The Trump administration has lowered the bar for a deal with the university, backtracking on its insistence on a $200 million payment to the government, The New York Times has learned.
Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, brokered the call and President Trump directly questioned frontline agents on the inquiry, The Times has learned.
The ruling pauses the Trump administration’s plan to end a program that has allowed more than 330,000 people from Haiti to remain in the United States.
Some hard-line House Republicans have balked at the agreement Senate Democrats struck with President Trump to fund the government, complicating its path to enactment.
President Trump’s Middle East envoy and his son-in-law were expected to meet Iran’s foreign minister in Istanbul on Friday amid tensions between the countries.