Secretary of State Rex Tillerson travelled to Moscow for meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Secretary Sergey Lavrov. At a news conference shortly thereafter, Secretary Tillerson said that US-Russia relations were at a “low point.”
At a joint news conference with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, President Trump thanked NATO member countries for their support of the U.S. airstrike in Syria, adding that NATO is “no longer obsolete.”
The Director of the White House Office of Management and Budget Mick Mulvaney announced an end to the federal hiring freeze enacted at the beginning of President Trump’s term. As a replacement policy, he circulated a memo to heads of executive departments and agencies giving guidance on how best to reduce their workforces, instructing them to submit specific plans on how they will do so.
In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, President Trump said he did not plan to label China a currency manipulator, stating that the country had not been manipulating its currency for months and that he needs China’s support confronting North Korea.
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At a joint news conference with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, President Trump thanked NATO member countries for their support of the U.S. airstrike in Syria, adding that NATO is “no longer obsolete.”
The Director of the White House Office of Management and Budget Mick Mulvaney announced an end to the federal hiring freeze enacted at the beginning of President Trump’s term. As a replacement policy, he circulated a memo to heads of executive departments and agencies giving guidance on how best to reduce their workforces, instructing them to submit specific plans on how they will do so.
In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, President Trump said he did not plan to label China a currency manipulator, stating that the country had not been manipulating its currency for months and that he needs China’s support confronting North Korea.
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