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Yesterday — 16 April 2025Main stream

Senators Investigate Private Equity Role in Soaring Fire-Truck Costs

16 April 2025 at 00:17
Fire departments say prices for new engines have soared and orders are backlogged for years. Two senators are investigating whether investors who have disrupted the industry are the reason.

© Fred Greaves/Reuters

The Los Angeles Fire Department maintenance yard, packed with vehicles that are out of service.
Before yesterdayMain stream

Democrats Widely Blast Trump’s Tariffs, but Not Tariffs Overall

14 April 2025 at 00:45
While Democrats have widely criticized President Trump’s whipsawing trade strategy as chaotic, they’ve displayed little consensus on where the party stands on tariffs overall.

© Maansi Srivastava for The New York Times

Last week, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan broke with some other Democrats by saying that she agreed with President Trump that “we do need to make more stuff in America.”
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