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Scoop: Trump issues veto threat on tariff bill — President Trump would veto the legislation introduced by Sens. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) and Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) that would limit the president's authority to unilaterally impose tariffs, according to a White House statement seen by Axios.
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Live Updates: Wall Street Slumps Further as Trump Defends His Tariffs — The S&P 500 tumbled, entering bear market territory, after more losses in Asia and Europe. President Trump said he would not back off his trade war, reinforcing fears of a global economic downturn. — Here's the latest.
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UAW President Shawn Fain explains why he supports Trump's tariffs — President Trump's announcements on tariffs have dismayed many of his erstwhile supporters on Wall Street. The suddenness — and steepness — of the tariffs announced last Wednesday prompted some global manufacturers …
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House will give Trump ‘space’ on tariffs, Johnson says — Speaker Mike Johnson said Monday that the House will provide President Donald Trump with “space” to carry out his massive global tariff regime, even as some GOP lawmakers openly plead with Trump to negotiate off-ramps before the levies kick in on Wednesday.


Bessent: Federal layoffs will help fill factory jobs created by Trump tariffs
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Trump's tariffs insanity begins to fracture the MAGA cult
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Donald Trump's tariffs will fix a broken system
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Why Trump's Tariff Math Is a Joke
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CEA Chairman Steve Miran Hudson Institute Event Remarks
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Transcript: Trump Voters Suddenly Shocked at How Badly He Screwed Them
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7 GOP senators sign on to bill to check Trump's trade authority
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Trump Created an Economic Sinkhole. He Doesn't Care
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Trump threatens additional tariffs on China, terminates talks
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Trump asks Supreme Court to block judge's order requiring US to bring back man who was wrongly deported — The Trump administration has described Abrego Garcia's deportation both as an “administrative error” and a “clerical error.” — The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court …
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Supreme Court briefly pauses order to return deportee from El Salvador — Judge Paula Xinis gave the Trump administration until midnight Monday to return Kilmar Abrego García, who was deported despite a court order forbidding it.
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Trump asks Supreme Court to block order requiring US to bring back man mistakenly deported to El Salvador
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‘This is a Path of Perfect Lawlessness’: Court Condemns Trump Over Wrongful Deportation
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Trump tariffs, corporations cower — During the Biden administration, corporate executives regularly expressed their displeasure with policies they opposed. Amazon chairman Jeff Bezos, for example, blasted the Biden administration in May 2022 for excessive stimulus spending, which he blamed for inflation.
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‘This is the Trump recession,’ CEOs say, with tariff price increases, job losses coming: CNBC survey
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US Justice Dept mobilized armed Marshals to warn ex-lawyer over congressional testimony, letter shows — The U.S. Justice Department sent armed U.S. Marshals to deliver a letter warning a fired career pardon attorney about testifying to congressional Democrats, her lawyer said in a letter seen by Reuters on Monday.
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How an errant headline about a tariffs ‘pause’ briefly sent stocks soaring — Social media ran with a false claim that Trump was considering a pause on most tariffs, sending stocks on a roller-coaster ride in just a few minutes. — An unfounded claim that President Donald Trump …
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RFK's Anti-Vax Flock Turns on Him — RFK's biggest fans turn on him — For vaccine opponents, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s appointment as secretary of health and human services represented something close to nirvana. It was a chance, finally, to take on Big Pharma and to bring …
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RFK Jr. visits Texas after second child dies of measles amid outbreak
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Ex-official says he was forced out of FDA after trying to protect vaccine safety data from RFK Jr.
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EU Commission proposes 25% counter-tariffs on some US imports, document shows — The European Union flag pattern with the word “tariffs” is seen in this illustration taken April 7, 2025. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration Purchase Licensing Rights — The European Commission proposed counter-tariffs …
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In Response to Trump, E.U. Prepares to Vote on Retaliatory Tariffs
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After President Donald Trump's tariff announcements on April 2 wiped $5 trillion dollars from the stock market, the Republican Party is scrambling. — Farmers, who were a part of Trump's base, are “struck and shocked” by the tariffs, the president of the South Dakota Farmers Union told Lauren Scott …
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Trump Plans $92 Million Military Parade—Honoring Himself — Donald Trump may finally get his long-desired military parade through the streets of Washington. — The Washington City Paper, citing an unnamed D.C. source, reports that the president has chosen June 14, 2025 …
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Trump Orders Four Mile Military Parade for His 79th Birthday
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Social Security website keeps crashing, as DOGE demands cuts to IT staff — The worsening problems come as Elon Musk's DOGE team pushes for more cuts at the agency, including in the department that oversees the website. — Retirees and disabled people are facing chronic website outages …
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Exclusive: US admiral at NATO fired in expanding national security purge — U.S. Navy Vice Admiral Shoshana Chatfield, who holds a senior position in NATO, has been fired as part of what appears to be an expanding national security purge of top officials by the Trump administration, three sources told Reuters on Monday.
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‘Wi-Fi Keeps Going Down’: Donald Trump's Return-to-Office Mandate Is Going Terribly — Dozens of federal employees tell WIRED the return-to-office order has resulted in widespread chaos, plummeting productivity, and significantly reduced services to the public.


I Should Have Seen This Coming — When I joined the conservative movement in the 1980s, there were two types of people: those who cared earnestly about ideas, and those who wanted only to shock the left. The reactionary fringe has won. — Listen to more stories on Hark
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Scoop: Schatz expands holds to more than 300 Trump nominees — Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) is expanding his holds on President Trump's nominees to include an additional 50 names — along with a batch of bipartisan foreign affairs bills, Axios has learned. — Why it matters …
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Bluesky Can't Take a Joke — Bluesky has been a safe haven for users fleeing X and Threads. But while there's less hate, there's also fewer lolz. — Amy Brown was not screaming. She was not crying. She was not throwing up. — But on Bluesky she said that she was doing all three, simultaneously.
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Peter Navarro says Vietnam's 0% tariff offer is not enough: 'It's the nontariff cheating that matters' — WATCH NOW — White House trade advisor Peter Navarro said Monday that an offer by Vietnam to eliminate tariffs on U.S. imports would not be enough for the administration to lift its new levies announced last week.
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US bishops halt partnerships with federal government on aid programs, citing funding cuts — The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops announced Monday that it is ending a half-century of partnerships with the federal government to serve refugees and children, saying the “heartbreaking” …
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Harriet Tubman reference removed from National Parks' Underground Railroad web page — The National Parks Service (NPS) has removed a reference to abolitionist Harriet Tubman from its webpage dedicated to the Underground Railroad. — For years, the Parks' page on the Underground Railroad featured a prominent photo of Tubman.
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Political Styles of the Rich and Clueless — As we wait to see what fresh hell awaits us this week, one obvious question is, who put these malevolent clowns in power? — The short answer is ignorant people. But political ignorance takes two different forms.