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AlterNet Crooks and Liars Daily Kos (Note: these articles are from RSS News Feeds websites, and are deleted after 30 days, April 7, 2025 at 8:01 PM EDT President Donald Trump lived up to his title as the world's pettiest world leader once again on Monday by threatening to slap China with an additional 50% tariff unless it removes its 34% retaliatory tax on U.S. goods. "If China does not withdraw its 34% increase above their already long term trading abuses by tomorrow, April 8th, 2025, the United States will impose ADDITIONAL Tariffs on China of 50%, effective April 9th," Trump wrote on Truth Social. April 7, 2025 at 8:01 PM EDT President Donald Trump lived up to his title as the world's pettiest world leader once again on Monday by threatening to slap China with an additional 50% tariff unless it removes its 34% retaliatory tax on U.S. goods. "If China does not withdraw its 34% increase above their already long term trading abuses by tomorrow, April 8th, 2025, the United States will impose ADDITIONAL Tariffs on China of 50%, effective April 9th," Trump wrote on Truth Social. April 7, 2025 at 8:00 PM EDT A daily roundup of the best stories and cartoons by Daily Kos staff and contributors to keep you in the know. Inside the Trump administration's AI fever dream April 7, 2025 at 8:00 PM EDT A daily roundup of the best stories and cartoons by Daily Kos staff and contributors to keep you in the know. Inside the Trump administration's AI fever dream April 7, 2025 at 7:59 PM EDT What a week. In the immortal words of our philosopher businessman president, "HANK TOUGH!" Which sounds like the name of a 90s action movie protagonist. Fox News has been avoiding economic news like the plague this week, going so far as to take the stock market ticker off their chyron, but eventually even their viewers are going to notice the decimated retirement funds, skyrocketing prices and inevitable global recession. April 7, 2025 at 7:30 PM EDT Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts granted a stay Monday pausing a lower court order that gave the Trump administration until 12 AM Tuesday to return a wrongly deported father of three from a maximum security prison in El Salvador to the U.S. The administrative stay issued by Roberts gives the highest court extra time to issue a final ruling, which is expected in the next few days. Facing the original midnight deadline, the Trump administration on Monday filed a motion arguing that the order to return the Maryland man was an "unprecedented" overstepping of authority by U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis. April 7, 2025 at 7:30 PM EDT Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts granted a stay Monday pausing a lower court order that gave the Trump administration until 12 AM Tuesday to return a wrongly deported father of three from a maximum security prison in El Salvador to the U.S. The administrative stay issued by Roberts gives the highest court extra time to issue a final ruling, which is expected in the next few days. Facing the original midnight deadline, the Trump administration on Monday filed a motion arguing that the order to return the Maryland man was an "unprecedented" overstepping of authority by U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis. April 7, 2025 at 6:30 PM EDT Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said that the thousands of federal workers President Donald Trump and co-President Elon Musk have fired will become the workforce in factories Trump says will return to America thanks to his new tariff policy. Bessent made the comment in an interview with right-wing zealot Tucker Carlson, who was trying to build support for Trump's insane tariffs that are tanking global stock markets and raising the odds that the United States sinks into a deep recession. April 7, 2025 at 6:30 PM EDT Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said that the thousands of federal workers President Donald Trump and co-President Elon Musk have fired will become the workforce in factories Trump says will return to America thanks to his new tariff policy. Bessent made the comment in an interview with right-wing zealot Tucker Carlson, who was trying to build support for Trump's insane tariffs that are tanking global stock markets and raising the odds that the United States sinks into a deep recession. April 7, 2025 at 5:30 PM EDT Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum announced last week that the Trump administration will be moving forward with a new 2025 lease sale of oil in the Gulf of Mexico""or, as they like to call it, the Gulf of America. In other words, they'll be auctioning off drilling rights in the Gulf to Big Oil over the next few years. April 7, 2025 at 4:30 PM EDT An 8-year-old Texas child died of pulmonary failure as a result of measles, marking the third confirmed measles death and the second death of a child from measles to occur in the United States in decades. Both children were unvaccinated. "[T]here are 642 confirmed cases of measles across 22 states, 499 of those in Texas," Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wrote on X. April 7, 2025 at 3:30 PM EDT Top Democrats on the House and Senate judiciary committees sent letters to two law firms that struck deals with President Donald Trump to avoid being punished for hiring or representing people who Trump considers enemies. According to the Washington Post, Democrats Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland and Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut sent letters to Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison and Willkie Farr & Gallagher, both of which agreed to spend tens of millions of dollars on pro-bono legal work for Trump's pet causes to get back in his good graces. |
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