The fallout from the massive tariffs continues, this time with New Mexico’s junior U.S. Senator saying they will cause a big increase in prescription drug costs for consumers. U.S. Sen. Ben Ray Luján and his colleague Raphael Warnock of Georgia, both Democrats, wrote a letter to the White House warning about the impacts of prescription […]
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Economists say the way Trump calculated tariffs makes no sense
By Andrew Ackerman, Federica Cocco · The Washington Post (c) 2025 Economists say the crude formula the White House used to calculate what it’s calling “reciprocal tariffs” is too simplistic to achieve its goal of wiping out U.S. trade deficits – and, for that matter, they say that goal doesn’t make sense, either. But the administration is defending its […]
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Economists say the way Trump calculated tariffs makes no sense
By Andrew Ackerman, Federica Cocco · The Washington Post (c) 2025 Economists say the crude formula the White House used to calculate what it’s calling “reciprocal tariffs” is too simplistic to achieve its goal of wiping out U.S. trade deficits – and, for that matter, they say that goal doesn’t make sense, either. But the administration is defending its […]
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Stocks plunge and businesses recoil after across-the-board tariffs
By Abha Bhattarai · The Washington Post (c) 2025 President Donald Trump’s intensifying trade war sent stock markets reeling as investors, companies and Americans fretted about rising costs from an onslaught of new tariffs. U.S. stocks fell sharply Thursday, with the S&P 500 dropping more than 4 percent and the Nasdaq down 5 percent. The Dow Jones Industrial […]
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Stocks plunge and businesses recoil after across-the-board tariffs
By Abha Bhattarai · The Washington Post (c) 2025 President Donald Trump’s intensifying trade war sent stock markets reeling as investors, companies and Americans fretted about rising costs from an onslaught of new tariffs. U.S. stocks fell sharply Thursday, with the S&P 500 dropping more than 4 percent and the Nasdaq down 5 percent. The Dow Jones Industrial […]
NM Political Report
Governor, others call Trump tariffs ‘a massive tax increase’
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NM Political Report
Heinrich calls on DOE to uphold commitments, provide funds for projects
<img width="1024" height="693" src="https://eastmountains.nm.news/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2025/04/MCP_MUSEUM_OF_-NUCLEAR_-SCIENCE_5-1024×693-1.jpg" class="attachment-rss-image-size size-rss-image-size wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://eastmountains.nm.news/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2025/04/MCP_MUSEUM_OF_-NUCLEAR_-SCIENCE_5-1024×693-1.jpg 1024w, https://nmpoliticalreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/MCP_MUSEUM_OF_-NUCLEAR_-SCIENCE_5-300×203.jpg 300w, https://nmpoliticalreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/MCP_MUSEUM_OF_-NUCLEAR_-SCIENCE_5-768×520.jpg 768w, https://nmpoliticalreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/MCP_MUSEUM_OF_-NUCLEAR_-SCIENCE_5-1200×812.jpg 1200w, https://nmpoliticalreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/MCP_MUSEUM_OF_-NUCLEAR_-SCIENCE_5-400×271.jpg 400w, https://nmpoliticalreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/MCP_MUSEUM_OF_-NUCLEAR_-SCIENCE_5.jpg 1477w" sizes="(max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw – 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw / 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw / 12)), 100vw" data-attachment-id="1660471" data-permalink="https://nmpoliticalreport.com/2025/02/25/u-s-energy-secretary-compares-current-ai-development-to-the-manhattan-project/mcp_museum_of_-nuclear_-science_5/" data-orig-file="https://nmpoliticalreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/MCP_MUSEUM_OF_-NUCLEAR_-SCIENCE_5.jpg" data-orig-size="1477,1000" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"1.8","credit":"","camera":"NIKON D750","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1740426991","copyright":"","focal_length":"35","iso":"200","shutter_speed":"0.016666666666667","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="MCP_MUSEUM_OF_ NUCLEAR_ SCIENCE_5" data-image-description="" data-image-caption=" U.S. […]
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Trump announces 10 percent tariffs on all imports, additional taxes for some 60 countries
By David J. Lynch, Jeff Stein · The Washington Post (c) 2025 President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he will impose a new 10 percent tariff on all imported goods along with an additional punitive import tax tailored for each of about 60 countries that his advisers say maintain the most unfair barriers against U.S. products. The president’s long-awaited […]
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Trump announces 10 percent tariffs on all imports, additional taxes for some 60 countries
By David J. Lynch, Jeff Stein · The Washington Post (c) 2025 President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he will impose a new 10 percent tariff on all imported goods along with an additional punitive import tax tailored for each of about 60 countries that his advisers say maintain the most unfair barriers against U.S. products. The president’s long-awaited […]
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Thurmond set a record opposing civil rights. A Black senator broke it.
By Petula Dvorak · The Washington Post (c) 2025 Sen. Strom Thurmond took a long steam bath to dehydrate his body for what he was about to do on a sticky August night in 1957. The Civil Rights Act was about to pass and Thurmond, a Democrat from South Carolina who was an unabashed segregationist, broke with the […]