President Trump, and the economy, face a consequential week, as the president’s promised reciprocal tariffs are slated to go into effect on Wednesday.
Trump will announce the details of his so-called “Liberation Day” in the Rose Garden, press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Monday. They’re expected to include sweeping reciprocal tariffs on other nations with duties on U.S. goods. Two days later, the March jobs report is released, which is expected to reflect broad federal job reductions.
On Capitol Hill, Congress returns. The Senate is expected to work on getting the budget resolution to the floor. On the House side, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) will go head-to-head with Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) and her effort to allow proxy voting for new mothers, which Johnson opposes.
A new book, “Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House” from The Hill senior political correspondent Amie Parnes and NBC News senior national politics reporter Jonathan Allen, details the tension surrounding the transition from former President Biden to Vice President Harris as the 2024 Democratic nominee. The Hill has exclusive excerpts, ahead of the book’s release on Tuesday.
Republicans, meanwhile, are training their attention on Florida, where a pair of special elections will determine not only their margin of majority in the House but will indicate if discontent with the GOP has taken root since Election Day in November.
And in Wisconsin, the state’s Supreme Court majority hangs in the balance of the election there on Tuesday. Elon Musk campaigned for the conservative in the race, Brad Schimel, on Sunday night.
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