Morning Report

PRESIDENT TRUMP IN HIS NEXT 100 DAYS will shift his focus to Capitol Hill, where much of his agenda hinges on the ability of Republicans to deliver big wins while operating with slim margins in both the House and Senate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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China appears to have bet that its own high threshold for pain will turn President Trump’s tariff gambit into a punishing lesson for the U.S. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

At the outset of his second term, President Trump vowed to end Russia’s war in Ukraine within 24 hours. Then, his administration promised a peace deal within the first 100 days. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As the White House continues to stonewall a federal judge’s demand for information about efforts to secure a mistakenly deported Maryland man, politicians on both sides of the aisle are considering the case’s wider implications — and its messaging. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Wall Street on Monday registered a persistently bleak verdict on President Trump’s tariff policies as Trump again badgered the nation’s independent central bank to slash interest rates. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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President Trump is clashing with the courts on multiple fronts as his second-term agenda takes shape, setting up high-stakes legal battles that will test the administration’s power as it stretches against the bounds of the law. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

President Trump’s efforts to persuade international partners to join the U.S. in isolating China collided Wednesday with a starkly downbeat 2025 economic outlook from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, dashing the hopes of those looking for global certainty anytime soon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The legal battle over the Trump administration’s efforts — or lack thereof — to return a mistakenly deported Maryland migrant may eventually wind up back before the Supreme Court as President Trump tests the limits of his executive power. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

President Trump said Monday he’s open to sending United States citizens to prison in El Salvador, a move that would strain the Constitution and heighten the president’s battles with the judiciary branch. He added that the fate of a migrant the U.S. mistakenly deported to El Salvador now rests with that country. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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President Trump’s tariff rollout has world leaders and economists on edge as White House messaging about the levies remains inconsistent. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

President Trump’s tariff rollout has world leaders and economists on edge as White House messaging about the levies remains inconsistent. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Global tumult intensified Thursday over President Trump’s tariffs and the possibility of deepening trade wars and a recession, but the president got an early win in the battle to advance his domestic agenda. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Global tumult intensified Thursday over President Trump’s tariffs and the possibility of deepening trade wars and a recession, but the president got an early win in the battle to advance his domestic agenda. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

President Trump’s abrupt pause in tariffs with dozens of trading partners on Wednesday cheered investors but did little to ease an escalating trade war with China — along with plenty of economic uncertainty. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the week since President Trump surprised the world with an aggressive mix of universal tariffs and a catalog of steep reciprocal tariffs that took effect early this morning, the U.S. and China entered a trade war. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

President Trump signaled openness to governments clamoring to escape steep U.S. tariffs, even as he and advisers believe achieving accords with dozens of nations could involve months of tough discussions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

President Trump on Sunday redoubled his support for massive tariffs on most of the world amid heavy market fallout and criticism from some allies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tanking financial markets and warnings from international capitals on Thursday sent unmistakable messages to President Trump: “America First” may be “America alone” when steep tariffs treat the country’s friends like foes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

President Trump’s rollout of steep tariffs aimed at allied trading partners on Wednesday sparked international head-shaking and renewed warnings at home about lasting U.S. economic damage. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It’s the moment of truth for President Trump’s long-teased global trade agenda. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It’s a big week by Washington’s yardstick. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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President Trump’s new tariffs expected next week will test the patience of U.S. consumers and manufacturers who worry that an escalating trade war will hike already-inflated prices, risking an economic debacle. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Denials, deflections and calls for resignation have dominated the headlines in Washington this week, as the Trump White House reels from the revelation that top national security officials discussed military plans in a commercial chat app group that inadvertently included a journalist. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Administration officials scrambled to provide answers Tuesday to explain how high-ranking Cabinet officials ended up discussing plans for military strikes in a text thread on an unsecured chat app that included a journalist. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

House GOP eyes hearings, bills about judges Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The Education Department will be dismantled and give states greater autonomy over education, President Trump vowed during a White House event Thursday intended to showcase a partial victory that has eluded conservatives since President Reagan’s administration. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

President Trump and allies revel in assertive decision making that keeps friends and foes off balance, even if resulting uncertainty turns out to be a drag on U.S. growth this year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A full ceasefire in Ukraine remains largely out of sight, even after President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke on the phone for nearly three hours Tuesday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

President Trump and his advisers are ratcheting up their fight over his immigration policy, seeking to muscle past court orders aimed at pumping the brakes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Trump raises tariff heat on Europe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Trade war, the sequel Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Three days before a government funding deadline, the House on Tuesday narrowly passed a party-line stopgap funding bill that would mostly keep government funding at current levels through September. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

President Trump marked 50 days in office Monday confronting a grim report card that raised new doubts about his tariff policy and his theory that chaos improves leadership leverage. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The future of President Trump’s tariffs plan is back up in the air. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Carmakers will get a month-long reprieve from President Trump’s tough tariffs levied this week on goods from Canada, Mexico and China, the administration said Wednesday after Trump spoke with executives from General Motors, Ford Motor Company and Stellantis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

President Trump used a sweeping 100-minute address to a joint session of Congress Tuesday to rally Americans behind his tariff-and-tax-cuts plan for the economy while blaming former President Biden for inflated egg prices, a surge of illegal migrants and escalating deficits. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

President Trump will tell Americans in a prime-time speech tonight that his dizzying moves early in his second term should give them confidence about constructing what he calls the nation’s new “golden age. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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European leaders arrived this week to flatter and cajole President Trump. In the case of Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky today, it’s to agree to negotiate over something of value, hoping to keep the U.S. in Ukraine’s corner against Russia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Cabinet and Congress, at least for the time being, squirm in Elon Musk’s shadow. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It required 11th-hour lobbying by President Trump on the phone and hours of cloakroom jawboning by House GOP leaders before passage Tuesday night of a budget framework that aims to reset federal priorities after four years of Democratic governance Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices