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Netanyahu to Meet with Trump
“Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is planning to visit the White House on Monday,” Axios reports. “If the visit takes place as planned, Netanyahu will be the first foreign leader…
U.S. Citizens Caught in Trump’s Mass Deportation
Washington Post: “Although wrongful detentions and deportations of U.S. citizens aren’t unheard-of, recent news reports of at least seven alleged cases have alarmed attorneys, civil rights advocates and immigration scholars…
Interior Department Staff Ordered to Bake Cookies
The Atlantic: “The unusual requests made of Interior Secretary Doug Burgum’s staff are raising concerns all the way to the White House.” Save to Favorites
Trump Aides Hold Firm Despite Market Plunge
“If there was one consistent message from Trump administration economic officials Sunday morning, it was this: We’re not worried about the stock market plunging, and the cavalry isn’t coming to…
Trump Is Enacting Change on Scale Rarely Seen Before
Wall Street Journal: “No American president has disrupted so many aspects of the nation’s daily life as President Trump has in less than three months in office. His no-apologies agenda…
Stock Futures Plummet as Market Rout Escalates
U.S. stock futures dropped more than 4% on Sunday evening as the White House remained defiant even after a two-day historic stock market rout that followed President Trump’s rollout of…
‘The Tariffs Are Coming’
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said the Trump administration will remain steadfast in its reciprocal tariffs on major U.S. trading partners even in the face of a global stock market sell-off,…
Washington Worries Trump Will Bail Out Zuckerberg
Politico: “Less than two weeks before the start of a landmark antitrust trial against tech giant Meta, the growing relationship between President Donald Trump and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is stoking fears…
Bonus Quote of the Day
“This is the biggest self-inflicted wound we’ve put on our economy in history… Until we have a reversal, I think we’re going to have a real problem.” —Former Treasury Secretary…
7 GOP Senators Now Oppose Trump’s Tariffs
Playbook: “There are chiefly two factions among Hill Republicans worried about Trump’s tariffs: those who think they’re bad policy, and those who think they’re bad politics. (There is overlap.)” “In…
Elon Musk Surprised Trump World
Some people “inside the administration and close to President Trump appeared confused, and surprised, about Elon Musk’s decision to publicly go after Peter Navarro (and by extension, indicate his displeasure…
Note to Readers
For the next five or six days, updates on the site may be a bit more sporadic than usual. I’ve managed to keep things running smoothly from places as far-flung…
Wall Street Blew It
James Surowiecki: “Investors discounted everything Trump has ever said about trade and tariffs. We’re all going to pay for that mistake.” Save to Favorites
Trump’s Extension of the TikTok Deadline Is Illegal
John Gruber: “There is no mechanism in the law for the president to issue any such extension. What he’s saying is what he said the last time: he’s instructing Attorney…
Trump and Republicans Made a Massive Bet
“The Republican Party embarked this week on a haphazard experiment in economic policymaking, wagering that the United States can weather a monumental tax increase in the form of broad tariffs…
A New Golden Age for Bootleggers
David Frum: “President Donald Trump’s high-tariff regime will impose higher prices and lower growth on Americans. It will have another effect that nobody in the administration seems to have considered…
Trump Tears Down What FDR Built
“If there’s a mirror image opposite to Donald Trump’s second-term blitz, it’s Franklin D. Roosevelt, whose first 100 days in office is the model for presidents who want to get…
Trump Has Already Botched His Own Bad Tariff Plan
Jonathan Chait: “Once you’ve said you might negotiate, nobody is going to believe you when you change your mind and say you’ll never negotiate.” Save to Favorites
GOP Frets Over Trump Voter Turnout
“A trio of election results this week have Republicans confronting a new reality: not only are they facing political headwinds as the party in power but simultaneously grappling with a…
Elon Musk Parts Ways with Trump on Tariffs
Only three days after President Trump announced sweeping tariffs, including a 20 percent tariff on goods from the European Union, Elon Musk said that he hoped that Europe and the…
