Trump Announces 'Golden Fleet', Judge Rules Deportations Illegal, Heritage Exodus

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<p dir="ltr">President Trump has announced the Navy will begin building a new class of warship named after himself. A federal judge has ruled the deportations of more than 100 Venezuelan men to El Salvador were illegal. And, a number of staff members have left the think tank behind Project 2025 to join a group founded by former Vice President Mike Pence. <p dir="ltr">(00:00) Introduction<br>(04:03) Trump Announces 'Golden Fleet'<br>(07:50) Judge Rules Deportations Illegal<br>(11:39) Heritage Foundation Exodus<p dir="ltr"><em>Want more analysis of the most important news of the day, plus a little fun? <a href="https://www.npr.org/newsletter/news"target="_blank" >Subscribe</a> to the Up First newsletter.</em><p dir="ltr">Today’s episode of Up First was edited by Andrew Sussman, Anna Yukhananov, Jason Breslow, Lisa Thomson and Alice Woefle.<p dir="ltr">It was produced by Ziad Buchh, Nia Dumas and Christopher Thomas.<p dir="ltr">We get engineering support from Zo van Ginhoven. Our technical director is Carleigh Strange. And our Supervising Senior Producer is Vince Pearson.<br/><br/>See <a href="https://pcm.adswizz.com">pcm.adswizz.com</a> for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship and to manage your podcast sponsorship preferences.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.npr.org/about-npr/179878450/privacy-policy">NPR Privacy Policy</a>