President Donald Trump meets with U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer in Washington, and Rep. Byron Donalds of Florida announces a plan to take down the CFPB.

Trump sits down with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer amid his push to end the war in Ukraine

During a meeting Thursday with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer at the White House, President Donald Trump said he didn't think Russian President Vladimir Putin would violate his word on a potential deal to end the war in Ukraine.

After hosting France’s Emmanuel Macron on Monday, Starmer’s visit marks Trump’s second Oval Office sit-down with a European leader this week as the U.S. president pushes for a swift end to the fighting in Ukraine

It follows the sudden huddling of European leaders in Paris last week after Trump administration officials met with Russian counterparts in Saudi Arabia about the war without Ukrainian or European representation at the table. Trump’s relationship with Putin has added to the uneasiness for European leaders. 

“Trust and verify,” Trump said regarding the Russian leader. 

Starmer is looking to convince Trump that some level of security guarantees from the U.S. for Ukraine must be a part of an agreement to bring an end to the fighting. But such an argument will come in the face of deep reluctance expressed by Trump, who just a day before Starmer’s visit told reporters he would not be offering security guarantees to Ukraine “beyond very much,” calling on European nations to do so instead.

Following last week’s meeting in Paris, the U.K. leader noted he was prepared to consider putting British forces on the ground in Ukraine — as has France — as part of a deal for “lasting peace,” but made clear some kind of commitment from the U.S. had to come alongside it. 

“There must be a U.S. backstop, because a U.S. security guarantee is the only way to effectively deter Russia from attacking Ukraine again,” Starmer said in an address. 

Adding to the apparently somewhat askew approaches to the war, this week the U.S. did not back a resolution at the United Nations placing blame for the war on Russia. 

Starmer’s visit comes one day before Trump is set to host his third European leader this week when Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy makes the trip to the White House on Friday, potentially to sign an agreement with the U.S. on critical minerals as part of the U.S. president’s push to end the war. 

Donalds announces plan to take down the CFPB

Rep. Byron Donalds is bringing back legislation that would eliminate the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

That’s the agency that’s tasked with holding companies accountable and protecting Americans from deceptive and abusive financial practices.

In a statement, Donalds accused the agency of being “a left-wing tool to stifle domestic economic growth, target political opponents, and prevent the development of competition.”

The CFPB was created under President Barack Obama based on a proposal from Sen. Elizabeth Warren that she made before she was elected to congress.

“An attack on the CFPB is an attack on working people, and a gift to giant corporations that try to cheat them,” Warren said of the plan.