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Keir Starmer vows to 'shelter British business from the storm' of US tariffs
British prime minister promises to "turbocharge" plans to improve the U.K.'s competitiveness this week.
07:01 AM on 04/06/2025 Politico Top Stories Trump Tells Inner Circle That Musk Will Leave Soon
The president is pleased with Elon Musk, but the decision comes as the tech mogul increasingly looks like a political liability.
11:17 AM on 04/06/2025 Politico Top Stories GOP senators line up with Democrats to oppose Trump's Canada tariffs
A loss on the Senate floor Tuesday would represent the most significant Republican rebuke of Trump's second term.
07:47 PM on 04/06/2025 Politico Top Stories Democrats look to make a play for GOP turf with surge of new candidates
"This puts a lot more on the field," said Rep. Morgan McGarvey (D-Ky.), a co-chair tasked with recruitment for the party campaign arm.
10:00 AM on 04/05/2025 Politico Top Stories Republicans look to blunt Dems' advantage on family tax credit
Some GOP lawmakers want to boost the Child Tax Credit to appeal to working-class voters and answer Democrats' attacks on their broader tax plan.
12:00 PM on 04/05/2025 Politico Top Stories RFK Jr.'s Adviser Torches 'Utterly Failed' Health Care System
Calley Means is co-piloting Kennedy’s overhaul of HHS and he makes no apologies for sweeping cuts to agency's bureaucracy.
10:00 AM on 04/05/2025 Politico Top Stories Musk swipes at Navarro amid tariff turmoil: He aint built shit
The tech CEO has lost billions as markets tanked, and has been mostly silent on the president’s tariffs.
12:01 PM on 04/05/2025 Politico Top Stories Why the World Isnt Fighting Back Harder Against Trumps Tariffs
Other countries encounter the ‘prisoner’s dilemma’ as they weigh how to respond.
04:00 PM on 04/05/2025 Politico Top Stories House deficit hawks rise up against Senate budget blueprint
Three Republicans said they would oppose the plan in the House, nearly enough to tank it.
11:57 AM on 04/05/2025 Politico Top Stories Senate GOP adopts budget blueprint for Trump agenda but hurdles loom
House fiscal hawks are already vowing to change the resolution that Speaker Mike Johnson wants to move next week.
10:48 PM on 04/05/2025 Politico Top Stories Canada says its friendship with the US is over. Now what?
Trump’s aggressive trade policies have rocked an alliance that seemed unshakeable.
07:00 AM on 04/05/2025 Politico Top Stories Why Mike Johnson and John Thune are sticking with Trump amid tariff turmoil
The top congressional leaders are tied to the president's hip as their members air public and private concerns.
07:04 PM on 04/05/2025 Politico Top Stories Trumps firing of NSA chief is rolling out the red carpet' for cyber attacks
Gen. Timothy Haugh’s firing as head of the NSA and U.S. Cyber Command has left lawmakers worried about the future of the nation’s cyber defenses.
08:00 PM on 04/05/2025 Politico Top Stories Deal or no deal? Trump ends some of the mystery on tariff compromise.
He’s ready to talk, though maybe not quite ready to cut deals.
02:08 PM on 04/05/2025 Politico Top Stories The nations cartoonists on the week in politics
Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other head-slapping events in the world of politics. The fruits of these labors are hundreds of cartoons that entertain and enrage readers of all political stripes. Here's an offering of the best of this week's crop, picked fresh off the Toonosphere. Edited by Matt Wuerker.
05:00 AM on 04/05/2025 Politico Top Stories April 2025
Political cartoons from the desk of Matt Wuerker
12:08 PM on 04/05/2025 Politico Top Stories Republicans play powerless as Trump tariff fears sweep across the globe
While GOP lawmakers could stop the presidential levies, they made clear they would not do so anytime soon.
08:33 PM on 04/05/2025 Politico Top Stories The Terror Is Real: An Appalled Tech Industry Is Scared to Criticize Elon Musk
A huge swath of Silicon Valley is horrified by what Elon Musk is doing — but they’re increasingly afraid to say so.
05:55 AM on 04/05/2025 Politico Top Stories This Economic Paradox Nearly Took Down Three Presidents. Is Donald Trump Next?
The economic crisis of the 1970s was a disaster for multiple presidents. It could be worse for Trump.
05:00 AM on 04/05/2025 Politico Top Stories I hope hes right: Markets tumble on tariffs but Trump isnt flinching
Americans watched in horror as their 401(k)s plunged Thursday morning after the markets opened.
01:56 PM on 04/03/2025 Politico Top Stories This Could Get Much Uglier: The Fatal Flaw in Trumps Trade War
Trump’s radical tariff program is aimed at restoring U.S. manufacturing greatness. He’s getting in his own way.
05:00 AM on 04/03/2025 Politico Top Stories Wall Street recoils at Trump's trade war
While the new tariffs open the door to negotiations, they also assure that the U.S.’ effective rate will be in flux for weeks or more to come.
08:26 PM on 04/03/2025 Politico Top Stories Donald Trump doesnt do special relationships. Britain will keep trying anyway.
POLITICO delves into the frenetic tactics Britain was — and still is — employing to win a carve-out from Donald Trump’s tariffs. No one yet knows if the president will listen.
10:54 AM on 04/03/2025 Politico Top Stories Canada to retaliate against Trump with tariffs on US autos
Prime Minister Mark Carney says countermeasures designed for “maximum impact” will focus on vehicles that don’t comply with the USMCA.
12:31 PM on 04/03/2025 Politico Top Stories New chaos in White House as top NSC officials sacked
Mike Waltz’s NSC is under fire from far-right influencers.
02:51 PM on 04/03/2025 Politico Top Stories Adams to skip New York Citys Democratic primary, run for reelection on nonpartisan line
The mayor has been at odds with his party and wants time to recover from now-dismissed federal charges.
05:55 AM on 04/03/2025 Politico Top Stories House proxy-voting mess threatens to jam up the GOP agenda
Speaker Mike Johnson showed no signs of backing away from a fight with fellow Republicans that has frozen legislative business.
04:45 AM on 04/03/2025 Politico Top Stories Never Mind Wisconsin. The GOP Should be Worried About the Florida Results.
In a test of the mood in the wake of Musk’s tenure atop DOGE, persuasive evidence emerged in Florida that the tech mogul has become a political liability.
07:56 PM on 04/03/2025 Politico Top Stories Opinion | A False Choice for Progressives
Democrats don’t have to decide between the abundance and anti-monopoly movements.
05:00 AM on 04/03/2025 Politico Top Stories The Mystery Buyer of That $23 Million DC Mansion? Mark Zuckerberg.
The Meta chief is the latest mogul to have a personal embassy in Donald Trump’s Washington.
04:54 PM on 04/03/2025 Politico Top Stories Sloppy, reckless: Waltz use of Signal, Gmail revives concerns about White House communications
Democratic leaders of key House committees are reigniting calling for national security adviser Mike Waltz to step down.
10:30 PM on 04/03/2025 Politico Top Stories Liberation Day comes for California almonds
President Donald Trump’s trade wars are grinding up California’s most iconic nut.
09:33 PM on 04/03/2025 Politico Top Stories Judge hammers EPA over lack of proof of wrongdoing in terminating $20B in climate grants
"Here we are, weeks in, and you're still unable to proffer me any information with regard to any kind of investigation or malfeasance," U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan said.
04:30 PM on 04/03/2025 Politico Top Stories March 2025
Political cartoons from the desk of Matt Wuerker.
05:19 PM on 04/03/2025 Politico Top Stories Waltzs team set up at least 20 Signal group chats for crises across the world
It’s a more extensive use of the app than previously reported and sheds new light on how commonly the Trump administration’s national security team relies on Signal.
02:45 PM on 04/03/2025 Politico Top Stories Why Wisconsins turnout suggests serious trouble for the GOP right now
Democrats keep overperforming in down-ballot elections, and the Wisconsin results suggest it’s not just about turnout.
11:41 AM on 04/03/2025 Politico Top Stories In the long run, were all dead: Trump allies struggle with trade uncertainty
Many of the president’s allies and critics are united by a fear the new levies will plunge weary consumers into a new wellspring of economic uncertainty.
03:39 PM on 04/01/2025 Politico Top Stories I dont know anyone that isnt pissed off at him: Trump world turns on Lutnick
As ‘Liberation Day’ nears, patience for the Commerce secretary is wearing thin across the Trump administration.
10:06 AM on 04/01/2025 Politico Top Stories EU readies counterstrike on Big Tech, US banks over Trumps mega tariffs
Brussels sees America’s transatlantic trade surplus in services as its Achilles’ heel.
04:50 AM on 04/01/2025 Politico Top Stories Trump's tariff announcement may be the beginning of Wall Street's woes
Recession risks are climbing, with big banks downgrading their expectations for future economic growth and warning that inflation will accelerate.
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