Louisiana voted for Trump. But it also relies heavily on Medicaid benefits, which are set to face steep cuts under the president's new One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

The Senate passed Trump’s so-called “big, beautiful bill” after a 26-hour marathon of negotiations during which Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski, as she put it later, “struggled mightily” to soften the biggest funding blows to her state before ultimately casting a vote that guaranteed its passage.

Mahmoud Khalil filed a $20 million claim against the Trump administration, alleging he was falsely imprisoned and maliciously prosecuted as the government sought to deport him over his prominent role in campus protests.