A United State Court of Appeals in New York just blocked the Trump Administration’s attempt to continue delaying penalties associated with automakers failing to meet federal Corporate Average Fuel Economy targets.
This week, the FBI raided the office of President Donald Trump’s longtime personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, reportedly seizing business records and emails. But the feds have interest in a part of Cohen’s life that hasn’t received much attention publicly: his involvement with a New York City taxi business.
Good morning! Welcome to The Morning Shift, your roundup of the auto news you crave, all in one place every weekday morning. Here are the important stories you need to know.
Good morning! Welcome to The Morning Shift, your roundup of the auto news you crave, all in one place every weekday morning. Here are the important stories you need to know.
For months, trade negotiators from Canada and Mexico have been chastising U.S. President Donald Trump’s team for demanding the North American Free Trade Agreement to be amended so vehicles are required to contain a large percentage of U.S.-produced parts. But now, reports the New York Times, the U.S. is pitching an…
Good morning! Welcome to The Morning Shift, your roundup of the auto news you crave, all in one place every weekday morning. Here are the important stories you need to know.
Since President Donald Trump’s administration took office, the auto industry has been clamoring to have the strict fuel economy standards set by his predecessor reversed. On Monday, that process began with an announcement by Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency. But the automakers themselves could wind up seriously…
Donald Trump unveiled his latest hellish immigration policy idea on Tuesday, saying that until he gets his wall, he plans to guard the US-Mexico border with the military.
A Chevrolet dealership in Chantilly, Virginia has reportedly cancelled a planned event hosting EPA Chief Scott Pruitt tomorrow in a claimed effort to avoid the Chevy brand being associated with an expected announcement about the government rolling back Obama-era emissions standards and California’s right to set its…
Just a little bit ago, President Trump, in a speech given to Marines in San Diego, described the need for a new military branch called the “Space Force.” He made it sound like this was an idea he just had, out of the blue, sort of like a joke, but, hey, it’s kind of awesome and we should really do it, right? Well,…
After seeing the celebration of France’s military at last year’s a Bastille Day celebration, President Donald Trump decided that he wanted a big parade for America’s armed forces. While the move was panned as being logistically difficult and expensive, we now know there’s one thing this parade won’t have: tanks.
Elon Musk is a man who President Donald Trump says is a person “who’s using our wonderful space facilities and did a great job.” Elon is also an American citizen, and did his patriotic duty by tweeting at the President. Trump then read those tweets aloud at a press conference. But, because this is Trump we’re talking…
President Trump on Thursday signed an executive order that imposes new tariffs on imported steel and aluminum. The tariffs will almost certainly raise prices on new cars. But Trump swears—swears!—he’ll be “very flexible” and consider exemptions for countries that are big importers of steel and aluminum. Interesting!
Lawmakers are currently debating whether to appropriate billions for a new rail tunnel that would connect Manhattan and New Jersey, a connection that’s key to one-fifth of the U.S. gross domestic product. Reports have suggested that despite initial enthusiasm President Donald Trump now wants nothing to do with the…
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President Donald Trump wants nothing to do with a new rail tunnel between Manhattan and New Jersey, telling congressional leaders as recent as last week to refuse appropriating funding for the crucial project. That’s important because, as Bloomberg points out, failing to address the current, crumbling link could…
Good morning! Welcome to The Morning Shift, your roundup of the auto news you crave, all in one place every weekday morning. Here are the important stories you need to know.
In a tweet today, President Donald Trump threatened to impose tariffs on European cars in an escalation of rhetoric that, in recent days, has made the prospect of an all-out trade war more and more of a possibility. Trump’s tweet came after he said Thursday that he planned tariffs on steel and aluminum, which prompted…
President Trump said today he would impose a 25 percent tariff on foreign steel, and a 10 percent tariff on aluminum, in an effort to revive the American metals industry. This is bad! Let’s count the ways this is bad.
