Trump says 3rd term isn't a joke, despite term limit

"A lot of people want me to do it," Trump told NBC on Sunday.

Last Updated: March 30, 2025, 10:05 PM EDT

President Donald Trump did not rule out seeking a third term for president when asked by NBC on Sunday, saying, “There are methods which you could do it."

“A lot of people want me to do it,” Trump said Sunday. “But, I mean, I basically tell them we have a long way to go, you know, it’s very early in the administration.”

Meanwhile, tariffs on imported autos are to go into effect on Wednesday. While economist predict Trump's tariffs will raise prices in the U.S., his tariffs czar, Peter Navarro, predicted they would result in tax cuts: "Tariffs are tax cuts, tariffs are jobs, tariffs are national security, tariffs are great for America," Navarro told Fox News.

Mar 25, 2025, 8:58 PM EDT

DOGE now claims $130 billion in savings

Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency updated its website Tuesday afternoon, claiming to have saved roughly $130 billion in federal money through its sweeping ongoing efforts to slash the federal government.

Notably, DOGE's total alleged "estimated savings" has gone up by $15 billion after Musk's group went two weeks without updating the total number on its website.

Musk has repeatedly said that his goal is to cut $1 trillion. So far, DOGE is at 13% of that goal, based on the group's claimed -- and unverifiable -- total savings.

DOGE's Wall of Receipts now shows more than 7,000 alleged terminated contracts, more than 9,000 alleged terminated grants and nearly 700 alleged terminated real estate leases, reflecting roughly $54 billion in savings out of the alleged total of $130 billion.

DOGE acknowledges that the Wall of Receipts reflects a portion of the total alleged savings as it continues to work on uploading all of its terminations.

Also notably, while Musk and DOGE have claimed full transparency, this week's update removed some information, deleting most of the details listed for terminated USAID contracts, except for the dollar amount, with each USAID contract's description now saying, "Unavailable for legal reason." Descriptions for USAID grants are still listed.

-ABC News' Soo Rin Kim and Will Steakin

Mar 25, 2025, 8:08 PM EDT

Sen. Mark Kelly on Signal group chat: 'People should be held accountable'

Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) is calling for accountability in the wake of the Signal group chat fiasco -- where a journalist was added to a conversation with top Trump administration officials discussing a military operation in Yemen.

Kelly joined ABC News Live after attending the heated hearing in the Senate on Tuesday, addressing the security breach.

"You have an opportunity to get into a skiff that should not be done on an unsecured messaging app. I mean, how ridiculous and dumb was that?" Kelly said.

Ranking Member, Sen. Mark Warner speaks during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on "Worldwide Threats," on Capitol Hill in Washington, Mar. 25, 2025.
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"I think there needs to be an investigation and people should be held accountable," he added.

During the Senate hearing Tuesday, U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and CIA Director John Ratcliffe denied there was classified information shared in the group chat.

"People know the way this is supposed to work," Kelly continued. "And this was a very big breach of the way we handle classified information, discussing military strikes on a messaging app and then not being able to answer the questions."

-ABC News' Luca Balbo

Mar 25, 2025, 6:42 PM EDT

Trump administration sued over Signal chat

Five Cabinet members face a federal lawsuit over their alleged use of Signal to discuss U.S. military strikes in Yemen.

American Oversight, a nonpartisan nonprofit organization, filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday afternoon in Washington, D.C., alleging that the use of Signal violates the federal law that governs the preservation of government records, asking a federal judge to order the Cabinet members to preserve the messages.

According to the lawsuit, emergency relief is needed "to prevent the unlawful destruction of federal records and to compel Defendants to fulfill their legal obligations to preserve and recover federal records created through unauthorized use of Signal for sensitive national security decision-making."

Vice President JD Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and National Security Advisor Mike Waltz attend a meeting with President Donald Trump and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte at the White House in Washington, Mar. 13, 2025.
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The lawsuit, which names Pete Hegseth, Tulsi Gabbard, John Ratcliffe, Scott Bessent, Marco Rubio and the National Archives and Records Administration as defendants, asked a federal judge to declare the use of Signal unlawful and order the Cabinet members to preserve the records immediately.

According to American Oversight, the use of Signal violated the Federal Records Act and the chat reported by The Atlantic "strongly suggests" the Trump administration has used Signal in other settings.

-ABC News' Peter Charalambous

Mar 25, 2025, 4:59 PM EDT

President signs executive order over election rules

President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at cutting down immigrants without legal status on voter rolls.

Will Scharf, the White House staff secretary, said the order ensures that "the Department of Homeland Security and the data that they have available is being fully weaponized to ensure that illegal immigrants aren't voting."

The order instructs that federal funding be cut from states that don't take steps to "secure" their elections and calls on the Department of Justice to prosecute election crimes in states the administration says are not "in compliance with federal law around election integrity."

President Donald Trump holds up an executive order after signing it during a meeting with US Ambassadors in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, Mar. 25, 2025.
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It also calls for the election assistance commission to require documented proof of U.S. citizenship on mail-in voter registration. Documentation can include a U.S. passport, a military ID, a state or federally issued ID, or a REAL ID that indicates citizenship.

It is already illegal for non-U.S. citizens to vote in state and federal elections, and reports of noncitizens voting in elections are very rare, according to research from the Brennan Center for Justice.

-ABC News' Hannah Demissie

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