The White House is so far the war with Iran has cost the U.
And PR's Luke Garrett reports, despite the high-cost President Trump's top economic
“adviser doesn't think the administration will need more money from Congress.”
Last week, lawmakers on Capitol Hill expected a White House request for war funding, which would have given Congress a real say on the conflict. But Trump's top economic adviser, Kevin Hassett told CBS News, they might not need Congress's help. We've got the weapons that we've already got in place to do this. And so we're not necessarily going to need any kind of supplement.
The National Economic Council Director acknowledged short-term pain in the U.S. economy and rising gas prices. But Hassett argued the war will create long-term benefits. So we expect that the global economy is going to have a big positive shock as soon as this is over. We're still being briefed that it would be four to six weeks from the beginning and that we're ahead of schedule.
The conflict in the Middle East has shown few signs of slowing down as missile strikes continue.
Luke Garrett and PR News, Washington. In a social media post Sunday night, President Trump accused news organizations of what he said is "treason for their reporting on the U.S. is where they wore against Iran,
“specifically he cited without evidence that the Wall Street Journal and others have”
published Iranian-created AI photos of alleged war battles showing Iran attacking U.S. vessels. The Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission is threatening the licenses of broadcasters over what he says is fake news about the U.S. is really war in Iran and PR's Daniel Kurchsleben reports." FCC chair Brendan Carr made the threat in a social media post that accused outlets of "running hoaxes and news distortions," unquote.
He added, quote, "Frogcasters must operate in the public interest and they will lose their
licenses if they do not," unquote.
In the post, Carr attached a social media post in which President Trump said that outlets including the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal want the U.S. to lose the war in Iran. He also characterized workers of those outlets as truly sick and demented people. The administration has multiple times accused news organizations of pushing fake news after running stories about difficulties and damages the U.S. has suffered in the war.
Daniel Kurchsleben and PR news.
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Trade and economic negotiations between the United States and China have begun in Paris. "The talks are being led by the U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Besett and China's vice-premier Helifong is the top negotiator for Beijing. The two sides met for more than six hours on Sunday." Lebanon's president is proposing ceasefire talks with Israel, but Israel's foreign minister
is not publicly weighing in about the possibility of those talks. "I, Ty Stern, reports from Tel Aviv." Speaking with reporters at the side of an Iranian missile strike in North and Israel, foreign minister Gidon Sar would not comment on the reports. But the person familiar with the matter, not authorized to speak publicly, tells NPR
that, "Rondermer, a confident of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has been appointed to lead potential negotiations with Lebanon." This comes after a weekend of heavy rocket fire from Prisbalat Howard North and Israel. Israel has responded with large-scale airstrikes across Lebanon, and officials say they're not ruling out an Israeli ground campaign in Lebanon.
Lebanon's authorities say the fighting has displaced around 800,000 people. For NPR news, Amitais Stern in Tel Aviv." The United States has advanced to the finals of the pre-season World Baseball classic Tuesday night in Miami. They hung on to beat the Dominican Republic to the one Sunday night.
The U.S. will not play the winner of Monday night's semi-final game, that between Venezuela and Italy. This is NPR News. I'm Dan Rondermer. Support for it.
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