed to attack viciously his political opponent,” and declares that era over.
March 14, 2025, 4:41 p.m. ET
Reporting on the White House
Two words Trump has not mentioned, in a rarity: the government-cutting effort known as DOGE or Elon Musk.
March 14, 2025, 4:38 p.m. ET
Reporting on the White House
Trump just took a break from his political attacks to commend Mexico’s strategy for combatting drug overdoses and fentanyl. He says Claudia Sheinbaum, the president of Mexico, told him about their advertising campaign informing the public about the health consequences of taking drugs. He said his administration will adopt a similar strategy.
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March 14, 2025, 4:37 p.m. ET
Reporting on the White House
Trump announces an ad campaign to combat fentanyl.
March 14, 2025, 4:35 p.m. ET
Reporting from the Justice Department
The fight against fentanyl, which often kills because people don’t even know they are taking drugs laced with it, has been one of Attorney General Pam Bondi’s primary objectives.
March 14, 2025, 4:33 p.m. ET
Reporting on the White House
Trump brought a mother on stage whose son who died after taking an illegal drug in 2022. She is describing electing Trump as the best thing that could have happened “to keep America safe.”
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March 14, 2025, 4:33 p.m. ET
Trump has again said that he imposed tariffs on Canada and Mexico in order to stop fentanyl smuggling into the United States. But both U.S. and Canadian officials have asserted that fentanyl crosses the northern border only in very small amounts. And Mexico, in advance of the tariffs being imposed, took great strides in cracking down on fentanyl labs run by powerful cartels.
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March 14, 2025, 4:32 p.m. ET
Reporting from the Justice Department
Charles Grassley, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is leaving the president’s speech. The Senate has just called a key vote on a bill to keep government funding going, averting a shutdown that would start at midnight.
March 14, 2025, 4:29 p.m. ET
Reporting on the White House
Fentanyl has wreaked havoc in the United States. Our colleagues in Mexico recently wrote about how Mexico’s crackdown on organized crime and drug cartels intensified after the Trump administration threatened retribution unless Mexico curtailed fentanyl trafficking into the United States. There are signs of progress: Mexico seized nearly as much fentanyl in the last five months as it did in the previous year.
March 14, 2025, 4:29 p.m. ET
Reporting on the White House
Trump’s first agency visit was to the C.I.A. in 2017, soon after he was sworn in. That speech was also a series of grievances, mostly about the news media.
March 14, 2025, 4:27 p.m. ET
Reporting from the Justice Department
Trump has reverted to one of the defining contradictions of his public statements, declaring that “all of our law enforcement is unbelievable,” a statement of praise that comes minutes after a lengthy tirade against what he calls the corrupt Justice Department, the corrupt F.B.I.
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March 14, 2025, 4:27 p.m. ET
Reporting on the White House
Trump is correct that illegal border crossings have declined drastically during the start to his presidency. Border Patrol agents recorded roughly 8,000 apprehensions in February, a steep decline from the previous month. That said, illegal crossings began to decline after the Biden administration imposed new restrictions last summer.
March 14, 2025, 4:26 p.m. ET
Reporting on the White House
Trump is saying new legislation wasn’t needed to lower border crossings, that all you needed was “a new president.” It gets applause this time just as it did when he delivered the line during his joint address to Congress.
March 14, 2025, 4:22 p.m. ET
Reporting on the White House
Trump is listing a number of statistics indicating crime soared in recent years. But murders and crime in general declined across the country throughout 2024. Robberies and rapes were also lower than they were before the pandemic. Aggravated assaults were still elevated from the pre-Covid days, but they trended down in 2024.
March 14, 2025, 4:21 p.m. ET
Reporting on the White House
Trump appears to have returned to the teleprompter and the announced theme of the speech: law and order.
Credit…Eric Lee/The New York Times
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