This week, President Trump proposed two deals that would require allies to put his needs ahead of their own.
Times’ Journalists Michael Barbaro, Catie Edmonson, Maggie Haberman, and Zolan Kanno-Youngs discuss how, in both cases, Trump got what he wanted.
0:09 - Intros
1:10 - Trump’s deal in Congress: campaign promise tax cuts vs federal spending
3:40 - Cuts to Medicaid and Medicare
5:08 - Trump & Speaker Johnson push republicans to pass budget resolution
6:37 - Trump pressures republican defectors
7:36 - Increasing the deficit to 2.5 trillion dollars
9:28 - Cutting government spending vs cutting taxes
11:01 - Trumps deal abroad: Ukraine’s critical earth minerals
13:15 - Deal with Ukraine
19:06 - U.S. allies bending to Trump
20:12 - U.K. Prime Minister at the White House