Trump announces 25 percent steel tariff increase to 50 percent as he celebrates US Steel deal
President headed to Pennsylvania to mark U.S. Steel’s ‘partnership’ with Nippon Steel
President Donald Trump announced on Friday that his administration will raise tariffs on foreign steel from 25 percent to 50 percent as he celebrated a deal between U.S. Steel and Japan’s Nippon Steel.
“We're going to bring it from 25 percent to 50 percent, the tariffs on steel into the United States of America, which will even further secure the steel industry in the United States. Nobody is going to get around that,” said Trump.
Trump took to the podium at the U.S. Steel plant a week after indicating that he had cleared a merger between the company and Nippon.
The president spoke at the Irvin Works in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania, with both union members and investors listening for answers on what a deal might look like.
Trump said during his rally speech that the headquarters of U.S. Steel would remain in Pittsburgh even amid significant investment from Nippon.
Calling the investment “record-setting,” Trump said the company would make a “$14 billion commitment to the future of” U.S. Steel.
This comes after Trump hosted Elon Musk in one final White House press event as the Tesla billionaire concludes his tenure in the Trump administration.
Trump promises at the Oval Office press conference that “we're totally committed to making the doge cuts permanent.”
They want to get Big, Beautiful Bill “finished,” and “later,” he says, the DOGE cuts will be “notarized by Congress.”
“Elon's really not leaving. He's gonna be back and forth.”
He then presented Musk with a large gold key.
“This is not the end of DOGE but really the beginning,” Musk says.
“The DOGE team will only grow strong over time, the DOGE influence will grow stronger.”
Musk also said: “I’ll continue to be visiting here and be a friend and advisor to the president.”
He added: “I'm confident that, over time, we will see a trillion dollars of savings ... a trillion dollars of waste and fraud reduction.”
The savings to date fall well short of $1 trillion.
Mystery over Elon Musk’s black eye as he joins Trump in Oval Office
Elon Musk has appeared with a black eye, which was visible during a farewell press conference with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office.
The billionaire was wearing his “Dogefather” t-shirt at Friday’s press conference, which officially marks the end of his time as a special government employee heading up the Department of Government Efficiency.
Rhian Lubin reports.
Mystery over Elon Musk’s black eye as he joins Trump in Oval Office for goodbye event
Black-eyed Elon Musk attacks the New York Times after report on alleged drug use
White House correspondent for Fox News, Peter Doocy, begins to ask a question about today’s New York Times report concerning Musk’s alleged drug use.
Musk cuts him off and attacks the paper over its “Russiagate” reporting and insists they move on.
Here’s that moment:
Asked if he will continue to provide advice to Trump, Musk says: “I expect to continue to provide advice, whenever the president would like, advice.”
Trump chips in: “I hope so.”
Musk adds: “I expect to remain a friend and an adviser and certainly, if there’s anything the president wants me to do, I’m at the president’s service.”
Trump asked about video of Macron 'slap video'
Trump, asked if he has marital advice for French President Macron after a video emerged of his wife slapping him before they departed an airplane, said: “Make sure the door remains closed.”
The president says he spoke with Macron after video captured his wife shoving him in the face just as they arrived on a visit to Vietnam.
“No, he's fine,” Trump added. “Two really good people I know very well ... I don't know what that was all about.”
Trump declines to rule out pardon for Diddy
Trump declines to rule out a pardon for Diddy. "I would certainly look at the facts."
“I haven’t spoken to him in years. He really liked me a lot.”
Here’s more on the speculation that the music mogul’s allies are pushing for a pardon from the president.
Diddy allies are already trying to secure Trump pardon for rapper, report says
Musk offers explanation about black eye
Musk says he was “horsing around” with his five-year-old son, Little X, and told him, "Go ahead, punch me in the face. And he did."
The tech mogul also made a joke about the first lady of France.
Trump asked if international students are still welcome in the U.S.
Trump was asked about whether international students are welcome in the U.S.
The president responded: “We want to have great students here. We just don't want students that are causing trouble... Our country has given $5 billion-plus to Harvard over a short period of time... I don't think Harvard has been acting very nicely.”
He added: “I'd like to see the money go to trade schools, where people learn how to fix motors and engines... You could have the greatest trade school system anywhere in the world... We probably found our pot of gold, and that's what's been wasted at places like Harvard.”
GOP senator delivers shocking mic drop to town hall over Medicaid cuts
Republican Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa had a grim message for her constituents, furious over proposed cuts to Medicaid that could end health coverage for millions of Americans.
Alex Woodward has the story.
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