US Senate votes to advance Russia sanctions bill that would give Trump new tariff powers – as it happened
by Robert Mackey (now); Lucy Campbell, Maya Yang, Rac from US news | The Guardian on (#779JA)
Despite resounding 86-to-12 vote, Democratic aide warns bill gives president unchecked discretion to waive sanctions and impose tariffs. This blog is now closed.
Trump's meeting with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, set for 9:30am ET on Tuesday, will be closed to the media, the New York Times is reporting.
The meeting is expected to be much more cordial than the one last year where Trump openly berated Zelenskyy and said, you don't have the cards". The administration and rightwing influencers have shown a shift on Ukraine as of late, and Trump and Zelenskyy had a friendly meeting at a Nato summit earlier this month.
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