Both figures are above the Federal Reserve’s 2% target. The new numbers suggest that slowing rent increases and cheaper gas are at least partly offsetting the impacts of Trump’s tariffs. Many businesses are also likely still absorbing much of the cost of the duties instead of passing them along to customers via higher prices.

Amid President Donald Trump’s dramatic crackdown on crime in Washington, D.C., the local police force has been ordered to better cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

The police chief of Washington, D.C., ordered an increase in cooperation between local officers and federal immigration agents on Thursday, a development that ramps up the stakes in an already tense environment after President Donald Trump’s security crackdown put the city’s police force under the command of the administration.

The National Guard are in charge of America’s capital after Donald Trump vowed to crack down on crime in Washington, DC, which he says has been ‘taken over’. ‘We are going to take our capital back’, Trump said in a press conference,