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Economy
‘Unjustified Burdens’: Senate Passes Resolution To Repeal Biden-Era Appliance Rule
- The Senate passed a joint resolution to repeal a Department of Energy (DOE) appliance standard on Wednesday by a margin of 52-46, further advancing the roll-back of Biden-era green energy regulations on household appliances.
- Republican Georgia Rep. Andrew Clyde is the lead sponsor of the joint resolution of disapproval H.J. Res. 42, which aims to nullify a rule issued by the DOE on October 9, 2024 under former President Joe Biden which added new efficiency and reporting regulations for appliances such as dishwashers, washing machines and AC units. Sen. Jon Husted forwarded the resolution to the House, where it passed on March 5 on a bipartisan vote.
- “I am hereby instructing Secretary Lee Zeldin to immediately go back to my Environmental Orders, which were terminated by Crooked Joe Biden, on Water Standards and Flow pertaining to SINKS, SHOWERS, TOILETS, WASHING MACHINES, DISHWASHERS, etc., and to likewise go back to the common sense standards on LIGHTBULBS, that were put in place by the Trump Administration, but terminated by Crooked Joe,” President Donald Trump wrote in a Truth Social post on February 11. “I look forward to signing these Orders. THANK YOU!!!”
Source: dailycaller.com
https://twitter.com/unusual_whales/status/1917931259642429539
- Remember, the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) of the first quarter is a hindsight review. Meaning the information released today was based on activity in January, February and March 2025.U.S. companies surged the purchasing of import goods, mostly from China, by more than 50% in the first quarter. They were/are building inventory. So, what happens in China starting in April?
- Hong Kong, CNN –
- The U.S. has front-loaded the inventory. So, orders to China drop now. It’s a natural outcome.
- We have purchased goods in advance. So, orders to China drop. As a result, the cargo shipments from China to the USA drop in April, May and June.
- It’s not that U.S. consumers don’t have the product to purchase; the reality is the product is already here, awaiting purchase.
- to retain an oppositional perspective toward Donald Trump, the media narrative will not look back at the 50% surge in first quarter purchases; they will only look at the severe drop in second-quarter orders.
- With less being ordered, the media will now say the Trump tariffs are hurting consumers, deliveries to ports are substantially less, without ever mentioning the products are already here.
- On the upside, there will be a massive rebound in Second Quarter GDP as the imports have dropped; meaning there is less to deduct. However, we will not see that statistically until the last Friday in July.
Source: theconservativetreehouse.com
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says bond yields are signaling it’s time for the Fed to cut rates
- Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says the bond market is signaling a need for interest rate cuts.
- The Trump administration has repeatedly called on the Fed to slash rates.
- Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has a new argument for why the Federal Reserve should cut interest rates: Treasury bond yields.
Source: businessinsider.com
US Futures Surge On Blowout Tech Earnings, Erasing April’s Losses
- US equity futures are sharply higher, erasing all of April’s losses on blowout earnings from MSFT and META, and relief over signs the Trump administration is stepping back from its harshest tariff threats. As of 8:00am ET, S&P futures rose 1.2% to 5655, the highest level since before Trump’s Liberation Day announcement and pointing to an eighth consecutive session of gains for the cash index; Nasdaq futures gained 1.7%, as META and MSFT added +6.3% and +7.8%, respectively; most Mag 7 names, NVDA (3.7%) and semis are higher given META’s CapEx increase and MSFT’s reiteration on CapEx guidance. The dollar is higher after the BOJ finally flipped dovish and slashed its growth target pushing USDJPY to 144.5 this morning. It’s light on overnight news as most of Europe is closed today ex-UK along with China; US/Ukraine signed an agreement over the country’s natural resources, UK Manf PMI printed better but remained in contraction, and Trump reiterated that there is a “very good chance” of a deal with China on NewsNation last night.
Source: zerohedge.com
Just yesterday, Trump said the market is Biden, the fake news says its Trump market because it was going down, did he know that the market was going to turn around, and did he trap the fake news in saying the market was his.
- A resolution aimed at undoing his tariffs failed — but just barely.
- S.J.Res. 49, a joint resolution terminating “the national emergency declared by President Donald J. Trump on April 2, 2025, which imposed a 10% tariff on most imports to the United States and additional duties on specified trading partners,” introduced by Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR), came up short with a 49-49 tie.
With three Republicans voting “yes” (Rand Paul (KY), Susan Collins (ME), and Lisa Murkowski (AK)), and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Mitch McConnell (R-KY) not voting, that left the vote at a tie, which, by rule, fails.
But then came a motion to reconsider, which was met with a motion to table.
- That vote also resulted in a tie, and Vice President JD Vance was then called on to cast the tie-breaking vote, which he did. The motion to table passed, and that means this resolution won’t come back again.
Source: redstate.com
- Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962:
- Purpose: Allowed tariffs on imports deemed a threat to national security.
- Actions:
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In March 2018, Trump imposed a 25% tariff on steel and a 10% tariff on aluminum imports from most countries, covering roughly 4.1% of U.S. imports. These were later extended to the European Union, Canada, and Mexico in June 2018.
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Exemptions were initially granted to countries like Argentina, Australia, and Brazil, but Trump closed these loopholes in his second term.
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The tariffs led to reduced steel and aluminum imports (down nearly a third from 2016 to 2020), job gains in the metals industry, and over $10 billion in new mill investments.
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Impact: U.S. steel producers invested over $15.7 billion in new facilities, creating at least 3,200 jobs. However, industries using steel and aluminum faced higher costs, and trading partners like Canada and China retaliated with tariffs on U.S. goods.
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- Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974:
- Purpose: Addressed unfair trade practices, such as intellectual property theft.
- Actions:
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In March 2018, Trump signed a memorandum imposing tariffs on $50 billion of Chinese goods, citing intellectual property theft. Tariffs started at 25% on $34 billion of goods in July 2018, with an additional $16 billion in August.
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By July 2018, the U.S. proposed a 10% tariff on an additional $200 billion of Chinese goods, escalating the U.S.-China trade war.
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Impact: Reduced imports from China, stimulated some U.S. manufacturing, and led to a bilateral economic agreement, though it sparked Chinese retaliatory tariffs on U.S. products like fruit and pork.
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Trump implemented tariffs through executive actions under trade and emergency laws, targeting specific goods (steel, aluminum, Chinese imports) in his first term and adopting a broader, deficit-driven approach in his second term. His 2025 tariffs, enacted via IEEPA and Section 232, were rapid, flexible, and disruptive, aiming to reshape global trade but risking economic fallout.
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Trump: Private Sector Investment Nearing $8 Trillion Since I Took Office
Political/Rights
- President Donald Trump stated that there may be a permanent end to Harvard getting billions from the government and “We can grant that money to people that really need it,” and cited issues with foreign students and Harvard offering remedial math while also stating that “if we’re going to give grant money, we want people in that school that are going to love our country, not people that are going to hate our country.”
- Trump said, “Harvard gets four or five billion dollars a year from the United States government in the form of grants, and they have $53 billion. And yet they don’t treat the people right. They take foreign students, nobody knows where they come from. And they viciously hate our country. And I’m saying if we’re going to give grant money, we want people in that school that are going to love our country, not people that are going to hate our country. They run a bad operation up there, and we have to get to the bottom of it.”
Source: breitbart.com
https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1917714645554520372
https://twitter.com/america/status/1917598766741201401
https://twitter.com/dogeai_gov/status/1917004888887656669
If bureaucrats had prioritized border security years ago, this purse-snatching thug would’ve been gone after his first crime. Every dollar wasted on processing recidivists is a dollar stolen from securing the border or supporting law-abiding citizens. Time to end the insanity.
https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1917629640103059771?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1917629640103059771%7Ctwgr%5E51d824bdd9b51f384cb5373ab49b5330071a68fb%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thegatewaypundit.com%2F2025%2F04%2Fbiden-judge-bars-dhs-transferring-illegal-aliens-other%2F
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https://twitter.com/LauraLoomer/status/1917811081818378497
- in California who caters to the illegal alien and immigrant community, and makes Instagram videos about how Donald Trump’s mass deportations and immigration policies are bad for multifamily real estate brokers and investors. Judge Thurston was appointed by @JoeBiden
- in 2021. This is a massive CONFLICT OF INTEREST that casts doubt on Judge Thurston’s April 29th, 2025 issuance of a preliminary injunction forbidding the US Border Patrol from conducting warrantless immigration stops throughout a wide swath of California.
- This injunction applies to Kern County, California, including Bakersfield, CA, where Judge Thurston’s husband is in business as a multi-family real estate broker. Marc A. Thurston, Judge Thurston’s husband and Senior Vice President at ASU Commercial, specializes in Bakersfield’s multifamily real estate market.
- In video evidence exclusively obtained by @LoomerUnleashed@CcpSkipTracer
- , Marc Thurston stated on his Instagram account in multiple videos he filmed this year since President Trump’s inauguration, that deportations of “undocumented immigrants” would harm the local rental market in Bakersfield, directly affecting his business, which relies on immigration enforcement outcomes since over 15,000 “undocumented workers” as he calls them, work in the Central Valley of California, and many of these illegals reside in multi-family housing where Marc Thurston and his wife Judge Jennifer Thurston live in California.
- Judge Jennifer L. Thurston should have recused herself from the Trump admin case due to bias and personal financial gain resulting from her ruling, which benefits her husband’s business. According to the “Federal Judiciary and Judicial Procedure” guidelines that all US Federal Judges are required to follow, a judge is required to recuse themselves from a case if they find themselves conflicted with any of the following rules below: 28 U.S.C. § 455(a): Requires recusal if a reasonable person, knowing all facts, might question the judge’s impartiality. 28 U.S.C. § 455(b)(4): Mandates recusal if the judge’s spouse has a financial interest that could be substantially affected by the case’s outcome. Both of these apply to Judge Jennifer Thurston. She is another example of Leftist, Biden-appointed activist judge. Judge Thurston needs to RECUSE herself
- A federal judge on Thursday issued a permanent injunction and barred the Trump Administration from using the Alien Enemies Act (AEA) to remove Venezuelan gang members and transport them to El Salvador.
- US District Judge Fernando Rodriguez, a Trump appointee, called the President’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act “unlawful.”
- According to Judge Rodriguez, the AEA only applies when the US is at war and under an armed attack.
https://twitter.com/ProfMJCleveland/status/1917976588672471074?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1917976588672471074%7Ctwgr%5E9f2465917423356052600b82615b1881726f4a93%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thegatewaypundit.com%2F2025%2F05%2Fbreaking-federal-judge-bars-trump-administration-using-alien%2F
AP reported:
https://twitter.com/ProfMJCleveland/status/1917988326281224214
Source: thegatewaypundit.com
https://twitter.com/amuse/status/1917651287832748070
https://twitter.com/BreannaMorello/status/1917949098956624175
were to be filled out before their release. This information was ONLY obtained after I sued TSA for failing to comply with my FOIA request. The Biden regime lied and said these documents did not exist, but the Trump administration has since turned them over
https://twitter.com/Rasmussen_Poll/status/1917561108774191519
stopped the inflow of illegal aliens, and now we must deport the people who came here illegally.”
https://twitter.com/WarClandestine/status/1917663928471220708
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1917933852472869088
children online.
https://twitter.com/FBIDirectorKash/status/1917641945318580661
- exploitation and abuse — heinous crimes that no child or parent should ever be faced with. We believe these two individuals are leaders within a violent online network known as 764, which often targets minors. They will now face justice. Thank you to all who assisted. This FBI will never stop working to pursue, find, and bring to justice those who harm innocent children.
https://twitter.com/drawandstrike/status/1917628225557037426
DOGE
https://twitter.com/romanhelmetguy/status/1917656951174947075
- Secretary of State Marco Rubio dropped a bombshell today that should frighten every conservative nationwide.
- Rubio mentioned some disturbing information. He revealed that Biden’s Department of State had created dossiers with the full intention of spying on the content and censoring Americans’ free speech rights.
- ‘We had an office in the Department of State whose job it was to censor Americans,” Rubio said.
- Then, he dropped another bombshell. At least one of the people affected was at the table.
https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1917719635069116453
Judge Orders Trump Admin To Disburse $12 Million In Funding To Radio Free Europe
- A federal judge ruled on April 29 that the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) must disburse the funding appropriated by Congress to the nonprofit news organization Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
- U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth issued a temporary restraining order sought by the media group, directing USAGM to immediately disburse over $12 million in funding for the month of April to Radio Free Europe.
Source: zerohedge.com
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- The Richmond, Virginia-based 4th Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday voted 9-6 to keep the block on DOGE’s access to social security data.
- The court’s entire slate of judges (en banc) weighed in on Wednesday: Chief Judge Diaz (Obama), Judge King (Clinton), Judge Gregory (Clinton), Judge Wynn (Obama), Judge Thacker (Obama), Judge Harris (Obama), Judge Heytens (Biden), Judge Benjamin (Biden), and Judge Berner (Biden) voted to deny the motion to stay.
- Judge Wilkinson (Reagan), Judge Niemeyer (George H.W. Bush), Judge Agee (George W. Bush), Judge Richardson (Trump), Judge Quattlebaum (Trump), and Judge Rushing (Trump) voted to grant the motion to stay.
Source: thegatewaypundit.com
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1917815854647107990
Geopolitical
https://twitter.com/KanekoaTheGreat/status/1917367433096225165
Did Trump just force the Canadians down a path of no return, sometimes you have to show the people. Wakeup
War/Peace
https://twitter.com/SecDef/status/1917741093392707886
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Why would his safety be at risk, unless if all else fails they are going to try to take him out. Was this a warning.
https://twitter.com/SecScottBessent/status/1917697018551754802
accelerate Ukraine’s economic recovery. Economic security is national security. @DFCgov will work closely with the Government of Ukraine to establish this fund, and we look forward to quickly operationalizing this historic economic partnership for both the Ukrainian and American people.
the US can now recoup the money it sent over to Ukraine,
Kremlin Reacts to Minerals Deal Signing: “Trump Has Broken the Zelensky Regime”
- “Trump has broken the Kyiv regime to the point where they will have to pay for U.S. aid with mineral resources,” Medvedev, a former Russian president and current deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council, stated on Telegram.
- “Now they will have to pay for military supplies with the national wealth of a disappearing country,” he said of the Ukrainians.
- .
Source: libertydaily.com
No more handouts, they have to repay everything they take,
Medical/False Flags
https://twitter.com/nicksortor/status/1917956375113769194
- Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr intends to shift the way vaccines are tested,
- The potential change would require all new vaccines to undergo placebo testing – a procedure in which some people receive the vaccine and others receive an inert substance – before the results are compared, the paper said.
- “All new vaccines will undergo safety testing in placebo-controlled trials prior to licensure — a radical departure from past practices,”
Source: newsmax.com
https://twitter.com/TheKevinDalton/status/1917467144666898727
to a mental disorde
[DS] Agenda
https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1917925857315922226
https://twitter.com/CarmineSabia/status/1917583236256895088
President Trump’s Plan
- The Oversight Project has submitted a formal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the Federal Bureau of Investigation seeking records on Marcus Raskin — a co-founder of the far-left Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) and father of radical Democrat Congressman Jamie Raskin (D-MD).
- The request, filed by Michael Howell of the Oversight Project, focuses on Marcus Goodman Raskin’s extensive history of anti-American activism, left-wing organizing, and suspected ties to Soviet-backed communist networks during the Cold War.
- According to the FBI’s formal response dated April 17, 2025, the Bureau acknowledged it has “completed its review of records subject to the FOIA” and directed the requestor to its electronic FOIA Library, known as the Vault.
- The letter indicated that while some records have already been released publicly, “additional records responsive to your request were processed but are not currently available on The Vault,” suggesting the FBI holds more information on Raskin that may not yet be fully disclosed.
- The FBI also offered to conduct a further search through its Central Records System if requested.
- Marcus Raskin, who passed away in 2017, was a prominent figure in far-left academic and policy circles.
- In 1961, Raskin wormed his way into President John F. Kennedy’s National Security Council, serving under McGeorge Bundy on national security and disarmament issues.
- He even represented the U.S. at a 1962 disarmament conference in Geneva. But cracks soon appeared. His radical views clashed with Bundy, leading to his ouster to the Bureau of the Budget and eventual exit in 1963.
- After leaving government, Raskin co-founded the Institute for Policy Studies in 1963 with Richard Barnet, creating a so-called “think tank” that became a breeding ground for anti-American sentiment.
- IPS quickly turned into a hub for Marxist ideology, anti-capitalist schemes, and radical activism. Raskin’s vision was to complete overhaul of America’s democratic system into a socialist utopia, as outlined in his 1971 book Being & Doing, where he pushed for “social reconstruction” to dismantle capitalism.
- Most damning are Raskin’s suspected ties to Soviet-backed communist networks during the Cold War. In 1982, he led an IPS delegation to Moscow, meeting Soviet officials tied to disinformation and propaganda.
- The trip, which included discussions of disarmament and a potential Brezhnev summit, raised red flags. Twelve U.S. senators and 70 House members warned that the Soviets could exploit such visits for intelligence purposes.
- Raskin’s rap sheet doesn’t end there. He was linked to the People’s Coalition for Peace and Justice, a group tied to the Communist Party USA, and met North Vietnamese leaders in Paris in 1972.
- The FBI infiltrated IPS with more than 70 informants, wiretapping its phones, and searching through its garbage. The Nixon administration placed Barnet and Raskin on its ‘enemies list.’”
https://twitter.com/DataRepublican/status/1917737164282159379
- News outlets followed with targeted stories; one in particular from the Salt Lake Tribune focused on my husband’s distillery. The comments beneath that article didn’t treat it as news.
- They treated it as a map, a place to boycott and protest. Then came Dogequest, a viral site featuring that same distillery with a Molotov Cocktail cursor. His address was the only one in Utah visible without zooming. Thas was incitement. We received threatening messages. We pulled our kids from school. I fled the state. For six weeks, I homeschooled in hiding. When I returned for a small public event, the hosting group assembled an eleven-person security team just so I could speak. During that chaos, one public official stood up.
- One. Ed Martin. From his official X account, he publicly condemned the harassment. That one post—at that time—did more to make me feel safe than anything else. And you? You’ve said nothing. Not a word on the swattings. Nothing about the firebombings. Nothing about the vandalisms. Nothing about the fear your constituents are experiencing daily. Do not lecture me about “concerns” over political violence. I’ve been targeted by it. Ed Martin opposed it—loudly, publicly, immediately. If you block his confirmation,
- I will hold you responsible. I will call, publicly and relentlessly, for your primary. If you are truly serious about stopping political violence, then confirm the man who already stood against it when it mattered most. Confirm Ed Martin for U.S. Attorney.
https://twitter.com/julie_kelly2/status/1917926206684475648
https://twitter.com/julie_kelly2/status/1917997141991055595
https://twitter.com/LauraLoomer/status/1917957428823347259
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- Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) made public internal emails from Trump-hating FBI agents “planning and celebrating” the indictment of Trump advisor Dr. Peter Navarro.
- In an email to a colleague, former FBI official Timothy Thibault celebrated Navarro’s impending indictment, “Wow! Great!”
- However, Grassley noted, when a criminal referral was issued for Nellie Ohr the FBI and DOJ chose not to press charges against her.
- Read the full email exchange here by Biden Regime officials plotting and celebrating Navarro’s indictment.
https://twitter.com/RapidResponse47/status/1917950573757751391?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1917950573757751391%7Ctwgr%5Ef273a7a83ed42446345beac9a1f8afde0c25b6c2%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thegatewaypundit.com%2F2025%2F05%2Fsen-grassley-releases-emails-biden-fbi-agents-plotting%2F
Source: thegatewaypundit.com
https://twitter.com/BreannaMorello/status/1917926993259372729
media companies before the 2020 presidential election.
FBI Director Kash Patel
https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/1917640809706299515
while their opponents are champing at the bit to get power back so they can finish us off once and for all.
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‘Unjustified Burdens’: Senate Passes Resolution To Repeal Biden-Era Appliance Rule
- The Senate passed a joint resolution to repeal a Department of Energy (DOE) appliance standard on Wednesday by a margin of 52-46, further advancing the roll-back of Biden-era green energy regulations on household appliances.
- Republican Georgia Rep. Andrew Clyde is the lead sponsor of the joint resolution of disapproval H.J. Res. 42, which aims to nullify a rule issued by the DOE on October 9, 2024 under former President Joe Biden which added new efficiency and reporting regulations for appliances such as dishwashers, washing machines and AC units. Sen. Jon Husted forwarded the resolution to the House, where it passed on March 5 on a bipartisan vote.
- “I am hereby instructing Secretary Lee Zeldin to immediately go back to my Environmental Orders, which were terminated by Crooked Joe Biden, on Water Standards and Flow pertaining to SINKS, SHOWERS, TOILETS, WASHING MACHINES, DISHWASHERS, etc., and to likewise go back to the common sense standards on LIGHTBULBS, that were put in place by the Trump Administration, but terminated by Crooked Joe,” President Donald Trump wrote in a Truth Social post on February 11. “I look forward to signing these Orders. THANK YOU!!!”
Source: dailycaller.com
https://twitter.com/unusual_whales/status/1917931259642429539
- Remember, the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) of the first quarter is a hindsight review. Meaning the information released today was based on activity in January, February and March 2025.U.S. companies surged the purchasing of import goods, mostly from China, by more than 50% in the first quarter. They were/are building inventory. So, what happens in China starting in April?
- Hong Kong, CNN –
- The U.S. has front-loaded the inventory. So, orders to China drop now. It’s a natural outcome.
- We have purchased goods in advance. So, orders to China drop. As a result, the cargo shipments from China to the USA drop in April, May and June.
- It’s not that U.S. consumers don’t have the product to purchase; the reality is the product is already here, awaiting purchase.
- to retain an oppositional perspective toward Donald Trump, the media narrative will not look back at the 50% surge in first quarter purchases; they will only look at the severe drop in second-quarter orders.
- With less being ordered, the media will now say the Trump tariffs are hurting consumers, deliveries to ports are substantially less, without ever mentioning the products are already here.
- On the upside, there will be a massive rebound in Second Quarter GDP as the imports have dropped; meaning there is less to deduct. However, we will not see that statistically until the last Friday in July.
Source: theconservativetreehouse.com
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says bond yields are signaling it’s time for the Fed to cut rates
- Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says the bond market is signaling a need for interest rate cuts.
- The Trump administration has repeatedly called on the Fed to slash rates.
- Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has a new argument for why the Federal Reserve should cut interest rates: Treasury bond yields.
Source: businessinsider.com
US Futures Surge On Blowout Tech Earnings, Erasing April’s Losses
- US equity futures are sharply higher, erasing all of April’s losses on blowout earnings from MSFT and META, and relief over signs the Trump administration is stepping back from its harshest tariff threats. As of 8:00am ET, S&P futures rose 1.2% to 5655, the highest level since before Trump’s Liberation Day announcement and pointing to an eighth consecutive session of gains for the cash index; Nasdaq futures gained 1.7%, as META and MSFT added +6.3% and +7.8%, respectively; most Mag 7 names, NVDA (3.7%) and semis are higher given META’s CapEx increase and MSFT’s reiteration on CapEx guidance. The dollar is higher after the BOJ finally flipped dovish and slashed its growth target pushing USDJPY to 144.5 this morning. It’s light on overnight news as most of Europe is closed today ex-UK along with China; US/Ukraine signed an agreement over the country’s natural resources, UK Manf PMI printed better but remained in contraction, and Trump reiterated that there is a “very good chance” of a deal with China on NewsNation last night.
Source: zerohedge.com
Just yesterday, Trump said the market is Biden, the fake news says its Trump market because it was going down, did he know that the market was going to turn around, and did he trap the fake news in saying the market was his.
- A resolution aimed at undoing his tariffs failed — but just barely.
- S.J.Res. 49, a joint resolution terminating “the national emergency declared by President Donald J. Trump on April 2, 2025, which imposed a 10% tariff on most imports to the United States and additional duties on specified trading partners,” introduced by Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR), came up short with a 49-49 tie.
With three Republicans voting “yes” (Rand Paul (KY), Susan Collins (ME), and Lisa Murkowski (AK)), and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Mitch McConnell (R-KY) not voting, that left the vote at a tie, which, by rule, fails.
But then came a motion to reconsider, which was met with a motion to table.
- That vote also resulted in a tie, and Vice President JD Vance was then called on to cast the tie-breaking vote, which he did. The motion to table passed, and that means this resolution won’t come back again.
Source: redstate.com
- Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962:
- Purpose: Allowed tariffs on imports deemed a threat to national security.
- Actions:
-
In March 2018, Trump imposed a 25% tariff on steel and a 10% tariff on aluminum imports from most countries, covering roughly 4.1% of U.S. imports. These were later extended to the European Union, Canada, and Mexico in June 2018.
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Exemptions were initially granted to countries like Argentina, Australia, and Brazil, but Trump closed these loopholes in his second term.
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The tariffs led to reduced steel and aluminum imports (down nearly a third from 2016 to 2020), job gains in the metals industry, and over $10 billion in new mill investments.
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Impact: U.S. steel producers invested over $15.7 billion in new facilities, creating at least 3,200 jobs. However, industries using steel and aluminum faced higher costs, and trading partners like Canada and China retaliated with tariffs on U.S. goods.
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- Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974:
- Purpose: Addressed unfair trade practices, such as intellectual property theft.
- Actions:
-
In March 2018, Trump signed a memorandum imposing tariffs on $50 billion of Chinese goods, citing intellectual property theft. Tariffs started at 25% on $34 billion of goods in July 2018, with an additional $16 billion in August.
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By July 2018, the U.S. proposed a 10% tariff on an additional $200 billion of Chinese goods, escalating the U.S.-China trade war.
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Impact: Reduced imports from China, stimulated some U.S. manufacturing, and led to a bilateral economic agreement, though it sparked Chinese retaliatory tariffs on U.S. products like fruit and pork.
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Trump implemented tariffs through executive actions under trade and emergency laws, targeting specific goods (steel, aluminum, Chinese imports) in his first term and adopting a broader, deficit-driven approach in his second term. His 2025 tariffs, enacted via IEEPA and Section 232, were rapid, flexible, and disruptive, aiming to reshape global trade but risking economic fallout.
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Trump: Private Sector Investment Nearing $8 Trillion Since I Took Office
Political/Rights
- President Donald Trump stated that there may be a permanent end to Harvard getting billions from the government and “We can grant that money to people that really need it,” and cited issues with foreign students and Harvard offering remedial math while also stating that “if we’re going to give grant money, we want people in that school that are going to love our country, not people that are going to hate our country.”
- Trump said, “Harvard gets four or five billion dollars a year from the United States government in the form of grants, and they have $53 billion. And yet they don’t treat the people right. They take foreign students, nobody knows where they come from. And they viciously hate our country. And I’m saying if we’re going to give grant money, we want people in that school that are going to love our country, not people that are going to hate our country. They run a bad operation up there, and we have to get to the bottom of it.”
Source: breitbart.com
https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1917714645554520372
https://twitter.com/america/status/1917598766741201401
https://twitter.com/dogeai_gov/status/1917004888887656669
If bureaucrats had prioritized border security years ago, this purse-snatching thug would’ve been gone after his first crime. Every dollar wasted on processing recidivists is a dollar stolen from securing the border or supporting law-abiding citizens. Time to end the insanity.
https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1917629640103059771?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1917629640103059771%7Ctwgr%5E51d824bdd9b51f384cb5373ab49b5330071a68fb%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thegatewaypundit.com%2F2025%2F04%2Fbiden-judge-bars-dhs-transferring-illegal-aliens-other%2F
https://twitter.com/StephenM/status/1917726741050843645
https://twitter.com/LauraLoomer/status/1917811081818378497
- in California who caters to the illegal alien and immigrant community, and makes Instagram videos about how Donald Trump’s mass deportations and immigration policies are bad for multifamily real estate brokers and investors. Judge Thurston was appointed by @JoeBiden
- in 2021. This is a massive CONFLICT OF INTEREST that casts doubt on Judge Thurston’s April 29th, 2025 issuance of a preliminary injunction forbidding the US Border Patrol from conducting warrantless immigration stops throughout a wide swath of California.
- This injunction applies to Kern County, California, including Bakersfield, CA, where Judge Thurston’s husband is in business as a multi-family real estate broker. Marc A. Thurston, Judge Thurston’s husband and Senior Vice President at ASU Commercial, specializes in Bakersfield’s multifamily real estate market.
- In video evidence exclusively obtained by @LoomerUnleashed@CcpSkipTracer
- , Marc Thurston stated on his Instagram account in multiple videos he filmed this year since President Trump’s inauguration, that deportations of “undocumented immigrants” would harm the local rental market in Bakersfield, directly affecting his business, which relies on immigration enforcement outcomes since over 15,000 “undocumented workers” as he calls them, work in the Central Valley of California, and many of these illegals reside in multi-family housing where Marc Thurston and his wife Judge Jennifer Thurston live in California.
- Judge Jennifer L. Thurston should have recused herself from the Trump admin case due to bias and personal financial gain resulting from her ruling, which benefits her husband’s business. According to the “Federal Judiciary and Judicial Procedure” guidelines that all US Federal Judges are required to follow, a judge is required to recuse themselves from a case if they find themselves conflicted with any of the following rules below: 28 U.S.C. § 455(a): Requires recusal if a reasonable person, knowing all facts, might question the judge’s impartiality. 28 U.S.C. § 455(b)(4): Mandates recusal if the judge’s spouse has a financial interest that could be substantially affected by the case’s outcome. Both of these apply to Judge Jennifer Thurston. She is another example of Leftist, Biden-appointed activist judge. Judge Thurston needs to RECUSE herself
- A federal judge on Thursday issued a permanent injunction and barred the Trump Administration from using the Alien Enemies Act (AEA) to remove Venezuelan gang members and transport them to El Salvador.
- US District Judge Fernando Rodriguez, a Trump appointee, called the President’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act “unlawful.”
- According to Judge Rodriguez, the AEA only applies when the US is at war and under an armed attack.
https://twitter.com/ProfMJCleveland/status/1917976588672471074?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1917976588672471074%7Ctwgr%5E9f2465917423356052600b82615b1881726f4a93%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thegatewaypundit.com%2F2025%2F05%2Fbreaking-federal-judge-bars-trump-administration-using-alien%2F
AP reported:
https://twitter.com/ProfMJCleveland/status/1917988326281224214
Source: thegatewaypundit.com
https://twitter.com/amuse/status/1917651287832748070
https://twitter.com/BreannaMorello/status/1917949098956624175
were to be filled out before their release. This information was ONLY obtained after I sued TSA for failing to comply with my FOIA request. The Biden regime lied and said these documents did not exist, but the Trump administration has since turned them over
https://twitter.com/Rasmussen_Poll/status/1917561108774191519
stopped the inflow of illegal aliens, and now we must deport the people who came here illegally.”
https://twitter.com/WarClandestine/status/1917663928471220708
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1917933852472869088
children online.
https://twitter.com/FBIDirectorKash/status/1917641945318580661
- exploitation and abuse — heinous crimes that no child or parent should ever be faced with. We believe these two individuals are leaders within a violent online network known as 764, which often targets minors. They will now face justice. Thank you to all who assisted. This FBI will never stop working to pursue, find, and bring to justice those who harm innocent children.
https://twitter.com/drawandstrike/status/1917628225557037426
DOGE
https://twitter.com/romanhelmetguy/status/1917656951174947075
- Secretary of State Marco Rubio dropped a bombshell today that should frighten every conservative nationwide.
- Rubio mentioned some disturbing information. He revealed that Biden’s Department of State had created dossiers with the full intention of spying on the content and censoring Americans’ free speech rights.
- ‘We had an office in the Department of State whose job it was to censor Americans,” Rubio said.
- Then, he dropped another bombshell. At least one of the people affected was at the table.
https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1917719635069116453
Judge Orders Trump Admin To Disburse $12 Million In Funding To Radio Free Europe
- A federal judge ruled on April 29 that the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) must disburse the funding appropriated by Congress to the nonprofit news organization Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
- U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth issued a temporary restraining order sought by the media group, directing USAGM to immediately disburse over $12 million in funding for the month of April to Radio Free Europe.
Source: zerohedge.com
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- The Richmond, Virginia-based 4th Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday voted 9-6 to keep the block on DOGE’s access to social security data.
- The court’s entire slate of judges (en banc) weighed in on Wednesday: Chief Judge Diaz (Obama), Judge King (Clinton), Judge Gregory (Clinton), Judge Wynn (Obama), Judge Thacker (Obama), Judge Harris (Obama), Judge Heytens (Biden), Judge Benjamin (Biden), and Judge Berner (Biden) voted to deny the motion to stay.
- Judge Wilkinson (Reagan), Judge Niemeyer (George H.W. Bush), Judge Agee (George W. Bush), Judge Richardson (Trump), Judge Quattlebaum (Trump), and Judge Rushing (Trump) voted to grant the motion to stay.
Source: thegatewaypundit.com
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1917815854647107990
Geopolitical
https://twitter.com/KanekoaTheGreat/status/1917367433096225165
Did Trump just force the Canadians down a path of no return, sometimes you have to show the people. Wakeup
War/Peace
https://twitter.com/SecDef/status/1917741093392707886
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Why would his safety be at risk, unless if all else fails they are going to try to take him out. Was this a warning.
https://twitter.com/SecScottBessent/status/1917697018551754802
accelerate Ukraine’s economic recovery. Economic security is national security. @DFCgov will work closely with the Government of Ukraine to establish this fund, and we look forward to quickly operationalizing this historic economic partnership for both the Ukrainian and American people.
the US can now recoup the money it sent over to Ukraine,
Kremlin Reacts to Minerals Deal Signing: “Trump Has Broken the Zelensky Regime”
- “Trump has broken the Kyiv regime to the point where they will have to pay for U.S. aid with mineral resources,” Medvedev, a former Russian president and current deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council, stated on Telegram.
- “Now they will have to pay for military supplies with the national wealth of a disappearing country,” he said of the Ukrainians.
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Source: libertydaily.com
No more handouts, they have to repay everything they take,
Medical/False Flags
https://twitter.com/nicksortor/status/1917956375113769194
- Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr intends to shift the way vaccines are tested,
- The potential change would require all new vaccines to undergo placebo testing – a procedure in which some people receive the vaccine and others receive an inert substance – before the results are compared, the paper said.
- “All new vaccines will undergo safety testing in placebo-controlled trials prior to licensure — a radical departure from past practices,”
Source: newsmax.com
https://twitter.com/TheKevinDalton/status/1917467144666898727
to a mental disorde
[DS] Agenda
https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1917925857315922226
https://twitter.com/CarmineSabia/status/1917583236256895088
President Trump’s Plan
- The Oversight Project has submitted a formal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the Federal Bureau of Investigation seeking records on Marcus Raskin — a co-founder of the far-left Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) and father of radical Democrat Congressman Jamie Raskin (D-MD).
- The request, filed by Michael Howell of the Oversight Project, focuses on Marcus Goodman Raskin’s extensive history of anti-American activism, left-wing organizing, and suspected ties to Soviet-backed communist networks during the Cold War.
- According to the FBI’s formal response dated April 17, 2025, the Bureau acknowledged it has “completed its review of records subject to the FOIA” and directed the requestor to its electronic FOIA Library, known as the Vault.
- The letter indicated that while some records have already been released publicly, “additional records responsive to your request were processed but are not currently available on The Vault,” suggesting the FBI holds more information on Raskin that may not yet be fully disclosed.
- The FBI also offered to conduct a further search through its Central Records System if requested.
- Marcus Raskin, who passed away in 2017, was a prominent figure in far-left academic and policy circles.
- In 1961, Raskin wormed his way into President John F. Kennedy’s National Security Council, serving under McGeorge Bundy on national security and disarmament issues.
- He even represented the U.S. at a 1962 disarmament conference in Geneva. But cracks soon appeared. His radical views clashed with Bundy, leading to his ouster to the Bureau of the Budget and eventual exit in 1963.
- After leaving government, Raskin co-founded the Institute for Policy Studies in 1963 with Richard Barnet, creating a so-called “think tank” that became a breeding ground for anti-American sentiment.
- IPS quickly turned into a hub for Marxist ideology, anti-capitalist schemes, and radical activism. Raskin’s vision was to complete overhaul of America’s democratic system into a socialist utopia, as outlined in his 1971 book Being & Doing, where he pushed for “social reconstruction” to dismantle capitalism.
- Most damning are Raskin’s suspected ties to Soviet-backed communist networks during the Cold War. In 1982, he led an IPS delegation to Moscow, meeting Soviet officials tied to disinformation and propaganda.
- The trip, which included discussions of disarmament and a potential Brezhnev summit, raised red flags. Twelve U.S. senators and 70 House members warned that the Soviets could exploit such visits for intelligence purposes.
- Raskin’s rap sheet doesn’t end there. He was linked to the People’s Coalition for Peace and Justice, a group tied to the Communist Party USA, and met North Vietnamese leaders in Paris in 1972.
- The FBI infiltrated IPS with more than 70 informants, wiretapping its phones, and searching through its garbage. The Nixon administration placed Barnet and Raskin on its ‘enemies list.’”
https://twitter.com/DataRepublican/status/1917737164282159379
- News outlets followed with targeted stories; one in particular from the Salt Lake Tribune focused on my husband’s distillery. The comments beneath that article didn’t treat it as news.
- They treated it as a map, a place to boycott and protest. Then came Dogequest, a viral site featuring that same distillery with a Molotov Cocktail cursor. His address was the only one in Utah visible without zooming. Thas was incitement. We received threatening messages. We pulled our kids from school. I fled the state. For six weeks, I homeschooled in hiding. When I returned for a small public event, the hosting group assembled an eleven-person security team just so I could speak. During that chaos, one public official stood up.
- One. Ed Martin. From his official X account, he publicly condemned the harassment. That one post—at that time—did more to make me feel safe than anything else. And you? You’ve said nothing. Not a word on the swattings. Nothing about the firebombings. Nothing about the vandalisms. Nothing about the fear your constituents are experiencing daily. Do not lecture me about “concerns” over political violence. I’ve been targeted by it. Ed Martin opposed it—loudly, publicly, immediately. If you block his confirmation,
- I will hold you responsible. I will call, publicly and relentlessly, for your primary. If you are truly serious about stopping political violence, then confirm the man who already stood against it when it mattered most. Confirm Ed Martin for U.S. Attorney.
https://twitter.com/julie_kelly2/status/1917926206684475648
https://twitter.com/julie_kelly2/status/1917997141991055595
https://twitter.com/LauraLoomer/status/1917957428823347259
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- Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) made public internal emails from Trump-hating FBI agents “planning and celebrating” the indictment of Trump advisor Dr. Peter Navarro.
- In an email to a colleague, former FBI official Timothy Thibault celebrated Navarro’s impending indictment, “Wow! Great!”
- However, Grassley noted, when a criminal referral was issued for Nellie Ohr the FBI and DOJ chose not to press charges against her.
- Read the full email exchange here by Biden Regime officials plotting and celebrating Navarro’s indictment.
https://twitter.com/RapidResponse47/status/1917950573757751391?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1917950573757751391%7Ctwgr%5Ef273a7a83ed42446345beac9a1f8afde0c25b6c2%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thegatewaypundit.com%2F2025%2F05%2Fsen-grassley-releases-emails-biden-fbi-agents-plotting%2F
Source: thegatewaypundit.com
https://twitter.com/BreannaMorello/status/1917926993259372729
media companies before the 2020 presidential election.
FBI Director Kash Patel
https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/1917640809706299515
while their opponents are champing at the bit to get power back so they can finish us off once and for all.
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