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Tuesday, April 08, 2025

The White House is signaling that new tariffs on Chinese imports are taking effect after China's government missed a deadline to lift its retaliatory tariffs that were imposed in response to President Donald Trump's tariffs. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Tuesday that because China declined to lift its retaliatory tariff, the president's additional 50% tariff levied on top of previously imposed tariffs of 20% and 34% took effect, bringing the total tariff on Chinese goods to 104%. She added that the tariffs took effect at noon Eastern Time on Tuesday, with tariff collection set to begin on Wednesday. Leavitt said that U.S. trading partners should be coming to the administration with deals to improve trade terms.


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Lin argued putting "America first" before international trade rules harms global production and will impair the world's economic recovery. "Pressure and threats are not the way to deal with China," Lin said. "China will firmly safeguard its legitimate rights and interests." The remarks come after Trump put an additional 34 percent tariff on Chinese goods, on top of two rounds of 10 percent tariffs announced earlier this year. China responded with its own 34 percent tariff on U.S. goods. Ling Ji, a Chinese vice minister of commerce, said the "tariff problem" starts in the U.S. and pledged that Beijing remains open to foreign investment.


Sunday, April 06, 2025

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


Saturday, April 05, 2025

"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.


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Obviously the President can do a lot to affect gas prices. W. Bush started a war, for example.
Biden wasn't willing to do the stupid things with horrible long-term consequences to move gas prices in the short term.
Everyone who isn't a Trumper understood what Biden meant.

#19 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-04-08 03:30 PM | Reply | Flag:

Excerpt for the fact that you're a well known liar in the community.

As the US War in Iraq continued to unravel in the spring of 2004, then-Sen. Joe Biden delivered a commencement speech at the University of Delaware where he addressed the original decision to go to war.

"Let me tell you what I see with Iraq," Biden told the graduates. "We had to go into Iraq, not because Saddam (Hussein) was part of Al Qaeda, there was no evidence of that, not because he possessed nuclear weapons or because he posed an imminent threat to the United States, there was no evidence of that."

"The legitimate reason for going into Iraq, was he violated every single commitment he made and warranted being taken down. And the international community and us had a right to respond."
His speech more than a year after the war began reveals how Biden continued to stand by the decision to invade Iraq and his vote to authorize President George W. Bush to do so, even as some of his Democratic colleagues began to turn against the war. The comment is one several examples found during a CNN KFile review of Biden's speeches and television appearances between 2003 and 2006 where he defended or explained his vote to authorize the use of force in Iraq.

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