President Trump has long pushed for a grand military parade since witnessing France's Bastille Day parade in 2017.

Detailed Army plans for a potential military parade on President Donald Trump’s birthday in June call for more than 6,600 soldiers, at least 150 vehicles, 50 helicopters, seven bands and potentially a

The president denied that his tariffs had anything to do with the contraction, blaming the "Biden 'Overhang'."

Trump’s second term begins with a decline in US GDP, while jobs and prices hold steady. On almost all fronts, the outlook is getting worse.

The nation’s GDP fell at a 0.3% annual rate, surprising economists who had anticipated modest growth. The U.S. economy contracted for the first time in three years, an initial measurement by the Commerce Department revealed on Wednesday.

President Donald Trump narrowly avoided a rebuke from the U.S. Senate on his tariffs due to one Democratic senator's absence. The resolution, defeated with a 49-49 tie on April 30, reflects discontent with Trump's 10% across-the-board tariffs and now-paused "retaliatory" tariffs that rattled Wall Street and contributed to a shrinking GDP as four Republicans joined with all present Democrats in supporting it.

The New York Times' Lauren Hirsch discusses how markets are reacting to Trump's tariffs and Trump's defense of the tariffs.