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| Joining us now from the White House, Taylor Popolars of Spectrum News. | ||
| He serves as their national political reporter on the White House News of the Day of the White House week ahead. | ||
| Mr. Populars, good morning. | ||
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Great to be with you, Pedro. | |
| Has there been any follow-up, Mr. Popolars, on the terror attack in Colorado, what the White House is hearing about it, and what the Trump administration plans to do about it? | ||
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You know, it's been interesting. | |
| As of this point, we've not heard from the president himself responding to this attack, but we've heard very loud and clear from many members of his administration, from the FBI director to the Attorney General and others, calling this point-blank a terror attack and saying they're using every lever of the federal government to both respond and investigate. | ||
| We're also seeing the Department of Homeland Security, which of course oversees immigration, scrutinizing the suspect. | ||
| He was apparently here illegally, and that's something that the Trump administration is wanting to highlight as they continue to push their deportation efforts. | ||
| But we're waiting to hear from the president himself. | ||
| He's not even posted on his Truth Social account about it yet. | ||
| When it comes to other matters facing the White House, what does it plan to do when it comes now that the Senate starts work on the reconciliation bill? | ||
| What's the White House strategy? | ||
| We saw what they did for the House side, but what's the approach of the White House now? | ||
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You know, with the senators, it's going to be a bit more of an intimate effort. | |
| There are 53 Republican senators and they need 51 votes to pass this big beautiful bill, as the White House and congressional Republicans are calling it. | ||
| And this is going to be kind of a one-to-one lobbying effort from the president and his team for these senators, especially those who are on the fence right now. | ||
| We know over the weekend, Senate Democrats released a letter saying that they're going to coordinate with House Democrats and fully oppose this big beautiful bill. | ||
| So this will be up to Republicans to unite, much as we saw House Republicans do just several days ago. | ||
| But it will be a bit tricky for the Senate. | ||
| Senators like to put their own fingerprints on legislation, especially a thousand-page plus multi-trillion dollar bill. | ||
| And we've heard from some Republicans like Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson, who's been very critical of it, saying he thinks it's going to raise the deficit, which nonpartisan budget estimates have forecast, and that he wants to see changes made. | ||
| So the president will likely be involved. | ||
| I was on Capitol Hill when he visited with House Republicans. | ||
| I wouldn't be surprised if he went to the Capitol again at some point, but this is going to be a busy couple weeks for Senate Republicans as they try to figure out how to unite and how to push forward on this bill that really matters to the president. | ||
| What role could the vice president possibly play, JD Vance, considering he served in the Senate himself? | ||
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Yeah, he has been a very key hill Sherpa, if you will, for the Trump administration. | |
| He only served in the Senate for a couple of years, but he left an impression there, and he's not been afraid of going back to his old stomping grounds and very directly talking with senators. | ||
| Especially we saw that early on in the administration as some confirmation hearings were underway for some key and controversial cabinet picks like Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. | ||
| Vance proved very effective in that realm, so I wouldn't be surprised if we saw him kind of replicate that role for this legislation. | ||
| Tyler Popolars, it was yesterday that the Treasury Secretary talked about the current back and forth going on between the United States and China when it comes to tariff policy and an agreement. | ||
| I want to play a little bit of what he had to say, get your response to it. | ||
| I am confident that when President Trump and Party Chairman Xi have a call, that this will be ironed out. | ||
| But the fact that they are withholding some of the products that they agreed to release during our agreement, maybe it's a glitch in the Chinese system. | ||
| Maybe it's intentional. | ||
| We'll see after the president speaks with the party chairman. | ||
| That's critical minerals, rare earths. | ||
| Is that what you're talking about? | ||
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Yes. | |
| So the president has said a few times that he was going to speak to President Xi, but he hasn't since before the inauguration. | ||
| Beijing keeps denying that there was any contact. | ||
| Do you have anything scheduled? | ||
| I believe we'll see something very soon, Margaret. | ||
| So Tyler Popolars, that was Sunday. | ||
| Any word today on an advancement of that? | ||
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The House will be in order. | |
| The chair lays before the House a communication from the Speaker. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
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| I hereby appoint the Honorable Adrian Smith to act as Speaker Pro Tempore on this day. |