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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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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.
Stan Choe / Associated Press:
US stocks drop after another stunning day of reversals as uncertainty reigns about Trump's tariffs  —  U.S. stocks dropped after a second day of stunning reversals.  The S&P 500 fell 1.6% Tuesday after wiping out an early gain of 4.1%, which had it on track for its best day in years.
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
Bloomberg:
Republican Senator Asks Who Is to Blame If Tariffs Don't Pan Out
Zoya Sheftalovich / Politico:
Trump says EU must buy $350B of US energy to get tariff relief
New Republic:   Transcript: Unwell Trump Rages at China, GOP as Allies Turn on Tariffs
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  —  The feud between two of President Trump's top advisers is playing out as the administration's new tariffs have caused huge losses across global financial markets.  —  Elon Musk slammed President Trump's top trade adviser as …
Rebecca Shabad / NBC News:
Elon Musk calls Trump's top trade adviser, Peter Navarro, a ‘moron’ and ‘dumber than a sack of bricks’
Filip Timotija / The Hill:
Navarro: ‘I guarantee no recession, OK?’
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 …
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Ali Bianco / Politico:
DHS revokes parole for hundreds of thousands who entered via the CBP One app  —  The move could leave over 900,000 immigrants vulnerable to deportation — unless they self-deport, DHS said.  —  The Trump administration is revoking parole status for immigrants who entered the U.S. via …
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Reuters:
Trump plans to fine migrants $998 a day for failing to leave after deportation order
Associated Press:
Trump admin revokes legal status for migrants who entered the U.S. on Biden-era CBP One app
Jesse Eisinger / ProPublica:
No, President Trump, the Income Tax Wasn't A Mistake.  But It Was an Accident.  —  While instituting the largest tariff increase in modern history, Trump claimed that the income tax was passed for “reasons unknown to mankind” and caused the Great Depression.  Here's the real history.
Discussion: KRDO and ShrinkRants
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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
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 …
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 …
Pew Research Center:
Americans Give Early Trump Foreign Policy Actions Mixed or Negative Reviews  —  More Americans see the president favoring Russia too much than striking the right balance  —  Table of Contents Table of Contents  —  More Americans see the president favoring Russia too much than striking the right balance
Discussion: Political Wire
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Laura Kelly / The Hill:
More Americans say Trump is favoring Russia too much in new poll
Discussion: USA Today and The Gateway Pundit
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
In Trump Cases, Supreme Court Retreats From Confrontation  —  In a series of narrow rulings, the justices have seemed to take pains to avoid a showdown with a president who has challenged the judiciary's legitimacy.  —  6 MIN READ  —  Justices Give Trump a Tentative Win in Push to Fire 16,000 Federal Workers
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 …
Discussion: New York Post
Dee-Ann Durbin / Associated Press:
US expected a big travel year, but overseas visitors — angered by Trump — are heading elsewhere  —  Olja Ivanic looked forward to welcoming some cousins from Sweden to her Denver home in June.  Ivanic and the four travelers were planning to go hiking in Colorado and then visit Los Angeles and San Francisco.
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
Prem Thakker / Zeteo:
Trump Is Trying to Deport Students Who Show Up in a ‘Criminal Records Check.’ But Many Have Never Been Convicted  —  What began with Mahmoud Khalil has now expanded into widespread immigration status revocations with no explanation and little apparent recourse.
Wired:
Dr. Oz Pushed for AI Health Care in First Medicare Agency Town Hall  —  Dr. Oz, who now controls the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and its $1.5 trillion budget, promoted the idea that AI avatars could replace frontline health care workers.  —  Dr. Mehmet Oz, the new administrator …
Discussion: Blaze Media
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 …
Lauren Irwin / The Hill:
Keystone pipeline shut down after rupture  —  The Keystone oil pipeline was shut down Tuesday morning after a rupture in North Dakota halted the flow from Canada to U.S. refineries.  —  South Bow, which manages the pipeline, said the pipeline was shut down after a pressure drop was detected …
Zoe Tillman / Bloomberg:
Trump Faces New Deportation Challenge After Supreme Court Order  —  President Donald Trump is facing a new challenge to his use of a wartime law to deport alleged Venezuelan gang members, less than a day after the US Supreme Court sided with the administration in an earlier fight.
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 …
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 …
VOA an essential service:
VOA an essential service  —  President Donald Trump has issued an executive order to dismantle several U.S.-funded media outlets.  Among those is Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and most prominently, Voice of America, an international broadcasting service, which provides content to more than 361 million people around the world.
Gregory Svirnovskiy / Politico:
Hegseth tries carrot, not stick, on Panama  —  The Defense secretary promoted working with ‘like-minded allies and partners’ after Trump repeatedly threatened to take over the famous canal.  —  Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is talking up American efforts to work with Panama to safeguard …
Associated Press:
Trump administration says it cut funding to some life-saving UN food programs by mistake  —  The State Department said Tuesday that it had rolled back an undisclosed number of sweeping funding cuts to U.N. World Food Program emergency projects in 14 impoverished countries …
Discussion: Reuters
Andrew Solender / Axios:
Jeffries challenges Johnson to “one-on-one” House floor debate  —  House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Tuesday challenged Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to a “one-on-one debate” on the House floor about Republicans' budget resolution.  —  Why it matters: It could happen …
Discussion: The Hill
Washington Post:
Justice Dept. says it will pull back on litigating cryptocurrency fraud  —  In a memo sent to the Justice Department on Monday night, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said the department will largely stop bringing cases that violate the Bank Secrecy Act or contain unregistered broker dealer violations …
Zach Montague / New York Times:
Judge Sides With The Associated Press In Fight Over Access to Trump  —  A federal judge ordered the White House to restore the outlet's access to certain White House events and agreed that it had been singled out over its editorial decisions.  —  A federal judge in Washington rejected …
 
 
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Marin Scotten / New Republic:
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Tara Suter / The Hill:
Senate Democrats demand return of wrongfully deported Maryland man
Leigh Kimmins / The Daily Beast:
MAGA Senator Says Americans 'Don't Care' If Trump Golfs Through His Tariff Crisis
Jaewon Kang / Bloomberg:
Top US Retailers Balked at Challenging Trump Tariffs in Court
Gavin Bade / Wall Street Journal:
Australia Tariffs Spark Anger in Senate Hearing
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Latin Times:
Influencer Who Bought Trump a Rolex Has Lost Over $10M Since Tariffs Hit the Market: 'It's So Bad'
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