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Trump speaks with Putin, says ‘not a conversation that will lead to immediate Peace’ with Ukraine

Diana Glebova / NEW YORK POST  

President Trump spoke by phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday, acknowledging afterward that it was “not a conversation that will lead to immediate Peace” between Russia and Ukraine.

“We discussed the attack on Russia’s docked airplanes, by Ukraine, and also various other attacks that have been taking place by both sides,” Trump announced after the 75-minute talk with the Kremlin tyrant.

“President Putin did say, and very strongly, that he will have to respond to the recent attack on the airfields.”

Ukraine launched a secret attack on Russia over the weekend by sneaking a truck full of drones across the border — before unleashing the aircraft to target 40 Russian strategic bombers in attacks that reached into Siberia and the Arctic. 

On Tuesday, Kyiv then bombed the Kerch bridge connecting Crimea with the Russian mainland, in another blow to Putin’s military prestige. Read more here. 

White House Starts Process to Codify DOGE Cuts

Katie Pavlich / Townhall Tipsheet

Now that President Donald Trump's "Big, Beautiful" reconciliation bill has passed the U.S. House and is being worked on in the Senate, the Office of Management and Budget has sent a separate package to Capitol Hill to codify a number of spending cut recommendations from the Department of Government Efficiency. 

"Today, we sent the first rescissions package to Capitol Hill," the OMB released Tuesday. "This package contains BILLIONS in wasteful foreign aid and federal funding for NPR and PBS.  Now, Congress must act. They have 45 days to codify these massive cuts to woke, wasteful, and weaponized spending via a simple majority vote."

Here's a list of some of the cuts, courtesy of OMB: 

$67,000 for testing insect powder nutrition on children in Madagascar.

$33,000 for “Being LGBTI in the Caribbean. Read more here.