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The second week of office of President Donald Trump brought another flood of news which sometimes felt very similar in his original access to the White House, as Kristen Welker writes. But first, we go to the gears to the next stage for the Democrats, with Ben Kamisar in preview this weekend race to preside over the national party.
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👀 Weekend prospects: The White House said that Trump would impose a 25% rate on goods from Canada and Mexico and a 10% price on those in China on Saturday, a decision that could increase prices for products coming to United States of these countries. Learn more →
Democrats should make their first major post-electoral decision
By Ben Kamisar
Democrats are still without leader after an electoral loss of 2024 bruised. But this weekend, they will spend their first tangible stage to drag themselves by choosing the next president of the National Committee of the Party.
The members of the National Democratic Committee will meet on Saturday at National Harbor, Maryland, to vote on a replacement for outgoing president Jaime Harrison, whom Joe Biden tapped to lead the party during his mandate.
The new president DNC will take the reins of the fundraising, expenses and staff for an organization that has spent a little less than $ 1 billion in the past four years. While the committee helps define the message of democrats and can serve as a basis for a party of the White House, the one who wins the vote on Saturday will be more in charge of laying the basics for a democratic rebirth than bringing the party to power himself.
This is why the DNC breed has become less a battle for the soul of the party and more a nuanced debate between the favorites who get along a lot- and understand that the next chair will have to browse the Nitty-Gritty of the Bâtiment instead to make the headlines.
The favorites: Two midwest democratic state chairs praise the most support for DNC members: Minnesota Ken Martin And Wisconsin Ben Wikler.
Martin regularly praises how his creation of a party in Minnesota coincided with an uninterrupted sequence of victories across the State for Democrats since he took over, in the midst of the GOP victories in other states of “Blue Wall” of the Midwest. Wikler has built a permanent campaign infrastructure in the Wisconsin of the battlefield and promoted it as a model for the country’s party.
The other contenders: Former governor of Maryland Martin O’malleyWho presented himself to the presidency in 2016, is the only other candidate to boast significant support from the members of the DNC. He is the only big candidate who was elected to the public service. And Faiz ShakirA longtime advisor to Bernie Sanders jumped in the race just a few weeks before the elections.
The process: The Votes of DNC members are only made public after the elections, which gives elections in advance, which gives members in advance. And if no candidate enters the first voting bulletin with the majority, a multitude of dynamics could determine the possible winner while the race goes to several voting cycles.
🔵 Resistance 2.0: Meanwhile, the Governor of Illinois, JB Pritzker, offers some of the most direct democratic declines at the start of Trump’s mandate. Natasha Korecki Scoops That he blocks those who participated on January 6, 2021, attacks against the American Capitol to work in state jobs, rejecting Trump’s attempt to offer them a clean slate last week in a wave of pardons.
How Trump’s second week recalled his first mandate
By Kristen Welker
President Donald Trump faced the first national tragedy of his second term and provoked generalized confusion with a major political decision this week. The two cases recalled his first mandate.
Thursday, with the investigation into the deadly collision between a jet of passengers and an army helicopter still at its beginnings, Trump went to the white house news room to blame the accident on diversity , equity and inclusion efforts. When he was asked if he had evidence in support of his statements, Trump said: “It could have been fair.” He also said later that he came to this conclusion “because I have common sense.”
The answer went back to Trump’s first passage in the oval office, when he responded to the cocovio pandemic. Trump frequently approached the country’s briefing room on the response of his administration to the virus, which sometimes sometimes contradicts public health officials. At the end of March 2020, for example, Trump initially declared that he disagreed with Dr. Anthony Fauci on the effectiveness of a medication that could treat the virus. When my colleague Peter Alexander insisted on these comments, Trump said that his evaluation was “just a feeling”.
This week has also experienced confusion around the Trump administration attempt to freeze most federal subsidies and loans. This decision has aroused questions from agencies and civil servants, setbacks of legislators and legal challenges. The administration finally canceled the order.
The episode spoke of another Trump administration order which was issued almost exactly eight years earlier: the so-called ban on travel, the executive order of Trump blocking citizens of seven Muslim majority countries. This order has also aroused generalized confusion and decline. A legal battle ensued and the Trump administration revised the order. The legal struggle finally made its way before the Supreme Court, which confirmed the travel restriction.
We are going to deepen Trump’s response to the tragic accident and the expenses freezing at “Meet the Press” on Sunday, where I will speak to the Kristi Noem internal security secretary and Sens. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., And Mark Kelly, D-Ariz.
🗞️ The best stories of today
- 🗓️ Dei Crackdown: The Defense Intelligence Agency has ordered a break from all the activities and events related to the day of Martin Luther King Jr., in the month of the history of blacks, on the day of the memory of the Holocaust and to other “special observances In accordance with Trump’s executive decree. Learn more →
- 🖥️ DEI CRACKDOWN, Suite: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention rub a band of HIV content on the agency’s website as part of wider efforts to eliminate DEI initiatives. Learn more →
- ⬅️ Purge: David Sundberg, the deputy director in charge of the FBI Washington field office, was forced to leave work . This decision comes while several senior FBI leaders promoted by former director Christopher Wray have been invited to resign or retire or they would be dismissed. Learn more →
- ⏪ In the opposite direction: The Pentagon has canceled a Biden administration policy which reimbursed the military and the dependents of travel in the states where abortions and other boresic health procedures are legal. Learn more →
- 🛑 Posshack: A prescription away from nearly 60 senior career leaders from the American agency for international development has been temporarily canceled by one of the few career officials of seniors who remain with the power to do so. A few hours later, the same employee was also put on administrative leave. Learn more →
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