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Trump opens talks with South Korea on tariffs
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Trump opens talks with South Korea on tariffs

By Jack Birle | Washington Examiner President Donald Trump was optimistic after speaking with acting South Korean President Han Duck-soo about getting a “great deal” on tariffs and other matters with the Asian country. Trump’s phone call with the South Korean leader comes a day after he spoke with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba about beginning negotiations on trade amid his new sweeping tariff policy. READ THE FULL STORY AT THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER
RFK Jr. directs CDC not to recommend fluoride in water systems
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RFK Jr. directs CDC not to recommend fluoride in water systems

By Emily Hallas | Washington Examiner Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced Monday he is directing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to stop recommending community water fluoridation.  Kennedy’s comments came after he joined Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin for an event in Utah, which became the first state to ban fluoride in public water systems in March.  READ THE FULL STORY AT THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER
Trump holding nuclear talks with Iran on Saturday
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Trump holding nuclear talks with Iran on Saturday

By Thomas Stevenson | The Post Millennial President Donald Trump has said that the United States will be dealing "directly" with Iran in a high-level meeting regarding a nuclear deal come this Saturday. He made the comments in Monday's White House appearance with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. "We have a very big meeting on Saturday, and we're dealing with them directly," the president told reporters from the Oval Office as he answered questions regarding trade as well as tariff policy with Netanyahu. Israel has promised to drop all trade barriers for US goods. The meeting will be the first time that the US will be meeting with Iran directly since Trump met with the country in 2018 when the US pulled out of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Actio...
Supreme Court allows Trump Admin to enforce deportations of gang members under Alien Enemies Act
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Supreme Court allows Trump Admin to enforce deportations of gang members under Alien Enemies Act

By Elizabeth Weibel | Breitbart The Supreme Court of the United States lifted a block from U.S. District Judges James Boasberg, which prevented the Trump administration from deporting suspected illegal alien gang members under the 1798 Alien Enemies Act. While the ruling from the Supreme Court is a win for President Donald Trump and his administration, it was described as “narrow and focused on the proper venue for the cases, rather than on the administration’s use of a centuries-old law to justify its decision” to deport suspected illegal alien gang members, according to the New York Times. Per the outlet, in a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court justices found that “the migrants had improperly challenged their deportations in Washington, D.C.,” when they should have c...
Gabel: Why I have no beef with President Trump’s beef tariffs
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Gabel: Why I have no beef with President Trump’s beef tariffs

By Rachel Gabel | Commentary, Colorado Politics President Donald Trump’s tariffs should be on the radar of every agriculture producer in the U.S. Our country is not only the top producer of beef at 12.1 million metric tons annually, but also the top importer of beef, consuming 12.7 metric tons annually. There are hundreds of other ag commodities that rely on trade, of course, but beef is on my radar. One of the countries at the top of the beef tariff list is Australia, which is one of the countries that imports no American beef, a result of a 2003 restriction following a North American outbreak of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad cow disease. Our country, however, imports $4.8 billion in Australian beef annually, making the U.S. Australia’s largest beef market. Japan, Mexi...
Trump threatens additional 50% tariff on China
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Trump threatens additional 50% tariff on China

By Christian Datoc | Washington Examiner President Donald Trump said Monday that he would impose an additional 50% tariff on all Chinese goods if Beijing doesn’t withdraw retaliatory taxes on United States imports. Beijing responded to the president’s “Liberation Day” announcement last Wednesday with a 34% tariff on U.S. goods slated to take effect this week, which prompted Trump to raise the stakes again Monday morning. READ THE FULL STORY AT THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER
EU offers Trump ‘zero-for-zero tariffs’ on industrial goods with United States
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EU offers Trump ‘zero-for-zero tariffs’ on industrial goods with United States

By Kurt Zindulka | Breitbart EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Monday that the bloc has offered a “zero-for-zero tariff” trade arrangement on industrial goods with the United States in a bid to avoid a full-on trade war. While the EU chief continued to condemn the reciprocal tariff measures enacted by U.S. President Donald Trump to rectify the long-standing transatlantic trade imbalance, as pressure from the markets began to take shape, Von der Leyen and other top eurocrats expressed willingness to negotiate with the White House. READ THE FULL STORY AT BREITBART
DHS officials request IRS share tax data on up to 7 million illegal immigrants
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DHS officials request IRS share tax data on up to 7 million illegal immigrants

By Hayden Cunningham | The Post Millennial The Department of Homeland Security is seeking access to confidential tax records from the Internal Revenue Service in an effort to locate as many as 7 million people believed to be in the United States illegally, according to a report by the Washington Post. DHS officials have previously requested information on approximately 700,000 individuals who are subject to final deportation orders, asking the IRS to provide names and addresses. The size of the request later expanded, with DHS officials saying they would submit preliminary queries for about 2 million people, which then rose to 7 million. However, the two agencies have yet to reach an agreement on how much tax information the IRS is willing to disclose. La...
US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick reveals 50 nations reached out to negotiate tariffs, warns ‘there is no postponing’
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US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick reveals 50 nations reached out to negotiate tariffs, warns ‘there is no postponing’

By Ronny Reyes | New York Post Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said about 50 nations have reached out to the US to discuss President Trump’s sweeping tariffs, though he said nothing will stop the levies from going forward. Defending the president’s economic plan on Sunday, Lutnick said the calls from foreign officials prove that “these countries know that they’ve been ripping us off,” suggesting there was no room for negotiations. “There is no postponing,” he told CBS’s “Face the Nation.” “They are definitely going to stay in place for days and weeks.” READ THE FULL STORY AT THE NEW YORK POST
Joondeph: This is no time for MAGA to go wobbly
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Joondeph: This is no time for MAGA to go wobbly

By Dr. Brian C. Joondeph | Commentary, American Thinker British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher once reprimanded President George H.W. Bush with: "This is no time to go wobbly." A variation of those words, for MAGA now, seem appropriate. Thatcher's words occurred in 1990 when Bush considered how to respond to Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait – whether to adopt a military response or not. Today, there is an invasion of another sort, President Donald Trump, DOGE, and the MAGA coalition mounting a full-on attack on the international deep state, globalists, and New World Order, the latter promoted by that same President Bush. Trump’s assault spans multiple fronts, both foreign and domestic, as well as economic and social issues. America’s Southern border is nearly cl...