Ex-Homeland Security official fights back against Trump’s investigation order

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Ex-Homeland Security official fights back against Trump’s investigation order

A former Homeland Security official during President Donald Trump’s first administration, who authored

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sharply critical of the president, is calling on independent government watchdogs to investigate after Trump ordered the department to look into his government service.

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was once chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security and warned in an interview with The Associated Press of the far-reaching implications of

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US growth likely to slow to 1.6% this year, hobbled by Trump’s trade wars, OECD says

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development forecast Tuesday that the U.S. economy — the world’s largest — will slow further to just 1.5% in 2026. Trump’s policies have raised average U.S. tariff rates from around 2.5% when he returned to the White House to 15.4%, the highest since 1938, according to the OECD. Tariffs raise costs for consumers and American manufacturers that rely on imported raw materials and components.

World economic growth will slow to just 2.9% this year and stay there in 2026, according to the OECD’s forecast. It marks a substantial deceleration from growth of 3.3% global growth last year and 3.4% in 2023.

The world economy has proven remarkably resilient in recent years, continuing to expand steadily — though unspectacularly — in the face of global shocks such as the COVID-19 pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

But global trade and the economic

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have been clouded by Trump’s sweeping taxes on imports, the unpredictable way he’s rolled them out and the threat of retaliation from other countries.

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