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Trump admin live updates: Trump says Hamas will release hostage Edan Alexander
Trump did not provide any timing on when Alexander is expected to be released.
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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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.
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
Cabinet members to testify on the Hill
Several members of Trump's Cabinet are scheduled to testify in separate hearings on the Hill Tuesday.
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.
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
Trump signs EO promoting domestic pharmaceutical manufacturing
Trump signed two executive orders Monday afternoon: one that provides tools to enforce a federal ban on gain-of-function research abroad and one that promotes domestic manufacturing of pharmaceuticals.
Trump said he would have a “big announcement” next week regarding the cost of medicines, though he declined to elaborate.
“I think we're going to have another, conference next week, which will be very important having to do,” he said. “I think [it] will be very productive.”
-ABC News’ John Parkinson