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President Donald Trump stated that the U.S. is collecting $2 billion every day through tariffs.

“We’re taking in almost $2 billion a day in tariffs,” Trump remarked during a signing event at the White House in Washington, D.C., where he also announced changes to coal regulations. “And we’re doing very well in making I call them tailored deals; not off the rack. These are tailored, highly tailored deals.”

Trump continued, “Right now, Japan is flying here to make a deal. South Korea is flying here to make a deal. … We have a lot of countries coming in. They want to make deals. If I told them about making those deals two years ago or three years ago or five years ago, they’d be laughing at us. Now, they’re all signing up.”

Earlier in the day, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent mentioned that nearly 70 nations have approached the U.S. administration to renegotiate trade agreements.

Trump’s statement was made without elaborating on specifics. Since he took office in January, the president has enforced a wide range of tariffs on various countries.

According to the U.S. Treasury Department’s daily report on deposits and withdrawals from its general account, which handles the federal government’s finances, deposits under “Customs and Certain Excise Taxes” have averaged around $200 million daily for the month.

For the full month of February, the Treasury collected approximately $7.25 billion in customs duties. The Treasury’s budget statement for March, which will be released Thursday, will provide the latest monthly figures.

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One evening in May 2024, in the city of Västerås, Sweden, 90 kilometers from the capital city of Stockholm, a 15-year-old boy waited for his mother to fall asleep. Shortly before midnight, the boy quietly got out of bed, slipped outside, and got into an Uber, which drove him to the Israeli embassy to murder Israelis. On the way to the embassy, the teen picked up a gun from a certain location according to instructions he received on his cell phone. As he approached the embassy, blue lights flashed behind the Uber. The police had thwarted his plan. Just over 24 hours later, a younger teen, 14 years old, did succeed. He picked up a 9mm semi-automatic pistol from the location he was instructed to go and fired several shots near the Israeli embassy at 2 a.m. He was later arrested. The 14-year-old wasn’t prosecuted because he was a minor. The 15-year-old was convicted of possession of a weapon and received 11 months of community service in a nursing home. The mother of the 15-year-old told the authorities that she believed her son was being exploited. She said that older people were behind his actions. They acted like “big brothers,” protecting him and supporting him while making him feel safe. In his testimony, the 15-year-old said that he thought he was being sent to deliver marijuana and he felt “cheated and angry” that he was duped into going to the embassy. He claimed that three days beforehand, he was asked if he would agree to carry out an attack at the Israeli embassy, and he refused, adding that he was unaware of where he was going that night until he was already in the Uber. In another incident, a 13-year-old boy was manipulated into firing a weapon at the Swedish branch of the Israeli Elbit Systems firm. Iran is using Sweden’s most violent gangs, Foxtrot and Rumba, to recruit minors to commit attacks against Jewish and Israeli targets for small sums of money or brand-name clothing, CNN reported on Monday. Swedish police say that the attempted attacks were among several last year targeting the Israeli embassy in Stockholm. Sources in Sweden’s Security Service (SÄPO) told CNN that they were carried out by gangs operating on behalf of Iran who manipulate minors who are too young to receive a prison sentence. Last year, SÄPO warned that Iran was using the country’s crime gangs to carry out terror attacks related to the conflict with Israel. The Iranian embassy in Stockholm dismissed the claims at the time as “fake information and propaganda” by Israel. “It becomes a problem for us when another country like Iran uses these children as proxies,” Fredrik Hallström, head of the operations department at the Secret Service, told CNN, describing the Iranian attempts as “murder for hire” or “service for crimes.” Criminal networks linked to Iran have also pressured local criminals in Germany and Greece to attack Jewish targets, including a shul and a Jewish memorial center in Germany and a restaurant and a Jewish center in Greece. (YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)

Today, President Trump declared that his aggressive “reciprocal” tariff policy would be put on hold for 90 days in response to offers from multiple nations. However, tariffs on goods from China would increase to 125% due to what he called a “lack of respect” from Beijing.

“Based on the fact that more than 75 Countries have called Representatives of the United States, including the Departments of Commerce, Treasury, and the [US Trade Representative], to negotiate a solution to the subjects being discussed relative to Trade, Trade Barriers, Tariffs, Currency Manipulation, and Non Monetary Tariffs, and that these Countries have not, at my strong suggestion, retaliated in any way, shape, or form against the United States, I have authorized a 90 day PAUSE, and a substantially lowered Reciprocal Tariff during this period, of 10%, also effective immediately,” Trump stated on Truth Social, causing a surge in Wall Street’s performance.

“Based on the lack of respect that China has shown to the World’s Markets, I am hereby raising the Tariff charged to China by the United States of America to 125%, effective immediately,” Trump continued in his post. “At some point, hopefully in the near future, China will realize that the days of ripping off the U.S.A., and other Countries, is no longer sustainable or acceptable.”

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During an appearance on CNBC’s Squawk Box on Tuesday, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) strongly challenged the idea that America is being taken advantage of in international trade deals simply because it runs a trade deficit. He argued that the entire premise is flawed and reflects a misunderstanding of how trade works.

“I mean, the whole debate is so fundamentally backwards and upside down. It’s based on a fallacy, and the fallacy is this, that somehow, in a trade, someone must lose. That somehow, when you trade with someone, there’s a loser and someone’s taking advantage of you, and China is ripping you off, or Japan is ripping you off. It’s absolutely a fallacy. Every trade that occurs in the marketplace is mutually beneficial,” Paul said.

Explaining his position further, Paul offered a simple analogy to illustrate how voluntary exchange is inherently beneficial to both parties involved.
“If you have a free society and I trade with you, if you want to sell me your coat and I give you $200 for it, we both agree to it and we’re both happy with the trade. No American consumer trades with China. They trade with Wal-Mart or they may buy something from China, but they individually buy something they want and they make a decision. The trade is always a win-win. Now you can artificially do this accounting between countries and say, ‘Oh, trade deficit, look at this trade deficit,’ but I have a trade deficit with my grocery store.”

He continued by pointing out that the concept of a “trade deficit” often distorts the actual value of the transactions taking place, especially when applied to individuals or businesses.
“The people who employ me, if I work for Corvette and they employ me, they have a trade deficit with my labor. They buy my labor and I never buy their cars. So you can have this artificial accounting and it makes it look like a bad thing, but you have to ask yourself, is trade good or bad? And if you look at the trade deficit, in times of a recession the trade deficit goes down. So if the tariffs push us into a recession, we could reduce the trade deficit because we’re all buying less stuff. We have to get back to the fundamentals of, is trade good or is trade bad?”

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By John Nolte, Breitbart

A troubling new study backs up what has become obvious since the November presidential election: the political left is seeking to normalize and use violence to achieve its fascist political goals.

This is also known as terrorism.

The Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) recently issued a new report which “found that a growing number of people are willing to justify and even applaud killing in the name of politics and a warped sense of social justice,” per Fox News. “The chilling change appears to have accelerated in recent months.”

Joel Finkelstein, one of the lead authors of the report, told Fox: “What was formerly taboo culturally has become acceptable [on the left]. We are seeing a clear shift – glorification, increased attempts and changing norms – all converging into what we define as ‘assassination culture.’”

That is the study’s term for it: “assassination culture.”

According to the study, the left’s embrace of violence to achieve a political end began with the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson last December. After Luigi Mangione was arrested and charged with the assassination, the left immediately turned him into a folk hero. There is even a ballot measure in California called the Luigi Mangione Access to Health Care Act.

Finkelstein explained that the Luigi fanboying merely opened the door to this frightening acceptability. The left’s assassination culture has spread ever since.

“It’s not just Luigi anymore,” Finkelstein told Fox. “We’re seeing an expansion: Trump, Musk and others are now being openly discussed as legitimate targets, often cloaked in meme culture and gamified online dialogue.”

This culture can be found primarily in Democrat safe spaces like the X alternative BlueSky.

The most chilling information is found in the NCRI poll of 1,200 adults. A disturbing 48.6 percent of those who self-identify as “left of center” said the murder of Elon Musk is justifiable. That number increased to 55.2 percent for President Trump. When asked if “destroying Tesla dealerships is partially acceptable,” 57.6 percent of leftists said yes.

“BlueSky was modeled as a safe alternative to Twitter for the left, but what it’s become is an extremist platform,” Finkelstein explained.

He clarified: “We are not an anti-free speech organization, but we know what a threat is. And what’s happening online on platforms like BlueSky represents a significant threat to American democratic values.”

Rather than censor this assassination culture, Finkelstein said: “If leaders on the left explicitly condemn these trends and reassert moral norms, they can dismantle this culture quickly.”

And therein lies the problem.

Leading Democrats will never condemn political violence because they approve of political violence that furthers their cause. The corporate media will never pressure Democrats to condemn this violence because the corporate media approve of (and encourage) political violence that furthers the leftist cause.

Between public schooling, a celebrity culture that promotes narcissism as a virtue, not to mention the everybody-gets-a-trophy mindset of entitlement, what we have among us are millions of leftists who cannot psychologically deal with not getting their way.

Donald Trump’s triumphant reelection sent them spinning. To begin with, after railing against anyone who questioned the 2020 presidential election results, the left could not purge their anger by questioning Trump’s victory—something they’ve done to cope with Republican presidential victories for 25 years. There was no Russia Collusion Hoax this time, either.

Add to Trump’s victory how he hit the ground running with executive orders dismantling the corrupt Deep State infrastructure, like USAID, combined with DOGE, and the left now sees (correctly — tee hee) an existential threat to their national power. They also see in Trump someone who has assembled a loyal and capable team immune to the corporate media’s tired emotional blackmail and other tricks.

The result is a leftist meltdown driven by fear and helplessness. But rather than use next year’s midterm elections as a release valve by organizing and making a case for why the public should trust them again with power, the left is seething with rationalizations for violence against their political enemies.

Get out of the blue cities.

Buy guns.

Have nothing to do with affluent white women who vote Democrat.

That’s the only advice you need.

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Over the past day, the IDF says it carried out airstrikes on over 45 targets in the Gaza Strip. The targets included weapons manufacturing sites, primed rocket launchers, buildings used by terror groups, weapon depots, and cells of terror operatives, the military says.

During operations in the West Bank town of Dayr Ibzi’ overnight, the IDF says it demolished the home of a Palestinian gunman who killed a soldier in a sniper attack last year.

Hagaon HaRav David Yosef held a meeting today with the Director of the Mossad, David Barnea. After their the Sephardic Chief Rabbi delivered a special shiur to employees of the Mossad on Hilchos Pesach.

At one of the dozens of Minyanim for Shacharis this morning while driving to Orlando. This Minyan is in Georgia. All these Minyanim are thanks for United95.com, which has an insane WhatsApp community for those making the trip down.

Hamas just released video of the rocket barrage at Ashdod earlier this week which caused extensive damage. The video suggests it was fired from an underground facility.

On Tuesday, undercover and special forces units arrested Mahmoud al-Bana, the long-wanted commander of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, in Shechem, and security camera footage published by residents on Wednesday captured the dramatic event, showing Israeli forces arriving in two vehicles, blocking the area, and opening fire on al-Bana as he attempted to flee, causing him to collapse near a wall.

TEHILLIM: The condition of HaGaon HaRav Meir Mazuz, Rosh Yeshivas Kisei Rachamim, has deteriorated and the public is asked to daven for his refuah. The Rosh Yeshivah’s name for tefilla is *מאיר ניסים בן כמסאנה* b’toch sha’ar cholei Yisrael.

IDF Spokesman in Arabic Avichay Adraee revealed on Wednesday that Hezbollah has been trying in recent months to rebuild an underground weapons production site in the heart of a residential neighborhood in the Dahiah area of southern Beirut. The site is located near a school and under residential buildings, According to Adraee, Israel already conveyed information about Hezbollah’s attempts to rebuild the site to the oversight committee at the beginning of January 2025. As a result, a surprise inspection was carried out at the site, but aerial photos revealed that Hezbollah was tipped off about the date of the inspection and evacuated engineering equipment from the site in advance. It was also reported that after the inspection was completed, the equipment was returned to the site and the construction work resumed, a serious violation of the understandings between Israel and Lebanon as stipulated in the ceasefire agreement. “The IDF is committed to continuing to implement the understandings between Israel and Lebanon, and will continue to act to remove any threat to the State of Israel and to prevent any attempt by Hezbollah to re-establish itself,” the IDF spokesperson said. (YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)

CHUCK SCHUMER: The American people are feeling that Trump is betraying them. CNN: You’ve been in government for more than a quarter century.

During Tuesday night’s episode of CNN’s The Source, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) addressed growing concerns over President Donald Trump’s sweeping new tariffs. When asked whether Democrats missed their chance to reassert congressional control over tariff authority while they held the majority under President Biden, Schumer argued that Congress has always possessed that power and should now act to reclaim it.

“Congress has always had the power to deal with tariffs, and we’ve always had these fights in the past on some of the tariff issues as well. But now that Trump is going so overboard, Congress can, has every legal authority to take those powers back, and that’s what we aim to do,” Schumer said.

Host Brianna Keilar pressed the senator, pointing out how long Congress has historically deferred tariff-setting power to the executive branch. “On the tariff issue, you’ve been in the Senate for more than a quarter-century, and, in that time, Congress has been really willing to delegate tariff power to the president. Should Democrats have reclaimed that power when they had last — the majority? You saw what Trump did in his first term with tariffs,” she asked.

Schumer pushed back, suggesting that although Trump took bold actions during his first term, Democrats were able to limit the impact of those moves. He argued that what’s happening now under Trump’s new plan is far more extreme.

“Well, yeah, but we were able to beat back a lot of what Trump did on tariffs. And nothing is as extensive as this is, over 180 countries affected. Hey, this has been so carelessly done that they’re even taxing — they’re putting tariffs on penguins. There are two islands near Australia –.”

Before he could continue, Keilar interrupted with a follow-up: “I hear what you’re saying, the tariffs are extraordinary now compared to what they were in his first term. But what he did in his first term was also pretty extraordinary. Should Democrats have protected against this?”

Schumer reiterated that legislative authority over tariffs has always rested with Congress and insisted that now is the time to reassert it. He also called on Republicans to break their silence and join Democrats in taking action.

“Congress has always had the power to deal with tariffs, and we’ve always had these fights in the past on some of the tariff issues as well. But now that Trump is going so overboard, Congress can, has every legal authority to take those powers back, and that’s what we aim to do. And we hope our colleagues in the Republican Party, knowing how bad this is, instead of just trembling in their boots because they’re afraid of Trump, join with us and side with the American people.”

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