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Last Updated: May 11, 2025, 7:01 PM EDT

The White House said on Sunday that it reached a trade deal with China as the two countries negotiated for a second day in Switzerland. China has yet to comment on Sunday's talks.

"We’re confident that the deal we struck with our Chinese partners will help us to work toward resolving that national emergency,” U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer told reporters in Geneva. But Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said "substantial progress" had been made but stopped short of touting a full deal.

On Thursday, President Donald Trump announced a trade deal with the United Kingdom -- the first in what the White House said it hopes will be a flurry of agreements while the reciprocal tariff pause is in effect. With UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer on speaker phone in the Oval Office, the leaders conceded that they are still working out the details of the agreement.

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May 06, 2025, 10:41 AM EDT

Bessent says the US and China have not yet engaged in negotiations over tariffs, despite Trump's reassurances

Bessent spoke at the House Appropriations subcommittee about the latest tariff negotiations and claimed the U.S. was in negotiations with 17 trade partners. However, he noted that one major trade partner has not spoken to the U.S. yet.

"China, we have not engaged in negotiations with as of yet," he testified.

Bessent's comments contradict Trump's claims that he has been talking with Chinese leaders over the tariffs.

-ABC News' Max Zahn

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent testifies before a House Appropriations Financial Services Subcommittee oversight hearing on 'The United States Air Force and Space Force,' on Capitol Hill in Washington, May 6, 2025.
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May 06, 2025, 9:39 AM EDT

Trump to meet with new Canadian PM for the first time

Trump will meet with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney at the White House Tuesday with tariffs levied by each country remaining in place.

Carney is riding high after winning an election fueled by an anti-Trump platform and the president continuing to float the idea of Canada becoming the 51st state.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney boards a government plane in Ottawa, Ontario, May 5, 2025, en route to Washington for a meeting with President Donald Trump on Tuesday.
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Trump has said he’s "not sure" what the Carney wants to discuss Tuesday, but added that Canada "wants to make a deal," while Carney said Friday that they will focus on "trade pressures and the broader future economic and security relationship."

-ABC News' Justin Gomez

May 06, 2025, 9:36 AM EDT

Cabinet members to testify on the Hill

Several members of Trump's Cabinet are scheduled to testify in separate hearings on the Hill Tuesday.

Secretary of Treasury Scott Bessent speaks during the daily briefing in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, April 29, 2025.
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will testify at a hearing of the House Appropriations subcommittee while Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is testifying before the House Oversight subcommittee.

The Senate Appropriations subcommittee will hold hearing on Trumps' Budget Request for the USDA with Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins.

Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem attends a meeting with El Salvador president in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, April 14, 2025.
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May 05, 2025, 11:58 PM EDT

Appeals court denies Trump admin from ending CHNV program

After a district court blocked the Department of Homeland Security from abruptly ending the Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan, and Venezuelan Parole Program, President Donald Trump's administration appealed the decision. However, a panel of three judges denied the appeal on Monday.

The program, initiated under former President Joe Biden, allowed some migrants with United States sponsors to travel into the country, obtain work permits and stay in the country for a period of two years.

The DHS announced in February that it would end CHNV protections for migrants in 30 days, but could start deporting them sooner.

In their ruling on Monday, the panel argued that existing immigration law "does not grant the Secretary of Homeland Security unreviewable discretion to terminate parole on other than a case-by-case basis."

-ABC News' Armando Tonatiuh Torres-García

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