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- India Today
Tariffing India won't end Ukraine war: US Democrats Panel says punish Putin
"Tariffing India won't stop Putin," the US House Foreign Affairs Committee of Democrats, the Democratic panel responsible for foreign policy legislation and oversight, said, differing with the Trump administration's 50 per cent tariff move against India, and the warning of secondary tariffs if the Trump-Putin talks in Alaska Democratic panel's remarks come after US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warned that the Trump administration could impose additional secondary tariffs on India, with the final decision depending on the outcome of a meeting between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir panel also said that if President Trump really wanted to stop the Ukraine war, he should punish Putin and provide direct military aid to Kyiv. "Tariffing India won't stop Putin. If Trump really wanted to address Russia's illegal invasion of Ukraine, maybe punish Putin and give Ukraine the military aid it needs. Everything else is smoke and mirrors," the House Foreign Affairs Committee tweeted, sharing a TV statement of Treasury Secretary Bessent, in which he was seen speaking about the possibility of hiking tariffs on to Bloomberg TV on Wednesday, Bessent said the US may impose further secondary sanctions if the talks in Alaska on Friday fail to yield positive results."We've put secondary tariffs on Indians for buying Russian oil. And I could see, If things don't go well, then sanctions or secondary tariffs could go up," Bessent said in an interview to Bloomberg TV.- Ends
Economic Times
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- Economic Times
Washington DC sues Trump, calling police takeover illegal
Washington D.C. is suing Donald Trump over his attempt to control the city's police force, escalating a power struggle. Attorney General Brian Schwalb filed the lawsuit after Trump appointed Terry Cole as "emergency police commissioner." Schwalb aims to block Trump's takeover, calling it illegal. Tired of too many ads? Remove Ads Tired of too many ads? Remove Ads Tired of too many ads? Remove Ads Washington sued Donald Trump on Friday over his attempted takeover of the U.S. capital city's police force, escalating a power struggle between the U.S. president and the city's leadership.D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb filed a lawsuit challenging Trump 's attempt to take control of the district's police force, hours after the Trump administration named Drug Enforcement Administration head Terry Cole as the "emergency police commissioner" in Washington with all the powers of a police said the lawsuit, filed in federal court in Washington, aims to get a ruling that Trump's takeover of the city's police department is illegal. A hearing is scheduled for 2 p.m. EDT (1800 GMT).Abigail Jackson, a White House spokeswoman, said in a statement, "The Trump Administration has the lawful authority to assert control over the D.C. Police, which is necessary due to the emergency that has arisen in our Nation's Capital as a result of failed leadership."The lawsuit came after U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi issued an order late Thursday transferring control of the police department from the city to the DEA's said on Monday he was deploying hundreds of National Guard troops to Washington and temporarily taking over the city's police department to curb what he has depicted as a crime emergency in the U.S. capital, though statistics show incidents of violent crime have dropped. Washington has a population of about 700, part of that action, federal law enforcement agencies, including the FBI, the DEA, and Customs and Border Patrol, have deployed agents to patrol the streets and carry out who has suggested he could take similar actions in other Democratic-controlled cities including New York and Chicago, has sought to expand the presidency in his second term, inserting himself into the affairs of major banks, law firms and elite universities while extracting political and financial order said the city must receive approval from Cole before it can issue any directives to the roughly 3,500-member police force. It also sought to rescind several of the police department's prior directives, including one that addressed its level of involvement with federal immigration enforcement.A Justice Department spokesperson did not have any immediate comment on the lawsuit that described Bondi's actions as a "brazen usurpation of the District's authority over its own government."Schwalb wrote in a social media post on Friday, "This is the gravest threat to Home Rule DC has ever faced, and we are fighting to stop it."The 1973 D.C. Home Rule Act is a federal law that established local self-governance for the District of includes a provision that gives the U.S. president the power to control the D.C. Police in response to "special conditions of an emergency nature" for up to 30 days. The 30-day period can be extended only by a joint resolution of both chambers of the U.S. Congress, something Trump has suggested he might legal experts said Trump has exceeded his authority under the Home Rule Act, arguing the text of the statute does not authorize a complete presidential takeover of the police Banks, a professor of national security law at Syracuse University, said DC's attorney general has "very solid arguments" that Trump has exceeded the authority granted to him by Congress, but the unprecedented nature of Trump's actions makes it difficult to assess what a judge will do."There's no playbook for this," Banks said. "There's no precedent either way."One challenge for Washington's Attorney General is that the U.S. Supreme Court has in some cases endorsed broad assertions of presidential authority."Historically, courts have been very deferential, for better or worse, to presidential declarations of emergency," said Jill Hasday, a University of Minnesota law lawsuit, which names Trump, Bondi, Cole, and others as defendants, intensifies a growing battle over Washington between Bondi and Mayor Muriel Bowser, who have emerged as the public faces of the power political calculus for Bowser, a Democrat, has been complex this year since Trump came to office in has shown a willingness to cooperate with Trump on issues including law and order, as the city is significantly reliant on federal funding. Yet at the same time she wants to show her voters in an overwhelmingly Democratic city that she's upholding liberal values, including opposition to Trump's immigration crackdown. She has criticized the deployment of troops onto Washington's streets, and decried the move to attempt a federal takeover of the city's police move on Thursday appeared designed to show who ultimately is in charge of Washington's law enforcement, which will form the heart of the legal arguments.
Mint
31 minutes ago
- Mint
Chicago Mayor Struggles to Capitalize on Success Fighting Crime
(Bloomberg) -- Chicago is finally getting its crime problem under control, with murders dropping to a decade low, offering a rare piece of good news to Mayor Brandon Johnson. Voters though aren't ready to get behind the beleaguered leader. The first-time mayor has an approval rating of just 26%, with 58% of respondents saying they dislike the way he is handling the job, according to a new poll by the University of Chicago's National Opinion Research Center and the Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation. Johnson's high disapproval rating cuts across all races, ages, income levels and regions of the city, the poll showed. The results come even as Police Chief Larry Snelling has been made significant progress in reducing crime, repeatedly cited as a top concern for residents and businesses alike. Murders fell 32% to 188 in the first half of the year, the lowest in more than a decade. Johnson's office didn't immediately respond to a request for comment. Johnson, a former union organizer who surprised pundits when he beat incumbent Lori Lightfoot in 2023, has struggled to gain support for the policies he ran on. He failed to enact a so-called 'mansion tax' on sales of properties priced at or above $1 million and to gain support from Illinois Governor JB Pritzker to implement a financial transaction tax. He's so far also been unable to new find ways to raise revenue to close a more than $1 billion budget hole forecast for next year. Even in the South Side, where Johnson enjoys his highest approval ratings, 51% of residents still dislike his handling of his job. His performance is in stark contrast to Pritzker's. The billionaire governor, an heir to the Hyatt hotels fortune, has a 64% approval ratings among Chicagoans, according to the poll, which interviewed 1,111 residents between June 23 and July 9 as part of ChicagoSpeaks, a probability-based panel designed to be representative of the city of Chicago household population. The poll has a margin of error of 4.4 percentage points. Pritzker, a Democrat who is widely seen of having White House ambitions, has his highest approval rating of 77% among residents that earn $100,000 or more a year. He still gets high marks from more than 50% of residents earning less than $30,000 a year, the survey showed. 'I find it fascinating that we've got two prominent Democratic politicians that are viewed so dissimilarly by Chicagoans,' said Christopher Berry, faculty director for the Mansueto Institute and associate director of the University of Chicago's Center for Municipal Finance. More stories like this are available on
