Tag: Trumps
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Kamala Harris talks up McDonald’s gig in criticizing Trump’s economic plans
WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday again confirmed that she once worked at McDonald’s, pushing back against former President Donald Trump who has repeatedly claimed she never worked there. During an interview with Stephanie Ruhle, the MSNBC anchor said, “I just want to ask you, yes or no: At any point in your…
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Harris calls Trump’s tariff proposals a ‘sales tax on the American people’
WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris called former President Donald Trump’s tariff proposals “a sales tax on the American people,” in an interview with MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle. President Joe Biden has also backed certain tariffs and done little to roll back ones Trump put into place while president, but Harris emphasized that tariffs should not…
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RFK Jr. wants more scrutiny of chemicals, but Trump’s EPA did the opposite
When Robert F. Kennedy Jr. endorsed Donald Trump, he suggested that Trump’s health policy could include revisiting standards for chemicals and pesticides — part of an agenda Kennedy has dubbed “Make America Healthy Again.” But two former and two current staffers at the Environmental Protection Agency told NBC News that stance contrasts starkly with how…
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Local Republicans reject Trump’s claims about Haitian immigrants in their towns
Camera Bartolotta knew she had to say something. The Republican state senator in Pennsylvania caught wind that former President Donald Trump was targeting a small town in her district as part of his new focus on recent Haitian immigration to red America. At a rally earlier this month, Trump mentioned that Charleroi, with a population…
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Trump’s inconsistent messaging clashes with the RNC’s attempted embrace of early voting
At practically every Donald Trump rally, scripted words encouraging early voting get loaded into the teleprompter. But those words are rarely the actual message the former president delivers to his audience. The Republican National Committee has embraced early voting in 2024. Trump has promoted it in recordings the GOP played at its convention and in…
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Congress mulls new Secret Service funding after apparent attempt on Trump’s life
WASHINGTON — Congress is considering boosting funding for the Secret Service after what the FBI called an apparent second attempt on former President Donald Trump’s life in 10 weeks. Leaders of both parties and top appropriators say one possibility is to attach emergency funding for the Secret Service to a short-term funding bill that Congress…