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President Donald Trump is holding a Cabinet meeting astatine the White House connected Tuesday, arsenic his administration grapples with a slew of large governmental issues that person travel to the fore since the apical officials past convened little than 8 weeks earlier.
The gathering comes arsenic bipartisan scrutiny ramps up implicit the administration's determination to occurrence aggregate rocket strikes connected an alleged Venezuelan drug-running vessel successful aboriginal September.
The White House said Monday that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth authorized Adm. Frank Bradley to bid a 2nd onslaught connected the boat, which reportedly killed survivors of the archetypal attack.
Some experts and lawmakers person said the "double-tap" onslaught could represent a war crime. Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Roger Wicker, a Republican, vowed connected Monday to behaviour oversight connected the subject action. The White House maintains the strikes were ineligible and conducted "in aforesaid defense."
The past Cabinet gathering was held connected Oct. 9, successful the mediate of what became the longest government shutdown successful U.S. history.
The shutdown, which ended connected Nov. 12 aft 43 days, centered connected a quality implicit enhanced Affordable Care Act health-insurance subsidies, which are acceptable to expire by the extremity of the year. The logjam broke aft capable Democrats backed a backing woody that included a warrant from the Senate's GOP bulk to let a ballot successful December connected a measure of Democrats' choosing.
Numerous polls showed much Americans blamed Republicans for the shutdown, which overlapped with a drawstring of blowout victories for Democrats successful cardinal elections successful aboriginal November. The sweeping GOP rout acceptable disconnected alarm bells wrong Trump's party, which hopes to support its slim legislature majorities aft adjacent year's midterms.
The shifting dynamics person drawn absorption to Tuesday's peculiar predetermination for a legislature spot successful a deep-red Tennessee district, which appears to person grown competitory contempt backing Trump by 22 points successful 2024.
Days aft the partisan shutdown combat ended, Congress amazingly came unneurotic to backmost a measure ordering the Department of Justice to release its files connected enactment offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Trump, a erstwhile person of Epstein's who had fumed astir the increasing propulsion to disclose the government's records connected the deceased financier, yet told Republicans to ballot for the bill. He signed it Nov. 19, starting a 30-day timer for Attorney General Pam Bondi to publically merchandise unclassified files relating to Epstein and his convicted accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell.
Meanwhile, Ukraine's evident openness to a U.S.-brokered peace program with Russia is raising anticipation that an extremity to the yearslong onshore warfare successful Europe could beryllium coming into view.
U.S. peculiar envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner were seen connected Tuesday greeting successful Moscow, wherever they were expected to conscionable with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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