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12:30 PM ET, April 8, 2025

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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.
Discussion: Raw Story, HuffPost and ABC News
Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
Trump Officials Try to Calm Markets by Pointing to Talks on Tariffs  —  Jamieson Greer, the United States trade representative, told senators the U.S. economy was in need of “drastic, overdue change.”  —  President Trump's top trade official defended the administration's aggressive tariff moves on Tuesday …
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:
Zoya Sheftalovich / Politico:
Trump says EU must buy $350B of US energy to get tariff relief  —  Brussels' zero-for-zero tariff offer not enough, U.S. president says, but indicates he's open to a deal if the bloc commits to closing the trade deficit in goods.  —  The European Union will have to commit to buying $350 billion …
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.
Oren Cass / New York Times:
Stop Freaking Out.  Trump's Tariffs Can Still Work.  —  Last week's “Liberation Day” marked a kind of D-Day in the effort to reorder the international economic system.  That reordering is desperately needed to address the system's imbalances, which have led to deindustrialization …
Discussion: HotAir, Axios and Fortune
Washington Post:
Musk made direct appeals to Trump to reverse sweeping new tariffs
New Republic:
Transcript: Unwell Trump Rages at China, GOP as Allies Turn on Tariffs
Discussion: Politico
Politico:
‘The opposite of what Americans voted for’: Market turmoil causes Trump backlash
Discussion: Washington Post, Raw Story and NOTUS
Robert Tait / The Guardian:
Rightwing group backed by Koch and Leo sues to stop Trump tariffs
Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:   April 7, 2025  —  Major indexes on the stock market began down more than 3% today when …
Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Trump's refusal to blink on tariffs raises the risks of an ugly endgame
Discussion: Raw Story
Dasha Afanasieva / Bloomberg:   Griffin Calls Tariffs ‘Huge’ Mistake Hurting Middle Class
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Why Did Wall Street Get Trump So Wrong?
Discussion: Wausau
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’
Ilya Somin / Reason:
Rights and Wrongs of the Supreme Court's Ruling in the Alien Enemies Act Case
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 …
Elena Giordano / Politico:
China condemns JD Vance's ‘peasants’ jibe  —  Beijing hammers US vice president as lacking “knowledge and respect” in escalating feud.  —  China on Tuesday branded U.S. Vice President JD Vance ignorant and disrespectful after he claimed that America was borrowing money from “Chinese peasants.”
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Eve Sampson / New York Times:   China Criticizes JD Vance for Calling Its People ‘Peasants’
Helen Davidson / The Guardian:
China vows to ‘fight to the end’ against latest Trump tariff threat
fmprc.gov.cn:
Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Lin Jian's Regular Press Conference on April 8, 2025
Discussion: Washington Examiner
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 …
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 …
Avery Lotz / Axios:
Trump admin ousts another female military leader  —  Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has fired U.S. Navy Vice Adm. Shoshana Chatfield, who served as the U.S. military representative to the NATO Military Committee, the Pentagon confirmed to Axios.  —  The big picture: Chatfield joins …
Discussion: The Hill
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Michael Dorgan / Fox News:
Trump admin fires Navy admiral at NATO targeted by conservative group
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 …
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:
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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.
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 …
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
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 …
Axios:
1 big thing: 🥵 Scoop: New donor plea  —  Republicans admit President Trump's tariffs are spiking their blood pressure.  Their Wall Street donors are feeling it too, with some giving top GOP lawmakers an earful this weekend.  —  Why it matters: Trump is making it clear he won't tolerate …
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 …
NPS.gov:
What is the Underground Railroad?  —  I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say — I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.  —  The Underground Railroad—the resistance to enslavement through escape and flight …
Tim Zadorozhnyy / The Kyiv Independent:
BREAKING: Ukraine captured 2 Chinese nationals fighting for Russia, Zelensky says  —  Ukrainian troops have captured two Chinese nationals who were fighting in the ranks of the Russian military against Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on April 8.  —  “We have information …
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Vance's whopper on alleged Social Security fraud  —  The vice president falsely claims that 40 percent of calls to a retirement program involve fraud. … — Vice President JD Vance, during an interview on Fox & Friends, April 3  —  In the lexicon of the second Trump administration, “fraud” often translates to “programs we dislike.”
New York Times:
Justice Dept. Lawyers Are Struggling to Defend Trump's Policies in Court  —  Inside the department's civil division, litigators are squeezed between judges demanding answers and bosses' instructions to protect the Trump agenda at all costs.  —  The Trump administration's aggressive efforts …
 
 
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Anna Giaritelli / Washington Examiner:
Noem bypasses environmental regulations to expedite border wall construction in California
Discussion: The Hill
Filip Timotija / The Hill:
Navarro: ‘I guarantee no recession, OK?’
Discussion: Daily Mail and New York Post
Associated Press:
Trump administration is having early talks to hold a military parade in nation's capital on June 14
Politico:
Trump, Hegseth promise record $1 trillion Pentagon budget
Doug Bock Clark / ProPublica:
North Carolina Lawmakers Ask for Investigation Into Funding Disruptions for Sexual Abuse Survivors
Ella Nilsen / CNN:
Major steel project in JD Vance's hometown on a list of Trump cuts to manufacturing industry
The City:
Green Card Holder Targeted for Detention Questions Basis for Warrant to Search Her Dorm
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 Earlier Items: 
STAT:
STAT+: Republicans are proud of creating Medicare Advantage. Now some are urging reform amid runaway costs
Discussion: Fortune, Endpoints News and Wausau
Reuters:
US is starting to look like an emerging market after tariff shock, Euronext CEO says
Discussion: Human Events
Miranda Bryant / The Guardian:
Couple who ran Swedish eco-retreat fled leaving behind barrels of human waste
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