Emily Tamkin is a foreign affairs reporter for BuzzFeed News and is based in Washington, D.C.
Such a trip, if it happens, could be an effort to signal that the Trump administration is looking to shore up its relationships with countries that aren't at odds with the EU.
Wess Mitchell was considered responsible for outreach to Hungary and for a tough line on Russia.
“The one thing that kind of enables these trips to go forward is that they are done as a surprise visit.”
“I actually don’t know how it’s gonna go. What I do know is we’re gonna have a debate.”
“If we were in our office doing our work then maybe those people wouldn’t need to be coming up to the border.”
“He’s got that resource available to him. He might as well use it.”
But few others are.
A State Department official said they “expressed our concern” about the delay.
Trump was going to counter Iran's influence in two places, Yemen and Syria. That's now not likely to happen.
People worried that the Trump administration is building a case for war with Iran say only Congress can stop the war drums’ beat.
Trump, however, insisted later in the day that they weren't laughing at him, saying, "People had a good time with me. We were doing it together, we had a good time."
The story of Soros the man is well known, though perhaps not quite as well known as that of Soros the myth.
A Wall Street Journal column criticizing "career staff" for getting in the way of aid to Christians in Iraq was published on a Thursday. Maria Longi lost her job on Friday.
“The one thing that kind of enables these trips to go forward is that they are done as a surprise visit.”
The Russian president didn’t need concrete deliverables to come out of the meeting looking like a success.
The Journal of the American Medical Association published letters today critical of a study it published six months ago claiming that US diplomats in Cuba had suffered brain injuries.
“The Dominican Republic in a way foretold what was to happen in other countries. Even the United States.”
The plan involved aid to Central America and a program to screen vulnerable children there. Trump not only reduced the aid, he killed part of the screening program.
Russian state media portrayed the meetings, coming days before President Trump's planned summit with Putin next week, as good news for Russia.
With her resignation Tuesday, Nikki Haley draws her two-year stint as US ambassador to the UN to a close.