Judge Royce Lamberth has ordered the Trump administration to restore $12 million of funding to Radio Free Europe in a major blow to Kari Lake’s efforts to dismantle U.S. soft power overseas.
“When money has been appropriated by Congress … [the] Executive has no residual constitutional power to refuse to spend these appropriations,” the judge wrote.
Oliver O’Connell29 April 2025 23:03
For the second day in a row on Tuesday, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt held a press briefing exclusively for members of what she called the “new media,” claiming she was fulfilling a promise she made at the start of the Trump administration to speak to “all media outlets.”
Of course, as she laid bare at the start of Monday’s presser, these sessions are mostly a way to take softball questions and applause lines from a host of MAGA sycophants who are absolutely ecstatic to be given the opportunity to sit in the White House and play reporter.
Justin Baragona has the story.
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In his inaugural speech on 20 January, Donald J Trump promised “the most extraordinary first 100 days of any presidency in American history”. Well, that’s one promise that the president has definitely honoured – but not, as the saying goes, in a good way.
No previous president has inflicted so much damage, on so many, in so short a time. The scale of the vandalism wreaked on America, on its friends and allies abroad, and indeed on the prosperity of the world, has been historic and prodigious.
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President Donald Trump has given an exclusive pre-recorded sit-down interview to ABC News, which airs tonight at 8 p.m. ET.
In a clip released by the network, the president appears to double down on his trade policy toward China.
Pressed about how a 145 percent tariff on Chinese imports will raise prices for American consumers, Trump claimed: “You don’t know that. You don’t know whether or not China’s going to eat it. China probably will eat those tariffs.”
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