5 things to know for May 2: May Day protests, PBS-NPR funding, Alien Enemies Act, Mike Waltz, Gaza

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Ever heard of the de minimis exception? It’s about to make President Donald Trump’s trade war with China hit much closer to home. The exception is a major shipping loophole that allowed the importing of goods worth less than $800 to come into the US duty-free and often without time-consuming inspections and paperwork. However, the exception expired at one minute past midnight, which means nearly 4 million duty-free shipments a day will now be subject to a tariff. Since many of those items are sold through ultra-low-cost Chinese e-commerce sites like Shein, Temu and AliExpress, the tariff could be as high as 145%. Here’s what else you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. Thousands of protesters rallied across the US on Thursday in response to the Trump administration’s actions on immigration, the war in Gaza, federal workers and unions. The demonstrators, who were organized under the banner of the grassroots “50501” movement, filled the streets of major cities and small towns holding signs and calling for change. “Trump has poor and working-class people forgetting who our enemies are. Our enemies are not international students that organize on their campus. Our enemies are not undocumented workers that contribute to their communities, that pay taxes and can’t get services. Our enemies are not workers that work for corporations,” an organizer said to a large crowd gathered in New York City’s Union Square. “No — this racist, sexist, anti-worker, homophobic, xenophobic, transphobic system is our enemy.” More demonstrations are scheduled to take place on Saturday. President Trump signed an executive order Thursday directing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to end federal funding for NPR and PBS, which provide free and universal access to educational shows, emergency alerts and a wide array of news and cultural content. Trump’s order also instructed the CPB’s board to take steps to “minimize or eliminate” indirect funding to the country’s two biggest public broadcasters. In addition, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was ordered to investigate NPR and PBS for possible employment discrimination. Each year, the CPB disperses $535 million in taxpayer funds to public radio and TV stations, an effort that Congress has reauthorized for decades. The CPB filed a lawsuit against the administration this week after Trump fired three board members by email, arguing that under the law, he didn’t have the authority to terminate them. A federal judge in Texas ruled Thursday that President Trump had unlawfully invoked the Alien Enemies Act to speed up deportations. It was the first time a judge has concluded that the president exceeded his authority by relying on a law that was intended to be used during times when the US was at war. US District Judge Fernando Rodriguez, who was appointed by Trump, also blocked the administration from using the law to quickly deport any alleged members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua within his district. “The President cannot summarily declare that a foreign nation or government has threatened or perpetrated an invasion or predatory incursion of the United States, followed by the identification of the alien enemies subject to detention or removal,” Rodriguez wrote. The Trump administration is now examining whether it can label suspected cartel and gang members as “enemy combatants” in order to detain them more easily and limit their ability to challenge their imprisonment. In the first major staff shakeup since taking office in January, President Trump announced that National Security Adviser Mike Waltz would be his nominee for US ambassador to the United Nations. The White House pulled Rep. Elise Stefanik’s nomination in March amid concerns about slim margins in the US House of Representatives. Waltz’s nomination comes just two months after he and other top administration officials discussed a US military attack on Houthis in Yemen during a group chat on the commercial messaging app Signal. The conversation included a journalist Waltz had inadvertently invited. Waltz will temporarily be replaced by Marco Rubio, who already has three other jobs: secretary of state, national archivist and acting administrator for the United States Agency for International Development.