When President Donald Trump declared in the House Chamber this week that executives at the nation’s top automakers were “so excited” about their prospects amid his new tariff regime, it did not entirely reflect the conversation he’d held with them earlier that day.

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said the Trump administration might exempt certain industries from the new tariffs on Mexico and Canada. Stocks were slightly up.

U.S. stock index futures rose on Wednesday, bouncing back from a selloff in the previous session, after a top official said President Donald Trump could ease tariffs he has imposed on the country's top trade partners.

House Republicans are moving to immediately to punish the Texas Democrat who was removed from the House chamber for repeatedly disrupting President Donald Trump’s speech.

The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives kicked off a process on Wednesday that could lead lawmakers to censure Democrat Al Green, who was kicked out of the chamber after yelling at President Donald Trump during an address.

As Republican Senator Bill Cassidy argues an extensive body of research already shows there’s no link between autism and the measles vaccine, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the National Institutes of Health,

Republicans who control the Senate have largely embraced the nomination, arguing that Bhattacharya's skepticism of federal pandemic policies reflects the need for reform at the NIH. All of Trump's high-level nominations have been confirmed,

President Donald Trump’s nominee to direct the National Institutes of Health pledges to restore public trust in science and medicine at a Senate panel Wednesday.

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At a mostly friendly closed-door meeting, the billionaire carrying out President Trump’s bid to shrink the federal bureaucracy fielded queries about how senators could be more involved in the effort.