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Consumers shopping for a new car in 2025 are being warned to buckle up for higher prices once President-elect Donald Trump takes office next month as potential impacts from his trade policies are beginning to come into focus.

Trump has vowed to slap heavy tariffs on all foreign-made goods once he returns to the White House next month, and auto analysts and dealerships are weighing in on how new taxes on foreign car companies would affect a buyer’s bottom line.

A Michigan Democrat took a shot at supporters of TikTok as President-elect Donald Trump tries to block a looming ban set to take effect next month.

Trump on Friday asked the Supreme Court to hit the brakes on a law that could ban the popular social media site nationwide starting Jan. 19 if its owner, who is Chinese, doesn’t sell it to an American company.

Donald Trump has submitted a filing to the Supreme Court regarding the TikTok case brought by the Justice Department, which the court will decide in the coming session.

The lawsuit brought by the DOJ alleges "violations of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act and its implementing regulations (COPPA)."

Kari Lake has lost two campaigns in a row and said she probably won't run again.

Speaking to the far-right TurningPoint USA conference last weekend, the Arizona Republic quoted Lake telling the crowd, “I am gonna go help President Trump in Washington, D.C. That’s what I’m gonna do."

Donald Trump's top issue next year is fixing immigration, and an MSNBC political panel thinks he set up his supporters for an internal civil war over it.

Speaking to Ayman Mohyeldin, who is filling in for Nicolle Wallace, Lincoln Project co-founder Rick Wilson said Trump has spent the past decade blaming immigrants for all that ails them. Meanwhile, Trump has welcomed the billionaire class, in stark contrast to the MAGA ideology.

A Massachusetts lawmaker on a House committee focused on China's government told CNN on Friday afternoon he's seen no evidence to support Donald Trump's claim the country is essentially strongarming the Panama Canal, and said the president-elect's focus on the waterway "makes us look petulant."

Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-MA) said that while two Hong Kong-based shipping companies are in the Canal Zone, he hasn't seen evidence that they present a "security threat" to the United States.

An afternoon outing turned racist when a MAGA fan allegedly made a slur at a Black family.

Brown University politics Professor Deva Woodly, who studies social movements, political opinion, public meaning, and democratic theory, posted on Blue Sky that her husband was called the N-word outside of a car dealership.

Donald Trump's sudden infatuation with seizing control of the Panama Canal, buying Greenland and attempting to get Canada to become a U.S. state appears to be part of a campaign of smoke and mirrors to hide the fact that he is already reneging on campaign promises before he is even sworn in.

That is the opinion of the Washington Post's Dana Millbank who accused the president-elect of laying down a "smokescreen of chaos" to occupy social media commentators and the press, both of which would otherwise be picking apart his walk-backs.

Government watchdogs have opened an investigation into the so-called Department of Government Efficiency over what appear to be clear conflicts of interest involving its co-leaders Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy.

Donald Trump has tapped the duo to lead the advisory commission to recommend up to $2 trillion in budget cuts, but ethics experts Virginia Canter, Richard Painter and Gabe Lezra published a column on MSNBC saying they would be closely monitoring DOGE for legal and ethical violations.

Just a few weeks ago, panic spread through the progressive movement about Democrats in the U.S. Senate confirming as many judicial nominees as possible before Republicans take over the new Congress.

Washington Post columnist Colbert I. King noted that lawmakers' empty promises ultimately led to 10 judicial nominees that will go unfilled, thanks to Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) letting the Senate break.

MAGA influencer Laura Loomer appeared on Steve Bannon's "War Room" podcast on Friday to warn President-elect Donald Trump against letting X owner Elon Musk into his administration.

In an interview with Bannon, Loomer charged that Musk had major conflicts of interest and said that it could turn into a major scandal if Trump keeps him in his inner circle.

Reacting to new unsympathetic comments from Donald Trump's pick to be his "border czar" about the fate of children born in the U.S. to undocumented immigrants, conservative political advisor Brendan Buck suggested the president-elect rein his nominee in.

During a recent NBC News interview, Tom Homan was asked about a move in San Diego by the Board of Supervisors to restrict local law enforcement from helping round up immigrants which led the Trump nominee to reply, "I'm shocked that San Diego did it and, bottom line, we're going to come to San Diego and do our job. It is more difficult, but we're still doing it."

Pressed about the American-born children, Homan bluntly stated, "Our plan, we have to plan to separate children from parents. The parents will have to make a decision. That is parenting 101. If you choose to have a child here in the United States while you know you're here illegally and on a court order to deport, that is on you."

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Asked about the border czar's candid response, conservative Buck first told MSNBC host Christina Ruffini, "The how is really important, not just the what here. Immigration enforcement as a concept is very popular and there is a lot of things that Donald Trump could be doing in a few weeks here, in a few months, that I think would be really beneficial to him."

"When it comes to the interior enforcement, though, I think Donald Trump appreciates that," he elaborated. "When he gets asked about this in any more specificity, he always pivots to, 'We're going to start by going after the criminals and the dangerous people who are here.' Now that is a much easier said than done. If people knew that there were dangerous criminals here, we would be deporting them already. So, I think he understands after the experience of his first term that there are ways that you could do this to become really unpopular."

"If we know anything about Donald Trump, he wants to be popular," he continued. "I think Tom Homan here is a political liability. Tom Homan clearly has so much zeal for this issue and such disregard for the views of other people on this, that if he's let loose to run wild on this, he could do stuff damaging to Donald Trump politically, not to mention the real world effects to the people here in this country."

"So I think this is something that Donald Trump needs to keep a close eye on, not just let Tom Homan do whatever he wishes," he advised.

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