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‘Mamdani Has to Go’: NYC Protesters Rally Against Mayor | Sunday Report

Protesters gathered on New York City’s Upper West Side to voice their opposition to Mayor Zohran Mamdani, with the crowd chanting “Mamdani has to go” and “USA” during an “End Jew Hatred” demonstration. NEWSMAX correspondent Andrew Craft reports live from the rally, where organizers said they expected between 400 and 500 people to attend. Demonstrators expressed concern about Mamdani’s policies toward New York’s Jewish community following a stabbing attack near Central Park and renewed controversy surrounding the mayor’s past promise to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Mamdani recently acknowledged that he does not have the legal authority to arrest Netanyahu when the Israeli leader visits New York for the United Nations General Assembly. The United States is not a member of the treaty that established the International Criminal Court.

Ilhan Omar KICKED OUT OF SENATE by SECURITY GUARDS: “GO BACK TO AFRICA?!”

Ilhan Omar was told "go back to Africa" and escorted out by security — and that's just the opening act. Republicans forced through a 218-to-211 vote removing Ilhan Omar from the House Foreign Affairs Committee, cutting her off from classified briefings, foreign policy decisions, and direct oversight of U.S. alliances. That's not just political drama — that's a member of Congress, elected by real voters, locked out of the room where war and peace decisions get made. Meanwhile the full House voted 372-to-53 to declare Iran the world's top state sponsor of terrorism, and over fifty Democrats blocked it. Look — when committee seats get stripped, security gets called, and racial slurs allegedly get thrown around the halls of Congress, the pressure on every institution holding this country together just cracked. What happens next to the people those committees were supposed to protect?

Tariffs Could Still Go Up From Here: Commerce Secretary Lutnick

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said foreign nations will need to address a host of regulatory and other policies limiting imports of American products in order to secure relief from President Donald Trump’s new reciprocal levies. “These non-tariff trade barriers, they are the monster that needs to be slayed,” Lutnick said in an interview on Bloomberg Television and Radio. “Our teams are talking to all our great trading partners today,” he said. “It is time for them to do some deep soul searching on how they treat us poorly and how to make it right.” Offering specific examples of non-tariff barriers, the Commerce chief said that in the European Union some countries use the region’s 20% value-added tax to subsidize their own manufacturers’ production. Economists at the Council of Economic Advisers and staff at the U.S. Trade Representative’s office have pored over foreign nations’ trade barriers for decades, and that analysis formed the basis for the levies Trump announced Wednesday, Lutnick said. He also offered the example of a 2012 trade deal with South Korea, which involved the US letting Korean cars into its market, with Seoul agreeing to import American agricultural products. Nevertheless, McDonald’s Corp. was unable to bring in french fries because it was deemed to have shown the origin of the potatoes, he said. “You don’t understand the scale and depth of how they keep our products out,” Lutnick said. Asked about the sell-off in equities since Trump unveiled the reciprocal tariffs Wednesday afternoon, Lutnick said the president’s focus is on addressing “the economic pain that the United States of America suffered over decades.” S&P 500 futures were down 3.6% as of 8:52 a.m. in New York, while the Bloomberg Dollar Spot Index fell 1.8% — to the lowest level since October. The Commerce chief also confirmed that the new 34% surtax on China stacks on top of previous levies, including the 20% Trump imposed earlier this year over alleged Chinese production of precursors for illegal fentanyl. “All they have to have is a phone call from President Xi to Trump saying we’re going to stop fentanyl production,” Lutnick said, putting the onus on President Xi Jinping. “And it would drop to 20%,” he said of the tariff rate.