Monday, April 7, 2025

Week 15: April 8, 2025 -- April 14, 2025

Locator: 48439TOPSTORY.

President Trump has been in office for only 77 days (or thereabouts)

Top stories:

  • US Supreme Court temporarily allows President Trump to continue with Venezuelan deportations
  • US military to take control of southern border; Trump to establish new military installation on Roosevelt Reservation, stretching from California to Texas. 
  • Federal judge strikes down long-standing “practice” in which houses of worship were sanctuaries for criminal, undocumented fugitives.

Inflation: expected to surge later this year, but most recent report --


Latest GDP 1Q25 estimate: - 2.4. GDPNow.

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Top Stories

Geoff Simon's quick connects.

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The First 100 Days
January 20, 2025 - April 30, 2025

Twelfth Week Of President Trump's Presidency

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The Top Stories

Most important story of the week:

  • US equity market continues to be very volatile; in / near bear market status.

Top stories of the week:

  • Trump tariffs:
  • China - US tariffs probably at highest level -- at / near 130%
  • rest of Trump's tariffs, with some exceptions, delayed for 90 days
Top international non-energy story:
  • Trump puts Mexico on notice -- Mexico has been guilty for years not abiding by water treaty along the southern border.

Top international energy story:


Top national non-energy stories:

  • Florida takes the NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship — Gator Nation
  • Trump administration: all folks in this country illegally must register with the federal government; courts agree;
  • US House passes voting rights law: proof of citizenship required; those currently on voter rolls not affected 
  • US Senate confirms Trump-nominated Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff; getting ready to confirm Trump-nominated Secretary, US Air Force
  • Trump fires Commander, Space Command, for e-mail suggesting she's not on board with administration regarding Greenland
  • Headquarters, Space Command, likely to move from Colorado to Huntsville, Alabama
  • California in dire financial straits; Medi-Cal way over budget; up to 50% of Medi-Cal funds come from federal government
  • state of Maine defying Title IX, protecting women athletes; DOJ actively involved
  • administration revokes visas for all Sudanese in US: affects ~ 100,000 non-citizen Sudanese
  • administration ends temporary protection for Afghans and Cameroonians; affects ~ 10,000; on track for deportation over next two months;
  • all illegal immigrants residing in US must register with US government; again, courts agree; 
  • Trump administration cancels social security numbers "illegally" given to non-citizens by Biden administration; the multi-stage plan has already wiped out more than 6,300 numbers given to migrants with criminal records, terrorist affiliations, or cancelled visas.
  • Trump administration supposedly looking at federal oversight of Columbia University;
  • administration continues to withhold millions of federal dollars for elite colleges over issue of mismanagement / failure of anti-Semitic efforts.

Top national energy story:

  • Secretary Interior: oil and gas reserves estimate revised upward -- significantly
  • massive solar farm in Texas panhandle meets another milestone -- one million solar panels installed; once complete will provide upwards of 600 MW of electricity

Focus on fracking: current link here. Generally updated late Sunday night.

Top North Dakota non-energy story:


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