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Trump on verge of securing $70B ICE funding victory after House clears hurdle

June 9, 2026 2:43pm EDT / Fox News

House set to send Trump massive ICE funding victory after months of GOP turmoil

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President Donald Trump moved one step closer Tuesday to locking in immigration enforcement funding through the end of his presidency.

Republicans’ $70 billion immigration enforcement and border security measure advanced along party lines during a test vote of 213-211. All Democrats present voted “no” during the procedural vote, which tend to be party-line.

The Senate-passed measure now heads to a vote on final passage in the House, where it is expected to be approved as early as Tuesday evening. Given Republicans’ slim majority in the lower chamber, House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., can afford to spare just a handful of votes.

“We need to fully fund this department, especially at a time of heightened security threats,” House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., said Tuesday.

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson answers questions during a press conference at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on June 3, 2026.(Win McNamee/Getty Images)

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Some conservatives who want commitments from leadership to vote on legislation codifying Trump’s executive orders targeting illegal immigration and border security initially withheld their support during the test vote. However, the GOP lawmakers ultimately supported the measure’s advancement following discussions with leadership.

“We need to codify what the president has done across the board,” Rep. Keith Self, R-Texas, told reporters Tuesday. “So we’re going to fund the people who will try to keep the bad guys out, but we haven’t codified the actions to prevent them to do to come back here in three years or so.”

Tuesday’s vote came after the Senate approved the GOP-authored measure largely along party lines 52-47 last week, with Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, joining Democrats to vote against the package. House Republicans chose to leave Washington for the weekend rather than begin advancing the bill Friday.

Republicans have sought to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) for months amid entrenched opposition from Democrats, who refused to sign off on new funding without sweeping reforms.

“Giving a $70 billion blank check to ICE, who has a history of brutalizing, terrorizing communities, killing U.S. citizens, is not what we should be doing,” House Democratic Caucus Chairman Pete Aguilar, D-Calif., said Wednesday. “Those agencies need accountability and oversight. We should not be giving them more resources without also conditioning accountability.”

Democrats’ objections helped spark the longest shutdown in American history, though, in the end, the party secured no reforms.

GOP leadership ultimately decided to pursue the partisan budget reconciliation process to fund both agencies through fiscal year 2029, allowing the party to steer around Democrats’ opposition.

Trump initially gave congressional Republicans a June 1 deadline to secure funding for ICE and CBP, but intra-party opposition to the president’s $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization fund” delayed the measure’s passage. Some Republicans feared people convicted of violent offenses, including assaulting police officers, in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot could access taxpayer funds.

President Donald Trump speaks during a “Beautiful, Clean Coal” event in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., on June 4, 2026.(Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

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Meanwhile, Democrats labeled the funding pot a “slush fund” designed to pay off the president’s political allies.

A coalition of congressional Republicans also rebelled against the inclusion of $1 billion in security upgrades for the president’s ballroom project, which is already under construction. The president has previously said the East Wing project would be funded through private donations.

Key spy power on verge of lapsing after Trump appoints Bill Pulte as intelligence chief

June 9, 2026 / 3:59 PM EDT / CBS News

Washington — Democrats have accused President Trump of throwing a grenade into negotiations to renew a key spy authority — known as Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act — set to expire Friday.

Members of Congress in both parties have been critical of Mr. Trump’s decision to appoint housing regulator Bill Pulte as acting director of national intelligence. Pulte, who also leads the Federal Housing Finance Agency, lacks experience in national security and intelligence matters.

As Democrats warned that they’d withhold their support for reauthorizing Section 702 as long as Pulte remains in the role overseeing the nation’s intelligence agencies and some Republicans opposed an extension for various other reasons, House Speaker Mike Johnson met with President Trump on Tuesday morning about the law’s renewal.

“One of the reasons that the speaker’s not here right now is that he’s over at the White House working with the president to finalize this agreement on FISA,” House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, a Louisiana Republican, said Tuesday at House GOP leaders’ weekly news conference.

A source familiar with the meeting said Johnson planned to discuss Pulte with Mr. Trump. But Johnson disclosed little about the conversation when he returned to the Capitol.

“I’m not going to talk about anything we discussed,” the Louisiana Republican said.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, a South Dakota Republican, told reporters Tuesday morning that he thinks the administration is “weighing seriously making a long-term pick” for the post as GOP leaders work to break the deadlock on FISA reauthorization — adding that he hopes it comes sooner, rather than later. And Sen. John Barrasso of Wyoming, the No. 2 Senate Republican, said Tuesday that the White House has been consistent in saying that Pulte won’t be the full-time nominee, and GOP leaders have encouraged the president to name a permanent nominee who would go through the confirmation process.

GOP leaders will need votes from Democrats in both chambers for passage.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, a New York Democrat, said Monday that there were already challenges in renewing the law, which allows the U.S. government to collect the communications of noncitizens abroad without a warrant, even before Mr. Trump announced his pick to replace outgoing Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard.

“The negotiations prior to Trump’s announcement with respect to Bill Pulte were already in a very sensitive place. And then Donald Trump, as he often does, tosses a hand grenade into those sensitive negotiations by elevating Bill Pulte as a director of national intelligence,” Jeffries said.

He called for the appointment to be “reversed immediately” and added that there is no scenario in which he would support an extension of the surveillance authority with Pulte still in place.

Last week, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer railed against the pick for not just for his lack of national security experience, but also his “record of abusing his office to attack Trump’s political enemies.” The New York Democrat said “the timing of this announcement could not be worse.”

“This announcement and its timing clearly make passing an extension of FISA much harder,” Schumer said.

In a letter over the weekend to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who also serves as Mr. Trump’s national security adviser, the Republican chairmen of the Senate Intelligence Committee and Senate Judiciary Committee accused their Democratic counterparts of “walking away” from an agreement to extend Section 702 for three years. Senate Democrats voted against moving forward with a FISA extension last week, joined by seven Republicans.

“We believe this compromise would’ve received nearly seventy votes in the Senate and had a promising path in the House of Representatives,” Republican Sens. Tom Cotton of Arkansas and Chuck Grassley of Iowa wrote.

They asked Rubio to “identify all intelligence targets on which the United States may lose valuable intelligence information,” and “determine alternative lawful and constitutional intelligence-collection methods by which the United States could continue collecting intelligence on these individuals.” They also called on the White House, “if necessary,” to draft an executive order “to remedy the gap left by the lapse.”

Rubio wrote in response that allowing the surveillance authority to lapse would have “dire impacts” on national security. He urged Democrats to put “partisan politics” aside “before it is too late.”

Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, told CNN on Sunday that it will be a “very uphill path to convince Democrats” and said Mr. Trump’s decision was “self-inflicted harm.”

“Why would he throw a live hand grenade with this kind of controversial pick 10 days before its renewal date?” Warner said, questioning whether Mr. Trump wants the law to be reauthorized.

Rep. Jim Himes of Connecticut, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, who urged his colleagues to support prior extensions, said Monday that the Senate compromise could have secured more Democratic support than the three-year extension the House passed in April. The House-passed extension, which had 42 Democrats voting in favor, stalled in the Senate over the inclusion of an unrelated measure that prevented the Federal Reserve from creating a central bank digital currency.

“It’s a huge lost opportunity because the Senate bill had actually stronger safeguards than the House bill did,” Himes said, adding that Pulte’s appointment reduces potential Democratic votes in the House down to “single digits at best.”

Himes said he would likely vote against an extension if Pulte remains as acting director.

“Bill Pulte’s sole objective here in Washington is to promote the president’s political interests,” Himes said. “The right thing to do is for the White House to say tonight that Bill Pulte will not be DNI, and we pass 702 probably with more Democrats and a stronger bipartisan vote.”

Pulte has issued several criminal referrals to the Justice Department alleging mortgage fraud by a number of Mr. Trump’s political foes, including New York Attorney General Letitia James, Democratic Sen. Adam Schiff of California, Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook and former Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell of California.

Republican Rep. Don Bacon of Nebraska, who at times has been at odds with Mr. Trump, also said the president should reverse course.

Responding to Bacon’s request, Johnson told reporters Monday, “I don’t think that’s a necessary requirement of passing FISA.”

“Anybody that equates those two things is just playing with a dangerous situation,” Johnson said Monday.

A handful of Senate Republicans have also expressed opposition to Pulte’s intelligence role over his lack of experience, along with his efforts to launch probes into Mr. Trump’s political enemies. Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina referred to Pulte as “the worst form of sycophant” and said he would “hurt the president’s legacy.”

Asked Monday whether Mr. Trump should withdraw Pulte as acting DNI, GOP Sen. John Cornyn of Texas said the president has a choice.

“If he wants to get 702 reauthorization passed, that sounds like the price that they’re going to demand,” said Cornyn, who was recently defeated in his primary by a Trump-backed challenger.

He added that Pulte “has no obvious qualification” for the job.

Nikole Killion, Patrick Maguire, Seiji Yamashita, Jaala Brown, Jennifer Jacobs, Alan He and Olivia Gazis contributed to this report.

Social Security shortfall expected to accelerate, with funds at critical low in 2032

June 9, 2026 at 1:26 p.m. EDT / The Washington Post

The shortfall will be driven in part by a drop in immigration and Trump’s tax cuts, trustees say, resulting in trimmed benefits.

A person holds a Social Security card in Tigard, Oregon, in 2021. (Jenny Kane/AP)

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Social Security’s trust fund is now due to run low on money beginning in 2032. And in announcing that new date Tuesday, the government acknowledged that the Trump administration’s immigration policies and tax cuts are expected to contribute to the insolvency.

US Social Security trust fund set for 2032 insolvency, report finds

2026-06-09 17:40 UTC / Reuters

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June 9, 2026 5:40 PM UTC Updated 1 hour ago

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June 9 (Reuters) – The U.S. Social Security trust fund relied on by millions of American retirees will run out of money in late 2032 – ​earlier than previously forecast in part because of President Donald ‌Trump’s signature tax law enacted last year, the government said on Tuesday.

A Social Security Administration annual report projected the Old-Age and Survivors Insurance trust fund ​that finances retirement benefits will become depleted and no longer ​be able to pay 100% of scheduled benefits in the ⁠fourth quarter of 2032, up from the first quarter of 2033 ​projected in the 2025 annual report.

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At that time the fund’s projected ​income will be sufficient to pay just 78% of scheduled benefits, indicating beneficiaries will see a 22% cut in monthly Social Security retirement income.

Reserves for the ​related Disability Insurance trust fund – for those receiving long-term disability payments – ​should remain positive for the next 75 years, unchanged from last year’s findings.

The ‌two ⁠funds combined, however, will reach insolvency in the third quarter of 2034, also unchanged from a year ago. At that time the combined fund will have income sufficient to pay just 83% of scheduled ​benefits, a percentage ​that declines to ⁠65% by 2100.

The report found that the tax cuts enacted by Trump and the Republican Congress ​last year resulted in less income tax paid on ​Social Security ⁠benefits, depleting key income streams to the two funds.

The report also concluded that lower U.S. birth rates and lower net immigration also contributed ⁠to ​the change in the outlook.

The Social ​Security Administration is currently run by Commissioner Frank J. Bisignano, who was confirmed by the ​U.S. Senate in May 2025.

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Social Security retirement trust fund will run dry in 2032 unless Congress acts

2026-06-09T16:03:41.016Z / CNN

• Social Security’s retirement trust fund will run dry by late 2032, one quarter earlier than previously projected.
• At that point, payroll taxes will cover only 78% of benefits owed.
• The change in the forecast is due to several factors, including President Donald Trump’s sweeping domestic policy agenda package.

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Tens of millions of retirees and other Americans could see smaller monthly Social Security checks in six years if lawmakers don’t act to shore up the program’s finances, according to an annual report released Tuesday by Social Security’s trustees.

Social Security’s retirement trust fund — which helps support payments to senior citizens and survivors of deceased workers — is expected to be exhausted in late 2032, which is one quarter earlier than previously forecast, according to the trustees. At that time, payroll tax revenue and other income sources will be able to cover only 78% of benefits owed.

That means the next president could be faced with having to address Social Security’s shaky finances, which have long been considered a third rail in American politics. The issue could play a more prominent role in the 2028 presidential campaign if the projected expected insolvency date remains only a few years away.

The combined Social Security’s retirement and disability trust funds — are expected to be exhausted in 2034, the same as last year’s forecast, according to the trustees. At that time, payroll tax revenue and other income sources will be able to cover only 83% of benefits owed.

The Disability Insurance Trust Fund is expected to be able to cover full benefits at least through 2100, when the projection period ends.

Merging the two trust funds would require an act of Congress, but the combined projection is often used to show the overall status of the program.

Medicare’s fiscal outlook also worsened slightly. Its hospital insurance trust fund, known as Medicare Part A, is expected to be able to cover scheduled inpatient hospital benefits until the second quarter of 2033, one quarter earlier than last year’s report from the program’s trustees. At that time, Medicare will be able to pay only 89% of scheduled Part A benefits, which also cover hospice care, short-term skilled nursing facility services and home health services following hospitalizations.

Medicare Part B, which covers physician services and medical supplies, and Part D, which covers prescription drugs, are financed through beneficiary premiums and federal contributions that are adjusted annually to cover costs. Their trust fund is fiscally sound.

The Medicare trustees project the standard monthly Part B premium will jump to $209.50 in 2027, from $202.90 this year. The amount will not be finalized until this fall.

Some 62 million people received Social Security retirement and survivors benefits at the end of 2025, while 8 million Americans received disability benefits, according to the program’s trustees. More than 69 million people were enrolled in Medicare last year.

Social Security’s and Medicare’s finances have long been troubled, largely because the nation’s population is getting older and living longer. They will not run out of money, however, since current workers are paying payroll taxes, which support the programs.

The change in the forecast is due to several factors, including President Donald Trump’s sweeping domestic policy agenda package, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which he signed into law last summer. In addition to making permanent lower income tax rates, the law contained an enhanced deduction for senior citizens. The provisions will result in less tax being paid on Social Security benefits, which will reduce the revenue flowing to the Social Security and Medicare trust funds.

“Congress made Social Security’s finances even worse by giving seniors yet another tax break last year, while sending a bigger bill to younger workers tomorrow,” said Romina Boccia, director of budget and entitlement policy at the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank.

Other reasons behind the acceleration of Social Security’s insolvency date include reductions in the projected fertility rate and in the estimated number of temporary and undocumented immigrants in the US, the trustees said.

Trump’s deportation efforts have raised red flags among some Social Security advocates, who say many immigrants pay taxes even though some may never be eligible to collect benefits.

“This is the first Social Security trustees report that begins to take Donald Trump’s second term policies into account,” said Nancy Altman, president of Social Security Works, an advocacy group. She noted that his “hostility to immigrants” and tax bill, as well as other measures, are reducing the trust fund’s revenue stream.

For Medicare, the trustees forecast higher usage of certain medical services and greater spending in Medicare Advantage, in addition to the impact from the “big, beautiful bill.”

Social Security experts and supporters used the report’s release to renews their calls for lawmakers to address the looming shortfall.

Congress has been loath to do so since the fixes could involve some tough decisions. Plus, older Americans are an influential voting bloc.

The options include raising the payroll tax rate; delaying the ages when people can start collecting benefits or receiving their full retirement payments; increasing the amount of income subject to the payroll tax; and curtailing benefits or the rate at which they increase annually, among other proposals.

“This should be a wake-up call: Congress needs to act,” said Myechia Minter-Jordan, CEO of AARP. “Americans have worked hard and paid into Social Security their entire lives, and they deserve to count on it when they retire. No family should see any cuts to what they’ve earned in Social Security.”

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SPLC chief doubles down on placing Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA on ‘hate map’

June 9, 2026 3:11pm EDT / Fox News

Bryan Fair told lawmakers the organization ‘will continue to expose hate and extremism’ when asked about TPUSA

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SPLC chief pressed on decision to place Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA on controversial ‘hate map’

Southern Poverty Law Center interim CEO Bryan Fair defended listing Turning Point USA on its “hate map,” arguing the organization founded by the late Charlie Kirk promotes hateful views.

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Southern Poverty Law Center head Bryan Fair defended the left-wing organization’s decision to list mainstream conservative groups on its “hate map” during a fiery hearing Tuesday.

Fair, SPLC’s interim executive, doubled down on the group’s designation of Turning Point USA, a conservative activist organization founded by the late Charlie Kirk, as extremist when pressed by GOP lawmakers. Turning Point was listed alongside White supremacist and neo-Nazi groups in the law center’s 2025 “Year in Hate & Extremism” report released Tuesday.

The exchange comes as Republicans scrutinize the law center’s close ties to the Biden administration amid the Department of Justice’s pending criminal case against the nonprofit over alleged financial crimes.

“Will you recant it, or are you going to double down and say that these people, including the martyred Charlie Kirk, in fact, somehow deserve to be on your hate list?” Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., asked Fair.

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Southern Poverty Law Center interim CEO Bryan Fair defended the left-wing organization’s designation of Turning Point USA as an extremist organization.(Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images; Elizabeth Frantz/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

“Congressman, as I said in my statement,” Fair began answering, referring to his opening remarks in which he said he could not address certain topics due to the ongoing criminal probe.

“No, wait a second,” Issa interjected. “I heard your statement. I only want an answer to your question in the 11 seconds left. Are you going to recant, yes or no? And if you’re not going to, please don’t tell me it’s because now you’re under charges.”

“Your organization did it as much as 16 years ago. Will you take back any part of that?” the California lawmaker continued.

Fair replied, “The SPLC will continue to expose hate and extremism.”

The nonprofit head also defended Turning Point’s “hate map” designation when questioned by Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas.

“It is our position that TPUSA expresses views and vilifies other people based on immutable characteristics, exposing them to our listing,” Fair told Roy.

Roy said he would introduce legislation to revoke the law center’s tax-exempt status following the exchange.

Charlie Kirk throws hats to the crowd after arriving at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, on Sept. 10, 2025.(Trent Nelson/The Salt Lake Tribune/Getty Images)

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Turning Point spokesman Andrew Kolvet slammed Fair’s remarks in a post on social media. “Badge of honor,” Kolvet wrote in a statement following the exchange. “Screw the SPLC.”

The hearing came after the Justice Department filed an 11-count indictment against the law center in April over allegedly defrauding its donors by concealing payments to informants within extremist organizations while publicly professing to combat racism.

Fair has denied any wrongdoing and has argued the DOJ charges are politically motivated.

He also dismissed GOP criticisms that the organization has unfairly labeled conservative groups as extremist while ignoring left-wing groups that espouse antisemitism.

Fair struggled to answer Tuesday when asked by Roy if the law center has labeled any anti-Israel or Islamist groups as extremist.

“Some say we’ve lost our way,” Fair told lawmakers. “That’s false. We’ve never lost our North Star: a fair and just society for every person. All our programs advance that mission.”

Democrats largely defended the law center during the contentious hearing.

Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, vowed Tuesday to introduce legislation revoking the SPLC’s tax-exempt status.(Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc. via Getty Images)

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“The SPLC is an enduring institutional beacon of hope for millions of people seeking to create a more perfect union,” House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., said in his opening statement. “The Trump administration is thus naturally trying to tear it down.”

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Vance: Iran deal could happen in a week or months from now — but “absolutely” before midterms

June 9, 2026 / 3:37 PM EDT / CBS News

Vice President JD Vance said the U.S. is “very close” to reaching a deal that would address Iran’s nuclear program “for the long term,” but that it could come next week or months from now.

“Right now, I feel that we are in a position to get a deal that is good for the United States economically and that really does deal with the Iranian nuclear program, not just now, not just while Donald Trump is president, but for the long term, to where my kids can say when they’re adults, ‘Iran is not going to have a nuclear weapon,’” Vance told Robert Costa in an interview airing this week on “CBS Sunday Morning.”

“That’s the goal of the policy. And I think we’re very close to achieving that goal. But we still got some wood to chop. We’re going to keep doing it,” he added.

Vance said the deal would “absolutely” come before November’s midterm elections.

“I think we’re going to know a lot before the midterm elections,” he said. “Look, I think that the deal could happen in the next week, but the deal could also happen months from now.”

President Trump has also suggested a shorter timeline for an agreement, saying early Tuesday that negotiations with Iran were in their “final throes,” with a deal possible in “two or three days.” Later, however, he said Iranians had shot down an Apache helicopter that crashed near the Strait of Hormuz on Monday and vowed that the U.S. would respond.

The two Apache crew members were rescued by a sea drone in the first such operation ever carried out by the U.S. military, officials told CBS News. They weren’t injured in the crash.

Vance told Costa he didn’t believe the Iranians were stringing President Trump along.

“Again, I think their system takes a long time to reach consensus. I always hear people ask me, ‘Do you trust the Iranians?’ And what the president has said is: ‘I don’t trust anybody. I don’t trust anybody. What I do trust is my own ability to negotiate. I trust our administration’s ability to negotiate, and I trust the enforcement provisions that we’re going to get in place,’” Vance said.

Watch more of Vice President JD Vance’s interview on “CBS Sunday Morning” on June 14 at 9 a.m. on CBS stations and streaming on Paramount+.

https://www.cbsnews.com/video/vance-says-u-s-very-close-to-deal-with-iran-could-come-in-a-week-or-months/

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世界杯开幕日 墨西哥城学校停课 公务员居家办公

2026年6月9日 23:26 / 联合早报

墨西哥总统辛鲍姆（前排左二）在星期一出席墨西哥国家队出征世界杯的授旗礼，为球队打气。 （法新社）

（墨西哥城路透电）墨西哥总统辛鲍姆星期二（6月9日）发布一项法令，命令首都墨西哥城的联邦工作人员在6月11日居家办公，并暂停学校课程，以缓解国际足联世界杯开幕活动期间的交通压力。

这项法令旨在改善城市交通和道路安全，因为墨西哥城将于当地时间6月11日（新加坡时间6月12日凌晨）主办世界杯揭幕战及相关活动，预计开幕活动将吸引大量访客。

联邦机构必须为墨西哥城的工作人员实施远程工作方案，但医疗保健、安全、关键基础设施和世界杯运营等基本服务除外。

根据法令，从学前班到大学，所有公立和私立学校都将停课一天。政府还敦促私营公司采取类似的远程工作安排。

当天墨西哥将在墨西哥城体育场迎来世界杯第一场比赛，在A组对垒南非。这样的对阵也重演了2010年南非世界杯揭幕战，当时墨西哥4比2胜出。

在揭幕战之前90分钟，现场将举行盛大的开幕典礼。再一次成为世界杯主题曲演唱者的哥伦比亚拉丁天后夏奇拉（Shakira）将首次现场演唱主题曲“Dai Dai”。而另两个世界杯主办国美国和加拿大，也将在他们的第一场比赛前，举办各自的开幕典礼。

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台中市长卢秀燕（左五）当地时间星期一（6月8日）听取柏林副市长艾佛斯（左三）介绍以乐高积木拼成的柏林市政厅模型。 （卢秀燕脸书截图）

台湾台中市长卢秀燕上周开启访问欧洲行程，当地时间星期一（6月8日）抵达欧洲行的首站德国柏林。她在社交平台发文称，这次访问欧洲，是希望为台中市寻找更多国际合作机会。这是卢秀燕继今年3月访美后，再次出访。

卢秀燕星期二（9日）在脸书写道，这次出访不只是城市交流，更希望为台中寻找更多国际合作机会，让世界看见台中，也把世界的成功经验带回台中。

她指出，城市外交不是一次拜访，而是为城市的未来铺路。每一步交流，都是为台中的下一步累积更多机会。

卢秀燕星期一抵达这趟欧洲行的首站德国柏林，与曾四次访台的布兰登堡邦议会副议长格尼尔克（Rainer Genilke）会面。

此外，卢秀燕也与柏林副市长艾佛斯（Stefan Evers）、文化厅副厅长史特司麦雅（Alexander Straßmeir）会面。

卢秀燕称，双方针对智慧城市、公共运输、绿能转型、产业创新及人才培育等议题深入交换意见，也分享彼此在城市治理上的经验。

台中市政府上星期六（6日）发布新闻稿介绍卢秀燕这趟欧洲访问行程。

根据新闻稿，卢秀燕当天起率团，直至6月15日出访德国、捷克和奥地利，展开为期10天的城市外交行程。

卢秀燕表示，这次出访主要聚焦民主交流、城市治理与经贸合作三大任务，盼深化台中与欧洲各界实质交流，也为台湾产业拓展更多国际合作机会。

她指出，首要任务是拜会当地政要及国会议员，针对国际情势进行意见交流。台湾与上述欧洲三国都热爱民主自由，并拥有共同的价值与理念，期盼借这次出访，加深并加强与民主盟友的关系。

卢秀燕称，第二项任务是拜访与台中友好的欧洲城市，透过城市治理经验交流，互相学习、分享做法。第三项任务是拓展非美市场、扩大欧洲商机。德国、捷克与奥地利都有良好的工业体系，期盼借这次出访，加深双方在经贸与产业上的合作。