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Trump Cuts $3 Billion from Congressional Deal He Hated

March 24, 2025 at 5:26 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“President Donald Trump is cutting nearly $3 billion in spending, much of it reserved for foreign aid, by unwinding part of a 2023 fiscal deal loathed by conservatives,” Semafor reports.

“Trump is slashing from a pot of money deemed emergency spending by the 2023 Fiscal Responsibility Act, which capped federal spending but also included a side deal criticized by Trump and his allies. One element of the 2023 law’s side deal allowed for more than $12 billion in emergency spending for this year, but Trump is effectively deeming about a quarter of that as outside the scope of any emergency.”

Boeing Is Pushing to Withdraw Guilty Plea 

March 24, 2025 at 5:23 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Boeing is seeking to withdraw an earlier agreement to plead guilty in a long-running criminal case that blamed the company for deceiving regulators before two deadly crashes of 737 MAX jets,“ the Wall Street Journal reports.

“The aerospace giant is seeking more lenient treatment from the Justice Department, which under the Trump administration is reviewing numerous pending criminal cases that haven’t yet gone to trial or been approved by courts.”

Trump Nominates Susan Monarez to Lead CDC

March 24, 2025 at 5:20 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“President Trump has selected Susan Monarez, the acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to lead the agency permanently,” the New York Times reports.


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Trump to Pardon Hunter Biden’s Business Partner

March 24, 2025 at 4:36 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

President Trump told the New York Post that Hunter Biden’s beleaguered former business partner, Devon Archer, will receive a full and unconditional pardon.

Said Trump: “He’s getting a full pardon. He was screwed by the Bidens. They destroyed him like they tried to destroy a lot of people.”

Trump Promises Tariffs on More Industries

March 24, 2025 at 3:53 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

President Donald Trump on Monday said he will soon announce tariffs targeting automobiles, pharmaceuticals and other industries, signaling his plans to pile more sweeping duties on top of his forthcoming “reciprocal tariffs,” CNBC reports.

Bombs Found at Tesla Showroom in Texas

March 24, 2025 at 3:36 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Police found multiple “incendiary devices” at a Tesla dealership in Austin, the city where the company has its headquarters, Fox Austin reports.

CNBC: FBI launches Tesla threats task force.

Trump May Give Some Countries Breaks on Tariffs

March 24, 2025 at 3:33 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

President Trump on Monday signaled he may provide exemptions for certain countries when his administration imposes reciprocal tariffs on imports next week, The Hill reports.

Said Trump: “I may give a lot of countries breaks. It’s reciprocal, but we might be even nicer than that. You know, we’ve been very nice to a lot of countries for a long time.”

Trump Aide Sues the Daily Beast for Defamation

March 24, 2025 at 3:30 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Senior Trump political adviser Chris LaCivita has filed a defamation suit against The Daily Beast, alleging that the outlet published “malicious” and “damaging” reporting about him during the 2024 campaign “with reckless disregard for the truth,” Axios reports.

Quote of the Day

March 24, 2025 at 3:02 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“When you ask people, what do the Republicans stand for? They say, ‘well, Make American Great Again, they want to cut the size of government, they want to give tax cuts.'” And what do the Democrats stand for? I think people are kind of scratching their heads a little bit – they believe in choice and LGBT rights – which I believe in those things too – but I don’t know you can build a whole party around that.”

— Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-NY), quoted by NPR.

Kremlin Wants to Drag Out Peace Talks

March 24, 2025 at 3:00 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“As high-level delegations from the U.S. and Russia arrive in Saudi Arabia for the second round of bilateral talks aimed at ending the war in Ukraine, Moscow’s envoys will have one goal on their mind: buying time,” the Moscow Times reports.

“For the Kremlin, dragging out peace negotiations for as long as possible is imperative for seizing as much Ukrainian territory as it can and getting an upper hand over Kyiv in relations with the U.S.”

New York Times: “The Kremlin appears determined to squeeze as many benefits as possible from Mr. Trump’s desire for a Ukraine peace deal, even as it slow-walks the negotiations. Viewed from Moscow, better ties with Washington are an economic and geopolitical boon — one that may be achieved even as Russian missiles continue pounding Ukraine.”

Kristi Noem Wants to Shut Down FEMA

March 24, 2025 at 2:55 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem told a Cabinet meeting with President Trump: “We are going to eliminate FEMA.”

Making America Less Safe

March 24, 2025 at 2:39 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg revealed today he had been mistakenly added to a Trump administration Signal chat discussing sensitive military operations in Yemen.

The revelation reads like satire: a prominent journalist suddenly dropped into a private messaging thread where senior national security officials were actively discussing airstrikes.

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Europe Races to Lure American Scientists

March 24, 2025 at 2:09 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Europe is investing millions in a flurry of newly announced academic programs, in an energetic effort to lure top American scientists across the Atlantic at the same time President Donald Trump casts many U.S. research efforts into turmoil with funding cuts and executive edicts,” the Washington Post reports.

Trump’s Moves on Greenland Appear to Be Backfiring

March 24, 2025 at 2:07 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“For more than 150 years, U.S. officials have been trying, as President Trump puts it, to ‘get’ Greenland,” the New York Times reports.

“The idea came up in the 1860s, then again before and after the world wars. In a way, the timing couldn’t be better than now, with Greenlanders re-examining their painful colonial history under Denmark and many itching to break off from Denmark, which still controls some of the island’s affairs.”

“But President Trump seems to have overplayed his cards — big time.”

Exporters Vie to Shape Trump’s Tariffs

March 24, 2025 at 2:05 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Ahead of President Trump’s next big trade move, his administration invited companies to weigh in on the economic barriers they faced abroad,” the New York Times reports.

“The list of complaints was both sprawling and specific. In hundreds of letters submitted to the administration in recent weeks, producers of uranium, shrimp, T-shirts and steel highlighted the unfair trade treatment they faced, in hopes of bending the president’s trade agenda in their favor. The complaints varied from Brazil’s high tariffs on ethanol and pet food, to India’s high levies on almonds and pecans, to Japan’s longstanding barriers to American potatoes.”

Trump Asks Supreme Court to Allow Mass Firings

March 24, 2025 at 1:56 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Monday to allow it to follow through with its attempt to fire thousands of probationary workers across the federal government,” Politico reports.

“The administration filed an emergency appeal of a March 13 ruling from U.S. District Judge William Alsup, who ordered the government to immediately rehire probationary workers who had been terminated at six federal agencies.”

Washington Aghast at War Plans Group Chat

March 24, 2025 at 1:55 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Members of Congress and national security staffers were stunned Monday by a bombshell report that top Trump administration officials — including the vice president and Defense secretary — discussed war plans in a Signal group chat,” Politico reports.

Said Rep. Pat Ryan (D-NY): “Only one word for this: FUBAR. If House Republicans won’t hold a hearing on how this happened IMMEDIATELY, I’ll do it my damn self.”

Why Chuck Schumer Could Be in Trouble

March 24, 2025 at 1:48 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Aaron Blake: “To lead your party in either the House or the Senate is to consent to being disliked. The difficult and often thankless job involves wrangling disparate interests in your caucus, making hard decisions and sometimes falling on a political grenade or two for your side. So it should be no surprise that most recent congressional leaders were pretty unpopular.”

“But even against that backdrop, Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-NY) is in a bad spot.”

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