"ABC News reports that U.S. economic growth will slow to 1.6% this year from 2.8% last year 'as President Donald Trump’s erratic trade wars disrupt global commerce, drive up costs and leave businesses and consumers paralyzed by uncertainty.'"
~ Joyce Vance
#Trump #economy #tariffs #TradeWars #FEMA #ICE #immigrants #deportations
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"That is where we are this week, as essential government agencies like FEMA are withdrawing needed and promised aid from Americans and masked ICE agents pull people, including American citizens, off the streets in the mad hunt for aliens here without legal status, in sufficient numbers to give Trump his talking points about 'mass deportations."
#Trump #economy #tariffs #TradeWars #FEMA #ICE #immigrants #deportations
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As Paul Krugman says, the world is starting to take notice of the fact that the US is no longer a serious country, and economic consequences are following — and will continue to follow.
#Trump #economy #tariffs #TradeWars #FEMA #ICE #immigrants #deportations
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https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/we-are-no-longer-a-serious-country
"MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell roasted CNN last night: 'The insanity of the current American president is officially taken for granted in the news media. No huge banners on the cable news network that recently devoted itself to the issue of presidential mental acuity. That network didn’t dare devote itself to the mental acuity of Trump. That network decided the that mental acuity of Biden last year is a more important story now.'”
~ Ron Filipkowski
https://www.meidasplus.com/p/today-in-politics-bulletin-144-6325
"In Trump’s psychodrama version of world trade, other countries are snickering at us while they treat us 'very badly,' shutting out our products with high tariffs and whatever. But the reality is that until Trump came in we were living in a world economy shaped by reciprocal trade agreements that brought tariffs down everywhere. The average tariffs the European Union charged on U.S. exports were less than 2 percent."
~ Paul Krugman
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/is-there-a-tariff-end-game
"The US has doubled tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum imports to 50%, pressing ahead in the face of criticism from key trading partners with a measure that Donald Trump says is intended to revive the American industry. …
Trump signed an executive order formalizing the move on Tuesday."
~ Nicola Slawson
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/04/first-thing-trump-tariffs-foreign-steel-aluminum
Lawrence O'Donnell -- his broadcast June 3rd was one of the few that went over the role of billionaire agendas & infighting between the billionaires of Koch Network and the billionaires of Rockbridge Network.
His interview with Sheldon Whithouse was pure FAFO
https://youtu.be/jB3KqTvJX8Q
At the 19 minute mark.
William Lindsey 
Nicole Parsons