AMNA NAWAZ: Good evening.

I'm Amna Nawaz.

GEOFF BENNETT: And I'm Geoff Bennett.

On the "News Hour" tonight: Nearing 100 days in office, the Trump administration pushes further on its immigration crackdown, deporting families and targeting sanctuary cities.

AMNA NAWAZ: Peace negotiations falter between Russia and Ukraine over the war that President Trump promised to end on day one of his presidency.

GEOFF BENNETT: And people with disabilities speak out about the impact potential cuts to Medicaid could have on their daily lives.

KEITH JONES, Medicaid Recipient: What's at stake personally is my health.

And if you don't have health, you don't have life.

(BREAK) GEOFF BENNETT: Welcome to the "News Hour."

On the eve of the first 100 days of President Trump's second term, the White House put the spotlight on the president's tough stance on immigration.

AMNA NAWAZ: But new poll numbers out this week also give the White House a tough pill to swallow, showing a majority of Americans are not happy with how he's handling the job so far.

Lisa Desjardins starts off our coverage.

KAROLINE LEAVITT, White House Press Secretary: In just under 100 days, 99 now, to be exact... LISA DESJARDINS: Just one day from the milestone 100th day, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt brought in a guest on a signature Trump issue, border czar Tom Homan.

TOM HOMAN, White House Border Czar: If you're an illegal alien in the United States, this message is for you.

You cannot hide from ICE.

LISA DESJARDINS: The White House touted the administration's aggressive spike in arrests of immigrants suspected of being in the United States illegally, including two massive recent federal raids, more than 100 immigrants taken into custody at a Colorado nightclub this weekend and nearly 800 arrested in Florida over four days last week.

That's paired with more executive orders from President Trump, including one that directs the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security to publish a list of so-called sanctuary cities, more efforts to pressure those jurisdictions to cooperate with federal enforcement.

But the number of deportations remain below last year's levels and below the administration's goals.

TOM HOMAN: Am I happy when the numbers are good?

But I read the media, oh, ICE, the deportations are behind Biden administration.

Why?

Because they counted border removals.

We don't have 10.5 million people crossing the border.

We don't have border removals.

LISA DESJARDINS: President Trump has also suffered lower poll numbers.

The latest PBS/NPR/Marist poll to be released tomorrow shows 42 percent of Americans approve of the job Trump is doing, while 53 percent disapprove.

That's among the lowest approval ratings for a president's first 100 days.

As the administration's immigration crackdown escalates, so too has the backlash, including for the recent deportations of three U.S. citizen children, along with their mothers, who were in the country illegally.

TOM HOMAN: What we did is remove children with their mothers who requested the children depart with them.

This was a parental decision.

If we didn't do it, the story today would be, Trump administration separating families again.

No, we're keeping families together.

LISA DESJARDINS: For his part, President Trump told his naysayers in an "Atlantic" magazine interview published today that "I run the country and the world" in this second term in office.

Democrats see something different.

House Leader Hakeem Jeffries: REP. HAKEEM JEFFRIES (D-NY): First 100 days of the Trump administration have been characterized by chaos, cruelty and corruption.

America is better than this.

We should be able to do better for the American people.

LISA DESJARDINS: Looking ahead to tomorrow, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will take the White House Briefing Room podium to discuss the president's other top signature issues, trade and the economy.

For the "PBS News Hour," I'm Lisa Desjardins.

AMNA NAWAZ: For more on the story of the three deported American citizens, we turn now to our White House correspondent, Laura Barron-Lopez.

So, Laura, tell us more about these three U.S. citizens and what we know about their cases so far.

LAURA BARRON-LOPEZ: So, in one of the cases, it's two U.S. citizen siblings, a 4-year-old and a 7-year-old, who were deported with their undocumented mother to Honduras within 24 hours after being detained.

And that 4-year-old is a boy who has late-stage cancer and he had no medication with him.

The undocumented mother of these two children had a removal order for not appearing at a hearing shortly after she came to the United States as an unaccompanied minor years ago.

She was not aware of that removal order.

Now, in the other case, the third child is a 2-year-old girl who was referred to in court filings with the initials VML.

She was also deported to Honduras with her mother.

That 2-year-old is a U.S. citizen and they were deported roughly three days -- after being held for three days in detention.

And in VML's case, a federal judge said over the weekend it is their -- quote -- "strong suspicion that the government just deported a U.S. citizen with no meaningful process."

In both cases, the undocumented immigrant mothers were appearing for routine check-ins with immigration officials with their children.

And we have previously reported that there were other U.S. citizen children deported.

So, in all, under the Trump administration, by our count, there have been at least seven U.S. citizen children who have been deported with their parents so far.

AMNA NAWAZ: So you have heard the Trump administration say the children were deported with their mothers.

That's the mothers' request.

You spoke to lawyers for both of those families you just mentioned.

Now, what are they saying about the Trump administration's argument?

LAURA BARRON-LOPEZ: I spoke to Sirine Shebaya, who is representing the 2-year-old known as VML.

And she's also the executive director of the National Immigration Project.

And I asked Sirine about the comments that Trump's border czar, Tom Homan, made, specifically that he said that the mothers wanted their children to be deported with them.

And Sirine refuted that account.

SIRINE SHEBAYA, Executive Director, National Immigration Project: That is willfully misleading.

They did not request their children to be deported with them.

One of these children is 4 and has cancer and is undergoing treatment.

Neither of the moms felt like they had any choice in the matter.

And if it was truly a choice situation, then why forbid them from talking to their family members and attorneys?

If this was a transparent situation, where they could make a choice, then there would have been no reason for immigration authorities to specifically prevent them, despite many outreaches, from being able to talk to their family members and their lawyer to actually make that choice.

And it is a form of family separation.

LAURA BARRON-LOPEZ: Sirine told me that VML's mother, that's the 2-year-old, that that undocumented mother had no criminal history and that had she been allowed due process, she would have contested the removal.

Now, in both cases, there were legal custodians in the United States that were willing and able to take care of these U.S. citizen children.

But in both cases, requests for legal visits, for legal calls were either denied or ignored.

And I talked to the lawyer in the other case for the mother of the 4-year-old child with cancer, Erin Hebert.

And that lawyer said that the lack of due process is frightening and that in all her years working in immigration she fails to see any good-faith interpretation of the law for what happened to these U.S. citizen children.

AMNA NAWAZ: Laura, I know you have also been reporting on the fact that President Trump signed a number of executive orders today also focused on immigration.

What do those executive orders do?

LAURA BARRON-LOPEZ: So Lisa highlighted that executive order targeting sanctuary cities, which creates a list of jurisdictions that may not be fully cooperating with immigration enforcement.

And the timing of that is striking because it comes about a week after a federal judge blocked the administration from withholding federal funding from sanctuary cities in California.

That judge had said that the president likely overstepped his authority.

But we're also expected -- expecting the president to sign this afternoon an order that requires truck drivers to be proficient in English, to be proficient English speakers.

This is already a federal regulation, but the White House is going to direct the Department of Transportation to prioritize enforcement of this.

Now, I spoke to a truck driver for a grocery train.

He transports goods through the Northeast.

His name is Carlos Diaz (ph).

And he said that, yes, truck drivers absolutely should be proficient in English, so that way that they can read the signs and drive safely on the roads.

So he agreed with the goal of this executive order, but he was worried about the implementation and specifically the targeting of Latino truck drivers and said that truckers should be given time to meet the requirement.

AMNA NAWAZ: All right, our White House correspondent, Laura Barron-Lopez.

Laura, thank you.

LAURA BARRON-LOPEZ: Thank you.

GEOFF BENNETT: And we start the day's other news in Europe.

A massive power outage in Spain and Portugal brought daily life for millions of people to a complete standstill.

The outage affected train service, street traffic and phone service.

It's the second serious power outage in Europe in less than six weeks.

ITN's John Ray has more.

JOHN RAY: It was the day the lights went out, the day that the trains and much else stopped working, the day the 21st century seemed to head to the exit, along with passengers evacuated from Madrid's metro.

Darkness fell just after.

A massive power cut hit millions of people and took the Internet and mobile phones down across Spain and Portugal.

It stopped play at the Madrid Open tennis championship, robbing world number two Coco Gauff of her words... COCO GAUFF, Professional Tennis Player: Not get a lot of sleep.

JOHN RAY: ... as the electricity failed.

There were traffic lights on the blink, roads clogged, motorists urged to leave their cars at home.

In Bilbao, in the North of Spain, a cable car stuck half way up a hill, passengers walking back down, and in Alicante in the south tourists stranded.

JORDAN STEELE, Tourist in Spain: WhatsApp's down.

We can't get on the Internet.

It just keeps going off.

So it's a pretty difficult situation right now.

QUESTION: What's your plan for the rest of the day?

JORDAN STEELE: Going to try and see if we can use a card in this shop here, but it doesn't look like it's likely.

So we're probably just going to head down to the beach.

JOHN RAY: In Portugal, metro stations were dark and deserted, the roads crowded, and Lisbon Airport closed and chaotic.

These pictures were taken by a British holiday maker as he tried to make his way home.

JOEY HENSHAW, Tourist in Portugal: All the taxis and buses were dropping passengers off sort of in the middle of a dual carriageway with a bit of a walk to the terminal.

So there's this traipse of people with suitcases going up to the terminal.

And as I got close, I realized that they weren't letting anyone actually into the airport.

There were hundreds of people just left out on the hot pavement with the airport doors closed.

JOHN RAY: Back in Madrid, the regional president declared an emergency and put the army on standby.

Portugal blamed Spain's electricity grid and extreme temperatures for the outage.

GEOFF BENNETT: That was ITN's John Ray reporting.

Spain's prime minister said today there is no conclusive information on what caused the blackout.

Meantime, the president of the European Council posted on social media that there are no indications of any cyberattack.

Power is starting to come back online in some areas.

Also today, at the Vatican, Catholic cardinals announced that the conclave to elect a new pope will start on May 7.

They met informally today for the first time following the funeral of Pope Francis this past weekend.

The cardinals could have started the conclave as early as May 5, but they decided to delay the proceedings so they can get to know each other and to give more time to find consensus on a candidate.

Once the conclave starts, the College of Cardinals will sequester themselves inside the Sistine Chapel to elect the new pope.

In Yemen, Houthi rebels say at least 68 people are dead after an alleged U.S. airstrike hit a prison holding African migrants.

The detention center is in a region considered a Houthi stronghold in the country's northwest.

Footage obtained by the "News Hour" shows a scene of near-complete destruction.

There has been no independent confirmation of the death toll, and the U.S. has not acknowledged carrying out an attack in the area.

But the military says it's conducted more than 800 strikes in its monthlong campaign against the Houthis.

A Palestinian diplomat told the U.N.'s top court today that Israel is killing and displacing civilians and targeting aid workers.

The accusations came during the first day of hearings looking into Israel's legal responsibilities after it banned the U.N.'s Agency for Palestinian Refugees from operating in its territory.

Israel denies any wrongdoing and says the hearings are politicized.

The Palestinian ambassador to the Netherlands told the court that Israel's actions violate international law.

AMMAR HIJAZI, Palestinian Ambassador to the Netherlands: Israel is starving, killing and displacing Palestinians, while also targeting and blocking humanitarian organizations trying to save their lives.

GEOFF BENNETT: On the ground in Gaza, health officials said today that the latest round of Israeli airstrikes killed more than 20 people across the territory.

Israel has carried out daily attacks since ending its cease-fire with Hamas last month.

It is Election Day in Canada.

Voters are deciding who will be the nation's next prime minister in an election that has been offended by Donald Trump's tariffs and his calls to make Canada the 51st state.

That's fueled a rally in the polls for liberal Prime Minister Mark Carney.

He took over in March when longtime leader Justin Trudeau stepped down and has taken a firm stance against Mr. Trump's approach to Canada.

Carney is hoping that will be enough to fend off a challenge from populist opposition leader Pierre Poilievre, who himself has been compared to Mr. Trump.

Polls close later tonight with official results to follow.

In Memphis, an historic Black church that served as the organizing point for Martin Luther King Jr.'s final campaign caught fire earlier today.

Clayborn Temple played a vital role in the 1968 sanitation workers strike that brought the civil rights leader to that city.

The campaign's iconic "I Am a Man" posters were made in the temple's basement.

Before the fire, it was undergoing a $25 million restoration project.

Memphis Mayor Paul Young pledged today that the city will help rebuild the church.

On the Wall Street, stocks ended mixed as traders braced for a busy week of earnings reports and economic data.

The Dow Jones industrial average added more than 100 points on the day.

The Nasdaq ended lower, giving back around 16 points.

The S&P 500 ended just barely in positive territory.

And a new class of music legends will soon join the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Among this year's inductees, Chubby Checker, who in 1960 had the world twisting with his infectious recording of "The Twist" and the following year "Let's Twist Again."

Checker, who's now 83, has spent decades campaigning for his own induction.

Also making the cut as OutKast, the trailblazing hip-hop duo from Atlanta, and Cyndi Lauper, the flamboyant superstar of the 1980s pop scene, among others.

The official induction ceremony will take place in November.

Still to come on the "News Hour": we examine the effects of Donald Trump's first 100 days of his second term in office; Tamara Keith and Amy Walter break down the latest political headlines; and a Brief But Spectacular take on how motherhood can teach skills crucial for the corporate world.

Tonight, Russia is attacking Ukraine's capital, Kyiv.

Earlier today, the Kremlin offered a short-term cease-fire in Ukraine, but it wouldn't start for another 10 days.

The U.S., Ukraine and Western European allies have all been pushing Moscow to accept an immediate monthlong cease-fire.

Meantime, Russian forces appear to be slowly gaining ground in areas that could end up as part of a land swap.

Our Nick Schifrin joins us now.

All right, Nick, so what did Russia offer today and what has been the response?

NICK SCHIFRIN: The Kremlin offered a cease-fire that would begin, as you said, Geoff, on May the 8th.

The Kremlin said that it was based on humanitarian grounds.

But May the 9th just so happens to be the day that Russia celebrates the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany in World War II.

You see the images there.

It always includes a big parade in Red Square.

That's from last year.

Now, this year, Chinese President Xi Jinping is scheduled to participate.

And, today, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Putin was prioritizing peaceful parades over people's lives.

VOLODYMYR ZELENSKYY, Ukrainian President (through translator): For some reason, everyone is supposed to wait for May 8 and only then have a cease-fire to ensure calm for Putin during the parade.

We value people's lives, not parades.

We believe, and the world believes, there is no reason to wait for May 8.

And the cease-fire should not be for a few days, only to resume the killing afterward.

NICK SCHIFRIN: But it wasn't only Zelenskyy today, Geoff, who criticized Putin's proposal.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt reiterated that President Trump wanted to see the war end, or at least come to a cease-fire, right now.

KAROLINE LEAVITT, White House Press Secretary: He is increasingly frustrated with leaders of both countries.

He wants to see a permanent cease-fire.

I understand Vladimir Putin this morning offered a temporary cease-fire.

The president has made it clear he wants to see a permanent cease-fire first to stop the killing, stop the bloodshed.

And while he remains optimistic he can strike a deal, he's also being realistic as well.

NICK SCHIFRIN: And the reality, Geoff, is that Putin continues to reject the U.S.-European-Ukrainian push for a 30-day monthlong, unconditional cease-fire.

And, instead, continuing today, we see Putin and the Kremlin continuing a maximalist stance on Ukraine.

GEOFF BENNETT: And how are they conveying that position?

NICK SCHIFRIN: So, today, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov gave an interview in a Brazilian newspaper.

And he made two key demands.

He -- quote -- "wanted the demilitarization of Ukraine," effectively the end of Ukraine's military, as we know it today, and the denazification of Ukraine.

That is what Russia essentially calls regime change in Ukraine to get rid of President Zelenskyy.

And the Kremlin's statement said that the U.S. had to address -- quote -- "the root causes of the war."

And the Kremlin has clearly identified the root causes as the presence of U.S.-NATO troops in Eastern Europe going back 30 years.

Now, those demands are dead on arrival, not only for Kyiv, but for Western Europe as well.

But those are public positions, Geoff.

And we still do not know to this day what Putin and presidential envoy Steve Witkoff discussed on Friday night in Moscow, nor do we really know what happened at this meeting.

This was President Trump and Zelenskyy meeting in extraordinarily visual statecraft in the Vatican on Saturday.

You heard Karoline Leavitt earlier say that Trump was frustrated with both sides.

But after that pull-aside, Trump actually criticized Vladimir Putin, wondering whether Putin was -- quote -- "tapping me along" and whether Trump would increase sanctions on Russia, which we haven't seen yet.

GEOFF BENNETT: Yes.

Well, as this unfolds, what's happening on the front lines right now?

NICK SCHIFRIN: Moscow certainly claims a level of momentum, especially in Northeast Ukraine.

Let's take a look at the map.

Over the weekend, Russia claimed it recaptured the entirety of Kursk, which Ukraine partially occupied last August.

You see that in blue up top there.

Ukraine says the fighting is ongoing, but it admits it has lost much of what it captured.

Analysts at the Institute of the Study of War, who help us produce these maps, say that as North Korean and Russian soldiers have moved toward that area in Kursk that Ukraine captured, they have turned that into an offensive in the Ukrainian territory of Sumy.

Russia also said that it captured the settlement of Kamianka today.

That is in Kharkiv.

And you saw a video today of Russia flying the Russian flag in that little settlement.

The U.S. proposal actually suggests that, while the U.S. would give de facto recognition to Russian occupation in four territories, it would have to give back territory that you're seeing there that Russia has captured in Kharkiv.

Now, as I just quickly mentioned, Russia says that a lot of the progress that it's made in Kursk is thanks to North Korea.

And, today, for the first time, we saw both Moscow and Pyongyang admit publicly that North Korean troops have been helping.

And you see that video right there, the first video, official video released by Russia showing North Korean troops training in Russia.

Geoff, the suggestion that analysts tell me is that, given the timing of that video and these announcements at this sensitive diplomatic point, that that alliance between Russia and North Korea could well become part of leverage that Russia uses in the peace talks.

GEOFF BENNETT: Nick Schifrin, our thanks to you, as always.

We appreciate it.

NICK SCHIFRIN: Thank you.

AMNA NAWAZ: President Donald Trump will hit his first 100 days in the White House on Tuesday, a key period of his second presidency, defined by its breakneck pace and the chaotic rollout of an agenda designed to expand his authority.

Laura Barron-Lopez has our report.

DONALD TRUMP, President of the United States: So this is a big one.

LAURA BARRON-LOPEZ: Since retaking the Oval Office in January, Donald Trump has tested the limits of presidential power.

DONALD TRUMP: We have rogue judges that are destroying our country.

LAURA BARRON-LOPEZ: More than 140 executive orders signed, a record for the first 100 days, and tariffs on allies and adversaries alike, a growing deportation operation, and mass firings across the government, all at a pace that historian Mark Updegrove says has institutions struggling to keep up.

MARK UPDEGROVE, Presidential Historian: There's a muzzle velocity, this flooding the zone of activity that has come since he took the Oval Office.

There have been enormous gambles that he has taken.

And we don't yet know what the ramifications of those gambles are.

LAURA BARRON-LOPEZ: Impulsive and often controversial, just one month in, President Trump shocked the world... DONALD TRUMP: You don't have the cards right now.

LAURA BARRON-LOPEZ: ... when he berated Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in an explosive Oval Office showdown that forced allies to reckon with what could be the end of the transatlantic alliance.

DONALD TRUMP: You're gambling with World War III.

And what you're doing is very disrespectful to the country, this country... VOLODYMYR ZELENSKYY, Ukrainian President: I'm with all respect to you.

DONALD TRUMP: ... that's backed to you far more than a lot of people said they should have.

J.D.

VANCE, Vice President of the United States: Have you said thank you once this entire meeting?

VOLODYMYR ZELENSKYY: A lot of times.

J.D.

VANCE: No, in this entire meeting, have you said thank you?

LAURA BARRON-LOPEZ: And now the administration is threatening to walk away from the peace negotiations.

On immigration, Trump moved quickly to shut down the border in many legal pathways to enter the U.S., southern border crossings dropping to the lowest levels in decades, carrying out early raids in major cities.

Top immigration officials launched a P.R.

blitz to highlight the deportations and pressure immigrants to self-deport.

KRISTI NOEM, U.S.

Homeland Security Secretary: If you are considering entering America illegally, don't even think about it.

LAURA BARRON-LOPEZ: College students were also targeted in the dragnet, as the administration revoked visas from hundreds of foreign students involved in pro-Palestinian campus protests and has detained a growing number of legal permanent residents.

The targeting of undocumented and legal immigrants alike has set off a confrontation with coequal judicial branch.

After invoking the 18th century Alien Enemies Act, until now only used during times of war, the administration deported hundreds of Venezuelan migrants alleged to be gang members without due process.

DONALD TRUMP: These were bad people.

That was a bad group of, as I say, hombres.

LAURA BARRON-LOPEZ: A move that federal judges, including Republican-appointed ones, have described in rulings as shocking and a path of perfect lawlessness, one that courts cannot condone.

In an extraordinary response, the Supreme Court halted all future deportations under the Alien Enemies Act until courts can hear more arguments.

And they ordered the administration to -- quote -- "facilitate" the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was illegally deported to El Salvador, despite a court order expressly forbidding him to be sent there.

The White House taunting on social media that Garcia is never coming back.

MARK UPDEGROVE: Donald Trump has shown that he has disregarded at certain points of his presidency constitutional and conventional norms.

Will there be a continued defiance of court orders and what will that mean to our Constitution?

What will that mean to the future of America?

ELON MUSK, Department of Government Efficiency: Do you have a pulse?

LAURA BARRON-LOPEZ: Acting with Trump's blessing, special government employee Elon Musk has exerted unprecedented influence inside the administration, while vowing to take a chain saw to the federal government.

He's promoted Teslas on the White House driveway.

ELON MUSK: It's zero to 60 miles an hour in two seconds.

LAURA BARRON-LOPEZ: Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, claims to have cut $160 billion in spending since Trump took office, nowhere near the $1 trillion promised by September.

ELON MUSK: Some of the things that I say will be incorrect and should be corrected.

So nobody's going to bet .1000.

We will make mistakes.

LAURA BARRON-LOPEZ: And many of DOGE's -- quote -- "receipts" have been riddled with billion-dollar errors, deletions or falsehoods.

DONALD TRUMP: When you look at the kind of money, billions and billions of dollars being thrown away illegally.

LAURA BARRON-LOPEZ: At the direction of Musk and his allies across the government, nearly 280,000 federal workers have been fired or put on leave.

Most foreign aid spending has been eliminated, including the dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development, known as USAID.

And there have been major cuts at the Department of Education, the Environmental Protection Agency and others, like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

MARK UPDEGROVE: We have never seen the dismantling of government to this extent.

These programs are baked into American life.

And it's everything from the CDC to the FAA and to all these different things that we almost take for granted in our daily lives as Americans.

And we have never seen an axe wielded to take apart government to this extent.

DONALD TRUMP: My fellow Americans, this is liberation day.

LAURA BARRON-LOPEZ: And after promising to rein in inflation and lower the price of goods, President Trump unveiled sweeping tariffs on nearly all of the nations that trade with the U.S., before he backtracked, announcing a 90-day pause just hours before they were set to take effect.

DONALD TRUMP: Well, I thought that people were jumping a little bit out of line.

They were getting yippy, you know?

They were getting a little bit yippy, a little bit afraid.

LAURA BARRON-LOPEZ: Still, Trump left in place an across-the-board 10 percent tariff on most imported goods and 25 percent levies on foreign autos, steel and aluminum.

And he launched a bitter trade war with China, slapping 145 percent tariffs on most Chinese products imported to the U.S., prompting China to retaliate, all sparking chaos in the financial markets and, according to a majority of economists, raising the risk of recession.

MARK UPDEGROVE: We have not seen tariffs used as a weapon in the manner that Trump has used them to this point.

While this might seem like a good short-term solution to get nations to the bargaining table to get better deals from America, the long-term downstream effects of this remain to be seen, and it's an enormous gamble for America and for the world economy.

DONALD TRUMP: They weaponized the vast powers of our intelligence and law enforcement agencies to try and thwart the will of the American people.

LAURA BARRON-LOPEZ: And despite railing against what he called the weaponization of government against him, many say President Trump has made good on his promise of retribution, attacking all perceived enemies, stripping security clearances from former officials in his first administration and other political opponents, including Republicans, threatening law firms that worked on legal cases against him, punishing independent news organizations he disagrees with, and targeting institutions like Harvard University by halting billions in public funding.

Are there historical parallels?

Are there other presidents who attempted to go after their enemies in the same way that Trump is going after his?

MARK UPDEGROVE: Not to the same extent that we have seen from Donald Trump, no.

We saw from Richard Nixon attacks on his enemies.

He had an enemy list, but they were not -- that vengeance was not carried out to the same systematic degree that we have seen from the Trump administration.

LAURA BARRON-LOPEZ: President Trump has made clear he will move to enact his agenda with or without Congress.

But the near-daily court setbacks continue, as the judiciary questions the legality of some of his actions.

MARK UPDEGROVE: Donald Trump campaigned on the notion of making America great again.

We have seen him tear down much of what has made America great to this point.

What will he build in its place and where will its greatness lie?

DONALD TRUMP: Thank you, everybody.

LAURA BARRON-LOPEZ: Whether the chaos of the president's first 100 days becomes a hallmark of his second term, Updegrove said, remains to be seen.

For the "PBS News Hour," I'm Laura Barron-Lopez.

GEOFF BENNETT: For more analysis of the first 100 days of President Trump's second term and what's ahead, we turn now to our Politics Monday team.

That's Amy Walter of The Cook Political Report With Amy Walter and Tamara Keith of NPR.

It's good to see you both.

AMY WALTER, The Cook Political Report: Good to be here.

GEOFF BENNETT: So, Tam, we just heard Laura lay out the issues driving the first 100 days of President Trump's second term.

What stands out to you as you consider the president's agenda and his ability to execute it in this second go-round?

TAMARA KEITH, National Public Radio: Yes, so I spoke with a longtime adviser to President Trump who said that he's just more confident this time, that he knows how to use the levers of government and he's using them, and he kind of doesn't care about the consequences.

Yes, he is not happy about polls.

He has been complaining about his standing in the polls on his social media site, but he is barreling forward with policies, that the markets have indicated that the tariffs are a problem.

Voters, consumer confidence, there are loud flashing bright lights saying people are concerned about this.

But President Trump is moving forward with that.

And he also has shown, I don't think loyalty is the right word for it, but in his first term, he fired Michael Flynn, his national security adviser, very quickly.

In his second term, his national security adviser and defense secretary got tied up in Signalgate.

Neither of them were fired.

At this point, he's saying that, well, it seems like Pete Hegseth might figure it out or course-correct, but he's hanging on at least for now, at least through the 100-days mark.

So there is a -- there are differences.

And this adviser I talked to said, yes, he's been through knife fights before.

He knows what this is like and he's just more calm about it.

GEOFF BENNETT: Amy, Tam mentioned the polling.

A few weeks ago, Donald Trump was enjoying his highest approval ratings ever.

That has changed.

The polling averages, which we see on the screen there now, his numbers are in steady decline.

What stands out to you as you do a deeper dive into these numbers and this data?

AMY WALTER: Yes, his numbers now, which at one point were higher than they were in Trump 1.0, they were consistently higher as we went day-to-day comparing the first administration with the second, but now he's basically tied with where he was at this point in 2017.

I think the big picture answer to what has changed is that, while voters say they like the idea of disruption, they voted for a disrupter, they liked that, in practice, the disruption has been a little too much for them, especially on the economy.

As Tam noted, whether it's consumer confidence or opinions about Trump's handling of the economy, those are very pessimistic.

The other thing, when you look at some of these polls that ask, do you think his changes to the political and economic system have gone too far or not far enough, majority saying going too far.

Big picture as well as things, even on immigration enforcement, tariffs, cuts to the federal work force, and his approach to the presidency putting the nation at risk, that's a question that CNN asked, 57 percent of Americans agreed with that.

So I don't think that the door is closed for many of these voters on Donald Trump, essentially writing him off.

What they are saying is, yes, I wanted you to move fast and change things, but I'm not really getting the sense that this is working so well for me.

GEOFF BENNETT: And, Tam, with few exceptions, Donald Trump has not governed as someone who is especially responsive to public sentiment.

I mean, you could argue that they did recalibrate when the tariffs appeared to be a drag on the markets.

Based on your reporting, do you see the president or the administration taking any of this into account as they move forward?

TAMARA KEITH: Well, as I said, the president is certainly aware that his numbers are not in a good place.

And they have definitely in the past week been projecting, essentially to the markets, projecting negotiations are happening, there will be deals.

He's been very evasive about whether he's having conversations with China or not.

GEOFF BENNETT: And China says they have had no conversations.

TAMARA KEITH: China says they have had no conversations.

He keeps trying to imply that conversations are happening in the face of that.

And all of that is about trying to find an exit ramp from the very steep tariffs that, in the case of China, are essentially just an embargo.

No goods are moving, and back to school could end up being challenging or Christmas could end up being challenging if those ships don't leave at some point.

So they are certainly looking for an exit ramp.

At the same time, the president still really believes in tariffs.

And so that's the challenge is, he wants something.

He needs a win.

They haven't figured out how to get a win.

We are now a month into liberation day-month.

And they don't have any deals yet to show for it.

GEOFF BENNETT: Meantime, Democrats, to include Governor J.B. Pritzker, you have got Kamala Harris, Senator Elissa Slotkin of Michigan, they are all delivering what they have billed as major speeches this week pegged to the 100-day milestone.

AMY WALTER: Yes.

GEOFF BENNETT: But they're also, one imagines, trying to take advantage of President Trump's polling numbers.

Do you see an opening there for Democrats?

AMY WALTER: Well, and they're also taking advantage of a leadership vacuum.

This is what happens in this country when you're the party out of power.

There's no designated opposition party leader.

So, especially now, everybody's trying to flood in to be that opposition leader.

It's also a great opportunity to sort of float, not just your own name, but maybe your own stamp on issues or policies or what it should look like to be the opposition to Donald Trump.

Now, what we see today is this idea of fighting Donald Trump is taking hold, in part because this is what a lot of the base voters want.

But thinking about it for 2028, again, this will always... GEOFF BENNETT: A lifetime way.

AMY WALTER: ... which is a lifetime way, just to say that the importance of an issue or a style in 2025 does not necessarily translate to 2028.

All of this to say is, if you think that the way that these Democrats are presenting themselves now is setting themselves up for assured victory in a Democratic primary, I think you need to just hold back for a minute, but what they're channeling is this anger and frustration.

Certainly, J.B. Pritzker said at a speech this weekend in New Hampshire this idea that we need to basically take to the streets, fight Donald Trump and fight the Republicans at every turn is something that you're going to start to hear from a lot of Democrats at this moment.

Don't know what it will look like three years from now.

GEOFF BENNETT: And what are your Democratic sources telling you about this moment?

TAMARA KEITH: Yes, I actually -- the thought I had, and I'm sorry, it's not about my Democratic sources.

But if you go back to 2013, 2014, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio were the shining bright tariffs, going to Iowa.

They were going to be the Republican, the next generation.

They were going to be the future of the Republican Party.

And then something dramatic changed.

Donald Trump arrived.

And it completely upended what the Republican Party thought it was going to be.

You now see Ted Cruz, in addition to still being a senator, having a popular podcast that's very pro-Trump.

And you see Marco Rubio, as secretary of state, in many ways, sublimating his views that he expressed while he was a senator to get right behind Donald Trump and put his policies forward on the world stage.

So a lot can happen.

GEOFF BENNETT: Indeed.

Tamara Keith and Amy Walter, thanks so much.

We appreciate it.

AMY WALTER: You're welcome.

TAMARA KEITH: You're welcome.

AMNA NAWAZ: Congress returns to D.C. today with plans to move forward on a budget framework that includes some $1.5 trillion in spending cuts.

It would pave the way for President Trump's domestic agenda, including slashing taxes, but it could also include cuts to the federal Medicaid program.

One in three people with disabilities are enrolled in the program, which helps them access health care and live independently in their communities.

Stephanie Sy has more in just a moment, but first we hear from people with disabilities and their caretakers on what Medicaid means to them.

JESSICA SIBLEY, Mother of Medicaid Recipient: My name is Jessica Sibley.

I live in the Front Range of Colorado.

And I have a 10-year-old boy named Isaac (ph) on the spectrum.

And he is a happy, bright, beautiful boy.

KEITH JONES, Medicaid Recipient: My name is Keith Jones.

I have cerebral palsy, and I'm an activist advocate based out of Boston, Massachusetts.

DIANA VILA, Medicaid Recipient: My name is Diana Vila.

My disability is bipolar depression and I also have physical disabilities.

And I live in New York.

MARTHA HAYTHORN, Medicaid Recipient: My name is Martha Haythorn, 25 years old.

I'm from Atlanta, Georgia.

And I have Down syndrome.

Medicaid helps me access to transportation and to my community.

I don't want to lose my community, and I don't want to lose my transportation to even get there.

I'm extremely social.

I deserve to be there.

Without these benefits, I can't do that.

KEITH JONES: What does Medicaid look like in terms of my ability to function?

I need to have access to getting a wheelchair, having access to what we call personal care attendant, which is somebody who assists me with activities to deal with living, if I'm out in the community, helping me get in and out of places, helping meal prep, some of the very things that people would think are innocuous, but are essential to engaging yourself in the community.

DIANA VILA: I use Medicaid for a lot of things.

I see doctors, psychiatrists, physical therapists.

My care coordinator helps me make and keep appointments, especially because my disability.

Sometimes, I have difficulty concentrating and focusing.

So having someone who will help me coordinate my care is really important.

JESSICA SIBLEY: With the access I have to Medicaid, for my son's disability, he has access to lots of therapies that benefit him in life to become a productive person in the world, this tough world, because sometimes it's really hard.

And if we lose them, we lose our routine.

He loses that connection with those people who have helped us and has worked on this journey with us to get him where he is, and then we're almost starting fresh again.

KEITH JONES: What's at stake personally is my health.

And if you don't have health, you don't have life.

The ability to just be able to get out of bed, being a Black man in the United States, how do I mitigate these exacerbating health care conditions without medical coverage?

MARTHA HAYTHORN: Is it really worth taking away someone's benefit, someone's life, someone's accommodation?

My message to people who want to cut Medicaid is, really think about your own life and think about your own sons or daughters or nieces or nieces of people in your life.

Would you do the same thing to them in your own family?

DIANA VILA: I'm very worried about potential cuts to Medicaid, because my life would really be disrupted, and I wouldn't be able to do what I can do right now.

Now I can live in my home with my fiance.

And I'm six weeks away from graduation with a master's degree, and I'm very excited about that.

JESSICA SIBLEY: After getting diagnosed on Medicaid, after doing our first couple intense therapies, he was able to finally speak to us and repeat our words.

We saw more eye contact.

He said -- finally said "I love you" because he was repeating what we said and finally called us mom and dad.

I'm definitely worried about any potential cuts to Medicaid.

I don't know exactly what it will mean for us, but cutting any type of these programs would hurt us or hurt many families.

STEPHANIE SY: For more, I'm joined now by Alison Barkoff, a professor at George Washington University's School of Public Health and a disability rights advocate who has worked directly on Medicaid policy.

Alison, thank you so much for joining the "News Hour."

I want to jump right into this, because a lot of the concern that we just heard from people with disabilities is the fact that the budget framework recently passed by Congress requires the committee that oversees Medicare and Medicaid to cut some $880 billion from the budget in the next 10 years.

Describe just the magnitude of cuts of that size.

ALISON BARKOFF, George Washington University: Medicaid is the primary funder of home and community-based services.

Those are the services that allow people with disabilities to live in their own homes, to get out of bed, to shower, to cook, to go out and participate in the community.

And these services are critical.

They are optional for states to provide.

And currently we have 700,000 people sitting on waiting lists.

When we start hearing about cuts of the magnitude of $880 billion, what's really important to remember is cuts to state Medicaid programs will necessitate cutting optional programs, the first thing to go.

And my colleagues and I have just published a paper looking at this.

Every time there are budget shortfalls in states, even if states don't want to impact people with disabilities and older adults, they have no choice but to cut optional programs like home and community-based services.

STEPHANIE SY: President Trump has said over and over again that he has no plans to cut Medicaid benefits.

He says he's talking about waste and fraud in the amount of some half-a-trillion dollars, mostly in Medicare and Medicaid, that could make up for these cost savings that are required.

Why doesn't that put your mind at ease?

ALISON BARKOFF: There is simply nowhere near enough -- quote, unquote -- "waste" to reach the levels of $880 billion.

At the end of the day, the proposals that are being discussed are simply cuts to Medicaid funding.

And what they are going to feel like to states is big holes in their Medicaid budgets, forcing them to make very hard choices that will require cuts to services and to people covered.

STEPHANIE SY: We are hearing from Republican lawmakers things like reinstituting work requirements for Medicaid recipients.

And the CBO, as you mentioned before, says that could save more than $100 billion.

What do those types of requirements mean in actuality for people with disabilities?

ALISON BARKOFF: In the few places where states have put in place work reporting requirements, we have seen that they have led to large numbers of eligible people being kicked off Medicaid.

And, in fact, we have seen the red tape and the challenges of reporting hurting people with disabilities and people who provide them care.

It is a very cumbersome process for reporting, and in some places even having to report on a monthly cadence.

So we know that the reason it saves $100 billion, $200 billion is because eligible people will be kicked off Medicaid.

And, again, from states like Arkansas, from the experiment in Georgia, we are seeing that people with disabilities and their caregivers are absolutely hurt by these work reporting requirements, even if the intent is to exclude them and carve them out.

STEPHANIE SY: The Trump administration, as you know, has now proposed a number of other policies that could affect people in the disabilities community, the elimination of the Department of Education, changes at Social Security.

What is the general feeling among folks with disabilities right now under this new administration?

ALISON BARKOFF: When we're talking about the Department of Education, the funding through the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act is critical to helping people with disabilities participate alongside their non-disabled peers in their own classrooms and schools in their neighborhood.

Now, we just saw the Administration for Community Living, the agency in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that's focused on implementing disability programs, announce that it would be dismantled.

So we are seeing just a lot of critical programs, from community supports to education supports to safety net programs like Social Security and critical programs funded through the administration for community living, all at risk.

People are scared about what that could mean in their lives and certainly are out there advocating to make sure that these programs are not cut and that their rights are not violated.

STEPHANIE SY: That is Alison Barkoff, a professor at George Washington University and disability rights advocate, joining us.

Thank you, Alison.

ALISON BARKOFF: Thank you again for having me today.

GEOFF BENNETT: When Riccarda Zezza returned from maternity leave to discover her role had vanished, she transformed a career setback into a powerful new opportunity.

Her experience inspired her to found a company redefining how parents and employers approach life transitions.

Tonight, she shares her Brief But Spectacular take on motherhood.

RICCARDA ZEZZA, Founder and CEO, Lifeed: We associate implicitly maternity to a problem.

When women live for maternity leave, words are important.

We call it leave.

They leave.

Where do they go?

They don't leave.

They're there.

They're still there.

They're there more than ever.

In reality, it's a master in soft skills.

So, yes, you might be away for a while or you might be there less hours, but in the hours you're not in the office, you are practicing learning skills that you can use to work.

I am actually from Milano, but I was born in Naples and I grew up in Rome.

I was the classical career woman with a lot of dreams and expectations from my job.

And every job I did in my 15 years in the corporate world, I believed in.

I became a mother when I was 36, and it was almost unexpected for me to become a mother, but it was an incredible, amazing surprise.

I didn't know that becoming a mother could bring me such a strong sense of identity, such a strong sense of purpose and all this love.

So this happened in my private life.

And at the same time, at work, back from maternity leave, I didn't have a role anymore.

Basically, they excluded me.

I didn't lose my job, but I lost my role.

So I changed my company.

I changed - - I went to another company.

And I started as a manager.

And I was different.

I was better.

And that also surprised me, because nobody had ever told me that being a mother could make me a better manager.

I was sent to a business course in a very expensive business school, and the course was about managing crisis.

They made us fly a flight simulator to put into practice the crisis management we learned in the morning.

OK, good, good rating.

Let's go home.

I opened the door, and there is Marta (ph), 2-year-old, running towards me.

My crisis management simulator is at home presenting me new crises and new problems and new challenges and new delights every day.

I got pregnant again and I had my second child.

And it happened again.

A different company, a different boss, but I got demoted because of my maternity.

I was sent for an MBA when I was in a company, so companies accept they can tolerate an absence as long as it's for learning skills that they need.

What I did, I started studying.

I found all the evidence.

Together, with Andrea Vitullo, who is an executive coach, we created the learning methodology which we call life-based learning.

Consider all your life as a training ground for soft skills.

We had 100, more or less, customers so far, big brands mainly.

Everybody else is telling, you lack some skills, you have to take them from the outside.

We say, you have those skills, you have to take them from the inside.

We think that our life is like a cake, and the more slices we have, the smaller the slices.

I give a piece to my child, a piece to my work, a piece to my -- and they are smaller and smaller.

What we see is that we are like multiple circles, meaning that every role we have makes the overall surface bigger.

It makes us bigger, instead of having smaller slices.

My name is Riccarda Zezza.

This is my Brief But Spectacular take on motherhood as a master's in soft skills.

GEOFF BENNETT: And you can watch more Brief But Spectacular videos on our Web site.

That's PBS.org/NewsHour/Brief.

And, remember, there's a lot more online, including a look at why you probably aren't imagining it.

Your seasonal allergies might actually be worse this year.

Mine certainly are.

That's on our YouTube page.

AMNA NAWAZ: And that is the "News Hour" for tonight.

I'm Amna Nawaz.

GEOFF BENNETT: And I'm Geoff Bennett.

For all of us here at the "PBS News Hour," thanks for spending part of your evening with us.