president Donald TrumpThe 20th week in the oval office is expected to include a White House meeting with the German Prime Minister, as well as the ongoing efforts of Chinese President Xi Jinping and lawmakers to pass the “big beautiful bill” to fund the president’s agenda.
Monday marks Trump’s 134th day at the White House. It issued 150 executive orders affecting domestic policy, announced a drastic plan to correct the country’s trade deficits with foreign countries, and held ongoing negotiations to end the international war.
This week will include a meeting with German Prime Minister Friedrich Merz at the White House as Ukraine and Russia continues to rage, and trade negotiations with the US narrow down Germany.
German Prime Minister Friedrich Merz heads to DC
German Prime Minister Friedrich Mertz and President Donald Trump (Getty Images)
Meltz’s office confirmed that he will travel to Washington on Wednesday evening before meeting Trump on Thursday. Politico reported.
The two will discuss the ongoing war and trade policy between Russia and Ukraine. Ukrainian President Voldimir Zelenki met with Meltz Last week Germany Two European leaders have removed the agreement to strengthen support for Germany’s Ukraine.
Lunch and a press conference will follow Thursday’s meeting, according to Bloomberg.
Meltz and Trump had previously spoken on the phone, but have not seen each other face to face since Meltz was elected German leader in May.
Merz clashed with Trump officials last month when Germany designated German parties a right-wing alternative as a “proven right-wing extremist organization.”
“Germany has just given spy agencies new authority to monitor the opposition. It’s not democracy. It’s a tyranny in disguise,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio wrote to X, designated X. “Truly extremists are not the popular AFD that came in second in the recent election, but the fatal open border immigration policy of facilities opposed by the AFD.”
“To ban Germany’s most popular party, centricists, would be an extreme attack on democracy,” former government efficiency director Elon Musk posted on X, the social media platform he owns.
Mertz responded that American leaders should not place emphasis on German elections and politics.
“We’ve mostly stayed from the US campaign in recent years, and that’s what I personally include,” Meltz said.
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“We’re not on the side of either candidate, and we ask you to accept it in return,” he added.
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Chinese President Xi Jinping is scheduled to call President Donald Trump this week. (szilard koszticsak/mti via ap)
Trump is expected to make a call with China xi Jinping To discuss tariffs this week, White House National Economic Council director Kevin Hassett revealed on Sunday.
“I expect President Trump to have a great conversation about trade negotiations with President XI this week, and that’s what we expect,” Hassett said in an interview with ABC News on Sunday, “this week.”
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According to Hassett, phone day is not locked up yet.
“You never know international relations, but my expectation is that both sides have expressed their willingness to speak,” Hassett said. “And I want to add that people talk every day, so [U.S. Trade Representative] His team, Jamieson Greer, the team of President XI of China, talks daily about the issue to move the ball forward. ”
The Trump administration levelled tariffs on Chinese goods to 145% following the president’s mutual tariff plan in April, when China retaliated against the US with its own tariffs.
China and the US reached a reserve trade agreement last month, Trump said China violated Friday’s Truth Social Post.
“I quickly traded with China to save it from what I thought would be in a very bad situation. I didn’t want to see it happen. Because of this transaction, everything quickly stabilized and China returned to business as usual. That was good news! He wrote.
The Senate continues to negotiate a “big and beautiful bill.”
(Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call by Getty Images)
Senator We are working to pass one big beautiful bill law, a multi-billion dollar law that promotes Trump’s agenda on taxes, immigration, energy, defense and government bonds.
The House of Representatives passed the law by one vote last month after a few Republicans said they would aggravate the country’s debts, saying it would be aggravated.
A small number of Republican senators have made similar remarks to their home counterparts, explaining that they cannot support the law unless they address the impact on the country’s debt. The bill is expected to add about $3 trillion to national debt, Fox News Digital reported earlier.
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“Unless I separate the debt caps, I’m no,” Republican Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul said last week. “If you remove the debt cap from the bill, I’m “yes” for most of the time. ”
“If you follow the path of the House bill, I think we’re approaching $60 trillion worth of debt in 10 years. All we have to do is what every family does. We have to go through every line of our budget.”
President Donald Trump has repeatedly called on Republican lawmakers to pass “big, beautiful bills.” (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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Republican South Dakota Sen. Minecround said in an exclusive interview with California’s Presidential Library on Friday that the Senate must pass legislation or that American families will pay higher taxes.
“We don’t have a choice. We have to pass a bill to permanently reverse tax cuts and employment,” he said. “If we don’t, the average American family will see a tax increase of $2,400 a year. So we have to do something. And it’s important that we pass this bill. It’s important that we make this transaction. We’ll do this.
Trump repeatedly called on lawmakers to pass the law uniformly, saying it was “undoubtedly part of the most important legislation signed in our country’s history.”
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Deirdre Heavey and Elizabeth Elkind of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.
