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Trump says he will announce the selection of the Federal Reserve chairman next week

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✨ Read this insightful post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: Donald Trump news,Federal reserve,interest rates,Jerome Powell ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: President Donald Trump said at his Cabinet meeting that he will announce "next week" his choice to replace Jerome Powell as Chairman of the Federal Reserve. He criticized Chairman Powell for not lowering benchmark interest rates as low as Trump wanted. Powell insisted that the Fed remain independent of policy and make its choices based on inflation and labor market data. He watches: Powell holds a press conference after the Fed left interest rates unchanged Although Powell's…

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FBI raid in Georgia highlights Trump’s preoccupation with the 2020 election

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💥 Discover this must-read post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: Donald Trump news,fbi,Fulton County,georgia,vote 2020 ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: DENVER (AP) — Donald Trump lost his bid for re-election in 2020. But for more than five years, he has been trying to convince Americans that the opposite is true by falsely saying the election was marred by widespread fraud. He watches: FBI raids Georgia elections office as Trump administration seeks voter data from states Now that he is president again, Trump is pressuring the federal government to support these false claims. The FBI on Wednesday issued a…

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Watch: Trump says he wants to raise housing prices, not lower them

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🔥 Check out this must-read post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: Donald Trump news,housing,housing prices,trump cabinet 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: At President Donald Trump's Cabinet meeting on Thursday, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Scott Turner said home sales in December "rose sharply to their strongest pace in three years" — but that's not exactly what appears to be happening in a housing market that has been a continuing source of frustration for American consumers. Read more: Trump says he will announce the selection of the Federal Reserve chairman next week The National Association of Realtors reported that…

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AP Report: Trump eyes former Peace Institute building as new Peace Council headquarters

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💥 Explore this must-read post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: board of peace,Donald Trump news,Gaza,U.S. Institute of Peace 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is looking to establish a new peace council, tied to the Gaza ceasefire and larger international ambitions, in a Washington building that formerly housed the U.S. Institute of Peace, according to four administration officials. The officials, who spoke Thursday on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations, said the issue was under serious discussion, but stressed that no final decision had yet been made on the whereabouts of…

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Watch: Trump says he will open all commercial airspace over Venezuela

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💥 Explore this trending post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: Airspace,Donald Trump news,venezuela 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says he has told Venezuelan Leader Delcy Rodriguez that he will open all commercial airspace over Venezuela and Americans will soon be able to visit. Watch the clip in the video player above. Trump said on Thursday that he had instructed US Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy and US military commanders to open the airspace by the end of the day. Watch live: Trump holds a Cabinet meeting as the government shutdown deadline approaches…

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WATCH LIVE: Trump holds a Cabinet meeting as government shutdown deadline approaches

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🔥 Discover this must-read post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: Donald Trump news,Kristi Noem,trump cabinet ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: President Donald Trump will hold a Cabinet meeting on Thursday, his first of the new year. Trump is expected to host the meeting at 11 a.m. EST. Watch the live stream in our video player above. The public roundtable event, where Trump and his Cabinet are likely to hail his administration's successes, comes amid a bipartisan response to the deadly shootings of US citizens in Minneapolis by federal immigration agents. The latest shooting, involving 37-year-old ICU nurse Alex…

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Watch: Border Czar Homan says federal forces will not withdraw from Minnesota until “cooperation”

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🚀 Explore this trending post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: Donald Trump news,immigration enforcement,minneapolis,minnesota,tom homan 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Tom Homan, President Donald Trump's border czar, said Thursday that the number of immigration enforcement officers in Minnesota will decrease only after state officials cooperate, and that he has zero tolerance for protesters who assault his officers or obstruct their work. Watch Homan's news conference in the video player above. Homan spoke to reporters for the first time since the president sent him to Minneapolis after a federal immigration officer shot and killed a protester…

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Watch: A man was arrested after an unknown substance was sprayed on Representative Ilhan Omar at Minneapolis City Hall

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💥 Read this awesome post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: assault,Ilhan Omar,lawmaker attacks,minneapolis,minnesota ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A man sprayed an unknown substance at Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar and was pinned to the ground Tuesday during a town hall in Minneapolis, where tensions over federal immigration enforcement came to a head after agents shot an intensive care nurse and mother of three this month. The crowd cheered as the man was pinned down and his arms tied behind his back. In a video of the incident, someone in the crowd can be heard…

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WATCH: Coons and Rubio disagree on whether Congress should be consulted before ousting Maduro

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🔥 Check out this awesome post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: Chris Coons,Donald Trump news,marco rubio,nicolas maduro,venezuela 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., said the Trump administration failed to properly consult with Congress in the months before the dramatic U.S. military raid that ousted President Nicolas Maduro. Watch the clip in the player above. “The administration has been launching strike after strike against drug smuggling boats,” Coons said, referring to a series of boat strikes near Venezuela that have so far killed at least 126 people over the course of nearly five months. He added…

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WATCH: Sen. Paul presses Rubio to explain why ousting Maduro is not an act of war

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💥 Explore this awesome post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: Donald Trump news,marco rubio,nicolas maduro,rand paul,venezuela 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., pressed Secretary of State Marco Rubio at a congressional hearing Wednesday on why the U.S. ouster of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro should not be considered an act of war. Watch the clip in the player above. He added: "If a foreign country bombed our air defense missiles, captured and removed our president, and besieged our country, would that be considered an act of war?" Paul asked. “We do not believe this operation comes…

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