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President Donald Trump's 20th week successful the Oval Office is expected to see a White House gathering with Germany's chancellor, a telephone telephone with Chinese President Xi Jinping and lawmakers' ongoing efforts to walk the "big, beauteous bill" to money the president's agenda.
Monday marks Trump's 134th time successful the White House, a play successful which helium has issued 150 enforcement orders affecting home policies, unveiled sweeping plans to rectify the nation's commercialized shortage with overseas nations and held ongoing negotiations to extremity planetary wars.
The week is slated to see a gathering with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz astatine the White House arsenic warfare continues to rage betwixt Ukraine and Russia and commercialized negotiations with the U.S. bent implicit Germany.
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German Chancellor Friedrich Merz heads to DC
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and President Donald Trump (Getty Images)
Merz's bureau confirmed connected Saturday that the chancellor volition question to Washington connected Wednesday evening up of gathering Trump connected Thursday, Politico reported.
The 2 are slated to sermon the ongoing warfare betwixt Russia and Ukraine and commercialized policies. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with Merz successful Germany past week arsenic the 2 European leaders ironed retired an statement for Germany to bolster its backing of Ukraine.
The gathering connected Thursday volition beryllium followed by a luncheon and property conference, according to Bloomberg.
Merz and Trump person antecedently spoken by telephone but person not met face-to-face since Merz was elected Germany's person successful May.
Merz clashed with Trump officials past period erstwhile Germany designated its right-wing Alternative for Germany governmental enactment a "proven right-wing extremist organization."
"Germany conscionable gave its spy bureau caller powers to surveil the opposition. That’s not democracy–it’s tyranny successful disguise," Secretary of State Marco Rubio posted to X of the designation. "What is genuinely extremist is not the fashionable AfD–which took 2nd successful the caller predetermination – but alternatively the establishment’s deadly unfastened borderline migration policies that the AfD opposes."
"Banning the centrist AfD, Germany's astir fashionable party, would beryllium an utmost onslaught connected democracy," erstwhile Department of Government Efficiency main Elon Musk posted to X, the societal media level that helium owns.
Merz responded that American leaders should not measurement successful connected German elections and politics.
"We person mostly stayed retired of the American predetermination run successful caller years, and that includes maine personally," Merz said, according to Politico.
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"We person not taken sides with either candidate. And I inquire you to judge that successful return," helium added.
Trump to telephone with Xi Jinping
Chinese President Xi Jinping is slated to person a telephone telephone with President Donald Trump this week. (Szilard Koszticsak/MTI via AP)
Trump is expected to clasp a telephone telephone with China's Xi Jinping this week to sermon tariffs, White House National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett revealed connected Sunday.
"President Trump, we expect, is going to person a fantastic speech astir the commercialized negotiations this week with President Xi. That's our expectation," Hassett said Sunday during an interrogation connected ABC News' "This Week."
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A time for the telephone telephone has not yet been locked down, according to Hassett.
"You ne'er cognize successful planetary relations, but my anticipation is that some sides person expressed a willingness to talk," Hassett said. "And I'd similar to besides adhd that radical are talking each day, truthful [U.S. Trade Representative] Jamieson Greer, his squad and President Xi's squad successful China, they're talking each time trying to determination the shot guardant connected this matter."
The Trump medication leveled tariffs arsenic precocious arsenic 145% connected Chinese goods pursuing the president's reciprocal tariff plans successful April, erstwhile China retaliated against the U.S. with tariffs of their own.
China and the U.S. reached a preliminary commercialized statement past month, which Trump said China violated successful a Truth Social station connected Friday.
"I made a FAST DEAL with China successful bid to prevention them from what I thought was going to beryllium a precise atrocious situation, and I didn’t privation to spot that happen. Because of this deal, everything rapidly stabilized and China got backmost to concern arsenic usual. Everybody was happy! That is the bully news!!! The atrocious quality is that China, possibly not amazingly to some, HAS TOTALLY VIOLATED ITS AGREEMENT WITH US. So overmuch for being Mr. NICE GUY!" helium wrote.
'Big, beauteous bill' negotiations proceed successful Senate
(Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call via Getty Images)
Senate lawmakers are moving to walk the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which is simply a multitrillion-dollar portion of authorities that advances Trump's docket connected taxes, immigration, energy, defence and the nationalist debt.
House lawmakers passed the authorities past period by 1 ballot aft a fistful of Republican lawmakers held retired connected supporting the legislation, saying it would exacerbate the nation's debt.
A fistful of Republican senators person made akin remarks to their House counterparts, explaining they cannot enactment the authorities unless it addresses its interaction connected the nation's debt. The measure is expected to adhd astir $3 trillion to the nationalist debt, Fox News Digital antecedently reported.
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"I’m a ‘no’ unless we abstracted retired the indebtedness ceiling," Republican Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul said past week. "If you instrumentality the indebtedness ceiling disconnected the bill, I’m beauteous overmuch a ‘yes’ connected astir of the rest."
"If we travel the way of the House bill, we'll person adjacent to, I think, $60 trillion worthy of indebtedness successful 10 years. What we've got to bash is bash what each household does: We've got to spell done each enactment of the budget," Republican Sen. Rick Scott of Florida said during an interrogation connected Fox News connected Thursday.
President Donald Trump has repeatedly called connected Republican lawmakers to walk the "big, beauteous bill." (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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Republican South Dakota Sen. Mike Rounds told Fox News Digital successful an exclusive interrogation from the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library successful California connected Friday that the Senate indispensable walk the authorities oregon American families volition wage higher taxes.
"We don't person a choice. We person to walk the measure to get the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act backmost successful spot connected a imperishable basis," helium said. "If we don't bash that, the mean American household is going to spot astir a $2,400-a-year summation successful their taxes. So we person to bash something. And it's captious that we walk this bill. We're going to enactment with the House. We're going to get this woody done. The Senate volition enactment their people of support connected it, but nonetheless, we privation to bash everything we tin arsenic rapidly arsenic we tin to instrumentality attraction of this truthful that we tin get connected to different things. The president has made it precise wide helium wants to get this done. We privation to assistance successful that regard. This is our job."
Trump has repeatedly called connected lawmakers to unify and walk the legislation, saying that it is "arguably the astir important portion of authorities that volition ever beryllium signed successful the past of our country."
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Fox News Digital's Deirdre Heavey and Elizabeth Elkind contributed to this report.
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