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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced there would be 10,000 jobs cut department-wide, with emails that went out to "scientists, senior leaders, doctors, inspectors and others," the Associated Press reported. Now, thousands are being hired back, which Kennedy claimed was all part of the plan.

Kennedy said he always knew he would rehire the people he was told to fire, The Huffington Post reported Friday.

The business community is mired in a "culture of fear" as it wants to oppose President Donald Trump's new round of tariffs but fears reprisal from the U.S. government, Politico reported on Friday.

Trump's so-called "Liberation Day" tariffs target practically every country's goods with new import duties ranging from 10 to 49 percent, and for some reason even explicitly include some uninhabited Antarctic volcano islands with no trade or industry.

President Donald Trump and his MAGA allies aren't shy about praising far-right figures around the world.

"War Room" host Steve Bannon and Tesla/SpaceX leader Elon Musk openly praise France's Marine LePen and the National Rally (formerly the National Front) party. Trump, Project 2025 and the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) are avid admirers of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. And former Fox News host Tucker Carlson is a staunch defender of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard has defended many times.

In a Maryland court on Friday, the Justice Department dropped what one lawyer called a jaw-dropping claim.

The DOJ faced off against lawyers for an immigrant that the administration has admitted was mistakenly sent to an El Salvador prison.

If President Donald Trump's administration brings back to the U.S. any of the deportees he sent to El Salvador, it could have significant ripple effects for his administration, a legal analyst claimed Friday.

Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a Maryland immigrant who had protected legal status, was sent to a notorious prison in the Central American country under the accusation that he had gang ties, the Associated Press reported on April 1.

After years of attacking the agency, President Donald Trump's appointees to head up the FBI are now trying to curry favor with the rank and file in their quest to make changes, reported The New York Times — but for some, these efforts look less than sincere.

In fact, noted the report, FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino are using their own attacks on the organization as proof it needs a culture change: "the two men have pulled a kind of bait-and-switch: In recent emails to thousands of FBI employees, they have sought to use the bureau’s damaged reputation — a reputation that they themselves helped tear down — as a rationale for bringing reforms to the supposedly broken organization."

President Donald Trump personally selected the formula that the U.S. government will use to determine the percentage of reciprocal tariff to be implemented on a country, territory, or island, according to a Friday report.

The Washington Post's Jeff Stein wrote that numerous aides at the National Economic Council, Council of Economic Advisers, Commerce Department, and the Office of the United States Trade Representative confirmed the president made the decision himself.

A former Republican congressman tried to make sense of president Donald Trump tipping the U.S. economy toward recession.

The president announced double-digit tariffs on at least 90 nations Wednesday, sending stock markets into a tailspin and stoking fears of a recession, and former congressman Charlie Dent told MSNBC that he couldn't see any logic to Trump's decision.

A former aide to two House Speakers is warning that President Donald Trump will need a hefty spin to handle the fallout of the implementation of tariffs on goods from countries around the globe.

For the second day in a row, the U.S. Dow Jones sank below 40,000 for the first time in nearly a year amid fears about a possible trade war, said MSNBC's Jose Diaz-Balart on Friday.

The labor market added far more jobs than expected last month, but former labor secretary Robert Reich warned that Americans could be in for a "crude and rude shock" in the coming weeks.

The U.S. added 228,000 jobs last month, far more than the 140,000 that economists had expected, and that number was nearly double the 117,000 roles added in February, but the former labor secretary under Bill Clinton told CNN's "The Situation Room" that president Donald Trump's tariffs would have far-ranging consequences for the economy.

NBC business analyst Christine Romans smirked and took a dim view of a Donald Trump boast on Friday morning that now was a good time for investors to sink more money in the stock market while it was still experiencing a meltdown for the third day in a row.

Speaking with "Morning Joe" co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Jonathan Lemire, she was alerted to a Trump Truth Social post where the president wrote, "TO THE MANY INVESTORS COMING INTO THE UNITED STATES AND INVESTING MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF MONEY, MY POLICIES WILL NEVER CHANGE. THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO GET RICH, RICHER THAN EVER BEFORE!!!"

Asked for her reaction, specifically to Trump's boast his policies would "never change," she replied, "Well, that means they think that he's not going to negotiate, even though yesterday he said maybe he would negotiate."

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"So again, this is all sort of Donald Trump 'Art of the Deal' stuff. In terms of always being rich, I mean $2 trillion stock market value was lost yesterday and you're going to lose another big chunk of it today so value is being lost as we speak here."

"The question is, the White House, you know the White House is talking about the 10-year note yield is kind of looking at that, not the stock market," she observed before adding, "They've really tried to decouple themselves from the stock market."

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