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WASHINGTON — The Trump administration made an emergency appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday, asking the justices to strike down a lower court’s order that immigration officials return a Maryland man erroneously deported to a notorious mega-prison in El Salvador.

U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer argued that, despite an error in deporting Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia of Beltsville, Maryland, the lower court does not have the jurisdiction to order the Trump administration to return someone who the administration argues is no longer in U.S. custody.

President Donald Trump's Secretary of the Treasury, Scott Bessent, said that any fired government workers can simply find jobs in manufacturing companies that Trump claims his tariffs will create in the U.S.

"We are shedding excess labor in the federal government and bringing down federal borrowing. And then on the other side, that will give us the labor that we need for the new manufacturing" in the U.S., Bessent told fired Fox host Tucker Carlson.

Republicans were disappointed when liberal Judge Susan Crawford defeated conservative Brad Schimel by 10 percent in a Wisconsin Supreme Court election last week.

Although the race was technically nonpartisan, Schimel was supported by President Donald Trump and his close ally, billionaire Elon Musk — who poured over $20 million into Schimel's campaign. But all that money from Musk didn't prevent Crawford from enjoying a double-digit victory in a key swing state that Trump won in 2016 and 2024 yet lost in 2020.

President Donald Trump has reportedly threatened to veto a tariff bill sponsored by Sens. Maria Cantwell (D-WA) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA).

Axios reported on Monday that the White House objected to the bill that would limit the president's ability to impose tariffs without first notifying Congress.

The former chair of the United States Council of Economic Advisers admitted on MSNBC on Monday morning that Donald Trump is finding out initial supporters of his tariff plans are quickly abandoning him.

On the same day that a bevy of Wall Street executives — many of them the president's biggest boosters during the 2024 election — harshly criticized his economic policies, noted economist Jared Bernstein told MSNBC's Ana Cabrera things are not looking good for the embattled president.

Over the weekend, a Justice Department attorney was put on administrative leave after acknowledging in court that he'd never been given a "satisfactory" answer for why the U.S. government couldn't return a wrongfully deported immigrant from Venezuela who had been residing in Maryland. Now, the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals is scolding the DOJ's behavior in a new ruling.

In a unanimous decision on Monday, the court denied President Donald Trump's administration's efforts to resist returning Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the United States by midnight on Monday, wrote Politico legal reporter Kyle Cheney on X.

The National Park Services (NPS) has removed a prominent photo of Black abolitionist Harriet Tubman from its Underground Railroad webpage after President Donald Trump's executive order abolishing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies.

According to a snapshot of the webpage saved by Archive.org, the reference to Tubman was removed as early as March 25. It had been replaced with a smaller Tubman photo that included white abolitionists Catherine Coffin and Thomas Garrett.

While running in 2024, President Donald Trump promised his audience, "I am your warrior. I am your justice. And for those who have been wronged and betrayed, I am your retribution."

By the end of the campaign, Trump backed off.

President Donald Trump took to Truth Social on Monday morning to attack China and issue new trade threats.

"Yesterday, China issued Retaliatory Tariffs of 34%, on top of their already record setting Tariffs, Non-Monetary Tariffs, Illegal Subsidization of companies, and massive long term Currency Manipulation, despite my warning that any country that Retaliates against the U.S. by issuing additional Tariffs, above and beyond their already existing long term Tariff abuse of our Nation, will be immediately met with new and substantially higher Tariffs, over and above those initially set," Trump promised, with randomly capitalized words.

MSNBC host and former Wall Street executive Stephanie Ruhle jumped all over Donald Trump on Monday morning as the stock market spiraled downward once again due to economic uncertainty over his wide-ranging tariff plans.

During an appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Ruhle, who spent 14 years working on Wall Street before leaving her job as a managing director at Deutsche Bank, criticized the president's blithe dismissal about the economic pain the country is experiencing while he was busy playing golf in Florida.

Speaking with the hosts, she explained, "I would just say the thing that's really alarming about what our government is doing is, think about this weekend. Over this weekend, I was talking to former colleagues of mine from Deutsche Bank saying, compare this weekend to where we were in 2008, right? That the famous 2008 weekend when traders were flooding back to trading desks to figure out what was their counterparty exposure to, to all other banks out there, how bad was it going to be?"

Stock market investments took a wild swing as the White House disavowed rumors that President Donald Trump was considering a 90-day pause on his trade war.

The Dow fell over 1,000 points just minutes after Monday's opening but swung into positive territory for a few seconds when some outlets reported rumors that White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett said Trump was considering a tariff pause.

Donald Trump started his Monday morning repeatedly talking up his sweeping tariff plans as the stock market, once again, spiraled downward and could lead to a Republican "bloodbath" in the 2026 midterm election.

With the Dow Jones Indices dropping another 1,000 points moments after opening, Trump wrote on Truth Social, "The United States has a chance to do something that should have been done DECADES AGO. Don’t be Weak! Don’t be Stupid! Don’t be a PANICAN (A new party based on Weak and Stupid people!). Be Strong, Courageous, and Patient, and GREATNESS will be the result!"