President Donald Trump with foreign leaders from El Salvador and Italy this week, advancing negotiations on both commercial and immigration problems in the White House.
The Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, visited the duration of Washington, a pause in steep tariffs against the European Union and other countries that could go into force in June. But both Trump and Meloni expressed their optimism that the two countries would ensure an agreement before that.
“There will be a commercial agreement, 100%,” Trump told White House journalists on Thursday. “Or the course there will be a commercial agreement, they want to make one and we are going to make a trade agreement. I hope it, but it will be a fair treatment.”
Meloni from Italy goes to Washington for the tariff work with Trump
When asked if he still considered the USA. UU. A reliable commercial partner due to changes related to tariff policy, Meloni said he would have done the walk through the White House unless it was so. Meloni said his goal for the trip was to invite Trump to meetings of being Italy and Europe to promote commercial negotiation between the two states.
“I think the best way is that we simply talk frankly about the needs that each of us has and we find our clients in the middle for that is useful for everyone,” Meloni told journalists on Thursday.
Meanwhile, Vice President JD Vance with Meloni on Friday in Rome to economic policies of continuous discussion between the two countries.
This is what also happened this week:
Visit with Bukele
Trump began the week with the president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, on Monday, launched a debate on whether the savior if the Maryland resident, Kilmar Abrego-García, after being deported there.
On Monday, Trump and Bukele administration officials agreed that they did not have the authority to return to Abrego-García to the United States, he only thought that the Trump administration admitted in the judicial presentations that he was deported in an “administrative error.” Even so, the Trump administration accused Abrego-García of being a member of the MS-13 gang, a designated terrorist group.
Meanwhile, the Supreme Court confirmed in April an order of the lower court that “requires that the Government ‘facilitate’ the release of Abrego García de la Custody in El Salvador and ensures that his case has sent it improperly.
President Donald Trump shakes hand with Nayib Bukele, president of El Salvador, during a meeting at the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, on April 14, 2025 (To the drago for the Washington Post through Getty Images)
While Attorney General Pam Bondi told journalists on Monday that El Salvador would call the final shots on whether he would return to Abrego-García, Bukele said it was “absurd” for El Salvador.
“How can I smuggle a terrorist in the United States? I don’t have the power to return to the United States,” Bikele said.
In addition, the Department of Justice presented documents on Wednesday detailing the national accusations that the wife of Abibego-García, Jennifer Vásquez, included in a judicial presentation in 2021. Vásquez’s accusation had documented it.
Enmity with Harvard
The Trump administration also continued after federal funds in higher education institutions.
After Harvard refused to comply with a series of Trump administration applications to reform several practices on campus, the Administration revealed on Monday that it would freeze more than $ 2 billion in federal funds for the institution.
The president of Harvard University, Alan M. Garber, said in a Monday statement that the Trump administration included additional applications not related to the supply of anti -Semitism on campus. As a result, Garber said that the institution would not be folded to those applications, claiming that they were not stittable.
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Trump has publicly criticized Harvard University several times in recent weeks. (Getty images | isthock)
Garber said that the new requests “direct government regulation of ‘intellectual conditions’ in Harvard”, including the audit views of students, teachers and personnel on the campus, and eliminate all programs of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI).
“It makes it clear that intention is not to work with us to address anti -Semitism in a cooperative and constructive way,” Garber said. “We have informed the Administration through our legal advisor that we will not accept its proposed agreement.”
Prescription drug prices
Trump also signed an executive order on Tuesday that sought to combat the high prices of prescription medications.
The Directive instructs the Department of Health and Human Services of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to standardize Medicare payments for prescription medications, including those used for cancer patients, regardless of where a patient receives treatment. This could reduce prices for patients by up to 60%, according to an informative sheet of the White House.
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A new White House directive instructs the Department of Health and Human Services of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to standardize Medicare payments for prescription medications. (Istock/Getty)
The order also includes a provision to coincide with the payment of Medicare for certain medications prescribed at the price that hospitals pay for those medicines. That is equivalent to up to 35% lower than what the government pays to acquire those medicines, said the White House.
The prices of medicines have a significant framework in recent years. Between January 2022 and January 2023, the prose of prescribed medications of more than 15% and reached an average of $ 590 per medicine, according to the Department of Health and Human Services. Of the 4,200 prescription medications included in that list, 46% of price increases exist the inflation rate.
