The Latest: Trump holds Cabinet meeting after weak GDP report [Video]

President Donald Trump and his Cabinet spent the better part of their meeting touting the administration’s record on everything from immigration to the economy.

But the president also got worrisome news Wednesday: The U.S. economy shrank at a 0.3% annual pace from January through March, the first drop in three years. It was slowed by a surge in imports as companies in the United States tried to bring in foreign goods before Trump imposed massive tariffs.

Here’s the latest:

Canada’s Carney to visit White House soon

Mark Carney, the newly elected prime minister of Canada, will come to the White House “within the next week or less,” the U.S. president says.

Trump called Carney a “very nice gentleman” who, on their phone call Tuesday, “couldn’t have been nicer.”

The president mused that both candidates in the race — Carney and Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre — “hated Trump” and that the conservative figure “hated me more.”

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