This week on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan, amid President Trump and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s trip to Asia, Bessent joins to discuss the Chinese tariffs, the TikTok deal and the government shutdown at home. Plus. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries joins to discuss the government shutdown.
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“I am not done.” Kamala Harris isn’t ruling out another run for the White House. In an interview with the BBC posted Saturday, the former vice president said she expects a woman will be president in the coming years, and it could “possibly” be her.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Sunday that the U.S. and China will likely avoid 100 percent American tariffs on Chinese good after negotiators settled on a plan for a possible trade agreement. Bessent told NBC News’ Kristen Welker that “after two days of negotiations” with Chinese International Trade Representative Li Chenggang in Malaysia, a “framework”…
Marjorie Taylor Greene, the firebrand Georgia Republican, has been breaking ranks with President Donald Trump and the GOP leadership in Congress on an increasingly long list of issues. She wants Congress to end the government shutdown by agreeing to extend the Affordable Care Act tax credits. She has demanded the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files, called for a pathway to citizenship for immigrants, blasted the White House’s funding of wars in Ukraine and Israel and, most recently, torched the
President Donald Trump landed in Malaysia early Sunday local time, in what is the first part of his trip to Asia that will see him attend the Association of Southeast Asian Nations leaders summit. Trump touched down in Kuala Lumpur, the capital, at 10 a. m., where he was met on the tarmac by Malaysian Prime [.].
The base commander on Saturday expanded a previous evacuation order to include “non-mission-essential U.S. citizens.”
Former White House press secretary Sean Spicer took aim at Senate Republicans after Democrats blocked a bill that would have guaranteed pay for military and federal workers during the ongoing government shutdown.“Senate Republicans should be embarrassed by how bad they’re messaging this,” Spicer, who served as Trump’s first press secretary, said Friday on his podcast, in remarks highlighted by The Daily Beast.“They should have been out on the steps last night with military members and Border Patrol,” Spicer said. The measure, known as the Shutdown Fairness Act of 2025, was introduced by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and fell short of the 60 votes needed to advance, with a final tally of 54-45. It would have ensured continued pay for “excepted” federal employees, including active-duty troops, TSA agents, park rangers, air traffic controllers and Border Patrol officers. Spicer accused Republicans of failing to defend their position forcefully, calling their actions “literally the lamest response” he had ever seen.“The idea that they voted and bolted is an embarrassment to the Republican Party,” he added. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) dismissed the bill as a “ruse,” arguing it would give Trump budget director Russell Vought undue authority.“We will not give Donald Trump a license to play politics with people’s livelihoods,” Schumer said.
El ministro Vladimir Padrino López denunció que el Pentágono envió hacia el Caribe el portaaviones USS Gerald Ford, el más grande de la flora estadounidense.
The White House is in the midst of a major renovation, and some of the biggest names in tech are helping to foot the bill.
From the first day of his second term, President Trump has taken an ends-justify-the-means approach to his presidency.