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Now Trump is aiming on public broadcasting
Updated on 02.05.2025 – 3:51 p.m.Reading time: 12 min.
US President Donald Trump plans budget shortages in the three-digit billion dollar height. The US labor market remains stable despite tariffs. All developments in the news blog.
The US position structure has hardly slowed down in April and thus after the customs announcements of President Donald Trump. There were 177,000 new jobs outside of agriculture, as can be seen from the government published on Friday. Economists surveyed had only expected an increase of 130,000, and after downward revised 185,000 (originally 228,000) in March. The unemployment rate determined separately remained at 4.2 percent.
The surprisingly stable labor market data follow the latest bad news from the economy: The gross domestic product (GDP) had shrunk from January to March and thus in the first few months of the term of office in Trump – by age, including 0.3 percent. At the end of 2024, a plus was reached by GDP of 2.4 percent.
US President Donald Trump plans savings in the height of a three-digit billion dollar amount. The plans are to be published on Friday and the congress is sent, said a government official in Washington. Accordingly, the draft also sees cuts worth over $ 160 billion in the areas of environment, renewable energies, education and foreign aid, as the “Wall Street Journal” reported, citing government employees.
Trump wants to save, for example, the Broadcasters National Public Radio (NPR) and Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). Trump had advertised in the election campaign to reduce the government. With the Efficiency Authority Doge, headed by billionaire Elon Musk, several authorities have already been closed and tens of thousands of employees were released. However, Musk has announced his retreat and did research that his previous work has caused damage of 135 billion euros.
The annual budget application of the White House contains economic forecasts and detailed suggestions on how much money is to be spent on the financial year 2026 starting on October 1st.
The United States apparently no longer wants to act as an intermediary between Ukraine and Russia. This was announced by the spokeswoman for the Foreign Ministry, Tammy Bruce. US President Donald Trump also “knew that there is another part of the world, a whole globe that needs some attention,” said Bruce. Read more about it here.
US President Donald Trump has announced that two new memorial days for the victories in the First and Second World War have announced. The US President wrote on Thursday, May 1st: “I hereby name May 8th in the day of the victory in World War II and November 11th in the day of victory in the First World War.” Read more about this here.
In a contribution on his Truth platform, the US President announced that he would “withdraw” the tax exemption from the Harvard elite university. “They deserve that,” he said. The decision will probably be challenged in court.
To “withdraw” the tax exemption from the university would be unlawful, according to Harvard’s president. He also said that it would “endanger our ability to fulfill our educational mandate”.
Trump had threatened the university in advance, should they not meet the claims of the US President to withdraw the tax exemption. The US President had repeatedly questioned the independence of the universities.
In the United States, a significantly higher customs set on parcels from China will apply from Friday. For small parcel shipments, the surcharge of 30 to 90 percent triples. President Donald Trump ordered this by decree at the beginning of April. This means that the US government is primarily against online retailers such as Temu and Shein, which are sending numerous goods to the USA.
The new customs duty applies to deliveries with a goods value below $ 800. For a long time they were completely except for tariffs. Trump has been a tough course against China since the beginning of his second term. The tariffs he imposed on the People’s Republic add up to 145 percent, China in turn imposed high counter -tariffs.
