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Florida Democratic Rep. Maxwell Alejandro Frost bashed the “oligarchs” at DC rally.

“This insidious rise of authoritarianism is fueled by corrupt billionaires and mega-corporations who believe they have the right to control every aspect of our lives,” together with well being care, speech, and ideas, he mentioned.

The folks want to make use of the ability they’ve to face as much as this agenda, Frost mentioned. “We need to use everything in our toolbox,” he advised the group, like mutual help, legislative technique and assets.

The rightwing “movement is run by fear, trying to put us against one another,” the Congressman mentioned.

“We know the system is rigged…But it’s rigged for the billionaires and for the corporations,” he added. “They tell us immigrants are stealing our jobs but they’re the ones shipping jobs overseas and hiring corporate lawyers to union bust. They tell us that transpeople are a threat to our children but they’re the ones dismantling public education.”

He added: “We’re in this situation not because of our neighbors. I promise you, your bank account looks a lot more like your trans neighbors and your immigrant neighbors and nothing like Elon Musk.”

“No moral person wants an economy-crushing dictator who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing,” Raskin mentioned.

His feedback come at some point after Wall Street ended a traditionally unhealthy week, with the Dow closing Friday down greater than 2,000 factors. Investors appeared spooked by Trump’s sweeping tariff plan, which he unveiled on what he calls “Liberation Day.”

As enterprise leaders know, Raskin advised the DC crowd, “There is no prosperity with stupid trade wars against the whole world. There’s no prosperity with stock market collapse and mass unemployment. There’s no future with presidents who have the politics of Mussolini and the economics of Herbert Hoover.”

Maryland Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin took the stage in Washington, D.C. on Saturday afternoon on the “Hands Off” rally on the National Mall.

“Let the scientists do their jobs!” Raskin shouted to the group. “The great thing about science is that it’s true whether or not the secretary of Health and Human Services believes in it…Hands off science!”

He mentioned Americans have the precise to protest, to learn the books they need, and to name the president “deranged for crashing the economy…and for turning my 401k into a 201k.”

Demonstrators, holding up a wide range of colourful indicators, cheered as Raskin spoke.

“Hands off Greenland — that’s an independent country! Hands off Canada— that’s an independent country! Hands off Panama — that’s an independent country!” the Congressman mentioned, earlier than advocating for statehood for DC.

Raskin additionally talked about Trump and his allies’ requires impeachment towards judges and the numerous preliminary injunctions that federal judges throughout the nation have issued “against this lawlessness,” he mentioned, calling for “hands off the court!”

“Bring him back!” demonstrators chanted as he then pivoted to the Maryland man who was deported to an El Salvador jail. A decide; a federal decide Friday ordered he be returned again to the U.S. this month.

The White House introduced that President Donald Trump received the second spherical of the Senior Club Championship at his golf membership in Jupiter, Florida as nationwide demonstrations opposing his administration erupt.

“The President won his second round matchup of the Senior Club Championship today in Jupiter, FL, and advances to the Championship Round tomorrow,” the White House mentioned in an announcement.

Days after Sen. Chuck Grassley, a Republican, and Sen. Maria Cantwell, a Democrat, unveiled a invoice that may require congressional approval of unilateral tariffs proposed by the manager department, a Republican Congressman reportedly mentioned he’s planning on introducing a House model.

One day after Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariff plan rollout, the Senators launched the Trade Review Act of 2025, which goals to “restore Congress’ constitutionally authorized role in setting and approving U.S. trade policy.”

Now, Politico experiences, Nebraska Rep. Don Bacon is planning to introduce a companion invoice in a blow to Trump from inside his personal occasion.

Bacon’s plans got here because the inventory market suffered a traditionally unhealthy week, with the Dow closing on Friday down 2,231 factors.

Sir Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron spoke on Saturday and agreed to maintain all choices on the desk as they plot a response to Donald Trump’s common tariffs.

The prime minister and French president mentioned a commerce warfare could be “in nobody’s interests” however mentioned “nothing should be off the table” in combating the U.S. president’s damaging measures.

The pair additionally mentioned they’d issues in regards to the world financial and safety affect of Trump’s levies, “particularly in South East Asia”.

It comes as Sir Keir stays holed up chatting with world leaders this weekend, looking for to construct nearer ties with non-U.S. allies because the commerce warfare escalates.

Ariana Baio experiences from New York.

More than 500 regulation companies have signed a courtroom transient denouncing Donald Trump’s concentrating on of Perkins Coie and different companies, expressing alarm over the Republican president’s intensifying crackdown on the authorized occupation.

Law companies signed the transient that was filed on Friday with Washington-based U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell on the danger of drawing the ire of Trump and his administration. Among the 504 that signed had been Arnold & Porter, Davis Wright Tremaine and Fenwick & West, although most of the largest companies didn’t be a part of.

“Although we do not take this step lightly, our abiding commitment to preserving the integrity of the American legal system leaves us no choice but to join together,” the transient mentioned.

The submitting backed a lawsuit that Perkins Coie, a agency based in Seattle, filed on March 11 to dam Trump’s govt order issued towards the agency over its variety insurance policies and its prior authorized work for the marketing campaign of Democrat Hillary Clinton, his opponent within the 2016 presidential election.

“The looming threat posed by the executive order at issue in this case and the others like it is not lost on anyone practicing law in this country today: any controversial representation challenging actions of the current administration (or even causes it disfavors) now brings with it the risk of devastating retaliation,” the “friend of the court” transient mentioned.

The White House has defended Trump’s directives as lawful acts of presidential energy.

Auto large Jaguar Land Rover introduced it was pausing shipments from the UK to the US because it contemplates easy methods to navigate Trump’s 25 % tariffs on foreign-made automobiles.

“As we work to address the new trading terms with our business partners, we are taking some short-term actions, including a shipment pause in April, as we develop our mid- to longer-term plans,” the corporate mentioned in an announcement to Reuters.

Trump’s tax on imported automobiles went into impact on April 3, a day after what he referred to as “Liberation Day,” when he unveiled across-the-board tariffs.

The automaker’s announcement comes days after Stellantis, proprietor of Jeep, Chrysler, and Dodge, mentioned it will be halting its manufacturing at two factories in Mexico and Canada as a result of 25 % tax.

The firm additionally introduced it will be quickly shedding 900 US workers because of this.