Trump’s Trade Policy Can’t Just Be Chaos
President Donald Trump, the self-anointed “Tariff Man,” likes to be unpredictable. The power to threaten commerce limitations offers him an unlimited supply of leverage towards any nation that incurs his disapproval with out essentially requiring any motion by him in any respect. Simply witness Mexico and Canada scrambling to keep away from the 25 % tariffs that Trump has promised as quickly as this weekend. It’s not an strategy he’s…
Trump briefing begins with pledge to boost outside media
Donald Trump’s “flood the zone” method will prolong — actually — to the White Home briefing room. In her first look from the White Home briefing room podium, press secretary Karoline Leavitt informed a jam-packed room of reporters that the administration meant to dramatically enhance the group of journalists with White Home entry, making clear that the administration’s method to the press corps will likely be far totally different. “The…
Federal workers reeling over Trump's ‘buyout’ offer: ‘This is the last lifeboat in town’
A federal workforce of some 2 million individuals remains to be reeling after receiving a mass e-mail that provided them an opportunity to preemptively resign forward of extra and unspecified Trump administration efforts to shrink authorities. With the phrases of a stark however murky ultimatum unclear and certain topic to authorized interpretations and challenges, upwards of lots of of 1000's of particular person workers have been fighting what to do,…
Trump went for shock and awe. Now he’s mopping up.
It didn’t take lengthy for Donald Trump’s second White Home to finish up in clean-up mode. Trump’s finances workplace has rescinded his proposed freeze on giant swathes of federal support, capping off a whirlwind 48 hours during which the president’s push to rein in spending sowed chaos throughout ranges of presidency that administration officers have been left scrambling to comprise. White Home officers had already issued a flurry of statements…
Trump hires new lawyers to appeal his hush money conviction
NEW YORK — President Donald Trump has employed the elite white-shoe legislation agency Sullivan & Cromwell to enchantment his felony conviction within the Manhattan hush cash case. Essentially the most distinguished member of Trump’s new authorized workforce is Robert Giuffra, the agency’s co-chair. 4 different Sullivan & Cromwell attorneys, all of whom are former Supreme Courtroom clerks, may even work on the case, in response to two folks conversant in…
Trump barrels through guardrails, daring courts and Congress to stop him
Welcome to the “attempt to cease me” presidency. Donald Trump, cheered on by compliant Republicans in Congress and assured within the ideological leanings of the Supreme Court docket, is utilizing his first days in workplace to impose sweeping adjustments to the way in which authorities works and overwhelm conventional institutional checks on presidential energy. Detractors are attempting to maintain tempo by submitting a wave of lawsuits geared toward blocking a…
Trump Is Ignoring the Law — and Congress Doesn’t Care
For over every week now, Donald Trump and the Justice Division have been flouting the legislation meant to close down TikTok. The laws was unambiguous and was handed by giant, bipartisan majorities in each homes of Congress; it was affirmed by a unanimous Supreme Court docket lower than two weeks in the past. And for essentially the most half, each Republicans and Democrats have sat quietly by as Trump has…
Trump administration orders sweeping freeze of federal aid
One week in, the Trump administration is broadening its assault on the capabilities of presidency and shifting management of the federal purse strings additional away from members of Congress. President Donald Trump’s funds workplace Monday ordered a complete freeze on “all federal monetary help” that may very well be focused beneath his earlier govt orders pausing funding for a variety of priorities — from home infrastructure and power tasks to…
Europe is cautiously optimistic about Trump’s Ukraine comments
Donald Trump wasted no time in rattling Europeans’ nerves over threats of taking Greenland and opening commerce wars. However there’s a stunning case during which Europe is cautiously optimistic: Ukraine. Trump’s menace to Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday to impose new tariffs and sanctions on Moscow if it didn’t reach a deal to stop the war despatched a welcome message to European allies and different Ukraine supporters. And it's…
Trump claims victory in tariff and migration standoff with Colombia
The White Home mentioned late Sunday that the federal government of Colombia has agreed to take deportation flights of migrants from the nation, hours after President Donald Trump threatened tariffs and visa restrictions. Migrants will likely be returned to Colombia on army plane “with out limitation and delay,” White Home press secretary Karoline Leavitt mentioned in a press release. The late-night declaration of victory by the White Home caps a…
