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.
Trump criticizes Canada minutes before meeting with Carney
Just minutes before Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney was set to arrive at the White House, Trump lashed out at the country in a post on his social media platform.
He said that he cannot understand why America is "subsidizing Canada by $200 Billion Dollars [sic] a year, in addition to giving them FREE Military Protection, and many other things."
According to the U.S. Trade Representative's website, the U.S. trade deficit with Canada totaled just over $63 billion in 2024. It's not clear what Trump is referring to with the $200 billion figure.
"The Prime Minister will be arriving shortly and that will be, most likely, my only question of consequence," Trump said in the post.
"We don’t need their Cars, we don’t need their Energy, we don’t need their Lumber, we don’t need ANYTHING they have, other than their friendship, which hopefully we will always maintain. They, on the other hand, need EVERYTHING from us!" Trump wrote.
May 06, 2025, 11:39 AM EDT
White House removes NTSB vice chair appointed by Biden
The Trump administration removed NTSB Vice Chair Alvin Brown from his post Monday, White House officials confirmed to ABC News.
According to Brown's bio page on the NTSB website, he was appointed by former President Joe Biden and began his post in 2024.
Before that, he served as the mayor of Jacksonville, Florida, and was the first Black man to ever hold the position.
The move, first reported by Reuters, is the latest in a string of firings by the administration of officials at independent government agencies.
-ABC News' Katherine Faulders, Sam Sweeney and Michelle Stoddart
May 06, 2025, 11:22 AM EDT
Trump's pick for top prosecutor in DC has a rocky path to confirmation
Sen. Thom Tillis said Tuesday will not support Trump's nominee to become the next U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C., a message he says has been relayed to the White House.
"At this point, I have indicated to the White House I wouldn't support his nomination," Tillis told ABC News.
Tillis met with the nominee, Ed Martin, Monday evening after he publicly expressed reluctance about Martin's nomination due to concerns about his work representing Jan. 6 defendants and past inflammatory comments about the riot.
Martin, Tillis said, did a "good job of explaining how there were people that probably got caught up in it," but that it wasn't enough to satisfy his concerns.
"I think anybody who breached the perimeter should have been in prison for some period of time," Tillis said. "Whether it's 30 days or three years is debatable, but I have no tolerance for anybody who entered the building on January the sixth, and that's probably where most of the friction was," Tillis said.
Tillis is a key Republican vote on the Senate Judiciary Committee that will be responsible for determining whether to advance Martin's nomination to a final vote on the Senate floor.
Martin has served as the interim U.S. attorney since the start of the administration but his term expires on May 20 -- meaning he would need to be confirmed by then to continue leading the office.
-ABC News' Allison Pecorin, Alexander Mallin and Katherine Faulders
May 06, 2025, 10:48 AM EDT
Noem grilled by Democrat over DHS actions
Democratic Rep. Lauren Underwood grilled Noem over Homeland Security's actions since Trump took office, including the reduction of funds for programs and its controversial mass deportations.
Underwood reiterated that the Constitution and subsequent laws give Congress the power of the purse and repeatedly asked the DHS secretary if she adhered to that law given that the administration has pulled back funding.
Noem dodged the question, which infuriated Underwood.
"Judge after judge has ruled that the law has not been followed," she said.
Underwood also called out reports about the administration deporting U.S. citizens, but Noem testified that all of the deportations were of undocumented immigrants.
Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem takes her seat to testify before the House Appropriations Homeland Security Subcommittee hearing on oversight of the Department of Homeland Security, on Capitol Hill in Washington, May 6, 2025.
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Noem also accused the Biden administration of covering up migrant crime by closing the office that tracks migrant crime, which the secretary reopened.
"The voices office opened under the Trump administration and President Biden posed to cover up exactly how many crimes against people in this country. We have reopened that office. We believe that that data would be helpful," Noem said.
Noem also said that while there are a 1.2 million orders for deportations, it is a diplomatic issue to work with other countries to get them to take back people who are in the country illegally.
"There are some countries that are still refusing to take their own citizens, and I would reiterate that every single country has a responsibility to take our citizens back, and that has always been something that has been an international common-sense agreement that has existed," Noem said. "Many countries today, even as they are working with us, aren't taking their citizens home very quickly. They may limit us to one or two planes a week. Mexico had a limitation on us for quite a period of time, even a limitation on what kind of aircraft we can use so working with those countries is a diplomatic job that consistently needs to be stayed on top of."
