President Donald Trump, speaking in the Oval Office on Wednesday, said he was not willing to pull back tariffs on China. The president also said a news of a new ceasefire and hostage deal proposal for Israel and Hamas could come in the “next 24 hours.”
Also on the foreign policy front, the administration said it is closely monitoring developments between Pakistan and India after the two nations exchanged fire.
Meanwhile, on Capitol Hill, Republicans are continuing to iron out their “big, beautiful bill” that includes Trump’s sweeping legislative agenda. Also, Trump officials, including Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Energy Secretary Chris Wright, testified before various committees.
President Donald Trump is expected to announce a trade deal with the United Kingdom on Thursday morning, according to sources familiar with the matter.
The details of the agreement were not immediately clear. This will mark the first agreement after Trump imposed steep tariffs on dozens of trading partners.
It comes as Trump said on social media he would announce a “MAJOR TRADE DEAL WITH REPRESENTATIVES OF A BIG, AND HIGHLY RESPECTED, COUNTRY.”
The White House didn’t immediately respond to ABC’s request for comment.
President Donald Trump in a post on Truth Social said he would be hosting a “big news conference” on Thursday to announce a “MAJOR TRADE DEAL WITH REPRESENTATIVES OF A BIG, AND HIGHLY RESPECTED, COUNTRY.”
The news conference is set for 10 a.m. from the Oval Office.
Trump said the announcement would be “THE FIRST OF MANY.”
In an interview with Time magazine last month, Trump claimed to have already “made 200 deals” with other countries on tariffs but did not elaborate on which countries or what the terms were.
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard on Wednesday announced the release of about 60,000 files on the 1968 assassination of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. That’s in addition to some 10,000 files released last month.
These “additional investigative materials corroborate this previously released information,” Gabbard said.
“As was first uncovered in the initial tranche of 10,000 RFK files, there were rumors circulating on foreign soil that Senator Kennedy had been shot one month prior to his true assassination date,” she explained.
According to Gabbard, the newly released files “have been sitting in various storage facilities across the federal government for decades and had never been digitized or accessible to the public before.”
The latest release includes the Los Angeles Police Department’s interviews with Sirhan Sirhan, the man who assassinated Kennedy, as well as recordings of interviews with eyewitnesses.
Gabbard said additional files will continue to be “uploaded alongside the previously released files at archives.gov/rfk to ensure all RFK assassination documents can be found in a centralized, searchable format.”
Some files will have redactions for Social Security numbers, tax identification numbers and grand jury information.
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., returned to the Capitol after meeting with his congressional counterparts and top administration officials at the White House — as Republicans aim to settle the final sticking points of negotiations on reconciliation.
“We’re moving ahead and … all the fine points of reconciliation are coming together,” Johnson said. “Everybody’s very optimistic about the timetable that we think we can get our part done by Memorial Day.”
Johnson did not get into detail about the White House meeting but rejected a Congressional Budget Office analysis requested by Democrats that breaks down various proposals to reform Medicaid.
“They don’t even know what proposals we’re considering so that’s all nonsense,” Johnson said. “We’re still talking about these things.”
