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https://www.breitbart.com/environment/2025/03/26/karen-bass-pushes-green-agenda-in-rebuild-faster-permits-for-all-electric-homes/

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14541105/mike-waltz-photo-demolishes-claim-war-plan-leak-group-text.html

President Trump today announced 25% tariffs on all cars, light trucks and certain auto parts made outside of the U.S., a much wider scope than automakers had expected. The levies go into effect on April 2. The tariffs have the potential to devastate the entire auto-making and auto parts-making industry in Canada. It employs about 500,000 people, and accounts for about 10 percent of the country’s manufacturing gross domestic product. About 80 to 90 percent of Canada’s production is exported, and since an auto trade deal in 1965 Canadian factories have been scaled to supply the U.S. market. It would be impossible to operate existing factories only for the Canadian market. One Republican who outright opposed Trump’s new tariffs was Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, who has frequently spoken out in defense of free trade and called the new 25 percent levies “a mistake.” “I think it’s a terrible idea,” Paul said, adding that it will be “bad for the economy” and “raise the price of cars.” He pointed out that the markets already slumped before Trump signed the order. “Trade is good for our country and good for prosperity.” While Ford Super-Duty trucks are assembled in Kentucky, the 6.8L and 7.3L gasoline engines are sourced from Windsor, Canada and the Power Stroke 6.7L diesel engines come from Ford’s Chihuahua Engine Plant in Mexico. Ford developed its supply chain based on the USMCA and invested presuming that President Trump negotiated a solid agreement in 2018.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/03/26/d-c-judge-assigned-to-signal-lawsuit-ruled-to-block-trumps-tda-deportations/

U.S. postmaster general Louis DeJoy resigned from his position Monday, earlier than expected after reportedly refusing to give Elon Musk's DOGE broad access to agency computer systems. DeJoy is a former logistics magnate and Republican donor appointed by President Trump during the summer of 2020. The news came after the President threatened to dissolve the USPS board, in contravention of U.S. law, which guarantees its independence and bipartisan governance. DeJoy had fallen out of favor with the President after clashing with DOGE operatives over the extent of their access, and insisting that any major changes go through Congress.

President Trump was upset when he found out that National Security Adviser Mike Waltz accidentally (?) included a journalist in a group chat discussing plans for a military strike. But it wasn’t just because Waltz had potentially exposed national security secrets. The President was mad, and suspicious, that Waltz had Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg’s number saved in his phone in the first place. The President was also particularly perturbed by the embarrassing nature of the episode. “The president was p*ssed that Waltz could be so stupid.”

Maryland based district judge, Theodore Chuang, ruled that dismantling USAID is unconstitutional. Odd. USAID and its dismantling have nothing whatsoever to do with the Constitution. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14536001/mike-johnson-chilling-threat-anti-trump-judges-nationwide.html .

An alleged businessman and art collector, the new secretary of the Navy has never served in the military. Hmm. https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/03/24/senate-confirms-john-phelan-as-76th-secretary-of-the-navy-in-62-30-vote/

A high-powered executive is warning that his business is about to slow down — all because he sees turbulence ahead for the U.S. economy. John Dietrich, CFO of FedEx, just slashed the company’s earnings expectations for the rest of the year. FedEx has a unique vantage point. With shipping data that acts as a real-time pulse check on consumer demand and domestic trade, the company feels the impact of supply chain disruptions, retail slowdowns, and manufacturing shifts before most analysts can even crunch the numbers. And now, the company is bracing for a slowdown in 2025. 'I think it’s reasonable to assume that the macro environment is not going to significantly improve, at least through the first half of fiscal 2026,' Dietrich said. Deutsche Bank says the probability of the US entering a recession within the next 12 months has climbed to 43%.

https://news.yahoo.com/news/another-us-navy-destroyer-fought-142509500.html

Unreal. https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/03/24/report-trump-natsec-teams-group-chat-on-houthi-strikes-included-jeffrey-goldberg-author-of-suckers-losers-hoax/

Who within Trump's national security team allowed the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic to be on a secret chat ??? That editor made top secret conversation public. Very damaging. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14532199/JD-vance-donald-trump-signal-war-chat.html

Former Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross says: “There’s tariff policy, tax reform, regulatory reform. Trump needs the whole package to work. He has a complicated mosaic that he has to put together and he’s got to get it done very quickly. Ross is personally optimistic that the Administration is addressing issues that matter. He’s also optimistic about the impact of Elon Musk, saying “I can’t wait until he gets to the IT environment. In Commerce, we had 72 different IT systems, no two of which could talk with each other and most of them were from the 70s and 80s. It’s the world’s largest service business that’s using archaic equipment. Musk, I’m sure, is going to address that but he’s wisely doing the easier things first. My own view is that he’s going to find far less corruption than he thinks but plenty of waste.”

In a now-infamous 2017 meeting, President Trump was shown photographs of modern naval ships including sleek destroyers and stealthy frigates. He tossed them aside. Then, he saw picture of the USS New Jersey, bristling with its massive 16" guns. Allegedly, President Trump then said he wanted a new ship design created just like that. Alike Teddy Roosevelt's Great White Fleet of 1907, projecting the image of power with a modern high-tech battleship would put the fear of god into many global actors. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_White_Fleet

President Trump will revoke the temporary legal status of 530,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans in the US. Effective April 24, the action cuts short a two-year "parole" granted to the migrants by Biden that allowed them to enter the country by air if they [allegedly] had US sponsors.