President Donald Trump and Republican leaders in Congress are showing openness to a bill that would impose heavy new sanctions on Russia for its unwillingness to make peace with Ukraine. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) told reporters Wednesday that he would take up the issue with Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-South Dakota) next week. Trump said earlier this week that he is “very strongly” considering backing the legislation, which would sanction Russia’s energy and defense industries, amid his ongoing frustrations with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Trump, meanwhile, is continuing to announce new tariffs on U.S. global trading partners. He has no public events scheduled Thursday.
Sen. Thom Tillis, the North Carolina Republican who defied President Donald Trump by not voting for his massive tax and immigration bill, said Wednesday on CNN that he regrets voting to confirm Pete Hegseth as defense secretary.
“I think it’s clear he’s out of his depth,” Tillis told CNN’s Jake Tapper.
This week, CNN reported that Hegseth didn’t inform the White House he was ordering a pause on weapons shipments to Ukraine. Trump soon announced he would resume the shipments.
The agency responsible for protecting workers’ civil rights has resumed processing certain discrimination complaints filed by transgender workers, a reversal from an earlier policy in which those cases were automatically classified as meritless and put on hold.
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