Hundreds of thousands of customers, predominantly people who affiliate with the so-called Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement, who paid $100 deposits for the Trump Organization’s T1 “Trump Phone,” launched in June 2025, remain without devices more than 10 months later. The situation, which has been dominating social media threads and stories recently, is raising…
Illinois State Senator Steve Stadelman has introduced legislation aimed at increasing consumer transparency by requiring retailers to disclose how much federal tariffs contribute to the final price of goods sold to the public. The proposed Tariff Transparency Act, filed as Senate Bill 2957, would mandate that retailers clearly display the portion of a product’s price…