The Trump administration met on Tuesday with Russian officers to debate an finish to Russia’s three-year struggle in Ukraine — however no delegation from Kyiv took half within the talks.
The conferences, which have been hosted in Saudi Arabia, featured a cadre of high-ranking U.S. officers — together with Secretary of State Marco Rubio, nationwide safety adviser Mike Waltz and Center East envoy Steve Witkoff — working to satisfy President Trump’s longstanding marketing campaign pledge to finish the struggle in Ukraine.
In the meantime, lawmakers are lower than a month away from a mid-March deadline to move laws to forestall a funding lapse — or danger the primary shutdown in years.
Senate Republicans have the bold purpose of jamming via funding boosts for protection and border safety — individually from the appropriations course of. This has solely gotten harder as fallout spreads over a sweeping operation undertaken by the Trump administration alongside Elon Musk and the Division of Authorities Effectivity (DOGE) to shrink the federal authorities.
This week, the Senate will even take into account extra of Trump’s Cupboard nominees, together with his decide for FBI director, Kash Patel, who has emerged as one in every of his extra contentious picks.
In a while Tuesday, Trump will sit down with Fox Information’s Sean Hannity alongside Musk after he indicators govt orders from the Oval Workplace within the afternoon.
This all comes because the president’s tense relationship with the press has reached an all time excessive because the business grapples with how one can cowl the second Trump administration.
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