Trump, Fed and Powell
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President Donald Trump’s attacks on Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell are so commonplace at this point that they barely register in financial markets these days. The rapidly intensifying multi-pronged efforts by Trump’s advisers to amplify and expand on Trump’s attacks are a good reason to rethink that indifference.
A court-ordered pause in May covered nearly two dozen federal agencies at different stages of executing President Trump’s directive for mass layoffs. The Supreme Court said the administration could proceed.
Protestors in Sao Paulo made an effigy of the US president, and then set it on fire. As the paper POTUS went up in flames, they cheered and chanted "Brazil is ours," and "Trump out." The protest was in response to the Trump administration's plan to increase tariffs on imports of Brazilian goods from 10% to 50%.
The investigation into cost overruns on a renovation of Fed headquarters is drawing concern that it's a pretext to eventually fire the central bank chief.
After the Supreme Court allowed President Trump on Tuesday to resume firing government workers, federal employees rushed to Signal group chats and anxious phone calls, trying to figure out what it meant for them.
President Donald Trump's "reciprocal" tariffs and threats to fire Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell might all be part of a magic trick "that makes the illusion work," say Mizuho economists. Magician
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AlterNet on MSN'Bondi is not going': Ex-White House lawyer details 'specific reason' Trump isn’t budging on AGFormer White House lawyer Ty Cobb on Friday explained why President Donald Trump is likely to side with Attorney General Pam Bondi over FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino, telling CNN’s Erin Burnett it would be “a huge embarrassment” for Trump to fire his attorney general.
On July 8, Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel faced growing criticism from right-wing influencers and MAGA supporters after the Justice Department released findings that debunked key conspiracy theories long circulated about Epstein’s death and alleged clientele.
Why that day? Why Butler? Why were you such a mess in Butler? Were you told to be a mess? Were you told by someone not to do your job? You do your job every other time, why that day?”
Live updates and the latest news as President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump tour the Texas flood devastation and the U.S. prepares to impose blanket tariffs on trading partners.