Vera Bergengruen

Any cutoff of funding would require cooperation from Congress.

By Marianne Levine, Annette Pellett, and Vera Bergengruen.

Washington.

President Trump said Tuesday that the U.S. would cut off military aid to Israel by the end of the year, suggesting the phase-out of grants to the U.S. ally could occur much faster than expected.

That's a bump up from how officials described growth before as quote, solid.

WSJ economics reporter Matt Grossman joins me now.

Matt, no big surprises here in terms of interest rates, but two officials, Lisa Cook and Cleveland Fed President Beth Hammock, voted in favor of a quarter point rate increase.

What does that tell us about what the Fed might decide at its next meeting in December and moving forward from there?

demonstrated that the Fed is going to take action to get inflation back down.

And having done that, Warsh said that he and his colleagues can now take advantage of some of the economic data that the Fed's going to get before their next meeting to basically confirm that that should be their next step and decide exactly what the path forward should be.

Journal economics reporter Matt Grossman, thanks so much for joining us.

Thanks.

But these days, attacking a candidate as a socialist doesn't carry the sting it once did.

Journal national security reporter Vera Bergen-Gruen is here now to discuss.

Vera, William Lawrence has focused on pocketbook issues, opposition to data centers and the war with Iran, and the country's widening income disparity.

Voters seem to be responding to that.

Meanwhile, Democrats are already planning ahead for what they'll do after the election if they succeed in retaking the House, impeaching Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

At rallies, in public statements, and on cable news, Democrats have vowed to remove him from office.

Journal reporter Maya Davis says Democrats may be setting their sights on Hegseth because they see a third impeachment of President Trump as potentially counterproductive.

When we're looking at cabinet members such as Hegseth, He is the public face of a very unpopular war right now.

That's Greg Myre of NPR.

Joyce Karam, editor-in-chief of AllMonitor, is here, and Vera Bruggink, uh, Vera Bergengruen of The Wall Street Journal.

I'm Todd Zwillich.

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You remember his name.

He's serving a twenty-seven-year prison sentence for masterminding a failed coup after losing the twenty twenty-two elections, and the imagery of that coup, the attack on Brazil's parliament and other government buildings, strikingly similar to our own attack on Capitol Hill on January sixth.

Uh, Vera Bergengruen, what went wrong for Lula? He's eighty, seeking his fourth non-consecutive term.

Uh, why is the new, younger Bolsonaro gaining so much purchase here?

During a speech on the Pynx in Athens, Greece, Rubio added that the course we take will determine whether the West maintains its place at the head of the world or resigns itself to a future of atrophy and servitude and decline.

Vera Bergengruen and Robbie Gramer report for The Wall Street Journal.

Federal authorities in Florida and Texas yesterday seized over six hundred thousand gallons of biodiesel bound for Cuba.

The special agent in charge of Homeland Security Investigations in Miami, Jose R. Figueroa, said the shipments reflect a deliberate and coordinated effort to supply the sanctioned company Enetec SA.