All posts tagged "Cabinet Meeting"

A photographer snapped a photo over Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's shoulder that revealed a plan hours before a notable currency jump.

During a Trump Cabinet meeting at Camp David on Friday, Reuters news photographer Daniel Heuer captured Bessent's jottings on a notepad in front of him. At the top, the note read, "To Do," and underneath that, Bessent had written, "Buy Japanese Yen (JPY) $5-10 bil."

According to reporting by Reuters, the Treasury had already put banks on alert for a possible U.S. intervention in the market for Japan's currency when Heuer took the photo....

A bored White House official was caught doodling during President Donald Trump's cabinet meeting on Tuesday.

Russ Vought, director of the United States Office of Management and Budget, was drawing a landscape with mountains, clouds, trees and an arrow pointing below the doodle while the meeting was happening, according to a photo captured by Associated Press photographer Julia Demaree Nikhinson and shared on X by AP White House reporter Seung Min Kim.

The cabinet meeting and subsequent press conference marked the last one for the year for the Trump administration. ...

Democratic strategists took to CNN Thursday to implore party leaders to stop talking and start taking action to show how painful President Donald Trump's tariffs are to average Americans.

Anchor Kate Bolduan played a clip of Trump quipping at Wednesday's Cabinet meeting, "Well, maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30 dolls, you know? And maybe the two dolls would cost a couple of bucks more than they would normally."

Ana Navarro began, "It's just, it's so disconnected from everyday reality of Americans. It's so tone deaf. It's so 'Marie Antoinette, let them eat cake.' And I think it's part of the the problem is that Donald Trump is not only surrounded by a bunch of sycophants who don't push back on him, but they're rich sycophants." ...

CNN's Daniel Dale dissected President Donald Trump's Cabinet meeting Wednesday, during which his secretaries took turns lavishing praise and even touting Trump's presidency as one of the best "ever."

Trump's exaggerations were par for the course, Dale said.

"Well, he kind of vaguely repeated his frequent claim that the U.S. had a trillion-dollar trade deficit with China under President Biden," Dale began. "It did have a big trade deficit, but he's grossly exaggerating it — it was about $263 billion last year — so, he's about quadrupling it." ...

President Donald Trump's complaint that he has problems with judges who don't like his immigration and deportation policies drew laughter from members at Wednesday's Cabinet meeting.

Trump called out Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Border Czar Tom Homan for doing an "amazing job" getting undocumented immigrants deported.

The administration has been under fire for deporting migrants for being "criminals" without Constitutional due process. ...

CNN's Dana Bash and Daniel Dale had their hands full as they fact-checked some of President Donald Trump's remarks during the first Cabinet meeting of his second term Wednesday.

"There was just so much in this Cabinet meeting," Dale said. "So, let me run through some of the big ones."

Dale went on to debunk Trump's assertion that the U.S. has given Ukraine $350 billion worth of aid, claiming it was three times what Europe has given. ...