Mt. Rushmore and a Third Term: G.O.P. Lawmakers Rush to Flatter Trump
A competition of sorts has broken out to see who can be the most pro-Trump member of Congress.
It Is Happening Every Day, Every Where
A competition of sorts has broken out to see who can be the most pro-Trump member of Congress.
General Motors, the largest producer of cars in Mexico, won’t provide details on how it would react if President Trump imposes 25 percent tariffs from the two countries.
In positioning himself as a junior partner to the president and doing his bidding on matters large and small, the Louisiana Republican is diminishing a job that involves leading a coequal branch of government.
The president is increasingly threatening other countries with tariffs for issues that have little to do with trade.
During President Trump’s first term, demanding personal loyalty didn’t always work; stocking top jobs with loyalists is the tack now. At the F.B.I., this entails bucking its institutional history.
The president also ordered the Pentagon to end diversity programs, reinstate many service members dismissed for refusing the coronavirus vaccine and create a new missile defense system.
The termination of more than a dozen lawyers who worked with the special counsel, Jack Smith, came hours after the department’s most senior career official was reassigned.
The full extent of the order was not immediately clear, but the directive sent to government agencies on Monday threatened to paralyze a vast swath of federal programs.
An email to the aid agency’s employees cited actions “that appear to be designed to circumvent” an executive order by President Trump.
His opening moves on abortion weren’t exactly “shock and awe.” Democrats see an opening.