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Update (1445ET): Despite his shots at Trudeau earlier in the day, which suggested he would ice the Canadians out of their USMCA exemption, President Trump just confirmed he will also exempt compliant goods from our neighbor to the north.

As Bloomberg reports, President Donald Trump will exempt Mexican and Canadian goods covered by the North American trade agreement known as USMCA from his 25% tariffs, offering major reprieves to the US’s two largest trading partners.

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A Rhode Island US District Judge has indefinitely blocked President Trump's freeze on federal grants and loans, arguing in his ruling that the White House had "put itself above Congress" and undermined democracy.

In a Thursday ruling, Judge John McConnell Jr., an Obama appointee – prohibited the Trump administration from freezing or otherwise impeding the disbursement of appropriated federal funds, WSJ reports.

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Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news,

A CBS News poll finds that the vast majority of Americans related to President Trump’s Congressional address and viewed it very favourably from multiple angles.

As we earlier highlighted, Democrats thoroughly embarrassed themselves during Trump’s address, screeching and holding up puerile slogans on paddles.

They sat with faces like a smacked arse refusing to applaud or force smiles even for a kid with brain cancer. (more…)