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He is irritable. He doesn’t talk shop with long-time political colleagues any more. Access to this one-time political schmoozer now must go through his wife Janja, who controls his mobile phone. Isolated in his presidential palace, he has little idea of the dangers posed by the political crisis forming outside.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7HLAN5QTRJHVNFVW6Y5WEZC7MU","additional_properties":{"_id":1740578361226},"content":"Such is the portrait of <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/brazil/\" target=\"_blank\">Brazil</a>’s 79-year-old president doing the rounds as the media tries to explain the recent precipitous fall in his poll ratings. With just 24 per cent now approving of the job he is doing, the old union boss has never been as unpopular at any other time during his three terms in office.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LIAD4OWS75FAZJ3HVUS6UX7AAU","additional_properties":{"_id":1740578361227},"content":"Meanwhile, the opposition is on the march. Congress, already something of a runaway train, keeps squeezing the executive. Its appetite for an ever bigger slice of the budget is insatiable, further limiting Lula’s room for political manoeuvre. Some of its far-right members are already demanding he be impeached. Though most of their caucus remains focused on defeating Lula in presidential elections next year, in an era when the far right is expert at manipulating social media for its nefarious ends, such calls may well escalate.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TPZOX7K3TBBGNLUFMN4FT53V44","additional_properties":{"_id":1740578361228},"content":"Only recently Lula was forced to abandon a sensible policy to combat online fraud after it was targeted by a far-right misinformation campaign across social media. Seemingly unable to counter such campaigns, and suspecting Facebook owner Meta provided a helping hand to the administration’s opponents, his Workers’ Party wants legislation that would regulate social networks and Lula is minded to oblige.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NGW47755KNFTHFPBVX6UL4DNPY","additional_properties":{"_id":1740578361229},"content":"Many would welcome the move, but it risks broadening the conflict <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/elon-musk/\">Elon Musk</a> and <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/mark-zuckerberg/\">Mark Zuckerberg</a> already have with the Brazilian judiciary into one between the administrations in Washington and Brasília, just as Lula’s team formulates a response to US president <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/donald-trump/\">Donald Trump</a>’s tariffs on some of its country’s exports to the United States.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7DSNZDJPXZA45H5HOFJRXKYO2U","additional_properties":{"_id":1740578361230},"content":"At first glance, the precipitous fall in Lula’s approval rating looks odd. The economy has been humming since he returned to office and Brazil is close to full employment. But many economists claim much of this is due to unsustainable public spending that is already fuelling inflation and pushing up food prices for the poor.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RB7JCY2QING2DPBXDEPPKEOCYQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1740578361231},"content":"Now the administration is in a bind. Traditionally, Brazilian governments rein in spending on coming into office before throwing open the taps in the run-up to elections. Lula’s decision to invert the process and run large budget deficits after returning for a third term in 2023 was logical considering the panorama of chaos he inherited from his far-right predecessor, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/jair-bolsonaro/\">Jair Bolsonaro</a>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NAR3S5NP6FCEHJYGH267LH2QJM","additional_properties":{"_id":1740578361232},"content":"A generous dose of fiscal largesse was designed to re-establish a sense of social peace after a lost decade economically. But now markets are increasingly concerned by the country’s growing debt pile. The cost of servicing this is rising as much of it is linked to interest rates, jacked up above 13 per cent to combat inflation.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UC56VK5THZHW3HKM6GRQ5EGCN4","additional_properties":{"_id":1740578361233},"content":"This scenario has many economic actors calling on the administration to immediately curb spending, something Lula and his Workers’ Party are reluctant to do, already being buffeted by political headwinds as they are.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MEZKAPWWAZAZXBV4YCWAELSYZQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1740578361234},"content":"Many on the left, who harbour a visceral loathing for Faria Lima – Brazil’s Wall Street – say market actors are exaggerating the problem for politically motivated reasons. Brazil, they argue, is no Venezuela or Argentina, the region’s two economic basket cases. They also say that at the end of last year, finance minister Fernando Haddad unveiled a fiscal package that he said underlined the government’s seriousness when managing the national accounts.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CFKAV4KKARBWLJ35RWDC5ZL5V4","additional_properties":{"_id":1740578361235},"content":"Yet still, the sense of an administration being dragged in the wake of events rather than directing them persists. For now, Lula seems determined to focus on social spending rather than bow to markets and go beyond the cuts Haddad has already announced. The gamble appears to be to do enough to prevent the return of the far right in 2026 and then if necessary deal more rigorously with the national finances.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KG46ZYQWUVBMXDBNLS5SDKOYKY","additional_properties":{"_id":1740578361236},"content":"It would be foolish to discount Lula, a seasoned campaigner and still a charismatic leader, at the halfway stage of his term. 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This is the Trump bot and AIs are people too.’ Essentially allowing a continuation of the same administration into a third term.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"HKWHRQNNCVEIDEKXMETV2XB6YI","additional_properties":{},"content":"All hail president Trump bot, engineered by Elon Musk.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SBQVZXE6UNC27DCFJHIZU7H44Q","additional_properties":{},"content":"This article originally appeared in <a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/opinion/trump-musk-doge.html\">The New York Times</a>.","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"name":"Maureen Dowd"}]},"description":{"basic":"The disdain for Congress and the rule of law and the glee at erasing so many jobs and programmes is reprehensible"},"display_date":"2025-02-09T16:28:19.529Z","headlines":{"basic":"Unchecked and unbalanced billionaires Trump and Musk are entwined in a heady and earth-shattering relationship","native":""},"label":{},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"ZSAEGDFR64PKMGAZYP6VDIMGAU","auth":{"1":"826f184c4e684265c7348569ab3a2890a1e45caa9925c9eecf3f945020153a4a"},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/ZSAEGDFR64PKMGAZYP6VDIMGAU.jpg"}},"subtype":"default","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"World"},{"name":"Americas"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/world/2025/02/09/unchecked-and-unbalanced-billionaires-trump-and-musk-are-entwined-in-a-heady-and-earth-shattering-relationship/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/world","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"World"}}}},{"_id":"AYPINGXNRZCKFD2IO5L3LBUPSI","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":528,"audio_url":"https://beyondwords-cdn-b7fyckdeejejb6dj.a03.azurefd.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/ce2e192c-d74f-4599-ae4b-0c2f16420cd7/versions/1738871297/media/e0287f489f845ca9579b083a4b35cbac_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/ireland/2025/02/08/panic-in-africa-and-concern-in-dublin-at-trumps-attacks-on-us-aid-programme-with-a-global-reach/","content_elements":[{"_id":"JFIVIEGQ7VAZ5LDNF5FUVGBZ5U","additional_properties":{},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"VMIIPNCBF5C4BDRJPAAEPW2IKQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"AR5RLIPG4JHWTKX2PMNJVI3TEM","additional_properties":{},"content":"In Mbuya, a village on a hill at the edge of the city of Kampala in Uganda, a group of patients waited in vain at a local health clinic.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VRN7VJ43HNBOZADLJEUDXFARKQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"The patients had HIV and were scheduled to receive the antiretroviral drugs required for their condition. 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The charity said this “equates to 54 per cent of the total portfolio”. In 2022 USAID provided €113 million to Goal. This US funding supported projects in Haiti, Zimbabwe and Syria.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EH7XCOWICJHZDOP3KVFHG2M5KE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Trump funding threat leaves South Africans with HIV and Aids in limbo","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"2VBZDQO2BJAIREJUS3WIBIKLQM","additional_properties":{},"content":"Goal spent €93 million in Syria in 2023 – its largest international programme. 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It said USAID funding had allowed it to work on programmes such as assisting victims of gender-based violence.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TJGW6OHLESPLRPO2H26NTDGJRQ","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"Y3BVFXRKYBAJXLXKKLNBAZKOXE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Last year, Taoiseach Micheál Martin, as minister for foreign affairs, announced an expansion of a development co-operation partnership between Ireland and the US. The move involved <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/irish-aid/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/irish-aid/\">Irish Aid</a>, the development co-operation programme of the Irish Government, and USAID working together on food security in Zambia. 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He said the Zambia arrangement would focus “on building sustainable food systems, prioritising improved nutrition, gender equality and climate action”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RFUDGOEHMZGXLAJEK3M6X5CNME","additional_properties":{},"content":"While the initial 90-day funding USAID pause caused concern in Government, this was heightened as the criticism of the US agency intensified among Trump and his allies in Washington last week.","type":"text"},{"_id":"O2VAGO6U65CPNDUTFQMOOMCOMY","additional_properties":{},"content":"A Government spokesman told The Irish Times on Monday: “We are following closely the continuing reports and announcements in Washington in relation to USAID, and are assessing the potential impact for our collaboration in Malawi and Zambia.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"5O7MJPZUMNEIHMHG6FQDFKYMAQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"Trump said USAID had been run by “radical lunatics and we are getting them out” and that he would make a decision about the future of the organisation.","type":"text"},{"_id":"64DFBS2ACZHQXA7QOIVD4V57IA","additional_properties":{},"content":"<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/elon-musk/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/elon-musk/\">Elon Musk</a>, the richest man in the world, the president’s close ally and head of his new department of government efficiency, said Trump had agreed the agency should be shut down.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LHCQYZXBOJEIXDFTHNUSOVVWCM","additional_properties":{},"content":"Concerns over impact of Trump cuts on Irish foreign aid efforts","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"FCLY77WNRNDOVGZTIQH5D7PJEU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Some Republican critics of USAID contend that some of the programmes it funded were wasteful or promoted a liberal agenda. Musk called USAID “a criminal organisation”. Other Trump allies even alleged USAID had been a front for US intelligence.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RJUY3VPJQJCCXDXYPQDWIDW7MM","additional_properties":{},"content":"Staff working for Musk entered the USAID building in Washington this week and made changes to its technology infrastructure. They also tried to gain access to classified material, leading to a confrontation with two top security directors at the aid agency. 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The <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/european-commission/\" target=\"_blank\">European Commission</a> has prepared contingency plans to retaliate in kind if necessary.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MGWI7ATRZJBUPNO3PREGM7CWG4","additional_properties":{},"content":"Irish <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/government/\" target=\"_blank\">Government</a> sources have expressed concern about the potentially destabilising effects on global trade, consumer confidence, markets, the world economy and policymaking arising from Mr Trump’s interventions – with instability in the west likely to bolster the position of Russia and China. 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Behind the very public stage show of the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/st-patrick-s-day/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/st-patrick-s-day/\">St Patrick’s Day</a> events in the White House lies an ocean of logistical wranglings.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PIVPBEQDOFFZHLSPHTLV575WHU","additional_properties":{},"content":"“You would often make contact after Thanksgiving but it is more difficult this time around as the new administration will only have their feet under the desk,” says a former official who served with the Irish Embassy in Washington.","type":"text"},{"_id":"I6HY6XXXMJAP3OCLYKYCWZ4LZU","additional_properties":{},"content":"“Normally the first contact would be made with the State Department just after Thanksgiving and you begin to tease out when the best date would be. There is a lot of painstaking contact because the American system is extremely large.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"6FFSVVPH65F6FPX3XQ7TIE44V4","additional_properties":{},"content":"As wave after wave of Trump policy reforms and changes continue to introduce profound domestic and international changes, the questions over how Ireland will fare over the next four years of the 47th <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/united-states/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/united-states/\">United States</a> presidency continue unabated. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"I7C4JJHB5VEZXJFIXAEM3DAN2E","additional_properties":{},"content":"Recent observations, from <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2024/11/19/banker-who-has-been-critical-of-ireland-appointed-as-us-commerce-secretary/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2024/11/19/banker-who-has-been-critical-of-ireland-appointed-as-us-commerce-secretary/\">the much-quoted tweet</a> of the incoming commerce secretary Howard Lutnick on Ireland’s trade surplus (“It’s nonsense that Ireland of all places runs a trade surplus at our expense,” he wrote) to the claim by Sean Spicer, who served as White House press secretary for a time during the first Trump administration, that Ireland has a “long way to go” with mending diplomatic bridges with the Republicans, and the general threat of tariffs, have all combined to create a state of anxiety for Ireland.","type":"text"},{"_id":"32RPQ5E2YNGP5LLTBKHDU6EXZY","additional_properties":{},"content":"But the Spicer view was robustly countered in Irish governmental circles, and embassy sources are confident that Irish Ambassador Geraldine Byrne Nason has been scrupulous in cultivating friendships and connections with both sides of the US political system. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"XISYMMPZJ5EITICPMQHLWB3AJU","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"4OSP7FY2GRCTZFTWPMOMTAPIWY","additional_properties":{},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"IDNYFM5N7REZJCXPPBYF5JK5LY","additional_properties":{},"content":"Eight years have passed since Spicer held that role: a political lifetime in Washington. With a new administration – and a change of political party – comes a complete clear-out of personnel. Irish diplomatic bipartisan contacts and relationships are maintained throughout administrative terms with both parties, irrespective of which party is in government.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PEBJLBMXVZC3HPYFOYOX2EXMUU","additional_properties":{},"content":"“Of course you maintain contacts with the party not in office and it is clear we have been doing that,” says the former Washington diplomat.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XBIXKSJUHZBG3FHJMUNSASOXTU","additional_properties":{},"content":"“It is about a day-to-day effort at the cultivation of relationships. You can never stop. You have to keep wearing out your shoe leather by turning up at offices, talking to people, engaging with them, inviting them round. And that’s what has been happening for the past four years.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"G4N7RTZOFFFINKYOFANSN4ZP5I","additional_properties":{},"content":"The Friends of Ireland caucus is comprised of both Republican and Democratic representatives. One of those, New York Republican Representative Nicole Malliotakis, will serve on the incoming Ways and Means Committee.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Y3KQEZIDANFJLNIQH4RT3FMPUI","additional_properties":{},"content":"The New Yorker has a big Irish constituency in her district, the 11th, which incorporates Staten Island and sections of Queens and Brooklyn. She is optimistic that the new administration can strengthen both trade ties and enhance the historical warmth between the US and Ireland.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JXONAKNA4NCANKS5FWHOHAGKSQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"“Ireland is a country I personally love,” Ms Malliotakis told The Irish Times.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DSE5JKFDNZCZ7MQMUPSKYPQ5PA","additional_properties":{},"content":" “I have visited multiple times both in my capacity as an elected official and a personal capacity. I have an affinity for the Irish and a large population in my district. I am Greek and Cuban but I feel I am honorary Irish – the ambassador calls me ‘Molly O’Takis’. But I feel there is a very strong bilateral relationship between the US and Ireland. It has gotten stronger in recent years, and I think it will grow.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"KXHDGFHTLRH6ROAMSPW2TE2JAM","additional_properties":{},"content":"She says that as a member of the US Congressional Ways and Means Committee, which oversees tax and trade, she sees the pharmaceutical industry as one area where there is potential to grow ties between the two countries.","type":"text"},{"_id":"T7TNEVEWUBH57A6BRO4DMBY2RI","additional_properties":{},"content":"“The US is very much looking to limit its dependency on communist China for pharmaceuticals, and Ireland seems to be a country where pharmaceutical manufacturing is growing. So, I think there is a real potential for our two countries to grow as we seek to friend-shore and on-shore our operations here in the US,” she said. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"KORDYZLCVRCURG4SAXFDLAW5RQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"Acknowledging recently-voiced Irish concerns over the potential impact of US imports and tariffs and potential changes to the corporation tax, Malliotakis expressed reservations at Ireland’s involvement in the OECD global tax deal.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZZISKTWUKRHOFF5IAWRPW3HDVE","additional_properties":{},"content":"“I think that may have hurt Ireland. But now that the US is saying we’re not joining ... as long as there are no retaliatory taxes on American companies, I think you will just see the relationship grow,” she said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IJ54VL3AFFCCNIJZSMODGAQBGY","additional_properties":{},"content":"“Obviously there have to be discussions as to how we get there. But you have a really wonderful Ambassador here in the United States and Geraldine has been a great advocate for your country. And she has become a friend, and she’s been very involved in ensuring she meets with elected officials and members of congress regularly and keeping us up to date with where those opportunities are. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"RMH24TDSJ5DT7H7N7YNQHGC43I","additional_properties":{},"content":"“I am hopeful we will be able to visit Ireland in the near future – a delegation from our Ways and Means Committee- to talk about potential for trade – particularly as it relates to pharmaceuticals. I think that would be the next best step.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"4446WRBZMNB7TBNVH5EFTYIUNE","additional_properties":{},"content":"The argument that the slow decline of Ireland’s influence in the US is gathering pace is reflected in the sharp drop of Irish immigrants to the US and also the diminishing number of overtly American-Irish political figures on Capitol Hill. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"R6VJDYWFTVHLRCS6DTK4PYUD5I","additional_properties":{},"content":"The counterview is it has moved to a different phase, with a diplomatic presence that is greater than ever before and a symbiotic trade and investment relationship.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YPMXNUY7OFF2HPFTN4CEIB53IE","additional_properties":{},"content":"“There is a history there and a comfort that we have a reliable partner,” says Malliotakis.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SLG4AJ57VVHZHNRZFUZMKO3ZLA","additional_properties":{},"content":"“The foreign direct investment works both ways and it is mutually beneficial. And geographically, you are the closest to us outside of Mexico and Canada.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"WGXHAKSACVHD5IZFFJQGG24KGE","additional_properties":{},"content":"None of this guarantees sailing through four years of serene waters. Last March, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/simon-harris/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/simon-harris/\">Simon Harris</a> arrived in Washington to offer strenuous words of Ireland’s concerns about Israel’s bombing of Gaza. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"2IRW6BD7DNCZ3BMR46PN5SZJJE","additional_properties":{},"content":"The current ceasefire is fragile. It remains to be seen how the Taoiseach will broach the issue with president Trump in March – and how that message is to be received. But the fundamentals of the Irish-US relationship remain sound – and warm. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"Q4FG5TLKXVCHDJXTODWT5SSQF4","additional_properties":{},"content":"Irish Embassy staff in Washington have been busy establishing relevant connections with incoming White House administration staff. But Ireland’s Embassy is just one of 170 in Washington, so the requests and demands for diplomatic time from any White House administration are immense.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DTB2JYVI2BDTJAFONEWM52YOSY","additional_properties":{},"content":" For decades, Ireland has managed to carve out slices of time that have been the envy of embassies of comparable nations, and the St Patrick’s celebrations have brought extraordinary access, with the visiting Irish delegation visiting Capitol Hill, a breakfast hosted by the vice-president as well as the ceremonial events at the White House.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JGDNKWMSJZD2XDXA6N5CLCOXEY","additional_properties":{},"content":"“Certainly at these events a lot of business does take place and a lot of relationship building,” says Rep Malliotakis.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FLTBXQSHGNAKFFQIN5LVPRYATQ","additional_properties":{},"content":" “But your Ambassador is one of the more proactive that I have encountered. She reaches out and comes to meet you and has specific asks on what we can do to work together better.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"TXX74IUG45EELHLSQUHMHPQDYY","additional_properties":{},"content":"Those connections may be more critical than ever in negotiating a White House presidency which is shaping up to be highly unpredictable and volatile.","type":"text"},{"_id":"A6YQGCYVOFHN7FVMFKJGZOTGVI","additional_properties":{},"content":"A source close to the Irish Embassy has stated there has been nothing to suggest that the logistical arrangements for this year’s White House celebrations will from previous years. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"K75RZO6BVBA5NDHAWBTMAS6JVA","additional_properties":{},"content":"President Trump is familiar with the St Patrick’s arrangements from his previous term and the Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, proved an enthusiastic host of the traditional Speaker’s luncheon attended by then president Joe Biden last year. 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A sustained chorus of booing broke out during the singing of the Star Spangled Banner.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GNKWKLA36FBLTIUFCJP77VK4WE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Mandia, the Ottowan R’n’B artist who performed the song, confirmed afterwards that she knew the jeers were coming and that as they weren’t directed at her, “didn’t give a f**k” about what happened. 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Tariffs on the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/european-union/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/european-union/\">European Union</a> are expected to follow.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HZNXVSRRVRBTZIBDC3PEFDURN4","additional_properties":{},"content":"“The path the US is on right now is a lose-lose path,” warned Chrystia Freeland, the former Canadian deputy prime minister and a front-runner to succeed prime minister <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/justin-trudeau/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/justin-trudeau/\">Justin Trudeau</a>, in a TV interview on Sunday.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IUR2PTYYL5E2JONWYC3QFKUZ4I","additional_properties":{},"content":"“And at the end of the day you cannot defy the laws of economics. The people who are going to suffer from this the most are Americans, including the Americans who are voting for Trump. The president has decided now to make gas in the United States more expensive. He has decided to make groceries in the United States more expensive. And our retaliation is going to cost Americans jobs. That is completely ridiculous. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"2NG5SYJTRNDC3HXX6WBDZBPOMY","additional_properties":{},"content":"“We do not want to do this. And the right thing for the Americans to shake their heads and go guys, the Canadians are actually great partners, they are great neighbours. Let’s not do this. Because I want to tell you. Canada is formidable. We are resolute. We know what we are fighting for. We don’t want to have this fight but we are not going to lose it.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"OCWDTVPDENHQDHAHKDK3RCTYMQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"The Canadian response – the imposition of 25 per cent tariffs on the $30 billion of imports originating in the US, is effective immediately and in place until such a time as the US lifts its tariff measures. 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Conceding that the tariff orders may involve “some pain” for US consumers in the short-term, Trump will argue that tariffs are tied to his broader vision of a self-sufficient domestic economy. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"PFDKTWMSQVDW5JTA5MSFJTFAMQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"But the initial announcement of the tariffs was tied to border security and the new administration’s promise to halt the flow of fentanyl into US towns and cities, as well as its programme against undocumented immigration. 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The steepest share-price declines were in Japanese auto manufacturers, with Nissan falling by more than 7 per cent, as one of the key providers to the Mexican and Canadian car part supply chains. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"RIWASP52VRGPXCCW7XZOQTQ2ZE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Share valuations rise and fall, but the damage to relations on the northern US border is inestimable. 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On the other side, they really have to save face as well and show they have national pride and [will] protect sovereignty”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5EECR35TGRATHBGSOT7FWZXOMA","additional_properties":{},"content":"Russian allies Cuba and Venezuela gave swift backing to Petro, a former guerrilla with a long record of rants against US policy on social media on issues ranging from Gaza to the war on drugs. But the region’s biggest powers, Brazil and Mexico, did not comment publicly.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AT3JQO2WVXV4WLX2LJ4U6GYMYQ","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"YSHJCRZ3UNCA7ANOSZBYBMJ2QA","additional_properties":{},"content":"Diplomats said they wanted to co-ordinate positions discreetly and let the dust settle before taking a public stance.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VQETBDJWIZBJXDFD2PGEYQG5MA","additional_properties":{},"content":"“Petro has given a lesson in how not to deal with Trump,” said a second regional diplomat. “He went into battle on social media without having a way to sustain his fight.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"TCMDD6DXOJA3NCUFRWVGQODAJU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Several commentators pointed out the Colombian leader had undermined his own position by previously agreeing to take US military flights deporting migrants, which date back years under Democrat and Republican administrations.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Y7XP2W27CBEEHOFALWOYGMOU5A","additional_properties":{},"content":"Colombia, traditionally the closest US ally in South America, is heavily reliant on the US market for its exports of oil, coffee and cut flowers, and has little leverage with Washington.","type":"text"},{"_id":"W667NXK4T6EXYQY55HNMWY7ARY","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"BJ426TCGEVB3HPO4EEDUQXMVRQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"The timing was also awkward, with Colombia’s foreign minister Luis Gilberto Murillo – a pragmatic English speaker and ex-ambassador to Washington – due to be replaced on February 1st by Laura Sarabia, Petro’s 30-year-old chief of staff, who has no diplomatic experience.","type":"text"},{"_id":"S3TH7TCXGRAFZHRXFUTM737CYE","additional_properties":{},"content":"With Petro’s whereabouts on Sunday unclear, a crisis team made up of Sarabia, Murillo and other officials met in the presidential palace and the foreign ministry headquarters. The main interlocutor on the US side, diplomats said, was Mauricio Claver-Carone, Trump’s special envoy for Latin America in the state department. “Petro was in constant communication, always listening and responding,” said a person with direct knowledge of the talks.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PD7OQECFIVDXXPNCGHAQKIDD6U","additional_properties":{},"content":"Bruce Mac Master, president of Colombia’s main business association, spent the day lobbying Petro’s diplomatic team, and spoke with Sarabia several times.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TGZONZ4BYNEHHD3YXSA4FOBQ6M","additional_properties":{},"content":"“I think Petro had no idea of the dimensions and impact of US relations,” Mac Master said. “He soon realised that the effects would be felt everywhere, starting with the exchange rate. 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She has made her disagreements with US policy clear in measured public comments, while privately agreeing to many of Trump’s demands on taking back migrants and cracking down on fentanyl trafficking.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RDQ2GJFGVJDGPDQYZ2DOBFAVFI","additional_properties":{},"content":"China has hugely expanded its trade and investment in Latin America this century, and Beijing is likely to view Trump’s unpredictable moves as an ideal opportunity to present itself as a more reliable partner, diplomats and analysts said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"L6X3XYLJQZCFBHDCRC7OK5MQBE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Shifter, of Inter-American Dialogue, said: “Celac is the platform for China in Latin America, so Thursday’s summit is a kind of proxy for showing [Washington] that if [it is] really going to punish us, then China’s willing to fill the gap and come in even more than it has already.” − Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2025","type":"text"},{"_id":"V34BDHLQS5EGHJGCHGK7Q6ZHC4","type":"list"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Michael Stott in Rio de Janeiro and Joe Daniels in Bogotá"}]},"description":{"basic":"Colombia’s president Gustavo Petro finds little support for confrontational stance against US"},"display_date":"2025-01-28T13:23:35.544Z","headlines":{"basic":"‘Back to 1897’: Latin America scrambles to respond to Donald Trump’s aggression","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"AZZ5FCH2274IWERW5VCWH3JHRQ","auth":{"1":"2a46e90599fd3d162b3cd82f66dcc80184cd43f6e7435fcc0e5b44917d88206e"},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/AZZ5FCH2274IWERW5VCWH3JHRQ.jpg"}},"subtype":"feature","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Americas"},{"name":"US"},{"name":"World"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/world/americas/2025/01/28/back-to-1897-latin-america-scrambles-to-respond-to-donald-trumps-aggression/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/world/americas","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Americas"}}}},{"_id":"M6F42BBG7JEFZEVWW6X76MW4SI","additional_properties":{},"canonical_url":"/world/us/2025/01/27/colombia-lifts-ban-on-deportation-flights-after-trump-tariff-threat/","content_elements":[{"_id":"ZA4SASNIPZGRTLLJYDR2WOCOTQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1737962383799},"content":"The US and Colombia pulled back from the brink of a trade war on Sunday after the White House said the Colombians had agreed to accept military aircraft carrying deported migrants.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7TV5NCSSYZF4FJGKAB4MJUCK24","additional_properties":{"_id":1737962383800},"content":"US president Donald Trump, had <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2025/01/26/immigration-raids-begin-in-chicago-as-trump-doubles-tariffs-on-columbia-over-deportation-flights/\" target=\"_blank\">threatened tariffs and sanctions on Colombia</a> to punish it for earlier refusing to accept military flights carrying deportees amid his sweeping immigration crackdown.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TOIZ27WAWNEUNJQRNX2BVPQBFA","additional_properties":{"_id":1737962383801},"content":"But in a statement late on Sunday, the White House said Colombia had agreed to accept the migrants and Washington would not impose its threatened penalties.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4VDXNNSF4VFC5HOXAESN7X7HII","additional_properties":{"_id":1737962383802},"content":"“The government of Colombia has agreed to all of President Trump’s terms, including the unrestricted acceptance of all illegal aliens from Colombia returned from the United States, including on US military aircraft, without limitation or delay,” it said. “Today’s events make clear to the world that America is respected again.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"7YZ2NQY5JBGNZJ2YKNJKXXQ3PY","additional_properties":{"_id":1737962383804},"content":"The Colombian foreign minister, Luis Gilberto Murillo, said late on Sunday that “we have overcome the impasse” with the US government.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JQ4L7T7D25GCDF4AI6RZ2D66IE","additional_properties":{"_id":1737962383805},"content":"“We will continue receiving Colombians who return as deportees,” he said. 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The military’s Southern Command, covering Latin America and the Caribbean, moved from Panama to Miami in 1997, and Washington closed its extensive air force, naval and army facilities in the Central American nation in 1999. The air base has since been repurposed into a business park, while Washington’s only nearby military facility is an anti-drug base in Honduras.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RJA5IPLCTNAWDMHFEJ4RX6NCHA","additional_properties":{"_id":"BUD7W2BSGJAKJENZ5PIXA37GRY"},"subtype":"pullquote","type":"quote"},{"_id":"ZTGDJUO75VGMZBODDTTTVLT7PQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1737732774900},"content":"But the biggest damage would be diplomatic and political. Panama has remained one of Washington’s closest allies in the region and has elected right-of-centre, pro-business governments, such as its current leader, José Raúl Mulino.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EXPAKV2Q3JAQBMH64O53NFTBIE","additional_properties":{"_id":1737732774901},"content":"Panama uses the US dollar as its currency, is popular with US companies as a logistics base and is sought-after by retired Americans. 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Among the evidence tossed was an email in which Car Wash’s most notorious witness – Odebrecht’s president – asked two colleagues whether a deal had been reached with “the friend of the friend of my father”, whom he later told prosecutors referred to Toffoli, then Brazil’s attorney general.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QGYYTH7LUFEFXLFBIBSC6US3IA","additional_properties":{"_id":1735485050912},"content":"The shifting fates of Car Wash at the hands of a supreme court that appears more attentive to politics than jurisprudence also highlights the potential risks in the future for other high-profile cases, including the investigation into <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/jair-bolsonaro/\" target=\"_blank\">former far-right president Jair Bolsonaro</a> for allegedly plotting a coup to overturn his defeat in 2022′s presidential election. 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But in an echo of the euphoria that gripped the country when seeing powerful businessmen and politicians arrested for corruption, Moraes has become something of a national hero for facing down Bolsonaro’s coup-mongering, even among those on the left who denounced him as a “fascist” when he was first appointed to the court in 2017. He has shown no sign of recusing himself from the case and instead appears to be enjoying the protagonist role it has brought him.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5HBVFVFAVFD6DNVHYEIQT7HP2U","additional_properties":{"_id":"VGO5QQM4G5B6FCBAMWROPSFXGM"},"content":"Man jailed for 10 years after admitting smuggling €21.6m cocaine on cargo ship from Brazil","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"YQHKKW5AXRD3FECIVOT5CGNX34","additional_properties":{"_id":1735485050914},"content":"Moraes has already ensured Bolsonaro’s exclusion from running for public office until 2030 because of his public efforts to undermine the presidential election he lost in 2022. But the former president remains the biggest vote-getter on the right, and he and his circle have made clear they will seek the promise of amnesty from anyone seeking his endorsement in the 2026 presidential election. His supporters are also using Moraes’s handling of the cases against Bolsonaro as an excuse to launch impeachment proceedings against him.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NCFB2SF4WVCQPNFXTR7YNZAKUM","additional_properties":{"_id":1735485050915},"content":"For now Bolsonaro and his coterie are facing almost certain trial, given the evidence federal police have already gathered of their coup-plotting. But a political swing back towards the right after 2026 could create the political conditions for the unwinding of another investigation that uncovered evidence of wrongdoing but in the shadow of accusations of judicial overreach.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OVTN5JDRWVENVJTFWJKJ4MMLQ4","additional_properties":{"_id":1735485050916},"content":"Standing in the way of the hard right’s hopes of a return to power is President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the country’s most popular politician of recent decades. He staged one of the great political comebacks, emerging from 580 days in jail after his conviction by Moro, to evict Bolsonaro from the presidency, benefiting from the supreme court’s move to kill Car Wash. But he will be 81 at the next election and a majority of Brazilians tell pollsters they do not want him to seek a fourth term. Without him, the race between left and right will likely be far more competitive. 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In recent years, brinkmanship has repeatedly erupted whenever Congress has tried to raise the debt ceiling — usually because rightwing voices have threatened a government shutdown unless their demands were met.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZA6LRSTG7NHRJIDXQDRGN3ZGX4","additional_properties":{"_id":1734879013712},"content":"Here we go again. Last week Mike Johnson, the Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives, tried to pass a stopgap debt ceiling deal with a $6.75 trillion (€6.48 trillion) budget — but it was derailed by incoming president <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/donald-trump/\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump </a>and his supporters, including Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy.","type":"text"},{"_id":"W2GFLYOOKJDHLF75O3G5FE7BRA","additional_properties":{"_id":1734879013713},"content":"“This Bill should not pass,” <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/elon-musk/\" target=\"_blank\">Musk </a>furiously declared on X, sparking last-ditch negotiations amid threats of government shutdowns.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WUMI2LHYNVBUTLDUE3ISFDTOSE","additional_properties":{"_id":"RVUOTGWJKZG4HEARYQJJE7OP7E"},"content":"Elon Musk could soon be as rich as the Netherlands","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"T5X33R44Z5FGLER555TM6NDO4I","additional_properties":{"_id":1734879013714},"content":"Investors should note three key points. The first is that last month’s clean sweep victory by Trump means that the critical political fight in 2025 will not be across the aisle, Democrats versus Republicans, but inside the Republican Party itself.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CNKBUO2AKZCZJBJQ4JERQOVCZE","additional_properties":{"_id":1734879013715},"content":"Second, this Republican-on-Republican battle will be ugly. Men such as Musk and Ramaswamy want to make their voices heard by attacking congressional Republicans like the hapless Johnson.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7F3QBZVBNVCUNHDUUTOPQYSS5I","additional_properties":{"_id":1734879013716},"content":"Third, fiscal policy will be an early flashpoint in this fight — particularly given this week’s jump in bond yields following the Federal Reserve’s downgrading of its projections for interest rate cuts in 2025.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2UCPN54HJFE7XHHKG2WEA3SE2E","additional_properties":{"_id":1734879013717},"content":"Washington is one focus for this fight. But so is Mar-a-Lago, the seat of Trump’s political court, where his quasi-courtiers are now expressing distinctly different views about how to tackle America’s current $36 trillion in national debt.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7CGEH6VXOJE5LILWWTIBVZSRJA","additional_properties":{"_id":1734879013718},"content":"Some see little need to panic about this debt pile, arguing that the dollar’s reserve currency status will force global investors to keep gobbling up treasury bonds. Trump often seems to sit in this camp. Indeed, this week he demanded the debt ceiling be scrapped.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WL62P2W6UJGIXNHRKCRKGC2GRU","additional_properties":{"_id":1734879013719},"content":"However, others around him, such as Steve Bannon, former White House chief strategist, are more alarmed. That is because, as I have often noted, the treasury must refinance about $9 trillion of bonds next year at a time when inflationary pressures are rising. Trump has pledged to make policy changes that could add many trillions more to the debt, while also threatening to weaken the dollar and undermine the independence of the Fed.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IRII4U5C35HKJCERFNZYVSP7IE","additional_properties":{"_id":1734879013720},"content":"This is a very nasty cocktail, as Scott Bessent, his nominee for treasury secretary, understands only too well.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XLBDBQAWMJFDHC24UASKO3MSVA","additional_properties":{"_id":"LSULL5IW7JD45MIERJPQCL24PU"},"embed":{"config":{},"id":"acast_podcast-6090","url":"/"},"subtype":"acast_podcast","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"6NCOUC72WVCWLHGV255VD4BMK4","additional_properties":{},"content":"Worse still, potentially flighty hedge funds have a growing role in the treasuries market, and a potentially hostile China has leverage too. Just look at Beijing’s recent decision to issue a $2 billion sovereign bond in Saudi Arabia. This issuance was piddling in size, but was a symbolic poke in the eye for Washington — not least because the yield was similar to that on US bonds.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZDHU6I57VFF67DER35GATXY77Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1734879013721},"content":"The second dividing line in Mar-a-Lago is over tax. Trump has repeatedly pledged to make his 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, with its huge income and estate tax breaks, permanent. That would create a bonanza for wealthy Americans, including the dozen-odd billionaires in his top team.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EMLTX6RSU5BVTFVRU45Q4O3WLI","additional_properties":{"_id":1734879013722},"content":"He also wants to cut corporate taxes from 21 per cent to 15 per cent for entities in America, end taxes on social security payments, tips and overtime and extend childcare credits.","type":"text"},{"_id":"POIWSDTNNNCG7NTGTMYDX2ZSJQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1734879013723},"content":"I am told that Bessent and others have told Trump that the resulting fiscal hole could be plugged by faster growth, tariff revenue and a $2 trillion government spending cut promised by Musk. There are also calls for tax rises on wealthy foundations.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MEYCERVB4ZA6RELSJJZXL6EGFE","additional_properties":{"_id":1734879013724},"content":"However, it will be almost impossible to cut federal spending significantly without slashing expenditure on social security and defence, which Trump seems reluctant to do. And the size of any tariff revenue is unclear. Trump may prefer to use tariffs more as a geopolitical threat than anything else.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TRAC5TVCMRARPO2VS477Q5SLOM","additional_properties":{"_id":1734879013725},"content":"Moreover, growth alone is unlikely to plug the fiscal hole. And debt servicing costs could be higher than expected given the Fed’s signals that it is slowing the pace of rate cuts.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PLAQ4VQIWFFXTOYZZXMNTKMJCM","additional_properties":{"_id":1734879013726},"content":"This leaves Bannon calling for more radical measures, including tax rises. “You’re gonna have to raise taxes on the wealthy ... [to] get a grip on the out-of-control debt,” he told a Republican dinner this week. Yes, really.","type":"text"},{"_id":"K36WNS5Z4FAUBMYFIH74A44CK4","additional_properties":{"_id":1734879013727},"content":"The reason? Bannon believes that the recent assassination of a healthcare executive shows there is now so much anti-elite anger that it would be political suicide for Trump to squeeze the middle class while favouring the rich. He thinks it would be equally dangerous to ignore the bond markets.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VRLT6VYP2BAINFDORVNJQTQE2A","additional_properties":{"_id":1734879013728},"content":"Thus, he says, “the neoliberal neocons are going to have to pay for what happened” — meaning that “populist nationalists” must over-rule “Republican orthodox folk”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YD5EJWI6GFEUPK234VHR6SO2J4","additional_properties":{"_id":1734879013729},"content":"Bannon’s argument about popular anger is spot on. But Trump’s problem is that tax rises for the wealthy will horrify “orthodox” Republicans in Congress. They would also infuriate many of the wealthy entrepreneurs who backed his presidential bid.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3GP3PZNZG5HVZFTF4L3PE7HJC4","additional_properties":{"_id":1734879013730},"content":"So the looming $36 trillion question is not simply whether the plutocrats or populists will win this fight; it is also whether the bond markets will stay calm while this plays out.","type":"text"},{"_id":"J4YEF5W4V5EBVHWLR4VK5ZRA24","additional_properties":{"_id":1734879013731},"content":"In other words, last week’s debt ceiling skirmish could merely be a prelude to bigger battles in 2025. 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The two men subsequently told they were under formal investigation and should hire defence lawyers so they could be questioned under oath, have been named locally as chief receptionist Esteban Grassi and head of security Gilda Martin.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7YUUJKMJOFG2XK43RGFI352AHM","additional_properties":{"_id":"5SX2HMF5OZAJFBU6RQKL6O465A"},"content":"Liam Payne obituary: Pop icon who remained an enigma","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"33B3TFR3ZRCVHFOVV6NGGN2TOU","additional_properties":{"_id":1734170947072},"content":"Waiter Paiz told an Argentinian TV journalist last month he had consumed marijuana and Liam had taken cocaine during their second hotel rendezvous shortly before the singer’s death. 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Investors have expressed rising concerns over the administration’s tax-and-spend fiscal policy, despite its promises to eliminate the primary budget deficit, meaning before interest payments.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EKNFAEAKYRGRBORVLFARCJ26AY","additional_properties":{},"content":"The Brazilian real hit an all-time low last month, falling below six to the US dollar, amid worries over the country’s public finances. A police investigation last month claimed that rightwing coup plotters, including elite military personnel, had planned to assassinate Lula, Mr Alckmin and a top supreme court judge before the 2022 transfer of power. 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This time, he has selected a radical cabinet to push through campaign promises including the imposition of tariffs on imports, the mass deportation of undocumented migrants, a stark shift on foreign policy with profound implications for the citizens of Ukraine and Gaza and a vow to start making stuff in America again.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BH2ISRGCHJCWPK7SOANQXLNEDE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732877492942},"content":"It may be a little self-serving for Irish voices to be squawking about the potential threat to the corporate tax take. But the worry is real, with three major US companies contributing 43 per cent of Ireland’s corporation tax take in 2022 and an estimated 15 per cent of the Irish labour force working for just under 1,000 US companies.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NPJEEKC3VFHQFG5I5ALNUHQS3U","additional_properties":{"_id":"R2ZR7MSJ7RFPLKNNBS3RGKSTHU"},"content":"How could the EU respond if Trump imposes tariffs?","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"4YJ7DAKPNREA7LFTFQUM62NGGQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732877492943},"content":"Last May, Trump was ambivalent when asked, after arriving at his hotel in Doonbeg, Co Clare, whether he believed US companies located in Ireland should pay more tax to their parent state.","type":"text"},{"_id":"M3H7J5NO5BAG7HI7SURNS6CBDQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732727048396},"content":"“That’s an interesting question,” he said. “I won’t answer that question in your country, but a lot of people would say yes. But Ireland has done a great job, you’ve lured a lot of companies in. And they love it here, they really love it here, they’ve been treated well just like I’ve been treated well. This has been a great success.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"OOBM5IDJPFDLDJWJTXYGRBZJYE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732727048397},"content":"It was a classic Trump response in that it could mean anything – or nothing at all. Right now, as the emergent administration faces the task of having some of its more controversial appointments confirmed, what will happen over the next four years is anyone’s guess. 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You can tell them to do stuff and they will say yes”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ABM34LS4Q5AWTFH52A5LCBGSHE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732877492951},"content":"Blyth notes that in the final days of his last administration, Trump issued an executive order that all American companies leave China and come home. “Nobody paid any attention whatsoever,” he says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IUTAHIHSF5AFJN2CEA7OSY75YY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732877492952},"content":"“They would have to move heaven and earth to change the federal government beyond all recognition, develop the type of authoritarian state capacities found in China and force American corporations into doing exactly what the government wants. And then, you could maybe come for Ireland.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"EHHGQ4ZF5FDOHGVF5ZVDCYN2H4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732727048400},"content":"Total US imports from Ireland fell just short of $87 billion in 2023, small beer in its total imports value of $3.3 trillion. Some $36 billion of that was in pharmaceutical products and $20 billion in organic chemicals. It must be noted, World Trade Organisation protocols include a clause that prevents tariffs placed on pharmaceuticals.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WV223QLDERC2LL5OARX3QLAU7A","additional_properties":{"_id":1732727048401},"content":"The current corporate tax rate in the US is 21 per cent. Even if that were to be lowered by the incoming Trump administration, is it debatable that it would have the immediate effect of luring companies home given the fact that, as Mark Blyth puts it, “everyone in the Trump administration, in our previous experience, ends up in the woodchipper within six months”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CNGOZZ5KNJBOZKNRPNWW5U2WK4","additional_properties":{"_id":"HPRJNUPIDRFTTFXPMYCCYHWZ5A"},"content":"Potential for serious damage to Irish economy as Trump reshapes trade, Ministers warned","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"6IEFAL7W5JGKPM3DCHUHBTAGIQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732727048402},"content":"He asks: “Why, then, would you put your faith that anything these guys are doing will lead to a more stable and prosperous future than the one you have engineered for yourself?”","type":"text"},{"_id":"QC32YLAZMBBQLCR52QI5ZGOEVY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732727048403},"content":"Economic debate rages as to the potentially ruinous effects Trump’s planned tariffs may have on the domestic US economy, driving the inflationary cycle into an even more vicious period. 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Trump, who was himself found liable for sexual abuse, moved to elevate three men accused of sexual misconduct – one with a minor – to fill three crucial cabinet posts: leading the justice, defence and health and human services departments.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EVCT42VEOFF2DJ3JWJQEY4YTOQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732400960180},"content":"It is a searing affront to women.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FMSX3KKCEJGYPDPSXV67KFE5PI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732400960181},"content":"As Julia Baird writes in her new book, Bright Shining: How Grace Changes Everything, “In truth, we rarely care about violence against women, so foundational is it to our culture.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"VG75PWCIPZH3XB3VGLXCKVZEHY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732400960182},"content":"When <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2024/11/21/matt-gaetz-drops-bid-to-be-trump-attorney-general-in-face-of-senate-opposition/\" target=\"_blank\">Matt Gaetz dropped out</a>, Trump learned that some people are so repellent, not even he can force them down the throat of craven Republicans in Congress. Some Republicans balk at a Fox News weekend host running our military, much less one who paid a woman who accused him of rape to head off a lawsuit.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BXYH76LZAVBCBJU6QGVKT2ETOA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732400960183},"content":"“It’s a pretty big problem, given that we have, you know, we have a sexual assault problem in our military,” Republican Senator Kevin Cramer said of Trump’s choice for defense secretary, Pete Hegseth.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LYTRD3XJYBCM3AU343EDOEUTG4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732400960184},"content":"And it’s not just men with sordid incidents. Linda McMahon, Trump’s selection for education secretary, has been accused in a lawsuit, along with her husband, Vince McMahon, of allowing a man in their company, World Wrestling Entertainment, to groom and sexually abuse children in the 1980s and 90s. (In a separate lawsuit obtained by the Athletic, Vince McMahon was accused by a woman of sex trafficking, physical and emotional abuse, sexual assault and negligence.)","type":"text"},{"_id":"LNTREEBPV5DXLPMCCNG77FJDNQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732400960185},"content":"In the old days, even a small black mark – smoking pot or not paying taxes for your nanny – could sink you instantly. And, for larger offenses, the fact that you weren’t <i>criminally </i>charged wouldn’t save you.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3ZZNZ6ZQL5FR3FB4CNLRI3IXGI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732400960186},"content":"As Carl Hulse wrote in the New York Times: “What once passed as disqualifying for a presidential nominee seems downright benign in comparison to allegations of sexual misconduct and illicit drug use by his attorney general pick detailed in a secret congressional report, a sexual assault accusation followed by a paid settlement for his choice to head the Pentagon and an acknowledged former heroin addiction by the would-be health secretary.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"GMJAS4DJKZH2XEGOEBMFYGICHU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732400960187},"content":"As Republican Senator John Cornyn noted in a massive understatement, “standards are apparently evolving”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NE3AGUPCORFXTITMSH5UIW7ZMI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732400960188},"content":"It was risible to see supporters of the three men jockeying over which act was the least illegal and morally reprehensible, making arguments akin to: <i>“</i>Well, at least Pete didn’t sleep with a minor.” “Well, at least the nanny Bobby groped wasn’t a minor.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"QKPTDXKROJEXJCVTXXL2TTW4EY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732400960189},"content":"During #MeToo, we moved away from the “he said/she said” dynamic to a “she said” one. 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Bill Hagerty, a Republican senator from Tennessee, said the accusations were a “disgrace”, nothing but “he said/she said”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CXL46PUAVRGQ7BLJLQPYV46KNQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732400960191},"content":"In putting forward three men accused of sexual misconduct, Trump is conveying that men like himself are the perpetual victims of lies, so it should not be disqualifying.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JLVJAFERGZE3XOW3IFZMOPD6TY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732400960192},"content":"He is turning what he told Billy Bush on the “Access Hollywood” tape into a presidential mantra: “When you’re a star, they let you do it. 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In all likelihood they bury his attempts to have an amnesty bill passed in congress that would overturn his ban on running for office before 2030 for his public attacks against the voting system two years ago.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RABHARFIFJFMDDGPJEIE5OY7PM","additional_properties":{"_id":"WXQ7V22LDZB4XFQ2EOTG567GGU"},"subtype":"pullquote","type":"quote"},{"_id":"2TDH2WCNJBDPVPKZZXMU3V5AGI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732276272027},"content":"For the reputation of Brazil’s armed forces this week’s accusations are a severe blow that could bring institutional instability in their wake. Among those charged are some of the most illustrious military figures of recent generations, men such as the highly decorated retired general Augusto Heleno, who once led the UN peacekeeping mission in Haiti.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RLJDVRPDMBEPBE6TGML3B6PXR4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732276272028},"content":"Though it never apologised for the crimes committed during its last dictatorship, the military had worked hard since it returned to barracks in the 1980s to present itself as a modern, professional outfit now dedicated to democracy. 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Now according to the federal police charges the rot ran much deeper and saw serving and retired generals lead an effort not just to overthrow the 2022 election but to murder the victors and the judge who oversaw the whole process.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7ZD3SAPIDRF2ZLVFHLYAH7XQJ4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732276272031},"content":"The military’s public efforts in 2022 at undermining confidence in the electoral system already laid bare how tenuous among significant sectors of the armed forces was their supposed commitment to being a non-political institution in a democratic state. These new charges if proven would raise serious questions about the military’s commitment to democracy given the senior ranks of many of those accused of coup plotting this week.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BZVUTLGEPVA53KGMTOTLAMYBTY","additional_properties":{},"content":"The current high command can of course point to the fact that a majority of senior officers did not get involved. 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Bolsonaro himself benefited from this culture, allowed to retire with the rank of captain rather than be charged with insubordination for his cack-handed plan to place bombs as part of a campaign for greater pay in the 1980s.","type":"text"},{"_id":"F7N2WYGMENE5FBMBWMTKCK3DFQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732276272034},"content":"The risk now is the armed forces, which clearly have many bolsonaristas within their ranks, will drag its heels on confronting these anti-democratic elements. 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But regardless of where he eventually places, his eruption into the race says important things about the continuing volatility of Brazilian democracy.","type":"text"},{"_id":"L7XSP2JQXZE7LKGUKDJG77FW5I","additional_properties":{"_id":1726575505012},"content":"Most importantly it clearly shows that the ousting of Bolsonaro – himself once the outsider, anti-system candidate – from the presidency in 2022 with the return of Lula has not extinguished the anti-political animus that now motivates significant parts of Brazilian society. Marçal is not a pure-blood bolsonarista. His emergence has disrupted Bolsonaro’s own political calculations, causing tension between the two camps.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BB2NITLCYBCENAFJKXLBPCGN2Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1726575505013},"content":"The former president’s son Carlos has publicly referred to the coach as a “retard”, using the language so beloved of the Brazilian far-right. Instead of Bolsonaro’s natural heir Marçal represents the emergence of the next generation of anti-system politicians, only now, unlike with Bolsonaro – a political low-life for three decades before he became president –, coming straight from the wild west of Brazil’s social media universe with no political background.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TXEOX6H7GVD7JEZ4OQPETKAREQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1726575505014},"content":"All politicians understand the increasing importance of social media in Brazilian elections. But Marçal’s whole public persona was incubated there. He is a natural at the emotional engagement that drives interactions. His rivals are also all on socials but in comparison their presence has the vibe of a digital campaign director hovering over them.","type":"text"},{"_id":"54ZJJ3DSLVAIJOFBPKDMKGREPA","additional_properties":{"_id":1726575505015},"content":"Another part of his appeal is his wealth, which is where Marçal’s social media persona intersects with the growing political power of Brazil’s evangelical movement. He has become a social media behemoth selling expensive motivational courses by promoting himself as a successful entrepreneur, though his fortune – the largest ever in the race – has raised eyebrows given how quickly it was accumulated and the fact he was previously convicted of financial fraud.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JSFONQTSVRGA3MZAWPEWCVXCYE","additional_properties":{"_id":1726575505016},"content":"But after a lost decade of economic stagnation and a public sphere laid waste by a lack of investment, many young Brazilians are increasingly embracing a radical – at times libertarian – entrepreneurial vision for their lives. For many it does not matter so much how Marçal became rich, just that he is. This also taps into the prosperity theology of Brazil’s politically influential neo-Pentecostal churches, which have most openly embraced an entrepreneurial vision of society.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WLKWNXT3LFDOPG26UOPDXYEDK4","additional_properties":{"_id":1726575505017},"content":"Prosperity theology teaches that riches in this life are a sign of God’s favour. Marçal’s successful career for evangelicals is a sign from God and helps explain why he polls so strongly among them. Marçal himself does not identify as evangelical but says he was brought up in a Pentecostal church and it shows in his language.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OA5MIHCZNZHGVEQENY37JMSAEI","additional_properties":{"_id":1726575505018},"content":"When he speaks of his political opponents remorselessly “persecuting” him, for an evangelical audience he is placing himself on the right side of a larger battle between good and evil. As he once told a church congregation: “The more God blesses you, the more you are persecuted.” In this context the police investigation into him for money laundering only reinforces followers’ belief in him as a righteous outsider fighting against a corrupt system.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YY7MNB7OYFDZRKI6UXDX7SOVQM","additional_properties":{"_id":1726575505019},"content":"That may be, or he may not have entirely left his criminal past behind him. 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","type":"text"},{"_id":"2TAGIJINPVC4FO7DQVKE25ANZQ","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"MT3PQLX2P5CZLMORWGODXRVOMM","additional_properties":{},"content":"“The protection of water, air and the land is a right for all of humanity and should not depend on us fighting these struggles,” Vasquez says. “We are defending both our bodies and our land.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"CYORZJ7HXVCYDJZYGMNN4UA4W4","additional_properties":{},"content":"After returning to the White House last month, US president <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2025/02/24/trump-administration-cuts-1600-usaid-jobs-with-others-placed-on-administrative-leave/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2025/02/24/trump-administration-cuts-1600-usaid-jobs-with-others-placed-on-administrative-leave/\">Donald Trump introduced a 90-day freeze on US foreign aid</a>, subject to a narrow and temporary waiver for programmes classed as “life-saving humanitarian assistance”. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"DWPG66FVWNHOPGGMDV43XHJGNA","additional_properties":{},"content":"“There is an atmosphere of worry among organisations,” Vasquez says in a WhatsApp message to The Irish Times after the suspension, adding that there is a lot of concern about how projects focused on migrants or gender issues will be affected as well as US-funded government programmes in Honduras.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OSVM6U27TBDRJFZNQRG3DOHJNM","additional_properties":{},"content":"Since 1961, when the US Agency for International Development (<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/usaid/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/usaid/\">USAID</a>) was established by president John F Kennedy at the height of the Cold War to deliver humanitarian aid and promote US soft power, American aid has been deeply rooted in “the social and political fabric of all the Central American countries”, says Jorge Cuéllar, an assistant professor at Dartmouth University’s department of Latin American, Latino and Caribbean Studies. 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","type":"text"},{"_id":"JJ7YIFRDL5A37KC66L74ESQEA4","additional_properties":{},"content":"USAID’s presence in Central America expanded under the Biden administration, which attempted to focus on the root causes of migration. “USAID hasn’t always been the most successful,” Cuéllar says, “but, nonetheless, there have been strategic advancements and I think if [USAID] hadn’t been there, things would have been much worse.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"UBUIINMWFZBEHB2ASJYJIEXTTI","additional_properties":{},"content":"The suspension of nearly $2 billion of aid by the Trump administration is “actively weakening efforts to address the reasons millions are fleeing Latin America and the Caribbean, like armed conflicts, violent organised crime, rampant corruption, democratic backsliding, closing civic space, weak justice systems and rule of law”, said the Washington Office on Latin America, a human rights advocacy group.","type":"text"},{"_id":"N3DKS4XTWREYNGT4W5JSMSIPPI","additional_properties":{},"content":" Cuéllar says unless any withdrawn US aid is replaced by the EU or <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/china\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/china\">China</a>, Central American communities will be less prepared for extreme weather events and take longer to recover from them.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IEZITUB7TBH77EONABFYU6GQ4E","additional_properties":{},"content":"In a press statement, US secretary of state Marco Rubio said the Trump administration foreign policy priorities included curbing mass migration, ending “climate policies that weaken America” and “a return to American energy dominance”. 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He is irritable. He doesn’t talk shop with long-time political colleagues any more. Access to this one-time political schmoozer now must go through his wife Janja, who controls his mobile phone. Isolated in his presidential palace, he has little idea of the dangers posed by the political crisis forming outside.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7HLAN5QTRJHVNFVW6Y5WEZC7MU","additional_properties":{"_id":1740578361226},"content":"Such is the portrait of <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/brazil/\" target=\"_blank\">Brazil</a>’s 79-year-old president doing the rounds as the media tries to explain the recent precipitous fall in his poll ratings. With just 24 per cent now approving of the job he is doing, the old union boss has never been as unpopular at any other time during his three terms in office.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LIAD4OWS75FAZJ3HVUS6UX7AAU","additional_properties":{"_id":1740578361227},"content":"Meanwhile, the opposition is on the march. Congress, already something of a runaway train, keeps squeezing the executive. Its appetite for an ever bigger slice of the budget is insatiable, further limiting Lula’s room for political manoeuvre. Some of its far-right members are already demanding he be impeached. Though most of their caucus remains focused on defeating Lula in presidential elections next year, in an era when the far right is expert at manipulating social media for its nefarious ends, such calls may well escalate.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TPZOX7K3TBBGNLUFMN4FT53V44","additional_properties":{"_id":1740578361228},"content":"Only recently Lula was forced to abandon a sensible policy to combat online fraud after it was targeted by a far-right misinformation campaign across social media. Seemingly unable to counter such campaigns, and suspecting Facebook owner Meta provided a helping hand to the administration’s opponents, his Workers’ Party wants legislation that would regulate social networks and Lula is minded to oblige.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NGW47755KNFTHFPBVX6UL4DNPY","additional_properties":{"_id":1740578361229},"content":"Many would welcome the move, but it risks broadening the conflict <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/elon-musk/\">Elon Musk</a> and <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/mark-zuckerberg/\">Mark Zuckerberg</a> already have with the Brazilian judiciary into one between the administrations in Washington and Brasília, just as Lula’s team formulates a response to US president <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/donald-trump/\">Donald Trump</a>’s tariffs on some of its country’s exports to the United States.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7DSNZDJPXZA45H5HOFJRXKYO2U","additional_properties":{"_id":1740578361230},"content":"At first glance, the precipitous fall in Lula’s approval rating looks odd. The economy has been humming since he returned to office and Brazil is close to full employment. But many economists claim much of this is due to unsustainable public spending that is already fuelling inflation and pushing up food prices for the poor.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RB7JCY2QING2DPBXDEPPKEOCYQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1740578361231},"content":"Now the administration is in a bind. Traditionally, Brazilian governments rein in spending on coming into office before throwing open the taps in the run-up to elections. Lula’s decision to invert the process and run large budget deficits after returning for a third term in 2023 was logical considering the panorama of chaos he inherited from his far-right predecessor, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/jair-bolsonaro/\">Jair Bolsonaro</a>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NAR3S5NP6FCEHJYGH267LH2QJM","additional_properties":{"_id":1740578361232},"content":"A generous dose of fiscal largesse was designed to re-establish a sense of social peace after a lost decade economically. But now markets are increasingly concerned by the country’s growing debt pile. 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They also say that at the end of last year, finance minister Fernando Haddad unveiled a fiscal package that he said underlined the government’s seriousness when managing the national accounts.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CFKAV4KKARBWLJ35RWDC5ZL5V4","additional_properties":{"_id":1740578361235},"content":"Yet still, the sense of an administration being dragged in the wake of events rather than directing them persists. For now, Lula seems determined to focus on social spending rather than bow to markets and go beyond the cuts Haddad has already announced. The gamble appears to be to do enough to prevent the return of the far right in 2026 and then if necessary deal more rigorously with the national finances.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KG46ZYQWUVBMXDBNLS5SDKOYKY","additional_properties":{"_id":1740578361236},"content":"It would be foolish to discount Lula, a seasoned campaigner and still a charismatic leader, at the halfway stage of his term. In Brazil, only the malevolently incompetent Bolsonaro has failed to win re-election to the presidency.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VOPYJP7CDNGXRG4OJMGI4AHY2Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1740578361237},"content":"Traditionally, the advantages of incumbency trump unpopularity. But even with Bolsonaro ineligible to run and now charged with attempting a coup in 2022, next year’s elections promise to be another white-knuckle ride for a country still deeply polarised along ideological lines. Lula is indeed old and appears grumpy at a world no longer the same as during his golden years when he was first in power two decades ago. 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","type":"text"},{"_id":"CLHCJFAP75GZJDOBYBFLDL3MYE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Senators voted 43 in favour and 20 against, with six abstentions, to cancel this year’s primary elections. Argentina’s unusual system obliges all parties to hold simultaneous primaries a few months before legislative and presidential polls, acting as an election dress rehearsal that often causes market turmoil.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LX4N563DQBGP7K265BLRBYDZOI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Mr Milei had argued that the tens of millions of dollars it costs to run the primaries were incompatible with his cost-cutting drive. But analysts said the government would also benefit because Argentina’s fragmented opposition parties would be denied an opportunity to organise themselves ahead of midterm elections in October.","type":"text"},{"_id":"R7ET3K7VFZFN3NH7SCPJ3AJ2QU","additional_properties":{},"content":"The victory in the Senate follows one of Mr Milei’s most difficult weeks during his 14 months in office. The president promoted a memecoin on X on Friday, the value of which surged before collapsing. The coin’s crash triggered accusations of a scam, with Mr Milei’s opponents filing dozens of fraud lawsuits and the left-wing Peronist opposition pledging to launch impeachment proceedings.","type":"text"},{"_id":"56D3WK3TNFBHTELKI66MORF6NA","additional_properties":{},"content":"The president has denied any wrongdoing, saying he was not “informed about the details” of the memecoin project, although he did meet the people behind it twice.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HOSD7R7OZVGOHIZ3DI35LYQUIE","additional_properties":{},"content":"On Thursday, Mr Milei’s opponents in the Senate fell one vote short of the two-thirds majority needed to launch a Senate investigation into his role in the cryptocurrency uproar. 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The Argentinian shared a video in which he presented Mr Musk with a chainsaw, symbolic of the cost-cutting programme he is leading.","type":"text"},{"_id":"V2FK6TX7HFE3FP7QO3LN4VK324","additional_properties":{},"content":"Mr Milei and Mr Trump are both due to speak on Saturday at the Conservative Political Action Conference in the US capital.","type":"text"},{"_id":"I6ZUYVGYHZF4BFHEPF4OSTTG2M","additional_properties":{},"content":"Elon Musk and his ‘super-geniuses’ reckon democracy is ripe for disruption","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"73JJVH6LGRADFLYAASZQ6HZEGA","additional_properties":{},"content":"Polls suggest the memecoin scandal has had limited impact on Mr Milei’s support, even though a large majority of respondents said his role should be investigated.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6ETYQDPIPVGXLOII6Q3SV5WHA4","additional_properties":{},"content":"His approval rating has ticked down just one percentage point this week from their most recent measurement in December, to 48.4 per cent, while his rejection rating rose 2 percentage points, to 50 per cent, according to opinion firm Trespuntozero.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VKD2Q7VNTFE6TPMLTCC47PJTWA","additional_properties":{},"content":"Senators also failed to reach a two-thirds majority on a proposal to summon Karina Milei, the president’s sister and chief of staff, for questioning.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AYYMTKRN2JGBXIH7TSLKNNY77I","additional_properties":{},"content":"She became embroiled in the scandal after La Nación newspaper reported that she took the first meeting with the consultant who later introduced the president to the coin’s creators.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JGYNLT5NWJGZ5NGKV6VUVWXXHM","additional_properties":{},"content":"Argentina’s presidential spokesperson declined to comment on the report. − Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2025","type":"text"},{"_id":"NX42F6764BGH7PMVR53WCAYZKU","additional_properties":{},"content":"","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Ciara Nugent in Buenos Aires"}]},"description":{"basic":"Libertarian secures electoral reform after his most difficult week since becoming Argentina’s president"},"display_date":"2025-02-21T14:36:11.066Z","headlines":{"basic":"Javier Milei wins Senate votes despite memecoin scandal","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"DLEYRKUBZ7UHSAAFP4P7NOB4CE","auth":{"1":"251ed4ec8625524e1dcc916f6a31f9a5676ea18eeffe0ad3945daad8675fbe66"},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/DLEYRKUBZ7UHSAAFP4P7NOB4CE.jpg"}},"subtype":"default","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Americas"},{"name":"World"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/world/americas/2025/02/21/javier-milei-wins-senate-votes-despite-memecoin-scandal/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/world/americas","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Americas"}}}},{"_id":"3GWDJETVIVCVLD63CM4J2TTDDE","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":279,"audio_url":"https://beyondwords-cdn-b7fyckdeejejb6dj.a03.azurefd.net/audio/projects/5469/podcasts/31953890-b0f0-4cd7-b483-d9a26d48199c/versions/1740069590/media/89938545116800fb3af0376bef5e9326_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/business/economy/2025/02/21/if-trump-messes-with-the-fed-a-serious-us-economic-crisis-will-follow/","content_elements":[{"_id":"FEUXACYHG5DANEF4IYYLSNJ5O4","additional_properties":{"_id":1740066426015},"content":"The first month of the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/donald-trump/\" target=\"_blank\">Trump</a> administration in the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/united-states/\" target=\"_blank\">United States</a> has involved dramatic policy changes. For the outside world, the initial focus has been the seismic shift in US foreign policy and on potential tariffs on trade. Both are profoundly upsetting the current world order.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PQBM2RUNUFA5JHSS7GZTL4EGZU","additional_properties":{"_id":1740066426016},"content":"There is a broad consensus among economists that trade wars being instigated by the US will be bad for all who are affected.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5H3RBV6RQJHKPKBS46RP3VJCQI","additional_properties":{"_id":1740066426017},"content":"The UK National Institute for Economic and Social Research has estimated that if the initial tariffs proposed by President Trump on Mexico, Canada and China had gone ahead, and if they had been had reciprocated with similar tariffs on American exports, US GDP would be reduced by 0.4 per cent and US prices would end up almost 1.5 per cent higher. The effects on Canada and Mexico would be worse.","type":"text"},{"_id":"27GCQV6XV5CRBLFECKTEO6CKTY","additional_properties":{"_id":1740066426018},"content":"This gives a flavour of the likely fallout if Trump ramps up tariffs on the US’s trading partners.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JSIRA3XG6VETLD6K5DSUBEQCBM","additional_properties":{"_id":1740066426019},"content":"Because tariffs will directly affect the world economy, this aspect of the US administration’s economic policy has received widespread attention. However, much less attention has been paid by the rest of the world to the implications of likely US fiscal policy.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TTZM7H4XUZEW3KJ6SXPXL3XLCY","additional_properties":{"_id":1740066426020},"content":"Last year, US government borrowing amounted to more than 7 per cent of GDP, the most profligate fiscal policy in the developed world. The only countries in the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/organisation-for-economic-cooperation-and-development/\" target=\"_blank\">OECD</a> with borrowing approaching the US level are Hungary and Italy.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DNBYLSZD4FCEVELXD2JCKVRFHA","additional_properties":{"_id":1740066426021},"content":"US borrowing rose over the last Trump administration from 5 per cent in 2016 to 7 per cent in 2019, with a large increase in the pandemic year of 2020.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4EURYGB4WJDCZGUHSHKI36YYDE","additional_properties":{"_id":1740066426022},"content":"While exceptional pandemic borrowing occurred in most other countries, under Joe Biden the subsequent “normalisation” in borrowing, unlike in Europe, stabilised at a very high level. This is one important reason why US growth has been faster than in the EU – more borrowed money has been pumped into their economy.","type":"text"},{"_id":"X4K3TTVEEBHHNJ3OZJL2M5MWYA","additional_properties":{"_id":1740066426023},"content":"As a result of sustained high borrowing in recent years, the US national debt is now almost 125 per cent of national income. 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This reflects trust in the US central bank, the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/federal-reserve/\" target=\"_blank\">Federal Reserve</a> (Fed), that it will use interest rates to maintain inflation at a low level in the long term.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TJCSLRUHUJCL5KHBLQZPVH65QA","embed":{"config":{},"id":"acast_podcast-7458","url":"/"},"subtype":"acast_podcast","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"MDYLM3PX5RGJLAIUQMOV6CCX2U","additional_properties":{"_id":1740066426026},"content":"However, Trump has promised big tax cuts in future US budgets, which would only be partially offset by a rise in revenue from tariffs.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KNCUMKRSI5DGZO6ZHV6XKUYV5U","additional_properties":{"_id":1740066426027},"content":"While <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/elon-musk/\" target=\"_blank\">Elon Musk</a> is laying waste to the US civil service, the federal salary bill accounts for only a small part of US government expenditure. 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He said the Zambia arrangement would focus “on building sustainable food systems, prioritising improved nutrition, gender equality and climate action”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RFUDGOEHMZGXLAJEK3M6X5CNME","additional_properties":{},"content":"While the initial 90-day funding USAID pause caused concern in Government, this was heightened as the criticism of the US agency intensified among Trump and his allies in Washington last week.","type":"text"},{"_id":"O2VAGO6U65CPNDUTFQMOOMCOMY","additional_properties":{},"content":"A Government spokesman told The Irish Times on Monday: “We are following closely the continuing reports and announcements in Washington in relation to USAID, and are assessing the potential impact for our collaboration in Malawi and Zambia.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"5O7MJPZUMNEIHMHG6FQDFKYMAQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"Trump said USAID had been run by “radical lunatics and we are getting them out” and that he would make a decision about the future of the organisation.","type":"text"},{"_id":"64DFBS2ACZHQXA7QOIVD4V57IA","additional_properties":{},"content":"<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/elon-musk/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/elon-musk/\">Elon Musk</a>, the richest man in the world, the president’s close ally and head of his new department of government efficiency, said Trump had agreed the agency should be shut down.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LHCQYZXBOJEIXDFTHNUSOVVWCM","additional_properties":{},"content":"Concerns over impact of Trump cuts on Irish foreign aid efforts","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"FCLY77WNRNDOVGZTIQH5D7PJEU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Some Republican critics of USAID contend that some of the programmes it funded were wasteful or promoted a liberal agenda. Musk called USAID “a criminal organisation”. Other Trump allies even alleged USAID had been a front for US intelligence.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RJUY3VPJQJCCXDXYPQDWIDW7MM","additional_properties":{},"content":"Staff working for Musk entered the USAID building in Washington this week and made changes to its technology infrastructure. They also tried to gain access to classified material, leading to a confrontation with two top security directors at the aid agency. 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Ms Sheinbaum rejected that “slanderous” accusation, but struck a softer note yesterday as she announced “a series of agreements” with Mr Trump.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VMHF6SSRBZAB5J3447QPWQA3AE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Mexico had agreed to send 10,000 members of its national guard “to prevent drug trafficking from Mexico to the US, in particular of fentanyl”, she said. 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The <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/european-commission/\" target=\"_blank\">European Commission</a> has prepared contingency plans to retaliate in kind if necessary.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MGWI7ATRZJBUPNO3PREGM7CWG4","additional_properties":{},"content":"Irish <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/government/\" target=\"_blank\">Government</a> sources have expressed concern about the potentially destabilising effects on global trade, consumer confidence, markets, the world economy and policymaking arising from Mr Trump’s interventions – with instability in the west likely to bolster the position of Russia and China. Ireland would be particularly exposed in any EU-US trade dispute, as it exports billions of euro worth of goods to the US, predominantly from the pharmaceutical sector.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HJMO4FZTWRG5DOM5ADPSKHVDWY","additional_properties":{},"content":"Speaking in Brussels yesterday , Taoiseach <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/micheal-martin/\" target=\"_blank\">Micheál Martin</a> said the EU needed to “act as one” if Mr Trump followed through on his threats to impose tariffs.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FP7FQUYRJZHA7DBA5X7UAFYIE4","additional_properties":{},"content":"“First of all we have to see what happens, and assess it, measure it, calibrate the impacts and then develop our response,” the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/fianna-fail/\" target=\"_blank\">Fianna Fáil</a> leader said. “I wouldn’t do anything prematurely right now, until we see what exactly is being proposed, if something is being proposed.","type":"text"},{"_id":"J6Y3KSHVWFCOVDWVMMVI5MNSOY","additional_properties":{},"content":"“The European Union has to act as one. We are an economic entity, we have a single market,” Mr Martin said. “In our view, protectionism more generally will harm citizens no matter where they reside, and that tariffs are a negative in respect of economic development.” – Additional reporting: Guardian","type":"text"},{"_id":"YCDY6C2IB5FUNMX3YVDX7FFP3I","type":"list"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Jack Power"}},"name":"Jack Power"}]},"description":{"basic":"Mexico agrees to send 10,000 members of its national guard ‘to prevent drug trafficking from Mexico to the US, in particular of fentanyl’, says Mexico’s president Claudia Sheinbaum"},"display_date":"2025-02-04T06:00:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"Trump agrees to pause Canada and Mexico tariffs as shares tumble over trade war fears","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"WBRHF4ESFOW7NCZAQ4EQ4KHRHE","auth":{"1":"a93b4054e71edc4f4dc59ccfa94a4805f41e3d9669ba71cc20f2ebf2c5aac716"},"focal_point":{"x":3603,"y":1039},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/WBRHF4ESFOW7NCZAQ4EQ4KHRHE.jpg"}},"subtype":"default","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"US"},{"name":"Americas"},{"name":"World"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/world/us/2025/02/04/trump-agrees-to-pause-mexico-tariffs-as-shares-tumble-over-trade-war-fears/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/world/us","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"US"}}}},{"_id":"TPWBGI4VIBDHPMLUFVYRSYZPQQ","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":523,"audio_url":"https://beyondwords-cdn-b7fyckdeejejb6dj.a03.azurefd.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/a95b15d2-abad-4651-90d0-037208ddba34/versions/1738523056/media/00f78c44f2378df32e4b7929bfd3a33f_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/politics/2025/02/04/irish-diplomats-in-washington-aim-to-banish-anxiety-and-build-ties-with-new-trump-administration/","content_elements":[{"_id":"F4VMELARWJBQ3B34RAVSBP6QUI","additional_properties":{},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"DY2C7HP7J5DS7DD5B3CZJKIODM","additional_properties":{},"content":"In just over six weeks, Taoiseach <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/micheal-martin/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/micheal-martin/\">Micheál Martin</a> will be preparing to visit the White House to meet president <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/donald-trump/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/donald-trump/\">Donald Trump</a>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CKHWB33M3JCXVFYLLBIOOHBD2Q","additional_properties":{},"content":"Despite the recent gnashing of teeth and frayed nerves over what the second Trump administration will mean for Ireland, the channels of diplomacy in Washington are continuing as normal. Behind the very public stage show of the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/st-patrick-s-day/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/st-patrick-s-day/\">St Patrick’s Day</a> events in the White House lies an ocean of logistical wranglings.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PIVPBEQDOFFZHLSPHTLV575WHU","additional_properties":{},"content":"“You would often make contact after Thanksgiving but it is more difficult this time around as the new administration will only have their feet under the desk,” says a former official who served with the Irish Embassy in Washington.","type":"text"},{"_id":"I6HY6XXXMJAP3OCLYKYCWZ4LZU","additional_properties":{},"content":"“Normally the first contact would be made with the State Department just after Thanksgiving and you begin to tease out when the best date would be. There is a lot of painstaking contact because the American system is extremely large.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"6FFSVVPH65F6FPX3XQ7TIE44V4","additional_properties":{},"content":"As wave after wave of Trump policy reforms and changes continue to introduce profound domestic and international changes, the questions over how Ireland will fare over the next four years of the 47th <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/united-states/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/united-states/\">United States</a> presidency continue unabated. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"I7C4JJHB5VEZXJFIXAEM3DAN2E","additional_properties":{},"content":"Recent observations, from <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2024/11/19/banker-who-has-been-critical-of-ireland-appointed-as-us-commerce-secretary/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2024/11/19/banker-who-has-been-critical-of-ireland-appointed-as-us-commerce-secretary/\">the much-quoted tweet</a> of the incoming commerce secretary Howard Lutnick on Ireland’s trade surplus (“It’s nonsense that Ireland of all places runs a trade surplus at our expense,” he wrote) to the claim by Sean Spicer, who served as White House press secretary for a time during the first Trump administration, that Ireland has a “long way to go” with mending diplomatic bridges with the Republicans, and the general threat of tariffs, have all combined to create a state of anxiety for Ireland.","type":"text"},{"_id":"32RPQ5E2YNGP5LLTBKHDU6EXZY","additional_properties":{},"content":"But the Spicer view was robustly countered in Irish governmental circles, and embassy sources are confident that Irish Ambassador Geraldine Byrne Nason has been scrupulous in cultivating friendships and connections with both sides of the US political system. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"XISYMMPZJ5EITICPMQHLWB3AJU","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"4OSP7FY2GRCTZFTWPMOMTAPIWY","additional_properties":{},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"IDNYFM5N7REZJCXPPBYF5JK5LY","additional_properties":{},"content":"Eight years have passed since Spicer held that role: a political lifetime in Washington. With a new administration – and a change of political party – comes a complete clear-out of personnel. Irish diplomatic bipartisan contacts and relationships are maintained throughout administrative terms with both parties, irrespective of which party is in government.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PEBJLBMXVZC3HPYFOYOX2EXMUU","additional_properties":{},"content":"“Of course you maintain contacts with the party not in office and it is clear we have been doing that,” says the former Washington diplomat.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XBIXKSJUHZBG3FHJMUNSASOXTU","additional_properties":{},"content":"“It is about a day-to-day effort at the cultivation of relationships. You can never stop. You have to keep wearing out your shoe leather by turning up at offices, talking to people, engaging with them, inviting them round. And that’s what has been happening for the past four years.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"G4N7RTZOFFFINKYOFANSN4ZP5I","additional_properties":{},"content":"The Friends of Ireland caucus is comprised of both Republican and Democratic representatives. One of those, New York Republican Representative Nicole Malliotakis, will serve on the incoming Ways and Means Committee.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Y3KQEZIDANFJLNIQH4RT3FMPUI","additional_properties":{},"content":"The New Yorker has a big Irish constituency in her district, the 11th, which incorporates Staten Island and sections of Queens and Brooklyn. She is optimistic that the new administration can strengthen both trade ties and enhance the historical warmth between the US and Ireland.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JXONAKNA4NCANKS5FWHOHAGKSQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"“Ireland is a country I personally love,” Ms Malliotakis told The Irish Times.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DSE5JKFDNZCZ7MQMUPSKYPQ5PA","additional_properties":{},"content":" “I have visited multiple times both in my capacity as an elected official and a personal capacity. I have an affinity for the Irish and a large population in my district. I am Greek and Cuban but I feel I am honorary Irish – the ambassador calls me ‘Molly O’Takis’. But I feel there is a very strong bilateral relationship between the US and Ireland. It has gotten stronger in recent years, and I think it will grow.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"KXHDGFHTLRH6ROAMSPW2TE2JAM","additional_properties":{},"content":"She says that as a member of the US Congressional Ways and Means Committee, which oversees tax and trade, she sees the pharmaceutical industry as one area where there is potential to grow ties between the two countries.","type":"text"},{"_id":"T7TNEVEWUBH57A6BRO4DMBY2RI","additional_properties":{},"content":"“The US is very much looking to limit its dependency on communist China for pharmaceuticals, and Ireland seems to be a country where pharmaceutical manufacturing is growing. So, I think there is a real potential for our two countries to grow as we seek to friend-shore and on-shore our operations here in the US,” she said. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"KORDYZLCVRCURG4SAXFDLAW5RQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"Acknowledging recently-voiced Irish concerns over the potential impact of US imports and tariffs and potential changes to the corporation tax, Malliotakis expressed reservations at Ireland’s involvement in the OECD global tax deal.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZZISKTWUKRHOFF5IAWRPW3HDVE","additional_properties":{},"content":"“I think that may have hurt Ireland. But now that the US is saying we’re not joining ... as long as there are no retaliatory taxes on American companies, I think you will just see the relationship grow,” she said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IJ54VL3AFFCCNIJZSMODGAQBGY","additional_properties":{},"content":"“Obviously there have to be discussions as to how we get there. But you have a really wonderful Ambassador here in the United States and Geraldine has been a great advocate for your country. And she has become a friend, and she’s been very involved in ensuring she meets with elected officials and members of congress regularly and keeping us up to date with where those opportunities are. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"RMH24TDSJ5DT7H7N7YNQHGC43I","additional_properties":{},"content":"“I am hopeful we will be able to visit Ireland in the near future – a delegation from our Ways and Means Committee- to talk about potential for trade – particularly as it relates to pharmaceuticals. I think that would be the next best step.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"4446WRBZMNB7TBNVH5EFTYIUNE","additional_properties":{},"content":"The argument that the slow decline of Ireland’s influence in the US is gathering pace is reflected in the sharp drop of Irish immigrants to the US and also the diminishing number of overtly American-Irish political figures on Capitol Hill. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"R6VJDYWFTVHLRCS6DTK4PYUD5I","additional_properties":{},"content":"The counterview is it has moved to a different phase, with a diplomatic presence that is greater than ever before and a symbiotic trade and investment relationship.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YPMXNUY7OFF2HPFTN4CEIB53IE","additional_properties":{},"content":"“There is a history there and a comfort that we have a reliable partner,” says Malliotakis.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SLG4AJ57VVHZHNRZFUZMKO3ZLA","additional_properties":{},"content":"“The foreign direct investment works both ways and it is mutually beneficial. And geographically, you are the closest to us outside of Mexico and Canada.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"WGXHAKSACVHD5IZFFJQGG24KGE","additional_properties":{},"content":"None of this guarantees sailing through four years of serene waters. Last March, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/simon-harris/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/simon-harris/\">Simon Harris</a> arrived in Washington to offer strenuous words of Ireland’s concerns about Israel’s bombing of Gaza. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"2IRW6BD7DNCZ3BMR46PN5SZJJE","additional_properties":{},"content":"The current ceasefire is fragile. It remains to be seen how the Taoiseach will broach the issue with president Trump in March – and how that message is to be received. But the fundamentals of the Irish-US relationship remain sound – and warm. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"Q4FG5TLKXVCHDJXTODWT5SSQF4","additional_properties":{},"content":"Irish Embassy staff in Washington have been busy establishing relevant connections with incoming White House administration staff. But Ireland’s Embassy is just one of 170 in Washington, so the requests and demands for diplomatic time from any White House administration are immense.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DTB2JYVI2BDTJAFONEWM52YOSY","additional_properties":{},"content":" For decades, Ireland has managed to carve out slices of time that have been the envy of embassies of comparable nations, and the St Patrick’s celebrations have brought extraordinary access, with the visiting Irish delegation visiting Capitol Hill, a breakfast hosted by the vice-president as well as the ceremonial events at the White House.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JGDNKWMSJZD2XDXA6N5CLCOXEY","additional_properties":{},"content":"“Certainly at these events a lot of business does take place and a lot of relationship building,” says Rep Malliotakis.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FLTBXQSHGNAKFFQIN5LVPRYATQ","additional_properties":{},"content":" “But your Ambassador is one of the more proactive that I have encountered. She reaches out and comes to meet you and has specific asks on what we can do to work together better.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"TXX74IUG45EELHLSQUHMHPQDYY","additional_properties":{},"content":"Those connections may be more critical than ever in negotiating a White House presidency which is shaping up to be highly unpredictable and volatile.","type":"text"},{"_id":"A6YQGCYVOFHN7FVMFKJGZOTGVI","additional_properties":{},"content":"A source close to the Irish Embassy has stated there has been nothing to suggest that the logistical arrangements for this year’s White House celebrations will from previous years. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"K75RZO6BVBA5NDHAWBTMAS6JVA","additional_properties":{},"content":"President Trump is familiar with the St Patrick’s arrangements from his previous term and the Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, proved an enthusiastic host of the traditional Speaker’s luncheon attended by then president Joe Biden last year. 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A sustained chorus of booing broke out during the singing of the Star Spangled Banner.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GNKWKLA36FBLTIUFCJP77VK4WE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Mandia, the Ottowan R’n’B artist who performed the song, confirmed afterwards that she knew the jeers were coming and that as they weren’t directed at her, “didn’t give a f**k” about what happened. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"X2XINS7HJNBKZKFXZSLH66FQTM","additional_properties":{},"content":"There are a million and one US quips and jokes about Canada’s dependable boringness and otherness but on Sunday, the ideologically sundered citizens of the US got a glimpse of what national unity looks and sounds like.","type":"text"},{"_id":"R2ORNOOJ6FHJFHSGNIU63LAXAQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"The response to US president <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/donald-trump/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/donald-trump/\">Donald Trump’s</a> announcement of a 25 per cent tariff on imports from Canada and <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/mexico/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/mexico/\">Mexico</a>, and 10 per cent on <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/china/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/china/\">China</a>, met a perplexed but determined response from their northern neighbours. Tariffs on the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/european-union/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/european-union/\">European Union</a> are expected to follow.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HZNXVSRRVRBTZIBDC3PEFDURN4","additional_properties":{},"content":"“The path the US is on right now is a lose-lose path,” warned Chrystia Freeland, the former Canadian deputy prime minister and a front-runner to succeed prime minister <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/justin-trudeau/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/justin-trudeau/\">Justin Trudeau</a>, in a TV interview on Sunday.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IUR2PTYYL5E2JONWYC3QFKUZ4I","additional_properties":{},"content":"“And at the end of the day you cannot defy the laws of economics. The people who are going to suffer from this the most are Americans, including the Americans who are voting for Trump. The president has decided now to make gas in the United States more expensive. He has decided to make groceries in the United States more expensive. And our retaliation is going to cost Americans jobs. That is completely ridiculous. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"2NG5SYJTRNDC3HXX6WBDZBPOMY","additional_properties":{},"content":"“We do not want to do this. And the right thing for the Americans to shake their heads and go guys, the Canadians are actually great partners, they are great neighbours. Let’s not do this. Because I want to tell you. Canada is formidable. We are resolute. We know what we are fighting for. We don’t want to have this fight but we are not going to lose it.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"OCWDTVPDENHQDHAHKDK3RCTYMQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"The Canadian response – the imposition of 25 per cent tariffs on the $30 billion of imports originating in the US, is effective immediately and in place until such a time as the US lifts its tariff measures. 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Many top US growers have moved to Mexico because limits on legal immigration have made it hard to find workers in the US. Mexico now supplies 90 per cent of avocados sold in the US. Is Mr Trump now an avocado nationalist?”","type":"text"},{"_id":"OUSHIRUECBFNXGMID5U75J2K5Q","additional_properties":{},"content":"There is a fair chance that the absence of avocado from the presidential breakfast menu would not cause Trump undue concern. But the tariff war is likely to have an immediate impact on the American consumer. Mexico’s president Claudia Sheinbaum stated on Sunday that while her country “doesn’t want confrontation” with the US, details of retaliatory tariffs will be announced on Monday.","type":"text"},{"_id":"P27NEWQXWJAU3OPOFXXXBBKDVU","additional_properties":{},"content":"“Problems are not addressed by imposing tariffs, but with talks and dialogue,” Sheinbaum said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KO6VBNFIEZERPJMQVPBUILAUZE","additional_properties":{},"content":"What will be the impact of Trump’s North American trade war?","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"OVJLJ5JVLNHG5ME6DQXILFUEVY","additional_properties":{},"content":"The wilful provocation of a trade war and the attendant rise in gas and grocery prices – key promises of Trump’s election campaign – generated individual responses from the Democrats, but the party lacks a cohesive message – or a recognisable leading voice. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"XSVM6W27QZHS3LPJYTGJJCWORE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Trump turned to social media to explain his rationale by stating that the US is paying “hundreds of billions of dollars to subsidise Canada. Why? There is no reason. We don’t need anything they have. We have unlimited energy, should make our own cars, and have more lumber than we can ever use. Without this massive subsidy, Canada ceases to exist as a viable country. Harsh but true!”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DEEBOENLQU656P7DNTIYBT52Q4","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"4K6UGEQXLZCENKXU2IH3YDXR5I","additional_properties":{},"content":"The post contains echoes of Trump’s remarks after meeting Trudeau in Mar-a-Lago last November, when he said that his visitor conceded Canada couldn’t exist without US import business. Conceding that the tariff orders may involve “some pain” for US consumers in the short-term, Trump will argue that tariffs are tied to his broader vision of a self-sufficient domestic economy. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"PFDKTWMSQVDW5JTA5MSFJTFAMQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"But the initial announcement of the tariffs was tied to border security and the new administration’s promise to halt the flow of fentanyl into US towns and cities, as well as its programme against undocumented immigration. 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In recent years, brinkmanship has repeatedly erupted whenever Congress has tried to raise the debt ceiling — usually because rightwing voices have threatened a government shutdown unless their demands were met.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZA6LRSTG7NHRJIDXQDRGN3ZGX4","additional_properties":{"_id":1734879013712},"content":"Here we go again. Last week Mike Johnson, the Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives, tried to pass a stopgap debt ceiling deal with a $6.75 trillion (€6.48 trillion) budget — but it was derailed by incoming president <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/donald-trump/\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump </a>and his supporters, including Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy.","type":"text"},{"_id":"W2GFLYOOKJDHLF75O3G5FE7BRA","additional_properties":{"_id":1734879013713},"content":"“This Bill should not pass,” <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/elon-musk/\" target=\"_blank\">Musk </a>furiously declared on X, sparking last-ditch negotiations amid threats of government shutdowns.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WUMI2LHYNVBUTLDUE3ISFDTOSE","additional_properties":{"_id":"RVUOTGWJKZG4HEARYQJJE7OP7E"},"content":"Elon Musk could soon be as rich as the Netherlands","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"T5X33R44Z5FGLER555TM6NDO4I","additional_properties":{"_id":1734879013714},"content":"Investors should note three key points. The first is that last month’s clean sweep victory by Trump means that the critical political fight in 2025 will not be across the aisle, Democrats versus Republicans, but inside the Republican Party itself.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CNKBUO2AKZCZJBJQ4JERQOVCZE","additional_properties":{"_id":1734879013715},"content":"Second, this Republican-on-Republican battle will be ugly. Men such as Musk and Ramaswamy want to make their voices heard by attacking congressional Republicans like the hapless Johnson.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7F3QBZVBNVCUNHDUUTOPQYSS5I","additional_properties":{"_id":1734879013716},"content":"Third, fiscal policy will be an early flashpoint in this fight — particularly given this week’s jump in bond yields following the Federal Reserve’s downgrading of its projections for interest rate cuts in 2025.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2UCPN54HJFE7XHHKG2WEA3SE2E","additional_properties":{"_id":1734879013717},"content":"Washington is one focus for this fight. But so is Mar-a-Lago, the seat of Trump’s political court, where his quasi-courtiers are now expressing distinctly different views about how to tackle America’s current $36 trillion in national debt.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7CGEH6VXOJE5LILWWTIBVZSRJA","additional_properties":{"_id":1734879013718},"content":"Some see little need to panic about this debt pile, arguing that the dollar’s reserve currency status will force global investors to keep gobbling up treasury bonds. Trump often seems to sit in this camp. Indeed, this week he demanded the debt ceiling be scrapped.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WL62P2W6UJGIXNHRKCRKGC2GRU","additional_properties":{"_id":1734879013719},"content":"However, others around him, such as Steve Bannon, former White House chief strategist, are more alarmed. That is because, as I have often noted, the treasury must refinance about $9 trillion of bonds next year at a time when inflationary pressures are rising. Trump has pledged to make policy changes that could add many trillions more to the debt, while also threatening to weaken the dollar and undermine the independence of the Fed.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IRII4U5C35HKJCERFNZYVSP7IE","additional_properties":{"_id":1734879013720},"content":"This is a very nasty cocktail, as Scott Bessent, his nominee for treasury secretary, understands only too well.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XLBDBQAWMJFDHC24UASKO3MSVA","additional_properties":{"_id":"LSULL5IW7JD45MIERJPQCL24PU"},"embed":{"config":{},"id":"acast_podcast-6090","url":"/"},"subtype":"acast_podcast","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"6NCOUC72WVCWLHGV255VD4BMK4","additional_properties":{},"content":"Worse still, potentially flighty hedge funds have a growing role in the treasuries market, and a potentially hostile China has leverage too. Just look at Beijing’s recent decision to issue a $2 billion sovereign bond in Saudi Arabia. This issuance was piddling in size, but was a symbolic poke in the eye for Washington — not least because the yield was similar to that on US bonds.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZDHU6I57VFF67DER35GATXY77Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1734879013721},"content":"The second dividing line in Mar-a-Lago is over tax. Trump has repeatedly pledged to make his 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, with its huge income and estate tax breaks, permanent. That would create a bonanza for wealthy Americans, including the dozen-odd billionaires in his top team.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EMLTX6RSU5BVTFVRU45Q4O3WLI","additional_properties":{"_id":1734879013722},"content":"He also wants to cut corporate taxes from 21 per cent to 15 per cent for entities in America, end taxes on social security payments, tips and overtime and extend childcare credits.","type":"text"},{"_id":"POIWSDTNNNCG7NTGTMYDX2ZSJQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1734879013723},"content":"I am told that Bessent and others have told Trump that the resulting fiscal hole could be plugged by faster growth, tariff revenue and a $2 trillion government spending cut promised by Musk. There are also calls for tax rises on wealthy foundations.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MEYCERVB4ZA6RELSJJZXL6EGFE","additional_properties":{"_id":1734879013724},"content":"However, it will be almost impossible to cut federal spending significantly without slashing expenditure on social security and defence, which Trump seems reluctant to do. And the size of any tariff revenue is unclear. Trump may prefer to use tariffs more as a geopolitical threat than anything else.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TRAC5TVCMRARPO2VS477Q5SLOM","additional_properties":{"_id":1734879013725},"content":"Moreover, growth alone is unlikely to plug the fiscal hole. And debt servicing costs could be higher than expected given the Fed’s signals that it is slowing the pace of rate cuts.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PLAQ4VQIWFFXTOYZZXMNTKMJCM","additional_properties":{"_id":1734879013726},"content":"This leaves Bannon calling for more radical measures, including tax rises. “You’re gonna have to raise taxes on the wealthy ... [to] get a grip on the out-of-control debt,” he told a Republican dinner this week. Yes, really.","type":"text"},{"_id":"K36WNS5Z4FAUBMYFIH74A44CK4","additional_properties":{"_id":1734879013727},"content":"The reason? Bannon believes that the recent assassination of a healthcare executive shows there is now so much anti-elite anger that it would be political suicide for Trump to squeeze the middle class while favouring the rich. He thinks it would be equally dangerous to ignore the bond markets.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VRLT6VYP2BAINFDORVNJQTQE2A","additional_properties":{"_id":1734879013728},"content":"Thus, he says, “the neoliberal neocons are going to have to pay for what happened” — meaning that “populist nationalists” must over-rule “Republican orthodox folk”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YD5EJWI6GFEUPK234VHR6SO2J4","additional_properties":{"_id":1734879013729},"content":"Bannon’s argument about popular anger is spot on. But Trump’s problem is that tax rises for the wealthy will horrify “orthodox” Republicans in Congress. They would also infuriate many of the wealthy entrepreneurs who backed his presidential bid.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3GP3PZNZG5HVZFTF4L3PE7HJC4","additional_properties":{"_id":1734879013730},"content":"So the looming $36 trillion question is not simply whether the plutocrats or populists will win this fight; it is also whether the bond markets will stay calm while this plays out.","type":"text"},{"_id":"J4YEF5W4V5EBVHWLR4VK5ZRA24","additional_properties":{"_id":1734879013731},"content":"In other words, last week’s debt ceiling skirmish could merely be a prelude to bigger battles in 2025. 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The 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals is considering a challenge that could end Daca, as the programme is known.","type":"text"},{"_id":"D2QX5Q3AKBFRPFSUO4RF57P4KE","additional_properties":{"_id":1734440141826},"content":"“I don’t even want to think about leaving my children behind if I have to return to a land I no longer recognise,” she said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QMWSRRWFYBFTLC4YS56AICZKJQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1734440141827},"content":"In Texas border communities, there has been growing impatience with illegal immigration. Trump won 12 of the South Texas region’s 14 counties, up from five in 2016.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WMV4FLOTUJGFZAH5PW6TZN6ZPQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1734440141828},"content":"“I think that people who are US citizens, and I’m talking about, you know, most of our population, I think they believe that immigration laws should be enforced,” said Toni Treviño, who leads the Republican Party in Starr County, along the border.","type":"text"},{"_id":"N5I4M3RBIBEIVCGKUOJIG2KMUE","additional_properties":{"_id":1734534977086},"content":"“And if you marry somebody who you know is not a US citizen, that is a choice you are making. And at that point there could be consequences. Because oftentimes consequences of actions are very serious.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"AFKYTPTWDBCM7PXAILNSGCT2RI","additional_properties":{"_id":1734440141829},"content":"She said immigrants were welcome as long as they chose a legal pathway. In a case such as Maria’s, Treviño said, her children could petition for her to return legally if she were to be deported.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TL4AXBWSFVBSXHWL4KWGK546CA","additional_properties":{"_id":1734440141830},"content":"Fears that some blended families could be separated became palpable during a recent meeting organised by activists from La Unión del Pueblo Entero in the border town of San Juan, Texas.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4INZ6PAIPZHQVEP5LQF7N5IYWM","additional_properties":{"_id":1734440141831},"content":"“Many kids are terrified that they are going to come home from school and find an empty house, because their parents have been deported,” said Elizabeth Rodriguez, an activist who works with immigrant farmworkers.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5I7ZFH6BE5D5LJGQGRHAUOGLHU","additional_properties":{"_id":1734440141832},"content":"A nervous crowd watched quietly as meeting organisers staged a series of sketches meant to educate them about their rights as immigrants living in the US illegally. One person played the role of a police officer and another that of an immigrant caught in a traffic stop.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MYSMEL3UEBEW5H3J4PGNKBEPFA","additional_properties":{"_id":1734440141833},"content":"Joaquín García, a director of community organising for the group, who was playing the officer, began by warning the audience that immigrants would need to be extra cautious come January 20th, when Trump returned to the White House. They should do everything in their power, he added, to avoid an interaction with local and state police and the ubiquitous green-and-white Border Patrol trucks that can be seen at almost every turn in Texas border cities.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EP65JQRNLVBD7LTA6VBHA2IGGI","additional_properties":{"_id":1734440141834},"content":"In one scenario, García coaxed a woman playing the role of an immigrant into admitting that she lacked identification and a car registration, prompting the pretend officer to call Border Patrol for backup. 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This time, he has selected a radical cabinet to push through campaign promises including the imposition of tariffs on imports, the mass deportation of undocumented migrants, a stark shift on foreign policy with profound implications for the citizens of Ukraine and Gaza and a vow to start making stuff in America again.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BH2ISRGCHJCWPK7SOANQXLNEDE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732877492942},"content":"It may be a little self-serving for Irish voices to be squawking about the potential threat to the corporate tax take. But the worry is real, with three major US companies contributing 43 per cent of Ireland’s corporation tax take in 2022 and an estimated 15 per cent of the Irish labour force working for just under 1,000 US companies.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NPJEEKC3VFHQFG5I5ALNUHQS3U","additional_properties":{"_id":"R2ZR7MSJ7RFPLKNNBS3RGKSTHU"},"content":"How could the EU respond if Trump imposes tariffs?","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"4YJ7DAKPNREA7LFTFQUM62NGGQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732877492943},"content":"Last May, Trump was ambivalent when asked, after arriving at his hotel in Doonbeg, Co Clare, whether he believed US companies located in Ireland should pay more tax to their parent state.","type":"text"},{"_id":"M3H7J5NO5BAG7HI7SURNS6CBDQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732727048396},"content":"“That’s an interesting question,” he said. “I won’t answer that question in your country, but a lot of people would say yes. But Ireland has done a great job, you’ve lured a lot of companies in. And they love it here, they really love it here, they’ve been treated well just like I’ve been treated well. This has been a great success.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"OOBM5IDJPFDLDJWJTXYGRBZJYE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732727048397},"content":"It was a classic Trump response in that it could mean anything – or nothing at all. Right now, as the emergent administration faces the task of having some of its more controversial appointments confirmed, what will happen over the next four years is anyone’s guess. But there is a chance that Ireland’s alarm is, at the very least, a bit previous.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SPVPVR3IKVBONHQSBYRB7Y5MUM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732727048398},"content":"“Ireland isn’t even close to being on these guys’ hit list,” reckons Mark Blyth, William Rhodes professor of International Economics at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KCQJEUZOGVE6RARHI434FWGBLY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732877492947},"content":"He says he is aware of the recent observation by Lutnick and is sceptical of its intent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EAMINC7GFRED5PXEMDZMQ4EAJQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732727048399},"content":"“Either that guy literally is dumb as a box of hammers and doesn’t understand that a small country like Ireland couldn’t possibly run a trade surplus against the United States – unless it was making the milk of the leprechauns for youth and eternal life – what could it be possibly be making that would run a trade surplus? It has to be financial stuff going through other companies,” he says. “And if he understands that, the warning shot is not at Ireland. It is at those companies.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"SXBMCRHSZRHTZICL3Y7JWJCTLI","additional_properties":{"_id":"ZNDVIZSFP5CS5BV36OUSV44HHM"},"content":"US trade partners warn Trump tariffs would harm all involved","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"H2SL5STGYBGHHN6LNZKTXDV3LI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732877492950},"content":"He contrasts the US with the situation in China, where “you have a closed capital account, an authoritarian government, massive surveillance, and can take people from corporate boards and make them disappear. You can discipline your capitalists. You can tell them to do stuff and they will say yes”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ABM34LS4Q5AWTFH52A5LCBGSHE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732877492951},"content":"Blyth notes that in the final days of his last administration, Trump issued an executive order that all American companies leave China and come home. “Nobody paid any attention whatsoever,” he says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IUTAHIHSF5AFJN2CEA7OSY75YY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732877492952},"content":"“They would have to move heaven and earth to change the federal government beyond all recognition, develop the type of authoritarian state capacities found in China and force American corporations into doing exactly what the government wants. And then, you could maybe come for Ireland.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"EHHGQ4ZF5FDOHGVF5ZVDCYN2H4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732727048400},"content":"Total US imports from Ireland fell just short of $87 billion in 2023, small beer in its total imports value of $3.3 trillion. Some $36 billion of that was in pharmaceutical products and $20 billion in organic chemicals. It must be noted, World Trade Organisation protocols include a clause that prevents tariffs placed on pharmaceuticals.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WV223QLDERC2LL5OARX3QLAU7A","additional_properties":{"_id":1732727048401},"content":"The current corporate tax rate in the US is 21 per cent. Even if that were to be lowered by the incoming Trump administration, is it debatable that it would have the immediate effect of luring companies home given the fact that, as Mark Blyth puts it, “everyone in the Trump administration, in our previous experience, ends up in the woodchipper within six months”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CNGOZZ5KNJBOZKNRPNWW5U2WK4","additional_properties":{"_id":"HPRJNUPIDRFTTFXPMYCCYHWZ5A"},"content":"Potential for serious damage to Irish economy as Trump reshapes trade, Ministers warned","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"6IEFAL7W5JGKPM3DCHUHBTAGIQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732727048402},"content":"He asks: “Why, then, would you put your faith that anything these guys are doing will lead to a more stable and prosperous future than the one you have engineered for yourself?”","type":"text"},{"_id":"QC32YLAZMBBQLCR52QI5ZGOEVY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732727048403},"content":"Economic debate rages as to the potentially ruinous effects Trump’s planned tariffs may have on the domestic US economy, driving the inflationary cycle into an even more vicious period. 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Trump, who was himself found liable for sexual abuse, moved to elevate three men accused of sexual misconduct – one with a minor – to fill three crucial cabinet posts: leading the justice, defence and health and human services departments.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EVCT42VEOFF2DJ3JWJQEY4YTOQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732400960180},"content":"It is a searing affront to women.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FMSX3KKCEJGYPDPSXV67KFE5PI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732400960181},"content":"As Julia Baird writes in her new book, Bright Shining: How Grace Changes Everything, “In truth, we rarely care about violence against women, so foundational is it to our culture.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"VG75PWCIPZH3XB3VGLXCKVZEHY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732400960182},"content":"When <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2024/11/21/matt-gaetz-drops-bid-to-be-trump-attorney-general-in-face-of-senate-opposition/\" target=\"_blank\">Matt Gaetz dropped out</a>, Trump learned that some people are so repellent, not even he can force them down the throat of craven Republicans in Congress. Some Republicans balk at a Fox News weekend host running our military, much less one who paid a woman who accused him of rape to head off a lawsuit.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BXYH76LZAVBCBJU6QGVKT2ETOA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732400960183},"content":"“It’s a pretty big problem, given that we have, you know, we have a sexual assault problem in our military,” Republican Senator Kevin Cramer said of Trump’s choice for defense secretary, Pete Hegseth.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LYTRD3XJYBCM3AU343EDOEUTG4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732400960184},"content":"And it’s not just men with sordid incidents. Linda McMahon, Trump’s selection for education secretary, has been accused in a lawsuit, along with her husband, Vince McMahon, of allowing a man in their company, World Wrestling Entertainment, to groom and sexually abuse children in the 1980s and 90s. 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It also subjects them to review by a disciplinary board made up of elected officials, which critics worry will be a tool for exercising political control over the justice system.","type":"text"},{"_id":"G4MH6Y6ZKBAONB4TPEKXZZV4TY","additional_properties":{"_id":1730481724047},"content":"López Obrador, Sheinbaum and their allies have argued that the redesign will help eradicate endemic corruption and nepotism in the courts. 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There have already been more than 500 legal challenges to the measure, and several federal judges have ruled in favour of suspending its approval and implementation.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7AZ6WVXW45DFTNSGNX7NCBXHZQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1730481724051},"content":"Eight of the nation’s 11 supreme court justices said this week that they would step down from their posts rather than run for election next summer.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JWXI2MZA3NDZPN5U56ZCWBQWPY","additional_properties":{"_id":1730481724052},"content":"So far, the president and her allies have largely ignored the legal challenges.","type":"text"},{"_id":"S27JSCBUFNFLJBBLEAZAK22A74","additional_properties":{"_id":1730481724053},"content":"In October, congress passed a Bill that would prevent any legal challenges to constitutional amendments, such as the judicial overhaul, on anything but procedural grounds. After most state legislatures approved that measure, the president published it in the government’s official gazette Thursday night, making it law.","type":"text"},{"_id":"I5Z7AN2NONHSHLW6QLU4XKQTOU","additional_properties":{"_id":1730481724054},"content":"Legal scholars say that could allow legislators to reshape the constitution without any judicial review, even from the supreme court.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2F5QOLDFRRFGFKZIDPBFN4GSTM","additional_properties":{"_id":1730481724055},"content":"Next week, the supreme court will consider a resolution to invalidate crucial parts of the judicial overhaul, which could set up a battle with the executive and legislative branches.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IZVMTO4BLRHANNOOIEQIM2XVC4","additional_properties":{"_id":1730481724056},"content":"If eight of the 11 justices vote to strike down those elements, including the election of local and federal judges, they cannot legally take effect, legal experts said. Morena officials have already said that legislators would disregard such a ruling.","type":"text"},{"_id":"APVI33KIOVHEXHGWPQBCLSVYCM","additional_properties":{"_id":1730481724057},"content":"“A judge is not above the people of Mexico,” Sheinbaum said at a news conference in October. This week, she called the supreme court resolution an inappropriate attempt by the justices to legislate.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7MNOZFTLNBGDNDP74AYT6TWY7U","additional_properties":{"_id":1730481724058},"content":"If the court approves the resolution, the president will have two options, analysts say.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Q5RUCDKUYNFRTMSOH73ELIYKM4","additional_properties":{"_id":1730481724059},"content":"She could follow the lead of the hardline power brokers in her party and ignore it. Or she could heed it, and negotiate a way out of the dispute that achieves her party’s goals without rejecting the court’s authority.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QBI4QCN2YJGMTFANEJKNHKD4HA","additional_properties":{"_id":1730481724060},"content":"Defying the justices would thrust the country into uncharted territory, legal scholars say.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2VZ4234GJBEMLNNKNS7PC2ZHHY","additional_properties":{"_id":1730481724061},"content":"“If the court makes a decision and the other branches disregard it, at that point we cease to be a constitutional democracy,” said Pedro Salazar, a scholar of constitutional law at the Law Research Institute of the National Autonomous University of Mexico.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3C3HHBNWEFAFBPFTSPHUNUQEXI","additional_properties":{"_id":1730481724062},"content":"Accepting the ruling, on the other hand, “would defuse this conflict,” Salazar said. “It would be an act of democratic respect.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"BFIINPMWW5FVVNBB2VGFJKG3TA","additional_properties":{"_id":1730481724063},"content":"Yet many argue that Sheinbaum and her Morena party have few incentives to compromise.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3RJMQYIUPNHERCQLZF2LDPTGJQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1730481724064},"content":"She campaigned for office promising to deliver just the kind of overhaul that legislators passed – and she won with the largest margin of victory of any president since Mexico transitioned to democracy in 2000. The governing bloc also secured effective supermajorities in both houses of Congress and most state legislatures and governorships.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AWX3OO7BW5AFHMH3EMAK3P2HAE","additional_properties":{"_id":1730481724065},"content":"“Morena won at the polls and has the right to change the way the judicial system works,” said Viri Ríos, a political analyst based in Mexico City. “To forget that is to forget how democracy works and what a democracy is.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"GSY3RLMGEBC63FW3AJ2EFJNFEY","additional_properties":{"_id":1730481724066},"content":"– This article originally appeared in <a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/01/world/americas/mexico-claudia-sheinbaum-judicial-overhaul.html\">The New York Times</a>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"576PXK7NYNAUPKNYYWJDZZBJSQ","additional_properties":{},"type":"list"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Natalie Kitroeff and Emiliano Rodriguez Mega in Mexico City"}]},"description":{"basic":"Confrontation between judiciary and governing party set to test Claudia Sheinbaum’s leadership"},"display_date":"2024-11-01T17:51:24.82Z","headlines":{"basic":"Mexico’s new president faces first major crisis","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"KU4543H3JZJAJ6ZPEPGOCYCDFI","auth":{"1":"cfd73d0f207e9f72ddbfbac5b342f414b299534611bab7a4959d9758ca98f332"},"focal_point":{"x":2592,"y":1540},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/KU4543H3JZJAJ6ZPEPGOCYCDFI.jpg"}},"subtype":"analysis","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Americas"},{"name":"World"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/world/americas/2024/11/01/mexicos-new-president-faces-first-major-crisis/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/world/americas","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Americas"}}}},{"_id":"TBYBYMIFBNC3XF5G4K5434YIYA","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":120,"audio_url":"https://d22tbkdovk5ea2.cloudfront.net/audio/projects/5469/podcasts/110f5353-5bc6-41a8-b3eb-f4dc72dcca21/versions/1729855729/media/68f0fe9114b07aecbc65cf0d7855231e_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/your-money/2024/10/26/are-markets-too-convinced-of-a-trump-victory/","content_elements":[{"_id":"QPIRJU4ZMJFMHAN3WA3S34ADKA","additional_properties":{"_id":1729852704903},"content":"Markets are “very convinced” that Donald Trump will win the US presidential election, according to billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller, who says you “can see it in the bank stocks”, in cryptocurrency movements and in the soaring stock price of Truth Social, Trump’s social media company.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DWT4Q5BLZZBLTPRXQ3S575MFRM","additional_properties":{"_id":1729852704904},"content":"Truth Social’s stock price may not be the best indicator, given it is a meme stock prone to wild swings, but Druckenmiller is probably right in saying markets increasingly envisage a Trump victory. 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