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'Recession is coming': Critics outraged as Trump vows steep tariffs imminent

President Donald Trump says he's done delaying the massive tariffs he planned to enact on America's neighbors, telling reporters Monday: "No room left for Mexico or for Canada. No. The tariffs are all set, they go into effect tomorrow."

The tariffs, which were meant to be enacted at the start of last month but were put off 30 days due to "deals" Trump struck, are expected to have a massive impact on American consumers, raising the cost of everyday items. Cars alone could see prices jump $12,000 on average. It also comes as the European Union readies a package of retaliatory tariffs targeting Trump voters in the event he decides to move for tariffs on those countries. Even some Trump allies in Congress have begun to worry.

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'Wild fantasies': GOP senator reamed over 'lie' that female sports going 'extinct'

Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) earned swift criticism after claiming Monday that women's sports will no longer exist if President Donald Trump doesn't stop transgender athletes.

"We're getting to a point now where women's and girls' sports are getting ready to be extinct," Tuberville told Fox News. "Because already in states across this country, we have high school teams that are made up of totally boys participating against girls."

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'Won't be around very long': Trump threatens Zelensky over deal to end war

The international feud that unfolded Friday in the Oval Office spilled into a new week after President Donald Trump delivered a veiled threat to Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky while insisting that Russia is ready to make a deal to end the bloody and costly war.

The vague warning to the Ukrainian leader came Monday as Trump spoke to reporters inside the White House after announcing a Taiwan chipmaker's $100 billion investment. But Trump was quickly steered into answering questions surrounding Russia and the relationship between the United States and Ukraine following the stunning blow-up targeting Zelensky.

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'Very disconcerted': GOP senator tells farmers he's also worried about Trump's tariffs

President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that his tariffs on Canada and Mexico would move forward after a 30-day pause. It's something that Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) said he's "very disconcerted about."

Speaking to the Iowa Farmer's Union on Monday, Grassley promised the money would start flowing again after Trump ushered in a total government freeze, reported the Iowa Capital Dispatch.

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US cyber defense halt against Russia stuns Republican ‘considering what we are facing’

A prominent Republican congressman, the former House Intelligence Committee chair, appeared shocked on national television when he learned that U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has ordered a top Pentagon agency, U.S. Cyber Command, to suspend operations and planning against Russia’s cyber offensives.

Secretary Hegseth’s “stand down” order, while allegedly temporary, is expected to “last for the foreseeable future,” according to The Record, a cybersecurity news site which first reported the news.

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Melania Trump turns deepfake roundtable into partisan spectacle with swipe at Democrats

First Lady Melania Trump used a roundtable event about revenge and deepfake pornography to slam Democrats for not attending en masse.

Although several Democrats did attend the event on Monday, Trump took time out of her opening remarks to complain about other party members who did not show up.

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'Have fun paying more for food': New Trump tariff outburst sparks instant backlash

President Donald Trump on Monday told American farmers to get ready to sell more crops domestically given that he is preparing to slap new tariffs on agricultural imports next month.

"To the Great Farmers of the United States: Get ready to start making a lot of agricultural product to be sold INSIDE of the United States," he wrote on his Truth Social platform. "Tariffs will go on external product on April 2nd. Have fun!"

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RFK Jr. loses top staffer over disagreement on measles response

A top staffer to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. abruptly quit after just two weeks on the job over his management of a growing measles outbreak.

Thomas Corry, who had served in Donald Trump's first administration, had returned to government last week as Kennedy's top spokesman, but he issued a terse statement Monday on his LinkedIn page announcing he was quitting immediately, reported Politico.

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Trump tells US farmers to 'have fun' as he plots even bigger trade wars

President Donald Trump on Monday vowed that American farmers would prosper greatly from his trade wars, despite evidence from his first term that such trade wars significantly hurt farmers' bottom lines.

Writing on his Truth Social page, Trump wrote that "the Great Farmers of the United States" should "get ready to start making a lot of agricultural product to be sold INSIDE of the United States" because "tariffs will go on external product on April 2nd."

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'Especially married women' could be targeted by latest GOP voting bill: Michigan official

A Republican-backed election law would make it more difficult for married women to vote, according to experts.

Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson is one of the officials raising concerns about the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, which would require proof of citizenship to register to vote, and she said the bill would target who change their names after they get married, reported MLive.

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Trump demands Zelensky apologize 'in front of cameras' after Oval Office spat: report

President Donald Trump will reportedly provide no additional assistance or deals with Ukraine until the country's president, Volodymyr Zelensky, apologizes "in front of cameras" for last week's spat in the Oval Office.

Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy reported that Trump was demanding the apology on Monday after the U.S. president lost his temper with Zelensky during a meeting the week before.

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'At least say thank you!' Trump official continues berating 'troublemaker' Zelensky

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, who was in the Oval Office for last week's disastrous meeting with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky, sought to set the record straight about the motivations of President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance.

"I've heard nonsense that this was a setup," Lutnick told CNN's Pamela Brown Monday. "We expected this to be a love fest. Really, it was just a love fest. But what happened is, President Zelensky came in and all he asked for was 'no concessions, security guarantees, reparations from Russia of $300 billion, give up no land, get them off our land,' and he kept going, 40 minutes before the cameras were in and 45 minutes once the cameras came in. Endlessly, relentlessly."

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Atlanta Fed posts alarming new economic projection of Trump's first quarter

The Atlanta Federal Reserve on Monday produced a new projection that the American economy would shrink by nearly three percent in the first quarter of President Donald Trump's second term.

Specifically, the Atlanta Fed now projects that the economy will shrink by 2.8 percent in Q1 2025, which actually marks a deterioration from the projection it made last week that the economy would shrink by 1.5 percent on the quarter.

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