WILL WEISSERT

National politics reporter

Weissert covers national politics and the White House for The Associated Press. He is based in Washington.

The Federal Trade Commission building is seen in Washington on Dec. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Trump fires 2 Democrats on the Federal Trade Commission, seeking more control over regulators

President Donald Trump arrives on Air Force One at Palm Beach International Airport, Friday, March 14, 2025, in West Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Trump invokes 18th century law to speed deportations, judge stalls it hours later

Vice President JD Vance, center, speaks at a rally about "America's industrial resurgence," as he is flanked by his wife, Usha Vance, left, and Vantage Plastics President Paul Aultman, Friday, March 14, 2025, at Vantage Plastics in Bay City, Mich. (AP Photo/Jose Juarez)

In Michigan, Vance says US manufacturing can rebound despite tariff jitters and falling markets

Tesla vehicles are displayed at the AutoMobility LA Auto Show, Thursday, Nov. 21, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)

Trump is buying a Tesla. Here are some of the harsh things he’s said about EVs over the years

FILE - Gov. William McKinley of Ohio makes a speech during the U.S. presidential campaign in 1896, McKinley became the 25th president in 1897. (AP Photo, File)

Trump loves the Gilded Age and its tariffs. It was a great time for the rich but not for the many

In this photo released by an official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, speaks in a meeting with a group of defense officials, in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Trump wrote to Iran’s leader about that country’s nuclear program and expects results ‘very soon’

Vice President JD Vance speaks to reporters during a visit to the U.S. border with Mexico Wednesday, March 5, 2025, in Eagle Pass, Texas, as Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard listens. (Brandon Bell/Pool via AP)

Vance promotes Trump’s ‘whole government’ immigration crackdown during visit to US-Mexico border

President Donald Trump speaks during a Cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025. (Pool via AP)

From Cabinet secretary to doomsday president: What being a designated survivor is like

President Donald Trump welcomes Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House in Washington, Friday, Feb. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Trump and Zelenskyy through the years: From a ‘perfect’ call to pausing US assistance to Ukraine

President Donald Trump, right, meets with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office at the White House, Friday, Feb. 28, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/ Mystyslav Chernov)

Zelenskyy leaves White House without signing minerals deal after Oval Office blowup

President Donald Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office at the White House, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump sees ‘a thirst’ for his ‘gold card’ visa idea with $5 million potential path to US citizenship

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, right, looks towards Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., as he answers questions from reporter after arriving at the Pentagon, Monday, Jan. 27, 2025 in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)

Hegseth defends Trump’s firings of Pentagon leaders and says there may be more dismissals

President Donald Trump arrives at the White House after speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC, Saturday, Feb. 22, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/John McDonnell)

Trump’s Russian rapprochement, Mars musing and DOGE dividends. And is the gold gone? It’s Week 5

President Donald Trump dances as he speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC, at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center, Saturday, Feb. 22, 2025, in Oxon Hill, Md. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Trump revels in mass federal firings and jeers at Biden during address at CPAC

Kash Patel, President Donald Trump's new director of the FBI, is pictured during his ceremonial swearing-in, Friday, Feb. 21, 2025, in the Indian Treaty Room at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House campus in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

New FBI Director Kash Patel plans to move up to 1,500 workers out of Washington, AP source says

President Donald Trump listens as Elon Musk speaks in the Oval Office at the White House, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025, in Washington. (Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump and Musk say they like working together and will keep at it. Will it last?

President Donald Trump walks from the Oval Office to board Marine One as he departs from the South Lawn of the White House, Friday, Feb. 14, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump moves with dizzying speed on his to-do list. But there are warning signs in his first month

The flags of Canada and the United States fly outside a hotel in downtown Ottawa, on Saturday, Feb. 1, 2025. (Justin Tang/The Canadian Press via AP)

Trump’s remarks on Canada becoming the 51st state raise a lot of questions

President Donald Trump, right, shakes the hand of India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the conclusion of a news conference in the East Room of the White House, Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Trump calls India’s Modi a ‘great friend’ but warns of higher U.S. tariffs on Indian goods

FILE - U.S. President Donald Trump, left, and Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, shake hands at the beginning of a meeting at the Presidential Palace in Helsinki, Finland, July 16, 2018. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Trump upends US policy on Ukraine and says he and Putin have agreed to begin talks on ending the war

President Donald Trump greets Jordan's King Abdullah II in the Oval Office at the White House, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025, in Washington. (Photo/Alex Brandon)

After meeting with Trump, Jordan’s king says his country opposes displacing Palestinians in Gaza

President Donald Trump greets Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as he arrives at the West Wing of the White House, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump’s 3rd week: Executive orders, a trade war that wasn’t, Gaza takeover, and an upended workforce

President Donald Trump waves after arriving on Air Force One at Palm Beach International Airport in West Palm Beach, Fla., Friday, Feb. 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Trump says he’s firing Kennedy Center board of trustees members and naming himself chairman

President Donald Trump speaks during the National Prayer Breakfast at Washington Hilton, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

In their own words: What Trump said about Gaza and how top administration officials contradicted him

President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speak during a news conference in the East Room of the White House, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump talks Gaza takeover and other takeaways from his appearance with Netanyahu

President Donald Trump speaks to reporters as he signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, Jan. 31, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump’s second week in office delivers jolts and chaotic orders with a mix of politics and tragedy

President Donald Trump speaks to reporters as he signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, Jan. 31, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump says he and Putin could do something ‘significant’ toward ending Russia’s war in Ukraine

President Donald Trump holds the document after signing the Laken Riley Act during an event in the East Room of the White House, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

While signing Laken Riley Act, Trump says he’ll send ‘worst criminal aliens’ to Guantanamo

President Donald Trump greets a Marine Corps honor guard as he disembarks Marine One upon arrival on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Monday, Jan. 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)

Trump offering federal workers buyouts with about 8 months’ pay in effort to shrink government

Trump says Microsoft is one of the companies eyeing TikTok