US President Donald Trump granted his confidante Elon Musk possible conflicts of interest with a view of business relationships to China. The tech billionaire has business interests in China and could be influenced, said Trump at an appointment in the White House.
The background was reports that Musk should be taught at a meeting in the Pentagon about plans for a possible war with China. Trump vehemently rejected the newspaper “New York Times” as “garbage”. Musk announced to X to pursue possible whistle. “I am looking forward to the criminal prosecution of those in the Pentagon who willingly pass on incorrect information to the NYT. They will be found,” he wrote on X before visiting the Pentagon. Read more about it here.
The US government commissioned Boeing to build a new fighter jet. US President Donald Trump announced on Friday in the White House that Boeing had been awarded the contract after a “hard and intensive competition” between several manufacturers. Read more about this here.
Most recently there had been three cases in which German citizens had come to deportation when entering the United States. The reports seem to unsettle many people, as an exclusive survey by the opinion research institute Civey shows on behalf of T-Online. Accordingly, the majority of respondents would not want to stick to their travel plans to the United States due to the arrests. Read more about this here.
Donald Trump has significantly tightened the US migration policy. Regardless of the laws and contradiction between US judges, his government has recently deported people from the country. In addition, border officials apparently check the entry and fail to be much more strictly. The cases show how Trump’s America could now deal with people who do not have US citizenship. Read more about this here.
Tech billionaire Elon Musk has been happy to be involved in US politics for several months. As a consultant of President Donald Trump and with his assets, he tries to influence the country’s fortunes – and sometimes also other countries. His most recent coup: In the US state of Wisconsin, he currently offers $ 100 for every signature under a petition “against activist judges”. Read more about this here.
Against the background of the protests against Tesla boss Elon Musk, US citizens put a record number of electric cars in payment. Tesla vehicles from model year 2017 made 1.4 percent of all vehicles exchanged by the dealer until March 15, as emerged from Edmunds statistics on Thursday. In March of the previous year, the value was 0.4 percent. Read more about this here.
An appointment in the US Department of Defense is planned for Elon Musk on Friday. According to a report by the “New York Times”, the Doge boss should receive a briefing for strictly secret war plans of the US military. Musk’s power would expand so significantly. Read more about this here.
US President Donald Trump has signed a deliberate for the boosting of domestic production of mineral resources with central importance for the economy and national security. In this way, “the production of critical raw materials and rare earths” should be increased dramatically, said Trump on Thursday. “It’s a big thing in this country.”
A US judge in Baltimore has temporarily banned Tech billionaire Elon Musk and his cost reduction committee Doge to access sensitive data from the social security authority. Under flimsy suggestions, the committee received “unrestricted access” for “personal and private information from millions of Americans”, judge Ellen Lipton Hollander justified her injunction. It is about social security numbers, medical records, driver’s license data, banking and credit card information as well as tax documents.
US President Donald Trump has signed a deliberate for the boosting of domestic production of mineral resources with central importance for the economy and national security. In this way, “the production of critical raw materials and rare earths” should be increased dramatically, said Trump on Thursday. “It’s a big thing in this country.” The decree uses an emergency regulation for the national security of 1950 – the Defense Production Act (dpa) – to accelerate the measures. For many of the raw materials classified as critically, China is currently the world’s largest manufacturer.
US President Donald Trump has signed a decree to destroy the Ministry of Education. The aim is to eliminate the department “once and for all”, said the Republican at a ceremony in the White House. In the decree, Education Minister Linda McMahon instructs to take all the necessary steps to reduce the functions of the ministry to a minimum. Read more about the plans of the US President.
In view of financial incisions in research in the United States under President Donald Trump, Ulrike Malmendier is calling for top researchers from there for Germany. Trump “triggered great concern about scientific freedom and reliable financial support,” said the economy professor at the University of California to the newspapers of the Funke Mediengruppe. “Development in the United States is a huge opportunity for Germany and Europe. I know that a lot of people are thinking about going away.”
Malmendier made a comparison to the times of National Socialism: “I feel reminded of the 1930s in which Germany was leading in essential research areas. Then many scientists flew from the Nazis. That was the beginning of the rise of the USA as a science. Now we can reverse.” Read more about the economists’ suggestions here.
US President Donald Trump has called for a reduction in the key interest rate from the US Federal Reserve. “The FED would be much better off if it would lower interest because the US tariffs find their way into the economy (easier!). Do the right thing. April 2 is the day of liberation in America,” he wrote on his Truth social network. In view of the economic uncertainty, the US Federal Reserve had again suspended further interest rate cuts on Wednesday and, against the background of Trump’s aggressive customs policy, decided to leave the interest rate between 4.25 percent and 4.5 percent. Read more about the central bank here.
An employee of Elon Musk’s Department for Government Efficiency, Doge, will take a top position at the USA-Agency for International Development USA. Pete Marocco, who was instrumental in the dismantling of the agency, is said to return to the Foreign Ministry, according to an email that is Reuters. At a press conference, the spokeswoman for the Foreign Ministry, Tammy Bruce, confirmed that Marocco, as director of foreign aid, will return to the Foreign Ministry full -time.
In January, US President Donald Trump ordered a 90-day suspension of foreign aid to check whether the programs match his “America First” foreign policy. USAID has managed civil aid and development aid for decades.
In view of several judgments against the decisions of the US government of President Donald Trump, the White House of Critical judges has accused of wanting to tear government power. She gets support from Elon Musk, as you can read here.
Donald Trump is not only the US President, but also the owner of a group of group. Their plans fueled the stock exchange on Wall Street on Wednesday – because Trump probably wants to create his own television station. Read more about this here.
Tesla’s car sales have broken down, and the share price also drops. Now investors are getting nervous – and turning against company boss Elon Musk. Read more about this here.
The US government wants to expand the website in rural areas. Instead of laying fiber optic cables, Elon Musk’s company Starlink is said to be trained. Read more about this here.
In the dispute over existence-threatening medium cuts, the US foreigner Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty is suing his mother authority Usagm. A spokesman said that the complaint against the US Authority for Global Media (US Agency for Global Media) has been submitted to a federal court in the capital Washington. The broadcaster argues that the withholding of the funds is illegal because they have been approved by the US Congress. The congress is the parliament in the USA.
The broadcaster based in Prague speaks of a violation of the US constitution and calls for an injunction. The lawsuit is also specifically directed against the new responsible people at Usagm used by US President Donald Trump. “We believe that the right is on our side,” emphasizes RFE/RL President Stephen Capus. “Now is not the time to clear the field and leave the propaganda and censorship of America’s opponents,” he adds.
In the opinion of a judge, the breakdown of the development authority USA by the savings committee “Department of Government Efficiency” (Doge) listed by Tech billionaire Elon Musk is probably unconstitutional. “The accelerated closure by USAID (…) probably violates the US constitution in several ways,” wrote Federal judge Theodore Chuang. Read more about this here.
After the two -hour phone call between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, there was initially no more than the two official statements of the White House and the Kremlin. But then the US President gave the television station “Fox News” a detailed interview on Tuesday evening. It made it clear how different Trump and Putin represent their course of conversation in public. Especially with regard to an important topic. Read the report here.
According to the US specialist Steve Witkoff, further discussions with Russia will take place in the Saudi city of Dschidda on Sunday. “The devil is in detail. We have a team that travels to Saudi Arabia, led by our national security consultant Mike Waltz and our Foreign Minister Marco Rubio, and I think we have to find out these details,” says Witkoff in the US television broadcaster Fox News.
US President Donald Trump and Kremlin boss Vladimir Putin are said to have talked about the staging of ice hockey games in their countries. The idea is to carry games with players from the North American professional league NHL and the Russian -shaped KHL. Read more here.
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