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S.V. Date / HuffPost:
Trump Offers An Uneasy World No Reassurance In Word Salad Oval Office Remarks  —  WASHINGTON ― With a world economy on edge since he declared a trade war with the rest of the planet last week, President Donald Trump offered no reassuring words Monday and instead provided yet more evidence …
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Bloomberg:
Republican Senator Asks Who Is to Blame If Tariffs Don't Pan Out  —  Republican senators expressed anxiety over the potential economic toll of Donald Trump's global tariffs and pressed his trade representative for more clarity on the president's objectives in the trade conflict.
Edward Luce / Financial Times:
Trump has no idea what he has unleashed  —  There is no school of foreign policy realism or trade mercantilism that could explain the US president's actions  —  We should trust in Donald Trump's instincts, says Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Discussion: Raw Story, New York Post and ABC News
Gavin Bade / Wall Street Journal:
Australia Tariffs Spark Anger in Senate Hearing  —  Tensions flared at the Senate Finance Committee hearing as Sen. Mark Warner (D., Va.) lambasted U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer for imposing 10% tariffs on Australia, despite the fact that the U.S. has a trade surplus with the country …
Politico:
‘The opposite of what Americans voted for’: Market turmoil causes Trump backlash  —  With the markets in chaos as a result of Trump's tariffs, the president is facing the most sustained criticism of his term from within the GOP.  —  During the first two turbulent months of President Donald Trump's term …
Zoya Sheftalovich / Politico:
Trump says EU must buy $350B of US energy to get tariff relief
Oren Cass / New York Times:
Stop Freaking Out. Trump's Tariffs Can Still Work.
Discussion: HotAir and Fortune
Elisabeth Buchwald / CNN:
Tariffs on China set to rise to at least 104% on Wednesday, White House says
New Republic:   Transcript: Unwell Trump Rages at China, GOP as Allies Turn on Tariffs
Axios:
1 big thing: 🥵 Scoop: New donor plea
Discussion: Washington Examiner and Politico
Leigh Kimmins / The Daily Beast:
MAGA Senator Says Americans 'Don't Care' If Trump Golfs Through His Tariff Crisis
Jesse Eisinger / ProPublica:
No, President Trump, the Income Tax Wasn't A Mistake. But It Was an Accident.
Discussion: KRDO and ShrinkRants
Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Trump's refusal to blink on tariffs raises the risks of an ugly endgame
Discussion: Politico, Semafor and Raw Story
Andrew Duehren / New York Times:
I.R.S. Agrees to Share Migrants' Tax Information With ICE  —  The agreement is a major departure from the Internal Revenue Service's efforts to gain the trust of migrants and encourage them to file their taxes.  —  The Internal Revenue Service has agreed to help homeland security officials find immigrants …
Discussion: Bloomberg, Forbes, The Guardian and Mediaite
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Fatima Hussein / Associated Press:
Internal Revenue Service agrees to send immigrant tax data to ICE for enforcement  —  The Internal Revenue Service has agreed to share immigrants' tax data with Immigration and Customs Enforcement for the purpose of identifying and deporting people illegally in the U.S. …
Brittany Gibson / Axios:
IRS agrees to share immigrants' data with ICE
Discussion: The Hill, National Review and Techdirt
Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
Supreme Court blocks order requiring Trump administration to reinstate thousands of federal workers  —  The Supreme Court on Tuesday blocked an order for the Trump administration to return to work thousands of federal employees who were let go in mass firings aimed at dramatically downsizing the federal government.
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NBC News:
Supreme Court halts a judge's order to reinstate federal probationary workers  —  The case focuses on judge's requirement that employees fired by the Trump administration be fully reinstated while litigation continues.  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday halted …
Zach Schonfeld / The Hill:
Supreme Court clears way for Trump admin to fire some probationary workers
Discussion: Washington Times and Blaze Media
Ben Berkowitz / Axios:
Musk calls Navarro “moron” as trade spat intensifies  —  Elon Musk escalated his war of words with Trump trade adviser Peter Navarro on Tuesday, calling him “truly a moron” and “dumber than a sack of bricks” over comments about Musk's businesses.  —  Why it matters: The gloves are off …
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Tyler Pager / New York Times:
Musk Calls Navarro a ‘Moron’ in Escalating Tariff Fight
Filip Timotija / The Hill:
Navarro: ‘I guarantee no recession, OK?’
Rebecca Shabad / NBC News:
Elon Musk calls Trump's top trade adviser, Peter Navarro, a ‘moron’ and ‘dumber than a sack of bricks’
Reuters:
Exclusive: Musk's DOGE using AI to snoop on U.S. federal workers, sources say  —  Trump administration officials have told some U.S. government employees that Elon Musk's DOGE team of technologists is using artificial intelligence to surveil at least one federal agency's communications …
G. Elliott Morris / Strength In Numbers:
Live updates: Trump's approval hits new low after “Liberation Day” tariffs  —  His average economic approval also hits a new low (-13), and his tariffs are underwater by 30 points … As of midday April 8, 2025, two pollsters have published new polls of Trump's approval rating …
Steve Vladeck / One First:
140. The Disturbing Myopia of Trump v. J.G.G.  —  In normal times, it might be possible to defend the Supreme Court's 5-4 ruling on Monday vacating a pair of temporary restraining orders in the Alien Enemy Act case.  But these aren't normal times.  —  Welcome back to “One First,” an …
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Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:
The Supreme Court's New 5-4 Bailout for Trump Couldn't Be More Ominous
Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
‘A Path of Perfect Lawlessness’
Tresa Baldas / Detroit Free Press:
Lawyer for U-M protester detained at airport after spring break trip with family  — Dearborn attorney Amir Makled was detained and questioned at Detroit Metro Airport about his clients and asked to surrender his cellphone.  — Customs and Border Protection (CBP) stated …
Leo Shane III / Military Times:
Trump promises $1 trillion in defense spending for next year  —  President Donald Trump this week unveiled plans for a $1 trillion defense budget next year, a massive increase that he claimed will provide the country with unmatched military strength for years to come.
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Politico:
Trump, Hegseth promise record $1 trillion Pentagon budget
NBC News:
FBI creates multiagent bodyguard team to protect Dan Bongino  —  The former pro-Trump podcaster is the first deputy director to have a security detail.  Full-time protection could require up to 20 agents, former officials said.  —  The FBI has issued a call for agents to voluntarily serve …
Lisa Needham / Public Notice:
How to steal a state supreme court seat with one weird trick  —  🔥🔥🔥 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.
Paul Krugman:
Attack of the Quack-Industrial Complex  —  By now it's obvious to anyone willing to see — which many people still aren't — that Donald Trump is, in practice, waging war against American greatness.  And the attack is taking place on multiple fronts.  —  For the past few days everyone …
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
DOGE to Shutter DOJ Tax Division … I didn't know this until this morning.  And I'm surprised it hasn't gotten more press attention.  We know that DOGE is in the process of gutting the IRS.  According to internal IRS estimates reviewed by The Washington Post this internal sabotage …
Discussion: American Greatness
NBC News:
Trump administration weighs drone strikes on Mexican cartels  —  The administration has increased surveillance flights over Mexico as it tries to track the powerful cartels that dominate the fentanyl trade.  —  The Trump administration is considering launching drone strikes on drug cartels …
Reuters:
Trump plans to fine migrants $998 a day for failing to leave after deportation order  —  The Trump administration plans to fine migrants under deportation orders up to $998 a day if they fail to leave the United States and to seize their property if they do not pay, according to documents reviewed by Reuters.
William Kristol / The Bulwark:
In a World of Pete Hegseths, Be a Maya Angelou  —  We may be spiraling into an uncertain future of lawlessness, economic meltdown, and social instability, but at least we've got the galaxy-brain takes of our leaders to sustain us.  On the vice president's mind this morning:
Justin Glawe / Rolling Stone:
Trump and DOGE Are ‘Trying to Get Around’ Privacy Laws to Gather Your Personal Info  —  DOGE and Trump want access to everyone's personal data, despite longstanding privacy laws meant to ensure the president can't “create an enemies list” … The data includes information like addresses …
Jaewon Kang / Bloomberg:
Top US Retailers Balked at Challenging Trump Tariffs in Court  —  The Friday before President Donald Trump's April 2 announcement of across-the-board tariffs, the top lawyer for one of the biggest US retail industry groups updated members on planning for a potential lawsuit over the trade levies.
Discussion: New Jersey Online
Latin Times:
Influencer Who Bought Trump a Rolex Has Lost Over $10M Since Tariffs Hit the Market: 'It's So Bad'  —  “It's bad, I'm not gonna lie to you”  —  Just months after gifting President Donald Trump a gold Rolex and a custom MAGA-wrapped Tesla Cybertruck, controversial streamer Adin Ross …
Discussion: Raw Story
Associated Press:
Trump admin revokes legal status for migrants who entered the U.S. on Biden-era CBP One app  —  CBP One was a cornerstone of the Biden administration's strategy to create and expand legal pathways to enter the United States in an attempt to discourage illegal border crossings.  —  / Source: The Associated Press
Josh Dawsey / Wall Street Journal:
Lutnick's Strategy Flummoxes Business Leaders and White House Aides  —  Some executives have come away from meetings with the commerce secretary confused and exasperated  —  WASHINGTON—Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has tried to sell President Trump's trade agenda to American companies for months.
 
 
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Connor O'Brien / Politico:
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ABC News:
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US expected a big travel year, but overseas visitors — angered by Trump — are heading elsewhere
HuffPost:
Federal Workers Receive Another ‘Deferred Resignation’ Offer Ahead Of Layoffs
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David Atkins / Washington Monthly:
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