“The Justice Department has placed on administrative leave a government immigration lawyer who in court this week expressed frustration at not being able to answer key questions from a judge over a mistaken deportation case,“ CNN reports.
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Trump’s Cash Registers Ring as Meltdown Plays Out
“The financial market meltdown was underway when President Trump boarded Air Force One on his way to Florida on Thursday for a doubleheader of sorts: a Saudi-backed golf tournament at his family’s Miami resort and a weekend of fund-raisers attracting hundreds of donors to his Palm Beach club,” the New York Times reports.
“It was a fresh reminder that in his second term, Mr. Trump has continued to find ways to drive business to his family-owned real-estate ventures, a practice he has sustained even when his work in Washington has caused worldwide financial turmoil.”
Doug Emhoff Slams His Law Firm for Caving to Trump
“Speaking at a charity gala dinner Thursday night in Los Angeles, former second gentleman Doug Emhoff condemned the decision by his law firm to preemptively come to an arrangement with the Trump administration to avoid an executive order targeting the firm,” CNN reports.
“Emhoff is a partner at Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, which this week agreed to a deal with President Donald Trump, which the president said includes the firm providing at least $100 million in pro bono legal services throughout his second term.”
Bonus Quote of the Day
“He’s at the peak of just not giving a fuck anymore. Bad news stories? Doesn’t give a fuck. He’s going to do what he’s going to do.”
— A White House official, quoted by the Washington Post, on Donald Trump.
No Adults in the Room
Daniel Drezner: “There was no process. There are no power brokers. On questions of trade, there’s Donald Trump’s whims, his collection of clown car enablers, and maybe an intern who plugs some things into ChatGPT. That’s pretty much it.”
Canada Behind Anti-Tariff Billboards
“Black and white billboards that popped up throughout Michigan have a simple message: ‘Tariffs are a tax,’” MLive reports.
“Paid for by the Canadian government, the billboards have been placed on key highways in 12 states and Washington D.C. in response to an escalating trade war with the United States.”
Playbook: “Michigan is a crucial midterm state for both parties, with four statewide seats open and possibly three very competitive House seats. Put quite simply: How this state responds to Trump’s trade war couldn’t matter more ahead of the 2026 midterms.”
Republicans Breaking with Trump Over Tariffs
A bill to rein in President Trump’s tariff powers already has seven Republican co-sponsors in the U.S. Senate, the Wall Street Journal reports.
Quote of the Day
“Imagine if I had done any of this.”
— Barack Obama, quoted by USA Today.
Trump Brings Overnight Chaos
“In one 48-minute speech, President Trump scrambled every American’s budget, every U.S. company’s balance sheet and every global alliance,” Axios reports.
“Tariffs, a sometimes obscure economic tool, have massive power, especially when enacted this expansively.”
“Think fundamental re-ordering of the economy. Americans are staring down a disruption to their standard of living. Companies are about to find out how bad bad can get. The ripple effects may be felt for years to come.”
China Declares ‘the Market Has Spoken’
China’s Foreign Ministry on Saturday said “the market has spoken” following the U.S. imposition of sweeping new tariffs and called for the White House to defuse the escalating trade war through “equal-footed consultation,” CNBC reports.
Car Maker Stops Shipments to the U.S.
Luxury car maker Jaguar Land Rover confirms it’ll pause shipments to the U.S. after new 25% tariffs on foreign-made cars were introduced, the BBC reports.
House Budget Leader Slams Senate Budget Framework
The House Republican leadership is tentatively planning to bring up the House-Senate budget resolution in the Rules Committee Monday, Punchbowl News reports.
However, House Budget Committee Chair Jodey Arrington (R-TX) is out with a blistering statement saying the Senate’s reconciliation instructions are “unserious and disappointing,” raising concerns about the impact on the debt.
Arrington said the current policy baseline, which the Senate used to zero out the cost of the tax cuts, “sets a dangerous precedent.”
It Should Not Have Been a Surprise to Anyone
Garry Kasparov: “As I’ve said for years about Putin, and which applies to other autocratic personalities like Trump: ‘Dictators always lie about what they’ve done, but are often quite plain about what they want to do.’ ‘Trump would never…’ is the new ‘Putin would never…’”
“Such people do and take whatever they can, unless they are stopped. That they don’t always succeed does not mean they were not sincere in their ambitions and won’t keep trying to fulfill them. Trump has only been emboldened by the sycophantic GOP this time around.”
An Orwellian Solution to Pay for Trump’s Tax Cuts
Catherine Rampell: “Senate Republicans on Wednesday decided their party alone would control how math works. This is a pressing legislative question at present, because pretzeling budgetary outcomes into prettier shapes and sizes will determine whether Republicans can pass President Donald Trump’s promised tax cuts.”
“Those cuts are very expensive. Not only do they include extensions of the 2017 tax law provisions (set to expire this year), but they also lower corporate rates as well as carveouts for tips, auto loan payments and other goodies. In total, Trump’s preferred tax agenda could cost between $5 trillion and $11 trillion over the next decade.”
“This is inconvenient. Republicans like to pretend they’re fiscal conservatives (at least some of the time). They would prefer not to acknowledge the hefty price tag, and they also don’t want to fully offset it with unpopular spending cuts.”
“So, they’ve devised a cheat. Rather than admitting how much their tax agenda would cost, they are simply asserting that they get their first $4 trillion — free!”
Trump Weakens U.S. Cyberdefenses
“When President Trump abruptly fired the head of the National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command on Thursday, it was the latest in a series of moves that have torn away at the country’s cyberdefenses just as they are confronting the most sophisticated and sustained attacks in the nation’s history,” the New York Times reports.
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Obama Calls on Americans to Resist
Barack Obama called on universities and law firms to stand up to intimidation from President Donald Trump’s administration and urged Americans to prepare to “possibly sacrifice” in support of democratic values, the Washington Post reports.
Trump’s Approval Upside Down
A new Wall Street Journal poll finds President Trump’s approval underwater at 46% to 51%.
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