“The great loser” stays in the position. Elon Musk changes priorities. Summary of the night
“Great loser” will not be released
Despite the threats and insults from Donald Trump, the head of the Federal Reserve Jerome Powell will remain in the position. – I'm not going to fire it. I would like it to be a little more active when it comes to the idea of lowering interest rates. This is the perfect time to lower interest rates. And if he doesn't do it or is it over? No, that's not the end, “said Trump. The US President said these words a day after he wrote on his social networking site that if Powell immediately does not reduce interest rates, the economy will significantly slow down. Earlier he said that he was looking forward to Powell's “termination”.
Elon Musk changes priorities
Elon Musk announced on Tuesday that he intends to significantly limit his involvement in the activities of state administration. This decision was made after the publication of Tesla's financial results for the first quarter of 2025, which showed a drastic 71 % A decrease in profits compared to the same period of the previous year. Musk announced that henceforth will focus mainly on managing Tesla, who is struggling with more and more problems. In the first quarter, the company generated $ 409 million, i.e. 71 percent. The lower profit compared to the same period of 2024. The company's profit was worse than expected and, as the New York Times records, Tesla would record a loss of over half a billion dollars, if not for its interest revenues from interest from financial resources (including cryptocurrencies) and the sale of coal loans to other companies.
A blow to Trump
The Federal Court in Washington issued a decision on Tuesday that restores the functioning of America's voice and related media, such as Radio Free Asia or Middle East Broadcasting Network. Journalists, released under the decision of Donald Trump's administration, will receive their jobs back. The court's order also refers to restoring earlier subsidies for these media. President Trump and his colleagues accused VOA and the media financed from the budget, claiming that they promote “radically leftist” narratives. Trump ordered the maximum cuts permitted by law in VOA as a slimming of administration, but in practice it led to the dismissal of hundreds of journalists and employees and closing the operations of the station. Many journalists, including e.g. from the Ukrainian station section, were threatened with deportation.
Trzaskowski with a decrease in support
Rafał Trzaskowski enjoys the greatest support in the latest poll before the presidential election, obtaining 30.4 percent. votes – results from a study conducted by IBRIS for the weekly “Polityka”. In the election clash, he is ahead of the PiS candidate Karol Nawrocki, which was indicated by 24.9 percent. respondents and the leader of the Confederation Sławomir Mentzen, whose support amounted to 12.9 percent.
What awaits us on Wednesday?
Today the Sejm will start a two -day meeting; The first day of the meeting will be dominated by the information of the foreign minister Radosław Sikorski about the tasks of the Polish foreign policy in 2025. This point is to last almost eight hours, it will start at 10.15 and is to last until 18. A debate is planned with the minister's answers and two about half an hour breaks. It is customary to say about the annual speech of the head of diplomacy that this is the expose of the minister Sz.
In the District Court for Warsaw Śródmieście will be today a trial of a private indictment submitted by Zbigniew Komosa, who accused Jarosław Kaczyński's president of PiS. The proceedings concern the incident of October 10, 2024, when – according to Komosa – Kaczyński hit him twice in the face during the celebration of the Smolensk monthly on pl. Piłsudski in Warsaw.
In the Vatican at 9.00 the ceremony of the transmission in the procession of the coffin with the body of Pope Francis from the chapel of the House of Saint Marta to the Basilica of Saint Peter. The Vatican Basilica will be opened to the faithful at 11. The faithful will be able to pay tribute to Pope by Friday. In the afternoon, a second congregation of cardinals will take place in the synod's auditorium, i.e. their gathering during the Wake of the Holy See.
