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What We’re Covering Today
Partial Shutdown: President Trump signed the bill ending the partial government shutdown on Tuesday afternoon, hours after it narrowly passed the House. The measure funds an array of agencies for the rest of the fiscal year but sets up crucial negotiations over the administration’s immigration crackdown. Democrats want new restrictions on federal agents, and the deal funded the Department of Homeland Security just until the end of next week. Mr. Trump and Democrats have roughly 10 days to strike a deal before regular funding for the Department of Homeland Security lapses. Read more ›
Colombian President: Mr. Trump met privately with President Gustavo Petro of Colombia at the White House. It was the first face-to-face encounter between two leaders who have spent months verbally attacking each other over the U.S. military raid in Venezuela and strikes on boats the White House said were carrying drugs. Read more ›
Clinton Testimony: Bill and Hillary Clinton asked to testify publicly in House Oversight Committee hearings on the Jeffrey Epstein investigation, escalating their fight with Republicans a day before the House was set to vote to hold them in contempt of Congress. Read more ›
Partial Shutdown
16 minutes agoChris Cameron
In the Oval Office with reporters after signing the bill to end the government shutdown, Trump was pressed on Epstein’s association with Howard Lutnick, the commerce secretary, and Elon Musk. The president suggested that he had been too busy to address it.
“I have a lot of things I’m doing,” Trump said. “You mentioned two names, I’m sure they’re fine.”
17 minutes agoChris Cameron
President Trump adjusted his false claims that he had brought down prescription drug prices by 800 or 900 percent, saying instead that the deals he has struck with pharmaceutical companies would eventually bring prices down by “about 80 percent.”
18 minutes agoChris Cameron
Continuing his long streak of trying to steer attention away from his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, Trump said that “a lot of Democrats are very much involved with Epstein,” and then immediately pivoted to say, “I’ll be honest with you, we have to get back to running the country.”
19 minutes agoErica L. Green
White House reporter
President Trump doubled down on his assertion that the federal government should oversee state elections, even after his press secretary attempted to walk back his comments that the Republican Party should “nationalize” elections. Trump asserted that there were several cities with election irregularities, for which there was no evidence. “Look at some of the places that horrible corruption on elections, and the federal government should not allow that,” Trump said. “The federal government should get involved.”
33 minutes agoErica L. Green
White House reporter
President Trump has signed the legislation ending the partial federal government shutdown. Before he signed the bill, he lamented how a longer shutdown, like the one that ended in November that lasted 43 days, would have harmed the economy. He also listed other accomplishments that the bill achieved, including ending “taxpayer subsidies for radical far left woke programming” on NPR and PBS, slashing funding for foreign aid organizations, and continuing funds for deportation flights. He also spent a considerable amount of time promoting First Lady Melania Trump’s initiative for foster youth, which is also funded in the bill, and also praised her new documentary.
3 hours agoCatie Edmondson
Congressional reporter
Most House Democrats, 193 of them, voted against the spending deal on Tuesday, a reflection of how toxic funding the Department of Homeland Security and ICE has become in the party. Twenty-one supported it.
Twenty-one Republicans opposed the Trump-backed measure.
Colombian President
12 minutes agoErica L. Green
White House reporter
President Trump, speaking with reporters in the Oval Office after signing the bill to end the government shutdown, said that his meeting with Colombia’s president, Gustavo Petro, had been good, though he has in the past accused Petro of being an “illegal drug leader.” When asked if the two came to any agreement on counternarcotic efforts, Trump said they had. “We worked on it, and we got along very well,” he said. He added that the two were “working on some other things too, including sanctions.”
Petro followed up his last post on X with a new one showing a signed copy of President Trump’s 1987 book “The Art of the Deal.” Colombia’s ambassador to the United States had been pictured carrying the book into the meeting of the two presidents in the White House earlier in the day.
In his post, Petro jokes that he doesn’t know enough English to understand what Trump said in his dedication — but what Trump wrote is quite clear and simple: “You are great.”
Petro is expected to speak to reporters soon, and Colombians are waiting in hopes that Petro says the meeting went as well as his posts seem to portray.
Colombians rally during their president’s meeting with Trump.
Thousands of Colombians rallied around the country on Tuesday to support President Gustavo Petro as he met at the White House with President Trump, a visit that appeared to have gone smoothly despite past tensions between the two leaders.
Colombian officials had stressed that the meeting would focus on cooperation between the two governments on combating drug trafficking.
Petro just posted a picture on X of a signed note he received from President Trump. The note says: “Gustavo — A great honor. I love Colombia.”The White House just posted an image on X of President Gustavo Petro of Colombia sitting beside President Trump and officials, including Vice President JD Vance.
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President Trump at a bill signing in the Oval Office on Tuesday. Credit…Kenny Holston/The New York Times
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