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An April poll shows President Donald Trump is losing his biggest polling advantage over Democrats.

“Bad news for the White House per @EchelonInsights,” wrote Snapchat host Peter Hamby. “Dems are now tied with Republicans on the question of who would do a better job on inflation and the cost of living.”

Digital monitoring company Echelon Insights' April 2025 Voter Omnibus package revealed that "on the issue of inflation and cost of living," Trump and Democrats now share 43% approval. It also showed Trump’s overall approval going negative with 51% disapproving and 47% approving, only four months into his term, which is commonly considered still within the White House “honeymoon phase” for many presidents.

Additionally, 48% of respondents say Donald Trump “does not have a thorough plan and end-goal for tariffs, compared with 42% who say he does.”

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This marks a change from February, when the Pew Research Center reported that about three-quarters of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents (73%) expected the economy to be better a year into President Donald Trump’s second term. Last year, Gallup reported the economy to be the “most important” issue in the 2024 election vote, which promises problems for Republicans leading the US House in the midterms if the economy remains voters' highest priority.

Former Vice President Kamala Harris lost the November election mere weeks after the same poll reported that “voters view Donald Trump as better able than Kamala Harris to handle the economy, 54% versus 45%."

House Majority PAC Communication Director CJ Warnke posted on X that Echelon Insights information mirrors other polling over the last two weeks “consistently show[ing] Trump's Econ approval sinking lower and lower. Echelon: -8% CBS/YouGov: -12% Fabrizio Ward: -8% Navigator Research: -13% Morning Consult: -3% Economist/YouGov: -10%.”

President Donald Trump's attorney general appeared to rebuff an opportunity to endorse her boss's recent idea to send Americans convicted of violent crimes to prisons in El Salvador.

Trump reiterated the idea on Monday during an Oval Office meeting with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, in which Trump told reporters, "homegrowns are next," referring to U.S. citizens.

"Homegrown criminals are next," Trump told Bukele. "I said homegrowns are next, homegrowns are next. You've got to build about five more places. It's not big enough."

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Trump clarified he was focusing on "violent offenders" and signaled that his administration is looking into the legality to determine if such deportations are possible.

The eye-popping suggestion became the topic of discussion on Fox News' "Jesse Watters Primetime." Watters asked Bondi about Trump's idea to incarcerate U.S. citizens overseas. But she didn't seem to endorse the plan.

"The president was musing about sending some of the most horrible people in this country down to that mega prison," said Watters, later asking, "Is that legal to do? Is that something you're allowed to do?"

"Well Jesse, these are Americans that he's saying committed the most heinous crimes in our country. Crime is going to decrease dramatically because he has given us a directive to make America safe again. These people need to be locked up as long as they can, as long as the law allows. We're not going to let them go anywhere. If we have to build more prisons in our country, we will do it."

"Right," Watters replied with a chuckle. "That's what I thought."

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A federal judge whose son was shot and killed by a gunman posing as a FedEx delivery driver in a 2020 attack meant for the judge revealed a shocking new escalation to the hostility targeting the judiciary.

U.S. District Court Judge Esther Salas on Friday said that not only are pizzas being delivered to the homes of judges, but they are also being sent to the homes of their children.

But now, she is sounding the alarm on an even darker twist to the threats after learning this week that pizzas are now being sent to judges and their families under the name of her slain son.

“Just this week I was contacted by a judge, and I was told that the second pizza that arrived at this judge's house – he had already received one before – the second pizza that arrived at this judge's house was sent by my son, Daniel Anderl,” Salas said in an interview on MSNBC. “The name that they used on the pizza was Daniel Anderl. My baby boy, who we lost on July 19, 2020.”

“And if it would have stopped there, it would have been bad enough,” she added. “But it's not stopping. Just last night, another pizza, there's four now, four pizzas that are being sent to judges as threats. And who's the sender? Daniel Anderl.”

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Salas told MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace that the significance in the ominous deliveries is the message that it sends.

“You send a pizza to a judge's house – that’s the message – I know where you live. You send a pizza to a judge's child's house – I know where your child lives,” she said.

But the judge made clear that the new escalation of sending pizzas in the name of her deceased child as the sender “says ‘you want to end up like Judge Salas’ child, you want to end up like Judge Salas.’ These escalating threats are a problem.”

Salas delivered a message of her own on Friday: “For the love of God, stop all this hatred and all this anger because it is going to get someone killed” as she implored the Trump administration, members of Congress, and anyone with a social media megaphone “to tone down the rhetoric.”

“We have to stop calling us rogue judges, calling us ‘wanted,’ we have to stop impeaching judges for doing their jobs. We have to stop calling us corrupt and crazy, leftist, unconstitutional judges.”

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Top Wall Street executives are still reeling from the chaos caused by President Donald Trump's tariffs — and they're warning that we're about to see economic instability of a type that hasn't occurred in living memory, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.

"Financiers came into the year excited for President Trump’s tenure, expecting corporate tax cuts and lower regulation to lift stocks, dealmaking and corporate confidence," reported Alexander Saeedy, AnnaMaria Andriotis, and Gina Heeb. "One quarter in, the tone is entirely different and executives are worried about tariffs and their impact, especially after the market gyrations of this month. Some economists are predicting a recession by the second half of 2025."

Trump initially announced so-called "reciprocal" tariffs of 10 to 49 percent on imports from virtually every country in the world based mainly on the U.S. trade deficit with each country, regardless of whether those countries actually have legal trade barriers and, in some cases, regardless of whether the region in question has trade at all or even people.

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After days of Republican infighting and plunging stock indices, Trump announced a 90-day period in which all countries will have their import tariffs reduced to the minimum of 10 percent, except for China, which will see even larger tariff hikes.

The announcement caused a stock rally, but markets remain wildly volatile and fluctuating — and still far lower than they were when Trump took office.

Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase, had a grim assessment: “This is different,” he said, comparing it to previous market shocks and recessions. “It’s a significant change we’ve never seen in our lives.”

Larry Fink, the head of BlackRock, agreed, saying, “In the short run, we have an economy that is at risk.”

The unveiling of the tariffs "surprised executives across the country, sent stock markets reeling and pushed down the price of supersafe Treasury bonds. Bankers said Friday that they are expecting businesses to pull back from big moves like deals and investments and worries are spreading about how much companies will earn this year," the report continued. Meanwhile, Fink, "whose firm BlackRock now oversees $11.6 trillion in assets, said the market downturn affects millions of people by hitting their retirement accounts and college-savings plans."

A massive sell-off in U.S. bonds led a CNN analyst to sound the alarm about a rare "red flag" as financial markets reel.

The country saw a significant sell-off in U.S. bonds this week, driven by concerns over President Donald Trump's tariff policies and broader economic uncertainty. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note surged to as high as 4.53%, marking its highest point since February and a dramatic increase from Monday’s low of 3.87%. This reflects a sharp decline in bond prices, as yields and prices move inversely.

Allison Morrow, a senior writer for CNN Business, told anchor Jake Tapper on Friday afternoon that tens of trillions of dollars come into the U.S. from all over the globe.

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"That asset, that bond, is considered to be one of the safest places any investor can put their money because it is backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government," she told viewers. "Ultimately a U.S. bond, a treasury, is a safe haven."

This, she said, is "important" to what happened this week.

"Normally in times of economic turmoil, we would see stocks sell off and investors go to bonds. That didn't happen. We saw investors selling stocks and bonds. And that is really a red flag because it's only happened a handful of times in history and its a signal that investors can't really see which way the economy is going. And they're putting their pencils down and saying, 'We're sitting this one out.'"

The economy is in a "precarious position," now, Morrow said.

The 10-year treasury yield is the benchmark for car loans, mortgages, and credit cards. When bonds are sold off, yield goes up.

"And that's exactly what we saw this week," she said.

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President Donald Trump ordered the Department of Justice to investigate Miles Taylor, a member of his first administration who wrote a New York Times op-ed under the pseudonym "Anonymous" claiming to be a member of the so-called resistance.

"What this presidential memorandum is going to do, one, it's going to strip any active clearance that he has in light of his past activities involving classified information," White House staff secretary Will Scharf explained as he handed the executive order to the president. "It's also going to order the Department of Justice to investigate his activities to see what else might come up in that context, given his egregious behavior during your previous administration."

For his part, Trump accused Taylor of saying "terrible things."

"And I think it's like a traitor. It's like spying. He walks into the office. He's supposed to be sitting here," he explained. "And he wrote a book, Anonymous, and I always thought it was terrible. And now we have a chance to find out whether or not it was terrible."

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"And if it was a Democrat president, I'd say that's a terrible thing," the president claimed. "And it's time to find out whether or not somebody can do that. Can they write a book about very confidential meetings? Because I happen to be one of a lot of people in a room, and they go out and write a book. And worse than that, call it anonymous, like it's a big deal."

"And I think he's guilty of treason, if you want to know the truth. But we'll find out. And I assume we're recommending this to the Department of Justice."

Watch the video below from Newsmax.