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Apr 25, 2025
When things are going smoothly in a well-run White House, powerful figures don't have “chest-to-chest” clashes in the West Wing.
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Apr 24, 2025
The president might want to admit that he’s retreating, but it’ll probably be awhile before he echoes his own rhetoric about the Fed chair's “termination.”
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Apr 15, 2025
Elon Musk lowered his spending cut targets from $2 trillion to $1 trillion to $150 billion — and even that total is no longer credible.
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Apr 15, 2025
Asked about the bond market, the president said, "I am very good at that stuff.” It'd be great if that were true, but it's not.
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Apr 7, 2025
“You can’t really watch the stock market,” the president said last month. As retirement accounts take a severe hit, it's a little late for that.
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Mar 21, 2025
Howard Lutnick told a national television audience to buy a specific stock tied to the sitting president’s top campaign donor.
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Mar 12, 2025
Just 18 days after declaring, “The stock market is going to be great,” the president said, “You can’t really watch the stock market.” Oops.
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Mar 11, 2025
“Are you expecting a recession this year?” The president responded to the question with a great many words. None of them was “no.”
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Mar 10, 2025
Given all of his pre-election boasts about his economic prowess, the new job totals don’t do Donald Trump any favors.
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Mar 10, 2025
As a rule, it’s unsettling when Republican White Houses claim to have secret evidence of foreign chemical labs.
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Feb 26, 2025
DOGE reportedly fired members of the FDA’s cardiac devices unit, which oversees devices like pacemakers and implantable defibrillators.
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Feb 25, 2025
Republican lawmakers are desperate for some presidential leadership on their budget plan. In theory, Trump could step up. In practice, he doesn’t want to.
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Feb 13, 2025
Leading executives have largely avoided criticizing Trump and his plans. It’s reasonable to question, however, whether that’s just now starting to change.
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Feb 10, 2025
Exactly eight years ago this week, Steve Bannon appeared on Time magazine's cover, and he departed the White House soon after. Is it Elon Musk's turn?
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Feb 4, 2025
By touting the idea of moving public-sector employees to the private sector, Trump effectively shared a plan that would break the federal government.
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Jan 30, 2025
The White House sparked a national controversy when it ordered a freeze on federal grants. Under pressure, Team Trump rescinded its scandalous memo.
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Jan 15, 2025
Before the election, the Republican pretended he was solely responsible for Wall Street’s upswing. Now that markets are struggling, that’s a problem.
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Jan 14, 2025
The so-called Department of Government Efficiency intends to deploy unpaid executives to hang out in federal agencies. What could possibly go wrong?