Trump tariffs: Musk escalates attacks on Navarro saying he’s ‘dumber than a sack of bricks’ – UK Times

The UK should not “jump in with both feet” to retaliate against Donald Trump’s trade tariffs, Sir Keir Starmer has said.

The Prime Minister told a group of senior MPs that he was not open to “trading away” the NHS as part of an economic agreement with the US designed to stave off the impact of import taxes.

Sir Keir was also “very clear” that a digital tax on big tech firms should remain in place, as reports suggested abolishing the levy has been raised during negotiations with the US.

The Prime Minister’s call for a calm approach to US tariffs came as a sense of optimism returned to the financial markets after several days of heavy losses.

The Trump administration is telling the Supreme Court that the courts cannot direct the president’s “foreign policy” decision-making when it comes to sending Kilmar Abrego Garcia out of a Salvadoran prison.

In its brief, the administration repeatedly states Abrego Garcia is a member of MS-13, though there’s no evidence supporting that, and that “the United States has a compelling interest in not having a member of a foreign terrorist organization on U.S. soil, and the public interest strongly favors the exclusion of foreign terrorists from the United States.”

Trump officials have told some government staff that people from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency are using artificial intelligence to surveil the communications of at least one federal agency for negative statements regarding President Donald Trump, two people told Reuters.

Some managers at the Environmental Protection Agency were told by Trump appointees that the Musk staffers were introducing the use of AI to monitor workers, such as by searching for language viewed as critical of Musk or Trump.

On the campaign trail, Trump repeatedly touted the “most beautiful word in the dictionary”: tariff.

Now, as president, he has conjured up a brand new expression for those voicing dissent against his sweeping levies targeting every country – bar Russia – which he imposed last week.

As trillions of dollars are wiped from Wall Street and markets around the globe reel from his tariff onslaught, the president took to Truth Social not to reassure anxious Americans, but to call those with woes a “Panican.”

“Don’t be Weak! Don’t be Stupid! Don’t be a PANICAN,” he wrote Monday.

Adding to his growing list of unique phrases and bizarre nicknames, what exactly is a Panican?

Barney Davis and James Liddell have the answer.

The Supreme Court is temporarily pausing a California judge’s order that requires the administration to reinstate probationary employees at the departments of Agriculture, Defense, Energy, Interior, Treasury, and Veterans Affairs.

The court stated in a short, unsigned order that the nine non-profit organizations that had been granted an injunction following their lawsuit lacked legal standing.

“The District Court’s injunction was based solely on the allegations of the nine non-profit-organization plaintiffs in this case. But under established law, those allegations are presently insufficient to support the organizations’ standing,” the court said.

“This order does not address the claims of the other plaintiffs, which did not form the basis of the District Court’s preliminary injunction,” it added.

The administration is planning a hefty fine for migrants if they refuse to leave the United States after being cleared for deportation, according to a report.

In the latest push as part of Trump’s efforts to achieve the “largest deportation operation” in American history, immigrants will be fined up to $998 a day if they fail to leave the U.S., according to documents obtained by Reuters.

If they don’t pay the fine, their property could be seized, the potential plans say.

“Illegal aliens should use the CBP Home app to self-deport and leave the country now. If they don’t, they will face the consequences. This includes a fine of $998 per day for every day that the illegal alien overstayed their final deportation order,” a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson told The Independent in a statement.

“The safest option for illegal aliens is to self-deport.”

“Aren’t you the ‘Bud Light’s turning my kids trans’ folks?” the Daily Show host asked of Republicans who have suddenly become “philosophical” now that their man is in the White House and inspiring economic turmoil.

Mark Kaye, a guest on the rightwing broadcaster’s morning show Wake Up America had this to say on the president’s incessant golfing during a crisis:

“The big thing I saw was they were all complaining that President Donald Trump was casually playing golf over the weekend.

“Well, when you’re in the middle of a negotiation, you don’t want people to see you stressed out.

“You don’t want them thinking that you’ve made a mistake. So Donald Trump goes, ‘Here’s the deal. It’s Liberation Day, you’re all getting reciprocal tariffs. I’m going to go hit the links.’

“And now all of the other countries realize that Donald Trump is not losing sleep over this, and that they are going to be losing a large portion of their GDP.”

Gustaf Kilander has more.

Here’s Mike Bedigan with the latest on Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s claim that the nations of the world are lining up to strike deals with the administration to sidestep Trump’s grim tariff regime killing off demand for their exports.

The U.S. attorney general, seemingly never off conservative news channels these days, joins in the victory lap over the Supreme Court’s decision to temporarily allow the Trump administration to continue deporting alleged Venezuelan gang members.

“Those inmates, those violent gang members, those violent alien enemies will remain in El Salvador,” Bondi tells Lawrence Jones on Fox and Friends.

“[Judge James Boasberg] cannot get them back, so his jurisdiction is over… going forward, these terrorists better look out.”

Bondi describes the deportees as “terrorists” there but the only supporting evidence that any of the people sent to El Salvador meet that description is a sworn statement from an ICE official who said that the lack of evidence and criminal records involved means that they are terrorists by default.

“While it is true that many of the TdA [Tren de Aragua] members removed under the AEA [Alien Enemies Act] do not have criminal records in the United States, that is because they have only been in the United States for a short period of time,” the agent said.

“The lack of a criminal record does not indicate they pose a limited threat. In fact, based upon their association with TdA, the lack of specific information about each individual actually highlights the risk they pose. It demonstrates that they are terrorists with regard to whom we lack a complete profile.”