Canadian Sen. Patrick Brazeau challenged Donald Trump Jr. to a charity boxing match over the “bogus” tariffs implemented this week by his father, President Trump. "I know, I still can't believe it myself. But I no longer smoke and have been sober for almost 5 years," the Quebec-based senator said in a Thursday post on...
Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy The Big Story Trump reverses on Canada, Mexico tariffs with exemptions President Trump, in his latest reversal on tariffs, signed off on exemptions for imports from Canada and Mexico that are covered under a 2020 North American trade agreement....
Ontario Premier Doug Ford said three states would face tariffs on electricity after a week of President Trump’s swipes at Canada with fluctuating trade policies. “I love Americans. It's been 20 years of my life. But in saying that, no, we're going to put a 25 percent tariff on electricity coming from Ontario to Michigan,...
New Zealand's top diplomat in the United Kingdom was fired after making comments about President Trump in London earlier this week. New Zealand's high commissioner to the U.K., Phil Goff, was terminated from his role after questioning Trump's knowledge of history during an event hosted by an international affairs think tank, Chatham House, on Tuesday. ...
President Trump said MSNBC hosts Nicolle Wallace and Rachel Maddow “should be forced to resign” while criticizing the network for low show ratings. “Worse than CNN is ‘MS-DNC,’ which is the worst. And the good news is very few people watch them anymore,” he told reporters Thursday in the Oval Office. “They have lost such...
A federal judge on Thursday ordered the Trump administration to release some foreign aid payments by Monday evening to U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) contractors and nonprofits who challenged the freeze, a decision he called the “first concrete step” toward compliance with his previous order to resume existing foreign aid contracts. U.S. District...
President Trump is facing slumping consumer confidence and deepening concern among business leaders ahead of the first jobs report of his new administration. Many economic forecasts show the U.S. adding somewhere around 150,000 jobs with a slight increase in the unemployment rate last month — a solid, if unexciting report. But tumbling markets in the...
President Trump on Thursday signed an executive order aimed at stripping security clearances and government ties to Perkins Coie, a major law firm that did work for Democrats during the 2016 campaign. The order, which Trump signed in the Oval Office, directs the attorney general and director of national intelligence to “immediately take steps consistent...
COVID-19 struck the world at a time when China and the U.S. were closing in on trade negotiations, shattering a potential deal between President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping.