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6:40 PM ET, April 7, 2025

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Peter Navarro / Financial Times:
Donald Trump's tariffs will fix a broken system  —  Next we must tackle the barrage of non-tariff weapons used to strangle American exports  —  The writer is President Trump's senior counsellor for trade and manufacturing  —  The international trade system is broken — and Donald Trump's reciprocal tariff doctrine will fix it.
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Axios:
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.
New York Times:
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.
CNBC:
Trump threatens new 50% tariffs on China if Beijing doesn't remove retaliatory duties: Live updates … WATCH NOW … CNBC's reporters are covering the tariffs and their effects, live on air and online from our bureaus in Washington; London; Singapore; San Francisco; and Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey.
Jesse Pound / CNBC:
Peter Navarro says Vietnam's 0% tariff offer is not enough: 'It's the nontariff cheating that matters'
Politico:
Brussels eyes 25 percent tariffs in response to Trump
Discussion: Wausau
Aaron Parnas / MeidasTouch News:   European Union Slaps 25% Tariffs On United States In Retaliation
Politico:
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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Washington Post:
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.
Greg Stohr / Bloomberg:
Chief Justice Pauses Order to Return Wrongfully Deported Man  —  The US chief justice temporarily paused an order requiring President Donald Trump's administration to bring back a Maryland man who immigration officials conceded was wrongly deported to a notorious prison in his native El Salvador.
CNN:
Trump asks Supreme Court to block order requiring US to bring back man mistakenly deported to El Salvador
Jacob Knutson / Democracy Docket:
‘This is a Path of Perfect Lawlessness’: Court Condemns Trump Over Wrongful Deportation
Discussion: Law & Crime
Noah Berlatsky / Public Notice:
Trump's tariffs insanity begins to fracture the MAGA cult  —  🏌️ With corporate outlets obeying in advance, supporting independent political media is more important right now than ever.  Public Notice is possible thanks to paid subscribers.  If you aren't one already …
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
7 GOP senators sign on to bill to check Trump's trade authority
Discussion: Washington Examiner and Reason
Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
After President Donald Trump's tariff announcements on April 2 wiped $5 trillion dollars …
Discussion: Axios
New Republic:
Transcript: Trump Voters Suddenly Shocked at How Badly He Screwed Them
Discussion: Raw Story
CNN:
How actual ‘fake news’ caused a market whiplash  —  New York CNN —  An errant post on X may have just shaken the stock market, showing how influential — and unreliable — the social media platform can be.  —  Unsourced “headlines” about a potential “90-day pause in tariffs” …
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Ben Berkowitz / Axios:
Markets lurch on false Trump tariff pause report
Discussion: Deseret News and Wausau
Will Sommer / The Bulwark:
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 …
Discussion: STAT, Ars Technica and Politico
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Washington Post:
RFK Jr. visits Texas after second child dies of measles amid outbreak
Hafiz Rashid / New Republic:
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 …
Discussion: The Post Millennial and Raw Story
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Lauren Lewis / The Daily Beast:   Trump Orders Four Mile Military Parade for His 79th Birthday
Tom Sherwood / Washington City Paper:
Trump Will Get His Showy (And Likely Expensive) Military Parade in D.C.
David Goldman / CNN:
Jamie Dimon sounds the alarm bell on tariffs  —  JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon has issued a blunt warning about President Donald Trump's tariff policy: It threatens to raise prices, drive the global economy into a downturn and weaken America's standing in the world.
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Judd Legum / Popular Information:   Trump tariffs, corporations cower
Sarah N. Lynch / Reuters:
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.
Axios:
Trump says U.S. holding nuclear talks with Iran in surprise announcement  —  President Trump said Monday that the U.S. had been holding “direct talks” with Iran and that a “very big meeting” involving “very high-level” officials will be taking place this Saturday.
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Stephen Neukam / Axios:
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 …
Washington Post:
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 …
Reuters:
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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Politico:
Trump fires a top US military official to NATO
Discussion: VINnews
Anastasia Edel / The Atlantic:
Why America's Oligarchs May Regret Their Obedience  —  Putin's Russia shows what happens when billionaire businessmen choose to back a strongman.  —  When tech billionaires and crypto moguls hailed Donald Trump's reelection and flocked to his inauguration ceremony and ball …
Steve Inskeep / NPR:
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 …
Adam Edelman / NBC News:
N.C. Supreme Court halts decision requiring verification of 65,000 votes in tight judicial race  —  The order temporarily pauses a ruling that had the potential to tip the results of a North Carolina Supreme Court race that the Democratic candidate currently leads by 734 votes.
Peter Smith / Associated Press:
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” …
Ashwin Rodrigues / Wired:
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.
Discussion: New Yorker
Supreme Court of the United States:
PROCEEDINGS AND ORDERS  —  Application (24A949) to vacate injunction entered by the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, submitted to The Chief Justice.  —  Letter of applicant Kristi Noem, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. filed.
Discussion: Reason
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Sareen Habeshian / Axios:
Supreme Court pauses order requiring deported Maryland man be returned to U.S.
Discussion: The Hill and USA Today
David Gilbert / Wired:
‘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.
David Brooks / The Atlantic:
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
Discussion: Raw Story and OutsideTheBeltway
 
 
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