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President Donald Trump at a Cabinet meeting at the White House on April 10.Brendan Smialowski / AFP via Getty Images file

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Trump's economy at 100 days: Unprecedented uncertainty reigns

By Rob Wile

Voters returned Donald Trump to the White House in November believing he would be better for the economy than his opponent, Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris.

Yet 100 days into Trump’s second presidential term, voters now face an economic landscape rife with uncertainty.

Among its attributes: recession odds of as high as 60%, inflation rates that have barely budged and a stock market that, until recently, was beset by volatility.

At issue is Trump’s tariffs strategy.

Though he said throughout his campaign that he planned to impose tariffs on goods brought into the United States, consumers and businesses alike have reacted with shock at what Trump has implemented and the speed with which he has done it: a 10%-across-the-board tariff, 25% duties on autos and auto parts and steel and aluminum products, and duties of as high as 145% on goods from China, the third-largest source of imports into the United States behind the European Union and Mexico.

“A lot of economic policy has been made in these first 100 days — more than any other administration I can think of,” said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics. ...

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Ousted DOJ officials to testify before congressional Democrats

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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Some of the top Justice Department officials who were recently terminated are expected to testify publicly at a congressional meeting Monday.

Liz Oyer, who was fired as U.S. pardon attorney last month, and Ryan Crosswell, who left the department's public integrity section during the controversy surrounding its decision to drop the criminal corruption case against New York Mayor Eric Adams, will testify at a hearing arranged by top Democrats, CBS News has learned.

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Kaine breaks into Spanish as Dems force vote targeting Trump-El Salvador alliance over deportations

  • News source: FOX News
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Top Democrats announced an effort Thursday to force the Trump administration to provide a report on how it is specifically complying with a court order to facilitate the return of wrongfully deported U.S. residents to El Salvador.

The resolution to do so from Sens. Tim Kaine of Virginia, Charles Schumer of New York, Alex Padilla of California and Chris Van Hollen of Maryland is "privileged," – meaning it will require a full Senate vote. Kaine cited the specific code under a 1961 foreign assistance law that allowed such.

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Trump's ‘Liberation Day' tariffs are threatening Independence Day fireworks

  • News source: Shannon Pettypiece and J.J. McCorvey | NBC News
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President Donald Trump’s massive China tariffs are jeopardizing American fireworks shows, threatening to drive up prices and limit supplies.

U.S. fireworks wholesalers and distributors say they’ve been canceling shipments from China for this year’s July Fourth holiday. Some are also halting manufacturing in China of fireworks for next year’s celebrations of the 250th anniversary of America’s independence. Trump’s April 2 tariff rollout, which he dubbed “Liberation Day,” raised the effective import tax rate on nearly all Chinese goods to 145%, even...
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House Republicans subpoena USA fencing chairman with history of supporting trans competitors in women's sports

  • News source: FOX News
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House Republicans have subpoenaed USA Fencing (USFA) board chair Damien Lehfeldt in an effort to compel him to testify in front of Congress during a hearing examining the participation of transgender women in biologically women's sports.

The subpoena comes after USA Fencing's Chief Executive Officer Phil Andrews told the Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency, which intends to hold the hearing on May 7, that Lehfeldt would be unavailable to testify for unspecified reasons, according to a letter sent in tandem with the subpoena...
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EXCLUSIVE: DHS fires back at claims ICE raided 'wrong home' in Oklahoma smuggling investigation

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EXCLUSIVE: The Department of Homeland Security is setting the record straight after media reports claimed ICE raided "the wrong home" and targeted U.S. citizens, setting Democrats fuming.

The Independent ran a headline on Wednesday reading: "ICE raids wrong Oklahoma home, seizes life savings and leaves family ‘traumatized for life’" writing that an Oklahoma mother and daughters were subject to a "violent and humiliating raid by federal agents last week, despite allegedly not being the intended targets of the operation."

That same day, Rep. Becca...
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Reporter's Notebook: Alcohol, not coffee

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Republicans control the House and Senate.

But characterizing it as the "Republican Congress" doesn’t do justice to the present circumstances.

This truly is "President Trump’s Congress."

The president’s relationship with Republican lawmakers is light-years away from the fraught, shotgun marriage of 2017 after he unexpectedly captured the White House. Republicans on Capitol Hill didn’t know what to do with him.

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WATCH: Unearthed footage exposes medical school administrators pledging to resist Trump executive orders

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FIRST ON FOX: Leaked video obtained by Fox News Digital shows school administrators at an Illinois school of medicine rejecting multiple Trump executive orders, including on combatting DEI, and outlining how the school plans to fight back against them.

Trump’s executive order on gender ideology "is an attack on women" and on "basic human rights," according to Dr. Jerry Kruse, Dean, Provost, and CEO of SIU School of Medicine. Kruse recently gave a speech in a small group discussion about Trump’s executive orders and actions that was obtained by the...
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Trump administration asks Supreme Court to let it end TPS for Venezuelans

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Washington — The Trump administration on Thursday asked the Supreme Court to wade into its effort to terminate the Temporary Protected Status program protecting roughly 350,000 Venezuelan migrants in the U.S. from deportation.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem revoked the designation in February, which would have cleared the way for the migrants to lose their government-issued work permits and deportations protections on April 7. But a federal judge in California agreed to delay the move in late March and said her decision to terminate the TPS...
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Jasmine Crockett roasted for worrying about effect of deportation on other countries

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Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, is being torched online after she expressed sympathy for countries that may be affected by mass deportations from the U.S. after she remained largely silent on millions of migrants pouring into the U.S. under the Biden administration.

Crockett, a first-term progressive who has made headlines for several controversial comments this year, appeared unaware of the apparent double standard, which drew criticism from conservative accounts and commentators and Republican lawmakers.

"As far as I'm concerned, you randomly...
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HHS halts work at high-risk infectious disease lab following repeated safety violations

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FIRST ON FOX: The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) implemented a pause on research at one of the nation's most highly secure research labs, following repeated safety incidents that a source familiar told Fox News Digital have been occurring since the Biden administration.

An HHS official confirmed the pause at Fort Detrick's Integrated Research Facility, which conducts risky research on deadly infectious diseases like SARS-COV-2 and the Ebola virus, began Tuesday at 5 p.m.

The facility, which is one of only a handful across North...
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Angel moms whose kids were killed by illegal immigrants celebrate Trump's White House lawn 'justice' crusade

  • News source: FOX News
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FIRST ON FOX: Angel moms and dads whose children were killed at the hands of illegal immigrants and the previous immigration crisis traveled to the White House this week, where they celebrated President Donald Trump ushering "justice back" to the U.S. in an emotional video.

"My name is Angie Morfin Vargas, and I'm the mother to Ruben Morfin," Morfin-Vargas said in a video published by the White House Thursday. "He was executed in the streets of Salinas in 1990. Thirty-four years later, I could still cry for him like if it was yesterday."

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Iran talks in Rome not happening this weekend and were never confirmed, State Department says

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The U.S. has not committed to participating in a fourth round of denuclearization talks with Iran this weekend despite reports to the contrary, according to the State Department.

"The United States was never confirmed to be participating in a fourth round of talks with Iran, which people had believed were Saturday in Rome," spokesperson Tammy Bruce said at a news conference Thursday. "We expect another round of talks will take place in the near future."

The U.S. participated in talks with Iranian officials once in Rome and twice in Oman. Envoy...
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Israeli reservists speak out against Gaza war as pressure on Netanyahu grows

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Thousands of reservists have joined calls to end the Gaza war and bring the remaining hostages back.
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Trump shut down program to end human waste backing into Alabama homes, calling it ‘illegal DEI'

  • News source: Curtis Bunn | NBC News
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For the last 14 years, when it rains in Lowndes County, Alabama, contaminated standing water builds up around Annye Burke’s home. When the septic tank breaks down, raw sewage backs up into her toilet, she said.

Although “frustrated” by the unhealthy and inconvenient conditions, Burke said she doesn’t let it get her down. Human wastewater contaminating homes and yards in these rural parts of central Alabama “has become a way of life,” she said. The problem has existed so long and was so pervasive that a 2017 study determined 1 in every 3 adults in...
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Fox News Politics Newsletter: Waltz-ing Up to Turtle Bay

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Welcome to the Fox News Politics newsletter, with the latest updates on the Trump administration, Capitol Hill and more Fox News politics content.

Here's what's happening…

-Kamala Harris comes knives out against Trump in first speech since leaving office: ‘Absolute chaos’

-JD Vance explains why meeting Pope Francis hours before his death was 'a sign from God'

-35 GOP lawmakers say not repealing Biden’s green agenda in Trump tax bill is ‘hypocrisy’

President Donald Trump tapped former national security advisor Mike Waltz for his administration's...
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