Trump live: Kamala Harris breaks silence to accuse president of inviting recession

CBS News reports that National Security Adviser Mike Waltz and his deputy, Alex Wong, will be leaving their posts, citing multiple sources familiar with the situation.

Andrew Feinberg reports from Washington D.C.:

The White House continued efforts to power past dismal economic indicators and discontent with President Donald Trump’s unprovoked trade war by touting their own story of Trump’s accomplishments over his first 100 days in office, with Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller making a bombastic appearance at a Friday press briefing, ostensibly to discuss the work done by the administration’s “Department of Government Efficiency.”

Instead, Miller ended up engaging in a testy back-and-forth with multiple members of the White House press corps on a range of subjects unrelated to the Elon Musk-led efficiency effort, often choosing to deflect and attack rather than engage.

President Donald Trump recorded a special message for one of the original hosts of his favorite morning talk show on Thursday, letting Steve Doocy know that he’s a “special guy” and wanted to congratulate the Fox & Friends stalwart on his “new and probably enhanced role.”

Justin Baragona has the story.

Alex Woodward reports on how the president’s agenda faces powerful public opposition in court, in the polls, and in the economy after just 100 days in office.

During one of Donald Trump’s embarrassing televised meetings, in which cabinet members are invited to outdo one another in their deranged, fawning, sycophantic praise of the tangerine Dear Leader, one reporter lobbied the president about the US economy shrinking in the first quarter of the year.

Trump explained that he’d only been in charge for a couple of months, so can’t be blamed for anything, really – least of all a US economy that shrank 0.3 per cent in the first quarter of the year, the first drop in three years.

Stephen Miller offered reporters an attempted clarification to President Donald Trump’s remarks in yesterday’s Cabinet meeting that American children should prepare to have less, and their parents should be prepared to pay more for that as a result of his tariffs.

The president appeared to hand Democrats a readymade attack ad when he said, “Somebody said, ‘Oh, the shelves are gonna be open. Well, maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30 dolls, and maybe the two dolls will cost a couple of bucks more than they would normally.”

This morning, the White House Deputy Chief of Staff clarified: “If you had a choice between a doll from China that might have lead paint from it that is not as well constructed, as a doll made in America that has a highly environmental and regulatory standard … and those two products are both on Amazon, that yes, you probably would be willing to pay more.”

The Trump administration is also making it a priority to slash regulations, so make of that what you will.

Kelly Rissman takes a look at the very real impact the tariffs are already having on toymakers in the U.S. and what that might mean this Christmas..

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is asking for tariff exclusions for small businesses.

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller says they will only get relief from a tax cut and deductions.

Stephen Miller tells reporters: “Right now, countries from all over the world, because of the president’s leadership, are desperate and dying to make trade deals with the United States. We’re going to evaluate each of those deals, and President Trump is personally involved.”

No deals have been announced to date.

White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller insists Americans won’t have to pay more for cars because of Trump’s tariffs.

“Not on cars they won’t, because, again, there’s now a massive economic incentive for automobile producers to expand production in the United States.”

However, this morning, GM said tariffs will cost the company up to $5 billion, and Ford says it cannot commit to not raising prices.

Miller continues to insist that they must move production to the U.S. from locations such as Mexico.

White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett on Thursday said he was hopeful for progress with China on trade, citing “loose discussions” between both governments while noting that he personally had not had any talks with Chinese officials.

“We’re hopeful for progress,” Hassett told CNBC’s Squawk Box program, pointing to China’s recent moves to lessen some tariffs.

“I think that the fact that the tariffs came off last week shows that we’re very close to making the kind of progress we need to move the ball forward.”

“We’re very pleased to see that last week China pulled back a bunch of tariffs on U.S. products… I’m hopeful that Secretary Bessent — who has shown how good he can be at this — is going to be able to make progress with our Chinese friends.”

China has recently denied that any talks have taken place. President Donald Trump claims they are. No one in the Trump administration, including Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent at the weekend, is able to say who is having these alleged discussions with Beijing.