14 things that Trump administration did this week

The eighth week of the second term, Donald Trump, was marked by dizzying ping pongs tariffs and counter-tariffs, as well as Ukrainian peace talks with officials of both Kiev and Moscow.

The US president and his administration continue to make headlines when they go forward with their politics. Here’s a quick look at some of their biggest steps.

Trump continued his plan for 25% tariff on all steel and aluminum products coming from the rest of the world.

But his team stopped the plan to double the US rates on Canadian steel and aluminum, only a few hours after the threatening of the North neighbor of America in another fight in their trade war.

The rollback came after the Prime Minister of the Ontario Doug Ford said his province would suspend new 25% charges he sends across the border.

“Cool heads prevailed,” said Peter Navaro, a trade advisor in the White House, CNBC said.

Tariffs and unpredictable threats of new ones caused concern about investors, especially in the light of the question that Trump had evaded whether the US economy went down.

In an interview with Fox News, the president, who presides over the world’s largest economy, refused to draw the question of whether the recession was on the horizon – saying that the US was in the “transition period” because “what we are doing is very big.”

These words seemed to be much assured by investors, as the next day the US S&P 500 stock index decreased by almost 3%.

The US allies across the Atlantic were also not deprived of Trump’s tariff threats when it came to his social network of truth on Thursday to threaten the European Union for 200% of alcohol tariffs.

Its alcoholic tariffs are the last escalation in a separate trade war with the EU countries, which previously presented their own counter-tifuries to Trump’s steel and aluminum tariffs.

Trump, which has evaded alcohol all his life – in his social media report emphasized that a tremendous 200% tariff for stopping only after the EU stopped “unpleasant 50% of the whiskey”. He called the Union “hostile and offensive.

The Prime Minister Ontario Doug Ford said the “temperature was lowered” this week between the United States and Canada thanks to the Olive Industry, which was extended by the secretary of the US trade, Howard Lutnik.

By the end of the week, two peoples struck a more diplomatic tone – which began with the madness of tariffs and counter -chant.

Ford that’s just last week threatened to turn off power The fact that Canada provides the United States came out of the hourly seat in Washington with a lutnik, saying, “I can honestly say that it was the best meeting I have ever descended here.”

A proposal for a 30-day ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine was presented in Saudi this week. This was the latest step in Trump’s administration’s plans to provide peace in the region after more than three years of full -scale war.

Secretary of State Mark Rubio and National Security Advisor Mike Waltz met with the Ukrainian team for several hours on Tuesday. After that, Kyiv said he was ready to support an immediate pause in battles.

A separate team from US officials, led by a special envoy Steve Vitco, arrived in Moscow on Thursday to discuss conditions with Russian officials. He was met by President Vladimir Putin, who later said that he was still ahead.

Negotiations on Tuesday in Saudi Arabia suggested some actions. Subsequently, the US delegation stated that it would restore the sending of military assistance to Ukraine and exchange exploration with the country of combat communication – with which its relations recently.

The announcement took place a few days after the Pentagon announced that it would suspend the sharing of satellite images with Ukraine – the technology that the nod counts on the tracking of the movements of Russian troops and missile attacks.

As part of its desire to reduce government cuts, the administration has canceled financing for $ 20 billion (15.4 billion pounds) climate Biden Age and environmental grants on Tuesday. The projects were frozen for weeks.

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has also announced plans to stop financing more than 400 diversity, justice and inclusion (DEI) and environmental grants worth about $ 1.7 billion.

On Wednesday, the federal judge pressed the government’s lawyers to present “some evidence” that these grants were “illegally made”.

The administration tried to deport a permanent law resident of the United States and a graduate of the Colombian University for participating in 2024 protests on the campus on the occasion of the gas war. Now attempt is the subject of a legal battle.

Palestinian protest by Mahmud Khalil, the owner of the green map, which was considered one of the faces of the movement in Colombia, was held in the detention center in Louisiana, where he was sent after arrest in New York.

The arrest of Khalila, said Trump, was one of “many who came” and arrived shortly after his administration announced that he reduced the grants at the Colombian University of $ 400 million (309 million pounds) because she could not fight anti -Semitism in the campus. The university pledged to restore funding.

This week, the Education Department announced that it plans to dismiss 1300 workers, which will effectively reduce the labor of the department in half.

Trying to manage federal loans for the college and the implementation of the Civil Rights Law at the school, the Department has long been looked after by Trump, and some conservatives should be eliminated at all – although such an action will require Congress’ approval.

Employees of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) said “cut off as a lot of documents” and personnel files as they could this week, as the weekly cleaning in the agency left the vast majority of their initiatives allocated.

After exhaustion of this option, the staff received the instructions, they should refer to “burning bags”.

The request that raised the alarm among employees and working groups comes when the Secretary of State Rubio confirmed that 83% of the prolonged assistance programs were stopped according to USAID.

Trump was engaged in another diplomacy when he wrote his thoughts on the paper rather than marking a foreign leader in a social media report.

In a letter addressed to Iran’s Supreme leader, transferred through the UAE official, the US president said he had outlined plans for Tehran’s nuclear program.

His warnings on potential hostilities, when the negotiations were not arranged, seemed to fall into uninteresting ears – when Ayatoli Ali Homena rejected the idea of ​​negotiations, calling it “deception of public opinion.”

Dave Weldon, Republican headed the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), was abolished by Trump administration to become his candidate for health care agency – a decision that came only a few hours before he had to show before the Senate Committee.

The White House of the 71-year-old doctor and former Congressman Florida “Has no Senate Voting”, which is to be confirmed, said CBS News, a BBC News partner.

Trump’s all elections have been approved so far – including some more contradictory.

Tesla services across the United States collided with protesters who stood at the door of electric vehicles to call the founder – Elon Musk – for the new role he plays in the administration of Donald Trump.

The protests of “Tesla Takedown” were largely peaceful, but several in some parts of the country ended in fires that were lit in the salons.

This pushed a new boss Musk to announce that these people should be marked by domestic terrorists because he held an event on the White House lawn, demonstrating the Tech Bludleare product.

While the couple sat in the front seat of one of the electric cars, Trump said the media that he plans to buy it.

During the visit to the Oval Cabinet this week, Taoiz Mikel Martin handed Donald Trump a bowl.

JD Vance, which attended the same meeting, did not miss its own opportunity to pay tribute to the Irish Prime Minister, wearing a couple of socks of cream color that were – noticeably – decorated with green charms.

The president was granted the gift of the traditional charm of the SHEMROK, while attempts by the vice president to mark the heritage of the Emerald Island were less.

“What about these socks?” the president asked when the room broke out of laughter. The group discussed inflation, but the socks were also a central conversation. “I’m trying to stay focused, but I’m very impressed with VP socks.”