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This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in. Many tech leaders tried to get close to Trump after the election, donating to his inaugural fund. One expert told BI that, since then, it’s been a “rocky road”…
It’s a staid and stately room, the New York City Bar Association meeting hall in Midtown Manhattan. The century-old walls are trimmed with red velvet and high Corinthian columns, and famous alumni, including Thurgood Marshall and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, look down from their oil portraits.The hall was far from staid…
President Donald Trump is reviving a program that withholds federal benefits like tax refunds and Social Security from student-loan borrowers in default.Trump’s Department of Education announced on Monday that it will resume collections on defaulted borrowers beginning on May 5. Since March 2020, the department has not collected on defaulted…
President Donald Trump hasn’t been shy voicing his frustrations with Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell.While Trump nominated Powell for the position in 2017, the president has recently accused the Fed leader of “playing politics,” being “always TOO LATE AND WRONG,” and playing into Europe’s hands by not lowering interest rates.…
President Donald Trump said on Sunday that business leaders who oppose his reciprocal tariffs do not appreciate what he is doing for them.”THE BUSINESSMEN WHO CRITICIZE TARIFFS ARE BAD AT BUSINESS, BUT REALLY BAD AT POLITICS,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post on Easter Sunday.”THEY DON’T UNDERSTAND OR REALIZE…
Welcome back to our Sunday edition, where we round up some of our top stories and take you inside our newsroom. Interested in a career pivot? A teacher with no tech experience shared the four résumé tweaks that helped him land a gig at Google.On the agenda today:But first: Back…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Steven Borrelli, founder of Cuts Clothing, in Culver City, California. It’s been edited for length and clarity.I’ve been a consistent supporter of Donald Trump.I supported him in 2016, 2020, and 2024 because I believed he was someone who was pro-business, pro-family…
President Donald Trump’s negotiations to end the Ukraine war are going nowhere. Ukraine is on board, but Russia isn’t.Now, Trump’s top diplomat is signaling he could walk away from the table. It’s a classic dealmaking technique straight out of Trump’s 1987 book, “The Art of the Deal.””We’re not going to…
Gov. Gavin Newsom of California is escalating his war against President Donald Trump’s tariffs.On Wednesday, the governor said his state would sue to immediately block the tariffs, with the high-profile Democrat describing the levies as “unlawful and unprecedented.”The legal action is a dramatic escalation in the relationship between the two…
Airline bosses predicted 2025 would be their best year yet. Then came tariffs.While most industries have been hard hit by Donald Trump’s trade war, airlines face a particularly bumpy ride. Deutsche Bank analysts said last week that the US airline industry “will face an earnings recession in 2025.”After announcing results…
