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Edan Alexander is owed to beryllium released aboriginal today, Trump says.

China volition besides suspend and region each non-monetary barriers to commercialized with the US, Trump says. But helium adds his medication needs to get this “on paper”.

“They’ve agreed to afloat unfastened China,” Trump says.

Trump to talk with Xi Jinping 'maybe' extremity of this week

Trump says helium volition talk to Chinese president Xi Jinping “maybe astatine the extremity of the week”.

“We person immoderate different things we’re doing,” helium says.

Trump says 'total reset with China' achieved aft commercialized warfare pause

Trump says the US “achieved a full reset with China” aft “productive” talks successful Geneva.

He says the agreement, which lowered US tariffs connected China to 30% for 90 days, “doesn’t see that are already connected … connected cars, steel, aluminum … oregon tariffs that whitethorn beryllium imposed connected pharmaceuticals”.

'We helped a lot': Trump says commercialized was large crushed down India-Pakistan ceasefire

Trump says his medication helped broker “what whitethorn beryllium a permanent” ceasefire betwixt India and Pakistan, claiming commercialized was a large crushed down it.

We helped a lot.

Trump says helium told the 2 countries:

Come on, we’re going to bash a batch of commercialized with you guys. Let’s halt it. Stop it. If you halt it we bash trade. If you don’t halt we don’t bash immoderate trade. People person ne'er utilized commercialized the mode I usage it.

And each of a abrupt they said I deliberation we’re going to halt … Trade was a large reason.

Netanyahu speaks with Trump aft gathering US officials, Israeli leader's bureau says

Israeli premier curate Benjamin Netanyahu spoke with Donald Trump contiguous aft gathering with the US president’s Middle East envoy and ambassador to Israel, Netanyahu’s bureau said successful a statement.

Netanyahu thanked Trump for his assistance with the expected release of Israeli-American hostage Edan Alexander, the connection said. Trump reiterated his telephone for adjacent practice with Netanyahu, it said.

“Hopefully this is the archetypal of those last steps indispensable to extremity this brutal conflict,” Trump wrote connected Truth Social past night.

Trump is acceptable to sojourn Qatar this week, which has played a cardinal diplomatic relation successful talks betwixt Israel and Hamas, arsenic good arsenic Saudi Arabia and the UAE during his upcoming travel to the Middle East, but helium is not going to sojourn Netanyahu successful Israel.

You tin work much astir this connected our Middle East blog:

A marker of continued GOP infighting implicit tremendous and highly contentious cuts to Medicaid – which covers almost 80 cardinal Americans – to money Trump’s projected monolithic taxation cuts, Republican legislator Josh Hawley has written a New York Times op-ed retired this morning (paywall) arguing against slashing the fashionable societal information nett program.

It’s harmless to accidental the Trump conjugation was not pulling the lever for Medicaid cuts successful November. [M]any of my House and Senate colleagues support pushing for important cuts, and the House volition statesman to hash retired its differences successful negotiations this week … Republicans request to unfastened their eyes: Our voters enactment societal security programs. More than that, our voters beryllium connected those programs.

Politico reports that caller mandates projected for the megabill “would apt unit states to revamp however they concern their programs oregon chopped benefits”.

Energy and commerce committee seat Brett Guthrie told committee Republicans connected a telephone connected Sunday that the bundle volition make more than $900bn successful savings, according to 2 radical granted anonymity to picture the backstage treatment to Politico.

The wellness provisions besides see new enactment requirements that are expected to pb galore radical to suffer coverage, arsenic good arsenic a new cost-sharing requirement for immoderate beneficiaries successful the program, not to transcend 5% of a patient’s income.

The vigor and commerce program besides hits connected hot-button societal issues — proposing, for instance, to cut national backing for groups similar Planned Parenthood and ban the usage of Medicaid dollars for gender-affirming attraction for youth. It besides scales backmost backing from states that usage their ain funds to connection sum for undocumented people.

Trump acceptable to motion enforcement bid aimed astatine lowering US cause prices

As has been trailed, Trump volition motion an enforcement bid contiguous directing his authorities to instrumentality actions against “discriminatory” policies successful overseas countries that suppress cause prices aboard, Reuters reports that a White House authoritative said this morning.

Briefing reporters, the authoritative said the Department of Health and Human Services volition enforce “most favored nation” pricing via rule-making if capable advancement is not made with the cause industry.

Trump has antecedently toured the level his medication is preparing to judge from the Qatari royal family, which is truthful opulent it is known arsenic “a flying palace”, portion it was parked astatine the West Palm Beach planetary airdrome successful February, according to ABC News’s report. Semafor has photos of the jet’s luxurious interior.

From ABC News’s report: “Sources told ABC News that lawyer wide Pam Bondi and Trump’s apical White House lawyer David Warrington person concluded it would beryllium “legally permissible” for the donation of the craft to beryllium conditioned connected transferring its ownership to Trump’s statesmanlike room earlier the extremity of his term.

“The sources said Bondi provided a ineligible memorandum addressed to the White House counsel’s bureau past week aft Warrington asked her for proposal connected the legality of the Pentagon accepting specified a donation.” It’s besides worthy noting that Bondi utilized to enactment as a lobbyist for the Qatari government.

The program has drawn disapproval from adjacent those astir loyal to Trump, including – arsenic we reported earlier – far-right activistic Laura Loomer. Just to punctual you of her comments:

This is truly going to beryllium such a stain connected the admin if this is true. And I accidental that arsenic idiosyncratic who would instrumentality a slug for Trump. I’m so disappointed.

As Politico notes: “There were plentifulness of Maga faithful posting akin messages each implicit X. And who tin blasted them? The optics of accepting a $400m luxury pitchy portion cutting Medicaid is lone 1 portion of it. And there’s a crushed wherefore the constitution says explicitly that ‘no idiosyncratic holding immoderate office’ whitethorn ‘without the consent of the Congress’ judge a acquisition ‘of immoderate benignant immoderate from immoderate King, Prince, oregon overseas state’. It’s due to the fact that people mostly don’t manus implicit $400m gifts for nary reason.”

Democratic legislator Chuck Schumer wrote connected X:

Nothing says ‘America First’ similar Air Force One, brought to you by Qatar. It’s not conscionable bribery, it’s premium overseas power with other legroom.

Senator Adam Schiff cited the constitution’s “No Title of Nobility” clause, writing:

The corruption is brazen.

He aboriginal added:

While the outgo of aerial question continues to spell up for mean Americans, Donald Trump gets a half-billion dollar “air palace” from a favourite Emir. Trump’s corruption makes him richer. You get poorer. Same aged story.

And Independent legislator Bernie Sanders said:

I don’t cognize who needs to perceive this, but NO, Donald Trump cannot judge a $400 cardinal flying palace from the royal household of Qatar. Not lone is this farcically corrupt, it is blatantly unconstitutional. Congress indispensable not let this over-the-top kleptocracy to proceed.

Analysis: Trump mightiness assertion China tariff triumph – but this is Capitulation Day

Donald Trump volition inevitably assertion Monday’s temporary truce successful the US-China commercialized war arsenic a victory, but fiscal markets look to person work it for what it is – a capitulation.

Stocks were up and enslaved yields were higher aft the US treasury caput Scott Bessent’s aboriginal greeting property league successful Geneva, wherever helium has been holding talks with China.

Tariffs connected Chinese goods volition beryllium cut from 145% to 30% – initially for a 90-day period. In return, China has chopped its ain tariffs connected US imports to 10%, from the 125% it had imposed successful retaliation against the White House.

That inactive marks a large displacement successful the presumption of commercialized betwixt the 2 countries since earlier Trump came to power, but falls acold abbreviated of what was successful effect a commercialized embargo.

The 2 sides person pledged to support talking, but determination was nary notation successful the White House’s connection to different gripes it has antecedently raised astir China, including the weakness of the yuan.

Instead, the connection hailed “the value of a sustainable, semipermanent and mutually beneficial economical and commercialized relationship”. The connection was alternatively antithetic to Trump’s Liberation Day speech, astir the US being “looted, pillaged, raped and plundered by nations adjacent and far”.

In different words, the president has caved. He whitethorn person been swayed into tactical retreat by marketplace wobbles but it seems much plausible that dire warnings from retailers astir bare shelves – backed up by information showing shipments into US ports collapsing – whitethorn person strengthened the hands of commercialized moderates successful the administration.

Trump and RFK Jr to clasp quality conference

Donald Trump and his wellness and quality services secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, are owed to clasp a quality league astatine the White House successful astir an hour, with Trump expected to motion his enforcement bid connected lowering medicine costs earlier boarding a formation to Saudi Arabia. I’ll bring you each the cardinal lines from that.

Further to the comments we conscionable reported, White House property caput Karoline Leavitt told Fox News this morning: “Any donation to this authorities is ever done in afloat compliance with the law, and we perpetrate ourselves to the utmost transparency, and we volition proceed to bash that.”

Asked if the White House was disquieted that Qatar mightiness privation thing successful return, Leavitt said: “Absolutely not. Because they cognize President Trump, and they cognize he lone works with the interests of the American nationalist successful mind.”

A root briefed connected the substance told Reuters yesterday that Trump’s medication intends to judge a Boeing (BA.N) 747-8 plane arsenic a acquisition from the Qatari royal household that would beryllium outfitted to service arsenic Air Force One.

Democrats and bully authorities advocates said it was unethical and probably unconstitutional for Qatar to marque specified a gift.

The luxury plane, which would beryllium one of the astir costly gifts ever received by the US government, would yet beryllium donated to Trump’s statesmanlike room aft helium leaves office, the root told Reuters. A caller commercialized 747-8 costs approximately $400m.

Trump is acceptable to sojourn Qatar, which has played a cardinal diplomatic relation successful talks betwixt Israel and Hamas, during a travel to the Middle East this week.