Danielle Kurtzleben

I mean, as Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt said yesterday, the idea is that with the ceasefire, there's now an opening for some sort of a diplomatic solution.

But there could be some distance to go because it certainly seems as if the two countries have had

differing ideas about what the ceasefire even was and what the terms of it were.

So I think we'll all be very curious what comes of that.

I mean, to bring this to the

cold electoral politics of things, should Vance want to run for the presidency in 2028, then yeah, being able to say, look, I helped broker peace here in this, albeit in a war that the U.S.

really started, then yeah, he could have that as a feather in his cap.

But we'll see what happens.

Trump called Vice President J.D.

Vance, who's leading the task force, the fraud czar.

He added that while the task force will look for fraud nationwide, it would focus primarily in blue states led by, in Trump's words, crooked Democrat politicians.

Trump then listed California, Illinois, Minnesota, Maine and New York as examples.

He also explicitly called out Minnesota for having a large Somali population.

Trump created the task force in mid-March.

He has made combating fraud a central part of his political message ahead of November's midterms.

Danielle Kurtzleben, NPR News, the White House.

This spending boost would be paired with a requested $73 billion in cuts to domestic spending, according to a budget summary from the White House.

The annual budget request represents a blueprint of the executive branch's priorities, though Congress ultimately sets spending levels.

Trump outlined his priorities during a closed-press lunch this week with religious leaders.

The White House posted a video of the event before deleting it.