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Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., warned Thursday that U.S. markets will “crash” if President Donald Trump has the power to fire Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. The comment from Warren, a frequent Powell critic, on CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street” came hours after Trump wrote in a social media post that the Fed chair’s “termination cannot
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Kevin Warsh, former governor of the US Federal Reserve, during The Semafor World Economy Summit in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, April 18, 2024. Samuel Corum | Bloomberg | Getty Images President Donald Trump has spoken with former Federal Reserve Governor Kevin Warsh about possibly replacing the current central bank chairman, Jerome Powell, before his
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PoliticusUSA is ad-free and won’t bend the knee. Please consider supporting our work by becoming a subscriber. We have been what we feel to be deservedly critical of the White House reporters who have given Trump a different set of rules and been overly deferential to him. White House correspondents prioritized their own access to
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U.S. President Donald Trump arrives for a presentation of the Commander-in-Chief trophy to the U.S. Navy Midshipmen football team of the United States Naval Academy, at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., April 15, 2025. Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters A federal judge found probable cause to hold the Trump administration in criminal contempt for
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A traffic light is red outside the U.S. Internal Revenue Service building in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 20, 2025. Kent Nishimura | Reuters About 20,000 Internal Revenue Service employees have expressed interest in accepting the Trump administration’s latest deferred resignation offer, a source familiar with the matter told CNBC on Tuesday. The agency, which grew
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PoliticusUSA can provide ad-free content thanks to the support of our readers. Please consider supporting us by becoming a subscriber. Is Donald Trump losing the farmers? Trump’s numbers are in freefall across the board and now farmers in Maine are organizing against him. The Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners will be holding a day of
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) speaks during a stop on the ‘Fighting Oligarchy’ tour with U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) at Grand Park on April 12, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. Mario Tama | Getty Images Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez raised $9.6 million during the first quarter of 2025, the strongest ever quarter for the New York
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Do you want news and journalism delivered directly to you that isn’t filtered through a billionaire or a corporation? If you do, please consider becoming a subscriber to PoliticusUSA. Donald Trump did not carry Independents in the 2024 election, but he came close. Vice President Harris beat Trump among Independents 46%-43%. Trump started off his
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U.S. President Donald Trump meets with El Salvador President Nayib Bukele in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, April 14, 2025. Kevin Lamarque | Reuters The Trump administration told a federal judge on Monday that it does not have the authority to compel El Salvador to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the
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