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Justices presented sharp questions to the administration’s lawyer over President Trump’s authority to issue tariffs without the participation of Congress. NBC News’ Senior Legal Correspondent explains why a decision on tariffs could come soon.



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Savewith a NBCUniversal ProfileCreate your free profile or log in to save this articleNov. 5, 2025, 7:43 PM ESTBy Peter NicholasWASHINGTON — Ahead of Tuesday’s elections, Donald Trump assured Americans that prices are coming down, the economy is picking up and the nation is flourishing in ways that make it the world’s envy.Voters don’t seem to be buying it.Democrats swept key races, as exit polls depicted an electorate gripped by fears that the U.S. is careening in the wrong direction, far from Trump’s glowing portrait of a nation ascendant.Trump’s argument that he’s making groceries, gas and other ordinary household necessities easier to afford has failed to take hold, the exit survey suggested. On Election Day, he posted that the price of gas was falling to nearly $2 a gallon. (Nationally, the average price is more than $3 a gallon, according to AAA.)“When energy goes down, everything else follows, and it has!!!” Trump wrote on Truth Social.Trump: Not talking about economic wins can lead to doing ‘not so well’ in elections00:56Yet NBC News exit polls showed that most voters in Tuesday’s elections said they were either holding steady or “falling behind” in their personal finances. In both Virginia and New Jersey, the percentage of voters who said they were “falling behind” was about twice that of voters who said they were getting ahead.“I will give the president some credit that inflation has been holding around 2.5%, but people in my district are really struggling,” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., said in an interview. “Rent and home prices continue to go up. The price of food continues to go up.”“Overall,” she added, “the cost of living is a problem and I’ve been talking about this for months. The economy is extremely important, and I think that was a significant factor in the elections.”Georgia — a swing state that Trump won in 2024 but lost in 2020 — is at risk of losing Republican congressional seats in the midterm elections next year, she said.Trump’s electoral strength springs from the emotional bond he forged with working-class voters. He thrilled his supporters in the 2024 election when, in an attempt to troll his opponent Kamala Harris, he doffed his suit jacket, bundled himself in an apron and manned a French fry station at a Philadelphia-area McDonald’s.Now, though, Trump risks appearing detached from the same forgotten slice of the electorate that he successfully mobilized in past elections.He gave a campaign-style speech on the economy on Wednesday, not at a small business or family farm, but at a forum for business leaders in a Miami sports arena. The top ticket package was $10,000; it sold out before the event.Trump seems especially proud of his use of tariffs to juice the economy, frequently touting his trade efforts. By making it more costly to buy goods from overseas, he’s betting that more companies will invest in the U.S., fueling a job boom.But voters don’t seem persuaded. Part of the reason may be muddled messaging, a former White House official said; Trump also uses tariffs as a cudgel against world leaders who defy him, leaving voters confused about how, exactly, tariffs are improving lives at home.“On tariffs, they’ve got to do a better job of messaging why tariffs work for America,” Michael Dubke, White House communications director in Trump’s first term, said in an interview. “Not because they allow him to negotiate and hold foreign powers to account — how do they benefit the average American? And they’ve done a piss-poor job of that and they have to improve it.”Overall, only 34% of registered voters believe the Trump administration has lived up to expectations on the economy, while 63% say it has fallen short, an NBC News poll taken late last month shows.The government shutdown has threatened the social safety net that ensures that millions of Americans don’t go hungry. In a social media post on Tuesday, Trump invoked the food stamp program as leverage in his showdown with Democrats over reopening the government. He wrote that the program, known as SNAP, was bloated and the benefits would be withheld unless Democrats relented and voted to reopen the government. (A White House spokesperson later said that the administration would comply with a court order requiring that benefits be paid out).Trump has visited his golf clubs in West Palm Beach, Florida, and outside Washington, D.C., a total of five times since the shutdown began on Oct. 1. In 2014, a year before he entered the race for president, he posted a note on social media assailing Barack Obama for playing golf despite “all the problems and difficulties facing the U.S.”Last week, Trump returned from a trip to Asia, where foreign leaders, eager to impress the president, lavished him with gifts. Japan’s prime minister, Sanae Takaishi, gave him a gold leaf golf ball, combining two of Trump’s passions.“We didn’t elect the president to go out there and travel the world and end the foreign wars,” Greene said. “We elected the president to stop sending tax dollars and weapons for foreign wars — to completely not engage anymore. And watching the foreign leaders come to the White House through a revolving door is not helping Americans. It’s not reducing the cost of living. It’s doing nothing about health insurance premiums. It’s doing nothing to solve the problems that are really plaguing vulnerable segments of our population, especially young people.”Over the weekend, Trump appeared at a “Great Gatsby”-themed party at his Mar-a-Lago resort, an event that produced a viral video of a partially dressed woman dancing in an oversized martini glass. Guests mingled at the oceanside estate — some in Roaring ‘20s attire — at a time when many furloughed federal employees are working without pay.“Somebody wasn’t thinking very clearly when they scheduled the Mar-a-Lago party,” Newt Gingrich, a former House speaker and Trump ally, said in an interview. “I’ll leave it at that.”A senior White House official, speaking on condition of anonymity, dismissed criticism of the party.“It’s a Halloween party,” the official said. “We aren’t supposed to celebrate Halloween?”The official also noted that the traveling press pool was invited in to view the party, demonstrating that no one was trying to hide it.In recent months, Trump has appeared focused on White House décor and ending foreign wars. He’s made no secret that he’d like to win the Nobel Peace Prize next year, an honor denied to him in October. But his party’s political fate may hinge instead on pocketbook issues like the cost of groceries, gas and health insurance.The Democrats’ sweeping victory on Tuesday may have made an impression on Trump and his GOP allies, who must retain control of Congress next year for their agenda to advance.On Wednesday, Trump posted on Truth Social that “affordability is our goal.” That was the second time in two days he’d mentioned the word “affordability” — and only the fourth time he’d used the word in his social media posts since the start of his second term on Jan. 20.“We need to keep fighting for lower interest rates, for less government spending and for prices to continue to go down — whether it’s gasoline or food or utilities,” John McLaughlin, a Trump pollster, said in an interview. “We have to fight for those things and point out that Democrats are on the other side. So, we’ve got a lot of work to do.”Peter NicholasPeter Nicholas is a senior White House reporter for NBC News.Garrett Haake, Megan Shannon and Sarah Dean contributed.
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Savewith a NBCUniversal ProfileCreate your free profile or log in to save this articleOct. 9, 2025, 5:15 AM EDT / Updated Oct. 9, 2025, 9:34 AM EDTBy Alexander Smith and Freddie ClaytonPresident Donald Trump’s announcement that Israel and Hamas have agreed to the first phase of a ceasefire deal was widely welcomed Thursday by world leaders, the families of hostages and Palestinians who have endured more than two years of war.But huge questions remain about whether Trump’s 20-point plan can successfully resolve the long-term future of the Gaza Strip, with uncertainty over its directive for Hamas to disband, as well as the governance of the shattered enclave.The plan, which was mediated by Qatar, Turkey and Egypt, will also need formal agreement at 5 p.m. local time Thursday (10 a.m. ET) by Israel’s government, an Israel official briefed on the matter told NBC News. That does not appear a sure thing, with Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich vowing to vote against it.A spokesperson for the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that a ceasefire would then take effect 24 hours after the Cabinet had agreed the deal and hostages would be released after 72 hours. Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks to President Donald Trump during a roundtable discussion in the State Dining Room of the White House on Wednesday.Anna Moneymaker / Getty ImagesTrump said in a social media post Wednesday that the sides had taken the “first steps toward a strong, durable, and everlasting peace,” calling it “a GREAT Day for the Arab and Muslim World, Israel, all surrounding nations, and the United States of America.”Among those to welcome the announcement was United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, who urged “all concerned to abide fully by the terms of the agreement” and described it as a “momentous opportunity” to recognize “the right to self-determination of the Palestinian people.”Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas “praised the great efforts made by President Trump and all mediators to reach this agreement.”Palestinians celebrate the news in Khan Younis, Gaza, on Thursday.AFP via Getty ImagesIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he had “a very moving and warm conversation” with Trump in which they “congratulated each other on the historic achievement of signing the agreement to release all the hostages,” his office said in a statement.”If indeed this deal can hold, it’ll bring in an era of peace that we haven’t seen now in the Middle East for several years, ever since that terrible attack on Oct. 7,” Col. Steve Warren, former principal deputy chief of public affairs at the Pentagon, told NBC News on Wednesday.Celebrations and cautious optimismThe announcement came after indirect talks involving Israel, Hamas and Steve Witkoff, U.S. ambassador at large, and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner. Trump announced the breakthrough one day after the second anniversary of the Hamas-led Oct. 7 attack on Israel, in which 1,200 were killed and another 250 were kidnapped, and the start of Israel’s war on Gaza in which more than 67,000 people — mostly women and children — have been killed, according to local health officials.While many governments defended Israel’s initial right to respond to the attack, the scale of civilian death and suffering wrought by its war have drawn increasing international condemnation and isolation for the Jewish state. Last month, the United Kingdom became the latest Western nation to recognize Palestine as a state, joining a majority of countries that now do so worldwide.What happens next in Israel-Hamas ceasefire process?01:58Much of Gaza is now a rubble-strewn wasteland, with most of its buildings damaged or destroyed, according to the U.N. And the world’s leading body on hunger, Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, has declared that a famine is now playing out inside the cramped territory.Israel’s military operation has been deemed a genocide by a U.N. commission of inquiry, the world-leading International Association of Genocide Scholars, and human rights groups such as Amnesty International. Israel denies the charge, saying it is only attempting to destroy Hamas, which it blames for putting Palestinians in harm’s way.After news arrived that the first ceasefire phase had been agreed to, some Palestinians on the ground inside Gaza were celebrating — cheering, dancing and singing, video showed.The first phase of Trump’s deal would see the return of the remaining 48 hostages, around 20 of whom are believed to be alive, while the Israeli military said it was poised to withdraw from Gaza to an agreed-upon line.There were celebrations in “Hostages Square” in Tel Aviv early Thursday, the culmination of two years in which families and friends of the remaining captives have angrily campaigned for their government to prioritize their loved ones over the continuation of the conflict.Relatives of Israeli hostages celebrate in Tel Aviv after the announcement Thursday that Israel and Hamas had agreed to the first phase of a peace plan.Emilio Morenatti / APThey could be heard in video chanting “Nobel prize to Trump” — a reference to Trump’s long-standing ambition to win the Nobel Peace Prize, which is being announced Friday.The Hostages and Missing Families Forum, which represents the families of Israeli hostages, said its members were feeling “a mix of excitement, anticipation, and concern” at the news. It expressed its “profound gratitude to President Trump and his team for the leadership and determination that led to this historic breakthrough: an end to the war and a comprehensive agreement to return all the hostages.”Ruby Chen, father of hostage Itay Chen, a U.S.-Israeli dual citizen, said on “Stay Tuned NOW” that while he shared this cautious hope, the captors had not “provided any sign of life” for his son.Lasting agreement unclearWhile Hamas has agreed to participate in the hostage and prisoner exchange, it has not said it will disarm and disband — a key stipulation of Trump’s proposal. The first phase also does not address Gaza’s medium- and long-term future. Trump’s plan says the enclave should be temporarily governed by a “technocratic, apolitical Palestinian committee” overseen by a “Board of Peace” led by Trump and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair. That is until the Palestinian Authority, the chief political organ in the region, can be “reformed.”The Israel Defense Forces said it was moving to “adjusted deployment lines soon” but warned that parts of Gaza were “still considered a dangerous combat zone” and that its troops were “deployed and operating anywhere in the Strip.”Israel shattered the previous ceasefire — which lasted from Jan. 19 to March 18 — by launching a barrage of deadly airstrikes that killed hundreds of Palestinians across the Gaza Strip, ending two months of relative calm and plunging Gaza into a renewed humanitarian crisis. Israel blamed Hamas for the resumption of hostilities, citing the militant group’s refusal to meet Israel’s demand to release more hostages.Alexander SmithAlexander Smith is a senior reporter for NBC News Digital based in London.Freddie ClaytonFreddie Clayton is a freelance journalist based in London. 
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Oct. 21, 2025, 1:30 AM EDTBy Arata Yamamoto and Jennifer JettTOKYO — Lawmakers in Japan elected hardline conservative Sanae Takaichi as prime minister on Tuesday, making her the first woman in modern times to lead the key U.S. ally. Takaichi, 64, the new leader of the governing Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), was elected by lawmakers in the lower house of parliament by a vote of 237-149 over her closest rival, Yoshihiko Noda, leader of the liberal opposition Constitutional Democratic Party. She was also elected by upper house lawmakers in a second vote of 125-46 after falling one vote shy of a majority in the first round.Though her election is a milestone in a country where women are severely underrepresented in government, Takaichi enters office with a fragile coalition and facing a number of pressing challenges, including a visit next week by President Donald Trump. A protege of assassinated former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Takaichi advocates a stronger military, tougher immigration policies and the revision of Japan’s pacifist constitution. She is a veteran politician who has served as minister of economic security, internal affairs and gender equality. Earlier this month Takaichi was elected leader of the LDP, which has governed Japan almost uninterrupted since World War II, after running unsuccessfully in 2021 and 2024. Her ascension to prime minister was thrown into doubt, however, after a crucial partner, the centrist party Komeito, left the LDP coalition.To ensure her victory, the LDP signed a deal on Monday with the Osaka-based Japan Innovation Party, or Ishin, that will pull its coalition further to the right.Even with the alliance, Takaichi faces an uphill battle in parliament, where she falls short of a majority in both houses after the LDP suffered major losses in recent elections amid voter anger over party corruption scandals and the rising cost of living.“She emerges from this a diminished leader from the get-go,” said Jeff Kingston, a professor of Asian studies and history at Temple University’s Japan campus.Takaichi also faces an early test next week with the arrival of Trump, who is making his first trip to Asia since returning to office. He is expected to visit Malaysia and Japan before continuing on to South Korea, which is hosting a major summit of Asia-Pacific economies. “She doesn’t have a whole lot of time to get ready for a slew of diplomatic activity,” Kingston said. “But I think job one is the Japanese economy.”Arata Yamamoto reported from Tokyo, and Jennifer Jett from Hong Kong.Arata YamamotoArata Yamamoto has been an NBC News producer in Tokyo since 1993.Jennifer JettJennifer Jett is the Asia Digital Editor for NBC News, based in Hong Kong.
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