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2026-09-25 · Semafor · Economy/Business

Xi's visit to Washington wraps with little changed

31 outlets covered this event · leans right

2026-09-15 · Semafor · Economy/Business

Fed poised to clash with Trump

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2026-08-27 · Semafor · Politics

US eyes potential bans on Canadian imports

21 outlets covered this event · centre

2026-09-21 · Semafor · Politics

US, Chinese officials talk trade, AI ahead of Xi visit

15 outlets covered this event

2026-09-25 · Semafor · Politics

‘It’s a gimmick’: Trump’s diesel export limits would face huge problems

11 outlets covered this event

2026-09-15 · Semafor · Politics

Crypto industry’s top legislative priority implodes

9 outlets covered this event · leans strongly left

2026-08-27 · Semafor

🔮 “Seoul is currently conducting a campaign of open hostility toward foreign enterprises,” Moreno writes Thursday in a letter to Greer, shared first with Semafor, that cites “onerous compliance requirements, excessive monetary fines, criminal prosecution of business executives, and biased regulatory enforcement.” Moreno requests in the letter that Greer consider opening an investigation under Section 301, the same trade authority President Donald Trump invoked to impose tariffs. Doing so would further derail trade talks with one of America’s staunchest allies, which denies treating Coupang differently than Korean companies. assertive

2026-08-27 · Semafor

🔮 Warsh, who’s so far remained committed to revealing little about his view of the economy, will have his biggest audience yet when he delivers the keynote speech at the Kansas City Fed’s annual conference in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, which kicks off today. assertive

2026-08-27 · Semafor

🔮 The Trump administration is weighing which Canadian imports it might prohibit if Canadian officials retaliate further against US tariffs, a US official told Semafor. mixed

2026-08-28 · Semafor

🔮 “It will be necessarily implicit,” but not “an explicit theme,” former Fed Vice Chair for Supervision Randal Quarles told Semafor. assertive

2026-09-06 · Semafor

🔮 “Given the complexity of the legislation and the number of important details that remain under consideration, the NSA is changing its position on the CLARITY Act to neutral,” the law enforcement group will write today in a letter to lawmakers, which an administration official shared with Semafor. assertive

2026-09-06 · Semafor

🔮 A third topic: how Russian sanctions legislation would hike tariffs on Indian imports. assertive

2026-09-06 · Semafor

🔮 It did so by declining to pass legislative proposals that would have granted the office the legal authority to seek equity stakes that were submitted by the Pentagon in recent years, the person said. assertive

2026-09-15 · Semafor

🔮 The News Democrats on the House Foreign Affairs Committee’s Europe panel will release a report on Tuesday laying the groundwork for oversight of the Trump administration’s Balkans policy should their party win a majority. assertive

2026-09-15 · Semafor

🔮 House Democrats will challenge Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on rising costs at a Financial Services Committee hearing on Tuesday morning, according to an internal memo shared with Semafor. mixed

2026-09-15 · Semafor

🔮 Multiple Republican lawmakers, including Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, have indicated they could take the banks’ side by voting “no” on Tuesday afternoon. assertive

2026-09-15 · Semafor

🔮 Disappointing them would hurt his credibility, particularly after the government said that prices beyond food and energy rose more in August than expected. mixed

2026-09-15 · Semafor

🔮 President Donald Trump’s top cryptocurrency adviser is warning senators that next week could be the last chance Congress gets to accomplish the crypto industry’s top legislative priority — at least, for a while. assertive

2026-09-15 · Semafor

🔮 The Treasury Department will buy back up to three times its usual amount of long-term debt tomorrow as the Trump administration continues trying to bring borrowing costs down. assertive

2026-09-15 · Semafor

🔮 US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer has spoken with Canadian Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc in recent days, a senior administration official told reporters Tuesday, and the countries will attempt to negotiate “an alternative pathway” before the bans take effect at the end of the month. “It’s really just Canada and China who thought, ‘I’m not going to do tariffs, I’m going to start banning stuff,’” the official said. assertive

2026-09-15 · Semafor

🔮 But on Tuesday, senators failed to advance the firms’ top legislative priority, shrugging off the threat of tens of millions of dollars that still could hit them this fall. assertive

2026-09-21 · Semafor

🔮 One month before the Pentagon announced its first equity stake in a company, its top lawyer asked the White House to explain why the deal wouldn’t break the law. assertive

2026-09-21 · Semafor

🔮 He added that the US proposed a US-China “notification mechanism” for AI incidents that pose threats to national security, which would include a “shared vision” of “common threats.” assertive

2026-09-25 · Semafor

🔮 The News The diesel export ban that President Donald Trump is mulling in a bid to bring down record-high prices would backfire in two ways — further dividing Hill Republicans while risking even pricier gasoline. assertive

2026-09-25 · Semafor

🔮 That could change later this year, when Xi said he would see Trump at the APEC summit in China and the G20 summit in the US. assertive

2026-10-01 · Semafor

🔮 The Canadians “will stab you in the back [and] stab you in the front,” President Donald Trump’s trade adviser, Peter Navarro, said Wednesday. assertive

2026-10-01 · Semafor

🔮 Asked whether the administration planned to meet that deadline, Greer left the door open on where it could land. assertive

2026-10-05 · Semafor

🔮 House Democrats are panning the Trump administration after US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer wouldn’t commit last week to imposing Russian sanctions recently enacted by Congress. assertive

2026-10-05 · Semafor

🔮 The letter provides a useful road map for how Democrats would scrutinize the agency if they win a majority of either chamber this fall. assertive

2026-10-06 · Semafor

🔮 “You might say, ‘Please, please, sir, it’s going down too fast.’” assertive

2026-10-07 · Semafor

🔮 The Trump administration’s recent changes to Trump Accounts could come under fire from the next Congress if Democrats win a majority. mixed