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Hartford Courant |
“Hands Off!” rallies are designed as a broad-brush rebuke of the policies of President Donald Trump and the unprecedented power he’s given to his billionaire Senior Advisor Elon Musk.
USA Today |
There are now 26 groups that have mobilized in New Jersey in advance of the April 5 protests against President Donald Trump and Elon Musk's DOGE.
Inc |
The longer Musk has stayed in the White House and made very public, controversial comments and decisions, the greater the impact has been on Tesla.
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From education to public health to food pantries, President Donald Trump's policies have been felt in Connecticut.
Some of the state’s top officials voiced criticism of Trump's decision to cut around $3 million in aid to Connecticut from the National Endowment for Humanities.
The frozen funds include $9 million overseen by the state Department of Education, and $5 million already awarded to about 21 school districts.
Lamont said Trump’s latest, and broadest, round of tariffs will make CT exports less competitive and create additional costs on businesses.
For now, the only (unwilling) subjects of Trump’s “liberation” were investors, who parted with the oppressive weight of their stock returns.
On the day President Donald Trump described as America’s “Liberation Day” from decades of unbalanced trade policies, Gov. Ned Lamont (D-Conn.) warned of across-the-board price increases. “The only thing being liberated is your wallet’s gonna be liberated of one to two hundred dollars a month once these taxes — these tariffs — kick in,
Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) weighed in the latest tariff announcement from President Trump, telling reporters that the new taxes will “come back to haunt” Trump and cause prices
Tariffs are fees U.S.-based companies pay the federal government when they import affected products into the United States.