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• Newsom to world: California open for business

  04-04-2025 18:27 via thehill.com
  
  Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) directed California to pursue “strategic partnerships” with foreign trading partners and is calling for California-made products to be exempted from the retaliatory tariffs targeting the U.S. in light of President Trump slapping massive tariffs on the majority of countries around the world. “Donald Trump's tariffs do not represent all Americans,’ Newsom said in a video that was released on Friday. Newsom, in the brief clip, said that Califo
  
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• Trump tariffs pose danger for vulnerable Republicans

  06-04-2025 12:00 via thehill.com
  
  Vulnerable House Republicans are being put on defense amid the fallout from President Trump’s sweeping global tariffs, which have stoked uncertainty about the economy.Members of the party insist that short-term pain will be outweighed by the long-term benefits of the move, which Trump says is meant to usher in a new era of American prosperity.But some Republicans in swing districts are already being pressed about the tariffs, raising concerns among some in the party that Trump’s move
  
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• Republicans brush off concerns about Musk's political liability

  06-04-2025 12:00 via thehill.com
  
  Republicans are largely dismissing concerns about Elon Musk’s political liability in the wake of their loss in Wisconsin, where he played a central role.Their views so far seem to be reflected by President Trump, who has stood by Musk even as the tech billionaire has emerged as Democrats’ main foil amid sweeping anger over federal cuts made under his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).While some members of the GOP acknowledged that Musk was at least a factor in their loss in
  
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• Emhoff hits law firm over Trump deal: Report

  06-04-2025 02:14 via thehill.com
  
  Former second gentleman Doug Emhoff reportedly criticized his law firm, Willkie Farr & Gallagher, for striking a deal with the administration to avoid potential blowback from President Trump as the White House has targeted other large legal firms in recent weeks. Emhoff, who joined Willkie Farr & Gallagher as a partner in late January this year, condemned the law firm while speaking at a Bet Tzedek’s 2025 Annual Dinner Gala on Thursday night, CNN reported Saturday, citing sour
  
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• Al Green says he’ll present articles of impeachment against Trump in next 30 days

  05-04-2025 23:27 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) said he will bring articles of impeachment against President Trump in the next 30 days, telling protestors at an anti-Trump rally in Washington that he does not “deserve” to hold the executive office.“We need a Senate that will convict him this time, and I want you to know, from my heart, from my heart, I understand that he is a Goliath. He is a Goliath. He has control of the generals in the military. He has control of the Justice Department. He has cont
  
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• Live updates: Across the US, thousands rally against Trump, Musk

  05-04-2025 22:53 via thehill.com
  
  Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators are hitting the streets across the country on Saturday in protest of President Trump and his administration.The “Hands Off!” rallies are taking place in more than 1,000 cities across all 50 states, and nearly 400,000 people have signed up to attend the protests, according to the progressive organization Indivisible, which is one of the almost 200 groups partnering to organize the event. Protesters are demanding an end to billionaire influen
  
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• Live updates: ‘Hands Off!’ protesters rally against Trump agenda across the US

  05-04-2025 20:23 via thehill.com
  
  Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators are hitting the streets across the country on Saturday in protest of President Trump and his administration.The “Hands Off!” rallies are taking place in more than 1,000 cities across all 50 states, and nearly 400,000 people have signed up to attend the protests, according to the progressive organization Indivisible, which is one of the almost 200 groups partnering to organize the event. Protesters are demanding an end to billionaire influe
  
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• Haberman on Trump tariffs, decision to skip soldier transfer: He's 'going to do what he wants'

  05-04-2025 20:16 via thehill.com
  
  National political correspondent Maggie Haberman said President Trump's decision to skip the dignified transfer of four American soldiers who died last week and his sweeping tariff agenda show one thing: "He's going to do what he wants.""I think long ago he stopped caring about certain optics. And he's made very clear during this presidency, he's going to do what he wants," Haberman, a veteran New York Times reporter, told CNN's Anderson Cooper on Friday evening. "And, you know, it's not just pl
  
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• House GOP leaders urge support for Senate budget resolution as fiscal hawks balk

  05-04-2025 19:53 via thehill.com
  
  House Republican leaders are urging their members to adopt the Senate’s version of the budget resolution that will tee up President Trump’s ambitious legislative agenda, arguing that major differences between the chambers' instructions on spending reductions do not prevent fiscal hawks from achieving their goals of historic cuts.In a “Dear Colleague” letter sent to members on Saturday, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.), Ho
  
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• NSA names acting director after top officials ousted

  05-04-2025 18:59 via thehill.com
  
  The Trump administration named Lt. Gen. William J. Hartman as acting director of the National Security Agency (NSA) late Thursday, just hours after dismissing top officials, an agency spokesperson told The Hill. Hartman will also serve as acting commander for the U.S. Cyber Command and acting chief for the Central Security Service. Sheila Thomas was designated as acting deputy director, according to the official.The lieutenant is a distinguished military graduate of the University of S
  
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• Live updates: Anti-Trump protesters gather across the US; Senate passes budget deal

  05-04-2025 18:32 via thehill.com
  
  Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators are hitting the streets across the country on Saturday in protest of President Trump and his administration.The “Hands Off!” rallies are taking place in more than 1,000 cities across all 50 states, and nearly 400,000 people have signed up to attend the protests, according to the progressive organization Indivisible, which is one of the almost 200 groups partnering to organize the event. Protesters are demanding an end to billionaire i
  
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• Trump expected to host Netanyahu at White House next week

  05-04-2025 18:14 via thehill.com
  
  President Trump is expected to host Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for a visit on Monday, a White House official told NewsNation.The meeting will take place just days after the president announced a 17 percent tariff on imported goods from the Middle Eastern country. Netanyahu would be the first international leader to visit the White House after the president’s “Liberation Day” tariffs announcement against U.S. trading partners. Trump requested the visit via ph
  
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• Congress pushes back at White House over Signal group chat

  05-04-2025 18:00 via thehill.com
  
  The White House’s assertion that the case is closed surrounding national security officials’ use of Signal is getting pushback in Congress, even among some Republicans who say their own probes will press on. On Monday, the White House said it had taken steps to ensure the inadvertent addition of a journalist to a group chat to discuss sensitive information about a pending airstrike in Yemen can “never happen again.”But Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), a member of the Sena
  
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• McConnell calls out Trump for hiring 'amateur isolationists' at Pentagon, firing NSA director

  05-04-2025 17:29 via thehill.com
  
  Former Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is questioning President Trump’s decisions to pick “amateur isolationists” for senior policy jobs at the Pentagon and to fire Gen. Timothy Haugh, the head of the National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command, without explanation.“If decades of experience in uniform isn’t enough to lead the N.S.A. but amateur isolationists can hold senior policy jobs at the Pentagon, then what exactly are the criteria for workin
  
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• Labor secretary lauds jobs report, Trump tariffs

  05-04-2025 17:20 via thehill.com
  
  Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer defended President Trump's decision to slap new tariffs on global trading partners, suggesting in a new interview that the additional import taxes will protect American workers."I can tell you this, the president is focused on protecting the American worker through these tariffs. Fair trade practices are important to the American worker as well," DeRemer told NewsNation's "CUOMO" on Friday."We want to make sure, as I mentioned earlier, onshoring, repatriating
  
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• House budget chair blasts Senate resolution as 'unserious and disappointing'

  05-04-2025 17:05 via thehill.com
  
  House Budget Committee Chair Jodey Arrington (R-Texas) on Saturday blasted the Senate's budget resolution, passed by the upper chamber only hours before, as “unserious and disappointing.”Arrington criticized the budget plan for “creating $5.8 trillion in new costs and a mere $4 billion in enforceable cuts” or “less than one day’s worth of borrowing by the federal government.”The Texas lawmaker also took a shot at Senate Budget Committee Lindsey Graham&rs
  
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• Live updates: Protesters take to the streets against Trump; Senate passes budget deal

  05-04-2025 16:54 via thehill.com
  
  Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators are set to hit the streets across the country on Saturday in protest of President Trump and his administration.
  The “Hands Off!” rallies are taking place in more than 1,000 cities across all 50 states, and nearly 400,000 people have signed up to attend the protests, according to the progressive organization Indivisible, which is one of the almost 200 groups partnering to organize the event. Protesters are demanding an end to billionair
  
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• Ousted FDA vaccine chief makes plea to families to vaccinate children

  05-04-2025 15:50 via thehill.com
  
  Peter Marks, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) vaccine official who resigned last week amid pressure from the Trump administration, urged families to continue vaccinating their children.Marks, who previously led the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, pointed to concerns around Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his anti-vaccine rhetoric in his decision to ultimately leave the post.
  “I don't know what he's going to do, and I can't
  
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• Trump defends tariffs after markets plunge for second straight day: 'Economic revolution'

  05-04-2025 15:26 via thehill.com
  
  President Trump on Saturday took a victory lap over the sweeping new tariffs he levied on nearly all foreign trading partners, claiming the end result will serve as an "economic revolution.""We have been the dumb and helpless 'whipping post,' but not any longer," he wrote on Truth Social. "We are bringing back jobs and businesses like never before. Already, more than FIVE TRILLION DOLLARS OF INVESTMENT, and rising fast!""THIS IS AN ECONOMIC REVOLUTION, AND WE WILL WIN," he added. "HANG TOUGH, it
  
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• Senate Dems blast GOP over late-night passage of blueprint to protect Trump agenda

  05-04-2025 14:38 via thehill.com
  
  Senate Democrats on Saturday blasted their GOP colleagues after the upper chamber advanced a budget blueprint overnight seeking to protect President Trump's legislative agenda.The resolution passed in the upper chamber early Saturday morning by a 51-48 vote, after the upper chamber held an hours-long "vote-a-rama" on a series of amendments. The blueprint outlines plans to beef up border security, extend Trump's 2017 tax cuts, expand oil and gas drilling and increase defense spending.
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• Shopping spree? Consumers rush to buy goods ahead of Trump tariffs

  05-04-2025 14:03 via thehill.com
  
  President Trump's latest tariffs are expected to drive up prices, and some shoppers aren't waiting around, rushing to make purchases they fear will soon cost more.Initial estimates suggest that new-vehicle sales surged at the end of March, driven by consumers jumping in before new tariffs pushed prices higher, according to Cox Automotive. The research firm said March could end up being the best month for sales volume in four years."In the short term at least, shoppers have embraced a 'bett
  
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• The Memo: Musk’s risks to Trump become starker

  05-04-2025 12:00 via thehill.com
  
  The Elon Musk effect is being hotly debated in Republican circles this weekend, even as the reverberations from President Trump’s tariff policies dominate the headlines.Put simply, the question is whether Musk is an asset or liability to Trump.Speculation is rife once again that Musk could leave his role at the quasi-official Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) soon.And questions are sharper than ever about the pluses and minuses of the billionaire’s broader political role aft
  
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• Are Trump’s tariffs a negotiating tool? Depends on whom you ask

  05-04-2025 12:00 via thehill.com
  
  Businesses, consumers and foreign leaders are trying to assess just how set in stone President Trump’s tariffs are, as the administration and its allies send mixed signals about whether the measures are being used for leverage.Some Trump allies touted the tariffs — which have led to a massive stock market selloff and heightened fears of a recession — as the latest move from a master dealmaker. The tariffs, they argue, will force other countries to change the
  
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• Majority of Americans uneasy over Trump's economic plan: WSJ poll

  05-04-2025 05:09 via thehill.com
  
  Over half of Americans, 52 percent, disapprove of President Trump’s handling of the economy, marking a 12 percent uptick from his approval in October 2024.
  In a survey a published by the Wall Street Journal on Friday, just a quarter of people said they approve of Trump's handling of the economy during his first 100 days in office.
  Although the survey was conducted prior to Trump's announcement of a 10-percent base tax on all goods coming into the U.S. earlier this week, the president has p
  
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• IRS nixing 25 percent of staff, starting with civil rights office: Reports

  05-04-2025 04:34 via thehill.com
  
  The Internal Revenue Services (IRS) terminated staff members in the Office of Civil Rights and Compliance on Friday ahead of a larger slated reduction in force according to multiple reports.IRS officials announced they would be eliminating the office dedicated to preventing discrimination in an email to staff after firing roughly 130 of its employees, as reported by the Washington Post.Those remaining were moved to the Office of Chief Counsel according to an email reviewed by Bloomberg Tax, whic
  
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• Justice Department seeks 7 year sentence for George Santos

  05-04-2025 02:13 via thehill.com
  
  The Department of Justice (DOJ) is reviewing seeking a 7 year sentence for former Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) according to a Friday filing. Prosecutors said the length of the requested sentence reflects the serious nature of Santos’s “unparalleled” crimes.“Santos planned and executed an assortment of fraudulent schemes and leveraged them and a fictious life story to enrich himself and capture one of the highest offices in the government of the United States,” D
  
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• JP Morgan predicts 2025 recession as Trump tariffs rattle market

  05-04-2025 02:03 via thehill.com
  
  J.P. Morgan is forecasting that the U.S. economy will enter a recession this year as fallout from President Trump's tariffs has taken hold.
  In a Friday evening note to investors, the company's chief U.S. economist Michael Feroli said the firm predicts that gross domestic product (GDP) will likely contract "under the weight of the tariffs."
  Feroli added that the recession is also forecasted to "push the unemployment rate up to 5.3 [percent]."
  The projection comes after Trump’s Wednesday tar
  
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• Medicare won't cover anti-obesity GLP-1 drugs as Biden admin proposed

  05-04-2025 00:29 via thehill.com
  
  The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced Friday it will not be finalizing a rule proposed by the Biden administration that would have allowed Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries access to anti-obesity drugs such as the highly in-demand GLP-1 medications.In November last year, the Biden administration proposed a new rule that would allow drugs like Wegovy and Zepbound to be covered by Medicare and Medicaid, expanding access for roughly 3.4 million Medicare users and about 4
  
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• Ousted FDA vaccine director calls Kennedy's start 'very scary'

  05-04-2025 00:17 via thehill.com
  
  Peter Marks, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) official pressured to resign over his disagreements with Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., warned in an interview published Friday that Kennedy's tenure at the HHS has been "very scary" so far.Marks announced his resignation toward the end of March, reportedly having been given the choice to be fired or resign. In his resignation letter, Marks said he had been "willing” to work to address Kennedy’s "co
  
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• Energy Department considers more than 40 percent of its staff nonessential as layoffs loom

  05-04-2025 00:06 via thehill.com
  
  The Energy Department (DOE) considers more than 40 percent of its staffers to be nonessential — meaning these people could be on the chopping block — as mass layoffs loom at the agency and across the federal government.A document viewed by The Hill on Friday states that out of the agency’s current headcount of 15,994 positions — 9,004 are essential, meaning some 7,000 other positions are not. The approximately 16,000 total positions listed by the agency does include
  
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