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President Trump has been in workplace for six months, delivering on marketing campaign guarantees, securing his “huge lovely invoice” by his self-imposed deadline and taking decisive motion on the world stage.
The president was sworn into workplace Jan. 20, and the Trump administration has operated at warp velocity since Day One.
Key tenets of Trump’s first 100 days included imposing harsh tariffs on Chinese language imports, beginning and persevering with peace negotiations between Russia and Ukraine, and cracking down on border safety amid a mass deportation initiative.
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The following chapter of the second Trump administration started, with the Home of Representatives, as promised, passing Trump’s “One Huge Stunning Invoice,” earlier than Memorial Day, sending it to the Senate for weeks of negotiations.
The president was sworn into workplace Jan. 20, and the Trump administration has operated at warp velocity since Day One. (Getty Pictures)
The Senate made its modifications, accepted the laws and kicked it again to the Home simply in time for the decrease chamber to go the invoice earlier than Trump’s self-imposed Fourth of July deadline.
The president welcomed Home and Senate Republican management to the White Home July 4 for a signing ceremony on his landmark laws, which included key provisions that may completely set up particular person and enterprise tax breaks included in his 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, and incorporate new tax deductions to chop duties on suggestions and extra time pay.
Trump’s second administration has additionally targeted on the brand new Division of Authorities Effectivity (DOGE), which was run by Elon Musk. DOGE proposed cuts to applications that the Trump administration chalked as much as wasteful and extreme authorities spending.
President Trump has been in workplace for six months, delivering on marketing campaign guarantees, securing his “huge lovely invoice” by his self-imposed deadline and taking decisive motion on the world stage. (Ken Cedeno/Reuters)
Congressional lawmakers prepped a rescissions package deal — a invoice to codify these DOGE cuts into legislation. Congress handed that package deal by its deadline.
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Trump signed the package deal Friday, which blocks $8 billion in funding to the U.S. Company for Worldwide Growth (USAID) and $1 billion to the Company for Public Broadcasting for the rest of the fiscal yr. The {dollars} had been allotted by Congress at some point of fiscal yr 2025.
As for Musk, his “particular authorities worker” window expired, and he returned to the personal sector. Shortly after, Musk began a short-lived feud with the president, who selected to not delay the tensions. Trump solely hit his former ally briefly, and carried on with enterprise as common, leaving Musk to a lonely rant on social media.
DOGE chief Elon Musk’s “particular authorities worker” window expired, and he returned to the personal sector. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP through Getty Pictures)
In the meantime, on the world stage, the president ordered strikes on Iran’s nuclear services.
Trump’s historic precision strikes on Iran’s nuclear websites in June hit their targets and “destroyed” and “badly broken” the services’ important infrastructure — an evaluation agreed upon by Iran’s International Ministry, Israel and the US.
However Iranian Supreme Chief Ayatollah Ali Khamenei not too long ago issued his newest menace towards the U.S. and “its canine on a leash, the Zionist regime (Israel),” saying that Iran’s assault on U.S. Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar was only the start of what Tehran may throw at Washington. He warned that “a good larger blow may very well be inflicted on the U.S. and others.”
Iran has till the top of August to comply with a nuclear deal with the US and its allies, Fox Information has discovered.
U.S. Particular Envoy Steve Witkoff discusses strikes on Iran’s nuclear services on ‘The Ingraham Angle.’ (Fox Information / The Ingraham Angle)
Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the overseas ministers of France, Germany and the UK set the de facto deadline, in keeping with three sources with information of a name Wednesday among the many officers.
If Iran fails to comply with a deal, it will set off the “snapback” mechanism that robotically reimposes all sanctions beforehand imposed by the United Nations Safety Council.
The sanctions had been lifted below the 2015 Iran deal.
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In his first six months as president, Trump additionally signed a sweeping order blocking journey to the U.S. from almost 20 international locations recognized as high-risk for terrorism, visa abuse and failure to share safety data.
The journey restrictions — introduced below government order 14161 — apply to nationals from 12 international locations, together with Afghanistan, Iran, Somalia, Libya and Yemen, all deemed “very excessive threat” because of terrorist exercise, weak or hostile governments, and excessive visa overstay charges.
Domestically, the president has targeted efforts on securing the border, with border crossings at a file low.
U.S. Customs and Border Safety reported the bottom variety of border crossings in recorded historical past in June. Nationwide, there have been 25,228 CBP encounters, the bottom month-to-month quantity the company has recorded, together with a “historic low” of 8,024 apprehensions. Encounters embrace authorized ports of entry, whereas apprehensions are arrests of these coming into the US illegally.
As for tariffs, the Trump administration had leveled tariffs as excessive as 145% on Chinese language items following the president’s reciprocal tariff plans in April, when China retaliated towards the U.S. with tariffs of its personal. China and the U.S. reached a preliminary commerce settlement in Could, which Trump mentioned China violated in a Fact Social submit on the finish of Could.
An settlement was reached between the U.S. and China in June, which incorporates China supplying uncommon earth supplies to the U.S., and that Trump will “work intently” with Chinese language President Xi Jinping “to open up China to American Commerce.”
“Full magnets, and any vital uncommon earths, shall be equipped, up entrance, by China,” Trump mentioned in June. “Likewise, we are going to present to China what was agreed to, together with Chinese language college students utilizing our faculties and universities (which has all the time been good with me!). We’re getting a complete of 55% tariffs, China is getting 10%. Relationship is great!”
Outdoors the White Home, Trump administration companies have delivered on guarantees. (Mark Schiefelbein/The Related Press)
The president additionally celebrated the U.S. Military’s 250th birthday with an enormous parade in Washington June 14 — kicking off a yearlong extravaganza main as much as America’s 250th birthday.
Outdoors the White Home, Trump administration companies have delivered on guarantees.
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The Division of Schooling unveiled plans to scale down its workforce, terminating almost 1,400 Schooling Division staff. The Supreme Court docket upheld Trump’s transfer.
The Justice Division launched the audio of former President Joe Biden’s interview with former Particular Counsel Robert Hur. Hur was investigating Biden for alleged improper retention of categorised information.
Congressional lawmakers had been demanding the audio of that interview be launched since 2024, after the transcript of Biden’s interview was affected by errors and revealed vital reminiscence lapses.
The Division of Justice additionally has began an investigation into Biden’s pardons his ultimate days in workplace to find out whether or not they’re legitimate. Fox Information Digital has discovered the pardons, in his ultimate weeks in workplace, had been signed by autopen, with only one signed by hand — the pardon for his son Hunter.
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Trump has additionally directed Legal professional Basic Pam Bondi to make public any related grand jury testimony referring to the Jeffrey Epstein case.
Over on the FBI, CIA and the Workplace of the Director of Nationwide Intelligence, intelligence officers and political appointees are within the course of of declassifying all information associated to the Trump–Russia investigation, also referred to as “Crossfire Hurricane.”
Fox Information Digital additionally completely reported that former FBI Director James Comey and former CIA Director John Brennan are below felony investigation referring to their actions tied to the Trump–Russia probe.
Fox Information’ Emma Colton, Diana Stancy, Elizabeth Elkind and Louis Casiano contributed to this report.
