Deepa Shivaram

It's unclear how Trump would disarm Hamas and if it would involve U.S.

personnel on the ground.

Trump has said Hamas told him it would, in fact, disarm, though he later clarified that message was not directly to him, but to White House officials.

But the president didn't put a timeline on disarmament.

He says it has to happen in a reasonable period of time, quote, pretty quickly.

Deepa Shivaram, NPR News, the White House.

Trump says the meeting was set to take place during the APEC summit in Korea in a few weeks.

It would have been the first in-person meeting between Trump and Xi in Trump's second term.

But in a post-truth social, Trump accuses Xi of surprising him and other world leaders with the announcement of the export restrictions.

It's a move seen as an effort by China to boost its leverage in trade talks with the U.S.

Trump says the U.S.

is considering how to respond to China, and that one option might be a, quote, massive increase in tariffs on Chinese products coming into the U.S.

Deepa Shivaram, NPR News, the White House.

The administration has already halted some environment-related projects and has threatened layoffs, though they haven't taken place yet.

At this White House cabinet meeting, Vice President Vance and other officials doubled down on blaming Democrats for not supporting a short-term spending resolution that would reopen the government.

Democrats are demanding an extension of health care subsidies before agreeing to that resolution.

Deepa Shivaram, NPR News, the White House.

A law from 2019 signed by President Trump in his first term stipulates that all federal workers whose paychecks are paused during a government shutdown will receive the pay they've missed.

But this time around, when Trump was asked whether furloughed workers should be paid... But it really depends on who you're talking about.

Trump's comments come on the heels of a draft memo from the White House that suggests that any back pay would require congressional action.