Trump Touts Progress After Trade Talks With Japanese Officials

The Trump administration is working with dozens of countries to negotiate new trade deals, White House officials said. President Donald Trump met with Japanese officials at the White House on April 16 to discuss trade negotiations, and his quick reaction on social media afterwards suggested a positive result. “A Great Honor to have just met

Trump Open to Deporting American Criminals to El Salvador–But Only If It’s Legal, White House Says

“It’s a legal question that the president is looking into,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said. President Donald Trump would consider deporting American citizens convicted repeatedly of violent crimes to prisons outside the country if it were legally allowed, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Tuesday. “It’s a legal question that the

Federal Judge Blocks Trump’s Freeze on Climate, Infrastructure Grants

The judge said agencies following the president’s direction cannot ‘hamstring in perpetuity two statutes passed by Congress during the previous administration.’ A federal judge on April 15 blocked the Trump administration from freezing the disbursement of funds for climate and infrastructure grants, finding that the pause in disbursing funds was illegal. Nonprofits suing the administration