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Donald Trump's April "Liberation Day" declaration, in which he predicted that sweeping import tariffs would generate substantial manufacturing job growth, has not materialized.

According to the Washington Post, the U.S. has actually lost manufacturing jobs since Trump's announcement. Additionally, the government tariff revenue the president has touted may be jeopardized if the Supreme Court issues an anticipated adverse ruling in the coming days.

Post reporter David J. Lynch reports that U.S. factories currently employ 12.7 million workers—down 72,000 from when Trump proclaimed, "Jobs and factories will come roaring back into our country, and you see it happening already."

The president's trade measures have instead hindered manufacturing, according to most mainstream economists. Michael Hicks, director of the Center for Business and Economic Research at Ball State University, told the Post, "2025 should have been a good year for manufacturing employment, and that didn't happen. I think you really have to indict tariffs for that."

Hicks cautioned that current job losses represent only the beginning of a broader decline. "The manufacturing job losses that we see now are really just the beginning of what will be a pretty grim couple of quarters as manufacturing adjusts to a new lower level of demand."

Recent corporate actions illustrate the trend. In December, Westlake Corp., a Houston-based industrial chemical producer, announced plans to idle four production lines at facilities in Louisiana and Mississippi, eliminating 295 jobs. Company executives attributed the decision to excess global capacity and weak demand.

During a Detroit speech this week, Trump declared, "The Trump economic boom is officially begun." Lynch observed dryly, "All that's missing now are the jobs."

After a night of violent confrontations between aggressive ICE agents and protesters in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Donald Trump menaced the state of Minnesota with a threat to invoke the Insurrection Act that could be a prelude to martial law.

Taking to Truth Social early Thursday morning, the president accused Minnesota lawmakers of being “corrupt” and warned them they need to quash protesters confronting armed DHS agents who have been violently grabbing people off the streets and in the their homes and hustling them away to detention centers.

President Donald Trump proclaimed victory in a court order on Thursday morning about Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations, even though that order wasn't actually a victory and his celebration might be a little early.

"A highly respected judge declined to block I.C.E. operations in the very politically corrupt State of Minnesota," wrote Trump on his Truth Social platform. "I.C.E. will therefore be allowed to continue its highly successful operation of removing some of the most violent and vicious criminals anywhere in the World, many of them murderers, from the State."

It is becoming entirely likely that Donald Trump will no longer be president by the time that Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro gets his day in court after the White House ordered a military invasion to abduct him and his wife on narco-terrorism charges.

The Department of Justice faces years of legal proceedings before the case reaches trial before 92-year-old U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein. His advanced age presents potential complications for Attorney General Pam Bondi's prosecution efforts.

A former aide to President Donald Trump flagged new data that suggests Republicans are falling out of "lockstep" with his policy priorities.

The ongoing immigration crackdown in Minneapolis has led to the fatal shooting of 37-year-old Renee Good by a federal agent and violent scenes captured on video as government forces clash with protesters and passersby alike, and former White House communications director Mike Dubke told "CNN This Morning" that voters were appalled by the chaos.

Donald Trump's stated fear about potential impeachment have given anti-abortion advocates leverage to ensure he maintains an uncompromising stance on abortion restrictions, new reporting suggests.

According to Politico reporters Alice Miranda Ollstein and Megan Messerly, the president's recent comments regarding government funding for abortion have alarmed anti-choice activists, who question whether Trump remains committed to their agenda.

Legal expert and Supreme Court scholar Jeffrey Toobin warned on Wednesday that President Donald Trump seems to have figured out how to kill democracy.

Toobin joined Joana Coles of The Daily Beast on a new episode of "The Daily Beast Podcast" to discuss the Supreme Court's impact on the second Trump administration. The Court is expected to make several key rulings this term that could affect Trump's ability to implement his agenda, including a case over whether Trump can unilaterally impose tariffs without Congress's approval.