A bipartisan bill to put a congressional “check” on Trump’s tariff powers faces steep odds of passage. A new poll shows that a majority of Americans oppose tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump and want Congress to take action to limit current and future tariffs. The poll comes as bipartisan support grows for a bill...
Great news, as far as it goes. And that’s the question that will endear the Trump administration to federal judges around the country when Russ Vought unleashes this new legal strategy. Or perhaps more accurately, it will make trial lawyers in the regulatory sphere wealthy … as far as this goes. The New York Times...
Bernd Debusmann Jr BBC News, White House Getty Images Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent addressed reporters within minutes of Trump’s tariffs pause on 9 April In the chaotic minutes after US President Donald Trump’s administration abruptly reversed course and paused dozens of sweeping “reciprocal” tariffs, one man quickly became the public face of the decision: Treasury...
Aggressive deportation tactics have terrorized farmworkers at the center of the nation’s bird flu strategy, public health workers say. Dairy and poultry workers have accounted for most cases of the bird flu in the U.S. — and preventing and detecting cases among them is key to averting a pandemic. But public health specialists say they’re...
Well, well, well. In a US customs messaging note quietly slipped out in the early hours of Saturday, a series of numbers were listed as exempt from the 125% tariff on goods entering the country from China. The code “8517.13.00.00” means very little to most of the world, but in the US customs list it...
Natalie Sherman BBC News Reporting fromNew York, New York BBC Days after Richard Medina went looking for a smartphone to beat new tariffs, the US announced the devices would be exempt from the duties When his camera stopped working on his iPhone recently, New Yorker Richard Medina didn’t waste any time. With the threat of...
As conditions in the United States grow increasingly unstable — with federal agencies unraveling and Trump unleashing reckless economic chaos — many have turned their attention away from Palestine and the Palestine solidarity movement. Meanwhile, the situation in Gaza is deteriorating rapidly. On March 2, Israel broke a two-month-old ceasefire agreement, resuming its bombardment of...
On Wednesday, President Donald Trump abruptly announced a 90-day pause on most of his planned country-specific “reciprocal” tariffs — with the notable exception of the People’s Republic of China. In so strikingly singling out China as the focus of America’s economic and geopolitical ire, Trump was not merely clarifying that the...
With whirlwind tariffs and a looming trade war with China threatening to raise prices, government services halted by sweeping staffing cuts and Republicans in Congress moving to slash the social safety net to pay for tax cuts that would primarily benefit the wealthy, experts say the GOP agenda coalescing under President Donald Trump poses a...
BBC There has been a historic upheaval in American trade policy. The announcement of Donald Trump’s so-called “reciprocal tariffs” on 2 April – what he called “liberation day” – sent a shockwave through the global trading system and financial markets. And the President’s 90-day pause on some of these tariffs on 9 April set off...
Liv McMahon Technology reporter Reuters The world’s most popular gadgets – phones, laptops, tablets, smartwatches – could be about to get a lot more expensive in the US. Many of them are made in China, which now faces a 125% tariff on its goods imported to the US, under President Donald Trump’s controversial trade policy....
David Dixon & Elliot Ball BBC News, South West BBC Ben Wearmouth, from Bott Ltd, said the tariffs were an “evolving situation” Exporting businesses in Devon and Cornwall have been reacting to US President Donald Trump’s tariffs, with one company describing the extra tax as a “surprise”. His universal 10% levy remains in place for...
Last week the remnants of the Department of Education sent letters to state leaders across the country requiring them to certify within 10 days that they were compliant with the Trump administration’s view of DEI in schools. As a condition for receiving federal money, the Trump administration is ordering K-12 schools to certify that they...
Dharshini David Deputy economics editor Getty Images Warnings of a global recession have been intensifying as the trade war heats up. As of Wednesday night, the main animus seems to be between the US and China who are flinging ever-increasing tariffs at each other. For most other nations, Donald Trump has paused implementing higher taxes...
US markets shot up like a rocket on Wednesday after US President Donald Trump issued a 90-day pause on the implementation of higher tariffs, meaning a “universal 10%” levy will be in place for most countries. But the US president hit China with even higher tariffs of 125% due to “their insistence on escalation”, according...
