Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says Trump's $2,000 tariff checks might need a congressional OK

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is a key figure in US-China trade talks.

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Americans really want their cheap stuff back

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Donald Trump says he's ordering DOJ probes into JPMorgan Chase and business leaders' ties to Jeffrey Epstein

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Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump at a party at Mar-a-Lago in 2000.

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Top Goldman Sachs lawyer asked Jeffrey Epstein for career advice, bashed Trump, private emails show

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Kathryn Ruemmler, now the top lawyer at Goldman Sachs, maintained a correspondence with Jeffrey Epstein after leaving the Obama White House.

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Treasury Secretary Bessent says Trump wants to lower coffee and banana prices 'very quickly'

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the Trump administration will take action to lower the prices of goods not grown in the US

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Trump wants to issue $2,000 tariff checks. He can't do that by himself.

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Both the House and the Senate would need to approve any tariff-based checks from the government. Many in the GOP have already said they're opposed.

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Trump recommends $10,000 bonus to air traffic controllers who didn't call out sick during the shutdown

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The president sharply criticized air traffic controllers who took time off during the shutdown, saying he's "NOT HAPPY" with them.

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Washington just moved one step closer to ending the longest government shutdown in US history

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Senators arrived at Capitol Hill for a rare weekend session on Sunday.

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The Trump administration orders states to reverse full SNAP benefits sent for November

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The Trump administration has paused SNAP payments amid the government shutdown.

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Meta details $600 billion US investment pledge that led to a hot-mic moment between Zuckerberg and Trump

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Mark Zuckerberg and President Donald Trump first publicly discussed Meta's US investment plans during a White House AI dinner.

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