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The U.S. and Ukraine have signed a deal to share profits from Ukraine's critical minerals.
The arrangement gives the Trump administration an incentive to keep investing in Ukraine's defense against Russia and in its reconstruction.
President Trump has been demanding the deal.
And we made a deal where our money is secure,
where we can start digging and doing what we have to do.
It's also good for them because you'll have an American presence at the site,
Chris, and the American presence will,
I think,
keep a lot of bad actors out of the country or certainly out of the area where we're doing the digging.
But the agreement does not provide explicit U.S. security guarantees that Ukraine has been demanding.
Money from the investment fund can be used to pay for new military aid to Ukraine.
A U.S. government office that's designed to unite two agencies appears to have been a casualty of the effort to eliminate federal jobs.
And Pierce Camilla Dominovsky reports staffers who work there say that after a second round of encouraged resignations,