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1 week ago | 
nbcnews.com | Megan Shannon |Dareh Gregorian
The challenge facing JD Vance as he enters the immigration frayWelcome to the online version of Happy first day of summer! In today's edition, Jonathan Allen explores the challenges awaiting Vice President JD Vance as he lands in Los Angeles. Plus, Sign up to receive this newsletter in your inbox every weekday here. - Adam Wollner we dive into President Donald Trump's penchant for a giving a two-week timetable on big issues. And Dylan Ebs answers this week's reader question on ranked choice voting.
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3 weeks ago | 
cnbc.com | Peter Nicholas |Megan Lebowitz |Megan Shannon
US President Donald Trump (L) looks at a washing machine as he tours US Steel - Irvin Works in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania, May 30, 2025, to mark the deal between Nippon Steel and US Steel. Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty ImagesWASHINGTON — Back in Donald Trump's first term, his staff decided they'd tuck into his briefing book a few letters from ordinary Americans who'd written to the White House. Only certain letters made the cut, though.
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1 month ago | 
nbcnews.com | Denise Chow |Megan Shannon |Alexandra Marquez
President Donald Trump on Friday signed four executive orders aimed at easing regulations on and expanding the production of nuclear energy. The executive orders aim to reform nuclear energy research at the Department of Energy, clear a path to allow the Energy Department to build nuclear reactors on federally-owned land, overhaul the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and expand uranium mining and enrichment in the U.S, a senior administration official told reporters ahead of the signing.
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1 month ago | 
flipboard.com | Denise Chow |Alexandra Marquez |Megan Shannon
8 hours agoHouse Republicans passed a reconciliation bill that guts the Inflation Reduction Act, meaning fewer jobs, less electricity generation, and higher emissions. President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) bill was a landmark move for the economy. One year after it was signed into law, it had …
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1 month ago | 
nbcnews.com | Peter Nicholas |Megan Shannon |Megan Lebowitz |Henry Gomez
May 21, 2025, 8:45 PM EDTWASHINGTON — The White House has removed official transcripts of President Donald Trump’s public remarks from its government website, replacing them with selected videos of his public appearances. As recently as Sunday, transcripts of Trump’s speeches and comments were still showing up in the “Remarks” section of WhiteHouse.gov. The next day, they were gone, snapshots of the site from an internet archive show.
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1 month ago | 
nbcnewyork.com | Max Molski |Raquel Coronell Uribe |Peter Nicholas |Megan Shannon
Trump said in a Truth Social post Saturday that the content of his discussion with Putin will be “stopping the ‘bloodbath.’”“Hopefully it will be a productive day, a ceasefire will take place, and this very violent war, a war that should have never happened, will end,” Trump wrote. Trump said he would speak to Zelenskyy and various members of NATO after his call with Putin.
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1 month ago | 
nbcnews.com | Peter Nicholas |Megan Shannon |Matt Dixon
May 19, 2025, 5:00 AM EDTWASHINGTON — Jamieson Greer has a big job — three of them, actually. As U.S. trade representative, Greer has been flying around the world at Donald Trump’s behest, negotiating with countries over the tariffs that the president imposed. On top of that, he is the government’s official watchdog. The White House has appointed Greer both acting director of the Office of Government Ethics and acting head of the Office of Special Counsel.
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1 month ago | 
nbcnews.com | Olympia Sonnier |Megan Shannon |Benjamin Goggin
By and President Donald Trump has moved with remarkable speed in his first 100 days, issuing more than 100 executive orders and pushing an agenda that has the potential to rapidly remake America. That effort comes from some big promises he made on the campaign trail, including to implement tariffs, carry out mass deportations and end major international conflicts.
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2 months ago | 
nbcnews.com | Natasha Korecki |Megan Shannon |Elyse Perlmutter-Gumbiner
By , and President Donald Trump enacted massive tariffs on April 2 that plunged the stock market into disarray, threatened a trade war and shook consumer confidence. As the nation reeled, Trump left the White House for the weekend — not to drum up support for the policies around the country, but to travel to Mar-a-Lago. Then he hit the links.
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2 months ago | 
nbcnews.com | Peter Nicholas |Megan Shannon
Updated Vice President JD Vance said that the U.S. could walk away from Russia-Ukraine peace talks unless either country agrees to a deal. Vance indicated that the proposal needed to include "some territorial swap." Secretary of State Marco Rubio and White House envoy Steve Witkoff will not attend high-level meetings in London aimed at bringing a pause to the war in Ukraine. Trump said multiple times yesterday that he has "no intention of firing" Federal Reserve Chair Jay Powell.
