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96 <!– sup, sub { font-size: 100% !important; } sup { mso-text-raise:10% } sub { mso-text-raise:-10% } Welcome to The Hill’s Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy <!– The Big Story  US-China trade war reignites President Trump announced Friday he will raise tariffs on China in response to a move…
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The Trump administration laid off more than 4,100 employees Friday amid the ongoing government shutdown, according to a new court filing from the Justice Department.  U.S. District Judge Susan Illston had ordered the administration to hand over the information in a lawsuit government unions filed just before the shutdown began.  Hours ahead of the judge’s deadline, the…
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Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) slammed President Trump on Friday over his calls for indictments against New York Attorney General Letitia James, former FBI Director James Comey and Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.). “I think it was a mistake, as I already mentioned,” Bacon told CNN’s Pamela Brown. “Him putting out these demands for indictments — I…
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The MSNBC host pointed out a hole or two in the DOJ cases against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James.

President Trump said Friday he plans to visit Egypt and Israel during a one-day trip to the Middle East early next week to mark the implementation of a peace agreement that will see a pause in fighting in Gaza and the release of dozens of hostages. Trump told reporters he will visit Cairo while in…
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A message President Trump posted on Truth Social in September pressing Attorney General Pam Bondi to prosecute several political opponents was intended to be a direct message, reports say. The Wall Street Journal reported multiple officials said Trump believed he had sent the message to Bondi privately. NBC also confirmed the message’s private intent with…
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When it comes to who gets the blame over the government shutdown, Americans picked everyone from Republicans and Democrats in Congress to President Trump, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released Thursday. Pollsters asked those surveyed how much blame they think Trump, Republicans and Democrats deserve for the shutdown. Of those asked, 67 percent said Republicans…
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Republican Sen. Susan Collins (Maine) said she “strongly” opposes the White House’s move to fire hundreds of furloughed federal workers, calling the layoffs announced Friday “arbitrary.” “I strongly oppose [Office of Management and Budget] Director Russ Vought’s attempt to permanently lay off federal workers who have been furloughed due to a completely unnecessary government shutdown…
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Robert De Niro on Thursday called on people to take to the streets to protest President Trump in an upcoming “No Kings Day” on Oct. 18. “The original No Kings protest was 250 years ago,” De Niro said in a video shared on the Indivisible Project’s Instagram page. “Americans decided they didn’t want to live…
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Better luck next time, Don! The president and his allies are not happy about a snub from the Nobel Peace Prize committee.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Friday the Department of Defense is forming a new counternarcotics joint task force in order to “crush” drug cartels in the Caribbean Sea.  Hegseth said the new task force, established at the direction of President Trump, will operate in the U.S. Southern Command (Southcom) area of responsibility.  “At the President’s…
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President Trump announced Friday he will raise tariffs on China in response to a move from Beijing to tighten its control over certain critical minerals and rare earth elements. Trump announced on Truth Social that he would impose a tariff of 100 percent on Chinese goods beginning Nov. 1 or sooner. Those tariffs will supersede…
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A poll released Friday shows a record 62 percent of Americans say the federal government has too much power — the highest share since Gallup first began tracking this trend in 2001.  In 2024, a little more than half (51 percent) of Americans surveyed said they believed the federal government had too much power. Among…
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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claimed Friday that “mainstream media” had mischaracterized his remarks about circumcision and autism rates, doubling down on the Trump administration’s assertion that Tylenol could be a potential cause of the neurological and developmental disorder. In a Cabinet meeting Thursday, President Trump reiterated his personal belief that…
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Stocks had been heading for a slight gain in the morning, until Trump took to Truth Social. and said he’s considering “a massive increase of tariffs” on Chinese imports.

Trump says the watches are “for your favorite president” and promise to be “something special.”

The government shutdown will soon prevent federal workers and members of the military from receiving their paychecks. The shutdown, which began Oct. 1, has no signs of being resolved soon. The Senate voted down rival measures to reopen the government Thursday, but it will not even be in session again until Tuesday. The next day…
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Stocks closed with sharp losses Friday after President Trump threatened to impose new “massive” tariffs on China in response to new export control rules from Beijing. In a Friday post on social media, Trump said his administration was considering various ways to respond to the country’s latest restrictions on rare metals exports, including “a massive…
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Cobb had many words for the indictments of ex-FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James, but two stood out.

A former prosecutor who fielded claims of vindictive and selective prosecution by Jan. 6 rioters weighs in on what the DOJ is doing today.

President Trump will give an announcement from the Oval Office Friday evening related to lowering drug prices. Trump’s comments come just weeks after the White House announced plans to launch TrumpRx.com, an online platform that seeks to direct Americans to lower-priced medicine. The move follows an executive order issued in May for drug companies to…
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“The Antifa crowd and the pro-Hamas crowd and the Marxists, they’re all going to gather on the Mall,” Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said of pro-democracy groups.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced Friday that $4.5 billion had been awarded to 10 new construction projects along the southwest border.  The projects are the first to be funded through the GOP’s expansive One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which President Trump signed into law in early July. …
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An environmental advocacy group has filed complaints under the Hatch Act against the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Forest Service over what it described as “partisan” messaging blaming Democrats for the ongoing government shutdown. Both the HHS and the Forest Service posted messages to their websites in the wake of the…
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“We Venezuelans recognize that just as we have given everything in our citizen struggle, the support of our genuine allies has been decisive,” said María Corina Machado.