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美国独立250周年 特朗普想青史留名？

2026年7月3日 17:00 / 联合早报

美国即将迎来独立250周年，总统特朗普不仅举办了多项庆祝活动，也同步推动了许多围绕首都华盛顿展开的建设计划，从白宫扩建到新的纪念地标，都成为外界关注焦点。

其中最受瞩目的项目，是白宫超级宴会厅。特朗普认为，现有白宫设施不足以举办大型国宴，因此推动兴建一座全新的大型宴会空间。不过，这项工程除了面临法律挑战，资金来源也成为争议焦点。《华盛顿邮报》报道称，项目实际造价可能高于官方最初公布的预算，而且超过一半费用可能由纳税人承担。白宫则否认相关说法，强调大部分资金来自特朗普本人及私人捐助者。

目前已经完工的林肯纪念堂倒影池翻新工程，同样引发讨论。工程耗资约1310万美元，原本是为了迎接250周年庆典，但完工后不久便出现藻类滋生、部分涂层脱落等问题。特朗普随后指控有人蓄意破坏，相关事件目前仍在调查中。

此外，特朗普还计划兴建美国版凯旋门，以及拥有250座雕像的美国英雄国家花园。不过，不少项目仍面临审批、诉讼和公众质疑。

点击视频，一起去看房地产开发商出身的特朗普，如何爆改华盛顿。

法国热浪期间 死亡人数一周升近三成

2026年7月3日 17:07 / 联合早报

巴黎市政府于6月17日开放圣马丁运河的部分河段（雷科莱特盆地）供人们游泳。6月25日，一群年轻人从桥上跳入圣马丁运河解暑。 （法新社）

据法国公共卫生部门数据，在6月22日开始的一周内，法国的死亡人数上升近30%，而这一周正是席卷全国的破纪录热浪的高峰期。

法国公共卫生部门星期五（7月3日）发布的报告指出，同期巴黎地区的死亡人数增加62%，卢瓦尔河地区也出现类似的激增。官员们预计死亡人数还会上升。

由于对6月份热浪的处理不力，总理勒科尔尼领导的政府可能在星期一（6日）面临议会的不信任投票。法国多地6月的气温升高至40摄氏度以上。极端高温扰乱了人们的日常生活，迫使学校停课，火车停运。

法新社引述法国公共卫生局说，与前一周相比，死亡人数增加29.1%，相当于新增2025例死亡，死者多为45岁及以上的人群。卫生局还指出，这一数字可能是“低估了”。

卫生局指出：“虽然45至64岁人群的死亡人数明显上升，但65岁及以上人群的死亡人数占比最高。”

居家死亡人数的增幅尤为显著，一周内几乎翻了一番。

一些政界人士认为，法国政府未能采取措施应对气温上升。

2003年，法国遭遇严重热浪，约有1万5000人死亡，其中许多是养老院的老人。

巴黎公立医院系统总干雷维尔说，他预计6月热浪造成的死亡人数将低于2003年，但“可能”高于去年造成5700人死亡的热浪。

法国热浪期间 死亡人数一周升近三成

2026年7月3日 17:07 / 联合早报

巴黎市政府于6月17日开放圣马丁运河的部分河段（雷科莱特盆地）供人们游泳。6月25日，一群年轻人从桥上跳入圣马丁运河解暑。 （法新社）

据法国公共卫生部门数据，在6月22日开始的一周内，法国的死亡人数上升近30%，而这一周正是席卷全国的破纪录热浪的高峰期。

法国公共卫生部门星期五（7月3日）发布的报告指出，同期巴黎地区的死亡人数增加62%，卢瓦尔河地区也出现类似的激增。官员们预计死亡人数还会上升。

由于对6月份热浪的处理不力，总理勒科尔尼领导的政府可能在星期一（6日）面临议会的不信任投票。法国多地6月的气温升高至40摄氏度以上。极端高温扰乱了人们的日常生活，迫使学校停课，火车停运。

法新社引述法国公共卫生局说，与前一周相比，死亡人数增加29.1%，相当于新增2025例死亡，死者多为45岁及以上的人群。卫生局还指出，这一数字可能是“低估了”。

卫生局指出：“虽然45至64岁人群的死亡人数明显上升，但65岁及以上人群的死亡人数占比最高。”

法国5月热浪期间超额死亡人数达300人欧盟监测机构：全球海洋创下6月高温纪录

居家死亡人数的增幅尤为显著，一周内几乎翻了一番。

一些政界人士认为，法国政府未能采取措施应对气温上升。

2003年，法国遭遇严重热浪，约有1万5000人死亡，其中许多是养老院的老人。

巴黎公立医院系统总干雷维尔说，他预计6月热浪造成的死亡人数将低于2003年，但“可能”高于去年造成5700人死亡的热浪。

Vulnerable House Dem’s bipartisanship push clashes with fantasy to ‘beat the s— out of’ Hegseth

2026-07-03 06:00:38-04:00 / Fox News

Rep Susie Lee, D-Nev., made the remark after telling Nevadans she wants to ‘work across the aisle’

By Alec Schemmel Fox News

Published July 3, 2026 6:00am EDT

WATCH: Battleground-district Dem says she wants to ‘beat the s— out of’ Pete Hegseth

Rep. Susie Lee, D-Nev., made the remark after saying she wants to be bipartisan and work across the aisle. (Credit: YouTube/SCS Liberal Club – June 1)

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Rep. Susie Lee, D-Nev., a swing-district Democrat who touts herself as a bipartisan dealmaker, told a liberal audience she wants to “work across the aisle” before saying moments later that watching Pete Hegseth testify made her want to “beat the s— out of him.”

Lee made the remarks during an appearance last month before the Sun City Liberal Club in Las Vegas while discussing rare earth minerals and her work supporting MP Materials, a Las Vegas-based company involved in U.S. critical minerals production. The comments come as she seeks re-election in Nevada’s closely divided 3rd Congressional District.

“I want to be bipartisan. I want to work across the aisle,” Lee told the crowd, according to video of the remarks. But moments later, while discussing Hegseth appearing before her committee, she said, “Now listen, it’s so easy. It’s so easy. Like you just wanna beat the s— out of him.”

SWING-DISTRICT DEMOCRAT FACES BACKLASH AFTER VULGAR LATE-NIGHT POST TARGETING TRUMP, DOUBLES DOWN

“But you got to bite it,” Lee said of wanting to “beat the s—” out of Hegseth.

Rep. Susie Lee (D-NV) speaks at a Dignity Coalition news conference on Capitol Hill on March 25, 2026 in Washington, DC. The Dignity Coalition is bipartisan group that has formed to support the “Dignity for Immigrants while Guarding our Nation to Ignite and Deliver the American Dream Act of 2025” (the DIGNIDAD Act or Dignity Act, H.R. 4393) which they argue is a solution to fix the immigration system in the United States.(Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

The Hegseth remark is not the first profanity-laced comment to draw scrutiny for Lee. In April, Fox News Digital reported that Lee deleted an expletive-filled late-night social media post targeting Trump after online backlash, then defended her remarks by saying her “nerve was touched” by what she described as attacks on the Constitution.

“Secretary Hegseth has made life less safe and more expensive for Americans. The war of choice that he and President Trump started has placed more burden on working families by increasing the cost of gas and groceries. And despite promising to immediately review Congresswoman Lee’s request to get Nevada Test and Training Range veterans the health care they need, Secretary Hegseth has dragged his feet for nearly two months,” a spokesperson for Lee told Fox News Digital. “Clearly, there are many areas in which Congresswoman Lee does not see eye to eye with the Secretary.”

Lee’s comments about wanting to beat up Hegseth came while she was teeing up a story to the Sun City Liberal Club about pressing the Secretary of War during a hearing on the Pentagon’s decision to invest in an Australian company while supposedly leaving a U.S.-based one out to dry. Lee said she appealed to Hegseth by telling him she believed in “made in America” and questioned why the Pentagon had invested more heavily in a different Australian company as opposed to MP Materials, an American one.

“Now listen, it’s so easy. It’s so easy. Like you just wanna beat the s— out of him. I mean yea, but you just got to bite it. So this is what I did – he came in front of my committee twice,” Lee said as she told the story about the rare earth investments.

“You got to lay on their ego, right?” she continued. “Well, three weeks later, they announced a $2 billion investment in MP Materials, okay? I didn’t want to be sweet with Hegseth, okay, I didn’t. But, you know, you got to do what you got to do to get s— done, right?”

U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth(Alex Wong/Getty Images)

“Congresswoman Lee set aside [her differences with Hegseth] on behalf of her constituents to secure an investment in a Nevada-based employer that will create hundreds of jobs in southern Nevada,” Lee’s spokesperson told Fox News Digital. “She will continue putting politics aside and working with anyone — regardless of party — to lower costs, create jobs, and make life better for her constituents.”

But Republicans took aim at the remarks as evidence that Lee’s bipartisan brand is at odds with how she talks about Trump administration officials behind closed doors.

DEM REP WHO WENT ON EXPLETIVE-LADEN ANTI-TRUMP RANT WINS PRIMARY

“It’s unfortunate for our Republic, near our 250th birthday of this great experiment we call America, that town hall comments like this reveal the truth, and Republican voters should be warned that Democrats, if they take over the majority, will simply spend their time going after President Trump and his administration,” said Mark Bednar, former head of communications for former Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy.

Republicans also took issue with Lee’s claim that her exchange with Hegseth helped spur a major Defense Department investment in MP Materials, accusing the Nevada Democrat of overstating her role while using the story to burnish her bipartisan credentials.

“Either Susie Lee believes her words contain the persuasive power of the word of God, or she’s making stuff up and being completely unhinged to boot,”said Republican National Committee spokesperson Nick Poché. “Nevadans deserve a leader who will work to deliver for them, not posers whose only objective in office is to improve their stock portfolios like Susie Lee.”

Democrat Rep. Susie Lee sparked backlash after going on a late night expletive-filled rant against President Donald Trump(Madeline Carter/Las Vegas Review-Journal)

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MP Materials eventually signed a major agreement with the Defense Department, including a $400 million Pentagon investment that made the federal government the company’s largest shareholder and other commitments aimed at strengthening the U.S. rare earth magnet supply chain.

Alec Schemmel is a Politics Reporter for Fox News Digital who is originally from Charlotte, North Carolina but now resides in the Washington D.C.-Baltimore Metro Area.

特朗普去年股票交易最高达24亿元 政策宣布前后频繁买卖引关注

2026年7月3日 17:14 / 联合早报

特朗普去年从加密资产中获利至少14亿美元引起外界哗然，他周四受访时坚称自己不涉及违法行为。 （路透社）

（华盛顿彭博电）美国总统特朗普披露的金融交易记录显示，他在2025年共进行了2万5000多宗股票买卖，交易总额介于6亿至18亿6000万美元（约7亿7400万至24亿新元），且大量交易是在他宣布政策后市场动荡之际进行，也包括不少涉及与联邦政府有业务往来的大公司。

彭博社对这份美国联邦政府道德办公室星期二（6月30日）发布的特朗普财务文件进行分析发现，他在重返白宫后第一年里每天平均进行85笔股票买卖，不过约25%的交易是集中在10个交易日里进行，当中许多都是在他宣布政策改变后、华尔街股市正经历激烈波动时完成的。

文件显示，特朗普的基金经理在去年2月3日执行了616单交易，这是他对加拿大、墨西哥和中国加征的关税即将生效的前一天。一个月后，即特朗普宣布取消这些关税的暂缓执行令后，他的户头又进行了640宗交易。

特朗普最频繁交易的股票包括英伟达、微软、Netflix和埃克森美孚等。他名下有八个交易户头，但未透露由谁管理。

这些户头的买卖也出现不协调的情况，当中200多宗交易出现同一只股从一个户头买入、却在同天从另一户头卖出的情况。混乱的交易节奏和庞大的交易量，促使批评者和监督组织对此进行密切审查，以寻找他可能利用总统职位不当牟利的蛛丝马迹。

特朗普申报去年加密货币收入逾14亿美元
特朗普决策信息疑外泄 白宫严禁职员内幕交易

特朗普在同份文件里披露，他去年从加密货币和迷因币相关业务中赚了至少14亿美元，经媒体报道后即引起各界侧目。他星期三（7月1日）试图淡化自己的获利，称自己在当选前就已经很富有，也刻意不跟替他管理投资的专人通话。

特朗普星期四（2日）在白宫接受美国消费者新闻与商业频道访问时，再被问及数码资产投资获取巨利一事，但他坚称自己并未不法涉及这些投资。

特朗普上任后即把家族生意交由两名最年长的儿子打理。询及自己对这些加密资产业务是否知情时，他回复说：“我可以选择知情，但并没有这么做。”

特朗普一度对加密货币抱持质疑态度，不过在2024年竞选总统时改而大力支持，上任后更推行有利加密货币投资的政策。

他说：“如果你观察这个行业这些年来的增长，有人相信，也有人不相信。但这无论如何都是一笔大生意，对于我们要做的任何事，我都要当老大。如今我们在加密业是龙头老大。”

特朗普去年股票交易最高达24亿元 政策宣布前后频繁买卖引关注

2026年7月3日 17:14 / 联合早报

特朗普去年从加密资产中获利至少14亿美元引起外界哗然，他周四受访时坚称自己不涉及违法行为。 （路透社）

（华盛顿彭博电）美国总统特朗普披露的金融交易记录显示，他在2025年共进行了2万5000多宗股票买卖，交易总额介于6亿至18亿6000万美元（约7亿7400万至24亿新元），且大量交易是在他宣布政策后市场动荡之际进行，也包括不少涉及与联邦政府有业务往来的大公司。

彭博社对这份美国联邦政府道德办公室星期二（6月30日）发布的特朗普财务文件进行分析发现，他在重返白宫后第一年里每天平均进行85笔股票买卖，不过约25%的交易是集中在10个交易日里进行，当中许多都是在他宣布政策改变后、华尔街股市正经历激烈波动时完成的。

文件显示，特朗普的基金经理在去年2月3日执行了616单交易，这是他对加拿大、墨西哥和中国加征的关税即将生效的前一天。一个月后，即特朗普宣布取消这些关税的暂缓执行令后，他的户头又进行了640宗交易。

特朗普最频繁交易的股票包括英伟达、微软、Netflix和埃克森美孚等。他名下有八个交易户头，但未透露由谁管理。

这些户头的买卖也出现不协调的情况，当中200多宗交易出现同一只股从一个户头买入、却在同天从另一户头卖出的情况。混乱的交易节奏和庞大的交易量，促使批评者和监督组织对此进行密切审查，以寻找他可能利用总统职位不当牟利的蛛丝马迹。

特朗普在同份文件里披露，他去年从加密货币和迷因币相关业务中赚了至少14亿美元，经媒体报道后即引起各界侧目。他星期三（7月1日）试图淡化自己的获利，称自己在当选前就已经很富有，也刻意不跟替他管理投资的专人通话。

特朗普星期四（2日）在白宫接受美国消费者新闻与商业频道访问时，再被问及数码资产投资获取巨利一事，但他坚称自己并未不法涉及这些投资。

特朗普上任后即把家族生意交由两名最年长的儿子打理。询及自己对这些加密资产业务是否知情时，他回复说：“我可以选择知情，但并没有这么做。”

特朗普一度对加密货币抱持质疑态度，不过在2024年竞选总统时改而大力支持，上任后更推行有利加密货币投资的政策。

他说：“如果你观察这个行业这些年来的增长，有人相信，也有人不相信。但这无论如何都是一笔大生意，对于我们要做的任何事，我都要当老大。如今我们在加密业是龙头老大。”

特朗普及盟友拟重塑美联储 撤换库克与鲍威尔

2026年7月3日 18:13 / 联合早报

美国最高法院星期一（6月29日）以5比4裁决，拒绝允许总统特朗普解雇美联储理事库克（图）。 （路透社）

美国最高法院本周的裁决，阻止了总统特朗普解雇美联储理事会成员库克的企图；但特朗普及盟友并未就此罢手，继续推动重塑美联储。

彭博社引述知情人士说，政府高层和外部盟友正在积极研究，如何撤换华盛顿的美联储理事会成员，以便安插更多特朗普属意的人选。

要求匿名的知情人士说，在最高法院暂时允许库克留任后，她依然是目标，美联储前主席鲍威尔亦然。

尽管最高法院的裁决强化了美联储独立于行政部门之外，一些观察人士指出，这项裁决的范围有限，并警告称，这不能完全保护美联储免受未来的政治攻击。

此外，知情人士说，特朗普盟友未因此却步，反而认为法院的裁决提供了一套程序上的路线图，说明如何成功撤换库克，因此正加紧推动相关工作。

特朗普星期四（7月2日）接受消费者新闻与商业频道（CNBC）访问时说：“我们将启动流程，我们将做到流程完美、程序完美。”

知情人士指出，亚特兰大联邦储备银行行长一职悬缺，政府亦视之为另一个扩大对美联储影响力的机会，财政部长贝森特正动用自己的人脉物色潜在人选。

知情人士说，特朗普经济政策团队把亚特兰大联储行长视为关键职务，因该行负责发布备受关注的经济增长等分析。

亚特兰大联储行长亦将于2027年参与利率决策投票。

5月31日，美国联邦储备委员会理事兼前主席鲍威尔，在马萨诸塞州波士顿的肯尼迪总统图书馆暨博物馆获颁2026年肯尼迪勇气奖后发表讲话。（路透社）

特朗普去年重返白宫后，多次公开抨击鲍威尔未能迅速降息，明言会选择一名更符合自己经济理念的继任者。他最终选择的沃什在获提名前似乎也认同特朗普的看法，即利率应该更低，后者是现任美联储主席。

然而，由于通胀压力再度升温，今年降息的可能性正逐渐降低。根据6月公布的预测，约半数官员目前认为，美联储今年可能需要加息。几名联储行行长是最担忧通胀前景的政策制定者之一。

鲍威尔留任理事

据几名接近特朗普的人士透露，鲍威尔在美联储主席任期结束后仍留任理事，仍然让特朗普大为光火。

尤其令特朗普不满的是，鲍威尔5月下旬接受了肯尼迪勇气奖。这个奖项表彰他对美联储的卓越领导，而鲍威尔在领奖时还赞扬国会“明智地使货币政策决策免受政治压力影响”。

美联储主席通常会在任期结束时离开央行，但鲍威尔选择继续担任理事一职，任期将持续到2028年。鲍威尔说，他留任后将保持低调，但在宣布决定留任时指出，政府持续对美联储施加法律压力。

知情人士透露，无论是利用监察长报告，还是通过其他方式，特朗普政府官员及其盟友都希望找到切入点，让白宫得以撤换鲍威尔。

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s wedding day arrives with Madison Square Garden under tight security

July 3, 2026 / 6:00 AM EDT / CBS News

After months of speculation and predictions, Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s wedding day is here.

The couple is expected to welcome around 1,000 guests at Madison Square Garden in New York City on Friday to celebrate their marriage, according to law enforcement sources familiar with the security planning. Festivities kicked off with a rehearsal dinner Thursday night, also at MSG, with about 100 family and friends on the guest list.

The couple’s big day will include the typical wedding rundown of a cocktail hour, ceremony and then reception, with the celebration expected to stretch into the early hours, the sources told CBS News. But that may be the only thing typical about this star-studded event, which was planned under the tightest secrecy.

Private security will be in place at the famous venue, and the New York City Police Department is expected to handle any influx of fans and paparazzi that show up. Streets directly around Madison Square Garden will be closed.

Guests should begin arriving around 3:30 p.m. via a special VIP area covered by a tent, the sources said, and the party was expected to go till 2 a.m.

The event will feature musical entertainment and crews were building a massive set inside the arena for the occasion.

“This is going to be an absolute, spectacular blowout,” People magazine editor-in-chief Charlotte Triggs told “CBS Mornings.” “According to a source, it doesn’t look at all the same inside. They’ve completely transformed it.”

So far, details from inside the venue have been hard to come by. But reporters have been watching for days as a parade of 18-wheelers delivered and unloaded supplies, mostly under wraps.

Workers hang draperies inside Madison Square Garden ahead of the wedding of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce as members of the armed forces stand outside. in New York City, July 2, 2026. Christian Monterrosa / REUTERS

It’s safe to assume the famed basketball arena and concert venue will be decked out for a one-of-a-kind celebration, celebrity event planners told CBS News, with one comparing the process to producing a “blockbuster movie.”

Triggs said Swift’s familiarity with the venue makes it an appealing option for the couple.

“I think for most people, this seems like the weirdest choice in the world, but for her, this is spot-on. It has total security. Also keep in mind, she’s very familiar with it. She performed there multiple times,” Triggs said.

The extravagant affair comes three years after Kelce attended one of Swift’s Eras Tour shows in Kansas City — and called her out on his podcast after he didn’t get to meet her.

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s relationship history

The Kansas City Chiefs tight end shared his disappointment about not meeting Swift on “New Heights,” the podcast he does with his brother, former Philadelphia Eagles star Jason Kelce.

“I was a little butthurt I didn’t get to hand her one of the bracelets I made for her,” he said, explaining he had a friendship bracelet with his phone number on it to give her.

That clip made it to Swift’s mom, Andrea, who would encourage her to meet Kelce. Swift was initially hesitant about dating an athlete, she said in the “Taylor Swift: The End of an Era” docuseries, thinking she wouldn’t know what to talk about.

But she soon learned she had plenty in common with Kelce.

“It’s shocking how many similarities we have towards our jobs and how we view them, and how we view each other,” Swift said in episode 4 of the docuseries. “We both have jobs where we go out in NFL stadiums and we entertain people for three and a half hours — his with considerably more violence than mine, but he’s not in heels.”

Swift said that while she had trouble maintaining a relationship in the past during a tour, she didn’t have that problem with Kelce.

Each of their passions “fuel each other,” she said. “Ultimately, we love cheering each other on.”

Fans took notice as Swift showed up to cheer Kelce on at NFL games, including the Super Bowl, and as Kelce attended several Eras Tour concerts, even making a surprise appearance on stage at a June 2024 show in London.

Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift embrace following the Kansas City Chiefs’ victory over the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl LVIII in Las Vegas on Feb. 11, 2024. Erick W. Rasco/Sports Illustrated via Getty Images

The duo announced their engagement last August in a joint Instagram post captioned: “Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married.”

In another clip from the docuseries, Swift described how she couldn’t have imagined the way her relationship began with Kelce.

“If you ever would have told me that the most meaningful relationship I would ever have would start with a man saying that he was butthurt that I didn’t want to meet him, like, unbelievable,” she said.

Anna Schecter, Richard Escobedo, Deanna Marie Lowe and Kerry Breen contributed to this report.

特朗普及盟友拟重塑美联储 撤换库克与鲍威尔

2026年7月3日 18:13 / 联合早报

美国最高法院星期一（6月29日）以5比4裁决，拒绝允许总统特朗普解雇美联储理事库克（图）。 （路透社）

美国最高法院本周的裁决，阻止了总统特朗普解雇美联储理事会成员库克的企图；但特朗普及盟友并未就此罢手，继续推动重塑美联储。

彭博社引述知情人士说，政府高层和外部盟友正在积极研究，如何撤换华盛顿的美联储理事会成员，以便安插更多特朗普属意的人选。

要求匿名的知情人士说，在最高法院暂时允许库克留任后，她依然是目标，美联储前主席鲍威尔亦然。

尽管最高法院的裁决强化了美联储独立于行政部门之外，一些观察人士指出，这项裁决的范围有限，并警告称，这不能完全保护美联储免受未来的政治攻击。

此外，知情人士说，特朗普盟友未因此却步，反而认为法院的裁决提供了一套程序上的路线图，说明如何成功撤换库克，因此正加紧推动相关工作。

特朗普星期四（7月2日）接受消费者新闻与商业频道（CNBC）访问时说：“我们将启动流程，我们将做到流程完美、程序完美。”

知情人士指出，亚特兰大联邦储备银行行长一职悬缺，政府亦视之为另一个扩大对美联储影响力的机会，财政部长贝森特正动用自己的人脉物色潜在人选。

知情人士说，特朗普经济政策团队把亚特兰大联储行长视为关键职务，因该行负责发布备受关注的经济增长等分析。

亚特兰大联储行长亦将于2027年参与利率决策投票。

5月31日，美国联邦储备委员会理事兼前主席鲍威尔，在马萨诸塞州波士顿的肯尼迪总统图书馆暨博物馆获颁2026年肯尼迪勇气奖后发表讲话。（路透社）

特朗普去年重返白宫后，多次公开抨击鲍威尔未能迅速降息，明言会选择一名更符合自己经济理念的继任者。他最终选择的沃什在获提名前似乎也认同特朗普的看法，即利率应该更低，后者是现任美联储主席。

然而，由于通胀压力再度升温，今年降息的可能性正逐渐降低。根据6月公布的预测，约半数官员目前认为，美联储今年可能需要加息。几名联储行行长是最担忧通胀前景的政策制定者之一。

鲍威尔留任理事

据几名接近特朗普的人士透露，鲍威尔在美联储主席任期结束后仍留任理事，仍然让特朗普大为光火。

尤其令特朗普不满的是，鲍威尔5月下旬接受了肯尼迪勇气奖。这个奖项表彰他对美联储的卓越领导，而鲍威尔在领奖时还赞扬国会“明智地使货币政策决策免受政治压力影响”。

美联储主席通常会在任期结束时离开央行，但鲍威尔选择继续担任理事一职，任期将持续到2028年。鲍威尔说，他留任后将保持低调，但在宣布决定留任时指出，政府持续对美联储施加法律压力。

知情人士透露，无论是利用监察长报告，还是通过其他方式，特朗普政府官员及其盟友都希望找到切入点，让白宫得以撤换鲍威尔。

Trump heads to Mount Rushmore, where efforts to impose his likeness have stalled

2026-07-03T10:00:26.645Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/03/politics/trump-speech-mount-rushmore

President Donald Trump returns to Mount Rushmore on Friday, and though the president has openly mused about adding his likeness to the storied national monument, it’s unclear if he can move the mountains necessary to make it happen.

He’s brought it up jokingly at campaign rallies, posted hints on social media and called it a “good idea.” He even raised the possibility with South Dakota’s governor during his first term, saying to then-Gov. Kristi Noem during an Oval Office meeting: “Do you know it’s my dream to have my face on Mount Rushmore?”

“I started laughing,” Noem recalled in a 2018 interview with the Argus Leader. “He wasn’t laughing, so he was totally serious. … I said, ‘Come pick out a mountain.’”

Though the president has spent much of his second term taking steps to impose his style and tastes on architecture in the nation’s capital and even has an airport now named after him in Florida, the buck might just stop in South Dakota. He would quite literally need to pick out another mountain — it’s structurally not possible to add a fifth face to the storied monument.

Mount Rushmore sculptor Gutzon Borglum wrote in 1936 that the stone had “serious” limitations.

“I doubt if it would be possible to change the composition, which is fixed, in any way to include a fifth head,” Borglum said.

Nevertheless, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, who oversees the National Park Service, said during an interview that there is “certainly” room for Trump’s face. And Trump ally Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, a Florida Republican, has introduced legislation that would arrange the carving, which she said would “reflect his towering legacy.”

The bill is currently stalled, and her office did not respond to CNN’s request for comment on whether Friday’s trip will prompt a renewed push for passage. The legislation has little to no chance at clearing the Senate, where it would need Democratic votes.

With or without a Trump visage, the president is returning to the national park — participating in a flyover, delivering remarks and watching a fireworks show celebrating the country’s 250th anniversary — in a vastly different climate from his 2020 visit.

Six years ago, Trump visited Keystone, South Dakota, at a moment of crisis. The country was in a worsening global pandemic with no vaccine as officials feared a surge in cases around the holiday weekend. And culture wars were raging, with protests over racial divides breaking out across the country after the death of George Floyd.

Trump’s Rushmore speech to a crowd of thousands briefly referenced Covid-19, thanking the first responders and scientists “working tirelessly to kill the virus.”

But it took a dark and divisive turn as he railed against cancel culture, which he described as a “political weapon” and “the very definition of totalitarianism,” coming at a moment when protesters were tearing down statues from Confederate monuments and other controversial historical figures.

“Our nation is witnessing a merciless campaign to wipe out our history, defame our heroes, erase our values, and indoctrinate our children,” Trump told a crowd of thousands on a red, white and blue-decorated stage in front of the iconic carving.

He continued: “Angry mobs are trying to tear down statues of our founders, deface our most sacred memorials, and unleash a wave of violent crime in our cities.”

Much of that 2020 speech centered on remembering the country’s past and casting it in a glorious light, and Trump repeatedly decried attempts to examine the faults in that past (a fact made more ironic by Mount Rushmore’s sculptor’s ties to the Ku Klux Klan). Trump made that message a hallmark of his 2020 and 2024 presidential campaigns. Shifting public sentiment on the issue, in part, helped propel him to victory in 2024, setting the stage for an aggressive cultural agenda in his second term.

It was also under the watchful eyes of Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln in 2020 that Trump first announced plans for a “Garden of American Heroes,” a sculpture garden honoring figures from the past.

The president signed an executive order to establish the garden, which was quickly rescinded during the Biden administration and then re-instituted in 2025. The project has a plot of land in West Potomac Park in Washington, DC, but none of its sculptures have been completed.