| As President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk’s relationship collapsed this week, it threatened efforts to extend Trump’s tax cuts, the transport of astronauts to the International Space Station, a source of Republicans’ funding for the midterm elections, and even perhaps free speech itself. Legal experts noted how Trump threatened to cut billions in government funding for Musk’s business interests after the very public feud. A lot of other things happened this week under Trump, including major policy changes. Here’s a rundown of the big ones. Trump has a new, broader travel ban Trump announced a sweeping travel ban on a seemingly grab bag of nearly two dozen countries, many in Africa and some with majority-Muslim populations. The administration argues the move is necessary to “ensure those admitted to the country do not bear hostile attitudes toward its citizens, culture, government, institutions, or founding principles.” Human rights groups say the step is politically motivated, aimed at fulfilling Trump’s campaign promise to severely limit immigration, rather than based on any sound policy.  |  | | | Muzaffar Chishti, an attorney with the nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute who has watched the litigation over these travel bans closely, thinks it’s likely that the Supreme Court will uphold the move, as it did in Trump’s first term when he instituted a travel ban on several Muslim-majority countries. Chishti said the bigger issue is that the latest order sends a message to the rest of the world that the U.S. is no longer a welcoming place. “He is challenging fundamental assumptions of the construction of our society,” Chisthi said. “This is not normal.” Steel and aluminum tariffs doubled Trump has, for now, backed off on higher tariffs on everything from cars to fertilizer, but not on aluminum and steel. This week, he doubled tariffs on the imported metals to 50 percent, saying it was to protect the U.S. Steel industry. But it could end up hurting manufacturing in America. Many U.S. businesses still import parts, and there are American companies that rely on specialized metals they can’t make here in the U.S., reports The Washington Post’s Abha Bhattarai. It could also take a while for American-made companies to produce enough to meet demand. It could mean coffee tins, soda cans and large construction projects soon get more expensive. As economist Gary Clyde Hufbauer with the Peterson Institute for International Economics told Abha: “Aluminum goes into all kinds of products — aircraft, autos, construction — and steel is used throughout the economy, so you’re talking higher prices and lost jobs across the U.S. manufacturing industry.” So far, though, the overall economy has weathered the trade war, reports The Post’s Lauren Kaori Gurley, with government data this week showing that while there are increasing layoffs, the labor market remains somewhat stable. Trump starts separating families While the courts have said the president has a lot of leeway to block people from coming into the country, Trump is having much less success in the courts trying to kick people out. “On all immigration-removal issues,” said Chisthi of the Migration Policy Institute, “the president has been met with a uniformly rebellious judiciary.” This week alone, there have been several instances of the judicial branch pushing back. One judge blocked the administration’s attempts to deport the wife and children of a man accused of throwing molotov cocktails at Israeli supporters in Boulder, Colorado. Another judge said that the Venezuelans whisked away to a brutal Salvadoran prison under the wartime Alien Enemies Act can challenge their detention and ordered the government to give them opportunities to do so. The Trump administration even appeared to acknowledge a mistake by returning a Guatemalan man who was wrongly deported to Mexico, reports The Post’s Maria Sacchetti. A judge overseeing that case said the man’s deportation likely “lacked due process,” or the ability for him to challenge his deportation before it happened. Kilmar Abrego García, whose wrongful deportation is the best-known case, is also back to the U.S., as of this week. But his story is far from done: He will face criminal charges for allegedly transporting undocumented immigrants stemming from a 2022 traffic stop in Tennessee. These court losses haven’t stopped Trump’s efforts to deport as many immigrants as possible — including undocumented immigrants, green-card holders and, more recently, children. Immigration officials have taken hundreds of children who crossed the border alone from their homes, CNN reports, and they are trying to track down more, arguing they may be in unsafe situations. There are growing reports of children being arrested — or their parents arrested in front of them — and either detained for months or deported in a matter of hours. Trump ends emergency abortion protections After the Supreme Court ended the national right to abortion, the Biden administration did what it could without an act of Congress: It asserted that a decades-old federal law guaranteeing emergency care for patients, allowing them to receive abortions in an emergency, even in states that banned it. This week, the Trump administration rescinded that rule. It means there’s a lot more uncertainty around what constitutes a legal lifesaving procedure for a pregnant woman. And it’s likely that providers in states with very restrictive laws will be uneasy to intervene care in emergencies, an expert told The Post’s Praveena Somasundaram. | 
