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Trump admin live updates: Trump signs executive order raising tariffs on steel, aluminum imports to 50%

The 50% tariff on steel and aluminum takes effect at 12:01 a.m. ET on Wednesday.

Last Updated: June 3, 2025, 8:17 PM EDT

President Donald Trump's administration is responding to what the FBI called an "act of terror" during a pro-Israel demonstration in Boulder, Colorado.

As the administration continues its efforts to impose tariffs and to negotiate new international trade deals, Trump is "likely" this week to speak with Chinese President Xi Jinping, according to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt.

On Capitol Hill, attention turns to the Senate as it takes up a megabill to fund Trump's agenda.

Jun 03, 2025, 8:17 PM EDT

House GOP leaders announce vote on codifying DOGE cuts next week

House Republican leaders announced a vote will take place next week on the $9.4 billion rescissions package that eliminates already approved funding for foreign aid and public broadcasting.

"Next week, we will put the rescissions bill on the floor of the House and encourage all our Members to support this commonsense measure," leaders said in a statement Tuesday.

If approved, it would eliminate funding at the State Department for USAID and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funds NPR and PBS.

A simple majority is required in the House and Senate for passage. Congress has 45 days to get the package across the finish line.

-ABC News' Lauren Peller

Jun 03, 2025, 6:29 PM EDT

GOP senators to meet with Trump over his ‘big, beautiful bill’

Wednesday is set to be a big day of meetings as Senate Republicans try to chart a path forward on Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

Members of the powerful Senate Finance Committee will go to the White House to meet with the president at 4 p.m., multiple White House and Hill sources confirmed. To ABC News.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune answers questions from reporters at the Capitol in Washington, June 2, 2025.
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The Finance Committee is responsible for writing the tax policy components of the bill, including the extension of the Trump 2017 tax cuts, a key priority for the package.

The whole committee is expected to attend the meeting, as well as Majority Leader John Thune and GOP Whip John Barrasso, who are both members of the panel.

Senate Republicans are separately expected to meet behind closed doors as a conference Wednesday to discuss the parameters of the bill as a group. This meeting comes as GOP leadership looks to expeditiously chart a path forward for the package in the upper chamber.

-ABC News’ Allison Pecorin

Jun 03, 2025, 4:50 PM EDT

Trump signs executive order raising tariffs on steel and aluminum imports to 50%

President Donald Trump signed an executive order raising tariffs on steel and aluminum imports to 50% on Tuesday afternoon.

The 50% tariff on steel and aluminum takes effect at 12:01 a.m. ET on Wednesday.

The order aims to counteract low-priced foreign steel and aluminum, which the administration believes undermine U.S. manufacturers. It also aims to mitigate any potential national security threats posed by imports.

"I have determined that it is necessary to increase the previously described steel and aluminum tariffs to adjust the imports of steel and aluminum articles and their derivative articles so that such imports will not threaten to impair the national security. In my judgment, the increased tariffs will more effectively counter foreign countries that continue to offload low-priced, excess steel and aluminum in the United States market and thereby undercut the competitiveness of the United States steel and aluminum industries," Trump wrote in the order.

President Donald Trump gestures, as he departs for Pennsylvania, on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, May 30, 2025.
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-ABC News' Kelsey Walsh

Jun 03, 2025, 4:47 PM EDT

Protests erupt outside Senate offices over GOP bill to fund Trump's agenda

At least a half dozen arrests were made outside Republican Sens. Ron Johnson, Thom Tillis and Bill Cassidy's offices on Tuesday after several people in makeshift body bags opposing the GOP's megabill to fund President Donald Trump's agenda resisted Capitol Police officers.

"People who rely on Medicaid and Medicare will die," the demonstrators chanted.

The "body bags" illustrated how the legislation would mean "countless" people would lose their lives and livelihoods, according to a release by the group, Sunrise Movement. Dozens of officers assisted on the scene as the protest turned rowdy outside Tillis' office.

"Which side are you on now, which side are you on?" demonstrators sang before being detained.

One demonstrator wearing a shirt that read, "You're literally killing people" was detained by Capitol Police outside Cassidy's office while holding a makeshift tombstone that said: "Cause of Death Medicaid Cuts." The person held the sign over a second demonstrator covered in a white sheet and flowers.

-ABC News' Arthur Jones II

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