Trump Teases Deal With Iran While Also Issuing A Threat: Live Updates
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Usha Vance Admits Disagreeing With VP Husband Over Some Policy Decisions: ‘I’m Not His Staffer’
Second lady Usha Vance said that despite considering herself a trusted adviser to her husband, she and Vice President JD Vance don’t always agree on decisions made by the Trump administration.
“I’m not his staffer, I’m not involved in this in any professional sense. There’s no expectation that we are going to see eye-to-eye on everything,” she told NBC News in an interview released Monday.
“The expectation is that we are going to be open-minded and have a conversation, and that I’ll provide meaningful input from the perspective of someone who loves him and wants him to succeed,” she continued. “So even if we don’t agree, I think it’s always very productive.”
Usha Vance, who used to be a registered Democrat, would not say what specific issues she and the Republican vice president disagree on, stressing that she becomes his go-to when deciding what position to take on an issue that’s “important personally.”
Former GOP Rep. Mark Sanford Running For His Old Seat
Former Rep. Mark Sanford (R-S.C.) has filed paperwork to run for his old seat.
Sanford previously represented the Lowcountry district from 1995 to 2001 and from 2013 to 2019, with a stint as governor in between. He frequently criticized Trump and made an ill-fated bid to contest Trump’s renomination for president in 2019.
Sanford told the Post and Courier his campaign would focus on fiscal responsibility, a concept Republicans under Trump have utterly abandoned. He’s one of more than a dozen Republicans facing off in the June primary.
Sanford is perhaps best known for briefly vanishing while serving as governor in 2009, having claimed he was “hiking the Appalachian trail,” only to turn up in Argentina having an extramarital affair.
Trump’s Rushed Ballroom Design Has Many Issues, Critics Warn
Critics have weighed in on the rushed design of President Donald Trump’s White House ballroom as it heads toward final approval this week — and it’s not pretty.
The gargantuan structure is being panned as lopsided and disproportionate, and noted as having missing doors and a grand staircase that leads to nowhere, according to a report by The New York Times.
Despite the ballroom’s apparent flaws, a White House spokesperson hailed Trump’s personal involvement in its creation, saying: “President Trump is the best builder and developer in the entire world, and the American people can rest well knowing that this project is in his hands.
