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Thursday, April 10, 2025

Trump Announces 90-Day Tariff Pause

Salem News Channel: The S&P 500 closed up 9.5% on Wednesday after U.S. President Donald Trump declared a 90-day tariff pause for many countries, effective immediately, bringing some relief to investors worried about the global economic impact of U.S. trade policies. In an afternoon announcement, Trump said he would temporarily lower many new tariffs, but raised the levy on imports from China to 125%. The pause on tariffs from dozens of trading partners came less than 24 hours after they kicked in (Salem News Channel). Townhall: Trump speaks out after issuing 90-day pause on tariffs. “No other president would’ve done what I did…it had to be done… Nothing’s over yet. We have a tremendous amount of spirit from other countries, including China. China wants to make a deal…They all want to make a deal” (Townhall).

Trump Increases Chinese Tariffs to 125 Percent

Salem News Channel: In a stunning reversal, U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he would temporarily lower the hefty duties he had just imposed on dozens of countries… But he kept the pressure on China, the No. 2 provider of U.S. imports. Trump said he would raise the tariff on Chinese imports to 125% from the 104% level that took effect at midnight, further escalating a high-stakes confrontation between the world’s two largest economies. The two countries have traded tit-for-tat tariff hikes repeatedly over the past week (Salem News Channel). Townhall: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent called the escalation a “loser” for China. “I think it’s unfortunate that the Chinese actually don’t want to come and negotiate because they are the worst offenders in the international trading system,” he said. “And I can tell you that this escalation is a loser for them.” He seemed unfazed by China’s response. “They can raise their tariffs, but so what” (Townhall).

EU Agrees to Impose 25-Percent Retaliatory Tariffs Against the U.S.

Townhall: The European Union (EU) on Wednesday voted to approve the first round of retaliatory tariffs against the United States. The new duties are intended to counter tariffs President Donald Trump issued on the EU and several other nations to drive US-based manufacturing and win more favorable trade deals. The EU’s tariffs include 25 percent duties on a range of US products. The European Commission, the bloc’s executive arm, said duties would start being collected from April 15 (Townhall). Mario Nawfal: The move targets politically strategic states, including soybeans from Louisiana—House Speaker Johnson’s home turf—alongside U.S. diamonds, poultry, motorcycles, and more (X).

Democrat AGs Sue Trump Administration to Halt Voter ID Laws

HotAir: Illegal immigrants. Campus terror supporters. Transgender women in women’s sports, rest rooms and private spaces. Corruption. I’m learning to love this brave new world of Democrats taking the “20” side of a raft of “80-20” issues. And here might be another one: attorneys-general from 19 states are taking the Trump administration to court over his “Voter ID” executive order, which mandates voter ID and officially bars foreign nationals from voting in US elections. The order requires government-issued proof of U.S. citizenship for voter registration in every state, directs the Attorney General to work with state election officials to address violations of the executive order, and conditions federal funding on whether or not states require voter ID…The suit would seem to ask the court to accept the preposterous idea the federal government doesn’t set standards for federa. elections held in states – like, you can’t discriminate based on race, ethnicity, religion or national origin, and have a legitiomate election, and if you try, you’re going to have feds breathing down your neck to fix it until your children or grandchildren are running your state election system (HotAir).

Colorado Bill States Misgendering Your Child is “Child Abuse,” Allows State to Take Child Away

Calling your child by birth pronouns, name is now means to remove child from home… wild. David Strom: If your child is named “Karen” but wants to be called “John,” you could lose custody of your child in Colorado if House Bill 1312 passes the Senate and gets signed by Governor Jared Polis, as seems likely. The bill was passed with no debate on Sunday night, Democrats having called the question on the bill before debate began, depriving anybody from objecting to the bill and arguing against it. Democrats justified this abuse of power by arguing that opponents of the bill were members of a hate group–comparing them to the KKK–and didn’t deserve to have their arguments heard on the floor of the House. Yes, they said that. Basically, the argument is circular: if you are an “ally,” then you support “Civil Rights,” and if you are opposed to the argument that parents who are not “affirming” of a delusion that almost all gender nonconforming children grow out of, you are equivalent to a white supremacist (HotAir). Townhall: ORWELLIAN MUCH?! “Democrats advancing a controversial bill that would effectively classify ‘misgendering’ and ‘dead-naming’ as CHILD ABUSE in custody decisions. And now it’s heading to the Democrat controlled Colorado Senate where it will likely pass” (X).

Report Reveals Biden Covered Up America’s First Contact with Covid in October 2019 During World Military Games in Wuhan

Free Beacon: Seven Americans may have contracted COVID-19 in Wuhan in October 2019, several months before the reported start of the pandemic, according to a bombshell military report that the Biden administration concealed from the public. The December 2022 report, which the Biden administration was required by law to release to the public over two years ago but didn’t, reveals for the first time that seven U.S. military service members contracted COVID-19-like symptoms during or after their participation in the World Military Games in Wuhan in October 2019—contradicting the Biden administration’s public claims in 2021 that there was no evidence that any American participants contracted the virus at those games. The revelation adds to a mounting body of evidence that the virus was circulating in Wuhan for months before China disclosed it to the world in December 2019 and further bolsters the growing consensus that it could have leaked into the human population from a Chinese lab. The 2022 National Defense Authorization Act required the Biden administration to make its report on the 2019 Wuhan World Military Games “publicly available on an internet website in a searchable format” by the summer of 2022. Though the Biden administration transmitted copies of the two-page report to the House and Senate Armed Services Committees in December 2022, it didn’t see the light of day until sometime in late March when the Trump administration quietly uploaded it to a Defense Department website (Free Beacon). HotAir: From the beginning of the public’s awareness that the pandemic was raging, US government officials have scrambled to cover up the timing and origin of the virus, concocting narratives that distracted from the obvious conclusion that the virus escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology and that it had been circulating long before it was publicly acknowledged. At the beginning of the crisis, the coverup was not a whole-of-government effort, but the people who needed to cover up the origins of COVID were the best-placed people to do so–Anthony Fauci in particular, who happened to be the man most responsible for funneling money to the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the EcoHealth Alliance. He’s the one who scrambled to divert attention away from the WIV, commissioned the fraudulent “Proximal Origins” paper, edited it anonymously, got it published in Nature, and then pushed it out into the media as if it were a credible third-party evaluation. He lobbied, successfully, the CIA to change its conclusion that the virus likely escaped from the WIV, and once that happened the resources of the government were committed (HotAir).

New Mexico Governor Sends National Guard to Albuquerque to Combat Crime from Border

HotAir: First, the good news: A Democrat governor in a border state has recognized that fentanyl trafficking is a real emergency. And more good news; the same governor has mobilized the National Guard to join the fight. It’s as if the success of Donald Trump and Texas Governor Greg Abbott has actually taught a lesson to blue-state leadership. So what’s the bad news? Michelle Lujan Grisham isn’t sending the National Guard to New Mexico’s border with Mexico. She’s mobilizing them for traffic and guard duty in Albuquerque … next month. Lujan Grisham calls this a “radical, fair” step. Supposedly, this is in response to a “crime emergency,” although both the governor and Albuquerque city leaders claim crime is actually going down. Last year, Democrats insisted that there were no crime emergencies in the US and that the idea that crime was a rising problem was merely a Republican talking point. However, in authorizing the mobilization, Lujan Grisham’s office cited “the fentanyl epidemic and rising violent crime among juveniles” as the reasons why the National Guard was needed for law-enforcement purposes in Albuquerque, at least 250 miles away from the source of the fentanyl incursions into New Mexico and the US (HotAir). Ed Morrissey: Lujan Grisham could choose to mobilize the National Guard to defend the border and stop the incursions, but that would affirm Donald Trump’s positions and policies (X).

Former Gov. Mike Huckabee (R-AR) Confirmed to Be Ambassador to Israel

Townhall: On Wednesday, former Gov. Mike Huckabee (R-AR) was confirmed as the U.S. ambassador to Israel. The 53-46 vote, the same as Tuesday’s vote to advance the nomination, was not solely along party lines, as Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) voted both to advance the nomination and to confirm Huckabee (Townhall).

Panama Agrees to Allow U.S. Warships to Pass Through Panama Canal Toll-Free

Blaze Media: U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said that the nation of Panama agreed to allow warship passage through the canal after Chinese officials accused the U.S. of trying to use blackmail to further its interests. Hegseth said that the two nations had signed a memorandum of understanding to allow U.S. warships to pass through the canal without paying a toll. The agreement for security cooperation also includes auxiliary vessels (Blaze Media). Charlie Kirk: SECDEF Pete Hegseth announces that the US & Panama will be signing a joint declaration on the security and operation of the Panama Canal: “We’ll be signing a Joint Declaration with the Minister of Canal Affairs on the security & operation of the Panama Canal, which is a framework for U.S. warships and auxiliary ships to sail first and free through the Panama Canal” (X).

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UK Giving 16-Year-Olds Right to Vote

Times: Giving 16-year-olds the right to vote will “definitely” happen, Sir Keir Starmer has pledged, as he said the “sky didn’t fall in” when the measure was introduced elsewhere in Britain. The prime minister said that he stood by the manifesto commitment, which would extend the franchise to around 1.5 million young people. It would be the largest change to the electorate since 1969, when the voting age was reduced from 21 to 18. Appearing in front of parliament’s liaison committee on Tuesday, Starmer said: “We will definitely get it done, it’s a manifesto commitment and we intend to honor it (Times). RT: Starmer pledges to lower UK voting age to 16. Meaning 16-year-olds won’t be allowed to get married, drink, or smoke, but they will be able to vote (X).

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