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Elon Musk speaks during a press event with U.S. President Donald Trump (not pictured), at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., May 30, 2025. Nathan Howard | Reuters Elon Musk ripped into the Senate’s massive domestic policy package on Saturday, calling it “utterly insane” and destructive.” His remarks come weeks after he first hurled…
U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) speaks at a press conference following the U.S. Senate Republicans’ weekly policy luncheon on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., June 10, 2025. Kent Nishimura | Reuters After weeks of sparring over the specifics of the “one big, beautiful bill,” the package is poised to soon head to…
President Donald Trump on Friday said the United States is immediately “terminating ALL discussions on Trade with Canada” in response to Ottawa’s decision to impose a digital services tax on American tech firms. Trump’s surprise announcement on Truth Social accused Canada of “copying the European Union” with the “egregious” tax. “We will let Canada know…
With the White House’s self-imposed deadlines to reach trade deals with dozens of countries just a little over a week away, states are bracing themselves for the potential impact of higher tariffs. That impact is likely to vary widely from state to state, according to Dan Anthony, president of Trade Partnership Worldwide, a Washington, D.C.-based…
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell testifies before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs during a hearing to “examine the Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress” on Captiol Hill on June 25, 2025 in Washington, DC. Kent Nishimura | Getty Images Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell mostly breezed through two hearings on…
The New York Stock Exchange in lower Manhattan on Nov. 24, 2020 in New York City. Spencer Platt | Getty Images News | Getty Images The Federal Reserve on Wednesday proposed easing a key capital rule that banks say has limited their ability to operate, drawing dissent from at least two officials who say the…
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is back Wednesday on Capitol Hill, this time speaking to the Senate banking committee as part of his semiannual monetary policy testimony. In his remarks Tuesday before the House Financial Services Committee, the central bank leader asserted that the Fed is “well positioned to wait” on interest rate policy as…
Outside view of a Meta data center in Eagle Mountain, Utah on July 18, 2024, a complex of five large buildings each over four football fields long and totaling 2.4 million square feet. George Frey | Afp | Getty Images On a massive, 2,250-acre site about 250 miles north of New Orleans, hundreds of construction…
US President Donald Trump speaks to the press before boarding Marine One from the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC on June 24, 2025, to attend the NATO’s Heads of State and Government summit in The Hague. Mandel Ngan | Afp | Getty Images President Donald Trump on Tuesday ramped up his…
Chair of the US Federal Reserve Jerome Powell speaks during a press conference following the Federal Open Market Committee meeting in Washington, DC, on June 18, 2025. Saul Loeb | Afp | Getty Images Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Tuesday emphasized the central bank’s commitment to keeping inflation in check, saying he expects policymakers…