Tag: Jerome Powell

The Supreme Court Gave Trump Almost Everything He Wanted

Congress may establish independent agencies “to assist it with its functions,” Roberts claimed, but could not “foist those agencies upon the president, and thus deprive him of the ‘executive power vested [in him] by the Constitution.’” The president-as-victim framework is a defining trait of the unitary executive theory, which often paints the executive branch as […]

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One Democrat Joins GOP to Install Trump Puppet as New Fed Chair

The other speakers are overwhelmingly Protestant Christian, with notable exceptions being Catholic leaders Bishop Robert Barron and Cardinal Timothy Dolan, as well as Rabbi Meir Soloveichik. The Reverend Paula White-Cain, President Trump’s spiritual adviser, said in a webinar about the event on April 28 that the festival “is about the history and the foundations of […]

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Trump Thinks the Supreme Court Works For Him

“I ‘Love’ Justice Neil Gorsuch! He’s a really smart and good man, but he voted against me, and our Country, on Tariffs, a devastating move,” Trump wrote. “How do I reconcile this? So bad, and hurtful to our Country. I have, likewise, always liked and respected Amy Coney Barrett, but the same thing with her. […]

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Trump Insists His Ballroom’s Ballooning Price Tag Is Totally Fine

“The only reason the cost has changed is because, after deep rooted studies, it is approximately twice the size, and a far higher quality, than the original proposal, which would not have been adequate to handle the necessary events, meetings, and even future Inaugurations,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.  “This was a necessary change, it […]

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Karoline Leavitt Gives Up Game on Trump’s Fed Chair Investigation

Cornelia Pillard, an Obama appointee, and J. Michelle Childs, appointed by Biden, ruled against Trump, while Trump appointee Justin Walker ruled in the administration’s favor. The three-judge panel upheld a ruling from U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss in July, who said that Trump’s January 2025 executive order ending asylum claims for those who cross the […]

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Elizabeth Warren Warns Trump’s Plot to Take Over Fed Isn’t Finished

First, DeSantis’s office has redrawn the new congressional districts in secret, rejecting state legislators’ calls for an open process during their regular session in January. DeSantis is the first governor in state history to submit his own secretly drafted maps, and as of Thursday night, Florida lawmakers still haven’t seen them. The hidden process frustrates […]

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DOJ Ends Investigation Into Fed Chair Powell After Republican Backlash

First, DeSantis’s office has redrawn the new congressional districts in secret, rejecting state legislators’ calls for an open process during their regular session in January. DeSantis is the first governor in state history to submit his own secretly drafted maps, and as of Thursday night, Florida lawmakers still haven’t seen them. The hidden process frustrates […]

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Trump DOJ Ends Revenge Investigation Into Fed Chair Powell

First, DeSantis’s office has redrawn the new congressional districts in secret, rejecting state legislators’ calls for an open process during their regular session in January. DeSantis is the first governor in state history to submit his own secretly drafted maps, and as of Thursday night, Florida lawmakers still haven’t seen them. The hidden process frustrates […]

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Trump, 79, Forgets One of His Biggest GOP Critics Is Still in Congress

“To be honest, we are doing so well. You look at this. I hit the 50,000 Dow mark, which everyone said couldn’t happen in four years. I did it in one year. I hit the 7,000 S&P mark in less than one year,” Trump said. “I said, ‘Now we have to do a little bit […]

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Trump Threatens to Fire Fed Chair Jerome Powell Before His Time Is Up

At the time, Amalia was a healthy toddler with no known issues. The water at Dilley smelled strange, so her parents, Kheilin Valero Marcano and Stiven Arrieta Prieto, bought bottled water at the center’s commissary for her, despite having no income in detention. (The article noted that nonprofit organizations who work on immigrants’ rights, such […]

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Acting AG Todd Blanche Says Trump Has The ‘Right’ To Weaponize DOJ Against Political Rivals

Source: Tom Williams / Getty There are people on social media who have expressed fears that, when President Donald Trump and his administration fired now-former U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, he would only replace her with someone significantly worse. But truthfully, when Trump starts shaking things up in his administration, especially during this second term, he doesn’t tend […]

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The Next Financial Shock to Come From Trump’s War With Iran

The U.S.-initiated war in Iran is inverting the mainstream value proposition of the arrangements wrought in the pre-Trump status quo, threatening everyone from regional Gulf allies, Asian oil importers, European financiers, and domestic consumers. There is a unique historical precedent for this specific brand of reckless deficit spending, warmongering, resource extraction, and domestic “deindustrialization,” predicated […]

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Fed Reserve Chair Says Trump’s Policies Mostly to Blame for Inflation

In a separate joint notice, they also wrote directly to DHS, demanding that agency staffers “preserve all communications and internal records” related to Lewandowski, including social media messages, Signal chats, and other private or personal communications pertaining to DHS matters. The signed Democrats were Representatives Robert Garcia (Oversight Committee), Rick Larsen (Committee on Transportation and […]

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Trump Freaks Out at Courts That Keep Ruling Against Him

“Not only was it not burning, it was not even shot at—Iran knows better than to do that! The story was knowingly FAKE and, in a certain way, you can say that those Media Outlets that generated it should be brought up on Charges for TREASON for the dissemination of false information!” Trump ranted. “The […]

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Trump Raves Madly Over His Two Latest Major Court Losses

“Not only was it not burning, it was not even shot at—Iran knows better than to do that! The story was knowingly FAKE and, in a certain way, you can say that those Media Outlets that generated it should be brought up on Charges for TREASON for the dissemination of false information!” Trump ranted. “The […]

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Judge Smacks Down Trump’s Investigation Into Jerome Powell

The Shahed drones are capable of flying low and slow, a facet of their design that has made them difficult targets for U.S. air defenses. The military has been mostly successful at intercepting them, using Patriot interceptor missiles—which are designed to destroy ballistic missiles or aircraft—in order to do so. But there’s a significant cost […]

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