PITTSBURGH (AP) — Mike Tomlin, as always, got right to the point.
“When you don’t get it done, words are cheap,” a subdued Tomlin said Monday night after the Pittsburgh Steelers were quickly ushered out of the playoffs again, this time in a 30-6 loss to Houston. “It’s about what you do or you don’t do.”
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Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Dk Metcalf sits on the bench during the second half of an NFL wild-card playoff football game against the Houston Texans, Monday, Jan. 12, 2026, in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
Houston Texans running back Woody Marks (27) is tackled by Pittsburgh Steelers inebacker T.J. Watt (90) during the first half of NFL wild-card playoff football game, Monday, Jan. 12, 2026, in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Aaron Rodgers speaks during a press conference after an NFL wild-card playoff football game against the Houston Texans, Monday, Jan. 12, 2026, in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin, right, stands on the sideline during the first half of NFL wild-card playoff football game against the Houston Texans, Monday, Jan. 12, 2026, in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
And now it's someone else's turn to try to do it in Pittsburgh.
The NFL's longest-tenured head coach stepped down on Tuesday, when one of the league's marquee franchises set a new course amid a postseason victory drought that is nearing a decade.
Tomlin's decision came less than 24 hours after a season that felt increasingly familiar for the Steelers. As the years passed and the path changed, the final destination never did: A playoff berth was followed by a quick exit and another long offseason filled with questions about how this keeps happening.
And rather than try to run it back for a 20th season, Tomlin decided to move on.
The Steelers (10-8) spent the final five weeks of the regular season convincing themselves they had figured things out. They won four of five, including a sweep of Baltimore, to claim their first AFC North title since 2020. They were playing a Texans franchise that had never won a playoff game on the road. They were getting DK Metcalf back from a two-game suspension, and Rodgers was showing flashes deep into his 21st season that there was still a little magic in his right arm.
Except it didn't matter in a game that wasn't decided by good vibes but by great defense.
The Texans have one. The Steelers do not. The proof was laid bare during an embarrassingly lopsided fourth quarter. While Pittsburgh wilted on a night it let Houston convert 10 of 16 third downs, Houston was bullying Rodgers into mistakes that ended with defensive tackle Sheldon Rankins and cornerback Calen Bullock prancing into the end zone to turn a one-point game into the biggest blowout home playoff loss in Steelers history.
Afterward, “Renegade,” the classic rock song by Styx that long has served as the calling card for the Pittsburgh defense, blared in the Houston locker room.
A couple of hundred feet away, the Steelers packed up in near silence.
Well, almost near silence.
The one constant during the franchise's extended run in NFL purgatory — Pittsburgh has lost seven straight playoff games, now the longest active streak in the league — has been Tomlin. The 53-year-old, whose 193 regular-season victories are tied with Hall of Famer Chuck Noll for the most in franchise history, has long been a flashpoint for a fan base where seasons are defined almost solely on whether they end with a downtown parade, the Lombardi Trophy in tow.
It's been nearly two decades since that happened, and a full 15 years and counting since Pittsburgh played in the final game of the season. Yet the reality is the Steelers seem no closer to breaking through now than they were in 2024 or 2023 or 2021 or 2020 or 2017, all of which ended with one-and-done playoff cameos.
It put one of the most venerable brands in professional sports in a nearly impossible spot. No other coach in NFL history had gone 19 straight seasons without a losing record. Yet the “Fire Tomlin!” chants that popped up during a late-November loss to Buffalo were heard again Monday night as Acrisure Stadium emptied.
Tomlin again brushed off questions about his future in the aftermath. Yet while he said he remained “optimistic” about the club's ability to put together a contender, he ultimately decided it was time for something new, even as his players rose to his defense.
Heyward and Rodgers, two of Tomlin's staunchest supporters in the locker room, both offered up an impassioned defense of their coach. Rodgers called speculation about the job status of Tomlin and Green Bay coach Matt LaFleur — whom Rodgers spent five seasons alongside with the Packers — “an absolute joke.”
Nobody was laughing as the Steelers filed out down a long hallway and into the offseason. Their path carried them past the visitor's locker room, where the music blared as the Texans celebrated and turned their eye toward a trip to New England in the divisional round.
The distance from the somberness of the hallway to the euphoria of the victory party was maybe a dozen or so steps.
In many ways, it felt a lot longer.
And a new chapter for both the Steelers and the coach who defined them for nearly two decades awaits.
Rodgers did nothing to tarnish his Hall of Fame legacy after signing with the Steelers last June. The 42-year-old led Pittsburgh to the playoffs, and his leadership on a young offense helped the club regain its footing after a midseason swoon.
Yet the four-time MVP's limitations were on full display against the Texans. Unable to move around like he used to, he sometimes rushed throws when pressured or found himself at the bottom of a dogpile. While he believes there are pieces in Pittsburgh to keep the Steelers competitive in 2026 and beyond, whether Rodgers wants to come back — or the club wants to have him back — for a 22nd season is anyone's guess.
If both sides move on — which seems likely given Tomlin's departure — the Steelers will have their sixth different Week 1 starting quarterback in as many seasons.
Running back Kenny Gainwell turned his one-year free-agent deal into one of the biggest bargains in the league, posting career highs in yards rushing, receiving and touchdowns on his way to being named the team's unlikely Most Valuable Player.
The 26-year-old set himself up for a significant pay raise when he hits the open market in March. Gainwell and Jaylen Warren proved to be one of the better running back tandems in the league, though it's fair to wonder if Gainwell's play priced himself out of town.
Other notable free agents include veteran guard Isaac Seumalo, wide receiver Calvin Austin III, safety Kyle Dugger, cornerback Asante Samuel Jr. and tight end/fullback Connor Heyward.
There are less than 100 days until the Steelers host the NFL draft in late April. The city has spent more than a year planning for a massive influx of fans for one of the league's marquee events.
Show business aside, the franchise will have some real work to do. Pittsburgh has the 21st overall selection but plenty of draft capital thanks to an accumulation of picks in recent years if general manager Omar Khan wants to trade up.
While landing a potential franchise quarterback remains at the top of the team's to-do list, the quality of the field has thinned compared with where most thought it would be last summer.
Maybe that means the Steelers look to make key additions elsewhere — a dynamic wide receiver to put across from Metcalf is a must — while kicking the can down the road in its seemingly eternal search for Ben Roethlisberger's replacement.
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Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Dk Metcalf sits on the bench during the second half of an NFL wild-card playoff football game against the Houston Texans, Monday, Jan. 12, 2026, in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
Houston Texans running back Woody Marks (27) is tackled by Pittsburgh Steelers inebacker T.J. Watt (90) during the first half of NFL wild-card playoff football game, Monday, Jan. 12, 2026, in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Aaron Rodgers speaks during a press conference after an NFL wild-card playoff football game against the Houston Texans, Monday, Jan. 12, 2026, in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin, right, stands on the sideline during the first half of NFL wild-card playoff football game against the Houston Texans, Monday, Jan. 12, 2026, in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
President Donald Trump is in Michigan to promote his efforts to boost U.S. manufacturing, as he tries to counter fears about a weakening job market and worries that still-rising prices are taking a toll on Americans’ pocketbooks. The day trip includes a tour of a Ford factory in Dearborn that makes best-selling F-150 pickups, and an address to the Detroit Economic Club.
It comes as the Trump administration’s criminal investigation of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has sparked an outcry, with defenders of the U.S. central bank pushing back against Trump’s efforts to exert more control over it. Federal data from December released before the president left Washington showed Inflation declined a bit last month as prices for gas and used cars fell — a sign that cost pressures are slowly easing.
In their wake of off-year election losses for the GOP, the White House said Trump would put a greater emphasis on talking directly to the public about his economic policies after doing relatively few events around the country earlier in his term.
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A group of Democratic attorneys general on Tuesday filed a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s requirement that states must recognize that male and female are the only two immutable sexes to receive certain federal funds.
According to the complaint, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services informed states last year that they must certify compliance with President Donald Trump’s executive order that rolled back protections for transgender people to receive federal health, education and research funds.
The definition was based on whether people are born with eggs or sperm, rather than on their chromosomes, and pitched as a way to protect women from “gender extremism.”
The states are asking a federal court to block HHS from enforcing the new conditions.
An email was sent to HHS seeking comment.
The attorneys general involved in the lawsuit are from California, Colorado, Delaware, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington.
The president essentially accused the Fed of stealing his joy by not being bullish about lowering interest rates.
“If you announce great numbers, they raise interest rates,” Trump said in the speech. “When the market goes up, they should lower rates.”
Trump has disagreed sharply with the interest rate strategy of the independent Fed, chaired by Jerome Powell, and has pressed for lower rates, faster. He maintains that a rising stock market should cause the Fed to cut its benchmark interest rates in order to further boost economic growth.
But the Fed has the legal responsibility of keeping prices stable and maximizing employment. Slashing rates as Trump has suggested could push more money into the U.S. economy and worsen inflation.
The president opened with introductions and a few jokes, then immediately shifted to talking about his elections and voter ID laws, instead of the economy.
He then resumed recognizing some of the more notable people in the audience in Detroit.
The president stopped to speak to reporters while touring the auto factory and was indifferent to the idea of renegotiating the United States-Mexico-Canada trade pact, or USMCA, which is up for review this year.
“I think they want it,” he said of the other nations. “I don’t really care.”
Trump said the U.S. doesn’t need cars made in Canada or Mexico, but he wants to see them made in the U.S.
Beijing on Tuesday criticized President Donald Trump’s plan to impose an additional 25% tariff on Iran’s trading partners, which includes China, Iran’s largest trading partner.
“Tariff wars have no winners,” said Mao Ning, a spokesperson for the Chinese foreign ministry. “China will firmly protect its legitimate and lawful rights and interests.”
It’s not immediately clear if the tariff on Chinese goods will go up, because the two governments have agreed to a yearlong truce in their trade war following a summit between Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping in October in South Korea.
On Tuesday, the Chinese commerce ministry extended anti-dumping tariffs on U.S. solar polysilicon imports. The rates are 53.3% to 57%.
U.S. Health Secretary has added two more members to his controversial vaccine advisory panel.
Dr. Kimberly Biss and Dr. Adam Urato on Tuesday were named to the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. The committee recommends how vaccines should be used.
Kennedy — a leading antivaccine activist before becoming the nation’s top health official — last year fired all 17 of the panel’s previous members, replacing them now with 13 that includes several anti-vaccine voices.
Biss, based in Florida, has urged pregnant women not to get the COVID-19 vaccine. Urato, based in Massachusetts, has warned about medications taken during pregnancy — particularly antidepressants.
The Clintons, in a letter released on social media, are slamming a subpoena for their testimony as “legally invalid” even as Republican lawmakers prepared contempt of Congress proceedings against them.
The Clintons wrote that the chair of the House Oversight Committee, Republican Rep. James Comer, is on the cusp of a process “literally designed to result in our imprisonment” and vowed to “forcefully defend” ourselves.
After Bill Clinton failed to show up for scheduled deposition Tuesday morning, Comer says he will being contempt of Congress proceedings next week. That would start a complicated and politically messy process that Congress has rarely reached for and could result in prosecution from the Justice Department.
The change means EPA rules for fine particulate matter and ozone will focus only on the cost to industry.
It’s part of a broader realignment under Trump toward a business-friendly approach that has included the rollback of multiple policies meant to safeguard human health and the environment and slow climate change.
The agency said in a statement that it “absolutely remains committed to our core mission of protecting human health and the environment” but “will not be monetizing the impacts at this time.”
Environmental and public health advocates called the action a dangerous abdication of one of EPA’s core missions, to protect public health. They said the change could lead to more asthma attacks, heart disease and premature deaths.
Sen. Rand Paul, a Republican who has been outspoken against the Trump administration’s overseas military pursuits, said an attack on Iran would likely harm U.S. interests and could backfire.
“I hope they are able to rise up in sufficient force to actually topple the regime,” he said about the Iranian people protesting.
“But once we start dropping bombs on their government, I mean, it can create the opposite of the intended effect, because when people — no matter who they are, whether they’re pro or against the regime — tend to be unhappy when foreign bombs are dropping on them.”
“Temporary means temporary,” Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said in a statement to The Associated Press.
DHS told Fox News separately that Somalis with Temporary Protected Status must leave the U.S. by March 17, when existing protections expire. The TPS move comes amid Trump’s immigration crackdown in Minneapolis, where many Somalis have U.S. citizenship. Trump has targeted Somali immigrants with racist rhetoric and accused them of defrauding federal programs.
A congressional report last year estimated the Somali TPS population at 705 people. Noem insisted that circumstances in Somalia “have improved to the point that it no longer meets the law’s requirement for Temporary Protected Status.”
Located in the horn of Africa, Somalia is one of the world’s poorest nations and has for decades been beset by chronic strife and insecurity exacerbated by multiple natural disasters, including severe droughts.
A bill introduced by Sen. Ed Markey and Rep. Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts would allow people to sue federal law enforcement officers for civil rights violations and remove their qualified immunity protections in such cases.
“When masked ICE agents are allowed to kill and harm people with impunity, we have crossed a dangerous threshold in our nation,” Markey said in a statement.
The bill “sends a powerful message to everyone in America — citizen or not — that when ICE agents break the law, they should and will be held accountable” Pressley said.
The bill stands little chance of passage in the GOP-controlled Congress.
Qualified immunity protects government agents from lawsuits unless they violate “clearly established” constitutional or statutory protections. Debates over the scope of the legal doctrine have held up bipartisan negotiations over policing reforms.
The Democratic National Committee will spend millions of dollars to cement control of voter registration efforts that have traditionally been entrusted to nonprofit advocacy groups and individual political campaigns. Party leaders hope the shift will increase their chances this year and cement successes for many elections to come.
The initiative being announced on Tuesday in Arizona and Nevada could become the DNC’s largest-ever push to sign up new voters. The focus is on young people, voters of color and people without college educations — demographics that drifted away from Democrats in the last presidential race, which returned Trump to the White House.
“It’s a crisis. And for our party to actually win elections, we have to actually create more Democrats,” DNC Chair Ken Martin said in an interview with The Associated Press. Party leaders want a more explicitly partisan approach like the one used by Republicans, who have relied less on outside groups to register and mobilize their voter base.
Trump said Tuesday he’s canceled talks with Iranian officials amid their protest crackdown and promised help to protesters in the country after human rights monitors said Tuesday that the death toll spiked to 2,000.
Trump did not offer any details about what the help would entail, but it comes after Trump said Iran wants to negotiate with Washington after his threat to strike the Islamic Republic. Trump’s latest message on social media appeared to make an abrupt shift about his willingness to engage with the Iranian government.
“Iranian Patriots, KEEP PROTESTING - TAKE OVER YOUR INSTITUTIONS!!!” Trump wrote in morning post on Truth Socia. “Save the names of the killers and abusers. They will pay a big price. I have cancelled all meetings with Iranian Officials until the senseless killing of protesters STOPS. HELP IS ON ITS WAY.”
The Danish government official who confirmed the support on Tuesday was not authorized to comment publicly on the sensitive matter and spoke on the condition of anonymity.
The official didn’t provide details about the support, which comes at a moment of tension between the NATO allies as Trump repeatedly calls for the U.S. to take over Greenland, a self-governing Danish territory. Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio are set to meet Wednesday in Washington with Danish Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen and his Greenlandic counterpart Vivian Motzfeldt to discuss the matter.
Officials with Denmark and Greenland have repeatedly said the island is not for sale and expressed frustration that Trump isn’t ruling out military force to take the territory.
The White House and Pentagon did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Danish support for the U.S. operation was first reported by Newsmax.
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In a social media post, Trump defended the aggressive immigration enforcement actions being carried out across Minneapolis as part of his deportation agenda.
Throngs of people have taken to the streets of Minneapolis to protest the presence of Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers after a woman was shot and killed during an operation last Wednesday.
The president asserted in the post that the anti-ICE activity is also shifting the spotlight away from alleged fraud in the state and said, “FEAR NOT, GREAT PEOPLE OF MINNESOTA, THE DAY OF RECKONING & RETRIBUTION IS COMING!”
Trump blames what he calls “professional agitators” for the protests. He has not provided evidence to support his claims.
“Michiganders are feeling the effects of Trump’s economy every day,” Michigan Democratic Party chair Curtis Hertel said in a statement, singling out Republican opposition to extending health care subsidies.
“After spending months claiming that affordability was a ‘hoax’ and creating a health care crisis for Michiganders, Donald Trump is now coming to Detroit — a city he hates — to tout his billionaire-first agenda while working families suffer,” Hertel said.
It won’t be easy for Big Tech companies to win the hearts and minds of Americans who are angry about massive artificial intelligence data centers sprouting up in their neighborhoods, straining electricity grids and drawing on local reservoirs.
Microsoft is trying anyway. The software giant’s president, Brad Smith, is meeting with federal lawmakers Tuesday, pushing for the industry, not taxpayers, to pay the full costs of the vast network of computing warehouses needed to power AI chatbots like ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini and Microsoft’s own Copilot. Trump gave the effort a nod with a Truth Social post saying he doesn’t want Americans to “pick up the tab” for data centers and pay higher utility costs.
“Local communities naturally want to see new jobs but not at the expense of higher electricity prices or the diversion of their water,” Smith said in an interview with The Associated Press.
▶ Read more from the AP’s interview with Microsoft’s president
Central bankers from around the world said Tuesday they “stand in full solidarity” with U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, after Trump dramatically escalated his confrontation with the Fed with the Justice Department investigating and threatening criminal charges.
Powell “has served with integrity, focused on his mandate and an unwavering commitment to the public interest,” read the statement signed by nine national central bank heads including European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde and Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey.
They added that “the independence of central banks is a cornerstone of price, financial and economic stability in the interest of the citizens that we serve. It is therefore critical to preserve that independence, with full respect for the rule of law and democratic accountability.”
▶ Read more about the central bankers supporting Federal Reserve independence
Inflation declined a bit last month as prices for gas and used cars fell, a sign that cost pressures are slowly easing.
Consumer prices rose 0.3% in December from the prior month, the Labor Department said Tuesday, the same as in November. Excluding the volatile food and energy categories, core prices rose 0.2%, also matching November’s figure.
Even as inflation has eased, the large price increases for necessities such as groceries, rent, and health care have left many American households feeling squeezed, turning “affordability” issues into high-profile political concerns.
▶ Read more about the latest data on U.S. consumer prices
Trump’s administration has made good on its pledge to label the Lebanese, Jordanian and Egyptian chapters of the Muslim Brotherhood as terrorist organizations, imposing sanctions on them and their members. The decision could please the United Arab Emirates and Egypt, but complicate U.S. relations with allies Qatar and Turkey.
The State Department designated the Lebanese branch a foreign terrorist organization, the most severe of the labels, which makes it a criminal offense to provide material support to the group. Treasury listed the Jordanian and Egyptian branches as specially designated global terrorists for providing support to Hamas.
Nathan Brown, a professor of political science and international affairs at George Washington University, said the sanctions may impact visa and asylum claims for people entering not just the U.S. but also Western European countries and Canada.
▶ Read more about the terrorist designations
The Supreme Court is hearing arguments Tuesday over state laws barring transgender girls and women from playing on school athletic teams. Lower courts ruled for the transgender athletes in Idaho and West Virginia who challenged the state bans, but the conservative-dominated Supreme Court might not follow suit.
In just the past year, the justices ruled in favor of state bans on gender-affirming care for transgender youths and allowed multiple restrictions on transgender people to be enforced.
The legal fight is playing out amid a broad effort by Trump to target transgender Americans, beginning on the first day of his second term and including the ouster of transgender people from the military and declaring that gender is immutable and determined at birth.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Monday that Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok will join Google’s generative AI engine in operating inside the Pentagon network, as part of a broader push to feed as much of the military’s data as possible into the developing technology.
“Very soon we will have the world’s leading AI models on every unclassified and classified network throughout our department,” Hegseth said in a speech at Musk’s space flight company, SpaceX, in South Texas.
The announcement comes just days after Grok — which is embedded into X, the social media network owned by Musk — drew global outcry and scrutiny for generating highly sexualized deepfake images of people without their consent.
Malaysia and Indonesia have blocked Grok, while the U.K.’s independent online safety watchdog announced an investigation Monday. Grok has limited image generation and editing to paying users.
Hegseth said Grok will go live inside the Defense Department later this month and announced that he would “make all appropriate data” from the military’s IT systems available for “AI exploitation.” He also said data from intelligence databases would be fed into AI systems.
▶ Read more about Grok’s new role in the Defense Department
Trump has arrived at a delicate moment as he weighs whether to order a U.S. military response against the Iranian government as it continues a violent crackdown on protests.
He has repeatedly threatened Tehran with military action if his administration found the Islamic Republic was using deadly force against antigovernment protesters. It’s a red line that Trump has said he believes Iran is “starting to cross” and has left him and his national security team weighing “very strong options.”
But the U.S. military — which Trump has warned Tehran is “locked and loaded” — appears, at least for the moment, to have been placed on standby mode as Trump ponders next steps, saying that Iranian officials want to have talks with the White House.
Trump announced Monday on social media that he would slap 25% tariffs on countries doing business with Tehran “effective immediately” — his first action aimed at penalizing Iran for the protest crackdown, and his latest example of using tariffs as a tool to force friends and foes on the global stage to bend to his will.
▶ Read more about Trump and Iran
The BBC plans to ask a court to throw out U.S. President Donald Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit against the British broadcaster, court papers show.
Trump filed a lawsuit in December over the way the BBC edited a speech he gave on Jan. 6, 2021. The claim, filed in a Florida federal court, seeks $5 billion in damages for defamation and $5 billion for unfair trade practices.
The broadcaster has apologized to Trump over the edit of the Jan. 6 speech. But the publicly funded BBC rejects claims it defamed him. The furor triggered the resignations of the BBC’s top executive and its head of news.
Papers filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Miami say the BBC will file a motion to dismiss the case on March 17 on the basis that the court lacks jurisdiction and Trump failed to state a claim.
The broadcaster’s lawyers will argue that the BBC did not create, produce or broadcast the documentary in Florida and that Trump’s claim the documentary was available in the U.S. on streaming service BritBox is not true.
▶ Read more about the lawsuit
Trump will travel to Michigan on Tuesday to promote his efforts to boost U.S. manufacturing, trying to counter fears about a weakening job market and worries that still-rising prices are taking a toll on Americans’ pocketbooks.
The day trip will include a tour of a Ford factory in Dearborn that makes F-150 pickups, the bestselling domestic vehicle in the U.S. The Republican president is also set to address the Detroit Economic Club at the MotorCity Casino.
November’s off-year elections showed a shift away from Republicans as public concerns about kitchen table issues persist. In their wake, the White House said Trump would put a greater emphasis on talking directly to the public about his economic policies after doing relatively few events around the country earlier in his term.
Trump’s Michigan swing follows economy-focused speeches he gave last month in Pennsylvania — where his gripes about immigrants arriving to the U.S. from “filthy” countries got more attention than his pledges to fight inflation — and North Carolina, where he insisted his tariffs have spurred the economy, despite residents noting the squeeze of higher prices.
▶ Read more about Trump’s trip to Michigan
FILE - Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, right, and President Donald Trump look over a document of cost figures during a visit to the Federal Reserve, July 24, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File)
A visitor stops to look at a photograph of President Donald Trump and a short plaque next to it are on display at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery's "American Presidents" exhibit on Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026 in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)
