Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins announced on Sunday that the U.S. is halting imports of livestock at ports of entry along the southern border in response to the “continued spread” of the “New World screwworm” (NWS) in Mexico. The move comes after NWS was detected in remote farms as far north as Oaxaca and Veracruz, approximately...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky urged Russian President Vladimir Putin to meet him in Turkey this week to begin negotiations to end the three-year war between their countries. But he stipulated that any discussions must begin with a pause in fighting. “We await a full and lasting ceasefire, starting from tomorrow, to provide the necessary basis...
New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D) on Sunday blasted Republican efforts to reduce Medicaid funding, saying potential cuts would “destroy health care as we know it.” “This is very simply an effort to destroy health care as we know it, to rip it away from everyday Americans, make it more costly for everybody else,”...
President Trump’s efforts to upend the conventional understanding of birthright citizenship heads to the Supreme Court this week, the first time in his second term that the justices will consider a major administrative action from the bench. The justices won’t be directly addressing the constitutionality of Trump’s order blocking automatic citizenship for children born on...
Former New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R) said Sunday that the Trump administration has “about six weeks” when it comes to a China tariff deal to give the market and small businesses “confidence.” “It sounds like they made some headway yesterday, but they've got about six weeks to really give the market and some of...
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) on Sunday dismissed the Trump administration’s threat to suspend habeas corpus as an effort to distract the media and the public away from “what’s really in front of them.” In an interview on NBC News’s “Meet the Press,” moderator Kristen Welker asked Klobuchar about remarks Friday from Stephen Miller — White...
House Appropriations Chair Tom Cole (R-Okla.) said Sunday that he does not believe “we’ll have a debt limit suspension” a few days after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent called on Congress to raise the debt ceiling by the middle of the summer. “I don’t think we’ll have a debt limit suspension because Republicans like to revisit...
The new head of the agency responsible for administering Social Security and Medicare said Sunday he plans to make sure the agency survives well into the 2100s. In a Sunday interview, Social Security Administration Commissioner Frank Bisignano said the Trump administration and lawmakers plan to make major changes focused on cutting waste and fraud with...
Cardinal Blase Cupich, the archbishop of Chicago, said on Sunday that he thinks Pope Leo XIV will carry forward Francis’s commitment and focus on immigration, climate change and human trafficking. “I think he’s going to help complete and complement our political agenda,” Cupich told ABC News’s Martha Raddatz in a “This Week” interview from the...
President Trump is set to accept a luxury Boeing 747 jet as a gift from Qatar, according to multiple reports. The Qatari royal family is set to hand over a Boeing 747-8 jet to the president’s administration, according to a Sunday report from ABC. The outlet also reported that Trump will be able to employ...
GLEN RIDGE, N.J. — Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said the federal government had reduced the number of flights out of Newark Liberty International Airport after two major air traffic control technology outages. In an interview with NBC's "Meet the Press" that aired Sunday, Duffy sought to reassure Americans of the safety of flying through Newark,...
Treasury Department Secretary Scott Bessent said Sunday that "substantial progress" had been made in trade talks between the United States and China after meeting for two days in Geneva, teasing further details on Monday morning. "I'm happy to report that we made substantial progress between the United States and China in the very important trade talks," Bessent...
