4:00 AM – PDT 16/07/2025
The US Senate on Tuesday moved forward Trump’s request to cancel $9 billion in approved funding that includes funding foreign aid programs and public broadcasting.
JD Vance’s vote broke the tie to move forward the measure with 51-50 votes. The bill has to go through a final vote in the Senate before it is forwarded to the House for a final passage to the President’s desk for signature.
Historic victory https://t.co/e7apeyxb54
— Stephen Miller (@StephenM) July 16, 2025
3:00 AM – PDT 16/07/2025
Donald Trump announced that a trade deal between the US and Indonesia has been finalised. The trade deal is the first deal to be drawn upon after Trump sent out letters to different countries threatening to impose high tariffs on imports and setting up a new deadline of August 1 for trade deals.
According to the post it is agreed that a 19 per cent tariff will be levied on imports from Indonesia down from 32 per cent which the US threatened to impose earlier. US exports to the country will be duty free, the post reads.
It further notes that Indonesia has committed to buy $ 20 billion in US energy and agricultural products.
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) July 15, 2025
2:00 AM -PDT 16/07/2025
The US has withdrawn out of the Tomato Suspension Agreement with Mexico, US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutick informed. The Trump administration announced a 17% tariff on tomato imports from Mexico ending the three decade old agreement.
The Commerce Secretary said in a statement:
“Mexico remains one of our greatest allies, but for far too long, our farmers have been crushed by unfair trade practices that undercut pricing on produce like tomatoes.”
01:00 AM – PDT 16/07/2025
Donald Trump said Monday, if Moscow fails to come to a deal to stop the war in Ukraine, the US will sanction 100 per cent tariffs on remaining Russian trade partners.
President Donald Trump has been voicing his failure to deal with Vladimir Putin.
Meeting with NATO president Mark Rutte at the White House, Trump affirmed his decision to send top end weapons to Ukraine via NATO countries while also balancing this act to homegrown priorities of not footing the bill for someone else’s war.
12:30 AM – PDT 16/07/2025
In a post on Truth Social Donald Trump has welcomed the Supreme Court ruling in favour of an executive order he signed in April to dismantle the Department of Education with mass lay-offs to bare minimum.
The Supreme Court ruling lifted an earlier order by a federal judge which reinstated 1400 employees affected by mass firing at the department. The ruling will allow the Trump administration to strip the Education Department to a bare minimum workforce and transfer key functions to other federal agencies. The Department of Education oversees school curriculum, staffing, and instruction.
Trump in the post said:
— Karoline Leavitt (@PressSec) July 14, 2025
