April 9, 2025 at 9:58 PM EDT
House votes to limit judges' power to rein in Trump

Republicans in the House passed a bill pruning back the only federal division capable of reining in President Donald Trump. By a vote of 219-213, the GOP passed the "No Rogue Rulings Act" to limit judges' ability to issue the kind of nationwide injunctions that have arguably kept the White House from consolidating government power through executive actions. The bill restricts judges' decisions to apply only to the original plaintiffs that brought the suits.

April 9, 2025 at 9:45 PM EDT
'Whole thing is falling apart': Johnson fails to win over GOP holdouts on budget bill

After previously scheduling a vote for Wednesday evening on major budget legislation, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is now retreating and contemplating delaying the vote until next week due to resistance from within his own ranks. NOTUS reported that there were still too many holdouts the House Republican Conference for Johnson to feel confident about holding the vote as planned. Key Republican opponents were mostly members of the far-right House Freedom Caucus, and slammed the Senate Republican version of the budget as "laughable" and "unserious" due to its proposed budget cuts (which Freedom Caucus members viewed as insufficient) and its raising of the debt ceiling by $5 trillion.

April 9, 2025 at 9:11 PM EDT
'I said that': GOP governor caught insulting anti-Trump protesters in profanity-laced rant

A surreptitiously recorded rant by Nevada Republican Governor Joe Lombardo speaking to supporters at a Republican event is going viral on social media. Liberal group MeidasTouch obtained the audio of Lombardo's rant at the Lincoln Day Dinner in Carson City, Nevada over the weekend, which took place the same day that more than 1,400 protests took place at city halls and state capitols across the country. The Nevada chief executive derided protesters to a roomful of Republicans, and suggested without evidence that the Democratic Party was paying people to protest President Donald Trump's administration.

April 9, 2025 at 8:56 PM EDT
'Mommy no!' Watch the moment ICE agents smash window to arrest mother in front of daughter

FOX 5 News in DC and the Baltimore Banner recently posted footage of ICE agents attacking the car of Maryland mother Elsy Noemi Berrios and her daughter, Karen Cruz Berrios, as they were parked in the street on March 31. The elder Barrios is originally from El Salvador and seeking asylum, but the Banner reported she is now being held at the Moshannon Valley Processing Center in Pennsylvania.

April 9, 2025 at 7:22 PM EDT
'Can't live with myself': Even Trump 'superfans' refuse to endorse president's key strategy

The fiscal hawks who upset President Donald Trump's attempt to raise the debt ceiling last December are still a presence in the U.S. House today, and many don't like the taste of the magic math behind the president's tax cuts. The New York Times reported Wednesday afternoon that anti-debt diehards in the Republican Party have no love for party leaders' argument that extending Trump's 2017 tax cuts costs "nothing" because it maintains budget policy that's been underway for eight years.

April 9, 2025 at 5:59 PM EDT
'Is this market manipulation?' Rumors swirling over potential Trump admin insider trading

After one of the best days on Wall Street since World War II, fueled by President Donald Trump and his team's conflicting messages and actions on tariffs, questions are swirling over possible insider trading, market manipulation, and "pump and dump" schemes. President Trump's announcement that he is pausing most of the increased tariffs that went into effect at midnight was met with glee by investors but with questions by critics who note that the President, just minutes after the markets opened Wednesday morning, had declared it a "great time to buy." Less than four hours later, upon news breaking of his "pause" announcement, stock prices surged.

April 9, 2025 at 5:44 PM EDT
If you think Trump voters are changing their tune, you're fooling yourself

Now that trillions of dollars have vanished as a consequence of the Trump tariffs, I see that some liberals who are sitting on high perches are talking about how the tide is turning against the president. They tell us that even Donald Trump's voters are changing their minds. It's things like this that worry me. It tells me that liberals still operate according to certain articles of faith that are well beyond their expiration dates. It tells me that liberals grossly underestimate the power of corruption, greed, arrogance and stupidity, and grossly overestimate the inherent goodness of the American people.

April 9, 2025 at 5:28 PM EDT
GOPer claims Trump MAGAfest was a 'hoax' because he never heard the word 'insurrection' before

Minnesota Rep. Drew Roach, R-Farmington, and Sen. Bill Lieske, R-Lonsdale, called the Jan. 6 insurrection a "hoax" and repeated a false conspiracy theory that the Trump supporters who stormed the Capitol were "actors," during a video podcast posted Monday on YouTube and the popular right wing platform Rumble. Lieske and Roach host a show called "Minnesota Liberty Network." On Monday, the two discussed the state Senate floor vote on a resolution condemning President Donald Trump's blanket pardon of the more than 1,500 people charged with crimes related to the Jan. 6. insurrection. Lieske was absent for the vote, and all 22 of the Republicans present voted against the resolution.

April 9, 2025 at 5:17 PM EDT
Inside Trump's factory fantasy

Donald Trump is selling his economic chaos with a simple story: "In the years 1945-1981, before Reagan and Clinton (and pretty much all of both parties) embraced 'free trade' neoliberalism, a single worker in an American factory could buy a house, take a nice vacation every year, get a new car every two or three years, put his kids through college, and retire with a comfortable pension. All because we made things in America. "When the Free Trade era began, it took 90,000 factories and 40 million high-paying jobs with it to China and other low-wage countries, which kicked off the immiseration of the middle class. To get back to that prosperity, all we need to do is use tariffs to force manufacturing back to the US." It's a story that makes a lot of sense to those who'd lived through that "golden age of manufacturing" era, and the younger workers who see it portrayed in movies and on TV or hear the stories from their grandparents. But it overlooks one massive reality: it wasn't the factories that created the middle class, it was the unions.

April 9, 2025 at 4:55 PM EDT
Trump's chaos creates winners and losers -- and he always makes sure he's on the winning side

In the last week, Trump has gone wild on the global economy, saying tariffs are the key to American prosperity. As a result, global stock and bond markets tanked.

April 9, 2025 at 12:01 PM EDT
'Build up a buffer': Economists detail game plan for surviving 'potential' Trump recession

When JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon made a January 22 appearance on CNBC, he defended tariffs as an "economic tool" and told critics of President Donald Trump's tariff proposals to "get over it." The Wall Street banker was encouraging a wait-and-see approach during the first few days of Trump's second presidency, but now that Trump is moving full speed ahead with steep new tariffs and launching all-out trade wars with a variety of countries, Dimon has a very different tone.

April 9, 2025 at 11:11 AM EDT
'What are we doing here?' Democratic 'malpractice' as Whitmer declares 'I do agree' with Trump

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) is being criticized for saying she agrees with President Donald Trump when it comes to the "motivation" behind the controversial sweeping tariffs the president imposed last week. "People are struggling after years of inflation and wages that just won't keep up. They want a government focused on lowering the cost-of-living," Whitmer said while speaking in Washington, D.C. Wednesday morning.