Live updates: Top Jan. 6 prosecutor rips pardons; Trump's trade agenda hitting snags
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The Senate majority leader said he hopes his chamber passes the GOP agenda bill by July 4. Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House on May 30. Allison Robbert / AFP - Getty Images Updated June 3, 2025, 7:37 AM EDT
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., said he hopes the Senate is on track to pass the GOP megabill by July 4.
'I think we're on track. I hope, at least, to be able to produce something that we can pass through the Senate, send back to the House, have them pass and put on the president's desk by the Fourth of July,' Thune said yesterday.
Thune also said the Senate could take up the Russia sanctions bill this month but again said it's waiting for the White House to give it the go-ahead.
'I think right now they're still hopeful they'll be able to strike some sort of a deal,' he said of the White House's hopes regarding talks with Russia. 'But as you might expect, there's a high level of interest here in the Senate, on both sides of the aisle and moving on it, and it very well could be something that we would take up in this work period.'
Trump's ambitious plan to broker dozens of trade deals with some of the United States' closest trading partners has begun to show cracks as the clock on his 90-day pause for most country-specific tariffs winds down to just over one month.
While some of the fissures are self-inflicted, like recent threats of tariffs against the European Union and higher duties on steel imports, a fresh set of court rulings questioning the president's tariffs-granting authority now hangs over his entire push to reset U.S. trade relations.
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The federal prosecutor who oversaw the Capitol riot investigation is speaking out about President Donald Trump's mass pardon of Jan. 6 rioters and the Trump administration's targeting of career law enforcement officials who worked cases against the people who attacked the U.S. Capitol.
Greg Rosen, who was the chief of the Capitol Siege Section of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia, called the Justice Department's handling of Jan. 6 cases appropriate, proportional and righteous, noting that hundreds of defendants convicted of misdemeanors ultimately were sentenced to probation.
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