REUTERS/Megan Jelinger-‘Chopping heads off’: Jennifer Piggott proudly supported Donald Trump, but she says she wouldn’t have if she knew he was going to cut her job and that of more than 125 others workers at the Treasury Department’s Bureau of Fiscal Service in Parkersburg, West Virginia. Political analysts are parsing cuts like these as they search for signs of a backlash against Trump and Elon Musk’s plan to shrink the government. Here is the latest summary on the legal efforts to block Trump’s executive orders on federal workers, frozen funds, transgender protections and more.
Tariffs: We visited an apartment-construction project in Richmond, Virginia that shows the uncertainty rippling through every part of the process, from drywall suppliers who can’t guarantee prices to the willingness of lenders to commit to projects. Jerome Powell said tariffs could feed inflation. Investors remain at sea without a sextant.
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