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The Republican-led Senate will be next to consider the nominees who, if confirmed, would join Secretary Sean Duffy’s leadership team at the Department of Transportation.

The move comes after months of Trump pressing India to cut its reliance on cheap Russian crude. Trump said that India would also start to reduce its import taxes on U.S. goods to zero.

The Federal Open Market Committee voted 10-2 Jan. 28 to hold the benchmark federal funds rate in a range of 3.5%-3.75%. The two dissenting were in favor of a quarter-point reduction.

Nearly three months have elapsed since arguments in the closely watched tariffs case, and the Supreme Court isn't scheduled to meet in public for more than three weeks.

Funding for several other agencies, including Defense, Health and Human Services, Labor, Treasury and Education, could become a casualty of the dispute as a Jan. 30 funding deadline nears.

TFI’s data center-related revenue totaled $43 million in 2025, growing from about $8 million in the first quarter to more than $15 million in the final three months of the year.

President Trump said on social media that import taxes would be raised on autos, lumber and pharmaceutical drugs from South Korea with the rate on other goods going from 15% to 25%.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Jan. 25 his country has no intention of pursuing a free trade deal with China, in a response to Trump’s tariff threat.

The EU will suspend the retaliatory tariffs for another six months after President Donald Trump backed down from his threat to impose levies on some countries that opposed his push to annex Greenland.  

The Republican-controlled House overwhelmingly passed annual funding measures Jan. 22, reversing some of Donald Trump’s most controversial federal spending cuts.