Vance Meets With EU President, Italian Prime Minister in Hopes of Fostering Trade Talks

‘I think we’ll have a great conversation, and hopefully it will be the beginning of some long-term trade negotiations,’ U.S. Vice President JD Vance said. U.S. Vice President JD Vance met with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in Rome on May 18. Vance said he hoped the

Rubio says there “may be more coming soon” amid Afrikaner refugee resettlement

Secretary of State Marco Rubio defended a controversial new Trump administration policy granting refugee status to White South Africans days after the first group’s arrival in the U.S., saying people should be “celebrating” the move, not criticizing it.  “We’ve often been lectured by people all over the place about how the United States needs to

US Appeals Court Lifts Block on Trump Executive Order Targeting Federal Union

The appeals court’s majority said the union had failed to show it would suffer the type of irreparable harm that would justify the preliminary injunction. A federal appeals court on May 17 allowed the Trump administration to go through with its plan to strip collective bargaining by workers at more than a dozen federal agencies.

Bessent Says He Doesn’t ‘Put Much Credence’ in Moody’s Downgrade

Treasury secretary said that growing the economy faster is more important than ’the potential growth of the debt.’ Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on May 18 that he is not worried about Moody’s recent downgrade of the United States’ Aaa credit rating to Aa1, and defended President Donald Trump’s tariffs and his sweeping tax-cut bill.