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Trump says things are 'going very well' after worst stock market drop in years over tariffs

President Donald Trump offered a rosy assessment after the stock market dropped sharply Thursday over his tariffs, saying, "I think it's going very well." "The markets are going to boom, the stock is going to boom, the country is going to boom," he said when asked about the market as he left the White House to fly to one of his Florida golf clubs. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped more than 1,600 points on Thursday as U.S. stocks led a worldwide selloff after the Rep ...

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Trump administration is months away from direct payments to farmers, agriculture secretary says

April 3, 2025 12:24 PM EDT Updated 5 hours ago April 3 (Reuters) - U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said on Fox News on Thursday the Trump administration is "months away" from making a decision about whether to make payments to farmers to offset any impact from tariffs. President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced sweeping tariffs that were mostly criticized by farm and food groups for their potential to shrink markets for farmers and raise prices for consumers. Rollins h ...

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Senate confirms Mehmet Oz to lead Medicaid and Medicare

Dr. Mehmet Oz, a television personality and failed U.S. Senate candidate, was confirmed Thursday as administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in a largely bipartisan vote. The Senate confirmed Oz in a party line vote of 53-45. At least one Republican changed their mind on Oz this week. Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri, who had publicly opposed Oz’s nomination, said Monday that he would back the doctor after being reassured that Oz “now disavows his previous support for trans ...

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'We're All Dead': GOP Senator Reacts To Trump Tariffs

Apr 3, 2025, 02:55 PM EDT Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) wasn’t concerned enough about President Donald Trump’s steep international tariffs to vote against them Wednesday — like some of his GOP colleagues — but did scold staunch supporters of the policy with a dire warning to multiple outlets. “In the long run, we’re all dead,” he told CNN’s Manu Raju on Capitol Hill for “The Lead with Jake Tapper” on Wednesday. “Short run matters, too. Nobody knows what the impact of these tariffs is going to be ...

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Judge Boasberg says he's contemplating 'contempt proceedings' over Trump deportations

Nearly three weeks after President Donald Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act to remove more than 200 alleged migrant gang members to El Salvador with little-to-no due process, a federal judge on Thursday is considering whether the Trump administration defied his court order by deporting the men. U.S. District Judge James Boasberg said at a hearing Thursday that he is contemplating initiating "contempt proceedings" against the government in the event he finds probable cause they delib ...

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Trump Tariffs Set to Wipe Out Nearly $2 Trillion From US Stocks

(Bloomberg) Roughly $1.7 trillion is set to be erased from the S&P 500 Index when trading opens Thursday amid worries that President Donald Trump’s sweeping new round of tariffs could plunge the economy into a recession. Few stocks in the US were unscathed with the biggest ETF tracking the S&P 500 on pace for its biggest decline since 2022. More than 90% of companies in the S&P 500 were trading lower at 8 a.m. in New York, with over half of its 500 stocks down at least 2% in premarket trading.

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Trump's tariffs to lift companies' costs and hurt exports

(Reuters) Businesses around the globe on Thursday faced up to a future of higher prices, trade turmoil and reduced access to the world's largest market after U.S. President Donald Trump confirmed their worst fears by instituting broad tariffs worldwide. Trump ramped up his trade war with tariff rates from 10% to nearly 50%. He says the levies will bring jobs back to the United States - but company executives were focused on possibly raising prices, reducing shipments, or cutting back investment activity outright.

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Trump's first 50 days mark one of the worst starts for the S&P 500 under any presidency

(Yahoo Finance) The Trump 2.0 stock market is off to one of the worst starts of any presidency since 1950. New data crunched by SunDial Capital Research strategist Jason Goepfert on Wednesday shows the market's response to President Trump since the inauguration is among the bottom of all presidents since 1950. In the first 50 trading sessions since Inauguration Day, the S&P 500 (^GSPC) has dropped about 6.4%. The only two worse starts were Richard Nixon's first 50 days (-7.2%) and George W. Bush's (-13.6%).

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DOGE drove layoff announcements to their third-highest-ever level in March

(CNN) More than 275,000 layoffs were announced last month, reaching a level not seen since the pandemic, according to a new report published Thursday. The biggest culprit was one particular employer: The federal government. The federal government announced plans to axe 216,215 jobs, accounting for nearly 80% of the 275,240 layoffs announcements made by US employers in March, according to Challenger Gray & Christmas’ latest report. It’s the third-highest monthly total behind April 2020 (671,129) and May 2020 (397,016).

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