Trump did not provide any timing on when Alexander is expected to be released.
The White House said on Sunday that it reached a trade deal with China as the two countries negotiated for a second day in Switzerland. China has yet to comment on Sunday's talks.
"We’re confident that the deal we struck with our Chinese partners will help us to work toward resolving that national emergency,” U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer told reporters in Geneva. But Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said "substantial progress" had been made but stopped short of touting a full deal.
On Thursday, President Donald Trump announced a trade deal with the United Kingdom -- the first in what the White House said it hopes will be a flurry of agreements while the reciprocal tariff pause is in effect. With UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer on speaker phone in the Oval Office, the leaders conceded that they are still working out the details of the agreement.
Trump announced a trade deal with the United Kingdom, but was scant on details.
"Both countries agreed the economic security is national security and we'll work together as allies to insure that we have a strong industrial base, appropriate export controls and protections for key technologies and industries like steel," he said.
The House voted to codify President Donald Trump’s Gulf of America executive order by a vote of 211-206. Rep. Don Bacon of Nebraska was the only Republican to vote against the measure.
The bill heads to the Senate where its future is uncertain since bipartisan support is required, and Leader John Thune has not indicated whether he’ll put the measure on the floor for a vote.
Beyond the committee chairs managing the floor debate, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene – flanked by a map labeling the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America – was the only Republican to speak in support of the legislation.
Meanwhile, several Democrats, including Leader Hakeem Jeffries “strongly” urged lawmakers to vote against “this small-minded, silly and sycophantic bill” during floor debate.
“Republicans have decided to spend this entire legislative day doing is to debate a bill to rename the Gulf of Mexico. Now, in some ways the American people can be thankful,” Jeffries added.
-ABC News' Lauren Peller
As Trump is slated to announce his trade deal with the U.K., the British economy found itself in a different situation over the tariffs than other nations.
Dozens of nations face potential so-called "reciprocal tariffs," but the U.K. is not among them, since the U.K buys more than it sells to the U.S.
The White House paused the reciprocal tariffs until July, as it seeks to strike trade agreements with dozens of countries.
The country, however, was still hit with Trump's baseline 10% tariff issued for almost all foreign nations.
-ABC News' Max Zahn
The Trump administration is considering releasing the audiotape of former President Joe Biden's interview with special counsel Robert Hur, sources familiar with the matter confirm to ABC News.
Trump's White House lawyers were provided the audiotape by the Department of Justice weeks ago, the sources said.
The release would come as the administration is simultaneously fighting to keep former special counsel Jack Smith's report on President Trump's handling of classified documents under wraps.
Hur's yearlong probe into Biden's handling of classified documents ended with no criminal charges being recommended because the evidence wasn't sufficient to support a conviction. However, the 388-page report Hur released created a political firestorm as the special counsel described Biden as someone who could appear to a jury as an "elderly man with a poor memory." Hur repeatedly pointed to moments from his interview where he said Biden appeared to have trouble remembering the years that he served as vice president and when his son Beau Biden died.
-ABC News' Katherine Faulders and Rachel Scott
