14 things that the Trump administration did this week

The eighth week of Donald Trump’s second term has been marked by the vertiginous ping-pong of tariffs and counter-tariffs, and Ukraine Peace speaks with kyiv and Moscow officials.

The president of the United States and his administration continue in the holders while advancing with their policies. Here is a quick look at some of its greatest recent movements.

Trump continued with his plan for a 25% tariff on all steel and aluminum products from the rest of the world.

But his team stopped his plan to duplicate US tariffs on the imports of steel and 50%Canadian aluminum, only a few hours after threatening the neighbor of the northern United States in another skirmish in his commercial war.

The recoil occurred after Ontario’s prime minister, Doug Ford, said his province would suspend new 25% positions in electricity that he sends through the border.

“The coldest heads prevailed,” said Peter Navarro, a commercial advisor at the White House, to the CNBC station.

The tariffs and unpredictable threats of the new ones generated concerns among investors, particularly in the light of a question that Trump seemed to dodge during the weekend about whether the US economy was heading to a descending turn.

In an interview in Fox News, the president who presides over the world’s biggest economy refused to feel about a question about whether there was a recession on the horizon, saying that the United States was in a “transition period” because “what we are doing is very large.”

Those words seemed to do little to reassure trust among investors, since the US shares index. UU. S&P 500 fell almost 3% the next day.

The American allies throughout the Atlantic were not saved by Trump’s tariff threats, since he took their real social network on Thursday to threaten the countries of the European Union with a 200% tariff on alcohol.

Its alcohol tariffs are the last escalation in a separate commercial war with the nations of the EU, who earlier that day he announced their own counter-tarifas for Trump’s steel and aluminum rates.

Trump, who has avoided alcohol all his life, highlighted in its publication on social networks that the a whopping of 200% of the rate would only cease once the EU stops an “unpleasant tariff of 50% on whiskey.” He called the “hostile and abusive” union.

Ontario Prime Minister Doug Ford said the “temperature was demolished” this week between the United States and Canada, thanks in large part to an olive branch that was extended by the United States Secretary of Commerce, Howard Lutnick.

The two nations gave a more diplomatic tone at the end of the week, which began with a frenzy of rates and against -tarifas.

Ford, who last week threatened to turn off power That Canada provides the United States, came out of a one -hour sitting at Washington DC with Lutnick, saying: “I can honestly say that this was the best meeting I have had here.”

This week there was a proposal for a high 30 -day fire between Russia and Ukraine in Saudi Arabia. It was the most recent step in the Trump administration plans to ensure peace in the region after more than three years of large -scale war.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio and National Security Advisor Mike Waltz met a Ukrainian team for several hours on Tuesday. Subsequently, Kyiv said he was ready to support the immediate pause in the fight.

A separated team of American officials, led by the special envoy Steve Witkoff, arrived in Moscow on Thursday to discuss the terms with Russian officials. He was received by President Vladimir Putin, who said later that there was still “much in advance” in a high fire agreement.

Tuesday’s conversations in Saudi Arabia caused some action. The United States delegation later said that they would resume sending military aid to Ukraine and sharing intelligence with the country in conflict, with whom their relations have recently been graduated.

The announcement occurred a few days after the Pentagon announced that it would suspend satellite images with Ukraine, the technology in which kyiv trusts to track the movements of Russian troops and missile attacks.

As part of its impulse to reduce government cuts, the administration discarded funds for $ 20 billion (£ 15.4 billion) of climate and environmental grants of the Biden era on Tuesday. The projects had been frozen for weeks.

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) also announced plans to end the funds for more than 400 diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) and subsidies of environmental justice with approximately $ 1.7 billion.

A federal judge pressed government lawyers on Wednesday to present “some kind of evidence” that these subsidies “made illegally.”

The Administration tried to deport a permanent legal resident of the United States and a graduate from the University of Columbia for participation in 2024 protests on the campus for the war in Gaza. The attempt is now the issue of a legal battle.

The Palestinian protester Mahmoud Khalil, a green card holder who was considered one of the faces of the movement in Columbia, was carried out in a detention center in Louisiana, where he was sent after his arrest in New York.

Khalil’s arrest, Trump said, was one of the “many to come” and arrived shortly after his administration announced that he was reducing $ 400 million (£ 309 million) in subsidies to Columbia University because he had not been able to combat anti -Semitism on campus. The university has pledged to restore its financing.

The Department of Education announced this week that it planned to fire 1,300 workers, a measure that will effectively reduce the workforce of the department in half.

With the task of administering federal loans for the university and enforcing the Civil Rights Law at school, the department has been observed by Trump and some conservatives to be completely eliminated, although such action would require the approval of the Congress.

The personnel of the United States International Development Agency (USAID) were told to “destroy as many documents” and personnel archives as they could, since the agency’s purge weeks have left the vast majority of their empty initiatives.

After exhausting that option, the staff were instructed, they should resort to “burning bags.”

The application, which caused alarm between employees and labor groups, occurs when the Rubio Secretary of State confirmed that 83% of the long -term help programs under USAID have now been completed.

Trump dedicated himself to a different type of diplomacy when he wrote his thoughts about a piece of paper instead of labeling a foreign leader in a publication on social networks.

In a letter addressed to the Supreme Leader of Iran, it passed through an Eau official, the president of the United States said he had established plans for negotiations on Tehran’s nuclear program.

His warnings of facing a possible military action unless it was agreed that conversations seem to have fallen into ears without interest, since Ayatolá Ali Khamenei rejected the idea of ​​negotiations, describing it as “deception of public opinion.”

Dave Weldon, the Republican proposed to lead the disease control centers (CDC), was withdrawn by the Trump administration to be his candidate for the Public Health Agency, the decision that occurred only a few hours before he testified before a Senate committee.

The 71 -year -old and former Florida congressman said the White House said “he did not have the votes in the Senate” to be confirmed, an official told CBS News, the BBC news partner.

Until now, all Trump teams, including some of its most controversial, have been approved.

Tesla’s facilities in the United States faced protesters who stopped outside the doors of electric car manufacturers to call its founder, Elon Musk, for the new role he plays in the administration of Donald Trump.

The protests “Tesla Takedown” have been largely peaceful, but some in parts of the country have ended with fires in the exhibition rooms.

This led the new head of Musk to proclaim that these people should be labeled as national terrorists, since it celebrated an event on the White House grass that shows the product of the technology billionaire.

While the couple sat in the front seat of one of the electric cars, Trump told the media that he planned to buy it.

During his business Oval visit this week, Taoiseach Micheál Martin introduced Donald Trump a bowl of clover.

JD Vance, who attended the same meeting, did not miss his own opportunity to pay tribute to Irish prime minister, wearing a couple of cream socks that, appropriate, adorned with green triumphs.

The president gave him a warm reception of the traditional reception, while the attempts of the vice president to celebrate the inheritance of the Esmeralda Island were less.

“What about these socks?” The president asked while the room exploded in laughter. The group was discussing inflation, but socks also proved to be a topic of central conversation. “I am trying to stay focused, but I am very impressed with the vice president’s socks.”