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Trump Participates in a Cabinet Meeting, May 27, 2026

May 27, 2026 · The White House · 1:19:54

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What happened

President Donald Trump held a cabinet meeting at the White House on May 27, 2026, with the press in the room — “the 12th cabinet meeting of our administration,” he said, adding that no administration had ever opened its cabinet meetings to the press this way. His headline claims were on the border and crime: “We had no people 12 months now… Zero illegal aliens admitted to the United States in the last 12 months,” and “in 2025 we achieved the largest drop in the murder rate ever recorded… to the lowest level in 125 years.”

The President ranged across the record he is running on: drug prices brought down through the most-favored-nation program, with “nearly 1,000 low-cost generics” added via TrumpRx as he described it with Secretary Kennedy and Dr. Oz’s work credited; “the largest ever investment in US military, $1 trillion,” with “$1.5 trillion” being asked for the coming year; Iran “negotiating on fumes” while its navy and air force are, as he put it, gone; and the Vice President’s fraud task force “finding billions and billions and billions of dollars” in stolen benefit funds.

Why it matters

The open-press cabinet meeting is this administration’s recurring self-assessment, and the May 27 edition fixes the mid-2026 version of its core claims — border admissions at zero for twelve months, the murder-rate record, and the fraud task force’s scale — in the President’s own words, on the Elections & Governance hub where the midterm-year record is tracked.

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The twelve-month zero-admissions claim and the 125-year murder-rate low are dated, checkable claims as stated by the President, to be tracked against CBP release data and FBI crime statistics as they publish; the $1.5 trillion defense request is checkable against the budget submission.

Sources: The White House, “President Trump Participates in a Cabinet Meeting, May 27, 2026,” The White House, May 27, 2026 (official upload, embedded above). All figures and characterizations as stated by the President at the meeting.