During an appearance on MSNBC, the Texas Democratic Representative compared living through a second-term Trump administration, with its unprecedented emergency policymaking on immigration and the economy, to being in an “abusive relationship.”

Josh Marcus has the story.

President Donald Trump’s sweeping global tariffs have stirred widespread anxiety about a severe economic downturn — and curiosity, for some, about how it might affect the world’s warming climate.

President Donald Trump told reporters on Air Force One on Friday evening that as part of his annual physical, he took a cognitive test.

“I got every answer right,” he announced.

…yeah, this really happened.

Absolutely teeing up her question to Leavitt, the Lindell TV “reporter” wondered if the White House would be able to share Donald Trump’s secret “fitness plan” because the 78-year-old president looks “healthier than ever before” and better than when he first began running for political office.

Katie Hawkinson reports from Washington, D.C.

Navarro added Trump will be “the boss” and “chief negotiator” of these supposed deals: “Nothing is done without him looking very carefully at it.”

U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer similarly said that a team of 200 people are “working around the clock” to get deals “to a point where the president can close” them.

But economists say it’s not going to happen with the Senate having only confirmed one other senior Treasury Department official and the administration already being stretched thin.

A presidential order on Friday regarding troops at the U.S. border may seem like more of the same — thousands are at the boundary line already — but it actually marks a dramatic escalation in Trump’s use of emergency powers, according to Elizabeth Goitein, co-director of the Liberty and National Security Program at the Brennan Center for Justice.

The order directs the military to take control of federal lands along the border, effectively turning these areas into military installations.

In doing so, the administration argues, soldiers can temporarily detain migrants who cross the border in these locations, using powers they’d use at any other military base to detain someone breaking in.

Goitein, in an X thread on Saturday, argued the administration is trying to use legal gymnastics to get around hard lines in federal law like the Posse Comitatus Act, which mostly bars the military from being used in domestic law enforcement, and another law requiring congressional authorization for the Defense Department to take control of federal lands unless during a war or national emergency.

As Gotein points out, the administration declared in January that the country was in the midst of an “invasion” national emergency because of the situation at the border, though by this month, Trump claimed, “The Invasion of our Country is OVER.”

“It is high time Congress and the courts put an end to all of these power grabs,” the expert wrote on X. “Immigration laws can and should be enforced through lawful means, without abusing emergency powers, misappropriating wartime authorities, or trying to skirt the Posse Comitatus Act.”

Futures markets for the Dow Jones, S&P 500, and Nasdaq were all registering gains of over 1.5 percent midday Saturday, as traders appeared to breathe a sign of relief on the news that the Trump administration was exempting large parts of the electronics trade from its tariff agenda.

Trump may have given those in the electronics world a reprieve from his tariff agenda, but uncertainty is still permeating other parts of the U.S. economy.

The apparel sector, which makes much of its product in China, is reportedly faced down existential changes if the tariffs remain, according to Stephen Lamar, CEO of the American Apparel & Footwear Association.

“With prohibitively high tariff levels on U.S. imports from China, many companies have no choice but to cancel orders,” he told CNBC on Saturday. “The constant switchbacking means new tariff costs are not accurately presented or predictable until the goods arrive at the port, and the high rates are generating bills that can’t be paid. That is not a risk or burden small business can sustain.”

“An extension of the trade war pause to U.S. imports from China is needed now before the damage is irreversible,” he added.

The Trump administration has made two key, and at times seemingly clashing, economic promises: that it will use tariffs to crack down on unscrupulous trading partners, and that it will lower prices for regular Americans on a variety of necessary goods.

These two goals are already seemingly coming into conflict.

U.S. companies importing goods from abroad are the ones who pay for tariffs, and they are reportedly now adding extra charges to bills on everything from bathroom fixtures to toys to make up for the extra costs.

Jolie, which makes high-end shower heads, is planning to add a fee it calls the “Trump Liberation Tariff” to online orders to reflect the change.

“We think transparency is the way to go here, and I am giving Trump full credit for his decision to add this tariff to all American consumers,” chief executive Ryan Babenzien told The Wall Street Journal.