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Senate confirms Trump pick to lead independent Nuclear Regulatory Commission
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The Senate confirmed its first nominee of the week ahead of what is expected to be a jam-packed schedule to ram through as many of President Donald Trump’s picks as possible.
David A. Wright, Trump’s pick to lead the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for a five-year term, was confirmed in the upper chamber on a 50 to 39 vote on Monday. It’s not Wright’s first time as chair of the commission, having first served in the role beginning in 2020.
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President Donald Trump speaks as he welcomes the Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles NFL football team to the South Lawn of the White House, Monday, April 28, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
Trump had previously tapped Wright during his first term, and again selected him to lead the NRC earlier this year. His new term is set to end in 2030.
The NRC is an independent regulatory agency tasked with regulating commercial nuclear power plants, reactor licensing and renewal and other elements related to protecting public health and safety when it comes to nuclear energy. Wright’s confirmation comes on the heels of Trump’s announcement that the U.S. and European Union were entering a trade deal that would see the bloc purchase $750 billion of U.S. energy over the next three years.
While the commission is independent from other arms of the government, Senate Democrats have balked at recent attempts to make the regulatory body, in their view, more partisan.
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Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., leaves the Senate Democrats’ lunch in the Capitol on Tuesday, June 13, 2023. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
Earlier this year, Trump signed an executive order that demanded the agency consider making its safety standards less stringent, shortening the timelines for environmental reviews and a quadrupling of the nation’s nuclear power capacity by 2050: all part of the president’s quest to ensure America’s energy dominance.
Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chair Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.V., argued that over the last seven years that Wright has been a part of the commission, first as a commissioner beginning in 2018 and then as chair, he would fulfill the president’s wishes.
«Achieving this will require experienced and highly qualified Commissioners who are empowered to lead the Agency through a period of high expectations,» she said in a statement. «Well, David Wright meets that mark.»
Then Trump fired a Democratic member of the commission last month, and a staffer from the president’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was reportedly detailed from the Department of Energy to the regulatory agency.
That prompted Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, the top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, to warn of a «hostile takeover» of the commission by the Energy Department.
The move hurt what began as bipartisan support for Wright’s nomination — Whitehouse initially backed him but changed his position.
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The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission logo sits next to the U.S. flag during a meeting at the NRC headquarters in Rockville, Maryland, on Monday, March 21, 2011. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
«I hoped to see Chairman Wright rise to the occasion, but circumstances right now at the NRC continue to deteriorate,» he said in a statement. «I cannot presently support his renomination.»
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Still, Wright’s confirmation is a win for both Senate Republicans and the White House after Trump called on the Senate GOP to ram his nominees through blockades set up by Senate Democrats.
There are now over 140 pending «civilian» nominations for positions across the gauntlet of federal agencies, ambassadorships and judgeships. The Senate has moved at a blistering clip over the last six months to confirm nominees—they’ve clocked nearly 100 so far — the president has called on Senate Republicans to consider canceling the forthcoming August break to get more done.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., warned that if his colleagues across the aisle continued to slow walk the process in the upper chamber for the slew of remaining «uncontroversial» nominees, or be prepared to stick around Washington.
«Or they can rein in their reflexive anti-Trump sentiment and allow some of his rank-and-file nominees to proceed by unanimous consent or voice vote — just as Republicans did when the roles were reversed,» he said. «And I’d remind my colleagues about the dangerous and ugly precedent that they’re setting here. But the choice is theirs. But whether it’s the slow way or the fast way, we’re getting President Trump’s nominees confirmed.»
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President Donald Trump on Tuesday firmed up threats he issued one day prior against Russian President Vladimir Putin and said he had exactly 10 days to enter into a peace deal or face sanctions.
«Ten days from today,» Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One on his trip back from Scotland.
«Then you know we’re going to put on tariffs and stuff,» the president continued. «And I don’t know if it’s going to affect Russia because he wants to, obviously, probably keep the war going.»
President Donald Trump tells press he has reduced the 50-day grace period he gave Russian President Putin to enter into a peace deal during a meeting with Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer at the Trump Turnberry golf course in Turnberry, Scotland Monday, July 28, 2025. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP Photo)
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«But we’re going to put on tariffs and the various things that you put up, it may or may not affect them, but it could,» Trump added.
Trump’s comments highlight some skepticism over whether his threat to levy 100% tariffs and secondary tariffs on third-party nations that purchase Russian oil will do much to impact Putin’s decision calculus when it comes to his war aims in Ukraine.
U.S. purchases from Moscow are already significantly reduced due to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, with U.S. imports from Russia totaling just $3 billion in 2024, down 34.2% from 2023, according to government data.
The figures reportedly represent less than 1% of Russia’s total exports, but what could impact Moscow’s war efforts is the effect of tariffs targeting the $192 billion that Russia profited from foreign oil sales in 2024.
Crude oil tanker SCF Surgut, owned by Russia’s leading tanker group Sovcomflot, transits the Bosphorus in Istanbul, Turkey, April 4, 2024. (Yoruk Isik/Reuters)
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China and India are consistently the top purchasers of Russian oil, and it is highly unlikely they are able to divert their oil needs to other markets in a 10-day time frame.
It is unclear how Trump will enforce the secondary sanctions on China and India, particularly as trade negotiations with both nations remain ongoing.
Despite talks in Stockholm this week with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and his Chinese counterparts, the U.S. has not yet solidified an official trade deal with China.
The U.S. had until Aug. 12 to either extend the tariff pause or see a 145% hike on the prices of all Chinese goods bought in the U.S.
Scott Bessent, US treasury secretary, during a House Ways and Means Committee hearing in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, June 11, 2025. (Eric Lee/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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But with Trump’s latest 10-day deadline to Putin, and by extension, buyers of Russian oil, this date may have just been moved up to Aug. 8.
It remains unclear how the additional threat of 100% secondary sanctions will impact the president’s decision-making when it comes to trade with Beijing.
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Agencias de la ONU pidieron “inundar” Gaza de ayuda alimentaria para evitar una hambruna masiva
Las agencias de la ONU pidieron este martes “inundar” de ayuda alimentaria la Franja de Gaza en forma inmediata y sin obstáculos para “evitar una hambruna masiva”. En tanto, el Ministerio de Salud local, en manos de Hamas, anunció que la guerra con Israel ya mató a más de 60.000 personas.
Israel anunció ceses parciales de los combates durante el día y autorizó la entrada de camiones con ayuda, pero organizaciones internacionales consideran que estos permisos son insuficientes fnte a las necesidades de la población, sometida a casi dos meses de bloqueo.
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“Necesitamos inundar Gaza con ayuda alimentaria a gran escala, de forma inmediata y sin obstáculos, y mantenerla todos los días para evitar la hambruna masiva”, afirmó la directora del Programa Mundial de Alimentos (PMA), Cindy McCain, en una declaración conjunta con Unicef y la Organización de la ONU para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO).
Doce niños murieron en bombardeos israelíes, según la Defensa Civil palestina
Pese a la pausa de los combates, la Defensa Civil gazatí, controlada por el movimiento islámico, reportó este martes 30 muertos, incluidos 12 niños, en bombardeos israelíes durante la noche, en el campo de refugiados de Nuseirat, en el centro de Gaza.
“No escuchamos el ruido del misil y, de repente, la casa se desmoronó. Los cuerpos volaban y la gente gritaba”, contó entre las ruinas Um Saleh Badr, una mujer palestina. “No queremos ayuda, queremos estar en paz. No quiero ser la madre, la hermana o la esposa de un mártir”, dijo. Un palestino observa la destrucción en Nuseirat, una zona de Gaza bombardeada por Israel (Foto: Reuters)
La Clasificación Integrada de la Seguridad Alimentaria (IPC), que cuenta con el respaldo de la ONU y varias organizaciones humanitarias, afirmó que la crisis en este territorio de 365 km2 donde viven cerca de dos millones de palestinos, alcanzó “un punto alarmante y mortal”.
“Más de 20.000 niños han sido atendidos por desnutrición aguda entre abril y mediados de julio” y los hospitales reportaron al menos 16 muertes de niños menores de cinco años desde el 17 de julio, agregó el informe de este organismo.
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El Programa Mundial de Alimentos de la ONU afirmó este martes que la crisis en Gaza recuerda a las hambrunas vistas en Etiopía y Biafra, Nigeria, en el siglo XX, y “no se parece a nada que hayamos visto en este siglo”.
Israel acusa a Hamas de saquear la ayuda humanitaria: la reacción europea
La oficina del primer ministro israelí, Benjamin Netanyahu, acusó a Hamas de falsificar los balances y saquear la ayuda alimentaria.
“Ya permitimos que cada día entren en Gaza importantes cantidades de ayuda humanitaria (…) Por desgracia, Hamas (…) ha robado la ayuda destinada a la población, a menudo disparando contra palestinos”, declaró.
Por otra parte, el informe de IPC aseguró que el lanzamiento aéreo de víveres recientemente autorizado por Israel “no será suficiente para revertir la catástrofe humanitaria”.
Israel dijo que el lunes más de 200 camiones de ayuda fueron distribuidos por la ONU y agencias humanitarias. Además, otros 260 camiones fueron autorizados a cruzar a Gaza, cuatro tanques de la ONU trajeron combustible y 20 palés de ayuda fueron lanzados desde aviones jordanos y emiratíes, según la misma fuente.
Reino Unido realizó este martes sus primeros lanzamientos de ayuda “por valor de alrededor de medio millón de libras” (unos 667.000 dólares).
El primer ministro británico, Keir Starmer, declaró que su país reconocerá al Estado de Palestina en septiembre, a menos que Israel adopte diversas “medidas sustanciales” en Gaza, incluido el acuerdo de un alto el fuego.
Alemania, Francia y Reino Unido podrían enviar la próxima semana a sus ministros de Relaciones Exteriores a Israel, según anunció el jefe del gobierno alemán, Friedrich Merz.
“Partimos de la base de que el gobierno israelí está totalmente dispuesto a reconocer que ahora hay que actuar”, afirmó.
(Con información de AFP)
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