Alicia Díaz

2 days ago | news.bloomberglaw.com | Brian Sullivan |Alicia Diaz |Alicia Díaz |Lauren Rosenthal

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told a congressional committee that the US National Hurricane Center was fully staffed even though key positions are going unfilled as hurricane season begins. “There are no openings on the National Hurricane Center. Zero,” Lutnick said during a Senate Appropriations Committee meeting Wednesday. “We are fully staffed. We are fully ready for hurricane season.”Yet the center’s website shows at least four meteorologist roles are vacant.

1 week ago | news.bloomberglaw.com | Kim Chipman |Alicia Diaz |Alicia Díaz |Erin Ailworth |Ilena Peng

After losing their biggest export market due to Donald Trump’s trade wars, US farmers are now counting on the president’s support for biofuels to prevent their next crop from piling up in storage. The administration is set to soon unveil a plan for how much crop-based biofuels will be blended into fossil fuels starting next year.

3 weeks ago | ttnews.com | Alicia Diaz |Alicia Díaz

Government Business Logistics Global Freight May 13, 2025 4:36 PM, EDT Provision Would Put Into Law and Expand Trump's Executive Order Halting 'de Minimis' Exemption Packages inside a delivery truck in Beijing.

4 weeks ago | news.bloombergtax.com | Josh Wingrove |Alicia Diaz |Alicia Díaz

The Trump administration’s first trade talks involve an eclectic mix of major exporters and smaller economies, as the White House looks to rack up agreements that could serve as models for other negotiations. President Donald Trump’s team has set a list of roughly 20 partners as the focus of early negotiations, people familiar with the matter said, speaking on condition of anonymity. The Office of the US Trade Representative has briefed lawmakers on the targets, the people said.

1 month ago | news.bloombergtax.com | Alicia Diaz |Alicia Díaz |David Westin

Republican Senator Dave McCormick predicted a higher tax rate on millionaires won’t fly with the GOP-controlled Congress, throwing cold water on a proposal gaining support in the White House and among some of his fellow lawmakers. “I don’t think that’s likely to happen,” the former Bridgewater Associates chief executive said Wednesday in a Bloomberg Television interview.