{"id":984,"date":"2025-04-27T18:45:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T18:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/?p=984"},"modified":"2025-04-28T11:26:30","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T11:26:30","slug":"live-updates-peace-talks-continue-in-ukraine-russia-war-congress-tries-to-pass-trumps-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/27\/live-updates-peace-talks-continue-in-ukraine-russia-war-congress-tries-to-pass-trumps-agenda\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates: Peace talks continue in Ukraine-Russia war; Congress tries to pass Trump’s agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"

The United States continues to facilitate peace negotiation discussions<\/a> between Russia and Ukraine, but top U.S. officials, including\u00a0President Trump, warned that if substantial progress is not achieved soon, Washington will pull back from its mediating role.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Trump said Russia\u2019s President\u00a0Vladimir Putin\u00a0might not want to achieve peace in Eastern Europe after all, following a series of Kremlin\u00a0strikes<\/a>\u00a0on Ukrainian cities in recent days.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The president met briefly with Ukrainian President\u00a0Volodymyr Zelensky\u00a0ahead of Pope Francis\u2019s funeral in Rome on Saturday, with Kyiv\u2019s leader\u00a0touting it as a<\/a> \u201cgood\u201d and \u201csymbolic\u201d discussion.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Secretary of State\u00a0Marco Rubio\u00a0said Sunday on “Meet the Press” that the \u201conly solution\u201d<\/a> for the war in Ukraine is a negotiation where both Russia and Ukraine \u201cgive up something.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no military solution to this war,\u201d Rubio told NBC News\u2019s\u00a0Kristen Welker. \u201cThe only solution to this war is a negotiated settlement where both sides are going to have to give up something they claim to want, and are going to have to give the other side something they wish they didn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Senate Minority Leader\u00a0Chuck Schumer\u00a0(D-N.Y.) joined CNN\u2019s \u201cState of the Union\u201d on Sunday and said he has\u00a0a \u201cgreat fear\u201d that\u00a0Trump\u00a0will \u201ccave\u201d to Putin\u00a0to end the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n

Plus, members of Congress are returning to Washington on Monday after recess to continue their push to pass Trump\u2019s legislative agenda.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The package would include $9.3 billion in cuts already approved by Congress to NPR, PBS and the State Department, Punchbowl News\u00a0reported, citing multiple sources familiar<\/a> with the matter.<\/p>\n

Lawmakers will also look to extend Trump\u2019s 2017 tax cuts while increasing spending on defense and border security through the reconciliation process.\u00a0Several lawmakers, including Schumer and Sen.\u00a0Bernie Sanders\u00a0(I-Vt.), as well as Reps.\u00a0Jason Smith\u00a0(R-Mo.) and Yassamin Ansari (D-Ariz.), are slated to make appearances on the Sunday shows.<\/p>\n

Read the full Sunday show list here<\/a> and follow below for today’s updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The United States continues to facilitate peace negotiation discussions between Russia and Ukraine, but top U.S. officials, including\u00a0President Trump, warned that if substantial progress is not achieved soon, Washington will pull back from its mediating role.\u00a0 Trump said Russia\u2019s President\u00a0Vladimir Putin\u00a0might not want to achieve peace in Eastern Europe after all, following a series of Kremlin\u00a0strikes\u00a0on Ukrainian cities in recent days.\u00a0 The president met briefly with Ukrainian President\u00a0Volodymyr Zelensky\u00a0ahead of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":986,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":985,"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984\/revisions\/985"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}