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May 6, 2025, 4:17 p.m. ET 33 minutes ago

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President Says the U.S. Will Stop Bombing Houthi Militants

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Houthi-U.S. deal:

The United States and the Houthi militants who control much of Yemen reached a deal to end the U.S. aerial campaign to thwart the group’s attacks on vessels in a crucial shipping lane. The foreign minister of Oman, which mediated the agreement, said “neither side will target the other.” President Trump said the Houthis “don’t want to fight anymore,” but a spokesman for the group said it would continue its military operations “in support of Gaza.” It was not immediately clear what effect the agreement would have on the group’s efforts to disrupt international shipping. Read more ›

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Canadian visit: Mr. Trump and Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada, in the first meeting between the two leaders since Mr. Carney won election on an anti-Trump platform, sparred over the president’s talk of making Canada the 51st state. After Mr. Carney told Mr. Trump’s “some places are not for sale,” the president responded, “Never say never.” Read more ›

Transgender troops: The Supreme Court said the Trump administration may start enforcing a ban on transgender troops serving in the military while legal challenges move through the courts. Read more ›

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Laurel Rosenhall

May 6, 2025, 4:13 p.m. ET37 minutes ago

Laurel RosenhallReporting from Sacramento

Trump says his administration ‘is not going to pay’ for California high-speed rail.

A high-speed rail overpass that has been under construction in Hanford, Calif.Credit...Ian C. Bates for The New York Times

President Trump said Tuesday that the federal government will not pay for California’s high-speed train, another potential wrinkle in a troubled project that has repeatedly blown past its budget and completion timeline since voters approved funding in 2008.

“That train is the worst cost overrun I’ve ever seen,” Mr. Trump told reporters in the Oval Office during a joint appearance with Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada. “It’s, like, totally out of control.” He added: “This government is not going to pay.”

The president’s comments came three months after his administration launched a review of how California is spending a $3.1 billion federal grant issued under the Biden administration.

The project was originally envisioned as a $33 billion bullet train that would, by 2020, whisk people between San Francisco and Los Angeles in less than three hours. But plans have been stymied by inflation, lawsuits over land acquisitions and lengthy environmental reviews, along with repeated tussles over funding. The cost has more than tripled, the scope of the line has been scaled back and completion is now slated for 2033 for an initial segment that connects two smaller cities in the Central Valley.

Construction on that portion is underway, with Gov. Gavin Newsom visiting Bakersfield in January to tout progress on the project.

“With 50 major structures built, walking away now as we enter the track-laying phase would be reckless — wasting billions already invested and letting job-killers cede a generational infrastructure advantage to China,” Izzy Gardon, the governor’s spokesman, said in response to Mr. Trump’s comments.

Mr. Newsom rode China’s high-speed rail on a visit to that country in 2023, highlighting the possibilities of the technology as the train whizzed through the countryside on the way to Shanghai.

A spokesperson for the California High-Speed Rail Authority, the agency planning and building the train, said the project has resulted in 15,000 construction jobs and is delivering results, “despite the noise in Washington.”

The president mocked Mr. Newsom on Tuesday by calling him “Gavin Newscum.” Mr. Trump said that while he’d like to see Mr. Newsom run for president, he believes the governor’s political future is doomed because of the delays in the train project and the devastation from the Los Angeles wildfires earlier this year.

Mr. Newsom’s spokesman fired back by calling Mr. Trump “the self-described ‘King of Debt’ who ran a steak company, a casino, and a global economy — all into the ground.”

This is hardly the first time Mr. Trump and Mr. Newsom have dueled over high-speed rail. During Mr. Trump’s first administration, he yanked nearly $1 billion in federal funding for the project, saying at the time that “the cost overruns are becoming world-record setting.” California sued, and got the money back through a settlement reached with the Biden administration in 2021.

Luke Broadwater

May 6, 2025, 4:10 p.m. ET40 minutes ago

Luke BroadwaterReporting from Washington

‘We don’t have to sign deals’: Trump backs off his big promises about tariffs.

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During an Oval Office meeting on Tuesday, President Trump said there was no need to sign trade deals with other countries.Credit...Eric Lee/The New York Times

Ever since President Trump announced he was slapping hefty tariffs on countries across the globe, he has been predicting they would force trading partners to sign major deals beneficial to the United States.

But on Tuesday, with the Canadian prime minister sitting beside him in the Oval Office and no new trade deal between the two countries achieved, Mr. Trump had a different message for the public: “We don’t have to sign deals.”

“Everyone says ‘When, when, when are you going to sign deals?’” Mr. Trump said, at one point motioning toward Howard Lutnick, the commerce secretary. “We don’t have to sign deals. We could sign 25 deals right now, Howard, if we wanted to. We don’t have to sign deals. They have to sign deals with us. They want our market. We don’t want a piece of their market. We don’t care about their market.”

Within days of the April 2 announcement of the widespread tariffs, White House officials said around 70 countries were already calling to strike deals. Mr. Trump’s trade adviser predicted there would be 90 deals in 90 days.

But more than a month later, no such deals have materialized. And the clock is ticking.

Mr. Trump predicted the first deals could be signed this week. But administration officials also made that prediction the week before that, and the week before that.

On Tuesday, the president told the members of the press gathered around him that he would have an important announcement soon, but cautioned that it might not be a trade deal.

“You keep writing about deals, deals, ‘when are we going to sign?’” Mr. Trump said, sounding annoyed at reporters’ questions.

At another point he vented, “I wish they’d stop asking how many deals are you signing this week.”

Then Mr. Trump seemed to change the very definition of a deal from a two-sided agreement into a one-sided demand.

In the next two weeks, the president said, he would sit down with his top aides and make unilateral “deals” that the administration would announce without the participation of other countries.

“One day we’ll come and we’ll give you 100 deals,” the president said.

On Capitol Hill, Scott Bessent, the Treasury security, striking a less freewheeling tone, said some trade deals could be announced this week.

Mr. Bessent told a House committee he was negotiating with 17 major trading partners, but not with China, the largest economy in the world after the United States.

“Many of our trading partners have approached us with very good offers,” he said.

Negotiating trade deals is famously complex and time-consuming.

The Peterson Institute for International Economics said in a 2016 analysis that negotiations for a single trade deal can often take more than a year, while implementation can take multiple years.

And for the trade deals Mr. Trump does reach, he can sour on them quickly. The major trade deal of his first term was the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, which the president now says he wants to renegotiate.

Matina Stevis-Gridneff

May 6, 2025, 3:51 p.m. ET58 minutes ago