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Government faces VAT challenge as Trump announces more tariffs

A senior minister said the Government would ‘wait and see’ whether tariffs announced on Thursday ‘actually come to pass’.

The Independent UK

'Dumb or dishonest': Donald Trump hitting UK with tariffs because of VAT slammed by top tax expert

A senior minister said the Government would ‘wait and see’ whether tariffs announced on Thursday ‘actually come to pass’

Evening Standard

Texas backed Trump and his hard-line border stance. But immigration car chases have killed dozens of people in the state

Federal Border Patrol adopted higher bar for car chases after series of fatal accidents

The Independent UK

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Trump's 'Reciprocal' Tariffs Could Be Largest Tax Increase Since World War II

The specifics are still vague, but the White House is reportedly claiming that new tariffs will generate $1 trillion annually.

Reason

GOP weighs taking money from the military to fund Trump’s efforts to deport millions

Trump promised to deport “millions and millions” and conduct the largest deportation effort in U.S. history while on the campaign trail

The Independent UK

Trump's visit with Modi becomes a mini-trade summit

President Trump on Thursday let Indian Prime Minister Modi know he is unhappy with the South Asian giant's trade practices.

Roll Call

Trump Administration Offers Buyouts To Federal Employees

75,000 federal employees accept buyouts in Trump's effort to downsize government and streamline operations.

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Trump’s Ukraine call with Putin leaves UK sounding at odds with reality

Statements that there can be no negotiations without Kyiv ring hollow when the US president has just sidelined it

The Guardian - UK

Trump says US prices ‘could go up’ as he threatens new tariffs on trade partners

President says US will impose ‘reciprocal’ duties but no new specific tariffs are announced

The Guardian - US

Elizabeth Warren's Hubris Allowed Trump To Defund the CFPB

Instead of isolating the CFPB from Congress' budget-making authority, Warren and former President Barack Obama made it easier for a president to effectively shut it down.

Reason

Trump and Musk launch mass layoffs at several US federal agencies

Termination notices sent to Department of Education and CFPB as Musk pushes to ‘delete entire agencies’

The Guardian - US

75,000 workers have accepted Trump’s buyout — far short of White House projections

Administration shuts down buyout program after 3.75 percent of federal workers accept pay until September in exchange for resignation

The Independent UK

Trump dictates. Musk desiccates

Both have an insatiable appetite for destruction

Salon

The White House says it's a 'fact' that the Gulf of Mexico has been renamed. Is that right?

For more than four centuries, the body of water stretching from Florida through Texas and into Mexico has been known as the Gulf of Mexico

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A ‘recipe for extinction’: can the US’s envied nature protections survive Trump and his ‘God squad’?

Fears grow for endangered species as the US president sets about dismantling basic laws to protect them to make way for oil and gas drilling

The Guardian - US

Trump administration directs federal agencies to fire all probationary employees – as it happened

Office of personnel management send directive potentially affecting hundreds of thousands of workers as Trump meets Modi at White House

The Guardian - US

Belarus frees three detainees including US citizen and journalist

Journalist with US-funded broadcaster among those in release hailed by ambassador as ‘big day for team America’

The Independent UK

Trump website monitoring ‘government waste’ is a placeholder about a made-up architectural firm

Democratic lawmakers have accused Department of Government of Efficiency of providing little transparency about efforts to drastically reduce size and spending of federal government

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The Independent UK

Nobody has a right to ask the president a question, says Trump press secretary

Donald Trump's press secretary warned that "nobody has the right to ask the president questions" after the White House blocked an Associated Press (AP) journalist from an event over the news agency's continued use of the "Gulf of Mexico" in its coverage.

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White House Claims Judicial Branch Faces Constitutional Crisis

White House's concerns over judicial overreach in blocking Trump's policies spark a constitutional crisis debate.

The Independent UK

What is the Administrative Procedure Act, the law that courts may use to try to slow Trump down?

Longstanding administrative law stops government action that’s ‘arbitrary and capricious’

The Independent UK

White House justifies blocking AP reporters over ‘Gulf of America’ gripe as holding ‘lies accountable’

‘Nobody has the right to go into the Oval Office and ask a president of the United States questions,’ the White House press secretary fumed

Fortune

Trump wants lower interest rates, but inflation data came in hot

Wall Street is reckoning with the possibility the Federal Reserve will stand down on rate cuts this year.

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