The White House said on Sunday that it reached a trade deal with China as the two countries negotiated for a second day in Switzerland. China has yet to comment on Sunday's talks.
"We’re confident that the deal we struck with our Chinese partners will help us to work toward resolving that national emergency,” U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer told reporters in Geneva. But Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said "substantial progress" had been made but stopped short of touting a full deal.
On Thursday, President Donald Trump announced a trade deal with the United Kingdom -- the first in what the White House said it hopes will be a flurry of agreements while the reciprocal tariff pause is in effect. With UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer on speaker phone in the Oval Office, the leaders conceded that they are still working out the details of the agreement.
President Donald Trump is expected to announce a trade deal with the United Kingdom on Thursday morning, according to sources familiar with the matter.
The details of the agreement were not immediately clear. This will mark the first agreement after Trump imposed steep tariffs on dozens of trading partners.
It comes as Trump said on social media he would announce a "MAJOR TRADE DEAL WITH REPRESENTATIVES OF A BIG, AND HIGHLY RESPECTED, COUNTRY."
The White House didn't immediately respond to ABC's request for comment.
-ABC News' Rachel Scott and Katherine Faulders
May 07, 2025, 9:46 PM EDT
Trump says he will announce 'MAJOR TRADE DEAL' on Thursday
President Donald Trump in a post on Truth Social said he would be hosting a "big news conference" on Thursday to announce a "MAJOR TRADE DEAL WITH REPRESENTATIVES OF A BIG, AND HIGHLY RESPECTED, COUNTRY."
The news conference is set for 10 a.m. from the Oval Office.
President Donald Trump participates in a swearing-in ceremony for the Assistant to the President, Senior Advisor and Special Envoy Steve Witkoff in the Oval Office of the White House, in Washington, D.C., on May 6, 2025.
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Trump said the announcement would be "THE FIRST OF MANY."
In an interview with Time magazine last month, Trump claimed to have already "made 200 deals" with other countries on tariffs but did not elaborate on which countries or what the terms were.
-ABC News' Kelsey Walsh
May 07, 2025, 8:23 PM EDT
National Intelligence director declassifies 60,000 RFK assassination files
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard on Wednesday announced the release of about 60,000 files on the 1968 assassination of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. That's in addition to some 10,000 files released last month.
These “additional investigative materials corroborate this previously released information,” Gabbard said.
Tulsi Gabbard appeared on "The View," July 22, 2019.
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“As was first uncovered in the initial tranche of 10,000 RFK files, there were rumors circulating on foreign soil that Senator Kennedy had been shot one month prior to his true assassination date,” she explained.
According to Gabbard, the newly released files “have been sitting in various storage facilities across the federal government for decades and had never been digitized or accessible to the public before.”
The latest release includes the Los Angeles Police Department’s interviews with Sirhan Sirhan, the man who assassinated Kennedy, as well as recordings of interviews with eyewitnesses.
Gabbard said additional files will continue to be “uploaded alongside the previously released files at archives.gov/rfk to ensure all RFK assassination documents can be found in a centralized, searchable format.”
Some files will have redactions for Social Security numbers, tax identification numbers and grand jury information.
-ABC News' Beatrice Peterson
May 07, 2025, 5:14 PM EDT
Budget negotiations drag on as Republicans chart path to reconciliation finish line
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., returned to the Capitol after meeting with his congressional counterparts and top administration officials at the White House -- as Republicans aim to settle the final sticking points of negotiations on reconciliation.
"We're moving ahead and … all the fine points of reconciliation are coming together,” Johnson said. "Everybody's very optimistic about the timetable that we think we can get our part done by Memorial Day."
Johnson did not get into detail about the White House meeting but rejected a Congressional Budget Office analysis requested by Democrats that breaks down various proposals to reform Medicaid.
"They don't even know what proposals we're considering so that's all nonsense," Johnson said. "We're still talking about these things."
