Trump admin live updates: Judge blocks IRS sharing taxpayer data with ICE

Just hours before New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani and President Donald Trump were slated to meet at the Oval Office on Friday, the Republican-led House passed a resolution to denounce "the horrors of socialism."

The resolution, which is non-binding, states that Congress "denounces socialism in all its forms and opposes the implementation of socialist policies in the United States."

Mamdani has been a member of the Democratic Socialists group, which experts have argued are far from the authoritarian socialism practices of communist governments such as the Soviet Union and Cuba.

Eighty-six Democrats, including Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, joined 199 Republicans in passing the measure. Forty-seven House members did not vote.

The resolution now heads to the Senate, where it's unlikely to receive the necessary 60 votes to advance.

-ABC News' Lauren Peller and Allison Pecorin

The Department of Homeland Security is hiring "deportation judges" to make decisions "with generational consequences," according to a post by DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin.

In the post on X, McLaughlin said the jobs offer potential full-time remote work with salaries ranging from $159,951 to $207,500.

Immigrant advocates and the union representing immigration judges have called out the administration for dismissing at least 80 immigration judges since Trump's second term began.

There are now roughly 600 judges to handle the backlog of more than 3.4 million cases.

Last week, three recently terminated judges discussed the firings at an event in Washington, D.C.

"People believe that immigration courts function with judicial independence the same way that we think of most courts in this country, and immigration courts just don't have that sense of independence that most courts do," said former judge Emmett D. Soper.

The Trump administration has also changed the hiring criteria for temporary immigration judges, removing the need for prior experience in immigration law.

-ABC News' Laura Romero and Rebecca Gelpi-Ufret

President Donald Trump eliminated tariffs on agricultural products from Brazil with an executive order Thursday, his latest move to try to lower grocery prices.

This means key food imports from Brazil like coffee and beef, which were subject to 40% tariff rates, will now enter the U.S. tariff-free.

"After considering the information and recommendations these officials have provided to me and the status of negotiations with the Government of Brazil, among other things, I have determined that it is necessary and appropriate to modify the scope of products subject to the additional ad valorem rate of duty imposed under Executive Order 14323," the order said.

Earlier this year, the president slapped hefty tariffs on Brazilian imports over qualms with its government, specifically charges against former Brazilian president and Trump ally Jair Bolsonaro that the White House said were "politically motivated."

-ABC News' Elizabeth Schulze and Michelle Stoddart

Sen. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., a Marine combat veteran, slammed President Donald Trump on Thursday for his attacks against Democratic veterans who called for servicemembers to "refuse illegal orders," suggesting Trump was trying to distract from the Epstein files fallout and "doesn't understand" the military.

"He thinks the military is one of his personal little play toys ... he, for some reason, thinks that men and women upholding their oath is a contradiction to him as commander in chief - which, again, tells you he doesn't really understand his role," Gallego told ABC News.

Gallego, who did not take part in the video, said the Democrats were "trying to put out into the atmosphere to military personnel that, if you feel that there's something illegal, that you have a right to object. There's nothing that crazy. It's something that is entirely taught within all military forces."

Gallego said he is hearing "unease" from servicemembers about "what could happen" with future orders from the Trump administration, "not what's happening now."

--ABC News' Benjamin Siegel