“Voter I.D. Must Be Part of Every Single Vote. NO EXCEPTIONS!" Trump wrote.
President Donald Trump on Thursday revoked the Secret Service detail for former Vice President Kamala Harris that was previously extended by former President Joe Biden.
Meanwhile, fallout continues from the White House's attempt to remove Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Susan Monarez.
Health and Human Services Deputy Secretary Jim O'Neill has been tapped as the interim director of the CDC, a White House official confirmed to ABC News.
Music was heard outside the briefing room on Friday afternoon, including "I Dream a Dream," from the musical "Les Misérables."
The White House said that Trump was playing music in the Rose Garden on a newly installed sound system.
French President Emmanuel Macron said that if Russia's Vladimir Putin doesn't agree to a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy by Sept. 1, then it will "again" show that Putin is playing President Donald Trump.
Macron referred to the Monday deadline as having been set by Trump. Macron also told reporters that a bilateral Putin-Zelenskyy meeting was Putin's proposal to Trump.
"If it's not kept, the Monday deadline that had been set by President Trump, I think that, once again, it will mean that President Putin will have been playing President Trump", Macron said at a press conference in France.
On Friday, Zelenskyy said the Russians "will do everything to avoid meeting."
A Ukrainian delegation is in the U.S. for talks with Trump administration officials Friday. Zelenskyy said White House special envoy Steve Witkoff would be meeting with members of his team in New York, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Vice President JD Vance would participate as well.
Dmitry Peskov, a Kremlin spokesperson, on Friday gave no updated timeline for a possible Putin-Zelenskyy meeting.
-ABC News' Tom Soufi Burridge
President Donald Trump told Congress that he will slash $4.9 billion of congressionally-approved USAID and State Department foreign aid funding, the Office of Management and Budget said on Friday.
The administration is claiming to have slashed the foreign aid money through a rarely used funding move called a "pocket rescission." It is a process that means the White House delivers a request for Congress to slash money from its budget so late in the fiscal year that the funds expire before Congress is obligated to hold a vote.
Congress already acted to slash much of USAID's funding through a formalized rescission process over the summer. Republicans approved $9.4 billion in cuts aimed at formalizing the Department of Government Efficiency's cuts to USAID and public broadcasting.
However, Trump's latest move is different because, unlike the budget change that Congress rubber-stamped, the White House could now be sidestepping Congress's power of the purse.
Congress members on both sides of the aisle sounded off. Republican Sen. Susan Collins, who chairs the Senate's Appropriations Committee, blasted the move on Friday, calling it an "apparent attempt to rescind appropriated funds without congressional approval" in a statement. She also said the pocket rescission process was illegal, citing the U.S. Governmental Accountability Office, that said the The Impoundment Control Act– which Trump says authorized his action– "does not provide that authority."
Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., responded to Trump's move on Friday. "Trump is rooting for a shutdown. He knows he has created a huge problem because now any budget deal with Republicans isn't worth the paper it's written on. He's not even pretending to follow the law," Murphy said in a post on X.
--ABC News' Allison Pecorin, Isabella Murray, Jay O'Brien and Lauren Peller
Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch III met with President Donald Trump at the White House on Thursday over lunch, according to a Smithsonian official. This meeting comes as the Smithsonian grapples with increased pressure from the Trump administration to allow the White House to review the museum's exhibitions, materials, and operations.
Earlier this month Trump began targeting the Smithsonian, describing the storied institution as being "OUT OF CONTROL" adding that it's a place "where everything discussed is how horrible our Country is, how bad Slavery was, and how unaccomplished the downtrodden have been — Nothing about Success, nothing about Brightness, nothing about the Future."
<ABC News' Elizabeth Thomas
