Trump had again sharply attacked Chicago and the governor of the surrounding US state of Illinois, JB Pritzker, before the mission became known. In the past few weeks, around 50 people were killed in Chicago and hundreds were injured by shots, the President claimed in his online service Truth Social. Nevertheless, the Democrats rejected his help. “We can proceed quickly and stop this madness,” wrote Trump. Statistics, on the other hand, show a decline in the murse in the current year.
The right -wing populist had repeatedly threatened Chicago with the use of the national guard, as in the democratic strongholds of Washington and Los Angeles. It was only at the weekend that Trump wrote in an online post that Chicago will soon find out why the US Ministry of Defense is now called “Ministry of War”. Trump had determined the renaming on Friday by decree.
U.S. President Donald Trump has come under pressure again because of his earlier friendship with the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein: MPs from the opposition Democrats have now published a letter to Epstein, which is said to come from Trump. Read more about this here.
There is a dispute between Democrats and Republicans in the replacement of the surprisingly freed up square in the directorate of the US Federal Reserve. The democratic MPs of the banking committee in the US Senate demanded on Monday that the economist Stephen Miran nominated by President Donald Trump first had to resign from his post as the top economic advisor of the White House. Before that, the committee controlled by Trump’s Republicans should not take any further steps to advance Miran’s nomination for a seat in the Governor Council of the Independent Fed.
The democratic senators said that it was by no means agreed that Miran will only stay on the Fed post by the end of January 2026. It is open how long it takes to confirm a successor. However, a double role creates a potential conflict between Miran’s obligation as a central banker and as a consultant of Trump. It is also ridiculous to say that Miran can be independent in terms of monetary policy and financial regulation. Therefore, he had to give up his post in the White House immediately.
The banking committee will probably vote on Wednesday to forward Miran’s nomination to the entire US Senate. So far, nobody has publicly disturbed the Republicans that Miran does not want to lay down his advisory job in the White House before entering the politically independent central bank.
