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Trump suddenly strikes other tones in rich
Updated on 09.05.2025 – 11:03 p.m.Reading time: 16 min.
A statement by the US President surprises his followers. US carmakers have sharp criticism of Trump-Deal. All developments in the news blog.
The mayor of the city of Newark, Ras Baraka, has been arrested in an immigration prison in an incident. Despite several warnings, Baraka refused to leave the institution headed by the Federal Border Protection Authority, writes the former lawyer of President Donald Trump on the short message service X. It is unclear whether charges will be charged against the democrat.
The Ministry of Homeland Protection reports that two Democratic Congressmen have also been in prison. They collapsed there when a bus with prisoners had arrived there. There is initially no statement by Baraka. He is applying for the position of governor in the state of New Jersey. Trump has declared a tough action against migrants on a central theme of his second term.
Donald Trump surprised on Friday with a turn in tax policy. In the debate on the new US budget, the US President explained Truth Social on his platform: his Republicans should “better not” increase taxes for rich, but it was “okay if they did it”. A rich tax would be a departure from the classic tax reduction policy of the Republicans.
Trump had reduced the tax for top earners with an annual income from $ 625,000 to $ 37 percent during his first term. Now, according to media reports, he brought a tax rate for Reich with an annual earnings of $ 2.5 million (single) or $ 5 million (married) of $ 39.6 percent.
According to the Bloomberg agency, up to $ 67.3 billion can be achieved annually by a rich tax. Trump fears a debate about his credibility. US President George Bush won the presidential election in 1988 with the legendary words: “Read My Lips: No New Taxes”-read my lips: no new taxes. As soon as he had to increase the taxes in office and in 1992 lost the election against Bill Clinton after only one term.
She was the first woman and the first African American at the head of the renowned US Congress Library Library of Congress, now US President Donald Trump has released the librarian Carla Hayden. The President found it “with immediate effect” from her post, as can be seen from an email from the White House to Hayden, which US Senator Martin Heinrich spread from the opposition Democrats in Washington.
For the time being, the library did not comment on dismissal. The congress library in the US capital is considered the largest worldwide, with more than 20 million catalog entries for books, manuscripts, sound and image documents and other media. Hayden has headed the facility since 2016, and her contract was running up to the coming year. It was initially unclear who should follow her.
Right activists had accused Hayden of “indoctrining children in the United States with radical sexual ideologies”. A few hours before her discharge, the Trump-related research group American Accountability Foundation explained that Hayden was “Woke, against Trump” and promotes ideas about transpersons in children who do not accept their biologically attributed identity. “It is time to throw them out and set a new one for the job!” Asked the organization.
Against the background of the global trade dispute triggered by Donald Trump, the US President has expressed his hope to hit the “fantastic” EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen for negotiations. The Leyen reacted amused: “I like compliments,” she said in Brussels on Friday and spoke of “good conversations” with Trump. The day before, the United States and Great Britain announced a trade agreement in the customs dispute. According to Trump, Trump also strives for an agreement with the European Union.
