MONDAY VOTE: The Senate is now poised to take up the $716 billion National Defense Authorization Act early next week after an initial objection by Sen. Pat Toomey triggered a time-consuming procedural delay. The chamber, earning its reputation as a slow-paced deliberative body, took an initial vote Thursday to end other debate and will take a second vote to proceed with the 2019 policy bill at 5:30 p.m. on Monday.

HAPPENING TODAY: Trump heads to Canada this morning for a meeting of the Group of Seven leading industrial nations, but he doesn’t plan to stick around long. The White House announced last night Trump will be leaving the summit tomorrow morning, hours ahead of its scheduled conclusion, and heading straight to Singapore for his June 12 meeting with Kim Jong Un.

The decision came just hours after Trump sparred with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and French President Emmanuel Macron on Twitter over the tariffs Trump has imposed on the European Union, Mexico and Canada.

TRUMP TWEETING THIS MORNING: “Looking forward to straightening out unfair Trade Deals with the G-7 countries. If it doesn’t happen, we come out even better!” Trump tweeted to start the day. “Canada charges the U.S. a 270% tariff on Dairy Products! They didn’t tell you that, did they? Not fair to our farmers!”

NATIONAL SECURITY: Trudeau has bristled at the suggestion that the tariffs are necessary to protect the national security of the U.S. and he has an ally in Republican Sen. Jeff Flake, a prominent Trump critic.

On CNN yesterday, Flake accused Trump of invoking national security “simply because that’s an area of the act that you can go to without congressional approval.”

“The Constitution gives Congress the primary role in regulating trade and certainly tariffs, not the president,” Flake said. “So the president is using an exemption that was never intended for that purpose.”

Flake is backing a bill that would curb the president’s ability to impose tariffs without congressional approval. It’s sponsored by Sen. Bob Corker, who is also a Trump critic, and like Flake is not running for reelection. “I think there are about a dozen senators, some of whom are up for re-election this time or certainly will be in 2020 who are standing up and saying, we are asserting our congressional prerogative,” Flake said.

But Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell says the effort is a waste of time. “I don’t think we need to be trying to rein in the president through legislation,” McConnell said in a SiriusXM radio interview. “Number one, it’d be an exercise in futility because he wouldn’t sign it.”

TRUMP TO WING IT IN SINGAPORE: Trump says he doesn’t need any more preparation for next week’s summit with Kim, insisting the most important factor will be the “attitude” of both leaders.

“I think I’m very well prepared. I don’t think I have to prepare too much,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office yesterday at the top of a meeting with Japanese President Shinzo Abe. “This isn’t a question of preparation. It is a question of whether or not people want it to happen, and we’ll know that very quickly.

“It’s about attitude. It’s about willingness to get things done,” Trump said. “This will not be just a photo op. This will be, at a minimum, we’ll start with perhaps a good relationship, and that’s something that’s very important toward the ultimate making of a deal. I’d love to say it could happen in one deal, and maybe it can. They have to denuke. If they don’t denuclearize, that will not be acceptable. We cannot take sanctions off. The sanctions are extraordinarily powerful.”

AND IF IT FALLS APART: Trump plans to impose “over 300 massive … sanctions” on North Korea if Kim doesn’t show a sincere desire to advance the cause of peace and denuclearization. “We have a list of over 300 massive, in some cases, sanctions to put on North Korea, and I’ve decided to hold that until we can make a deal,” Trump said.

KIM TO DC? Trump said Thursday that he will invite Kim to the United States if the two leaders have a successful summit next week in Singapore. “The answer is ‘yes’ to the second part of your question,” Trump told a journalist who asked if he would invite Kim to the U.S. if the meeting goes well.

EYES WIDE OPEN: “President Trump is hopeful, but he’s also going into the summit with his eyes wide open,” said Secretary of State Mike Pompeo yesterday. “We’ve seen how many inadequate agreements have been struck in the past. And you can be sure that President Trump will not stand for a bad deal.

“The United States has been clear, time and time again, that complete, verifiable, and irreversible denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula is the only outcome that we will find acceptable,” he said.

POMPEO-BOLTON RIFT, ‘GOOD FICTION’: Pompeo is dismissing reports that he butted heads with national security adviser John Bolton over who has the ear of the president regarding North Korea.

“Ambassador Bolton and I will disagree with great, great consistency over time, I’m confident. Right? We’re two individuals,” Pompeo said at yesterday’s White House briefing. But as for reports that Pompeo is freezing Bolton out of North Korea policy: “I love good fiction as much as the next person, but it is without foundation, so much so that — I’ll be polite, since I’m a diplomat now. Suffice to say, those articles are unfounded and a complete joke,” Pompeo said.

STAY WITH US: The Washington Examiner’s Gabby Morrongiello will be covering the Trump-Kim summit from Singapore. Check back here for updates throughout the weekend.

AFGHANISTAN’S UNILATERAL CEASE-FIRE: Still no word from the Taliban as to whether it will respect the unilateral temporary cease-fire announced yesterday by Afghan President Ashraf Ghani to mark the end of the Ramadan fasting month Eid.

The U.S. military says it will honor the cease-fire, which is set to begin June 12 and last a week, but will continue counterterrorism operations targeting the Islamic State, al Qaeda, and other groups. In an interview with NPR this morning, U.S. Afghanistan commander Gen. John Nicholson called the initiative from the Afghan government a reflection of the “strong desire for peace” by the people of Afghanistan.

At the State Department yesterday, the cease-fire was portrayed as another chance for the Taliban to choose peace. “They have an opportunity here to respond to calls from a wide cross-section of Afghans asking for a reduction in violence,” said a senior diplomat in a conference call with reporters. “Obviously, it would be better in the long term if a cease-fire stemmed from a negotiated political settlement, but a temporary cease-fire for an Eid certainly doesn’t preclude that possibility down the road and hopefully helps contribute to realizing that objective.”

COUNTER ISIS OPS IN SYRIA: The U.S.-led counter-ISIS coalition announced this morning that its “partner forces” have killed seven ISIS terrorists in southern Syria on Monday. The engagement occurred inside the southern Syria de-confliction zone near At Tanf.

“Members of the Coalition-supported Maghawir al-Thawra intercepted a vehicle attempting to bypass a security checkpoint. The vehicle occupants, identified as [ISIS], attempted to flee and fired weapons at Coalition partners,” according to a statement released this morning. “At least one Daesh member self-detonated his suicide vest during the ensuing exchange of fire. Seven Daesh terrorists were killed and there were no Coalition or partner casualties.”

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