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Trump wants new Fed chair to be 'totally independent'
The US president piled major pressure on Kevin Warsh's predecessor to cut interest rates.
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Gavin Newsom Finds A Grain Of Sand And Declares That He Personally Built A Stunning New Beach
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If you believe the governor of California, the state is laying track that it hasn't bought yet.
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Chevron Fights Back Against Radical Left’s Vandalism Campaign – Slaps “Sacramento Policies Did This” Signs on California Gas Pumps After Newsom Tells Californians to Avoid the Gas Company
Oil giant Chevron is refusing to play along with the Democrat blame game and is directly calling out Gavin Newsom and Sacramento Democrats for the insane gas prices crushing California families. The post Chevron Fights Back Against Radical Left’s Vandalism Campaign – Slaps “Sacramento Policies Did This” Signs on California Gas Pumps After Newsom Tells Californians to Avoid the Gas Company appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
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Major oil group claps back at Gavin Newsom’s Chevron attack with reality check about gov’s driving
This major oil group is slamming Gov. Gavin Newsom for his routine chauffeured rides while he gives tips to commuters on where to get gas.
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Kevin Warsh sworn in as new Fed chair beside Trump at White House ceremony
Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh was sworn in Friday beside President Trump, kicking off his term as the new head of the central bank at a critical time for the U.S. economy. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas swore Warsh in during the Friday ceremony at the White House. Warsh was confirmed last week by the…
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Raw Story
Hegseth's blunder blindsided the Pentagon — and Trump personally scolded him: report
On Thursday, President Donald Trump overruled Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth by ordering troops to Poland that the former Fox News personality had canceled, much to the surprise of high-ranking Pentagon officials.According to the Wall Street Journal, along with countermanding Hegseth’s decision, the president gave him an earful about treating countries with close ties to his administration with greater respect."Based on the successful election of the now President of Poland, Karol Nawrocki, I am pleased to announce that the United States will be sending an additional 5,000 Troops to Poland," Trump wrote in a social media post.Hegseth's earlier decision to cancel the Poland deployment surprised many Pentagon officials and drew immediate concern from Polish officials, who told The Journal they weren't consulted about the move. Republican and Democratic lawmakers condemned the cancellation as damaging to a key U.S. ally.According to current and former U.S. officials, Trump confronted Hegseth in a recent phone call, demanding to know why the troop deployment to Poland had been canceled. Trump told Hegseth that the U.S. "should not treat Poland poorly given it is an American ally with close ties to the White House."There are currently about 10,000 U.S. troops stationed in Poland. Trump's order to send an additional 5,000 represents a significant reinforcement of the U.S. military commitment to the country.The move reflects Trump's transactional approach to alliances. Germany, not Poland, had criticized U.S. strategy in the Iran war, drawing Trump's ire. In early May, Trump responded to criticism from German Chancellor Friedrich Merz by ordering the withdrawal of 5,000 troops from Germany — a process the Pentagon said would take six to 12 months.According to the report, frustration has been mounting in Congress over the Trump administration's bypassing of lawmakers on both the Iran war and troop withdrawals from Europe. Lawmakers and aides have been attempting to piece together the Pentagon's troop withdrawal plan.Republican lawmakers have signaled they could take legislative action to preclude deeper force cuts in Europe by inserting provisions in Pentagon spending bills, including the National Defense Authorization Act, the report notes.
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Trump plot to kill midterm voting machines collapses as aide finds zero evidence: report
A Trump administration official tasked with proving debunked election-rigging conspiracy theories tried to ban voting machines used in more than half of U.S. states — and failed spectacularly when he couldn't produce a shred of evidence to back it up.Reuters reported Thursday that White House adviser Kurt Olsen asked the Commerce Department to declare components of Dominion Voting Systems machines national security risks. This move would have effectively banned them before the November midterms. The plan advanced far enough that Commerce officials began exploring legal grounds to execute it last September. Still, it ultimately collapsed when Olsen's team failed to provide evidence to justify the move, according to sources.Olsen's team had physically torn apart Dominion machines seized from Puerto Rico, hoping to find components from adversary nations. Instead, they found a chip packaged in China by U.S. company Intel — not generally considered a security threat — along with chips from Japan, South Korea, and Malaysia.The Reuters scoop is the latest chapter in the Trump administration's sweeping effort to wrest control of elections away from states. Trump signed a March 2025 executive order demanding proof of citizenship to register to vote and sought to block states from counting mail ballots received after Election Day, major parts of which were blocked by federal courts. The federal seizure of 2020 election records in Fulton County, Georgia, and Arizona has heightened fears that Trump may try to interfere in the 2026 midterms, including by deploying federal troops or ICE agents to polling places. Trump's attempt to interfere with voting systems is not novel — in his first term, he tried to direct the attorney general, the Department of Defense, and DHS to seize voting machines. Olsen was also pushing a broader scheme for the federal government to take control of elections from states — an idea Trump has publicly aired."Changing to hand counting would be chaotic," University of Michigan computer-science professor Alex Halderman told Reuters, "and it might facilitate cheating."
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Kevin Warsh sworn in as new Fed chair, replacing Powell
Kevin Warsh has vowed to preserve the Fed's independence over monetary policy, telling lawmakers he will never "predetermine" interest rates at the president's request.
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New Fed chair Kevin Warsh to be sworn in at White House
Critics say the White House holding the ceremony raises new concerns about political pressure on the central bank.
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