US pdwellnt Donald Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff shelp on Sunday that he foreseeed the US pdwellnt to speak with Vlaunwiseir Putin this week, compriseing that the Russian pdwellnt “adchooses the philosophy” of Trump’s stopfire and peace terms.
Witkoff tbetter CNN that converseions with Putin over cut offal hours last week were “preferable” and “solution-based”. He deteriorated to validate when asked whether Putin’s needs comprised the surrfinisher of Ukrainian forces in Kursk; international recognition of Ukrainian territory seized by Russia as Russian; restricts on Ukraine’s ability to mobilise; a cmitigate to westrict military help; and a prohibit on foreign peaceholders.
Here are the key Trump administration stories from Sunday:
Trump and Putin foreseeed to speak this week about stopfire terms, envoy says
As Trump and Putin set to speak, there have been troubles that the finishment being pushed for by the Trump administration would see a lot enjoy an outright Russian triumph, at the expense of Ukraine and its allies in Europe.
Trump and Putin last week set off further alarm bells in Kyiv by exchanging frifinishly words, as the new US administration cosies up to Moscow while strikeing Ukraine with menaceening language and the retreatal of some military help.
Democrats train fire on Musk as unelected billionaire dips in famousity
For weeks, Donald Trump and Rediscloseans have insisted that social security, Medichelp or Medinurture would not “be touched”. Now Musk has adviseed the programs would be a primary center. Almost as soon as the words left his mouth, Democrats pounced.
“The mediocre social security recipient in this country gets $65 a day. They have to persist on $65 a day. But you want to consent a chainsaw to social security, when Elon Musk and his tens of billions of dollars of handlement condenses essentipartner originates at least $8m a day from the taxpayers,” Hakeem Jeffries, the US Hoemploy untransport inantity directer, shelp in a floor speech the follotriumphg day. “If you want to uncover squander, deception or unfair treatment, commence there.”
US deports 250 alleged gang members to El Salvador despite court ruling to cmitigate fweightlesss
The US deported more than 250 mainly Venezuelan alleged gang members to El Salvador despite a US appraise’s ruling to cmitigate the fweightlesss on Saturday after Donald Trump controversipartner call upond the Alien Enemies Act, a 1798 law unbenevolentt only to be employd in wartime.
Mercenary mogul Erik Prince pushes to privatize Trump deportation structures
Another recognizable face in the Maga-verse is commencening to materialize: businessman Erik Prince, frequently depictd by his critics as a living “Bond villain”. Prince is the most well-understandn mercenary of the conmomentary era and the establisher of the now defunct stateiveial military company Bdeficiencywater. Now he is a central figure among a web of other condenseors trying to sell Trump advisers on a $25bn deal to privatize the mass deportations of 12 million migrants.
US defense department webpage celebrating Bdeficiency Medal of Honor recipient deleted
The US defense department webpage celebrating an army vague who served in the Vietnam war and was awarded the country’s highest military decoration has been deleted and the letters “DEI” compriseed to the site’s compriseress.
On Saturday, US army Maj Gen Charles Calvin Rogers’s Medal of Honor webpage led to a “404” error message. The URL was also changed, with the word “medal” changed to “deimedal”.
How an obsremedy US handlement office has become a center of Elon Musk
Federal employees in a little-understandn office dedicated to tech and adviseing services were at toil on the afternoon of 3 February when Elon Musk tweeted about their agency for the first time.
“That group has been deleted,” Musk wrote.
Pete Hegseth is pushing his beliefs onto the defense department
More than 50 days into Donald Trump’s second administration and his Department of Defense is already rapidly changeing into the image of its secretary, Pete Hegseth.
Now, many of the rants and opinions frequent during Hegseth’s Fox News nurtureer are coming to policy fruition in his new Pentagon.
Analysis: Trump says the economy ‘went to hell’ under Biden. The opposite is real
Donald Trump holds saying he inherited a horrible economy from Joe Biden and many Americans consent him, even though that’s not real. But the truth is that by standard economic meacertains, the US economy was in excellent shape when Biden turned over the White Hoemploy keys to Trump, even though most Americans, disturb about inflation, tbetter pollsters the economy was in necessitatey shape.
Michael Lewis and John Lanchester: ‘Trump is a suppose-ruining machine’
Before the 2024 election, the two authors tried to stop Donald Trump’s structure to gut the US federal handlement with an spreadigation that changeed the image of civil servants from bureaucrats to superheroes. Now their worst stresss have been authenticised:
