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5 days ago | 
thecentersquare.com | Morgan Sweeney
(The Center Square) – Since Memorial Day, President Donald Trump’s schedule has been almost eerily lighter than the usual jam-packed itinerary. The president has only one event on his schedule for Monday – a closed press lunch with the vice president – but he is expected to engage in more budget and trade negotiations, drumming up support in Republican primaries and ongoing international issues this week.
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1 week ago | 
thecentersquare.com | Morgan Sweeney
(The Center Square) – The White House is rejecting claims that the current budget bill adds over $4 trillion to the federal deficit, saying those are based on “shoddy assumptions” from the Congressional Budget Office. “The Congressional Budget Office and other scorekeepers … have historically been terrible at forecasting across Democrat and Republican administrations alike,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said during Thursday's press briefing.
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1 week ago | 
thecentersquare.com | Morgan Sweeney
(The Center Square) – Vice President JD Vance, Donald Trump, Jr., and Eric Trump all spoke at the Bitcoin 2025 conference in Las Vegas on Wednesday, like the president did at last year’s conference. President Donald Trump has promised to make the U.S. the “bitcoin superpower of the world,” and Vance and the elder Trump brothers amplified that message from the conference stage.
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1 week ago | 
thecentersquare.com | Morgan Sweeney
(The Center Square) – President Donald Trump had a fairly quiet Memorial Day participating in a commemorative ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery followed by a few hours of golf, but a number of pressing domestic and international matters will require his attention this week. On the home front, the House of Representatives passed its version of the president’s budget, the ‘One Big, Beautiful Bill,’ early Thursday morning. Now the bill sits with the Senate.
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1 week ago | 
thecentersquare.com | Morgan Sweeney |Dan McCaleb
(The Center Square) – President Donald Trump delivers remarks during a Memorial Day event at Arlington National Cemetery. The Center Square's Morgan Sweeney will be among a small group of White House pool reporters who will cover the ceremony live from the cemetery, where more than 400,000 people are buried, including those who made the ultimate sacrifice serving their country.
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2 weeks ago | 
thecentersquare.com | Morgan Sweeney
(The Center Square) – President Donald Trump signed several executive orders on nuclear energy Friday that Trump said would make the U.S. the “real power” in the industry. U.S. Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum said the orders marked “a huge day for the nuclear industry,” enabling America to pursue nuclear innovation in ways it hasn’t done for decades. “Mark this day on your calendar. This is going to turn the clock back on over 50 years of overregulation of the industry,” Burgum said.
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2 weeks ago | 
thecentersquare.com | Morgan Sweeney
(The Center Square) – Before delving into other talking points at Thursday’s press briefing, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt condemned the murder of an Israeli embassy couple on Wednesday night in the nation’s capital. “President Trump is saddened and outraged over the brutal murder of two Israeli embassy staff here in Washington, D.C., last night,” Leavitt said.
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2 weeks ago | 
thecentersquare.com | Morgan Sweeney
(The Center Square) – The budget bill containing many of President Donald Trump’s fiscal priorities and campaign promises narrowly passed the House of Representatives early Thursday morning in a 215-214 vote, and now the White House is “suiting up” to get the bill through the Senate. “Our team is suiting up for discussions with the Senate side of Capitol Hill," White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters Thursday afternoon.
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2 weeks ago | 
thecentersquare.com | Morgan Sweeney
(The Center Square) – President Donald Trump confronted South African President Cyril Ramaphosa during Ramaphosa’s visit to the White House on Wednesday over what he called a "genocide" of white South Africans. At Trump’s request, representatives from both administrations, as well as the press viewed video clips of black South African activists chanting “Kill the Boer! Kill the Farmer!” during the meeting.
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2 weeks ago | 
thecentersquare.com | Morgan Sweeney
(The Center Square) – President Donald Trump announced from the Oval Office on Tuesday afternoon that the administration would be moving forward with his Golden Dome project. The administration has selected an architecture for the advanced missile-defense system, and Trump’s ‘big, beautiful’ budget bill before Congress now has allotted $25 billion for its initial construction. Trump said the dome would cost about $175 billion in total and would be completed before the end of his term.
