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Andrew Solender / Axios:
Scoop: A dozen House Republicans mull defying Trump on tariff bill  —  At least a dozen House Republicans are considering signing onto Rep. Don Bacon's (R-Neb.) bill to restrict the White House's ability to impose tariffs unilaterally, Axios has learned.  —  Why it matters …
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New Republic:   Transcript: Unwell Trump Rages at China, GOP as Allies Turn on Tariffs
Bloomberg:
Republican Senator Asks Who Is to Blame If Tariffs Don't Pan Out
Leigh Kimmins / The Daily Beast:
MAGA Senator Says Americans 'Don't Care' If Trump Golfs Through His Tariff Crisis
Discussion: Raw Story and Mediaite
Edward Luce / Financial Times:
Trump has no idea what he has unleashed  —  There is no school of foreign policy realism or trade mercantilism that could explain the US president's actions  —  We should trust in Donald Trump's instincts, says Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House of Representatives.
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Jesse Eisinger / ProPublica:
No, President Trump, the Income Tax Wasn't A Mistake. But It Was an Accident.
Discussion: Daily Mail, KRDO and ShrinkRants
Oren Cass / New York Times:
Stop Freaking Out. Trump's Tariffs Can Still Work.
Discussion: HotAir
Stan Choe / Associated Press:
US stocks drop after another stunning day of reversals as uncertainty reigns about Trump's tariffs  —  U.S. stocks dropped after a second day of stunning reversals.  The S&P 500 fell 1.6% Tuesday after wiping out an early gain of 4.1%, which had it on track for its best day in years.
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Elisabeth Buchwald / CNN:
Tariffs on China set to rise to at least 104% on Wednesday, White House says
Lauren Weinstein's Blog:   The Enormous Negative Impacts of the New Tariffs on the Technology Sector
Reuters:
Limited options push China into trade ‘war of attrition’ with Trump
Discussion: Breitbart
Reuters:
Exclusive: Musk's DOGE using AI to snoop on U.S. federal workers, sources say  —  Trump administration officials have told some U.S. government employees that Elon Musk's DOGE team of technologists is using artificial intelligence to surveil at least one federal agency's communications …
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Alfred Ng / Politico:   The worries about AI in Trump's social media surveillance
Andrew Duehren / New York Times:
I.R.S. Agrees to Share Migrants' Tax Information With ICE  —  The agreement is a major departure from the Internal Revenue Service's efforts to gain the trust of migrants and encourage them to file their taxes.  —  The Internal Revenue Service has agreed to help homeland security officials find immigrants …
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Fatima Hussein / Associated Press:
Internal Revenue Service agrees to send immigrant tax data to ICE for enforcement
Devan Cole / CNN:
Federal judge says White House's punishment of Associated Press is unconstitutional  —  The White House's decision to punish the Associated Press by eliminating its access to President Donald Trump's events, the Oval Office and Air Force One is unconstitutional, a federal judge said Tuesday.
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Zach Montague / New York Times:
Judge Orders White House to Restore AP's Access to Trump  —  A federal judge ordered the White House to restore the outlet's access to certain White House events and agreed that it had been singled out over its editorial decisions.  —  A federal judge in Washington rejected the White House's effort …
Discussion: Variety
Reuters:
Trump plans to fine migrants $998 a day for failing to leave after deportation order  —  The Trump administration plans to fine migrants under deportation orders up to $998 a day if they fail to leave the United States and to seize their property if they do not pay, according to documents reviewed by Reuters.
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Associated Press:
Trump admin revokes legal status for migrants who entered the U.S. on Biden-era CBP One app
Ali Bianco / Politico:   DHS revokes parole for hundreds of thousands who entered via the CBP One app
Ben Berkowitz / Axios:
Musk calls Navarro “moron” as trade spat intensifies  —  Elon Musk escalated his war of words with Trump trade adviser Peter Navarro on Tuesday, calling him “truly a moron” and “dumber than a sack of bricks” over comments about Musk's businesses.  —  Why it matters: The gloves are off …
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Tyler Pager / New York Times:
Musk Disparages Trump's Trade Adviser, Exposing Rift in President's Inner Circle
New York Times:
Trump Signs Orders Aimed at Reviving a Struggling Coal Industry  —  The moves include loosening environmental rules, but it is unclear how much they can help reverse the sharp decline in coal power over the last two decades.  —  President Trump signed four executive orders Tuesday aimed …
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President Donald J. Trump / The White House:
Reinvigorating America's Beautiful Clean Coal Industry and Amending Executive Order 14241
G. Elliott Morris / Strength In Numbers:
Live updates: Trump's approval hits new low after “Liberation Day” tariffs  —  His average economic approval also hits a new low (-13), and his tariffs are underwater by 30 points … As of midday April 8, 2025, two pollsters have published new polls of Trump's approval rating …
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
DOGE to Shutter DOJ Tax Division … I didn't know this until this morning.  And I'm surprised it hasn't gotten more press attention.  We know that DOGE is in the process of gutting the IRS.  According to internal IRS estimates reviewed by The Washington Post this internal sabotage …
Marin Scotten / New Republic:
Trump 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 Netanyahu in the Oval Office Monday …
Discussion: New Jersey Online and Raw Story
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
In Trump Cases, Supreme Court Retreats From Confrontation  —  In a series of narrow rulings, the justices have seemed to take pains to avoid a showdown with a president who has challenged the judiciary's legitimacy.  —  6 MIN READ  —  Justices Give Trump a Tentative Win in Push to Fire 16,000 Federal Workers
Dee-Ann Durbin / Associated Press:
US expected a big travel year, but overseas visitors — angered by Trump — are heading elsewhere  —  Olja Ivanic looked forward to welcoming some cousins from Sweden to her Denver home in June.  Ivanic and the four travelers were planning to go hiking in Colorado and then visit Los Angeles and San Francisco.
NBC News:
FBI creates multiagent bodyguard team to protect Dan Bongino  —  The former pro-Trump podcaster is the first deputy director to have a security detail.  Full-time protection could require up to 20 agents, former officials said.  —  The FBI has issued a call for agents to voluntarily serve …
Wired:
Dr. Oz Pushed for AI Health Care in First Medicare Agency Town Hall  —  Dr. Oz, who now controls the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and its $1.5 trillion budget, promoted the idea that AI avatars could replace frontline health care workers.  —  Dr. Mehmet Oz, the new administrator …
Discussion: Raw Story and Blaze Media
New York Times:
Wall Street Bursts With Anger Over Tariff ‘Stupidity’  —  Billionaire investors are in an unfamiliar position, watching and cringing as tariffs roll on and the stock market reels.  —  Wall Street billionaires are not used to being on the outside looking in.
Discussion: CNBC, Semafor and NBC News
Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
Supreme Court blocks order requiring Trump administration to reinstate thousands of federal workers  —  The Supreme Court on Tuesday blocked an order for the Trump administration to return to work thousands of federal employees who were let go in mass firings aimed at dramatically downsizing the federal government.
Scott Macfarlane / CBS News:
Suspect in Trump's second alleged assassination attempt asks judge to suppress eyewitness  —  Ryan Routh, the suspect in the second alleged assassination attempt against President Trump, has formally asked a judge to suppress statements from the eyewitness who identified him to police …
Prem Thakker / Zeteo:
Trump Is Trying to Deport Students Who Show Up in a ‘Criminal Records Check.’ But Many Have Never Been Convicted  —  What began with Mahmoud Khalil has now expanded into widespread immigration status revocations with no explanation and little apparent recourse.
Paul Krugman:
Attack of the Quack-Industrial Complex  —  By now it's obvious to anyone willing to see — which many people still aren't — that Donald Trump is, in practice, waging war against American greatness.  And the attack is taking place on multiple fronts.  —  For the past few days everyone …
Zoe Tillman / Bloomberg:
Trump Faces New Deportation Challenge After Supreme Court Order  —  President Donald Trump is facing a new challenge to his use of a wartime law to deport alleged Venezuelan gang members, less than a day after the US Supreme Court sided with the administration in an earlier fight.
 
 
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Arwa Mahdawi / The Guardian:
Trump's very beautiful tariffs will fix America, masculinity and the family. It said so on Fox News
Aimee Picchi / CBS News:
Social Security wrongly told disabled people and some seniors their benefits ended, causing alarm
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President Trump's New York fraud debt tops $500 million
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Andrew Solender / Axios:
Jeffries challenges Johnson to “one-on-one” House floor debate
Discussion: The Hill
Pew Research Center:
Americans Give Early Trump Foreign Policy Actions Mixed or Negative Reviews
Discussion: The Hill
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