Commerce Sec. Howard Lutnick defended President Trump’s approach to tariffs, saying on Sunday the president is focused on stopping fentanyl from entering the country and is actively engaging with targeted countries to find common ground. “This is the way you run the country,” Lutnick said on NBC News’s “Meet the Press” with Kristen Welker. “You...
House Republicans on Saturday unveiled a 99-page, six-month stopgap funding bill to avert a government shutdown and increase defense funding while seeking cuts for nondefense programs, which will likely be a main focus of this week's Sunday shows. Plus, President Trump's trade war with the U.S.'s top trading partners has intensified this week. Trump faced a slew of...
President Trump faced a slew of questions about the economic ripple effects of his tariff policy during an interview with Maria Bartiromo on Fox News, including whether he worried about a looming recession for the U.S. economy. “I hate to predict things like that,” Trump told Bartiromo on “Sunday Morning Futures” when asked if he...
Adam Boehler, the White House Special Envoy for Hostage Affairs, said Sunday that a “deal” in which every hostage taken by Palestinian militant group Hamas is freed “could come together in weeks.” "I think something could come together within weeks," Boehler said on CNN's "State of the Union" to anchor Jake Tapper. "I will say...
Commerce Sec. Howard Lutnick shot down the possibility of a forthcoming recession in America, in an interview on NBC News’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday. “Absolutely not,” Lutnick said when asked whether Americans should brace for a recession. “Donald Trump is a winner. He's going to win for the American people. That's just the way...
Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) said Sunday that tech billionaire Elon Musk “does not have the power to fire people.” "Elon Musk does not have the power to fire people. The president of the United States is Donald Trump, and the agency heads are the ones who manage each of their departments, so they've got the...
American colleges and universities will lose their global preeminence, innovation will suffer, future scientists, doctors, artists and philosophers will not get trained and potentially path-breaking discoveries will not be made.
The deadline to submit a release plan for the declassification of the RFK and MLK files comes just a few weeks after the DOJ's fallout over its release of Epstein-related files.