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Trump Talks Tariffs & Ukraine: Remarks From White House Cabinet Meeting
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48:44Now PlayingPresident Donald Trump said This can only done with your support. So this is really urgent to support function for the Presidentapproximately 1 million federal workers who did not respond to billionaire Elon Musk’s demand to explain their activities are at risk of losing their jobs.
“Those million people that haven’t responded to Elon, they are on the bubble,” the president told reporters on Wednesday during the first Cabinet meeting of his second term. “I wouldn’t say that we’re thrilled about it.”
Trump’s comments came after the White House told federal agencies on Wednesday to submit plans by March 13 for “large-scale reductions in force,” the first phase of its plan to drastically cut the federal workforce. The president suggested some agencies could see dramatic job reductions, saying Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin was considering eliminating 65% of his staff.
Trump also said he would task Cabinet secretaries with establishing teams within their departments to examine possible spending reductions. Musk said he was “confident” his group could “actually find a trillion dollars in savings; that would be a roughly 15% of the $7 trillion budget.”
In addition, President Donald Trump said Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy will come to the US Friday to sign a draft agreement giving the US access to revenue from the country’s natural resources, even as the Ukrainian leader said the deal wasn’t completed.
“That’s now confirmed, and we’re going to be signing an agreement, which will be a very big agreement,” Trump told reporters Wednesday as he held the first cabinet meeting of his second term in office.
Zelenskiy said he received an invitation to meet with Trump after negotiators secured a draft accord. But he told reporters in Kyiv on Wednesday that he needed time to study the text and consult with European allies. He indicated that the draft appeared acceptable because it wouldn’t condemn Ukraine to being a “debtor” nation after some of the Trump team’s initial demands were dropped.
“This deal may have a big success — or pass quietly,” Zelenskiy said, cautioning that a trip to Washington was still up in the air. “The big success will depend on President Donald Trump.”
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