Trump announces 25 percent steel tariff increase to 50 percent as he celebrates US Steel deal
President headed to Pennsylvania to mark U.S. Steel’s ‘partnership’ with Nippon Steel
President Donald Trump announced on Friday that his administration will raise tariffs on foreign steel from 25 percent to 50 percent as he celebrated a deal between U.S. Steel and Japan’s Nippon Steel.
“We're going to bring it from 25 percent to 50 percent, the tariffs on steel into the United States of America, which will even further secure the steel industry in the United States. Nobody is going to get around that,” said Trump.
Trump took to the podium at the U.S. Steel plant a week after indicating that he had cleared a merger between the company and Nippon.
The president spoke at the Irvin Works in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania, with both union members and investors listening for answers on what a deal might look like.
Trump said during his rally speech that the headquarters of U.S. Steel would remain in Pittsburgh even amid significant investment from Nippon.
Calling the investment “record-setting,” Trump said the company would make a “$14 billion commitment to the future of” U.S. Steel.
This comes after Trump hosted Elon Musk in one final White House press event as the Tesla billionaire concludes his tenure in the Trump administration.
Trump pushes congressional agenda during steel rally
The president moved on to pushing his congressional agenda, encapsulated in legislation recently passed by the House, which he called the “one big, beautiful bill.”
“Our one big, beautiful bill will keep income taxes at the current rates and deliver no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, and no tax on Social Security for our seniors,” he said.
“We're permanently expanding the child tax credit, and we're creating a special Trump account for every newborn child, starting them off with a $1,000 credit to be invested over the course of their life,” he added.
'The Golden Age of America has only just begun': Trump ends rally at Pennsylvania steel plant
Trump ended his rally with the words “The Golden Age of America has only just begun, and together, we are going to make America great again, greater than ever before.”
“Thank you very much Pennsylvania and God bless America,” he added.
Trump-tapped judge blasts White House’s ‘utter disregard’ over wrongfully deported asylum seeker
Donald Trump’s administration has “utterly disregarded” a court order for information about a wrongly deported Venezuelan asylum seeker sent to a notorious prison in El Salvador.
District Judge Stephanie Gallagher, who was appointed by Trump during his first term, told the man’s attorneys to put together a record of the administration’s “lack of compliance” — all but ordering contempt hearings in one of several high-profile legal battles over the president’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to summarily deport immigrants.
Alex Woodward has more:
Judge blasts Trump’s ‘utter disregard’ for court orders in asylum seeker’s case
Musk’s DOGE takeover of Institute of Peace brought roaches and rats to D.C. headquarters, court docs say
The head of the United States Institute of Peace says its Washington, D.C. headquarters near the Lincoln Memorial was left to rot after billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency took it over in March, leaving water damage, graffiti — and worst of all, an infestation of roaches and rats.
After DOGE replaced the independent, fully government-funded nonprofit’s board with MAGA loyalists and fired the entire staff, Musk’s crew left it with a “level of staffing… woefully insufficient to properly protect and maintain” the $500 million Moshe Safdie-designed concrete-and-glass structure, according to a May 23 affidavit filed in D.C. federal court by USIP President and CEO George Moose.
Justin Rohrlich has the story:
DOGE takeover of U.S. peace org brought roaches and rats to offices, court docs say
PBS accuses Trump of ‘blatant viewpoint discrimination’ in lawsuit over funding cut
Weeks after Donald Trump declared that he was cutting federal funding for public broadcasters, PBS followed in NPR’s footsteps and sued the president to block his executive order, calling it unconstitutional and “blatant viewpoint discrimination.”
In the complaint that was filed in the U.S. District Court of Washington Friday, the network – which was joined by member station Northern Minnesota Public Television – accused the administration of violating the broadcaster’s First Amendment rights. The lawsuit also claimed that the executive order broke the laws that “forbid the President from serving as the arbiter of the content of PBS’s programming, including by attempting to defund PBS.”
Justin Baragona has more:
PBS accuses Trump of ‘blatant viewpoint discrimination’ in lawsuit over funding cut
Trump conducts the weirdest exit interview in history as Musk departs the White House — for now
Richard Hall writes:
Elon Musk’s exit interview began like any other.
The boss heaped praise on the departing employee while demonstrating a tenuous grasp of exactly what it is he did. The employee vastly inflated his achievements, and the pair made vague promises to stay in touch.
From there, it veered into a freewheeling discussion about transgender mice, Musk’s alleged prolific use of horse tranquilizer, nuclear war between India and Pakistan, and a potential pardon for Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, should he be convicted.
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Trump conducts the weirdest exit interview in history as Musk departs the White House
WATCH: Trump celebrates '$14 billion' deal with Nippon
Musk says black eye came from his son’s punch as he sports shiner during Oval Office meeting with Trump
Elon Musk turned up with a black eye at a farewell press conference with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office.
Musk said that he got the black eye from “horsing around” with his 5-year-old son, “Lil X.”
“I said go ahead and punch me in the face and he did,” Musk said. “X could do it...,” Trump said. “I didn’t notice it, actually.”
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