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Last Updated: April 13, 2025, 11:58 PM EDT

President Donald Trump held a Cabinet meeting with his top officials, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, as well as Elon Musk, on Thursday.

It follows Trump on Wednesday changing course on his tariff policy, instituting a 90-day pause in higher taxes for most countries while ramping up the rate against China to 145%.

On Capitol Hill, Republican leaders pushed through a budget blueprint to fund Trump's domestic agenda despite some GOP hard-liner opposition.

Apr 10, 2025, 1:29 PM EDT

Gabbard says more files to be released on RFK, MLK assassinations

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said during the Cabinet meeting that more files related to the assassinations of Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. will be released in the coming days.

"These have been sitting in boxes in storage for decades. They have never been scanned or seen before. We'll have those ready to release here within the next few days," Gabbard said.

This comes after the National Archives and Records Administration last month released thousands of pages of declassified records related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963.

Apr 10, 2025, 1:06 PM EDT

Trump praises officials at Cabinet meeting as 'friends' after reports of infighting

"Everyone at this table is doing an incredible job," President Donald Trump said during his Cabinet meeting. "By the way, I have to say, incredible. And the relationships are -- it's like they're friends. The relationships are very strong, really good, really strong. And these meetings are very good."

The comments come after reports of clashes between high-ranking members of his administration. This week, Elon Musk and Peter Navarro traded jabs over tariffs. Musk, while not a Cabinet official, has been present at Cabinet meetings and is seated at the table.

Apr 10, 2025, 11:42 AM EDT

Trump congratulates House for passing budget blueprint

President Donald Trump congratulated the House on the passage of the budget blueprint, posting on social media that this "sets the stage for one of the Greatest and Most Important Signings in the History of our Country."

President Donald Trump speaks, as he signs executive orders in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, April 9, 2025.
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"Among many other things, it will be the Largest Tax and Regulation Cuts ever even contemplated," Trump said in the post.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in a statement that the passage is "a statement of purpose and strength."

"The Trump Administration will continue pushing for the certainty, simplicity, and stability that will unlock long-term prosperity for all American," Bessent said in the statement.

-ABC News' Michelle Stoddart

Apr 10, 2025, 11:32 AM EDT

Trump to meet with Cabinet after tariff shake-up

President Donald Trump was set to meet with his Cabinet on Thursday in the 11 a.m. hour, according to the White House schedule.

It comes after Trump changed course on tariffs on Wednesday, abruptly backing down on most of his severe levies against dozens of trading partners for 90 days while leaving in place a baseline 10% tariff on nearly every nation.

China's President Xi Jinping in Beijing, March 28, 2025 and President Donald Trump, in Washington, April 7, 2025.
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But tensions between the United States and China, the world's two largest economies, only escalated. Trump slapped Beijing with a new 125% tariff rate on Wednesday after China imposed its own retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods. That tax comes in addition to the 20% fentanyl-related tariffs Trump placed on China in early February, for a total 145% Trump tariff on China.

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