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Bipartisan push to rebuke Trump over tariffs falls short in Senate as GOP leader moves to kill effort

A bipartisan attempt to rebuke President Donald Trump over his trade policy fell short in the Senate on Wednesday amid two key absences in the chamber.

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Author: Morgan Rimmer, Ted Barrett, Manu Raju

Top Republican Warns Cuts Threaten US Lead on Medical Research

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Author: Erin Durkin

Collins says Trump’s research cuts ‘must be reversed’

The Maine Republican could use her chair at Senate Appropriations to push back.

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Author: Erin Schumaker,David Lim

Listen live: NPR special report marking Trump’s 100th day

NPR’s live coverage examining the first 100 days of President Trump’s second term starts tonight at 8 p.m. ET.

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Author: NPR Staff

Oversight Committee advances pension benefit overhaul

One Republican is sending a warning that it won’t pass the full House in its current form.

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Author: Lawrence Ukenye

Senate GOP leaders succeed in protecting Trump tariffs

It comes the same day the Commerce Department reported that the U.S. economy contracted by 0.3% in the first quarter — the first contraction in three years.

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Author: Stephen Neukam,Stef W. Kight

Debate: How have Trump’s 100 days gone

Jenn Pellegrino is chief spokesperson for the America First Policy Institute and Peter Loge, was a senior advisor in the Obama administration, and is now a professor at George Washington University.

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Author: @mattfrei

If leaders stay silent, the US won’t survive Trump’s next 100 days

We are tottering on the edge of dictatorship. Powerful voices across institutions, from politics to academia and religion, must speak out

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Author: Robert Reich

Senate to vote on a measure to undo Trump’s global tariffs

It will be the second Senate vote this month on a resolution aimed at reining in Trump’s tariff authority. If passed, the measure likely won’t advance through the GOP-led House.

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Author: Rebecca Shabad,Frank Thorp V,Kate Santaliz,Julie Tsirkin

Trump’s tax hike tease smashes GOP Overton window

Donald Trump has gored a lot of the GOP’s sacred cows. Of these Republican shibboleths, not raising taxes — especially not for the rich — is one of the most important. Last week, the President told Time magazine: “I actually love the concept [of a millionaire tax], but I don’t want it to be used […]Read More…

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Author: Emily Jashinsky

Americano Live: Trump’s first 100 days

As a subscriber-only special, get exclusive access to Freddy Gray, deputy editor and host of the Americano podcast, and special guest Lionel Shriver for Americano Live – Trump’s first 100 days. It can be hard to keep up with Donald Trump’s ‘breakneck’ approach to his second term in the White House. What to make of all the headline-making, eyebrow-raising executive orders? Will

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Author: The Spectator

Trump 100 days: after tepid start, protest movements – and Democrats

Although the resistance at the start of Trump’s second term was wobbly, ‘ordinary people’ are pushing the movement forward

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Author: Rachel Leingang

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Author: the Guardian

Republicans Declare War on Asylum Seekers and the FTC

The House Judiciary Committee section of the GOP mega-bill is appalling.

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Author: Ryan Cooper

Fact-checking Trump’s 100 days speech

BBC Verify has looked into some of the claims made by the US president during his speech in Michigan.

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Author: @BBCNews

After Nudge From Trump, Senate Sets Fast Pace in Confirming His Ambassadors

Republicans have raced to approve the president’s picks to serve as top diplomats around the globe, in some cases with solid backing from Democrats.

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Author: Robert Jimison

I was at Trump’s 100 day rally – and was shocked by what I saw

The president marked his first 100 days in office with a victory lap to celebrate his supposed achievements. But as his popularity wanes and his policies bite, the usual mass of Maga supporters stayed at home, writes Jon Sopel in Detroit

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Author: Jon Sopel

After 100 days, Trump has destroyed Trumpism

The president’s approach: tackle problems that don’t exist via policies that won’t work

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Author: Sidney Blumenthal

Readers give their verdict on Trump’s 100 days: ‘Extraordinary destruction’

The president promised an ‘extraordinary’ first 100 days in office but for many that has been true in all the wrong ways

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Author: Guardian readers

Trump warns ‘nothing will stop me’ as he marks 100th day at Michigan rally: Live

President Trump stirs up further controversy by claiming he ‘could’ return Kilmar Abrego Garcia from El Salvador in a heated ABC News interview

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Author: James Liddell

Ukraine Is Where Republican Foreign Policy Went to Die

If American policy toward Russia, Ukraine or any place looks chaotic, blame intellectual schisms in the GOP second. Blame the party’s cowardice first.

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Author: Andreas Kluth

Donald Trump celebrates 100 days in office with campaign-style rally

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Author: Sky News

Mehdi Hasan on Trump’s first 100 days

Guardian US columnist Mehdi Hasan on the start of Donald Trump’s second term as president and the threat to democracy in the US

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Author: Michael Safi,Mehdi Hasan,Alex Atack,Eleanor Biggs,Joel Cox,Elizabeth Cassin,Homa Khaleeli

“Are you out of your fricking mind?” Republicans balk at new passenger car fee proposal

It doesn’t bode well for a proposal championed by the chair of the House Transportation Committee.

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Author: Mia McCarthy,Chris Marquette,Sam Ogozalek

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