White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said, "Everything in President Trump’s agenda is grounded in one thing: common sense." This brought Paine's 1776 pamphlet to one reader's mind.

Still, Loomer saw a new opening earlier this year when press secretary Karoline Leavitt invited “new media” to apply for access to the White House. The arrangement included a rotating seat in the press room and last week, Leavitt began holding additional briefings exclusively for online creators and commentators.

Lawmakers scrutinized Trump's budget focusing on border security and tariffs, while Trump met with Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney told President Donald Trump on Tuesday during a meeting at the White House that Canada would never be for sale. Trump, who has repeatedly suggested that Canada could become the United States' 51st state,

Despite the leaders’ early comments lavishing praise on one another, the meeting between President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney produced a curious exchange in which Carney emphatically said his country would never become part of the United States and Trump continued to muse that annexing the ally could still happen.

President Donald Trump is set to announce a new trade deal with Britain on Thursday, The New York Times reports. Newsweek reached out to the Department of the Treasury via email for comment Wednesday night.

WASHINGTON—President Trump is expected to announce a framework of a trade deal with the United Kingdom on Thursday, the first in what the White House hopes is a series of trade agreements since it imposed tariffs against allies and adversaries,

Donald Trump is planning to announce a new trade pact with the UK on Thursday, people familiar with the talks said, in what could make Britain the first in a series of countries to ease commercial tensions with Washington.