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Trump suggests he can remove Fed Chair Powell, saying he’s ‘not happy’ with him over interest rates

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER, AAMER MADHANI and JOSH BOAK
Apr 17, 2025 7:45 am - President Donald Trump has attacked Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell for not cutting interest rates and says he could fire him if he wanted to. Trump is renewing a threat from his first term that could cause a major legal showdown over the issue of the central bank's longstanding political independence.
ICE, DOGE seek sensitive Medicare data as immigration crackdown intensifies

By Hannah Natanson, Rachel Roubein and Dan Diamond
Apr 16, 2025 9:33 pm - Trump immigration officials and the U.S. DOGE Service are seeking to use a sensitive Medicare database as part of their crackdown on undocumented immigrants, according to...
Internal budget document reveals extent of Trump’s proposed health cuts

By Lena H. Sun, Carolyn Y. Johnson, Rachel Roubein, Joel Achenbach and Lauren Weber
Apr 16, 2025 7:51 pm - The Trump administration is seeking to deeply slash budgets for federal health programs, a roughly one-third cut in discretionary spending by the Department of Health and...
Judge Boasberg to launch contempt proceedings into Trump administration

By Marianne LeVine, Spencer S. Hsu, Salvador Rizzo and Jeremy Roebuck
Apr 16, 2025 7:47 pm - Chief U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg of Washington, D.C., on Wednesday said that he would launch proceedings to determine whether any Trump administration official...
Women, minorities fired in purge of NIH science review boards

By Carolyn Y. Johnson
Apr 16, 2025 7:39 pm - Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are femal...
Trump administration asks IRS to revoke Harvard’s tax-exempt status

By Jacob Bogage by Jeff Stein
Apr 16, 2025 7:38 pm - The Trump administration has asked the Internal Revenue Service’s top attorney to revoke Harvard University’s tax-exempt status, according to three people familiar with t...
El Salvador refuses to allow senator to meet with mistakenly deported man

By Theodoric Meyer
Apr 16, 2025 7:16 pm - El Salvador’s government rebuffed a request Wednesday from Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) to free Kilmar Abrego García, whose case has become a flash point in the battle o...
Trump’s tariffs are ‘highly likely’ to push prices up, Fed chief warns

By Rachel Siegel
Apr 16, 2025 4:19 pm - President Donald Trump’s tariffs are “highly likely” to spur a temporary rise in inflation, Federal Reserve Board Chair Jerome H. Powell said Wednesday, cautioning that those effects could end up being longer-lasting.
Trump administration sues Maine over participation of transgender athletes in girls sports

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER, ERIC TUCKER and PATRICK WHITTLE
Apr 16, 2025 10:33 am - The Trump administration on Wednesday sued Maine for not complying with the government's push to ban transgender athletes in girls and women's sports, escalating a dispute over whether the state is abiding by a federal law that bars discrimination in education based on sex.
Trump says he’s joining Bessent and Lutnick for trade negotiations with Japanese at the White House

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE and MARI YAMAGUCHI
Apr 16, 2025 8:17 am - President Donald Trump said he’s joining some of his top economic advisers on Wednesday for negotiations at the White House over tariffs and trade with a top Japanese official who is traveling to Washington for the talks.

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