This meeting comes as GOP leadership looks to expeditiously chart a path forward for the package in the upper chamber.
-ABC News’ Allison Pecorin President Donald Trump signed an executive order raising tariffs on steel and aluminum imports to 50% on Tuesday afternoon.
The 50% tariff on steel and aluminum takes effect at 12:01 a.m.
The order aims to counteract low-priced foreign steel and aluminum, which the administration believes undermine U.S. manufacturers.
“I have determined that it is necessary to increase the previously described steel and aluminum tariffs to adjust the imports of steel and aluminum articles and their derivative articles so that such imports will not threaten to impair the national security.
Senate Republicans will be meeting extensively on Wednesday as they attempt to determine how to proceed with Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
At 4 p.m., senators from the influential Senate Finance Committee will visit the White House to meet with the president. M. multiple Hill and White House sources attested to this. To ABC News. .
One of the main priorities of the package is the extension of the Trump 2017 tax cuts, which is one of the tax policy provisions written by the Finance Committee.
The meeting is anticipated to be attended by the entire committee, as well as GOP Whip John Barrasso and Majority Leader John Thune, who are both panel members.
A separate, closed-door conference of Senate Republicans is scheduled for Wednesday to discuss the bill’s parameters collectively. The GOP leadership is holding this meeting in an attempt to quickly map out the package’s future in the upper house.
ABC News’ Allison Pecorin.
On Tuesday afternoon, President Donald Trump issued an executive order increasing import duties on steel and aluminum to 50%.
At 12:01 a.m., a 50% tariff on steel and aluminum goes into effect. m. ET on Wednesday.
The order is intended to combat cheap foreign steel and aluminum, which the administration feels threaten U.S. A. manufacturers. Additionally, it seeks to lessen any possible risks to national security that imports may pose.
To ensure that imports of steel and aluminum products and their derivatives do not pose a threat to national security, I have decided that it is necessary to raise the previously mentioned steel and aluminum tariffs. “I believe that the higher tariffs will more successfully combat foreign nations that keep offloading cheap, surplus steel and aluminum into the American market, undermining the competitiveness of the American steel and aluminum industries,” Trump wrote in the order.
-Kelsey Walsh on ABC News.
Republican senators were the target of at least six arrests. Tuesday saw a number of individuals in makeshift body bags opposing the GOP’s megabill to fund President Donald Trump’s agenda resist Capitol Police officers, leading to the closure of Ron Johnson, Thom Tillis, and Bill Cassidy’s offices.
As the protesters chanted, “People who rely on Medicaid and Medicare will die,”.
According to a press release from Sunrise Movement, the “body bags” demonstrated how the legislation would result in “countless” people losing their lives and means of subsistence. The protest outside Tillis’ office became chaotic, and dozens of police officers helped on the scene.
Before being arrested, protesters sang, “Which side are you on now, which side are you on?”.
Outside of Cassidy’s office, Capitol Police arrested a protester holding a makeshift gravestone that read, “Cause of Death Medicaid Cuts,” and a shirt that said, “You’re literally killing people.”. The sign was held above a second protester who was draped in flowers and a white sheet.
-Arthur Jones II of ABC National.
Throughout her briefing on Tuesday, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt persisted in criticizing former President Joe Biden’s use of the autopen, which are mechanical devices that have been used by multiple presidents to automatically add a signature to a document.
She stated that the “American people deserve answers” and that it is “something that I believe the Department of Justice is looking into” during her remarks. “,”.
In an email to staff, DOJ pardon lawyer Ed Martin stated that he has been instructed to look into Biden’s final pardons and whether Biden “was competent and whether others were taking advantage of him through use of AutoPen or other means,” according to RP on Monday. “.”.
Martin had previously stated he would review the Biden pardons, according to ABC News. Although Trump claimed that Biden’s use of the autopen was what he believed rendered them invalid, Martin stated at the time that he didn’t think it was necessarily a problem.
