Trump Adviser Says Countries Offering Zero Tariffs Isn’t Good Enough
One of Donald Trump’s top economic advisers, Peter Navarro, is blowing off an offer from Vietnam to eliminate all of its tariffs on American goods.In an interview on CNBC Monday, Navarro said that the...
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Print Media to Mass Protests: “Please Turn to Page 18”
On Saturday, April 5, hundreds of thousands of Americans took to the streets across the nation to protest the harmful policies of Donald Trump’s second term. The “Hands Off!” demonstrations represented...
View ArticleTrump Hits New Levels of Insanity With Fresh China Tariffs
Donald Trump threatened Monday to escalate his trade war with China by ratcheting up tariffs on exports to a staggering 104 percent.In a post on Truth Social, Trump threatened to impose an additional...
View ArticleSupreme Court Helps Trump Keep Innocent Man in El Salvador Megaprison
The Trump administration is doing everything it can to keep a Maryland resident deported by mistake locked up in a notorious El Salvadoran mega-prison—and the Supreme Court is apparently happy to help....
View ArticleTrump’s Anti-DEI Purge Hits Harriet Tubman and Underground Railroad
The Trump administration has removed a picture of Harriet Tubman from the National Park Service page on the Underground Railroad, as first reported by The Washington Post. It also changed the words...
View ArticleElon Musk’s DOGE Cuts Are Sending Social Security Into “Death Spiral”
The Social Security Administration is falling apart at the seams as Elon Musk and his gang of reckless twentysomethings continue their never-ending pursuit to dismantle the federal safety net. The...
View ArticleRFK Jr. Forces Out Top Vaccine Regulator After Fight Over Data
The former top vaccine official at the Food and Drug Administration says he was forced out of his job for trying to protect vaccine data from Robert F. Kennedy Jr.Dr. Peter Marks told The Associated...
View ArticleTreasury Secretary Says Fired Federal Workers Can Work in the Factory
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent thinks that all the federal workers who were fired by DOGE will move to manufacturing and reinvigorate the domestic industry. “We are shedding excess labor in the...
View ArticleCognitive Decline? Trump Calls for Open Borders in Rant on Tariffs
Donald Trump responded to a question about confusing tariff language from his administration by adding to the confusion. During a press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the...
View ArticleTrump Adviser Releases Insane List of Demands for Tariffed Countries
Donald Trump’s chief economic adviser put out a list of outrageous demands Monday for other countries inflicted by the president’s tariffs to start “burden sharing.”Stephen Miran, chair of the Council...
View ArticleTrump Forgets Basic European History in Bizarre Tariff Rant
The European Union graciously offered to negotiate with Donald Trump on tariffs before retaliating, but the U.S. president is too blinded by his own conspiracy to even consider the deal.On Monday,...
View ArticleTrump Border Czar Tried to Deport His Own Neighbors. It Didn’t Work.
A mother and her three children were released from ICE detention Monday, after they were detained during an immigration raid in Sackets Harbor, New York, late last month.Public outrage has overtaken...
View ArticleTrump Rages Wildly at Tariff Blowback as GOPers Start Turning on Him
As the chaos grows around President Trump’s tariffs, the Mad King is now raging wildly in many directions. He erupted over China’s reciprocal tariffs, threatening dark retribution. He exploded at...
View ArticleEverybody Hates Howard Lutnick
Until last week, nobody was more despised inside the Trump White House than “special government employee” Elon Musk. But after Musk’s $25 million belly flop in the Wisconsin Supreme Court election...
View ArticleThe Bleak, Defeatist Rise of “Climate Realism”
Amid all the bad climate news flowing out of the Trump administration, you might have missed a quiet new consensus congealing in think tanks and big business. The targets set out by the Paris climate...
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Here’s What One of Trump’s Grantee Termination Letters Looks Like
I was driving my daughter to hockey practice, scrolling through my emails at a stoplight, when a jarring subject line popped up: “Notice of Grant Termination—Effective April 3, 2025”—that is to say,...
View ArticleTranscript: Unwell Trump Rages at China, GOP as Allies Turn on Tariffs
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the April 8 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here.Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presented by...
View ArticleChina Warns Trump It Will Fight to the End After Tariffs Threat
China has promised to “fight to the end” in the face of even more tariffs from President Trump.“If China does not withdraw its 34% increase above their already long term trading abuses by tomorrow,...
View ArticleMAGA Rages at Amy Coney Barrett After She Turns Against Trump
In any sane reality, President Trump’s deportation of immigrants based on an eighteenth-century law, with no right to due process, would be swiftly remedied by the courts. But to conservatives, such an...
View ArticleElon Musk’s DOGE Is Now Using AI to Spy on Federal Workers
Elon Musk, who wants AI to replace federal workers, is now using it to spy on them.After speaking to 20 people close to the situation, Reuters has reported that officials within the Trump...
View ArticleTop Democrats Launch Probe Into Elon Musk’s Efforts to Get Even Richer
Democrats on the House Oversight Committee sent a letter to the Department of Commerce Tuesday as part of a new investigation into Elon Musk’s glaring conflicts of interest.In a six-page letter to...
View ArticleTrump Claims Nazis Treated Jewish Prisoners With “Love”
In his latest rewrite of European history, Donald Trump made a ridiculous and sympathetic declaration about the Nazis. Amid the tariff chaos he spurred, Trump met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin...
View ArticleKetanji Brown Jackson Blasts Supreme Court’s Increasingly Shady Moves
Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson slammed the “inequitable” and “inappropriate” way the court ruled to allow Donald Trump to proceed with his deportations under the Alien Enemies Act of...
View ArticleTrump Announces Record Pentagon Budget as DOGE Cuts Everything Else
Donald Trump’s quest to slash the federal government appears to end with the Pentagon. The president announced Monday that he wants the Department of Defense to have a $1 trillion budget, its highest...
View ArticleTrump Weighs Bombing Mexico—Because Everything Else Is Going So Well
The Trump administration is thinking about bombing Mexico. Former and current U.S. military officials who spoke with NBC News said that communication between the White House, the Defense Department,...
View ArticleEconomist Cited in Trump’s Wild Tariffs Says He Got Math “Very Wrong”
The Trump administration’s calculations justifying the most consequential tariff scheme of the last century are all wrong.In an op-ed for The New York Times published Monday, economist Brent Neiman,...
View ArticleSupreme Court Backs Trump on Fired Federal Workers—For Now
The Supreme Court blocked an order Tuesday requiring the government to reinstate roughly 16,000 probationary federal employees ousted as part of the Department of Government Efficiency’s massive...
View ArticleTrump Trade Adviser Struggles to Explain Tariffs on Top U.S. Ally
Senator Mark Warner became exasperated Tuesday with Trump Trade Representative Jamieson Greer as he was unable to give a real answer as to why the president hit Australia—a key ally, with whom the U.S....
View ArticleMusk Trashes Trump’s “Moron” Trade Adviser Amid Major Tariff Blowback
Elon Musk called Donald Trump’s top trade adviser Peter Navarro “dumber than a sack of bricks” Tuesday, once again betraying the administration’s deep rift over the president’s disastrous tariffs....
View ArticleJustice Department Announces Stunning Change on Crypto Investigations
Trump’s Justice Department is going to pull back on prosecuting cryptocurrency fraud, according to a memo from Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche.The memo, sent to the Justice Department Monday,...
View ArticleLawyer Representing Student Protester Detained by Immigration Agents
The Trump administration is continuing its unconstitutional attack on attorneys it disagrees with, this time by detaining an American citizen.Amir Makled, an attorney representing a pro-Palestinian...
View ArticleIRS Strikes Unprecedented Deal With ICE on Undocumented Immigrants
On Monday, the Internal Revenue Service agreed to start sharing tax data with Immigration and Customs Enforcement to help the Trump administration find and deport undocumented immigrants, according to...
View ArticlePro-Israel Group Asks Pam Bondi to Investigate YouTube Star Ms. Rachel
The right-wing StopAntisemitism group thinks that children’s YouTube educator Ms. Rachel should be investigated by Attorney General Pam Bondi for “pro-Hamas propaganda.”The New York Post reports that...
View ArticlePress Secretary Says Trump Wasn’t Joking About Deporting U.S. Citizens
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt waffled Tuesday when asked about Donald Trump’s threat to deport U.S. citizens to foreign prisons. During a press briefing, Leavitt was asked to explain...
View ArticleTrump’s Tariffs Are Already Destroying Small U.S. Businesses
Small-business owners are already feeling the effects of Donald Trump’s tariff scheme that he claims will boost American manufacturing and bring jobs back to the United States.Many have flocked to...
View ArticleThe Supreme Court Rewards Trump’s Defiance
The Supreme Court handed a major victory to the Trump administration in its efforts to carry out mass deportations. In a 5–4 vote in Trump v. J.G.G., the justices lifted a temporary injunction against...
View ArticleTrump Press Secretary Says Everyone Is Lying About Hating the Tariffs
The Trump administration is desperately trying to save its image as the president’s reciprocal tariff scheme tanks global markets and sparks fear of a recession.“Everybody in Washington, whether they...
View ArticleSotomayor’s Harsh Dissent on Trump Arrests Offers a Terrifying Warning
The fate of dozens of Venezuelans deported by the Trump administration to a maximum security prison in El Salvador remains in doubt. So does the fate of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who administration...
View ArticleThe Trump Resistance Is Here—Whether Democrats Want It or Not
As President Trump addressed the 2024 World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers at the White House on Monday, he broke from his prepared remarks to single out the baseball team’s star shortstop....
View ArticleWhat Republicans Don’t Want You to Know About Private High-Speed Rail
In late February, Trump’s Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy—dutifully doing his boss’s bidding—announced an investigation into the California High-Speed Rail Authority’s use of a $3.1 billion federal...
View ArticleThe Best “New” Idea for Middle East Peace? It’s 25 Years Old.
On February 4, President Donald Trump came up with one of his trademark tremendous ideas. Vacate the entire Gaza Strip and turn it into the Las Vegas Strip. Here was the agent of chaos, a.k.a. the...
View ArticleTranscript: Sotomayor’s Harsh New Dissent Contains One Terrifying Line
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the April 9 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here.Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presented by...
View ArticleChina Hits Back at Trump’s Tariffs in Major Retaliation
China has announced that it will retaliate against Donald Trump’s tariffs by raising its own tariffs on U.S. goods from 34 percent to 84 percent, in response to Trump’s own tariff hike on...
View ArticleEU Targets Republican States With Tariffs in Trump Payback
The European Union has responded to Trump’s trade war with tariffs of their own that deliberately target red states.The European Commission on Wednesday greenlit tariffs of up to 25 percent on...
View ArticleTrump Reveals Real Reason He’s Doubling Down on Disastrous Tariffs
President Donald Trump’s disastrous tariffs were never anything more than a power trip.During a speech Tuesday night at the National Republican Congressional Committee Dinner in Washington, Trump...
View ArticleRepublican Senator Begs Trump to Cut a Deal on Tariffs
Everyone has started to feel the tariff pain. In a town hall hosted by Fox News’s Sean Hannity on Tuesday, Senator John Kennedy said that he hopes Donald Trump “takes a deal” in order to reduce the...
View ArticleMAGA Influencers Turn Against Trump as Tariffs Kick In
Some of Donald Trump’s most ardent supporters are expressing dread and alarm as the president’s tariff policy continues to throttle the stock market and hurt their own pockets. Last weekend, DOGE...
View ArticleICE Director: Deportations Will Be Like Amazon Prime—but With Humans
If Donald Trump’s mass deportations weren’t already dystopian enough, the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement says he wants to make them look like Amazon Prime.Todd Lyons made the...
View ArticleTrump Brags About Tariffs as New Trade War Front Opens Up
President Donald Trump counseled everyone to stay “cool” Wednesday following a disturbing escalation in his global trade war.“BE COOL! Everything is going to work out well. The USA will be bigger and...
View ArticleFox Host Rips Trump Treasury Secretary for Downplaying Recession Odds
A recession is all perspective, according to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.The economic adviser attempted to convince Fox Business’s Maria Bartiromo Wednesday that business executives she spoke with...
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