If this is true, it should itself be a war crime. "We have reason to believe that the data (on stolen Ukrainian children who were being tracked at Yale) has been permanently deleted."
Investors are trying to read this uncertainty as they also watch growing evidence of a slowing U.S. economy. Unbridled Tariff Man was always going to be a big economic risk in a second term, and here we are."
Is this how the new Republican Party plans on helping working-class voters? Mr. Trump is volatile, and who knows how long he’ll keep the tariffs in place. Retaliation that hits certain states and businesses may also cause him to reconsider sooner than he imagines.
Mr. Trump also objected when we reported an analysis by the Anderson Economic Group that the 25% tariff will raise the cost of a full-sized SUV assembled in North America by $9,000 and a pickup truck by $8,000.
His taxes will hit every cross-border transaction, and the North American vehicle market is so interconnected that some cars cross a border as many as eight times as they’re assembled.
Wall Street Journal: "We’ve courted Mr. Trump’s ire by calling the Mexico and Canada levies the “dumbest” in history, and we may have understated the point. Mr. Trump is whacking friends, not adversaries.
Turns out I don’t dislike alpha males. I just can’t stand the self-professed ones obsessed with tracking your cycle who have meltdowns over oat milk. More actual masculinity, please.
The Treasury Department announced it won't enforce penalties related to the Corporate Transparency Act's beneficial ownership reporting for U.S. citizens and domestic companies, both under current deadlines and after future rule changes.
Since February 26, an additional 1,322 adults (from 14,482 to 15,804) and 141 infants (from 1,541 to 1,682) have died as a consequence of a single frozen USAID program.
Musk called someone the "R" word for saying the government uses SQL The government is built on SQL.
If you're not a data scientist, imagine a car mechanic putting windshield wiper fluid in the gas tank while calling you a moron for saying gas goes there. It's like that.
In the early COVID-19 pandemic, the Chinese government censored scientific research for 6 days; this is frequently called out by US elected officials. Now, US scientists have been prohibited from speaking with the public for 17 days and counting.
Russian state media is platforming claims that USAID is a regime change org. One post cites RFK Jr. saying USAID supported a coup in Ukraine, a false claim Russia uses to deflect from its invasion.
Buzzword-salad: "The organization has also been reported to fund terrorists and transgender comics."
Today CIA is prohibited from using three covers because it endangers the people who are in these groups. • Peace Corps Volunteers • U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Personnel • Journalists
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