The director of the White House National Economic Council said Sunday that President Trump's tariffs might raise the cost of some imported goods but not as much as has been suggested.
Ed Martin, the interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, is expanding his probe into his office's handling of U.S. Capitol riot prosecutions, comparing it to the government's treatment of Japanese Americans in World War II.
Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) slammed the Trump administration, saying he has never seen an administration "do something so monumentally wrong and that so staggeringly hurts American people." During an appearance on ABC's "This Week," Booker, who last week gave a record-breaking 25-hour speech aimed at combating Trump's moves in the White House, was asked about...
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) said on Sunday that President Trump is “not wrong” in identifying the gutting of the manufacturing industry as an issue, but said the president is wrong about tariffs as the solution. “Here's the thing that the Democrats have to figure out. Donald Trump's language around this, he's not wrong that...
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins suggested on Sunday that the European Union is using "fake science" to back up concerns over hormone use in the United States livestock to justify its restrictions on U.S. pork imports. Rollins, in an interview on CNN's "State of the Union," defended President Trump's reciprocal tariffs announced this past week, slamming...
This rebalancing of Canada's North Atlantic security relationships should not be seen as merely a kneejerk reaction to President Trump’s trade war provocations. Frankly, diversifying Canada’s trade and defense posture is run-of-the-mill geostrategic housekeeping that Canada should have been more serious about decades ago.
The latest Cold Open of Saturday Night Live recreated President Trump's speech at the Rose Garden, where he announced sweeping global tariffs. In the introductory voice-over, the narrator declared that the tariffs, "like everything else so far in his presidency, it was a total home run." Trump, played by James Austin Johnson, went on to...
Vulnerable House Republicans are on defense amid the fallout from President Trump’s sweeping global tariffs, which have stoked uncertainty about the economy. Markets took a nosedive Thursday following Trump’s announcement of a general 10 percent tariff on goods imported to the U.S., along with other targeted tariffs on various U.S. trading partners. The financial environment...