Kush Desai

White House political staffer

58 stories

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No president has done more to revive American steelmaking than President Trump, whose 50 percent Section 232 tariffs on steel is driving record investments into this key sector. Those tariffs, along with the Administration’s other pro-growth and pro-investment policies, are not going away anytime soon.”
Canada was offered the most generous trade deal of any of America’s trading partners despite being overwhelmingly reliant on access to the American economy, which is over 12-times larger than Canada’s economy,
President Trump has always been clear about temporary disruptions as a result of the Iran conflict, but the Trump administration has remained laser-focused delivering on the president’s long-term economic agenda on the home front.”
The hard data of actual consumer spending and retail sales has remained robust throughout President Trump’s term so far. American consumers remain resilient and are voting with their dollars,
As an MD/PhD who helped President Trump deliver on Operation Warp Speed during his first term, Dr. Heidi Overton will ensure that policymaking is guided solely by Gold Standard Science at the FDA,
Any reporting about personnel decisions that have not been officially announced by the administration should be regarded as baseless speculation,

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High-profile Democrat breaks with party, embraces key pieces of Trump agenda

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A Republican congressional nominee in a closely divided Michigan district deleted social media accounts containing thousands of posts that include a yearslong pattern of inflammatory and conspiratorial rhetoric — including amplifying a post that appeared to raise the possibility of the death penalty for political opponents of President Donald Trump

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White House rebukes CBS interview after host battles NIH director over loss of trust in public health

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It is the second week in a row in which health officials under the Trump administration have become embroiled with reporters over misinformation surrounding the pandemic, which arrived in the United States in early 2020, and ongoing effects of misinformation

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US economy unexpectedly lost 23,000 jobs in July

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If the trend continues, U.S. workers might find themselves squeezed on two fronts — a weakening job market and high inflation from an uncertain geopolitical conflict cutting into paychecks and household budgets.For the Federal Reserve, that combination presents an uncomfortable dilemma

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Wall Street Journal: Trump family ‘cashing in on the presidency in big and sketchy ways’

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The letter stems from a Times story published this week titled "Trump Cut a Billion-Dollar Mining Deal. His Sons Stand to Profit," which ties the elder Trump brothers and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick's sons to a tungsten deal secured by President Donald Trump with Kazakhstan President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev in September 2025

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How Trump is relaunching a tariff war citing ‘forced labour’ concerns

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Trump's April 2025 global tariff rollout marked the largest U.S. tariff hike in decades, delivering on a signature economic promise that higher duties would spark a manufacturing renaissance, bring factory jobs back to the United States and reduce Americans' reliance on foreign goods

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