President-elect Donald Trump threatened to impose tariffs on the European Union except it purchases extra oil and fuel from the US – an intimidation tactic that Trump has wielded in opposition to different international locations as nicely.

After asserting a 25 % tariff on the U.S. largest buying and selling companions, Canada and Mexico, and threatening to extend tariffs on China, Trump has now focused the E.U.

“I advised the European Union that they have to make up their super deficit with the US by the big scale buy of our oil and fuel. In any other case, it’s TARIFFS all the way in which!!!” Trump wrote on Fact Social round 1 a.m. Friday.

Ariana Baio has the complete story.

One-third of Individuals who voted for President-elect Donald Trump stated they selected him due to his enterprise acumen or financial imaginative and prescient, a brand new ballot reveals.

Thirty-three % of Trump voters stated, in their very own phrases, they voted for him due to the “financial system” or as a result of “he is an efficient businessman,” a Washington Publish-Schar Faculty ballot launched Friday reveals.

“He is an efficient businessman and doesn’t let anybody make the most of him,” one Trump voter from Wisconsin advised pollsters.

Katie Hawkinson has the story.

The Biden administration is utilizing its waning days in workplace to make a last mark forward of the incoming Trump White Home.

It introduced Friday it might forgive one other $4.28 billion in scholar debt for 54,900 debtors who pursued careers in public service, bringing Biden’s whole to some $180 billion of forgiveness total, the most important sum of debt forgiveness from any president in U.S. historical past.

On the similar time, the administration stated it might scrap additional forgiveness proposals from the U.S. Division of Training, noting “uncertainty across the implementation” given Trump’s impending inauguration.

Republicans are calling for Elon Musk to be the brand new speaker of the Home amid contentious negotiations over a spending deal to keep away from a authorities shutdown.

“The Speaker of the Home needn’t be a member of Congress . . . Nothing would disrupt the swamp greater than electing Elon Musk,” Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky wrote on X on Thursday. “Give it some thought . . . nothing’s inconceivable (to not point out the enjoyment at seeing the collective institution, aka ‘uniparty,’ lose their ever-lovin’ minds).”

Consultant Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia additionally piped in on X: “DOGE can solely actually be completed by reigning in Congress to enact actual authorities effectivity. The institution must be shattered similar to it was yesterday. This may very well be the way in which.”

Josh Marcus has the small print.

Justice Clarence Thomas didn’t disclose two journeys — which hadn’t been publicly reported — paid for by a billionaire Republican donor, a brand new Congressional report reveals.

Within the wake of ProPublica’s explosive 2023 report into Thomas’ failures to reveal his ties to rich donor Harlan Crow, Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee carried out a 20-month investigation into the ethics challenges on the Supreme Court docket.

The report — spanning 97 pages plus 824 pages of supporting paperwork — was launched Saturday, detailing two further journeys paid for by Crow that Thomas hadn’t beforehand disclosed. Extra broadly, the report additionally captured an array of conflicts of curiosity and undisclosed items by justices, prompting the panel to advocate the nation’s highest court docket set up an enforceable code of conduct.

Democratic Rep. Dan Goldman of New York urged Thursday night time that Elon Musk would offer President-elect Donald Trump with a “windfall” if the incoming commander-in-chief does the bidding of the X proprietor.

The Tesla CEO was profitable in his efforts to take down a seamless decision that was set to permit the federal government to stay funded by means of Christmas, forcing Speaker Mike Johnson again to the drafting board.

Musk tweeted in opposition to the invoice Wednesday earlier than Trump did the identical, pushing for it to be voted down. Speaker Mike Johnson then withdrew the invoice earlier than introducing a shorter model Thursday which was rejected even because it was backed by each Musk and Trump.

Gustaf Kilander has the story.

Lara Trump dropped out of the operating for the Senate on Saturday night, teasing a “large announcement” to come back in January.

Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law was floated as a attainable substitute for Marco Rubio, the president-elect’s selection for secretary of state.

Two weeks in the past Trump introduced she was additionally stepping down from her position as co-chair of the Republican Nationwide Committee.

“After an unbelievable quantity of thought, contemplation, and encouragement from so many, I’ve determined to take away my identify from consideration for the US Senate,” Trump shared in a put up on X.

“I do have a giant announcement that I’m excited to share in January, so, keep tuned,” she added.

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Donald Trump has named the British producer behind The Apprentice actuality TV collection as his particular envoy to the UK.

The president-elect stated Mark Burnett would deliver “a novel mix of diplomatic acumen and worldwide recognition” to the position.

Mr Burnett, 64, was instrumental in considerably elevating the profile of Mr Trump within the US when he was appointed as the primary host within the north American model of The Apprentice.