Trump, in response to questions from Kristen Holmes, defends Mike Johnson as “doing a really good job under really tough circumstances”

On Congress passing more funding for Ukraine / in form of “a loan” — “We're looking at it right now,' Trump said

🟡 CNN’s Phil Mattingly will interview White House National Economic Council Director Lael Brainard at our 2024 World Economy Summit.
events.semafor.com/wes2024/504911…

feel like bubba's phone cam work here is underappreciated.
the discipline it takes to remember you're filming/not celebrate in order to capture the full moment is next level dad stuff.

NEWS: Trump & House Speaker Johnson are making plans to deliver joint press conference on what they refer to as “election integrity” Friday at Mar-a-lago , 3 sources told me an Melanie Zanona .

BREAKING:

CPI COMES IN HOT. 0.4% INCREASE ON CORE AND HEADLINE.

Analysts had expected a 0.3% increase in core, and a 0.3% increase in headline.

bloomberg.com/news/live-blog…

Throughout his running mate search, Trump has often probed advisers on the anti-abortion stances of potential VP candidates. Many have records deeply at odds with the former president's election-year attempt to navigate the contentious issue.

cnn.com/2024/04/10/pol…

New reporting on the various Trump-aligned efforts, some public, some covert, to boost 3rd party candidates + parallel efforts to suppress Dem turnout. Gift link so you can read for free w/o NYT subscription. w Maggie Haberman Shane Goldmacher Rebecca Davis O'Brien nytimes.com/2024/04/10/us/…

New —> The Commerce Department is preparing to prohibit US companies and persons from using Kaspersky anti-virus software, citing national security concerns that the company has dismissed as unfounded, w/ Zachary Cohen, Phil Mattingly & Evan Pérez cnn.com/2024/04/09/pol…

NEWS: NV GOP Senate candidate Sam Brown met w/ Trump at Mar-a-Lago recently to seek his endorsement. Brown has drawn ire of some of Trump’s staunchest supporters, who are privately urging him to back Dr. Jeffrey Gunter, his former ambassador to Iceland
cnn.com/2024/04/09/pol…

News: Mayorkas impeachment articles will come to the Senate on Monday, says Sen. Kennedy. Kennedy says they asked the House to delay because GOP believes Schumer will try to jam them on vote to scuttle trial

Trump & British Foreign Secretary David Cameron, who had dinner at Mar-a-Lago last night, discussed upcoming US & UK elections, NATO & “ending the killing in Ukraine' — according to the Trump campaign

Karen Pierce, the British ambassador to the US, also attended the dinner

this Gideon Rachman column in advance of Kishida's White House visit sharply captures something I sat down with Jake Sullivan to try and get at last year: cnn.com/2023/01/14/pol…

More on how Trump got here -- and the weeks of pressure to clarify his position cnn.com/2024/04/04/pol…

It's official. TSMC getting $11.6 billion in CHIPS grant and loan money. Planning to open 3 fabs in Arizona bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

not sure which was a more odd/unexpected experience - the 2011 DC earthquake or the 2024 NYC earthquake

The gap between the two labor market surveys narrowed. The household survey showed a big increase in employment (+498K) and in the labor force (469k).

This resulted in a 0.28 pp drop in the unemployment rate (from 3.857% in February to 3.829% in March)

And now futures are at their highs of the morning.

Good news is good news!

goodness, that's quite a beat.
another month, another big expectations beating number on the jobs report - this one with adds in the revisions, LFPR ticking up and unemployment ticking down a bit.