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Trump says high tariffs may have prevented the Great Depression. History says different

By WILL WEISSERT
Updated 11:02 PM CDT, April 7, 2025

WASHINGTON (AP) — In the early days of the Great Depression, Rep. Willis Hawley, a Republican from Oregon, and Utah Republican Sen. Reed Smoot thought they had landed on a way to protect American farmers and manufacturers from foreign competition: tariffs.

President Herbert Hoover signed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act in 1930, even as many economists warned that the levies would prompt retaliatory tariffs from other countries, which is precisely what happened. The U.S. economy plunged deeper into a devastating financial crisis that it would not pull out of until World War II.

Most historians look back on Smoot-Hawley as a mistake that made a bad economic climate much worse. But tariffs have a new champion in President Donald Trump.

Like Trump, Hoover was elected largely because of his business acumen. An international mining engineer, financier and humanitarian, he took office in 1929 like an energetic CEO, eager to promote public-private partnerships and use the levers of government to promote economic growth.

“Anyone not only can be rich, but ought to be rich,” he declared in his inaugural address before convening a special session of Congress to better protect U.S. farmers with “limited changes of the tariff.” ...

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NY Republicans push ‘Peanut’s Law’ after beloved pet squirrel was seized, killed by state agents

  • News source: FOX News
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New York Republicans are pushing a new law to protect animals after a beloved pet squirrel and internet star named P’Nut was taken and killed by state environmental officers late last year.

The bill, called "Peanut’s Law: The Humane Animal Protection Act," would require a 72-hour waiting period before the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) can euthanize any seized animal. It would also give animal owners the chance for a hearing before the state takes or puts down their animals.

P’Nut and another pet squirrel named Fred were taken from...
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'A great tribute': Trump touts 'record' fundraising from National Republican Congressional Committee

  • News source: FOX News
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President Donald Trump touted the record-breaking fundraising numbers garnered by the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) during its annual president's dinner Tuesday evening.

"You know, we've done very well in this room before," Trump told attendees at the annual dinner Tuesday night. "But right now we broke every record. I just heard from Mike Johnson, he said, ‘We broke every record, sir.’ There is over $35 million. That's not bad, for an evening."

The fundraising numbers achieved during Tuesday night's dinner rival what the NRCC...
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Babydog Justice makes Agriculture Committee debut: 'She humanizes all of us'

  • News source: FOX News
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It was supposed to be a routine Senate Agriculture Committee hearing to consider nominees for top USDA posts, but one visitor turned the event into a tail-wagging affair.

Babydog Justice, the beloved English bulldog of Sen. Jim Justice, R-W.Va., made a surprise and highly photogenic appearance Tuesday as the committee met to review the nominations of Judge Stephen Vaden for Deputy Secretary of Agriculture and Tyler Clarkson for USDA General Counsel.

The hearing may have been serious business, but Babydog’s presence brought smiles, laughter, and...
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Trump admin cuts $4M in Princeton funding related to climate research

  • News source: FOX News
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The Department of Commerce on Tuesday announced its decision to cut $4 million in funding related to climate research for Princeton University.

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said in a news release the cuts were made "after a detailed, careful, and thorough review of the Department’s financial assistance programs against the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) current program objectives."

The department added that the termination of these funds from Princeton, effective June 30, "will streamline and reduce the cost and size...
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NYC council member accused of biting NYPD officer has her case dismissed

  • News source: The Associated Press
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A New York City Council member accused of biting a police officer during a protest had her criminal case dismissed after she completed a “restorative justice process,” the Brooklyn district attorney's office said Tuesday.
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IRS acting commissioner resigning over data-sharing deal with ICE, AP sources say

  • News source: Fatima Hussein | The Associated Press
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The acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service is resigning over a deal to share immigrants' tax data with Immigration and Customs Enforcement for the purpose of identifying and deporting people illegally in the U.S., according to two people familiar with the decision.

Melanie Krause, who had served as acting head since February, will step down over the new data-sharing document signed Monday by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. The agreement will allow ICE to submit names and addresses of...
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Gun-toting Noem joins ICE agents to go after criminal illegal aliens in Arizona

  • News source: FOX News
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Can the US return man deported to El Salvador? Immigration lawyers think so

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Lawyers and experts say the case has the potential to upend due process for immigrants in the US.
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White House keeps world guessing as clock ticks down to Trump's new tariffs

  • News source: Chris Megerian | The Associated Press, Josh Boak
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Less than one hour before the stock market closed on Monday, journalists gathered in the Oval Office for their only chance of the day to ask President Donald Trump about the turmoil caused by his tariff plans.

Are the new tariffs, scheduled to take effect on Wednesday, a bargaining chip to reach better trade deals? Or are they etched in stone in a mission to revamp the global economy?

Investors around the world were hanging on Trump’s every word, but he did little to clear up the situation.

“It can both be true,” he said. “There can be permanent...
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Ousted FDA vaccine chief says US measles elimination status under threat

  • News source: Berkeley Lovelace Jr. | NBC News
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Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s “tepid endorsement” of measles vaccination puts the U.S. at risk of losing its elimination status of the disease as early as January, the Food and Drug Administration’s former top vaccine regulator said Tuesday — as experts warn the Texas outbreak may become among the biggest on record.

“Given the current measles outbreak, anything less than a wholehearted full-court press to get many more children vaccinated against measles, above 90% across the country, is a public health failure,” Dr. Peter Marks, the...
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IRS acting head resigning over deal to send immigrant tax data to ICE

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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The acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service is expected to resign after the agency disclosed that it has agreed to share immigrants' tax data with Immigration and Customs Enforcement to help identify and deport undocumented immigrants.

According to a source familiar with the situation and a statement from the Treasury Department, Melanie Krause is leaving the agency due to disagreement over the Treasury Department's decision to share IRS taxpayer data with the Department of Homeland Security.

"Melanie Krause has been leading the IRS...
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Underfunding threatens suicide prevention lifeline's mission

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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It has been nearly three years since the launch of the 988 National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, and since then, millions seeking help have used the call center as a life-saving resource. But understaffing and underfunding threaten to upend the hotline's mission.

The nation's 988 hotline works like 911, bringing critical access to care for those battling mental health emergencies. Counselor Alejandra takes calls at the nation's largest suicide prevention center — Los Angeles' Didi Hirsch Mental Health Services. That one center receives 20,000 calls...
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China vows to fight Trump's tariff trade war "to the end"

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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Beijing — China said Tuesday it would "fight to the end" and take countermeasures against the United States to safeguard its own interests after President Trump threatened an additional 50% tariff on Chinese imports. The Commerce Ministry said the U.S.'s imposition of "so-called 'reciprocal tariffs'" on China was "completely groundless and is a typical unilateral bullying practice."

China, the world's second-largest economy, has imposed retaliatory tariffs and the ministry hinted in its latest statement that more may be coming.

"The countermeasures...
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Blue city proposes bill to place menstrual products in men's bathrooms

  • News source: FOX News
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Texas AG Ken Paxton announces run for US Senate

  • News source: FOX News
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced on Fox News' The Ingraham Angle Tuesday night that he will run for U.S. Senate.

The announcement comes as Paxton no longer faces the cloud of a federal corruption investigation that loomed over him as he rose up the ranks in the Republican Party.

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