President Trump, Vice President Vance and their spouses will attend opening night of "Les Misérables" at the Kennedy Center. It's the first performance Trump will attend since sacking the center's board this spring. Seats come with a big price tag, and protests are expected.
On Wednesday on Capitol Hill, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth faced tough questions in Congress, on Ukraine, the jet Qatar is giving to the U.S. and more.
Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.) pushed Hegseth for details on the Qatari jet, which will be upfitted for Trump to use in place of aging Air Force One jets.
House Republicans set up a final vote on the White House’s request to claw back $9.4 billion in federal spending. The request, known as a rescissions package, seeks to codify DOGE cuts to foreign aid and public broadcasting.
Meanwhile, the battle over Los Angeles between Trump and California Gov. Gavin Newsom showed no sign of abating.
Trump notched two wins in his tariff war, as he announced Wednesday that the U.S. and China reached a tentative truce after talks in London, and a court on Tuesday night let his tariffs stay in place while related suits work through the courts.
In California, an overnight curfew kept protests largely at bay in Los Angeles. Gov. Gavin Newsom addressed the state, and the nation, on Tuesday night, saying Trump was employing a "brazen abuse of power" and that has "inflamed a combustible situation" and threatens democracy. On Wednesday, Trump said L.A. was "lucky" he'd sent troops there.
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