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Sky News AU
05-07-2025
- Automotive
- Sky News AU
‘Relatively cohesive': Donald Trump's ‘Big Beautiful Bill' will ‘reindustrialise the US'
United States Studies Centre Honorary Associate Harry Melkonian says US President Donald Trump's Big Beautiful Bill is 'relatively cohesive' with plans to 'reindustrialise the US'. 'This bill is so complex, they've taken away the special tax breaks for buying electric cars, but they have now granted deductions for auto loans for the purchase of any automobile that's made in the US,' Dr Melkonian told Sky News Australia. 'It's all relatively cohesive with his plan to reindustrialise the US.'

Sky News AU
05-07-2025
- Politics
- Sky News AU
‘Enormous win': Donald Trump's Big Beautiful Bill analysed
United States Studies Centre Honorary Associate Harry Melkonian says it's a 'very big day' for US President Donald Trump amid the recent passing of the Big Beautiful Bill. 'It's been a very big day for Donald Trump and his team with their very big bill,' Dr Melkonian told Sky News Australia. 'It's an enormous win for the US President because he's basically done something, he's enacted his entire legislative program for four years in one bill, while he has a congressional majority.'

Sky News AU
05-07-2025
- Politics
- Sky News AU
Trump and Putin are doing a ‘two-step' with each other amid Russia-Ukraine War
United States Studies Centre Honorary Associate Harry Melkonian says US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin are doing a 'two-step' with each other amid the Russia-Ukraine war. 'If Trump is riding, let's say, riding high – I think that's all very possible,' Dr Melkonian told Sky News Australia. 'A lot is going to depend on what's happening in the Ukraine and the Middle East. 'Trump and Putin are doing a two-step with each other … I think the US is going to end up sending a lot more arms into the Ukraine.'