Laura Hernandez

Miami, New York

White House Correspondent at Newsday

White House Correspondent for @Newsday. Working Mom. Mrs. Hernandez. Proud Alum: @MiamiHerald @UFlorida Always living out my Big Apple dreams 🙏🏻

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Key test for President Donald Trump's tariff campaign: unifying team behind his strategy

1 week ago | newsday.com | Laura Hernandez |Laura Hernández

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Key test for President Donald Trump's tariff campaign: unifying team behind his strategy

1 week ago | newsday.com | Laura Hernandez |Laura Hernández

WASHINGTON — Over the next three months President Donald Trump and his economic team are planning to renegotiate dozens of foreign trade deals, an undertaking that business leaders say will require the president’s team to project unity or risk further roiling the economy.
What was Smoot-Hawley, and does it have anything to do with Trump's tariffs?

2 weeks ago | newsday.com | Laura Hernandez |Laura Hernández

WASHINGTON — As lawmakers, investors and economists alike weigh the future impact of President Donald Trump’s expansive tariff plan, many are looking back nearly a century to the last time the U.S. enacted a wide-reaching tariff agenda.
Trump's tariffs prompt pushback in Congress

2 weeks ago | newsday.com | Laura Hernandez |Laura Hernández

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s sweeping global tariff plan — which has rattled Wall Street and sparked bipartisan backlash on Capitol Hill — is his latest push to act unilaterally on a consequential part of his second term agenda. Trump declared the impact of foreign trade practices on the U.S. economy a national emergency when he signed his executive order Wednesday authorizing a new wave of tariffs on all imported goods.
Trump's sweeping tariff plan prompts pushback in Congress

2 weeks ago | newsday.com | Laura Hernandez |Laura Hernández

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s sweeping global tariff plan — which has rattled Wall Street and sparked bipartisan backlash on Capitol Hill — is his latest push to act unilaterally on a consequential part of his second term agenda. Trump declared the impact of foreign trade practices on the U.S. economy a national emergency when he signed his executive order Wednesday authorizing a new wave of tariffs on all imported goods.
Bruce Blakeman, at White House for 'Liberation Day,' gets shoutout by Trump

3 weeks ago | newsday.com | Laura Hernandez |Laura Hernández

WASHINGTON — Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman was among the dignitaries on hand at the White House Wednesday as President Donald Trump unveiled a new wave of tariffs. Trump, gave Blakeman a nod during his speech, saying he planned to send the county executive video footage of remarks Blakeman apparently made. "We're going to become an industrial powerhouse, and he said that so beautifully today," Trump said to Blakeman who was seated in the center third row of the Rose Garden ceremony.
Trump takes on lawyers who have challenged him in the past

3 weeks ago | newsday.com | Laura Hernandez |Laura Hernández

WASHINGTON — As President Donald Trump pursues much of his second-term agenda using executive actions that continue to be tested in the courts, he has signed off on a number of executive orders targeting lawyers and law firms who have a record of challenging him, a move that constitutional law experts say is designed to tamp down dissent.
Softening indicators bring a new economic tone from Trump

1 month ago | newsday.com | Laura Hernandez |Laura Hernández

As a candidate, President Donald Trump promised that he would end inflation "on Day One." Two months into his second term, amid lagging consumer confidence and dips in the stock market, Trump's economic message has shifted from pledges of immediate price drops to warnings of "a little disturbance." As Trump rolls out new tariffs and moves forward with shrinking the federal workforce, his economic messaging lately has focused on bracing Americans for a potential short-term hit with the promise...
President Donald Trump softens his economic messaging as indicators weaken

1 month ago | newsday.com | Laura Hernandez |Laura Hernández

WASHINGTON — As a candidate, President Donald Trump promised that he would end inflation "on Day One." Two months into his second term, amid lagging consumer confidence and dips in the stock market, Trump's economic message has shifted from pledges of immediate price drops to warnings of "a little disturbance." As Trump rolls out new tariffs and moves forward with shrinking the federal workforce, his economic messaging lately has focused on bracing Americans for a potential short-term hit...
More outcry from Democrats over Sen. Chuck Schumer's vote for Republican spending bill

1 month ago | newsday.com | Laura Hernandez |Laura Hernández

WASHINGTON — Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s vote Friday to pass a Republican spending bill to avert a government shutdown sparked immediate debate among congressional Democrats that continued Sunday over party strategy aimed at fighting President Donald Trump’s second-term agenda. House Democrats appearing on the Sunday morning political talk shows repeatedly said the minority party needed to apply a different approach to challenging Trump’s push to slash government services.