President Donald Trump on Tuesday is hosting Canadian Prime Minster Mark Carney at the White House amid a tense trade war between the two neighbors kickstarted by Trump’s tariffs.
Meanwhile, on Capitol Hill, Republicans are continuing to iron out their “big, beautiful bill” that includes Trump’s sweeping legislative agenda. Plus, top Trump officials, including Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, are testifying before various committees.
Trump to meet with new Canadian PM for the first time
Trump will meet with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney at the White House Tuesday with tariffs levied by each country remaining in place.Carney is riding high after winning an election fueled by an anti-Trump platform and the president continuing to float the idea of Canada becoming the 51st state.
Trump has said he’s “not sure” what the Carney wants to discuss Tuesday, but added that Canada “wants to make a deal,” while Carney said Friday that they will focus on “trade pressures and the broader future economic and security relationship.”
-ABC News’ Justin Gomez
Cabinet members to testify on the Hill
Several members of Trump’s Cabinet are scheduled to testify in separate hearings on the Hill Tuesday.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will testify at a hearing of the House Appropriations subcommittee while Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is testifying before the House Oversight subcommittee.
The Senate Appropriations subcommittee will hold hearing on Trumps’ Budget Request for the USDA with Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins.
Appeals court denies Trump admin from ending CHNV program
After a district court blocked the Department of Homeland Security from abruptly ending the Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan, and Venezuelan Parole Program, President Donald Trump’s administration appealed the decision. However, a panel of three judges denied the appeal on Monday.
The program, initiated under former President Joe Biden, allowed some migrants with United States sponsors to travel into the country, obtain work permits and stay in the country for a period of two years.
The DHS announced in February that it would end CHNV protections for migrants in 30 days, but could start deporting them sooner.
In their ruling on Monday, the panel argued that existing immigration law “does not grant the Secretary of Homeland Security unreviewable discretion to terminate parole on other than a case-by-case basis.”
-ABC News’ Armando Tonatiuh Torres-García
Trump signs EO promoting domestic pharmaceutical manufacturing
Trump signed two executive orders Monday afternoon: one that provides tools to enforce a federal ban on gain-of-function research abroad and one that promotes domestic manufacturing of pharmaceuticals.
Trump said he would have a “big announcement” next week regarding the cost of medicines, though he declined to elaborate.
“I think we’re going to have another, conference next week, which will be very important having to do,” he said. “I think [it] will be very productive.”
-ABC News’ John Parkinson
Rep. Hayes, a former teacher of the year, launches Teacher Caucus
Rep. Jahana Hayes, D-Conn., the 2016 National Teacher of the Year, launched the Congressional Teacher Caucus to start Teacher Appreciation Week 2025.
Hayes said the caucus aims to provide a dedicated platform for educators serving in Congress to find common sense solutions to addressing the educational issues of today, according to a release from Hayes’ office.
The caucus also launches in direct response to “unprecedented attacks” against public education and Trump’s pledge to shutter the U.S. Department of Education.
A fierce defender of public education, Hayes is one of several educators in Congress and serves as a member of the House Education and Workforce Committee. Hayes and a coalition of lawmakers who have been outspoken about the administration’s mission to abolish the agency were denied entry to the department earlier this year.
“What you will not do is shut down this department and deny access to all of those children needed while we’re in Congress.” Rep. Hayes said, speaking at a press conference outside the agency.
“We will not allow for Donald Trump and his allies to rob the piggy bank of the Department of Education and transfer the funds that so many of our children need to fund their wealthy, billionaire friends and all of these school choice voucher programs,” Hayes added.
Congress can dismantle the Department of Education if 60 senators vote “yes” on legislation targeting the agency.
-ABC News’ Arthur Jones II
Defense Secretary Hegseth orders reduction of general officers across the military
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is ordering the military to slash the number of general officers within its ranks.
In a memo signed Monday, Hegseth said there should be a “minimum” 20% reduction in the number of four-star generals and admirals across the active-duty force.
He also called for at least a 20% reduction of general officers in the National Guard, as well as at least a 10% reduction in general and flag officers affiliated with combatant commands. Hegseth says the order is needed to “drive innovation and operational excellence, unencumbered by unnecessary bureaucratic layers that hinder their growth and effectiveness.”
“A critical step in this process is removing redundant force structure to optimize and streamline leadership by reducing excess general and flag officer positions,” he wrote in a memo obtained by ABC News.
CNN first reported Hegseth’s signing of the order.
-ABC News’ Anne Flaherty
Speaker Johnson defends Trump’s comments on children’s toys
House Speaker Mike Johnson unsurprisingly came to the president’s defense over comments made by Trump saying children may have to buy fewer toys due to the ongoing trade war.
“We had to disrupt the system, and we’re going to have the desired results,” Johnson said during a gaggle with reporters in the Capitol.
The speaker added “whatever short-term disruption there is or discomfort, I think what [Trump’s] trying to say there, I think, is that it will well pay off in the long run.”
Trump’s comments, made while answering questions at the end of his Cabinet meeting late last month, appeared to dismiss tariffs’ impacts on American families, including on children’s toys.
-ABC News’ Lauren Peller
House Speaker Johnson admits timeline for Trump agenda bill may slide
House Speaker Mike Johnson acknowledged his ambitious timeline to pass President Trump’s sweeping legislative agenda may slide.
“Everybody remains on in close coordination on the urgency of the hour, and we are trying to get it [the bill] done. If it’s not done before Memorial Day, will be shortly thereafter. But our timetable is on pace and we’re going to get this done ASAP,” Johnson said at the Capitol Monday afternoon.
Johnson downplayed any struggles or disagreements in trying to meet his Memorial Day timeline for House Republicans to pass the bill to fund Trump’s agenda. Republicans remain apart on issues like SALT (the state and local tax) and Medicaid benefits — major sticking points for members to ultimately support the package.
“It’s not a setback at all,” Johnson said, referring to House Ways and Means Committee and Energy and Commerce Committee pushing back their planned markups by a week.
The speaker concluded by declaring that the timeline for Trump’s agenda bill is “on track” and “if anybody tells you otherwise, they’re not in the room.” These comments come after Johnson, Trump and other top Republicans met at the White House last Thursday.
-ABC News’ Lauren Peller
Trump suggests they may give migrants who self-deport a future path to citizenship
On Monday, President Trump was asked by reporters about the new plan unveiled by his administration encouraging migrants to self-deport by offering a $1,000 stipend.
“So, we’re going to have a self-deportation, where they deport themselves out of our country and we’ll work with them, and we’re going to try, and if they — if we think they’re good, if they have, you know, the people we want in our country, they’re going to come back into our country. We’ll give them a little easier route. But if they don’t work and if we take them out after the date, then, they’re never coming back, and that’s the least of the problems they’re going to have,” Trump said in the Oval Office.
He said that as part of the program “we’re going to pay each one a certain amount of money, and we’re going to get them a beautiful flight back to where they came from, and they have a period of time.”
ABC News has asked the White House about whether there is an end-date to the self-deportation offer, as the president implied in his comments.
Trump said that people who do not self-deport will “never get a path to come back in.”
-ABC News’ Michelle Stoddart
Jill Biden says she doesn’t think federal government will be as involved in women’s health research
Former first lady Dr. Jill Biden said on Monday that she does not think the federal government will be as involved with women’s health investments and research as it used to be.
Biden spoke at the Milken Institute Global Conference in a discussion about the think tank’s new Women’s Health Network, of which she has been named chair. The initiative will promote research and investments for women’s health, according to a press release from the Milken Institute.
“I think this is really an opportunity for business, for private equity to, you know, it doesn’t seem like the federal government is really going to be as involved as they were, in — so we need to look at this as a challenge, but also as an opportunity. And I think we all have a part to play in every aspect of this,” Biden said when discussing what excited her about the initiative.
Biden was seemingly referencing federal government cuts, which have heavily hit health research initiatives as well, although she did not call out the White House or any figures by name. The White House has defended government cuts, including to health research, as meant to reduce waste and fraud.
Biden later said that some of the opportunities she sees as ways to impact women’s health in the U.S. are to break down “silos” between data that researchers have collected, as well as to get more women enrolled in clinical trials.
-ABC News’ Oren Oppenheim
Trump admin faces pair of lawsuits challenging HHS cuts, wind energy moratorium
The Trump administration faces two new lawsuits from a coalition of state attorneys general who are trying to stop the recent cuts to the Department of Health and Human Services and the president’s halt to offshore wind leasing.
The pair of lawsuits — filed in federal courts in Rhode Island and Massachusetts — are the newest legal challenges against the Trump administration filed by a group of Democratic state attorneys general.
“This administration is not streamlining the federal government; they are sabotaging it and all of us,” Attorney General Letitia James said in a statement.
A group of 19 attorneys general filed a lawsuit in Rhode Island District Court to challenge Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s attempt to fire 10,000 employees. The AGs argue the cuts to the Department prompted “severe, complicated, and potentially irreversible” harms, including shutting down laboratories devoted to testing infectious diseases, missing vaccine deadlines, and abandoning ongoing experiments.
The second lawsuit, filed by 17 attorneys general in Massachusetts District Court, challenges the president’s moratorium on offshore drilling he signed on his first day in office.
–ABC News’ Peter Charalambous
Trump says he had ‘nothing to do with’ AI-image of him dressed as the pope
President Trump was asked to respond to criticism from the Catholic community on the AI-generated image of Trump dressed as the pope that Trump and the White House shared on social media.
“I had nothing to do with it,” Trump said after claiming Catholics “loved it.”
“Somebody made up a picture of me dressed like the pope, and they put it out on the internet. That’s not me that did it. I have no idea where it came from. Maybe it was AI. But I know nothing about it. I just saw it last evening,” he said.
The image was shared on Trump’s own Truth Social account, as well the official White House X page. When pressed on that fact, Trump replied, “Give me a break. Yeah, it was — it was just, somebody did it in fun. It’s fine.”
Trump says admin will meet with film industry on tariffs
President Trump was asked on Monday to elaborate on his proposal over the weekend to implement steep tariffs on movies produced outside the U.S.
“We’re going to meet with the industry,” Trump said in the Oval Office. “I want to make sure they’re happy with it. Because we’re all about jobs, that’s all.”
A White House spokesman said on Monday that there has been “no final decisions on foreign film tariffs,” when asked about Trump’s social media post over the weekend in which he said he was authorizing agencies to begin the process of instituting a 100% tariff on any movies coming into the U.S. that are produced in foreign nations.
“Although no final decisions on foreign film tariffs have been, the Administration is exploring all options to deliver on President Trump’s directive to safeguard our country’s national and economic security while Making Hollywood Great Again,” said White House spokesman Kush Desai.
Trump reveals 2027 NFL draft will be held on National Mall
Trump, alongside NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, announced in the Oval Office on Monday that Washington, D.C., will be host to the 2027 NFL draft.
“I’m pleased to reveal that the 2027 NFL draft, that’s a big thing, will be held right here in our nation’s capital, Washington, D.C., on the National Mall,” Trump said.
Trump also touted the Washington Commanders’ stadium being built in Washington.
Goodell said he believed “well over a million people” will come to Washington for the 2027 draft.
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, a Democrat, attended the announcement and thanked those who had worked hard for the draft to come to Washington.
