The financial titans who backed Trump are now dealing with the fallout from his tariffs. They spent the weekend surveying the damage of last week’s major sell-off.
The New York Stock Exchange on Friday. Bankers, executives and traders said this weekend that they felt flashbacks to the global financial crisis that began in 2007.
Senate Republicans are hoping to ice Democrats out from deciding the fate of President Trump’s 2017 tax cuts, a move that Democrats could eventually use against them.
Senator John Thune of South Dakota, the Republican majority leader, said that “Senate Republicans are united with the president in viewing a temporary extension as unacceptable.”
The president’s top advisers acknowledged President Trump’s sweeping tariffs could raise prices but said an economic adjustment that would ultimately benefit American workers was overdue.
The health secretary has faced harsh criticism for his handling of the multistate outbreak, embrace of alternative treatments and tepid endorsement of vaccination.
Ben Coryell, owner of Golden Mountain Guides in Colorado, is concerned about how long his business can continue to offer climbing courses and mountaineering expeditions.
The 22nd Amendment is clear: President Trump has to give up his office after his second term. But his refusal to accept that underscores how far he is willing to consider going to consolidate power.
Used Teslas at Hayward Honda in Hayward, Calif. Many owners began selling their Teslas as a form of protest or because they no longer wanted to be associated with the company, led by Elon Musk.
Erez Reuveni conceded in court that the deportation last month of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, who had a court order allowing him to stay in the United States, should never have taken place.
The Department of Justice building in Washington. Erez Reuveni was promoted to acting deputy director of the Justice Department’s Office of Immigration Litigation two weeks ago.
The party was on at a Saudi-backed LIV Golf tournament at the president’s Doral resort in Florida and a fund-raiser at Mar-a-Lago, even as markets tumbled.
A judge found that four whistle-blowers who accused Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general, of corruption and reported him to the F.B.I. were unjustly fired.
Demonstrators packed the streets in cities and towns to rail against government cutbacks, financial turmoil and what they viewed as attacks on democracy.
Representative Rob Bresnahan Jr., who campaigned on prohibiting stock trading by members of Congress, has emerged as one of the most active stock traders in the freshman class.
Since he took office, Representative Rob Bresnahan Jr. has reported 264 stock trades, according to Capitol Trades, a site that monitors the stock market activity of lawmakers.