Trade frictions between Washington and Beijing have flared up after a hiatus following a meeting between U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and his Chinese counterpart.

The event will also bring more than 9,000 soldiers from around the country to Washington, about 7,000 of whom will march in the parade itself. The event will also include at least eight Army bands, and some troops will ride on the nearly three dozen horses and two mules expected to march as part of a historical section of the parade.

Plans for Trump's birthday military parade in DC, potentially causing $16 million in street damage, are a concern for infrastructure and budget. The Army plans to use steel plates to protect roads and will cover restoration costs.

The most fundamental job of Congress is to fund the government each year, typically through a bipartisan process that distributes dollars more or less evenly between red states and blue states. But a dustup over a dam construction project in Washington state has thrown a wrench into that process and raised the stakes of a government funding showdown in September.

During his brief stint in the Trump administration, the billionaire left a big mark on the government with his DOGE agency.

President Donald Trump faces the challenge of convincing Republican senators, global investors, voters and even Elon Musk that he won’t bury the federal government in debt with his multitrillion-dollar tax breaks package.

Autonomy on Judge Picks: President Trump appears to be declaring independence from outside constraints on how he nominates judges, signaling that he is looking for loyalists who will uphold his agenda and denouncing the conservative legal network that helped him remake the federal judiciary in his first term.

The move comes after the president dispatched Vice President JD Vance to “remove improper ideology” from Smithsonian museums.

Some advocates worry the nation’s capital could become one of the riskiest places for undocumented immigrants to live as a federal crackdown intensifies.

Trump and Musk hold an Oval Office news conference as the billionaire officially steps away from his government role

One official said that the president is unlikely to delay his initial 90-day pause on some of his highest rates.