President Donald Trump hosted a Cabinet meeting at the White House Tuesday afternoon, followed by an announcement about “Trump accounts” for some American children.
Also on Tuesday, Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff joins the president’s son-in-law Jared Kushner in a high-stakes meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, as the Trump administration seeks to end Russia’s war against Ukraine.
The governors of Oklahoma and Arkansas will send a combined 260 National Guardsmen to Washington, D.C., after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth last week vowed to bring 500 more to the District after the shooting of two Guard members.
A U.S. Army spokesperson said the number of Guardsmen in the city will begin to tick up over the next several weeks as they arrive, but there’s no target date or deadline to reach 500 new troops.
Oklahoma will send approximately 160 Guardsmen and Arkansas will send roughly 100, joining the 2,200 Guardsmen from eight other states and the District of Columbia.
Pentagon press secretary Kingsley Wilson said Tuesday that all 2,200 Guard members in D.C. are now armed and that the additional 500 will also be armed. She confirmed that the Guard in D.C. is now conducting joint patrols with D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department.
The family of the Colombian fisherman who was killed in the Sept. 15 U.S. military strike in the Caribbean Sea filed a formal complaint Tuesday with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights alleging the U.S. government illegally killed him.
“From numerous news reports, we know that U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth was responsible for ordering the bombing of boats like those of Alejandro Carranza and the murder of all those on such boats,” they wrote in their petition.
The president closed his eyes repeatedly during the roundtable discussion at his Cabinet meeting Tuesday.
The meeting has exceeded an hour with the heads of many of departments and the vice president talking about their achievements and praising Trump’s agenda.
President Trump spoke about last week’s shooting of two National Guard members in Washington, D.C., and reflected on his conversations with the family members of the victims.
Trump said the mother of Andrew Wolfe, who is still hospitalized, told him she believed her son would survive.
