Trump said tariffs will be the "greatest thing we've ever done as a country."
President Donald Trump is defending his decision to pause some tariffs to Canada and Mexico for another month -- a notable reversal after imposing historic levies on the key U.S. trading partners earlier this week, causing markets to tumble.
On Friday, Trump signed more executive orders at the White House before he convened a first-ever cryptocurrency summit with industry leaders.
Speaker Mike Johnson said lawmakers need to be “on their best behavior” at President Donald Trump’s address to Congress on Tuesday night.
“We ought to maintain decorum. It’s an important event for the country and everybody needs to be on their best behavior. So, I am praying that’s true,” he said as he walked into the speaker’s office.
Despite Trump’s targeting of transgender people and an anti-equality majority in the Senate, lawmakers refused to move the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act forward, with Democrats voting in unison to block it from advancing during a floor vote Monday night.
The bill failed by a vote of 51-45. It would have needed 60 votes to progress.
All Democrats present voted to stop the bill from moving forward.
In a statement, the Human Rights Campaign said, "The Senate’s rejection of this anti-LGBTQ+ attack sends a clear message that attempts to legislate away freedoms for LGBTQ+ people and their families will be met with resistance."
-ABC News' Allison Pecorin
WWE co-founder Linda McMahon was confirmed as U.S. secretary of education Monday evening by a party-line vote of 51-45. Two Republican and two Democratic senators weren’t present for the vote.
The Trump loyalist and donor, who previously served as the head of the Small Business Administration during his first term, will be tasked with shutting down the federal agency she was confirmed to lead.
-ABC News’ Arthur Jones II
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries will attend Trump's address to Congress on Tuesday night, the lawmaker announced Monday.
Jeffries said he and Democratic leaders will attend “to make clear to the nation that there is a strong opposition party ready, willing and able to serve as a check and balance on the excesses of the administration.”
“The decision to attend the Joint Session is a personal one and we understand that members will come to different conclusions. However, it is important to have a strong, determined and dignified Democratic presence in the chamber. The House as an institution belongs to the American people, and as their representatives we will not be run off the block or bullied,” Jeffries wrote in a letter to colleagues.
Jeffries said Democrats are “encouraged” to “stand together” on Wednesday at 11:30 a.m. on the East Front Capitol Steps “for an event featuring the voices of the American people.”
-ABC News' Lauren Peller
