Trump admin updates: Trump says tariff letters to be sent to 'various countries' on Monday
He added that BRICS-aligned nations will face an additional 10% tariff.
After days of Republican drama, the House on Thursday passed President Donald Trump's sweeping tax cut and spending bill.
Trump helped Speaker Mike Johnson pressure GOP holdouts into flipping their no votes to allow the measure to go forward in time to meet the president's self-imposed July Fourth deadline.
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White House budget office says no decision made yet on $6B education funding slash
A White House Office of Management and Budget representative on Wednesday gave a statement on the administration's $6 billion pause to federal funding for after school, student support, teacher training and English Language programs.
They said no final decision has been made about the money as the administration conducts its "ongoing programmatic review of education funding."
The representative claimed that the money was "grossly misused to subsidize a radical leftwing agenda."
-ABC News' Michelle Stoddart
Senate-passed spending bill would add $3.4 trillion to deficit: CBO
The Senate’s final version of President Trump’s massive policy and tax bill would add $3.4 trillion to the deficit over the next decade, according to an updated estimate released by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.
The new estimate considers the last-minute Senate amendments adopted by the upper chamber on Tuesday.
According to the analysis, the amendments adopted in the Senate would themselves increase the deficits by about $110 billion, increase outlays by about $90 billion and decrease revenues by about $20 billion.
-ABC News' Lauren Peller
House now debating rule to advance Trump bill to a vote
The House is now debating the “rule” to advance the president's domestic policy bill to the floor for a vote.
The floor debate, which is being led by the House Rules Committee, is expected to occur for an hour. The lower chamber must first pass a rule, which is a procedural motion to advance legislation, to consider final passage of the bill. It is unclear if that will even pass.
During the previous procedural vote, eight Republicans and one Democrat were absent. If this sticks, Republicans could have a big problem just related to attendance, given Speaker Mike Johnson’s razor thin majority.
-ABC News' Lauren Peller
Trump lowers tariff on Vietnam in return for opening their market to US goods
President Trump put out more details of the negotiations with Vietnam in social media post on Wednesday.
It came after the president slapped a 46% tariff rate on the Southeast Asian country when he announced his global tariffs in April.
In his Truth Social post, the president announced a 20% tariff rate on "on any and all goods sent into our Territory" by Vietnam and a 40% tariff rate on "Transshipping" from Vietnam.
The higher tariff rate is likely an effort by the White House to disincentivize the movement of goods from China to Vietnam for a lower tariff rate, which is called transshipping.
In return, Trump said that Vietnam agreed to give the U.S. "TOTAL ACCESS to their Markets for Trade."
"In other words, they will “OPEN THEIR MARKET TO THE UNITED STATES,” meaning that, we will be able to sell our product into Vietnam at ZERO Tariff," he said in the post.
-ABC News' Michelle Stoddart