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U.S.-China ‘$60 Billion’ Tariff Lists: What’s on Them and What Hasn’t Happened Yet

By Plainly Now News Desk · Published September 28, 2026
Rows of stacked shipping containers at the Port of Long Beach, California, with container cranes and a suspension bridge in the hazy background.

The U.S. and China published lists worth about $30 billion each way. China says more than 90% of the products will lose extra tariffs; no date is set.

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All 50 states applied for Trump’s Medicaid drug-pricing model; 40 have signed. What it changes and doesn’t

By Plainly Now News Desk · Published September 19, 2026 · Updated September 28, 2026
A dark sign reading Hubert H. Humphrey Building, 200 Independence Avenue SW, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, outside the building in Washington, D.C.

All 50 states applied to Trump’s Medicaid drug-pricing model, but only 40 have signed; enrollee copays are not expected to change.

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Meeks Places Hold on $2.8 Billion Bomb Sale to Israel — a “Hold” Isn’t a Veto

By Plainly Now News Desk · Published September 17, 2026 · Updated September 28, 2026
Official portrait of Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-NY), ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

Meeks placed a hold on a $2.8B bomb sale to Israel, but a hold isn’t a veto — the AECA lets the administration bypass it via emergency waiver.

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Trump Administration Prepares to Revoke Up to 200,000 Asylum Seekers’ Visas, Officials Say

By Plainly Now News Desk · Published August 25, 2026 · Updated September 28, 2026
U.S. Department of State headquarters building

The State Department, working with the Department of Homeland Security, is preparing a plan to revoke B1/B2 visitor visas issued between 2016 and 2026 to people who

Categories Politics Tags State Department, Trump Administration, United States
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