Trump admin updates: EU will buy $750 billion worth of U.S. energy under deal

Trump celebrated the Japan trade deal -- especially the $550 billion investment that the administration announced as part of the framework of the deal.

"But on the Japan deal, because it was literally just signed, letter was just signed, it gives us a sort of signing bonus. We'll bring it into sports talk -- a signing bonus like you have signing bonuses, too, I understand getting a lot of money 100, 100 million? That's not bad. But that's not as good as the signing bonus we got. We got a $550 billion signing bonus extension," Trump said.

"But now, if some of the countries that pay 25% or more on orders complain, remember that Japan was willing to pay up front the $550 billion for that privilege of negotiating with the United States of America," Trump later added.

But as the number of deals that the U.S. has achieved falls far short of the 90 deals in 90 days that the White House once promised, Trump said that negotiating with 200 countries is "too much for anybody."

"It's always nice when everybody can be happy, but mostly we’ll be charging straight tariffs to most of the rest of the world because we have over 200 countries, people don't realize it's a lot of -- that's a lot of deals. Even if you’re like me, a deal junkie, that's a lot of deals. That would be too much for anybody. How did we deal with this country that I never heard of?" Trump said.

-ABC News’ Lalee Ibssa

Plans for a military strike in Yemen shared on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s Signal account came from a classified email marked “SECRET/NOFORN,” according to a person familiar with the matter.

The marking, first reported by the Washington Post and confirmed by ABC News, undercuts Hegseth’s insistence that he never shared classified information on the commercial app.

The Pentagon’s Office of the Inspector General is looking into whether Hegseth personally wrote the text messages, which included such operational details as when U.S. fighters planned to take off and when bombs were scheduled to hit their targets.

Sources say Gen. Erik Kurilla, head of U.S. Central Command, relayed the strike plans using a secure government system. Hegseth was with his acting chief of staff, Ricky Buria, at his personal residence at Fort McNair when the details were then relayed to others on Hegseth’s Signal account, according to two people familiar with details of the investigation.

Hegseth’s chief spokesperson, Sean Parnell, said the Defense Department stands behind its insistence that no classified information was shared on Signal.

“As we've said repeatedly, nobody was texting war plans and the success of the Department's recent operations -- from Operation Rough Rider to Operation Midnight Hammer -- are proof that our operational security and discipline are top notch,” Parnell wrote.

The Pentagon has not responded to repeated questions about its policy regarding Signal.

Under the Biden administration, government officials were told they could use the commercial app to communicate so long as the information was not sensitive and that they took steps to preserve any work-related information.

-ABC News’ Anne Flaherty

House Republicans moved forward on Wednesday with a long-delayed effort to establish a select subcommittee to investigate the events of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.

“The resolution introduced today will establish this Select Subcommittee so we can continue our efforts to uncover the full truth that is owed to the American people. House Republicans remain intent on delivering the answers that House Democrats skipped over,” House Speaker Mike Johnson said in a statement Wednesday.

The House will vote to make this official after its August recess. Georgia Rep. Barry Loudermilk will lead the select subcommittee that is under the Judiciary panel.

-ABC News' Lauren Peller

The Supreme Court allowed Trump to fire three Democratic-appointed members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission without cause, lifting a lower court order that the commissioners be reinstated during the litigation.

Wednesday's decision is the latest in a string of rulings affirming Trump's broad power to determine staffing of the executive branch, even where Congress may have tried to insulate agencies from political interference.

In a short, unsigned order, the court invoked an earlier decision -- also in Trump's favor -- allowing termination of members of the NLRB and MSPB, saying the equities were in the administration's favor.

In that case, the court concluded "our judgment that the Government faces greater risk of harm from an order allowing a removed officer to continue exercising the executive power than a wrongfully removed officer faces from being unable to perform her statutory duty."

On Wednesday, the court said: "The same is true on the facts presented here, where the Consumer Product Safety Commission exercises executive power in a similar manner as the National Labor
Relations Board."

In a dissent for the liberal justices, Justice Elena Kagan accused the conservative majority of again "destroying the independence of an independent agency, established by Congress."

-ABC News' Devin Dwyer