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MSNBC's Ryan Nobles on Thursday said that congressional Republicans have made things more difficult for themselves as they move to try to pass President Donald Trump's budget package.

After Republicans in the House of Representatives successfully passed a blueprint that had been passed in the United States Senate, Nobles outlined the tight window the party now has to get its work done.

Former treasury secretary Janet Yellen denounced president Donald Trump's tariffs and identified the reason she believes that he backed down from most of them.

The president's sweeping, so-called reciprocal tariffs went into effect Wednesday against global trading partners, but he pulled back most of them later that day as markets shuddered, and Yellen told CNN International that he paused the policy to avoid further damage to the U.S. economy.

A clearly frustrated Kevin O'Leary took out his anger on MSNBC host José Díaz-Balart on Thursday morning with his complaints that Donald Trump's tariff on China is not near enough to make up for his own business losses.

Multi-millionaire O'Leary, a CNBC contributor who also appears on Shark Tank, claimed there is an uneven playing for him when trying to compete with the Chinese and that he doesn't "care" about market "volatility" created by massive tariff costs.

Noting that he just testified before Congress as Donald Trump's sweeping tariffs, now on pause, have caused worldwide economic chaos, O'Leary, a Canadian was on the verge of shouting as he explained the unfairness of it all.

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"This narrative with China is not just about tariffs," he began. "Since China joined the WTO [World Trade Organization] in 2020, or it's actually 2000, they have not abided by the rules in any single year. There is no way you can figure out or settle a trade dispute with them although they said they'd agree to do that, they never did."

"They have been constantly stealing American IP [intellectual property], including many from my companies and we have not been able to litigate there, there is no resolution available to us," he elaborated. "They are using our financial markets."

"I was testifying yesterday at the China hearings in Washington, and I said, I've had enough and I expect you, lawmakers and the administration to finally go to task and settle this once and for all," he loudly exclaimed. "Because I don't care if it's 1,000 percent tariffs. They have to come to the table now and not just settle this trade war, they need to settle all of this unbalanced situation."

After stating, "I would like this thing worked out. I don't care about the volatility, I don't care if Trump ratchets it up 25 percent a day," the MSNBC host pressed him with, "What do you mean you don't care about volatility? If volatility has a direct impact on us as consumers ––."

"Because we have to fix this problem once and for all," O'Leary snapped at Díaz-Balart. "It's killing us! It's killing small business in America. It's killing large businesses, all the IP these guys steal."

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A southwest Ohio family says they're being targeted with racist hate mail once again, a decade after they first started receiving threatening packages.

Juanita De La Rosa, of Lebanon, said her family first received a disturbing package in 2015, when she opened a box containing an animal skull with the word "muerte," or "death," written on it, reported WLWT-TV.

FOX 5 News in DC and the Baltimore Banner recently posted footage of ICE agents attacking the car of Maryland mother Elsy Noemi Berrios and her daughter, Karen Cruz Berrios, as they were parked in the street on March 31.

The elder Barrios is originally from El Salvador and seeking asylum, but the Banner reported she is now being held at the Moshannon Valley Processing Center in Pennsylvania.

President Donald Trump backed down on most of his so-called reciprocal tariffs, but CNN's Harry Enten said the policy remains toxically unpopular.

Stocks surged Wednesday after Trump announced on Truth Social that he was halting duties against dozens of U.S. trading partners, although he raised them against China to 125 percent, but the data analyst said polling showed Americans are deeply concerned about the economic policies coming out of the White House.

Supporters of Donald Trump who spent over a week defending the president's sweeping tariff plans only to suffer whiplash after he did a 180 on Wednesday were ridiculed by a conservative columnist on MSNBC on Thursday morning.

During an appearance on "Morning Joe," Matt Lewis, a contributor to The Hill, laughed off attempts to spin the about-face –– a "pause" of ninety days –– as a planned move that demonstrates Trump's brilliance.

Speaking with host Jonathan Lemire, Lewis jumped right into it by explaining, "Look, Congress should be in charge of tariffs. And if they were to regain that power, then this could be done more strategically and less capriciously and that's what we saw."

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"Look what happened yesterday, it's not," he continued before changing direction and joking "The Trump's defenders want to say this part of the art of the deal. It's the art of the panic attack."

"What we are seeing is, if you want stability, this ain't it, right?" he elaborated. "And I think that's part of why we may be seeing that kind of dead cat bounce today where the markets aren't quite returning. Part of it, I think, is that we still are going to have high tariffs. We're still going to have a bigger trade war with China."

"But look, I mean, just a week ago Donald Trump called it 'Liberation Day.' He was, you know, slapping on tariffs like he's throwing around confetti at a New Year's Eve party. And then yesterday he's backpedaling like a unicyclist on black ice. I mean it's whiplash. It's whiplash trying to follow this around," he quipped.

As for Trump's biggest supporters, he added, "So these Republicans are coming up with excuses and I went back, you know, I went back and dug into some of them and they're going to have to sort of reinvent what the excuse is. But last week they were saying how brilliant. That this was because tariffs are manly."

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President Donald Trump has ordered the investigation of two of his former political appointees who turned into critics, and CNN's Elie Honig said that would be a major test for attorney general Pam Bondi.

The president targeted Chris Krebs, who ran Trump’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and former senior Department of Homeland Security official Miles Taylor in an executive order stripping their security clearances and directing the Justice Department to open federal investigations of their tenures.

MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow suggested that a sudden wave of resignations inside the IRS is an obvious sign that massive turmoil is brewing within the agency.

Maddow drew the stark conclusion during her Wednesday night show, where she highlighted the startling number of high-level officials at the IRS leaving the agency over its deal with the MAGA administration to hand over sensitive tax data to immigration officials.

Tensions flared on CNN late Wednesday when a former MSNBC host accused a Republican strategist of hurling "personal insults" at her during a heated discussion over whether the Trump administration has a "colonizer's attitude."

Tiffany Cross, host of "The Cross Connection" on MSNBC for two years ending in 2022, sparred with conservative Scott Jennings on "NewsNight" with host Abby Phillip.

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders took a shot at CNN during a Wednesday night televised town hall on the same network, blasting news networks for failing to cover what he called "critical issues" and leading to people "losing faith in the American system."

During the hour-long town hall, Sanders was asked by a civil rights attorney about why people are turning away from the Democratic party.

MSNBC's Rachel Maddow delivered a stark warning to her viewers on Wednesday night as she ripped into President Donald Trump for “his panicked U-turn on tariffs.”

“For all his famed and supposed attention to the stock market, I got to tell you, Donald Trump has been very happy to preside over huge off-the-cliff plunges in the stock market repeatedly,” Maddow said. “In fact, in history, if you look at the Dow Jones, if you look at the 10 largest single-day point drops in the Dow in history, of the 10 worst point drops ever on the Dow, Donald Trump was the president for nine of those 10 days.”

President Donald Trump is rapidly losing support on the economy as a result of the chaos surrounding his tariff policy, political polling analyst Harry Enten told CNN's John Berman on Wednesday evening.

Trump's tariffs, which imposed 10 to 49 percent import duties on countries based on their trade deficit with the United States, were temporarily scaled back on Thursday, with the rate being set at a flat 10 percent for everyone for 90 days except China, which will see even larger increases.