The order came days after Democrats won both chambers, as Rep. Thomas Massie prepares to force a vote this week on impeaching the defense secretary.
The secretary of state will face allies’ questions on Trump’s policies toward China, Venezuela, Cuba and Haiti as the EU weighs a shield against US secondary sanctions.
The vice president has spent two weeks in indirect talks through Qatari and Pakistani mediators, while other officials argue for keeping the blockade and economic pressure in place.
The Treasury secretary and the trade representative raised concerns about recent Chinese actions on rare earths and farm purchases ahead of a summit in Shenzhen.
The National Economic Council director hailed the October jobs data, blamed inflation on energy prices and said localities can refuse data centers if they choose.
The defense secretary released a defiant video defending the Iran war as lawmakers from both parties moved toward a vote to impeach him as soon as next week.
The secretary of state dismissed reports that he was preparing to leave the administration ahead of a possible 2028 bid, and the White House also denied he would go.
The secretary of state is said to be considering leaving after the Republican midterm defeat, a step that would put US policy on Venezuela and Cuba in new hands.
The department describes the targets as a maritime fraud network using fake ship flags, and Bessent vows to keep pursuing anyone who supports Tehran.
The vice president’s post questioning the war added to a drop of around $8 a barrel as traders priced in pressure for an exit from the conflict.
Before the results were final, Democrats were already calling for both chambers to use their new subpoena power, and a Republican senator warned Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth of “a reckoning”.
The administration said rising US output will bring prices down, while voters angry over gasoline, diesel and power bills handed Democrats control of Congress.
The White House economic adviser dismisses concern over how the AI build-out is financed, while other voices warn of massive investment risks and shut debt markets.
The trade representative says an annual review found both governments engaged in practices that undermine American trade, and the exclusions take effect on 1 January.
The secretary of state also defended Russia’s place in the G20 against criticism from allies unhappy with Trump’s plan to waive some tariffs and sanctions.
The Treasury secretary led senior federal officials in St. Cloud to announce what the administration calls a crackdown on fraud and on illicit transfers abroad.
The general acknowledged the disclosures on video after failing four polygraph tests, a US official said, while questions emerged over whether the Pentagon’s own disclosures broke privacy law.
Defense officials are privately drafting a budget closer to $1.1 trillion, even as the administration says it has support for its record request and the midterms threaten to shrink congressional appetite for more spending.
Defense officials said Hegseth had lost confidence in Sylvia, who clashed with Elbridge Colby, in the latest exit of a senior officer.
The letter is the most senior US outreach to Tehran in months, as Trump weighs resuming major combat after the midterms and says he did not direct it.
The new Central Command figure leaves out damage to US bases in the Middle East and lands days before the midterm elections.
The department and the utility say the package will lower power bills in Iowa and Wisconsin, though their savings estimates differ.
The department says the hub advances defence-industrial commitments and puts allied partnership into action, as demand for the interceptors runs high.
Energy Secretary Chris Wright was set to announce the financing at an Illinois nuclear plant that will supply power to Alphabet.
Trade Representative Jamieson Greer offered Beijing a reprieve on port fees and told Brussels that a European Investment Bank loan to Airbus puts the aircraft truce at risk.
The US envoy discussed potential deals with Putin and proposed restoring Russian oil and gas flows through Ukraine, a plan that angered Budanov.
The Nordic leaders held what they called a frank and substantive call with Putin in consultation with Ukraine, a week after meeting Witkoff and Zelenskiy in Oslo.
The partial tariff relief follows lobbying by a Republican senator in Maine, while new 50% duties are still due to take effect on October 30.
The House Democratic leader says his party will hold Pete Hegseth accountable if it wins the House, while a report says Hegseth is seeking a Tennessee Senate appointment.
Democrats want the defence secretary to testify, and one senior House member wants subpoenas for Pete Hegseth and Elon Musk, over who ordered the limits on Ukraine’s satellite service.
The White House says talks with Canada have picked up, with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick in contact with Canadian counterparts all week, days after Trump eased some tariffs on Canadian goods.
The secretary of state’s call for a ‘discreet’ partnership with American intelligence followed a Florida rally at which the president floated a warship ‘stopover’ off the island, and Havana answered with scorn.
A technical-level round in the United Arab Emirates gives the latest peace push a venue and a date, after Steve Witkoff’s ninth meeting with Vladimir Putin.
The 23 October memo to Secretary of State Marco Rubio says Iran has substantially increased efforts to target US diplomats, and officials link it to embassy drawdowns.
Energy Secretary Chris Wright added helium under the Energy Act of 2020 amid disruption to global supply, making it only the second gas on the list after fluorine.
The president announced the step at an Iowa rally, and the Energy Department said the money would restart a refinery and expand fuel output.
The decade-long deal sets a minimum commitment for US aircraft and keeps Lockheed aiming for annual output of 156 jets.
The proposed regulations are the first to enforce a new law passed by Congress, and the White House paired them with an order it says will cut homeownership costs.
A program overseen by a former CIA officer who followed Deputy Defense Secretary Steve Feinberg from Cerberus Capital Management would place undercover operatives against Chinese targets, alongside a new tech sabotage agency.
The president said he does not know who restricted Ukraine’s satellite internet, his top officials put the decision on SpaceX, and lawmakers are calling for an investigation.
The designations under Operation Economic Outcast extend Washington’s pressure on Iranian shipping from the vessels to the lawyers and agents around them.
The Energy Department is releasing 315,000 barrels after Maine’s senators pressed for relief from a 70% rise in heating oil costs.
At a rally in Greenville, the president and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick also announced a Sibelco plant worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
The energy secretary says the administration is talking to every idled refinery, as the White House offers one-time payments to farmers hit by record diesel prices.
The White House’s top economic adviser dismissed critical polls on Monday, days after consumer prices posted their largest monthly rise since April.
The Defence Secretary met the Israeli prime minister at an air base in southern Israel, a day after Trump endorsed Netanyahu and as talk of renewed strikes on Iran grows.
Chris Wright said vessels in a dark fleet he puts at about 1,600 ships can return to legal trade, and that American fuel prices have already peaked.
Pump prices are up nearly 45 percent, and cabinet secretaries spent Sunday tying the relief timetable to the Iran war.
The former vice president broke with the administration on Sunday while the energy and treasury secretaries called the waiver an incentive for Moscow.
Kyiv says intelligence sharing has resumed after a pause, as the Ukrainian president pushes for an in-person meeting.
Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner have raised resuming Russian gas transit through Ukraine in peace talks, drawing an objection from Berlin.
At a CBS News town hall the vice-president defended the war, the economy and the administration’s visa rhetoric.
The commerce secretary has resisted significant cuts to tariffs on Mexican steel, aluminium and vehicles, slowing a deal that officials say is not at an impasse.
The energy secretary said the administration is discussing easing sanctions on vessels carrying Russian oil to bring down record freight rates, days after a bipartisan group of senators objected to the diesel agreement.
The administration is using the Defense Production Act to lift fuel output at a single named refiner, with no cost or timeline disclosed.
US envoys pressed Ukrainian negotiators at a Miami golf club, and the trips to Moscow that were meant to follow have been postponed.
The US energy secretary puts flows through the Strait of Hormuz at 80% to 90% of where they were before the war, one report of the same remarks puts the recovery at 44%, and Saudi Arabia is looking for export routes that avoid the strait.
The department has updated the number of troops who died during the war to 21, the defence secretary called the report that surfaced it fake, and lawmakers want an account of a strike carried out on 1 September.
The defence secretary has promised a public military execution in December, the vice president says he will not watch, and the president has not decided.
Citigroup told clients that Scott Bessent is likely to shrink auctions of long-dated government debt, and could cancel the 20-year bond altogether.
Cognizant, Infosys, TCS, Wipro and HCL were suspended alongside Microsoft and Adobe, and the inquiry now extends to student exchange visas.
The Treasury Secretary has taken on the economist whose nomination to the Federal Reserve Board failed, giving her a brief that covers currency policy.
Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said the declaration broadens the overcapacity fight beyond China and that EU countries are united behind it.
A new account describes the Treasury secretary berating staff, and seven senior officials are reported to have left.
The White House had predicted a fall; Trump blamed the Fed and Bessent blamed an energy shock.
Reports say Trump’s envoys discussed a US investor for the Nord Stream pipelines while the war continues.
The Treasury Department will enroll tens of millions of children without an application and has cleared the way for donations of individual stocks.
The White House’s top economic adviser said it is time for Jerome Powell to give up his remaining seat on the Federal Reserve Board.
A conditional federal loan commitment would fund uprates and modernisation at Vistra nuclear plants in Ohio and Pennsylvania.
The White House is easing limits on red-dyed, tax-exempt diesel to blunt fuel inflation while rejecting the export controls the industry had feared.
The Treasury secretary has pulled back from his claim to be the house after an attempt to talk yields down failed to take.
The Treasury secretary defended his claim to be “the house” in US debt markets while acknowledging the limits of official intervention as long yields rise.
Chris Wright told CBS that the president was “well aware of the risks to energy flows” before the war began, and would not rule out further military action.
The director of national intelligence will lead a Super Intelligence task force reporting on AI risks and the government’s oversight role.
The Treasury secretary said AI labs must own their risks, while also telling Axios that rising Treasury yields reflect a global move rather than a US problem.
The job has sat vacant since March, and the president is filling it with the official who runs US intelligence.
Korean officials said no deal exists to fund the Alaska gas pipeline, a day after the president and his commerce secretary announced one.
US officials told European capitals to tap emergency diesel stockpiles or face an American export ban, as UK pump prices passed two pounds a litre.
The Pentagon picked Boeing over Northrop to build the Navy’s first sixth-generation carrier aircraft.
The president presented a $54 billion Alaska gas project as backed by South Korean money and part of a $200 billion energy package, while Seoul said the investment has not been approved and will require commercial viability.
Energy Secretary Chris Wright has asked Europe to release more than a third of its diesel reserves, with a US export ban held out as the alternative, as the administration weighs restrictions on foreign diesel sales.
The Pentagon picked Boeing for the F/A-XX programme in a deal worth more than $20 billion.
Energy Secretary Chris Wright announced a new release from US reserves and pressed European countries to draw down their own diesel inventories.
The measures replace tariffs with outright prohibitions on a defined list of goods, with no date set for a return to negotiations.
The threat from the world’s biggest diesel exporter lands as UK pump prices set a record.
The Treasury secretary said Tehran is completing its final crude shipments to China and will soon have nothing left to trade.
Chris Wright said oil flows through the contested strait are averaging close to 13 million barrels a day and that the US military is keeping them moving.
The energy secretary says the United States will not stop exporting diesel, even as officials discuss voluntary cuts by refiners and a pause in fuel taxes.
The energy secretary has sounded out refiners on voluntary curbs while ruling out a blanket ban, and the industry is pushing back.
Chris Wright says the administration is not pursuing an outright export ban, even as the White House keeps a ninety-day version under review.
Chris Wright announced a grant programme called Speed to Power across 26 states, aimed at getting more electricity out of the grid already in the ground rather than building new lines.
Chris Wright called a blanket ban a blunt tool, hours after reports that the White House was preparing a 90-day restriction.
National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett questioned why policymakers would tighten with core inflation running near 2%.
Officials are drafting a plan for a 90-day ban on diesel exports while the energy secretary says the tool does not work.
The president’s endorsement reverses an administration position that had resisted fuel export restrictions, and his own energy officials have argued against it.
The president said a decision would come fast, while the Treasury secretary said the administration is still examining whether a ban is feasible.
Scott Bessent says secondary sanctions will shut Iranian carriers out of the global aviation system from 23 September.
Budget director Russell Vought is pushing an executive order that would let a political appointee veto biomedical research awards.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent offered Beijing a notification mechanism for AI incidents, while the US trade representative confirmed chip export controls were not on the agenda.
Trump has asked his budget director to draft an order routing the biomedical agency’s grant approvals through the White House.
Treasury, the US trade representative and China’s vice premier gathered in Manhattan on Sunday to prepare a leaders’ meeting on tariffs, AI and rare earths.
The last working-level session before the two presidents meet is set for Sunday at JPMorgan Chase headquarters.
A new military estimate puts the cost of the war at $43.6 billion while a newspaper report says more American troops have died than the Pentagon has disclosed.
The president announced a new body modelled on the Space Force and gave no detail on its budget or where it would sit.
The president attacked the decision within hours while insisting he still backs the chair he appointed.
The administration is considering Defense Production Act funds for refiners as record diesel prices feed straight into freight and food costs.
The Treasury secretary told House lawmakers that rising yields reflect global issues, not US fiscal policy.
The Treasury secretary defended his buyback programme, a joint yen intervention and the president’s proposed $5,000 dividend as Democrats pressed him on yields and energy costs.
The designation puts one of Russia’s largest banks inside the Iran sanctions programme, exposing any foreign institution that keeps dealing with it to secondary sanctions.
The cabinet officer closest to the oil market is warning that the chokepoint premium will not come off soon.
The Treasury secretary has a new name for detractors of his bond buyback programme, which has not stopped long yields reaching multi-year highs.
Markets expect the first US rate increase in years next week, and Kevin Warsh has left himself little room to talk them out of it.
With American refineries running flat out and diesel at a record, the administration is examining wartime industrial powers to add capacity.
The Treasury Secretary is sanctioning a large bank, talking the yen higher and buying back long-term debt, with the bond market so far unmoved.
The US Treasury secretary dared markets to test his resolve on a stronger yen days before an expected Bank of Japan rate rise.
The Treasury designated the remaining Iranian carriers and their suppliers, and the secondary-sanctions perimeter now runs well beyond Iran.
Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner made their first wartime visit to the Ukrainian capital after meeting Vladimir Putin, reporting substantive progress but agreeing nothing.
The Treasury secretary says Iran has 30 million barrels left to sell and that crude falls once the conflict ends.