Summary * Taiwan president proposes zero tariffs as basis for US trade talks * President says Taiwan won't retaliate against US tariffs * Taiwan will buy more from the US, president says * US is Taiwan's most important international partner
"In a stark contrast to the previous administration's wildly unpopular plan to hire thousands of additional IRS agents, President Trump is focused on saving tax dollars, eliminating bloat, axing useless DEI offices, and increasing the agency's efficiency," White House spokesperson Liz Huston said to Fox News Digital.
An old video of Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., urging Congress to retaliate against China's tariffs against the United States is going viral for how much it sounds like President Donald Trump's current tariff policies. The video, recorded on the House floor in June 1996, featured the lawmaker urging her colleagues to fight against the "status quo" trade policies that had contributed to America's trade deficit with China. She specifically called on lawmakers to address the fact that American tariffs on Chinese goods paled in comparison to Chinese tariffs on U.S. goods.
Employers across the U.S. added 228,000 jobs in March, pointing to a labor market that remains resilient despite economic headwinds from President Trump's tariffs and sticky inflation. The numbers Economists expected that employers had hired 130,000 people last month, according to financial data firm FactSet. That compares with a revised 117,000 additions in February, according to financial data firm FactSet.
The Energy Department (DOE) considers more than 40 percent of its staffers to be nonessential " meaning these people could be on the chopping block " as mass layoffs loom at the agency and across the federal government. A document viewed by The Hill on Friday states that out of the agency's current headcount of 15,994 positions " 9,004 are essential, meaning some 7,000 other positions are not. The approximately 16,000 total positions listed by the agency does include nearly 1,300 people who are currently on leave because they accepted the "Fork in the Road" buyout or because their roles related to diversity, equity and inclusion, which the administration sought to eliminate from the government.
Yawn
In other news the EU decided they would eliminate any tariffs that the US was willing to eliminate.
LMAO
"We have offered zero-for-zero tariffs for industrial goods " as we have successfully done with many other trading partners " because Europe is always ready for a good deal, so we keep it on the table."
thehill.com
#thatdidn'ttakelong
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#oil@$60
Ya'll really need a new gig.
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#8 | Posted by jpw at 2025-04-06 03:07 AM | Reply | Flag:
You two ------- fighting over the first place position?
January 28, 2015 12:46 AM CSTUpdated 10 years ago
www.reuters.com
WASHINGTON, Jan 28 (Reuters) - As Washington has tightened its belt in recent years, the budget cuts have sliced most deeply in states where President Obama is unpopular, according to an analysis of federal spending by Reuters.
Between the 2009 and 2013 fiscal years, funding for a wide swath of discretionary grant programs, from Head Start preschool education to anti drug initiatives, fell by an average of 40 percent in Republican-leaning states like Texas and Mississippi.
By contrast, funding to Democratic-leaning states such as California and politically competitive swing states like Ohio dropped by 25 percent.
Though Congress sets overall spending levels, the Obama administration determines where much of that money ends up. Lawmakers also have curtailed their ability to direct money to their home states when they adopted a ban on spending in 2011 known as "earmarks."
That has given administration officials more power to steer money to places that might return the favor with votes, said John Hudak, an expert on federal spending at the centrist Brookings Institution who worked with Reuters on the analysis.
FTA
"The official noted that the Army had planned to celebrate its 250th anniversary with a "robust capability increase in what you would see in previous years." Planning began last year and the event has since expanded, with the number of units participating now increased"
Never seen so many raetards in one place in all my life.