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President Donald Trump displays a signed bill during an event in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on July 16, 2025. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump signed the Halt All Lethal Trafficking of Fentanyl Act on Wednesday during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House.  “This is

Vice President JD Vance delivers remarks on the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” at Don’s Machine Shop in West Pittston, Pa., on July 16, 2025. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images Vice President JD Vance visited Northeast Pennsylvania on July 16 to make the Trump administration’s first big pitch to voters on President Donald Trump’s tax

Then-EU Commissioner designate Maros Sefcovic attends his confirmation hearing at the European Parliament in Brussels on Nov. 4, 2024. Nicolas Tucat/AFP via Getty Images The European Union’s trade leader is headed to Washington for face-to-face negotiations with the Trump administration, a spokesman for the economic bloc said. On July 16, EU Trade Commissioner Maros Sefcovic

Members of the National Guard and a FEMA search and rescue team in a file photo. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images A group of 20 states filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration over a decision to shut down a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) program. In a lawsuit filed in a federal court in

The Senate side of the U.S. Capitol in Washington on July 14, 2025. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times WASHINGTON—Senate Republicans are looking to pass a bill to rescind $9 billion in allocated federal funding by a July 18 deadline. The Senate began on July 16 a process called a vote-a-rama, where an unlimited number of amendments

President Donald Trump speaks with members of the media before boarding Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington on July 15, 2025. Mehmet Eser/Middle East Images via AFP via Getty Images U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that the trade deal between the United States and Vietnam was nearly