Republicans scheduled an initial procedural vote on the measure for approximately 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, shortly after unveiling revised language.
The head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid was asked multiple times about President Trump’s health during a briefing.
The new mechanism, approved by the two countries’ leaders last month, will identify non-sensitive products from both sides that may qualify for tariff cuts.
‘The failure of our most important trading partners to address the importation of goods made with forced labor is unacceptable,’ trade czar Jamieson Greer said.
‘He’s involved, absolutely. Yeah, I think they have a lot of respect for him,’ the president said of Mojtaba Khamenei.
In California, votes are still being counted in the tight primary race for governor.
The 48th district was redrawn to favor Democrats.
Two San Francisco Democrats will compete in the district’s first U.S. House election without an incumbent in nearly four decades.
Three-term mayor Gregg Hull wins the three-way GOP primary and will take on the former Interior Secretary in November.