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The United States, US, Senate Democratic Leader, Chuck Schumer, has tackled President Donald Trump over his tariff program.
Schumer said Trump’s decision to roll out some tariffs was the dumbest decision he ever made as president.
Posting on X, the senator from New York wondered why Trump failed to impose tariffs on Russia.
According to Schumer: “Donald Trump slapped tariffs on penguins and not on Putin.
“Trump’s tariffs are one of the dumbest decisions he has ever made as president—and that’s saying something.
“Trump is using tariffs in the dumbest way imaginable.
“That’s what happens when you have no clue what you’re doing.
“You fire air traffic controllers, dismantle disease outbreak monitoring, sabotage Social Security and the VA, defund public schools, & declare trade wars on penguins.”
The administration of President Donald Trump of the United States, US, has severed ties with the director of the National Security Agency, NSA, Gen. Timothy Haugh.
Haugh was chief of US Cyber Command before he was reportedly fired on Thursday night.
Haugh, a career Air Force leader, was deputy commander of US Cyber Command at Fort George G. Meade, until former President Joe Biden tapped him to lead the NSA in February 2024
Commenting, the US Senate Intelligence Committee Vice Chairman, Mark Warner of Virginia described as “astonishing” that Trump would fire the “nonpartisan, experienced leader” of the NSA while failing to hold any member of his national security team accountable for the leaking classified information about war plans in Yemen on Signal, a commercial messaging app, last month.
In a statement, Warner said Haugh “has served our country in uniform, with honor and distinction, for more than 30 years.
“At a time when the United States is facing unprecedented cyber threats, as the Salt Typhoon cyber attack from China has so clearly underscored, how does firing him make Americans any safer?”
