Trump says 3rd term isn't a joke, despite term limit
"A lot of people want me to do it," Trump told NBC on Sunday.
President Donald Trump did not rule out seeking a third term for president when asked by NBC on Sunday, saying, “There are methods which you could do it."
“A lot of people want me to do it,” Trump said Sunday. “But, I mean, I basically tell them we have a long way to go, you know, it’s very early in the administration.”
Meanwhile, tariffs on imported autos are to go into effect on Wednesday. While economist predict Trump's tariffs will raise prices in the U.S., his tariffs czar, Peter Navarro, predicted they would result in tax cuts: "Tariffs are tax cuts, tariffs are jobs, tariffs are national security, tariffs are great for America," Navarro told Fox News.
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HHS to cut roughly 10,000 jobs: Sources
The Department of Health and Human Services, led by Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is set to announce a major reorganization on Thursday, including the shuttering of half of its regional offices around the country, according to two sources familiar with the plans.
Roughly 10,000 jobs will be cut across the department, which oversees the Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and many more divisions. Five of the 10 regional offices will close.
Unions have been notified of the reduction in force plans, agency employees told ABC News.
The full details of the mass layoffs were first reported by the Wall Street Journal.
-ABC News' Cheyenne Haslett and Mike Levine
Trump warns of 'large scale tariffs' on EU and Canada if they work together on response
President Donald Trump is warning that he will impose “large scale tariffs” on the European Union and Canada if they work together to respond to his recently announced tariffs.
“If the European Union works with Canada in order to do economic harm to the USA, large scale Tariffs, far larger than currently planned, will be placed on them both in order to protect the best friend that each of those two countries has ever had,” Trump posted on Truth Social early Thursday morning.
The European Union has delayed its tariffs on the U.S. until mid-April.
In a statement last night, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney called Trump’s auto tariffs a “direct attack” and that he would meet with his cabinet on Thursday to discuss trade options.
-ABC News' Justin Gomez
Trump says US will go 'as far as we have to' in order to get Greenland
Ahead of a visit by Vice President JD Vance and second lady Usha Vance, President Donald Trump was asked how far the U.S. would go to take ownership of Greenland.
"We need Greenland for national security and international security," Trump said Wednesday, taking reporters' questions in the Oval Office. "So we'll, I think, we'll go as far as we have to go. We need Greenland. And the world needs us to have Greenland, including Denmark. Denmark has to have us have Greenland. And, you know, we'll see what happens. But if we don't have Greenland, we can't have great international security."
Trump added, "I view it from a security standpoint, we have to be there."
Trump also said that he understood "JD might be going," but did not seem to know other details about the trip.
Greenland's Prime Minister Mute Egede earlier this week called the upcoming visit by U.S. officials part of a "very aggressive American pressure against the Greenlandic community" and called for the international community to step in to rebuke it.
-ABC News' Michelle Stoddart
Trump calls Signal scandal 'a witch hunt,' brushes off concerns against Waltz, Hegseth
President Donald Trump disregarded concerns about his national security adviser's Signal conversation and called it a "witch hunt" as he answered a question about the military strike against the Houthis.
The president reiterated that Mike Waltz took responsibility but would not admonish Hegseth for any role in the chat.