The following is an installment of Trump-Vance team accomplishments (each article is linked for further info):
(NOTE: Relax! We the People may not have even thought of some of this stuff, but the Trump-Vance ‘A’ team is already on top of it.)
1. Trump Is Doubling Steel Tariffs to 50%
‘We’re going to bring it from 25 to 50 percent on steel into the United States of America, which will even further secure the steel industry in the United States,’ the president said during remarks at a steel factory in Pittsburgh, flanked by banners that read “The Golden Age,” “American Jobs” and “American Steel.”
.@POTUS: “As part of this monumental commitment, Nippon will invest $2.2 billion to increase steel production here in the Mon Valley Works… In addition, another $7 billion to modernize steel mills, expand ore mines, and build state-of-the-art facilities in Indiana, Minnesota,… pic.twitter.com/YqCnzxB5pr
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) May 30, 2025
The five largest sources of imported steel into the US are Canada, Brazil, Mexico, South Korea and Vietnam.
The president’s announcement came as part of an event to tout what he called a “blockbuster” agreement between U.S. Steel and Japanese-owned Nippon Steel.
Last week Trump announced a new partnership between U.S. Steel and Nippon on social media, saying it “will create at least 70,000 jobs, and add $14 Billion Dollars to the U.S. Economy.”
Trump said:
I believe this group of people that just made this investments right now are very happy, because that means nobody’s going to be able to steal your industry.
Further:
It’s at 25%, they can sort of get over that fence, at 50% they can no longer get over the fence.
2. Trump Vows to Codify DOGE Cuts: ‘Totally Committed’
Trump reaffirmed his commitment to permanently slashing bloated federal spending on Friday.
The president pledged the DOGE cuts will be codified once his “Big, Beautiful Bill” clears Congress.
He made the pledge while speaking at a press conference alongside Musk, the architect behind DOGE and a key Trump ally in rooting out government waste.
Trump said the savings from DOGE will ultimately total “hundreds of billions of dollars.”
Musk is stepping back from his formal White House role to refocus on his businesses.
However, both men made clear the drive for efficiency is far from over.
The president stated:
We are totally committed to making the DOGE cuts permanent and stopping much more of the waste in the months to come.
White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller clarified the legislative path forward.
Miller noted DOGE reforms must come through a rescissions or appropriations package, not the current reconciliation bill.
Miller wrote on X:
DOGE cuts are to discretionary spending (e.g., the federal bureaucracy).
Further:
Under Senate budget rules, you cannot cut discretionary spending (only mandatory) in a reconciliation bill.
And:
So DOGE cuts would have to be done through what is known as a rescissions package or an appropriations bill.
We the People can expect an additional bill to follow which will cut discretionary spending.
3. Stephen Miller Responds to Illegal Alien Who Killed 24-Year-Old American Woman: ‘Entire Family Will Be Deported’
ICE officials announced an illegal alien has been arrested for killing a 24-year-old American woman. The illegal alien from Colombia killed Kaitlyn Weaver while driving 90 miles an hour in a 45 mph zone—without a license—in Colorado last July.
The entire family will be deported. https://t.co/IjJUzU7w9g
— Stephen Miller (@StephenM) May 29, 2025
Miller announced in a post on X:
The entire family will be deported.
The Trump administration is following through on its promise to restore law and order at the border—this time by deporting the entire family of an illegal immigrant teenager convicted in the tragic death of a young American woman.
The 16-year-old, who entered the U.S. illegally, had been sentenced to probation and community service as part of a plea deal—a slap on the wrist from a Leftists prosecutor.
Weaver died after being placed on life support for two days.
4. Hegseth Vows U.S. Support for Indo-Pacific Allies, Warns of ‘Imminent’ China Threat
Speaking at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, SecDef Hegseth warned that any attempt by Beijing to seize the democratically-ruled island could potentially result in “devastating consequences” for both the region and the world.
Hegseth said China is making credible preparations to use military force to change “the balance of power” in the Indo-Pacific, noting that while nobody knows what the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) will do in terms of Taiwan and its other neighbors in the Indo-Pacific, “the U.S. and its allies must nonetheless be ready with ‘urgency and vigilance.’”
Further:
There’s no reason to sugarcoat it: the threat China poses is real, and it could be imminent.
The CCP, which has never ruled Taiwan, considers the self-governed island to be a renegade province and has never ruled out the possibility of using force to control it.
The secretary urged Indo-Pacific nations to increase their defense spending to bolster military capabilities, citing NATO members’ commitment to spend 5 percent of their gross domestic product on defense.
He said:
How can it make sense for countries in Europe to do that while key allies and partners in Asia spend far less in the face of a far more formidable threat from Communist China, not to mention North Korea?
Hegseth said the Trump administration aims to re-establish deterrence in the Indo-Pacific by enhancing its “forward force posture” in the Western Pacific, helping allies bolster their defense capabilities, and rebuilding its defense industrial bases.
The Pentagon chief said President Trump has vowed not to allow China to invade Taiwan on his watch, calling on regional allies to work alongside the United States in efforts to prevent potential war.
5. Trump Scores Key Win in Pulitzer Prize Defamation Lawsuit
In 2019, Trump strongly stated if the Pulitzer Prize was endorsing what he viewed as inaccurate political reporting, the Pulitzer Board should openly acknowledge it.
Recall, Trump’s defamation lawsuit challenged the 2018 Pulitzer Prizes awarded to the New York Times and the Washington Post over their reporting on false claims of Russia collusion ahead of the 2016 election.
Breitbart reported:
The president has just notched a key win in the case.
Trump filed suit in December of 2022, and now the Pulitzer Board has lost two motions: one motion to dismiss in July of 2024 and this most recent motion to postpone until Trump leaves the Oval Office in 2028.
Recall, the Mueller Report released in 2019 concluded there was insufficient evidence to charge Trump.
In addition to asking for the revocation of the awards, Trump called on the two newspapers to return their prizes the following year, which he asserted would be the “honorable thing to do.”
The court’s rejection of motions for dismissal and delay marks a significant moment in Trump’s efforts to hold the Pulitzer Board accountable.
Whether the litigation will lead to amendments in the evaluation process of media contributions remains to be seen, however, as the saga unfolds, it is poised to become a substantial focal point in ongoing dialogues about the intersection of journalism and politics.
