By Alexandra Banner, CNN

ICE agents will deploy to some airports today to assist with crowd management and support TSA operations, President Donald Trump said. This comes as many travelers are facing long, winding security lines across the US during the partial government shutdown.

Here’s what else you need to know to get up to speed and on with your day.

1⃣ LaGuardia Airport collision

An Air Canada plane collided with a fire truck while landing at New York’s LaGuardia Airport late Sunday, killing the pilot and copilot and injuring dozens, officials said. The crash occurred around 11:40 p.m. ET as the plane struck a rescue vehicle responding to a separate incident, a Port Authority spokesperson said. The plane was carrying 72 passengers and 4 crew members, the airline said. The FAA issued a ground stop at LaGuardia shortly after the collision due to an “aircraft emergency.” The airport is expected to be closed until 2 p.m. ET, according to the agency.

2⃣ DHS shutdown

President Trump on Sunday threatened not to support any deal to fund the Department of Homeland Security until lawmakers pass the “SAVE America Act,” injecting a new demand into ongoing negotiations over the partial government shutdown as travel disruptions mount across the country. Trump’s comments come as the Senate remains locked in a marathon debate over the federal elections overhaul bill that’s a top priority for Trump but one that faces near-impossible odds in the chamber. The Senate stayed in session over the weekend to try to hammer out the details, but talks have been paused until Democrats respond to the latest offer from the White House.

3⃣ Grocery prices

The war in Iran is driving up prices for US farmers as higher costs for fertilizer and fuel add to existing financial strains. With the Strait of Hormuz — a key route for global oil and fertilizer — effectively blocked, supply disruptions are hitting at a pivotal moment ahead of the spring planting season, which can start as early as March. Economists warn the ripple effects could drive grocery prices higher, with increases likely across key staples like produce, meat and dairy. Grocery prices have been a major source of stress for millions of Americans, polls show, and the conflict could make relief even harder to come by in the near term.

4⃣ Iran war

Iran’s Defense Council has threatened to mine the entire Persian Gulf if Iran’s coasts or islands are attacked, state media reported today. “The only way to pass through the Strait of Hormuz for non-belligerent countries is coordination with Iran,” a statement from the high-level security body said, according to the semi-official Fars News. The warning comes after Iran’s military said it would shut down the Strait of Hormuz and strike regional infrastructure if President Trump follows through on a threat to bomb its power plants unless the waterway is reopened by this evening.

5⃣ Antisemitic attack

Several ambulances belonging to a Jewish volunteer rescue organization were set on fire outside a synagogue in London early today in what authorities are Read more

By Daniel Dale, CNN

(CNN) — Donald Trump’s White House spokespeople have a favorite two-step reply when reporters ask them to comment on one of the president’s false claims.

First: They say, “President Trump is right.”

Second: They defend some related point that isn’t the one Trump actually made.

Trump’s communications team has returned to this “President Trump is right” template again and again during his second presidency. Even in response to his most clearly inaccurate statements.

In September, for example, PolitiFact asked the White House about Trump’s incorrect declaration that the US had “no inflation.” Spokesperson Kush Desai replied, “President Trump is right: The days of (former President) Joe Biden’s debilitating inflation crisis are over. Since President Trump took office, inflation has been tracking at a low and stable 2.3 percent annualized rate and real wages for American workers are up.”

Notably missing from Desai’s “President Trump is right” reply was any attempt to demonstrate that Trump’s “no inflation” claim was indeed right. In fact, Desai’s assertion that inflation was “a low and stable 2.3 percent annualized rate” contradicted Trump’s assertion that inflation no longer existed.

Since Trump’s second inauguration, the White House has sent reporters similarly unconvincing Trump-is-right replies to questions on subjects as varied as his false claims about how many wars he has settled, his false claims that each US military attack on an alleged drug-trafficking boat saves 25,000 American lives, his false claims that Democrats were last fall trying to secure $1.5 trillion in health care funding for undocumented immigrants, his false claims that Biden allowed South Korea to stop paying some of the cost of the US military presence there, and his false claims that he is reducing prescription drug prices by a mathematically impossible 1,000% or more.

The White House did it again last week about the war with Iran.

CNN inquired about Trump’s claim on social media that media outlets worked “in close coordination” with Iran to spread fake videos showing a US aircraft carrier on fire and should be charged with “TREASON.” Asked which outlets disseminated these videos, spokesperson Anna Kelly’s reply began, “President Trump is right – global news outlets quickly amplified the Iranian regime’s false claims about the USS Lincoln.” The three examples Kelly provided as supposed proof, though, were all to foreign news outlets – one Israeli, one Saudi and one Turkish – that quoted Iran’s baseless claims to have struck the Lincoln; these outlets couldn’t possibly have committed “TREASON” against the US, since they don’t owe allegiance to the US, and none of the examples included fake videos.

A highly unusual White House tactic

Declaring that the president is right about things he is very obviously not right about would be a highly unusual communications tactic from any other White House, including Trump’s own first administration.

Each White House communications team trie

By Alicia Wallace, CNN

(CNN) — The national average price for a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline is on the verge of hitting $4 for the first time since 2022.

That price level is relative: A $4 gallon of gas would be welcome in California, Washington state or Hawaii, where the state averages run north of $5 per gallon; while residents of others states where the cost of living is lower are paying under $3.50 a gallon at the pump.

Regardless of the locale, no one’s really a fan of sharply rising gas prices.

Still, the $4 national average serves as a notable threshold – one that carries psychological, mathematical and mechanical implications for the US economy.

“This is worrisome, especially for those who have the least ability to weather the storm,” said Diane Swonk, chief economist at KPMG.

The math behind the estimates

Before diving in to the economic effects of $4-per-gallon gas, it’s important to show one’s work.

Joe Brusuelas, chief economist at RSM US, laid out some of the building blocks of the gas price quantification:

Every $10 increase in the barrel of oil…

• Creates a 0.1 percentage point drag on real GDP growth (the broadest measure of economic activity)
• Increases inflation by 0.2 percentage points
• Raises prices at the pump by 24 cents
• Causes a $450 annual hit to household income

Oil prices have risen by more than $30 a barrel since the war.

A gallon of regular unleaded gasoline averaged $2.98 before the war started.

Economic activity

A $30 increase in oil prices equates to about a 0.3 percentage point knock on real GDP growth (which was 0.7% at the end of last year). While that’s not very big, it tends to add up over time, Brusuelas said.

It’s not easy to topple a $30 trillion economy – a “dynamic and resilient beast,” Brusuelas said.

“However, even a $30 trillion beast has its pain points,” he added.

And the point where things could start getting dodgy isn’t too far away.

When oil prices go above $125 (and gas prices top $4.25 per gallon, and inflation goes above 4%), that’s when conversations grow louder about “demand destruction,” Brusuelas said. In other words, prices get so high that people change behaviors and don’t buy as much.

And some consumers already are changing their behaviors, taking fewer trips if they can and shifting or cutting out spending, said Swonk.

A drop-off in demand can lead to falling prices; however, the supply of oil has been constrained by disruption and destruction, he said.

Inflation

Late last week, oil prices were up $30 from their pre-war levels, which should roughly equate to a 75-cent gas price hike; however, average prices at the pump were up 93 cents, Brusuelas said.

“So, what that tells us, is the risks on inflation are a little bit higher,” he said.

US prices were increasing at an annual rate of 2.4% in February, before the war started, according to the latest Consumer Price Index data.

That could easily jump to 3.5% when the March data is released in a couple of weeks, and the April rate could top 4%, Brusuelas said.

That 1.1 percentage point estimated jump from February seems to blow past the $10 increase = 0.2 percentage point rise; however, it’s also reflective of the sweeping energy-related price increases (such as in diesel and jet fuel) as well as other war-impacted inputs, such as fertiliz

By Alicia Wallace, CNN

(CNN) — The national average price for a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline is on the verge of hitting $4 for the first time since 2022.

That price level is relative: A $4 gallon of gas would be welcome in California, Washington state or Hawaii, where the state averages run north of $5 per gallon; while residents of others states where the cost of living is lower are paying under $3.50 a gallon at the pump.

Regardless of the locale, no one’s really a fan of sharply rising gas prices.

Still, the $4 national average serves as a notable threshold – one that carries psychological, mathematical and mechanical implications for the US economy.

“This is worrisome, especially for those who have the least ability to weather the storm,” said Diane Swonk, chief economist at KPMG.

The math behind the estimates

Before diving in to the economic effects of $4-per-gallon gas, it’s important to show one’s work.

Joe Brusuelas, chief economist at RSM US, laid out some of the building blocks of the gas price quantification:

Every $10 increase in the barrel of oil…

• Creates a 0.1 percentage point drag on real GDP growth (the broadest measure of economic activity)
• Increases inflation by 0.2 percentage points
• Raises prices at the pump by 24 cents
• Causes a $450 annual hit to household income through related costs like gas, heating and utilities
• Leads to higher costs for transportation and food

Oil prices have risen by more than $30 a barrel since the war.

A gallon of regular unleaded gasoline averaged $2.98 before the war started.

Economic activity

A $30 increase in oil prices equates to about a 0.3 percentage point knock on real GDP growth (which was 0.7% at the end of last year). While that’s not very big, it tends to add up over time, Brusuelas said.

It’s not easy to topple a $30 trillion economy – a “dynamic and resilient beast,” Brusuelas said.

“However, even a $30 trillion beast has its pain points,” he added.

And the point where things could start getting dodgy isn’t too far away.

When oil prices go above $125 (and gas prices top $4.25 per gallon, and inflation goes above 4%), that’s when conversations grow louder about “demand destruction,” Brusuelas said. In other words, prices get so high that people change behaviors and don’t buy as much.

And some consumers already are changing their behaviors, taking fewer trips if they can and shifting or cutting out spending, said Swonk.

A drop-off in demand can lead to falling prices; however, the supply of oil has been constrained by disruption and destruction, he said.

Inflation

Late last week, oil prices were up $30 from their pre-war levels, which should roughly equate to a 75-cent gas price hike; however, average prices at the pump were up 93 cents, Brusuelas said.

“So, what that tells us, is the risks on inflation are a little bit higher,” he said.

US prices were increasing at an annual rate of 2.4% in February, before the war started, according to the latest Consumer Price Index data.

That could easily jump to 3.5% when the March data is released in a couple of weeks, and the April rate could top 4%, Brusuelas said.

That 1.1 percentage point estimated jump from February seems to blow past the $10 increase = 0.2 percentage point rise; however, it’s also reflective of the sweeping energ

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