Trump admin updates: EU will buy $750 billion worth of U.S. energy under deal
The deal would impose a 15% tariff on most goods.
President Donald Trump and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced on Sunday the U.S. and the EU had reached a deal that would impose a 15% tariff on most goods.
Under the deal, the EU will purchase $750 billion worth of energy from the U.S. and invest $600 billion more than it's already is.
Meanwhile, Trump's health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., plans to oust all 16 members of a task force that recommends which preventive health services, such as cancer screenings, must be covered by insurance.
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Trump pushes for ceasefire between Thailand, Cambodia
Trump announced Saturday that he spoke to the Prime Minister of Cambodia and the acting prime minister of Thailand about efforts to stop the ongoing war with Thailand, according to a new social media posts.
"After speaking to both Parties, Ceasefire, Peace, and Prosperity seems to be a natural. We will soon see!" he said.
-ABC News' Kelsey Walsh
RFK Jr. plans to axe all members of panel that advises on cancer screenings, preventive health services
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. plans to oust all 16 members of a task force that recommends which preventive health services, such as cancer screenings, must be covered by insurance, according to a source familiar with the plans.
Kennedy views the group -- the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) -- as too “woke,” the source told ABC News.
The Wall Street Journal first reported the secretary’s plans.
HHS spokesman Andrew Nixon said in a statement that “no final decision has been made on how USPSTF can better support HHS’ mandate to Make America Healthy Again.”
A scheduled meeting of the task force was abruptly canceled earlier this month, with no reason given.
--ABC News' Will McDuffie
Judge dismisses Trump admin's lawsuit against Illinois sanctuary policies
A federal judge has dismissed the Trump administration’s lawsuit against Illinois, Cook County and the city of Chicago over its sanctuary policies “in its entirety.”
"Contrary to the United States’s arguments, the Sanctuary Policies here do not comparably regulate ICE operations or meddle with the contractual rights of private individuals working with ICE,” Judge Lindsay Jenkins wrote. "Importantly, they leave open ICE’s ability to obtain and present a criminal warrant, thereby receiving the assistance and information it seeks."
Jenkins also ruled that the parties' decision not to participate in enforcing immigration law is “protected by the Tenth Amendment and not preempted” by the Immigration and Nationality Act.
The Trump administration filed the lawsuit in February, just days after taking office, accusing Illinois and Chicago of "thwarting" immigration law.
-ABC News' Armando García
Trump says he was never briefed about his name in the Epstein files
President Donald Trump took questions about the Epstein probe as he landed in Scotland for his four-day trip.
When asked directly whether he was ever briefed about his name appearing in the Epstein files, Trump said, "No," adding that he was "never briefed."
According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, Attorney General Pam Bondi and her deputy Todd Blanche informed Trump in May that his name appeared multiple times in the Epstein files that the Department of Justice and the FBI reviewed.
Trump was also informed that the names of many other high-profile individuals appeared in the documents, which the Journal reported was not evidence of wrongdoing.
The president, according to the Journal, said he would defer to the Justice Department's decision not to release additional files.
Last week, Trump told ABC News that Bondi gave his team "just a very quick briefing."
-ABC News' Lalee Ibssa, Michelle Stoddart and Katherine Faulders