Trump said tariffs will be the "greatest thing we've ever done as a country."
President Donald Trump is defending his decision to pause some tariffs to Canada and Mexico for another month -- a notable reversal after imposing historic levies on the key U.S. trading partners earlier this week, causing markets to tumble.
On Friday, Trump signed more executive orders at the White House before he convened a first-ever cryptocurrency summit with industry leaders.
White House officials told ABC News that President Donald Trump has signed executive orders to amend the tariffs on Canada and Mexico that went into effect just two days ago to exclude all products in compliance with the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement.
The pause will last until April 2.
-ABC News' Michelle Stoddart and Molly Nagle
President Donald Trump said in a new post on his social media platform Thursday that a combination of DOGE and heads of federal agencies will take a "scalpel" approach when it comes to federal cuts rather than using a "hatchet."
Trump shared that he, his Cabinet secretaries and Elon Musk had a meeting Thursday.
"We're going to have these meetings every two weeks until that aspect of this very necessary job is done. The relationships between everybody in that room are extraordinary," he said.
-ABC News' Hannah Demissie
A federal judge denied a request Thursday to expedite a case challenging the legality of the Department of Government Efficiency after President Donald Trump's address to Congress inserted confusion about who exactly is running the cost-cutting group.
"Plaintiffs have not explained, with clarity, the nature of any emergency here that would require the Court to compel Defendants to respond more rapidly than the default rules provide for," U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb wrote in an order.
Cobb, a Biden appointee, did not mention the apparent contradiction in Trump's speech in her order.
Lawyers representing DOGE argued that speeding up the case would be "infeasible," and the case is now on track for a potential hearing later this month.
-ABC News' Peter Charalambous
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said teams from the U.S. and Ukraine will hopefully meet next week.
“The Ukrainian and American teams have renewed their work, and we hope next week we will have a substantive meeting,” Zelenskyy said in a post on X.
Andrii Yermak, the head of the office of the President of Ukraine, will go to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia to meet with U.S. officials to discuss possible peace talks between Ukraine and Russia on Tuesday, a source in Zelenskyy’s office told ABC News.
Ukraine’s Minister of Defense, Foreign Affairs and military representatives may also attend the meeting, the source said.
It is unclear if anything will be signed at the meeting, but the source confirmed that the meeting will be about the peace talks.
--ABC News' Patrick Reevell and Oleksiy Pshemyskiy
