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'America will pay dearly for this stupid move': Senator rips Trump over voter 'betrayal'

Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) ripped into President Donald Trump for imposing sweeping tariffs against Canada, Mexico, and China that he claimed will cost American taxpayers dearly.

On MSNBC's Velshi Sunday, Van Hollen used the example of the billions of dollars Trump handed out to subsidize soy bean farmers hurting from his first term tariff actions.

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'It felt like they kept explaining': MSNBC host points to evidence of White House panic

During an MSNBC segment on Donald Trump launching what could turn into a trade war, one MSNBC host claimed that a bevy of emails she received on Saturday seemed to indicate panic at the White House.

With the co-hosts of MSNBC's "The Weekend" joined by MSNBC colleague Chris Hayes to discuss the tariffs that went into effect on Saturday aimed at Canada, Mexico and China, co-host Alicia Menendez claimed there may be doubts behind the scenes in the Trump administration.

After guest Hayes said of Trump, "He has a pathological obsession with tariffs. Like he genuinely, truly believes like –– yes, it's part stunt, yes, it's part demonization –– but also you can't move him off this idea, this wrongheaded idea that tariffs are the solution to all of America's problems," Menendez interjected a personal note aimed at her co-host Symone Sanders Townsend.

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"Symone, I was thinking of you last night," she began. "Did you notice, I had, like, I went into my email and there were, like, five different emails from the White House as though they put out five statements from this and i was thinking of you as someone who has done that work before. It didn't project confidence, right?"

"Like when you actually believe that what you're going to do is work, you're like, ''Here's the thing, we're doing,'" she added. "It felt like they kept explaining."

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'Any evidence?' Fox News grills Vance on claim Biden banned hiring 'white people' at FAA

Vice President J.D. Vance suggested Presidents Joe Biden and Barack Obama ordered the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) "not to hire" white people.

During a Sunday interview on Fox News, Vance said the Trump administration would "do a better job at the policy so that we make sure that aviation is as safe as it possibly can" after a recent deadly plane crash near Washington, D.C.

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'Please tell us!' CNN's Tapper puts Sean Duffy on the spot over Trump plane crash claims

CNN's Jake Tapper pressed Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy for evidence Sunday that Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives were responsible for last week's mid-air collision over Washington, D.C., that claimed 67 lives.

At a press conference after an American Eagle Flight from Wichita, Kansas, collided mid-air with an Army Black Hawk helicopter, Wednesday night, Trump said that DEI hiring practices "could have been" the cause of the tragedy.

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DHS Secretary Kristi Noem won't rule out holding children at Guantanamo

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem refused to rule out housing women, children, and families at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp.

During a Sunday interview on Meet the Press, host Kristen Welker asked Noem about President Donald Trump's plan to expand Gitmo detention facilities for immigrants and migrants.

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'How does this end?' CNN panelists raise red flags over Trump's escalating trade war

CNN panelists sounded the alarm about Trump's escalating trade war with Canada, Mexico, and China, which will most certainly raise prices for average Americans.

President Trump signed executive orders on Saturday announcing tariffs "on the country’s three largest trading partners, a move that risks unleashing a damaging trade war," according to The New York Times.

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'Always wrong': Trump freaks out on Wall Street Journal over brutal tariff criticism

The day after Donald Trump's threatened tariffs against Canada, Mexico and China went into effect, he lashed out at the conservative Wall Street Journal after it published a scathing editorial calling his decision "the dumbest trade move in history."

Sunday morning, Trump lashed out at the Journal in a long and rambling post littered with all-cap proclamations.

With the Journal's editorial board writing, "Leaving China aside, Mr. Trump’s justification for this economic assault on the neighbors makes no sense," he fired back, "The 'Tariff Lobby,' headed by the Globalist, and always wrong, Wall Street Journal, is working hard to justify Countries like Canada, Mexico, China, and too many others to name, continue the decades long RIPOFF OF AMERICA, both with regard to TRADE, CRIME, AND POISONOUS DRUGS that are allowed to so freely flow into AMERICA. THOSE DAYS ARE OVER!"

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The president was far from done.

"The USA has major deficits with Canada, Mexico, and China (and almost all countries!), owes 36 Trillion Dollars, and we’re not going to be the 'Stupid Country' any longer. MAKE YOUR PRODUCT IN THE USA AND THERE ARE NO TARIFFS! Why should the United States lose TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN SUBSIDIZING OTHER COUNTRIES, and why should these other countries pay a small fraction of the cost of what USA citizens pay for Drugs and Pharmaceuticals, as an example? THIS WILL BE THE GOLDEN AGE OF AMERICA!"

"WILL THERE BE SOME PAIN? YES, MAYBE (AND MAYBE NOT!). BUT WE WILL MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, AND IT WILL ALL BE WORTH THE PRICE THAT MUST BE PAID. WE ARE A COUNTRY THAT IS NOW BEING RUN WITH COMMON SENSE — AND THE RESULTS WILL BE SPECTACULAR!!!" he added.

You can view his post here.

For world's poorest, fears for long-term setbacks after Trump aid cut

In Uganda, millions of schoolchildren have benefitted from a universal education program backed by the United States. In South Sudan, US assistance has helped thousands of flood victims at risk of cholera.

With one swoop of the pen, President Donald Trump froze the bulk of US foreign assistance for three months on returning to office, demanding a review to ensure all money meets his "America First" principles.

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Toll rises to 7 dead, 19 hurt in Philadelphia plane crash

The death toll from the crash of a medical jet carrying a Mexican child home from a hospital in Philadelphia has risen to seven, officials said Saturday, with 19 others wounded.

The crash -- the second major aviation disaster in the United States this week -- occurred Friday when the twin-engine Learjet 55 plummeted towards a busy Philadelphia neighborhood, exploding on impact and showering wreckage over homes and vehicles.

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Mexico accuses U.S. of 'slander' over cartel alliance claim

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum angrily rejected an accusation by the United States Saturday that her government has an alliance with drug cartels, and vowed to retaliate against Donald Trump's sweeping tariffs.

Tensions between the closely connected neighbors soared after the White House said Trump would slap 25-percent tariffs on Mexican as well as Canadian goods because of illegal immigration and drug smuggling.

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Is it Beyonce's time? Music's A-listers ready for the Grammys

Music's elite are congregating in Los Angeles for Sunday's Grammy awards, and Beyonce's name is on the tip of everyone's tongue: will Recording Academy voters finally give the megastar her due?

She is the most decorated Grammy artist in history but Beyonce has infamously never won the coveted prize for Album of the Year -- despite four previous nominations for her studio albums -- and the 67th edition of the awards gala might finally put that paradox to bed.

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'Shellshock': One group 'didn’t think it was going to be this bad' in Trump's second term

Many US government workers are surprised by the lengths President Donald Trump is going to exact revenge on his political adversaries, The Guardian reports insiders say.

Per the report, while some officials resigned ahead of Trump's inauguration, some remained in their positions, hoping for the best.

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'Tick-tock': Elon Musk warned to 'tread carefully' as he continues to misread Trump

Elon Musk's misreading of President Donald Trump's motivations could lead to his downfall sooner rather than later, according to a new article in Politico.

Trump appointed Musk to head up the new Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, with a mandate of cutting as much pork out of the federal budget as possible. But Musk is going about his new job all wrong, argues senior political columnist Jonathan Martin, by "attempting to do to the federal workforce what he did to Twitter" — laying down the law and threatening employees to comply with his big cost-cutting ideas or face the consequences.

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