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Scoop: A dozen House Republicans mull defying Trump on tariff bill — At least a dozen House Republicans are considering signing onto Rep. Don Bacon's (R-Neb.) bill to restrict the White House's ability to impose tariffs unilaterally, Axios has learned. — Why it matters …
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NOTUS, Washington Examiner, Durango Herald, Fox News and Wausau
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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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Daily Kos, Associated Press, The Post Millennial, CBS News and Washington Times


Trump has no idea what he has unleashed
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ABC News, Raw Story, The Nation, New York Post and Wausau

No, President Trump, the Income Tax Wasn't A Mistake. But It Was an Accident.
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Daily Mail, KRDO and ShrinkRants

Trump says EU must buy $350B of US energy to get tariff relief
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Breitbart, New Republic, European Commission, Politico and Tennessee Star

Republican Senator Asks Who Is to Blame If Tariffs Don't Pan Out
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GOP Fractures Over How Much Debt to Run Up for Tax Cuts
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MAGA Senator Says Americans 'Don't Care' If Trump Golfs Through His Tariff Crisis

Trump's very beautiful tariffs will fix America, masculinity and the family. It said so on Fox News
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The Daily Beast and The Independent

‘The opposite of what Americans voted for’: Market turmoil causes Trump backlash
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The Philadelphia Inquirer, NOTUS, Raw Story and Washington Post

Trump just handed Democrats the golden ticket. Tariffs have unified the American electorate.
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Townhall, Fox Business, The Red Letter and USA Today

Democrats forge ahead with effort to kill Trump tariffs
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Politico, New York Magazine, Fox News and Breitbart


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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IRS chief to quit over deal to share data with immigration authorities — Melanie Krause clashed with Treasury Department officials who sought to circumvent IRS executives so immigration authorities could access taxpayers' information. — The acting head of the Internal Revenue Service plans …


Trump and DOGE Are ‘Trying to Get Around’ Privacy Laws to Gather Your Personal Info
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Bloomberg, Ars Technica, Associated Press, The Hill and The Gateway Pundit


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 …
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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.
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Tariffs on China set to rise to at least 104% on Wednesday, White House says
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Federal judge says White House's punishment of Associated Press is unconstitutional — The White House's decision to punish the Associated Press by eliminating its access to President Donald Trump's events, the Oval Office and Air Force One is unconstitutional, a federal judge said Tuesday.
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Judge Orders White House to Restore AP's Access to Trump
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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.
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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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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 …
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Salem Statesman Journal, New Jersey Online, Forbes and Reuters


Trump Signs Orders Aimed at Reviving a Struggling Coal Industry — The moves include loosening environmental rules, but it is unclear how much they can help reverse the sharp decline in coal power over the last two decades. — President Trump signed four executive orders Tuesday aimed …
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Reinvigorating America's Beautiful Clean Coal Industry and Amending Executive Order 14241
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Trump Claims Nazis Treated Jewish Prisoners With “Love” … In his latest rewrite of European history, Donald Trump made a ridiculous and sympathetic declaration about the Nazis. — Amid the tariff chaos he spurred, Trump met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office Monday …
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New Jersey Online and Raw Story


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 …


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
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American Greatness, Raw Story, The Daily Signal and ABC News


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.


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 …
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New York Daily News, Talking Points Memo and New York Post


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 …
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Raw Story and Blaze Media


Wall Street Bursts With Anger Over Tariff ‘Stupidity’ — Billionaire investors are in an unfamiliar position, watching and cringing as tariffs roll on and the stock market reels. — Wall Street billionaires are not used to being on the outside looking in.


Suspect in Trump's second alleged assassination attempt asks judge to suppress eyewitness — Ryan Routh, the suspect in the second alleged assassination attempt against President Trump, has formally asked a judge to suppress statements from the eyewitness who identified him to police …
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Daily Mail, The Guardian, The Daily Wire and Washington Examiner


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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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.


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.


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 …
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No More Mister Nice Blog

The Enormous Negative Impacts of the New Tariffs on the Technology Sector — Well, the executive summary for this one is that we're probably facing VERY significant price hikes across the board that are likely to seriously impact consumers, businesses, Internet firms that build those massive data centers, basically everybody.