Trump to unveil $25BILLION 'Golden Dome' defense project that could save millions of Americans: Live updates

By Geoff Earle, Deputy U.S. Political Editor

President Trump is acceptable to talk to reporters astir his projected ‘Golden Dome’ strategy to support the federation from rocket attacks.

The program would trust connected onshore and space-based missiles successful an effort to safeguard the monolithic U.S. onshore mass.

It is simply a costly and logistically challenging undertaking that dwarfs the blase aerial defenses that defender Israel. The Congressional Budget Office estimated conscionable the space-based information could outgo up to fractional a trillion implicit 2 decades. Trump is seeking $25 cardinal for it successful his ‘big, beauteous bill’ including his taxation breaks.

He is expected to denote that Gen. Michael Guetlein, the vice main of abstraction operations, volition oversee the monolithic caller defence system.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said astatine a briefing to kids connected ‘take your sons and daughters to enactment day’ that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth would look with Trump astatine his 3 p.m. lawsuit astatine the White House.

By Geoff Earle, Deputy U.S. Political Editor

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt tossed retired euphemisms and had to dodge a fewer curveballs fielding questions from kids astatine a peculiar ‘take our sons and daughters to enactment day’ briefing.

‘How galore radical has helium fired?’ 1 tyke wanted to know.

‘Thus acold we person not really had anyone fired with the objection of 1 idiosyncratic who did permission their job,’ Leavitt said, successful a apt notation glossing implicit the destiny of erstwhile NSC caput Mike Waltz and his Signal scandal.

One kid asked for her appraisal of the authorities of the border, and Leavitt revealed that ‘I deliberation your dada works for the homeland information council.’

What is Trump’s favourite food? ‘He likes to devour big, beauteous steak,’ replied Leavitt, 27, who is herself a caller mom.

Nora Spiering, 11, tried to enactment Leavitt connected the spot by asking who is Trump’s favourite president ‘besides himself.’

Her reply acknowledged that ‘it would astir apt beryllium himself,’ she allowed, earlier reaching for George Washington. Her member Robert Spiering, 9, tried to glean caller accusation astir Trump’s favourite McDonald’s meal, but Leavitt safely answered burgers and fries.

She did uncover that ‘I person seen him devour crystal pick sundaes,’ sticking to what she has personally observed. As for what superpower the president would seek, Trump wishes helium could ‘snap his fingers’ to get things done.

Leavitt adjacent brought up Trump’s Monday travel to the Capitol wherever his ‘big, beauteous bill’ is stalled.

By Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter

Joe Biden's girl Ashley, 43, posted to her Instagram communicative successful grant of her father.

Ashley posted connected Tuesday greeting an representation of her alongside the erstwhile president, and featuring the opus Father and Daughter by Paul Simon.

'There is nary safer spot than successful my father's arms. The strongest combatant I know,' Ashley wrote successful captioning an representation of her embracing her father.

Facing unit implicit Republican absorption to his 'big, beauteous bill,' President Donald Trump snapped astatine a newsman successful the Capitol Tuesday.

The infinitesimal came erstwhile a newsman asked Trump to respond to comments by blimpish Rep. Andy Harris saying Trump had failed to transportation capable critics to ballot for the monolithic trillion-dollar bill.

'We're inactive on ways away,' said Rep. Andy Harris, R-Md., who heads the blimpish House Freedom Caucus.

'Who bash you enactment for?' Trump asked the reporter, who responded that helium was affiliated with NOTUS, a integer nonprofit owned by the Albritton Journalism Institute.

'Who?' Trump asked, prompting the newsman to repetition the sanction of his outlet. 'I don't adjacent cognize what the hellhole that is - get yourself a existent job,' helium sneered.

By Emily Goodin, elder White House correspondent

Melania Trump joined the children of White House unit successful making flags for Take Your Child to Work Day.

She hosted the enactment for the kids successful the First Ladies' Garden extracurricular the East Wing. She waved and shook hands with the parents, who stood connected the sidelines for the event.

'Tell maine immoderate stories,' she said to the children arsenic she joined them astatine the picnic tables. 'What bash you do? What bash you similar to do?'

Several children brought their flags to the archetypal woman to amusement disconnected their work. Some of the wore 'Gulf of America' shot caps, which were successful the acquisition bags handed out.

Melania besides decorated a emblem of her own, adding 2 elephantine glitter stars to the accepted 13 stripes.

She encouraged the children to cheque retired the different events connected the White House lawn, which included a cooky booth, a Secret Service objection and entree to the putting green.

'Thank your parents for what they do,' she told the children, whose parents enactment successful the Executive Office of the President. 'Thank your parents for their service.'

The president’s girl gushed online present that the Senate has confirmed her father-in-law Charles Kushner arsenic U.S. ambassador to France pursuing his information by her begetter President Trump.

Ivanka Trump sent her congratulations, called him ‘dad,’ and celebrated successful French.

‘Félicitations, papa. Je suis fière de toi!’ she wrote, with U.S. and French emblem emojis.

Trump pardoned Kushner successful 2020 aft helium pleaded blameworthy to making mendacious statements and witnesser tampering. His information passed the Senate with 51 votes, with lone Democrat Cory Booker and Republican Lisa Murkowski voting successful opposition.

By Geoff Earle, Deputy U.S. Political Editor

Trump talked up his precocious concluded travel to the Middle East, aft announcing multi-billion investments deals successful Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates.

‘I went to the Middle East. And those leaders of those 3 countries are almighty people. They respect our country. China was going to instrumentality them over,’ Trump said astatine the Capitol aft gathering with GOP lawmakers.

‘They’re not going to China anymore – they emotion america and we emotion them,’ Trump said. He brought up the travel aft discussing the economy, saying ‘everybody’s buying eggs, groceries are down’ and ‘they’re buying gasoline present for $1.99,’ though today’s AAA mean nationalist state terms is $3.18.

By Geoff Earle, Deputy U.S. Political Editor

President Trump dissed a cardinal House Republican who is among a radical of comparative centrists pushing to rise the headdress connected authorities and section taxation deductions that is hammering homeowners successful his districts.

The existent headdress imposed by Trump’s 2017 taxation cuts is acceptable astatine $10,000. A radical of moderates wants to rise it to $30,000 to bring successful pricey existent property successful their districts.

Trump utilized the gathering to propulsion backmost astatine Rep. Mike Lawler, a imaginable campaigner for politician of New York.

Fox News reported that Trump told Republicans: ‘I cognize your territory amended than you do. If you suffer due to the fact that of SALT, you were going to suffer anyway.’

Lawler has been telling Republicans Trump’s ‘big, beautiful’ measure volition neglect without a woody with lawmakers seeking to boost the deduction. Trump began the time by attacking the argumentation determination arsenic coming from Blue states governed by governmental rivals. ‘They’re each Democrat states,’ Trump said.

During the closed-door gathering with House Republicans, Trump seemingly said that Medicaid wouldn't beryllium touched successful his 'big beauteous bill' negotiations.

'Don’t f*** astir connected Medicaid,' Trump said, sources successful country told CNN.

Negotiations implicit conscionable however overmuch to chopped and wherever are proving tricky arsenic Medicaid is fashionable successful galore GOP-controlled districts, perchance exposing the lawmakers to challenges successful the midterms adjacent year.

Attacking the authorities wellness programme that provides healthcare for adjacent to 80 cardinal Americans, astir 25 percent of the U.S. population, including children, the aged and the sick, has been an unpopular presumption for immoderate lawmakers.

By Emily Goodin, elder White House correspondent

President Donald Trump threatened Republican ‘grandstanders’ who won’t ballot for his ‘big, beauteous bill,’ informing that they won’t beryllium members of the enactment overmuch longer if they spell against him.

The president went to Capitol Hill to be the House Republicans’ play gathering successful an effort to unify lawmakers successful his enactment down his fund package. Or else.

‘This is the biggest taxation chopped successful the past of our state oregon you volition get a 68% taxation increase,’ helium said of the proposal.

‘If that happens, what Republican could ballot for that to hap due to the fact that they wouldn’t beryllium a Republican overmuch longer. They would beryllium knocked retired truthful fast.’ Trump, successful the past, has backed superior challengers to Republican lawmakers who voted against him.

‘I'm a cheerleader for this enactment and the country. Much much importantly for the country,’ helium told reporters connected Capitol Hill. ‘But I'm a cheerleader for the enactment and we are going to spell up and I deliberation person a precise bully discussion.'

By Geoff Earle, Deputy U.S. Political Editor

President Donald Trump ripped an effort by lawmakers from blue-leaning states to effort to destruct the $10,000 headdress known inquire the SALT deduction.

The bounds connected authorities and section taxation write-offs is simply a large sticking constituent connected Trump’s ‘big, beauteous bill,’ but the president connected Monday insisted helium has not plans to woody a triumph to states tally by starring governmental rivals.

‘SALT is simply a precise absorbing thing,’ Trump told reporters, earlier ripping Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker arsenic idiosyncratic who ‘is going nowhere’ and the ‘worst politician successful the country.’ Then helium attacked ‘Gavin Newscum’ successful California. ‘

‘Those are the radical that privation this and they’re Democrat states. They’re each Democrat states,’ Trump said, though House Republicans successful his erstwhile location authorities of New York are besides pushing to assistance the cap, which dates to Trump’s 2017 taxation cuts.

‘We’re going to beryllium making a mates of tweaks. We don’t privation to payment Democrat governors,’ Trump said. Both Pritzker and Gavin Newsom are imaginable Democratic contenders for president successful 2028.

President Donald Trump stunned guests astatine a ceremonial Kennedy Center committee meal connected Monday evening with a profane remark during a wide-ranging code that mixed his governmental grievances with crisp disapproval of the arts institution's erstwhile leadership.

Speaking in the White House State Dining Room to recently appointed Kennedy Center trustees and medication officials, Trump referenced the 2020 election portion discussing his relation successful bringing large planetary sporting events to the United States.

'We got the Olympics and past we got done Gianni, he's the boss, he's a person of mine, we got the World Cup,' Trump said. 'I got them some and I said, "Man, I won't beryllium president and they're gonna hide that I got them. Nobody's gonna notation it."'

Vice President Kamala Harris and President Joe Biden struggled successful the past months of the 2024 statesmanlike campaign, but 1 lawsuit successful peculiar efficaciously ended their efforts to see him successful events.

Biden besides initially wanted to hold a fewer days earlier endorsing her for president.

She was not blessed astir that idea.

Trump posted connected Truth Social past week:

Melania Trump added her signature arsenic hubby Donald signed a measure into instrumentality that she powerfully campaigned for.

It was an unprecedented determination for a archetypal woman and 1 that showed Melania's ownership of the cause.

The caller Take It Down Act provides protections for victims of revenge porn and it marked her archetypal large legislative success.