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Reuters
01-04-2025
- Business
- Reuters
米政権、軍事装備品の輸出規制緩和を計画＝情報筋
［ワシントン １日 ロイター］ - トランプ米政権は、軍事装備品の輸出規制を緩和する大統領令を計画しており、早ければ１日か２日にも発表する可能性がある。複数の情報筋が明らかにした。 政府と産業界の情報筋によると、この大統領令はウォルツ大統領補佐官（国家安全保障担当）が昨年、共和党下院議員だった際に提案した法案に類似したものになるとの見方を示した。 同法案が成立していれば、米武器輸出管理法が改正され、他国への武器輸出に関する議会審査の対象となる下限額が引き上げられることになっていた。武器移転は１４００万ドルから２３００万ドルに、軍事装備やアップグレードおよびその他サービスの販売については５０００万ドルから８３００万ドルへの引き上げが提案されていた。 ホワイトハウス補佐官らはコメント要請に直ちに応じていない。 私たちの行動規範： トムソン・ロイター「信頼の原則」, opens new tab Patricia Zengerle トムソン・ロイター Patricia Zengerle has reported from more than 20 countries, including Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and China. An award-winning Washington-based national security and foreign policy reporter who also has worked as an editor, Patricia has appeared on NPR, C-Span and other programs, spoken at the National Press Club and attended the Hoover Institution Media Roundtable. She is a recipient of the Edwin M. Hood Award for Diplomatic Correspondence. Mike Stone トムソン・ロイター Mike Stone is a Reuters reporter covering the U.S. arms trade and defense industry. Most recently Mike has been focused on how the war in Ukraine has changed the future of war and how industry has adapted, or faltered. Mike, a New Yorker, has extensively covered how the U.S. has supplied Ukraine with wepons, the cadence, decisions and milestones that have had battlefield impacts. Before his time in Washington Mike's coverage focused on mergers and acquisitions for oil and gas companies, financial institutions, defense compnaies, consumer product makers, retailers, real estate giants, and telecommunications companies.
Yahoo
01-04-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
New Jersey senator makes 17-hour speech — without a bathroom break
Credit: C-Span A prominent Democratic senator has been giving a marathon speech to protest the policies of president Donald Trump, speaking for 17 hours and counting without a bathroom break. Cory Booker of New Jersey stood up at 7pm local time (12am UK) on Monday in the Senate and vowed to keep going as long as he was 'physically able'. Mr Booker, 55, has been using his protracted address to take aim at the US president, saying the threats to American democracy were 'grave and urgent'. In a bizarre development, it emerged while he was speaking that one of his staffers was arrested for carrying an unauthorised pistol on the grounds of the US Capitol. Kevin Batts, a special assistant to Mr Booker, was arrested for not having a firearm licence. In a statement, the US Capitol said that Mr Batts was 'led' around security at the US Capitol by a member of Congress. They did not identify who. A spokesperson for Mr Booker told Fox News: 'Senator Booker's office employs a retired Newark police detective as a New Jersey-based driver who often accompanies him to events. We are working to better understand the circumstances around this.' Mr Booker's speech is not considered to be filibuster as he is not preventing a vote on a bill. Watch the speech continue live on the stream below: As he began his speech, Mr Booker said: 'These are not normal times in our nation. 'And they should not be treated as such in the United States Senate. The threats to the American people and American democracy are grave and urgent, and we all must do more to stand against them'. Mr Booker appeared tired but determined to continue after speaking through the night. His Democrat colleagues have been taking the floor at intervals to give him a break from speaking. Mr Booker said: 'Thirteen hours? I got more in the tank'. At around 8am, the Senator told the chamber: 'I'm rip roaring and ready. I'm wide awake. I'm going to stand here for as many hours as I can'. Mr Booker has not left the floor for a break, to sit down or even use the lavatory. This would have allowed the presiding Senate officer to move on to other business. However, Mr Booker still has some way to go to break the record for the longest speech in the Senate. The current record is held by the late South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond, who spoke for 24 hours and 18 minutes in protest of the Civil Rights Act of 1957. Broaden your horizons with award-winning British journalism. Try The Telegraph free for 1 month with unlimited access to our award-winning website, exclusive app, money-saving offers and more.
Yahoo
31-03-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Weeks after giving apparent Nazi salutes on stage Musk claims the left doesn't know what Nazism is
Billionaire Elon Musk has claimed the left 'obviously' do not know what Nazism is, in a speech aired live on C-Span. The Tesla CEO and X owner also said he did not classify himself as right-wing until the left 'went all the way in the other direction.' 'I didn't think of myself as right, I thought of myself as centrist, but then the left went all the way in the other direction, and now everyone's a Nazi,' Musk said. 'I'm like, wait a second, do you know what that means? Obviously not.' His comments follow outrage online and on cable news after he made a salute many people felt was fascist during his speech at the Capitol One Arena to celebrate President Trump's inauguration in January. Musk pounded his chest and shot his right arm out towards the sky while talking about the potential of landing a man on Mars and planting an American flag. He then repeated the gesture towards the American flag above the stage. In response to the backlash, Mr. Musk posted on X, formerly Twitter: 'The 'everyone is Hitler' attack is so tired.' In his recent speech aired on C-Span, the Federal Reserve was not spared either. 'End the fed!' Mr Musk exclaimed with a raised fist when pressed on his thoughts and intentions on the US central banking system. 'I always wanted to say that,' he continued, laughing. 'I think there's like 20,000 people who work at the fed. Pretty high.' 'Why do we have so many people at the fed, and what do they do?' he added. Musk went on to say a Magic-8 ball would win in a competition with the Federal Reserve Board over interest rates. 'I think the Magic-8 ball might win... it's a lot cheaper,' he added before saying what really matters is that government spending is not in excess of revenue. He said the United States's 'fundamental issue' was a $2 trillion deficit and that his 'wake-up call' was knowing interest payments exceeded the entire military budget. 'That's a disaster. The very simple, straightforward role of the DOGE team is to get rid of waste.' The White House has said Musk was appointed as a senior adviser to President Trump but is not technically part of the newly created Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE. His exact role is key in the fight over access to sensitive government data that he has been granted.
The Independent
31-03-2025
- Automotive
- The Independent
Weeks after giving apparent Nazi salutes on stage Musk claims the left doesn't know what Nazism is
Billionaire Elon Musk has claimed the left 'obviously' do not know what Nazism is, in a speech aired live on C-Span. The Tesla CEO and X owner also said he did not classify himself as right-wing until the left 'went all the way in the other direction.' 'I didn't think of myself as right, I thought of myself as centrist, but then the left went all the way in the other direction, and now everyone's a Nazi,' Musk said. 'I'm like, wait a second, do you know what that means? Obviously not.' His comments follow outrage online and on cable news after he made a salute many people felt was fascist during his speech at the Capitol One Arena to celebrate President Trump 's inauguration in January. Musk pounded his chest and shot his right arm out towards the sky while talking about the potential of landing a man on Mars and planting an American flag. He then repeated the gesture towards the American flag above the stage. In response to the backlash, Mr. Musk posted on X, formerly Twitter: 'The 'everyone is Hitler' attack is so tired.' In his recent speech aired on C-Span, the Federal Reserve was not spared either. 'End the fed!' Mr Musk exclaimed with a raised fist when pressed on his thoughts and intentions on the US central banking system. 'I always wanted to say that,' he continued, laughing. 'I think there's like 20,000 people who work at the fed. Pretty high.' 'Why do we have so many people at the fed, and what do they do?' he added. Musk went on to say a Magic-8 ball would win in a competition with the Federal Reserve Board over interest rates. 'I think the Magic-8 ball might win... it's a lot cheaper,' he added before saying what really matters is that government spending is not in excess of revenue. He said the United States's 'fundamental issue' was a $2 trillion deficit and that his 'wake-up call' was knowing interest payments exceeded the entire military budget. 'That's a disaster. The very simple, straightforward role of the DOGE team is to get rid of waste.' The White House has said Musk was appointed as a senior adviser to President Trump but is not technically part of the newly created Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE. His exact role is key in the fight over access to sensitive government data that he has been granted.
Yahoo
27-03-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Marjorie Taylor Greene to UK journalist: ‘Why don't you go back to your country'
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) told a Sky News reporter on Wednesday to 'go back to your country' as she tried to ask about the recent controversy behind a Signal chat with military plans among the Trump administration's national security officials that included a journalist. 'We don't give a crap about your opinion and your reporting. Why don't you go back to your country,' Greene said, pointing at the journalist who said she was from the United Kingdom. C-Span cameras captured the interaction between the lawmaker and the reporter who tried to continue her line of questioning. 'You should care about your own borders. Let me tell you something, do you care about people from your country,' Green continued. 'What about all the women that are raped by migrants, do you care?' In 2022, Greene made similar remarks toward British reporter Siobhan Kennedy, of Channel 4. During the Wednesday interaction, the Georgia representative tried to resolve tensions by calling on an American journalist who redirected her back to the British reporter's inquiry. 'I'm not answering her question because I don't care about her network,' Green said. She then answered a separate question about the lack of operational security in the Signal chat where information about a U.S. airstrike on the Houthis in Yemen was unknowingly disclosed to The Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg. 'You want to know about complete disregard about operational security? You should talk about the Biden administration how they ripped our borders open to terrorists, cartel, child sex trafficking, human trafficking, and drug trafficking across our borders for four years,' Greene said. 'The Trump administration is doing a great job, and I stand by their statements. I stand by their statements. My comment to you is I'm thankful to President Trump that he is leading us out of wars, that he's ending the war in Ukraine where American lives could have been killed if Joe Biden was still president today whether he liked it or not,' she added. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
