Tag: Trump, Donald J

Interest Rate Cuts on Hold Till Inflation Improves, Fed Meeting Minutes Show

The Federal Reserve pressed pause on interest rate cuts last month. The minutes from its January meeting suggest the hiatus is likely to be a long one. A record of the central bank’s Jan. 28-29 meeting, released on Wednesday, showed that officials have not written off rate cuts completely, and they still expect to lower […]

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Ukrainians Say They Feel Betrayed by Trump and U.S.

Nataliia Klymyuk, who has been volunteering for 11 years to look after a memorial to war dead in Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, said she had never had any illusions about President Trump. On Wednesday, she stood among a crowd of people at the memorial, on Independence Square in central Kyiv, where tens of thousands of […]

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Trump Administration Moves to End New York’s Congestion Pricing Tolls

President Trump intends to revoke federal approval of New York City’s congestion pricing program, fulfilling a campaign promise to reverse the policy that tolls drivers who enter Manhattan’s busiest streets to finance repairs to mass transit. In a letter to Gov. Kathy Hochul on Wednesday, the president’s transportation secretary outlined Mr. Trump’s objections to the […]

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Trump Falsely Suggests Ukraine Is to Blame for the War: What to Know

In comments that stunned America’s allies in Europe and angered Ukraine’s government, President Trump on Tuesday appeared to blame Ukraine’s leaders for Russia’s invasion. He also suggested that they do not deserve a seat at the table for the peace talks that he has initiated with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia. “You should have […]

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A Frustrated Trump Wants His New Air Force One Planes Pronto

President Trump, furious about delays in delivering two new Air Force One jets, has empowered Elon Musk to explore drastic options to prod Boeing to move faster, including relaxing security clearance standards for some who work on the presidential planes. His administration has even discussed whether a luxury jet could be acquired and refitted during […]

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Migrants Deported to Panama by Trump Administration Taken to Jungle Camp

Nearly 100 migrants recently deported by the United States to Panama, where they had been locked in a hotel, were loaded onto buses Tuesday night and moved to a detention camp on the outskirts of the jungle, several of the migrants said. It is unclear how long the group, who were deported under the Trump […]

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Trump Eyes a Bigger, Better Trade Deal With China

During the Biden administration, Donald J. Trump would sit in his mirrored and gold-trimmed salon at Mar-a-Lago where he had once hosted China’s leader, Xi Jinping, brooding to visitors about the outcome of the trade agreement he signed with China in 2020. Mr. Trump would castigate “stupid people” in the White House for failing to […]

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Kremlin Message to Trump: There’s Money to Be Made in Russia

The Russian government’s top investment manager, who has Harvard and McKinsey credentials and fluent English, brought a simple printout to Tuesday’s talks with the Trump administration in Saudi Arabia. Its message: By pulling out of Russia in outrage over the invasion of Ukraine, American companies had walked away from piles of cold, hard cash. “Losses […]

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European Leaders Try to Recalibrate After Trump Sides With Russia on Ukraine

President Emmanuel Macron of France called a second emergency meeting of European allies on Wednesday seeking to recalibrate relations with the United States as President Trump upends international politics by rapidly changing American alliances. Mr. Macron had already assembled a dozen European leaders in Paris on Monday after Mr. Trump and his new team angered […]

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Zelensky Urges ‘More Truth’ After Trump Suggests Ukraine Started the War

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine appealed to the Trump administration on Wednesday to respect the truth and avoid disinformation in discussing the war that began with a Russian invasion of his country, in his first response to President Trump’s suggestion that Ukraine had started the war. “I would like to have more truth with the […]

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Trump Pivots Toward Putin, and R.F.K. Jr. Says ‘Nothing’ Is Off Limits

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Struggle Over Americans’ Personal Data Plays Out Across the Government

Last week, Michelle King, the acting commissioner of the Social Security Administration, sought to reassure Democrats on Capitol Hill about the presence of two of Elon Musk’s allies at her agency. The Social Security Administration keeps medical information, bank account numbers and other sensitive personal data about the roughly 70 million Americans it provides with […]

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Judge to Scrutinize Adams’s Dealings With Trump’s Justice Department

A federal judge on Wednesday is expected to scrutinize the Trump administration’s extraordinary attempt to abandon corruption charges against New York City’s mayor, a decision that shook the legal community and led to calls for the mayor’s resignation. The judge, Dale E. Ho, ordered the Washington prosecutors who sought a dismissal of the case last […]

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Judge in Adams Case Has Faced Trump Administration in Court Before

Dale E. Ho ran the American Civil Liberties Union’s voting rights litigation department when President Trump’s first administration tried to put a citizenship question on the 2020 census. The question, he said at the time, would “wreck the once-in-a-decade count of the nation’s population” by intimidating immigrants legal and not. In his first appearance before […]

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Has America Become a Threat to Europe?

On Jan. 29, Bryan Lanza, a longtime adviser to President Trump, issued a stark warning to a group of German manufacturers. He told them that the president is a “sledgehammer.” You either work with him, or you get hit, according to Karl Haeusgen, president of V.D.M.A, Germany’s Mechanical Engineering Industry Association, who was there. Mr. […]

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Judge Declines to Block Musk Team’s Foray Into Federal Agencies

A federal judge in Washington gave President Trump a victory for now when she declined on Tuesday to bar Elon Musk and his associates from ordering mass firings or having access to data at seven federal agencies. The judge, Tanya S. Chutkan of the Federal District Court, wrote that a coalition of 14 state attorneys […]

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Courts Force a Window Into Musk’s Secretive Unit

When President Trump signed an order imbuing the so-called Department of Government Efficiency with even more power over the federal work force, Elon Musk was there, championing the work as an exercise in transparency. “All of our actions are maximally transparent,” Mr. Musk said last week, standing in the Oval Office. “In fact, I don’t […]

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PGA Tour and LIV Golf Look for Merger Deal Under Trump

The PGA Tour and Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund are racing to reshape their plans to combine their rival golf circuits, emboldened by President Donald J. Trump’s eagerness to play peacemaker for a fractured sport, according to four people familiar with the matter. Since the start of secret talks in April 2023, PGA Tour executives […]

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DOGE Claimed It Saved $8 Billion in One Contract. It Was Actually $8 Million.

The Department of Government Efficiency, the federal cost-cutting initiative championed by Elon Musk, published on Monday a list of government contracts it has canceled, together amounting to about $16 billion in savings itemized on a new “wall of receipts” on its website. Almost half of those line-item savings could be attributed to a single $8 […]

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JFK Library in Boston Temporarily Closed After DOGE Cuts, Kennedy Family Says

The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston was abruptly closed to visitors on Tuesday, and the federal agency that operates the site did not provide any explanation for the sudden disruption. Members of the Kennedy family said that Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency had fired members of the library’s staff, […]

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Trump’s Pivot Toward Putin’s Russia Upends Generations of U.S. Policy

For more than a decade, the West has faced off against the East again in what was widely called a new cold war. But with President Trump back in office, America is giving the impression that it could be switching sides. Even as American and Russian negotiators sat down together on Tuesday for the first […]

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Why Trump’s Bullying Is Going to Backfire

You say you got a real solution.Well, you knowWe’d all love to see the plan. — “Revolution 1,” the Beatles The scariest thing about what President Trump is doing with his tariffs-for-all strategy, I believe, is that he has no clue what he is doing — or how the world economy operates, for that matter. […]

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Trump’s Revenge Now Includes His Takeover of the Kennedy Center

The trouble started in August 2017 when the television producer Norman Lear said he was skipping a White House reception for his Kennedy Center Honors award. Another honoree, the dancer and choreographer Carmen de Lavallade, pulled out after President Trump said there were “very fine people on both sides” of a white supremacist rally and […]

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A Lonely Holdout Where Republicans Still Resist Trump: Utah

A new political-action committee formed by a Republican is endorsing candidates who emphasize problem solving over partisanship. A former Republican governor is trying to root out political trash talk. And a push to redraw a congressional map that could bring back a Democratic House district has been buoyed by a Republican-dominated state Supreme Court. As […]

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Plane Flips Over in Toronto, and Migrants Trapped in Panama Hotel

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C.I.A. Expands Secret Drone Flights Over Mexico

The United States has stepped up secret drone flights over Mexico to hunt for fentanyl labs, part of the Trump administration’s more aggressive campaign against drug cartels, according to U.S. officials. The covert drone program, which has not been previously disclosed, began under the Biden administration, according to U.S. officials and others familiar with the […]

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Under Trump’s Mass Deportation Plan, Some Migrants Are Being Sent to Panama

They arrived at the United States border from around the world, hoping to seek asylum. Instead, they were detained, shackled and flown by the U.S. military to a faraway country, Panama. They were stripped of their passports and most of their cellphones, they said, and then locked in a hotel, barred from seeing lawyers and […]

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Elon Musk Is Leading a ‘Hostile Takeover of the Federal Government’

President Trump has empowered Elon Musk, one of the richest men in the world, to fire government employees, eliminate federal agencies and run roughshod over both federal law and the Constitution. In an unparalleled delegation of executive branch authority, Trump has chosen Musk — who is at once an entrepreneur whose companies have won billions […]

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How Trump Could Get Us Into a Debt Crisis

You’ve heard warnings for years about how a fiscal crisis was brewing in the United States because the debt is unsustainable — and financial markets would eventually protest. However, the logic was often vague and the risk hypothetical. Guess what? The Trump administration has made obvious the real source of risk. It isn’t federal borrowing […]

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A Democrat Who Is Thinking Differently

This is an edited transcript of an episode of “The Ezra Klein Show.” You can listen to the conversation by following or subscribing to the show on the NYT Audio App, Apple, Spotify, Amazon Music, YouTube, iHeartRadio or wherever you get your podcasts. After the election, I started asking congressional Democrats I had talked to […]

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Europe, Dazed by Trump, Confronts Hard Choices in Ukraine

For years, European leaders have fretted about reducing their dependence on a wayward United States. On Monday, at a hastily arranged meeting in Paris, the hand-wringing gave way to harried acceptance of a new world in which Europe’s most powerful ally has begun acting more like an adversary. President Trump’s plan to negotiate a peace […]

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