Ashley Murray, Iowa Capital Dispatch

Economists blast calculations for ‘bombshell’ Trump tariffs as faulty while stocks plunge

by Ashley Murray, Daily Montanan
April 3, 2025

WASHINGTON — Markets and business owners in the United States and around the world reeled Thursday following President Donald Trump’s announcement of sweeping and steep tariffs that are not “reciprocal” but rather punish many countries that U.S. importers heavily rely on, experts say. ...

by Ashley Murray, Kansas Reflector

February 26, 2025

WASHINGTON — Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, claims American taxpayers could receive a $5,000 refund from the federal government — despite no apparent support in Congress, which controls the nation’s purse strings. ...

by Ashley Murray, Daily Montanan

February 18, 2025

WASHINGTON — Temporary special government employees working at the behest of the U.S. DOGE Service, under President Donald Trump and billionaire campaign donor Elon Musk, can continue accessing data across federal agencies, a federal judge in the District of Columbia ordered Tuesday. ...

WASHINGTON — Acting Secretary of Defense Robert Salesses said the deployment of additional active-duty troops to the U.S.-Mexico border “is just the beginning” — even as border crossings remain at their lowest point in months.

The Pentagon will immediately send 1,500 ground personnel to monitor the southwest border and crew additional helicopters that are also being sent, he said late Wednesday.

Troops are also expected to build temporary and permanent barriers along the border, and provide military airlifts to the Department of Homeland Security to deport up to 5,000 immigrants who lack specific legal authorization from the San Diego, California, and El Paso, Texas, areas, he said....

WASHINGTON — Barring a few exceptions, Senate Republicans on Tuesday largely deflected or altogether avoided questions about President Donald Trump’s broad clemency for over 1,500 defendants who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 — including many who beat police officers, smashed windows and trashed offices as lawmakers hid in designated safe areas.

Just hours into his second term Monday, Trump commuted the sentences of 14 felons, including leaders of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers.

The president granted a “full, complete and unconditional pardon to all other individuals convicted of offenses related to events that occurred at or near the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021.” He also dismissed any pending indictments. ...