Francesca Chambers
@fran_chambers
White House Correspondent @USATODAY covering foreign policy & President Trump. If they've run for president, I've probably covered them. Rock Chalk, Jayhawk.
Ukraine latest: Trump offers Putin an ultimatum, as Senate pressure builds to sanction Russia ⬇️ usatoday.com/story/news/wor…
Former Trump national security adviser Michael Waltz will get a grilling from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee today. The expectation is Waltz will be confirmed as US ambassador to the UN. Still, it's an opportunity for Dems to ask him about Signal. usatoday.com/story/news/pol…
"Trump offers Putin an ultimatum, as Senate pressure builds to sanction Russia." (via @fran_chambers) azcentral.com/story/news/wor…
"Trump to send Ukraine weapons through NATO, threatens secondary tariffs on Russia." (via @zacjanderson and @fran_chambers) azcentral.com/story/news/pol…
Today on #FoxNewsSunday with @ShannonBream ▶️@Sec_Noem ▶️@SenTomCotton ▶️@RepChipRoy ▶️@AndrewCMcCarthy ▶️@marcthiessen ▶️@fran_chambers ▶️@JoshKraushaar ▶️@TheJuanWilliams ▶️@Brooketaylortv ▶️@AlexisMcAdamsTV foxnews.com/transcript/fox…
🆕This afternoon I sat down with NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang in Washington. We talked about his meeting yesterday at the White House with President Donald Trump, tariffs and his company's record stock valuation. Read about it @USATODAY: usatoday.com/story/news/pol…
🗞️Within 24 hours, President Trump ... -- accused Putin of throwing "bulls**t" his way -- said he'd be looking "very strongly" at sanctions legislation -- overturned a Pentagon decision to withhold some weapons from Ukraine usatoday.com/story/news/wor…
Trump, Netanyahu look to relocate Palestinians voluntarily from Gaza to other countries usatoday.com/story/news/pol…
"Trump says 25% tariffs coming for Japan and South Korea as trade war escalates again." (via @fran_chambers and @zacjanderson) azcentral.com/story/news/pol…
Good question on if @POTUS respects Parliamentarian on the Big Beautiful Bill, @fran_chambers Trump: “Parliamentarian’s been a little difficult.”
USA TODAY reporters called Social Security's 1-800 line multiple times over several days and found the wait times to be consistently over an hour. Multiple times they did not reach a live person before the line disconnected with no warning. usatoday.com/story/news/pol…
President Trump said the U.S. and China "signed" a deal this week. An official said he was referring to an additional understanding around the framework the two countries previously agreed on. Specifically, how they can expedite rare earths shipments to the U.S. again.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Pete Hegseth chatting ahead of President Trump's tax bill event in the East Room.

President Trump, who has been very active on social media while flying back to Washington after the NATO Summit, says Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, who was with him in The Hague, will be holding an 8 am news conference on the leaked DIA report on U.S. airstrikes on Iran.
🆕️ Laggard American allies were finally giving Donald Trump the increase in defense spending he'd long wanted, but the U.S. president was in no mood to celebrate on the way to #NATO. His mind was on a Middle East crisis he thought he solved last night. usatoday.com/story/news/wor…
President Trump says he is very unhappy with Israel: “Israel, as soon as we made the deal, they came out and they dropped a load of bombs, the likes of which I've never seen before. The biggest load that we've seen. I'm not happy with Israel. You know what? When I say, Okay,…
President Trump, en route to the NATO summit this morning, said both Israel and Iran violated the ceasefire, but emphasized he is really unhappy with Israel.
🆕Trump says Iran's nuclear sites were 'obliterated.' Were they? usatoday.com/story/news/wor… via @usatoday
President Donald Trump said in a live address to the nation that the U.S. had achieved a "spectacular military success" in bombing three Iranian nuclear sites. “Iran, the bully of the Middle East, must now make peace,” he said. “If they do not, future attacks will be far greater…