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Trump Is Already Caving on Tariffs | The New Republic
2 天之前 · But that favorable response quickly reversed after Trump stated on Truth Social that the Post story “incorrectly states that my tariff policy will be pared back. That is wrong.” For good measure, Trump labelled the story, by the Post ’s excellent Jeff Stein, “Fake News.” This well-worn phrase is, typically, Trump’s “tell” that a news story that irritates him is quite accurate ...
It’s a Weird Time to Be a Libertarian | The New Republic
2 天之前 · So what, then, are they to make of a president-elect who vows to lower corporate tax rates yet threatens to raise tariffs, will seek to abolish vaccine mandates while imposing Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s personal dietary beliefs on food producers, and will reduce the government’s regulation of the economy while jeopardizing free speech?. …
Big Oil Has Enlisted Alabama in Their Fight Against California
1 天前 · Alabama v. California falls into the latter category. A coalition of eighteen Republican state attorneys general is trying to block Democratic state attorneys general from suing oil and gas companies under their own state laws in their own state courts.
Republicans Have No Clue How They’re Going to Pass Trump’s …
2 天之前 · Whatever ends up being the final approach, it’s going to divide Republicans in one or both of the chambers. Historically, the one-bill strategy hasn’t worked well for either party, as Democrats who backed the “Build Back Better” bill under Biden remember. That bill was supposed to pass in 2021, but ended up being weakened, only passing in the form of the scaled-down Inflation Reduction ...
Trump Loyalists Still Waiting for Job Offers | The New Republic
5 天之前 · Those who worked tirelessly for President-elect Trump during campaign season may not get the coveted administration jobs they were promised, according to reporting from NOTUS.The lower level roles that Trump has yet to fill were apparently supposed to go to the bureaucrats of Project 2025. But Trump’s strategic separation from the Project put the future jobs of many of those bureaucrats in ...
The Plutocracy Wins Another Round Against MAGA Nation
2024年12月30日 · The fight pitted the anti-immigrant wing of Trump’s coalition against the people President Theodore Roosevelt famously labelled malefactors of great wealth.Stripped of its racially toxic content, it was a dispute over whether the United States should grant more visas to high-skilled foreign guest workers.
Trump Voters Are in for a Rude Awakening | The New Republic
2025年1月1日 · Consider these archetypal dispatches from the 2024 campaign trail. “A lot of people are happy to vote for [Trump] because they simply do not believe he will do many of the things he says he will,” an October New York Times “campaign notebook” entry observed.The following week, The Washington Post noted of prospective Trump voters: “Some read between Trump’s lines about how he would ...
Enshittification Comes to Washington | The New Republic
2025年1月1日 · The federal government typically gets a bad rap from the media, who often depict it as a faceless, bloated, and lethargic bureaucracy. But as Michael Lewis documented in his book The Fifth Risk, as well as a series of stories along similar lines he curated last year at The Washington Post, the civil service is a hive of innovation …
House Members Clap for Joy at Matt Gaetz’s Absence
5 天之前 · Gaetz was reelected for another two-year term in November. He then resigned his seat, however, when Donald Trump announced him as pick for attorney general, amid a House Ethics Committee investigation that found that Gaetz had “engaged in sexual misconduct and/or illicit drug use, shared inappropriate images or videos on the House floor, misused state identification records, converted ...