14 things the Trump Administration did this week

The eighth week of Donald Trump's second term was marked by the dizzying ping pong of tariffs and counter-tariffs and peace talks with Ukraine with officials from Kiev and Moscow.

The President of the United States and his administration continue to make titles as they progress forward with their policies. Here's a quick look at some of their biggest moves.

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

But his team stopped his plan to double the US tariffs for imports of Canadian steel and aluminum up to 50%, just hours after threatening northern America in another fight in their trade war.

The retreat came after Ontario Doug Ford's Prime Minister said his province would stop new fees of 25% of the electricity he sends across the border.

“The main heads have prevailed,” said Peter Navarro, a White House sales adviser, in front of the CNBC television operator.

Tariffs and unpredictable threats of new fears of investors, especially in the light of a question, seem to have diverted over the weekend whether the US economy is heading for a downward turn.

In an interview with FOX News, the president, who chaired the largest economy in the world, declined to be attracted to whether there was a recession on the horizon – saying instead that the US was in a “transition period” because “what we do is very big.”

These words seemed to have failed to reassure the trust among investors, as the next day the US stock index S&P 500 fell nearly 3%.

The US allies in the Atlantic were also not spared by Trump's tariff threats as he entered his social network for the truth on Thursday to threaten the European Union countries with a 200% tariff for alcohol.

His alcohol tariffs are the latest escalation in a separate trade war with EU countries, which earlier that day revealed their own counter rates on Trump steel and aluminum rates.

Trump – who has escaped alcohol throughout his life – stressed in his social media publication that a huge 200% tariff will only stop after the EU has stopped “a nasty 50% whiskey tariff”. He called the Union “hostile and violent.”

Ontario Doug Ford Prime Minister said the “temperature was removed” this week between the US and Canada, thanks to a large extent to an olive branch, which was extended by US secretary of trade Howard Luni.

The two nations achieved a more diplomatic tone by the end of the week -which began with rage of tariffs and counter -tarifes.

Ford that only last week threatened to exclude the force The fact that Canada is providing the United States has emerged from an hourly meeting in Washington with a lunar, saying, “I can honestly say that it was the best meeting I have ever come down here.”

A proposal for a 30-day termination of fire between Russia and Ukraine in Saudi Arabia was discovered this week. It was the latest step in the Trump administration plans to secure peace in the region after more than three years of full-scale war.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio and National Security Advisor Mike Walz met with a Ukrainian team for several hours on Tuesday. Kyiv then said he was ready to support the immediate pause in the battles.

A separate team of US employees, led by special envoy Steve Vikof, arrived in Moscow on Thursday to discuss the conditions with Russian employees. He was greeted by President Vladimir Putin, who said that he was still “much ahead to be done” on a transaction to end the fire.

Tuesday conversations in Saudi Arabia have caused some actions. The US delegation said it would then resume the sending of military assistance to Ukraine and shared intelligence with the built -in country – with which its relations had recently fallen apart.

The message came just days after the Pentagon announced that it would stop sharing satellite images with Ukraine – the technology that Kiev relies on to track the movements of Russian troops and rocket attacks.

As part of its quest to reduce government cuts, the administration is marketing funding for $ 20 billion ($ 15.4 billion) worthy of climate -free and eco -friendly grants from the Biden era on Tuesday. The projects have been frozen for weeks.

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has also announced plans to terminate funding for more than 400 variety, justice and inclusion (DEI) and grants for environmental justice of about $ 1.7 billion.

Federal judge pressed the government's lawyers on Wednesday to present “some evidence” that these grants were “illegally made”.

The administration tried to deport a permanent legal US resident and graduate of the University of Colombia for his participation in protests in 2024 on the campus over the Gaza War. Experience is now the subject of a legal battle.

The Palestinian protesting Mahmoud Khalil, a Green Card owner who was considered one of the faces of the Colombia movement, was kept at a Louisiana detention center, where he was sent after his arrest in New York.

Halil's arrest, Trump said, was one of many who came “and arrived shortly after his administration announced that he was reducing $ 400 million in grants (£ 309 million) as he failed to fight anti -Semitism in the campus. The university has promised to restore its funding.

The Ministry of Education has announced this week that it plans to release 1300 workers, a move that will effectively reduce the workforce of the department by half.

Tsed on to the management of federal loans for college and the implementation of the Civil Rights Act at school, the department has long been viewed by Trump and some conservatives to be eliminated in full – although such action will require congressional approval.

Officers at the US Agency for International Development (USAID) were told to “fragment as many documents as possible” and staff files this week, as the clearing of weeks at the Agency left the huge majority of its initiatives, carved.

After running out of this option, the staff has been instructed, they must turn to “burning bags”.

The request that has caused anxiety among employees and labor groups is coming as Secretary of State Rubio has confirmed that 83% of long -standing USAID -managed aid programs have already been terminated.

Trump is committed to a different type of diplomacy when he wrote his thoughts on a piece of paper instead of marking a foreign leader in a social media publication.

In a letter addressed to Iran's supreme leader, he went through an UAE employee, the US president said he had set plans to negotiate for Tehran's nuclear program.

His warnings, facing potential hostilities, unless the conversations had been agreed to have fallen on disinterested ears – since Ayatola Ali Hamenei rejected the idea of ​​negotiations by calling it a “fraud of public opinion”.

Dave Weldon, the Republican, set to head the CDC Centers (CDC), was withdrawn by the Trump administration to be his candidate for the Public Health Agency – a decision that comes only hours before he was ready to testify to the Senate Committee.

The 71-year-old doctor and former Florida congressman was said by the White House to “have no votes in the Senate” to confirm, said an CBS News official, a BBC News partner.

So far, all Trump photos – including some of its more reflective – have been approved.

Tesla's facilities in the United States were facing protesters who stood in front of the door of electric car manufacturers to call their founder – Elon Musk – for the new role played in the administration of Donald Trump.

The Tesla Takedown protests were largely calm, but several in parts of the country ended with fires that were lit in showrooms.

This prompted Musk's new boss to announce that these people should be marked with domestic terrorists as he held an event on the White House grass showing the technology billionaire.

As the couple was sitting in the front seat of one of the electric cars, Trump told the media that he was planning to buy it.

During his visit to the Oval Office this week, Taoizh Michel Martin presented to Donald Trump with a bowl with a scarf.

JD Vance, who attended the same meeting, did not miss his own chance to pay tribute to the Irish Prime Minister, applying a pair of cream -colored socks, which are – appropriate – decorated with green slaps.

The gift of the traditional Shamrock Cup received a warm reception from the president, while the Vice-President's attempts to celebrate the emerald island's heritage were less.

“What about these socks?” the president asked as the room laughed. The group was discussing inflation, but the socks also turned out to be a central conversation. “I'm trying to stay focused, but I'm very impressed with the Vice President's socks.”