Trump 2nd term updates: Trump excludes low-value shipments from looming tariffs

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins unveiled a plan to tackle bird flu and bring down the cost of eggs, which has skyrocketed in recent and could increase 41% this year. The cost of groceries was a key issue in the 2024 election.

Rollins, speaking to reporters outside the White House after he published an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal outlining the steps, said the U.S. Department of Agriculture will enhance biosecurity measures to keep diseases off farms; provide financial relief to farmers to repopulate flocks; and fund research for possible vaccines for animals.

To provide more immediate, short-term relief, Rollins said they were considering importing eggs from other nations.

"We're already in discussions," she said. "There's been, you know if you dig around you'll kind of figure out which countries, but we're talking to three or four countries right now about getting between 70 and 100 million eggs into the country in the next month or two, which of course will help with supply and demand."

During a press conference, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced the mineral deal with the U.S. is agreed to in principle.

He said the current minerals deal is a “framework” agreement and does not contain security guarantees, but added that the deal was intended to open the way to discussing broader agreements with the U.S. and other countries that must include security guarantees.

Zelenskyy warned that no “real ceasefire” or peace deal will be possible without real security guarantees for Ukraine.

Zelenskyy also said that he did not know what the U.S. was ready to offer yet, and that he wants to discuss it with President Donald Trump. In regards to his visit to Washington, D.C., on Friday, Zelenskyy said he hopes to and expressed that both countries were still discussing the matter.

– ABC News’ Patrick Reevell

Ahead of President Donald Trump's first cabinet meeting Wednesday morning, the president said that members of his cabinet are "extremely happy" with Elon Musk.

"ALL CABINET MEMBERS ARE EXTREMELY HAPPY WITH ELON. The Media will see that at the Cabinet Meeting this morning!!!" Trump wrote on his social media platform.

-- ABC News' Hannah Demissie

At 11 a.m. ET, President Donald Trump is holding the first meeting of his Cabinet since his inauguration.

The room will be field with officials confirmed by the Senate to lead key agencies but also Elon Musk, who is not a Cabinet member but has garnered a high status in the administration as a "special government employee" overseeing DOGE.

The meeting comes after senior White House officials were initially caught off guard by a Musk directive that federal employees email details of their work, ABC News reported. The directive also created tension with Cabinet heads, as some agency heads told employees not to respond until they were briefed on the situation themselves.

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