Politics: 5 stories from this week ~ ⛾:K

April 19, 2025

Here are some stories you might have missed this week, curated by Times editors and personalized for you.

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Washington Memo

The Trump Billionaires Who Run the Economy and the Things They Say

"You have to laugh to keep from crying," one Republican pollster said about recent comments by the billionaires on the stock market, retirement funds and Social Security.

By Elisabeth Bumiller

A campus quadrangle filled with bare trees and crisscrossed by walkways. A building with a spire-topped tower is lit up at the far end.

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Trump Officials Blame Mistake for Setting Off Confrontation With Harvard

An official on the administration's antisemitism task force told the university that a letter of demands had been sent without authorization.

By Michael S. Schmidt and Michael C. Bender

David Hogg, wearing a blue collared dress shirt, stands outside. He is looking to his right and wearing a serious expression on his face.

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A Top Democratic Official Plots to Take Down Party Incumbents

David Hogg, a young liberal activist and now a vice chair of the Democratic National Committee, is leading an effort to unseat the party's older lawmakers in primaries.

By Shane Goldmacher

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, left, and Senator Bernie Sanders, right, clenching hands and holding them up together as they stand and smile at a lectern at their rally in Folsom, Calif.

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Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez Electrify Democrats Who Want to Fight Trump

Bernie Sanders and his apparent heir, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, have drawn enormous crowds on their "Fighting Oligarchy" tour, energizing a beaten-down Democratic Party.

By Kellen Browning

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News Analysis

Defying the Law and the Courts, Trump Seeks to Shift the Focus

The president is trying to rewrite the narrative of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia's wrongful deportation as a dispute about illegal immigration rather than the rule of law.

By Peter Baker

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