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• Democrats reject advice to 'play dead,' vow hard fight against Trump’s domestic agenda

  30-03-2025 18:00 via thehill.com
  
  A month ago, James Carville, the highly influential Democratic strategist, advised his party to “play dead” and allow President Trump and his Republican allies who control Congress to self-destruct under the weight of unpopular policies.House Democrats are rejecting the strategy outright. Heading into the high-stakes battle over Trump’s sweeping domestic agenda, Democratic leaders are instead launching a forceful, in-your-face battle over the GOP’s plans for tax
  
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• Tech group CEO: Trump tariffs will 'drive inflation,' 'kill jobs'

  03-04-2025 15:34 via thehill.com
  
  The head of the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) warned that President Trump’s sweeping tariffs will “drive inflation” and “kill jobs,” risking a recession in the U.S. Trump announced his most wide-ranging slate of tariffs yet on Wednesday afternoon, imposing a 10 percent baseline tax on imports from nearly all foreign countries, along with tariffs of up to 50 percent on dozens of nations. “These tariffs will raise consumer prices and will force
  
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• Markets plunge in reaction to Trump 'Liberation Day' tariffs

  03-04-2025 15:32 via thehill.com
  
  Stocks plunged Thursday morning as U.S. trading opened for the first time after President Trump’s announcement of heavy tariffs on nearly every nation exporting products to the United States.The Dow Jones Industrial Average opened with a loss of more than 1,200 points, falling 2.8 percent on the day. The S&P 500 index opened with a loss of 3.3 percent, and the Nasdaq composite opened with a loss of 4.4 percent.Trump announced Wednesday he would impose a 10 percent tariff on all import
  
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• Senate Democrat: Tariffs 'will come back to haunt Donald Trump'

  03-04-2025 15:26 via thehill.com
  
  Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) weighed in the latest tariff announcement from President Trump, telling reporters that the new taxes will "come back to haunt" Trump and cause prices to increase.“The President's tariffs threaten recession, but very immediately they are attacks, they'll raise prices on everything from electricity to gas to groceries,” Blumenthal said Wednesday from the Capitol.The new tariff measures directed at nearly every country around the world, according to the
  
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• Speaker Johnson backs Donalds for Florida governor

  03-04-2025 15:07 via thehill.com
  
  Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Fla.) backed Rep. Byron Donalds's (R-Fla.) bid for governor on Thursday, becoming the latest Republican to throw their support behind the congressman. “Byron Donalds is a principled conservative leader who Floridians can trust as their next governor,” Johnson told Politico. “In Congress, Byron has been tenacious in standing up for Florida and President Trump’s America First agenda. I have no doubt he will bring that same fighting spirit w
  
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• Ontario premier ‘cautiously optimistic’ amid Trump tariffs

  03-04-2025 14:52 via thehill.com
  
  (NewsNation) — Ontario Premier Doug Ford sounded a conciliatory note Wednesday after President Trump announced a new slate of tariffs on foreign trade partners — minus Canada and Mexico.“Make no mistake about it, Canadians love Americans. They love the U.S., and I do, too,” Ford told NewsNation's “The Hill” on Wednesday, saying he is "cautiously optimistic" about trade between the two countries.Ford, leader of Canada's most populous province, previously recei
  
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• Threats, calls for negotiations in wake of Trump tariffs

  03-04-2025 14:35 via thehill.com
  
  Countries around globe have responded to President Trump's latest tariffs with either threats of retaliation or calls for negotiation.Trump on Wednesday imposed a 10-percent base tax on all goods coming into the U.S., with the exception of items from Mexico and Canada — trading partners the administration has already targeted with 25 percent tariffs. In addition, the president signaled that some countries could see as high as 54 percent tariffs.In his announcement, Trump argued that natio
  
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• Treasury secretary: 'My advice to every country right now is do not retaliate'

  03-04-2025 14:16 via thehill.com
  
  Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent encouraged countries around the world to refrain from retaliating against the U.S. in light of President Trump’s reset of tariff policy, arguing the administration is preparing the U.S. for “long-term” economic growth. “My advice to every country right now is, do not retaliate, sit back, take it in, let's see how it goes, because, if you retaliate, there will be escalation. If you don't retaliate, this is the high water-mark,” B
  
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• Trump gambles on tariffs as nation braces for economic fallout

  03-04-2025 12:00 via thehill.com
  
  President Trump took his biggest gamble yet on the economy Wednesday when he pressed forward with sweeping tariffs on imports from nearly every country in the world.But in fulfilling a key campaign promise, he also ignored warnings that targeting key trading partners – from the likes of China, Japan and the European Union – will raise prices at home and risk the eruption of a global trade war.The tariffs also stand to inject a fresh round of uncertainty in the stock market and a slew
  
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• Speaker Johnson scrambles for solutions to parental proxy voting impasse

  03-04-2025 12:00 via thehill.com
  
  Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is scrambling to break the impasse over the push to allow proxy voting for new parents, as the standoff between GOP leadership and Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) hardens.A band of nine Republicans, led by Luna, joined with Democrats Tuesday to torpedo a vote on a procedural rule that included language to thwart the proxy voting effort, halting unrelated key legislative business on the House floor and prompting leadership to send lawmakers home for the week.To re-ope
  
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• Political pendulum swings back toward Democrats

  03-04-2025 12:00 via thehill.com
  
  Embattled Democrats have new reason to hope. The party has spent the early months of the year soul-searching the causes of a bitter election defeat and fighting internally over how best to counter President Trump and his fierce effort to dismantle the traditional workings of Washington. But Democrats this week have watched the political pendulum swing back sharply in their favor.In Wisconsin, they easily won a hard-fought battle for a coveted seat on the state Supreme Court, despi
  
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• Mistaken deportation to Salvadoran prison highlight stakes of Trump plans

  03-04-2025 12:00 via thehill.com
  
  The Trump administration’s admission that it sent a Maryland man to a Salvadoran prison in error shows the need for outside oversight, critics say, as they fight efforts to ship migrants to overseas facilities.Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national, was sent by the Trump administration to El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) despite being granted protection from removal in 2019 by an immigration judge.The Trump team admitted the mistake — something
  
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• GOP may look to Trump for answer on Luna's proxy vote war

  03-04-2025 12:00 via thehill.com
  
  With the House at a standstill amid GOP disputes about proxy voting for new parents, a sense is growing that President Trump might have to weigh in to get them out of the chaos — and he is already being pulled into the battle.The arcane disputes on constitutionality, quorum, discharge petitions, procedural rules, and hardball tactics from leadership appeared to — understandably — be extremely low on the president’s priority list. White House Press Secretary Karo
  
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• Democrats find reasons for hope from elections, GOP stumbles

  03-04-2025 12:00 via thehill.com
  
  Embattled Democrats have new reason to hope. The party has spent the early months of the year soul-searching the causes of a bitter election defeat and fighting internally over how best to counter President Trump and his fierce effort to dismantle the traditional workings of Washington. But Democrats this week have watched the political pendulum swing into their favor.In Wisconsin, they easily won a hard-fought battle for a coveted seat on the state Supreme Court, despite a massiv
  
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• Breaking down the Wisconsin, Florida special elections

  03-04-2025 12:00 via thehill.com
  
  Democrats on Tuesday scored a win in Wisconsin’s Supreme Court race, while Republicans held on to two seats in deep-red Florida districts, raising questions about what the results mean as both parties look ahead to next year’s midterms. While off-year special elections don’t see the same turnout as a general election, Democrats say President Trump and Elon Musk are proving to be turnout machines for their liberal base. Some Republicans have brushed off the results, ho
  
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• Republicans seen more favorably, more united than Democrats: Poll

  03-04-2025 04:43 via thehill.com
  
  Americans hold more favorable views of Republicans than Democrats, even as favorability remains grim across the board, according to the latest Economist/YouGov poll.In the survey, released Wednesday, Republicans in Congress have a net negative 13 favorability — with 39 percent viewing them favorably and 52 percent unfavorably.Congressional Democrats, meanwhile, perform twice as poorly, with a net negative 29 favorability rating, including 31 percent who view them favorably and 60 percent w
  
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• Senate GOP unease sets in after Trump tariff rollout 

  03-04-2025 03:03 via thehill.com
  
  Senate Republicans are feeling increasingly uneasy after President Trump rolled out his “Liberation Day” batch of tariffs, which are threatening to further dent the U.S.'s economic standing after weeks of questions over what new levies would be included.Trump on Wednesday unveiled steep reciprocal tariffs against numerous nations, including allies and adversaries alike, that were larger than expected, setting off a sharp downturn on Wall Street in the futures market that could porten
  
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• Five things to know about Republicans’ new blueprint to pass Trump's agenda

  03-04-2025 01:35 via thehill.com
  
  Senate Republicans on Wednesday rolled out a 70-page blueprint to advance President Trump’s tax agenda, along with directions that could pave the way for more than a trillion dollars in cuts to government spending.The resolution comes after weeks of negotiations between House and Senate Republicans to reach a compromise on how to enact the president’s priorities. Republicans are pushing to quickly adopt the resolution to kickstart a complex process that will allow them to eventually
  
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• 5 things to know about Republicans’ new blueprint to pass Trump's agenda

  03-04-2025 01:35 via thehill.com
  
  Senate Republicans on Wednesday rolled out a 70-page blueprint to advance President Trump’s tax agenda, along with directions that could pave the way for more than a trillion dollars in cuts to government spending.The resolution comes after weeks of negotiations between House and Senate Republicans to reach a compromise on how to enact the president’s priorities. Republicans are pushing to quickly adopt the resolution to kick-start a complex process that will allow them to eventually
  
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• 5 takeaways from Trump's major tariff announcement

  03-04-2025 01:34 via thehill.com
  
  President Trump reset U.S. trade policy on Wednesday by announcing a 10-percent general tariff on all imports to the U.S. with the exception of Canada and Mexico, along with targeted tariffs on dozens of additional countries.The move makes good one of the central promises of Trump’s presidential campaign and represents a course correction in U.S. trade posture that Trump started during his first term.Trump’s general tariff follows two months of stop-and-start tariff announcements fro
  
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• Schumer on Trump's new tariffs: A 'huge tax on American families' to 'help billionaires get a tax cut'

  03-04-2025 01:24 via thehill.com
  
  Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday slammed President Trump’s sweeping new tariffs, calling them a “huge tax” on the average American family.“This is a huge tax on American families, all — all — to help billionaires get a tax cut,” Schumer said at the Capitol on Wednesday, suggesting the tariffs announced are intended to generate revenue to supplement the cost of extending the 2017 tax cuts.Trump announced a baseline 10 percent tar
  
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• Fine, Patronis sworn in after special Florida election, boosting thin GOP House majority

  03-04-2025 00:45 via thehill.com
  
  Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Wednesday swore in newly elected Florida Reps. Jimmy Patronis (R) and Randy Fine (R).The two won special elections Tuesday, and their quick entry to the House gives Johnson some additional room to navigate the GOP’s razor-thin margin. The House now stands at 220 Republicans and 213 Democrats, meaning Johnson can lose three GOP votes and still pass a party-line bill. At one point this year, that margin stood at one vote.The two lawmakers, who were both endors
  
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• Sean Duffy’s daughter lays into Luna proxy voting push: 'Feel free to resign'

  03-04-2025 00:44 via thehill.com
  
  Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy’s daughter, Evita Duffy-Alfonso, laid into the effort for proxy voting led by Florida Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna after the House tanked a procedural rule on Tuesday.“When my baby sister was born with two holes in her heart and needed a very risky surgery, my father, @SecDuffy, knew he needed to be at home with his newborn daughter, my mother, and my eight siblings,” Duffy-Alfonso, 25, posted on the social platform X.“So my dad re
  
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• USDA freezes funding for Maine schools over transgender athletes

  03-04-2025 00:27 via thehill.com
  
  The Department of Agriculture said Wednesday it had frozen federal funds for some Maine education programs over the state’s refusal to ban transgender students from girls’ and women’s sports as ordered by President Trump and his administration. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins announced the freeze following a letter sent to Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) explaining funding would be paused “for certain administrative and technological functions in schools.”
  
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• Trump says Great Depression would never have started if tariffs continued

  03-04-2025 00:20 via thehill.com
  
  President Trump on Wednesday said that the 1930s Great Depression wouldn’t have happened if tariffs had continued, while announcing his massive tariff plan to hit trading partners.The president argued that before the income tax on U.S. citizens was established in 1913, the U.S. leaned into tariffs and was collecting money from other countries. Then, he argued that the U.S. ended tariffs, despite a tariff act from President Herbert Hoover at the time.“In 1929, it all came to a very ab
  
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• Johnson: ‘Working on every possible accommodation’ for mothers amid parental proxy voting impasse

  03-04-2025 00:19 via thehill.com
  
  Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Wednesday said he is “working on every possible accommodation” to make it easier for mothers to serve in Congress amid the impasse between GOP leadership and Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) over parental proxy voting.“Proxy voting aside, I am actively working on every possible accommodation to make Congressional service simpler for young mothers,” Johnson wrote on X. “As the pro-family party, our aim as Republicans is to support those
  
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• Crockett responds to Bondi's 'threat' over Musk criticism

  03-04-2025 00:17 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) on Wednesday pushed back against Attorney General Pam Bondi after the Justice Department head criticized the Texas Democrat’s comments about tech billionaire Elon Musk being “taken down” multiple times.“To have her go on Fox News, and to then decide that she wanted to send a threat to me, it was wrong,” Crockett said during a House Judiciary Subcommittee on Oversight hearing. “Because here it is, she is the highest law enfo
  
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• Senate, House GOP split over size of debt-limit increase

  02-04-2025 23:00 via thehill.com
  
  A major discrepancy has already arisen between Senate and House Republicans in the budget resolution they plan to adopt in order to pass President Trump's domestic agenda.The 70-page resolution Senate Republicans unveiled Wednesday afternoon would serve as a blueprint, laying out instructions lawmakers will use to write a final bill full of Trump's top priorities. The House and Senate previously passed competing resolutions and have spent weeks trying to get on the same page.But Senate Republica
  
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• Trump's 'Liberation Day' tariffs: Here's how much countries are getting hit

  02-04-2025 22:57 via thehill.com
  
  President Trump on Wednesday announced he was imposing reciprocal tariffs on dozens of nations, citing what he called years of unfair trade practices.Trump announced in the Rose Garden that all foreign countries would face a baseline 10 percent tariff, but several nations are being hit with steeper tariffs on imports.
  Trump said those reciprocal tariffs will be calculated by combining the rate of tariffs and nonmonetary barriers such as currency manipulation, and then dividing that total in half
  
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• Trump reaches deal with another major law firm

  02-04-2025 22:42 via thehill.com
  
  President Trump announced Wednesday that he reached another deal with a major law firm, Milbank LLP, as he seeks to punish organizations with ties to his political critics.
  Milbank is the latest in a string of firms looking to cut a deal with the president after he signed orders in recent weeks reviewing security clearances and government contracts for several Big Law companies, which he says have acted improperly.In his announcement, Trump said Milbank has agreed to perform at least $100 millio
  
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