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日本新财年预算申请创新高 军费与科技投资大增

2026年9月4日 22:11 / 联合早报 符祝慧 东京特派员

除了加强危机管理，高市政府也重视对经济增长领域的投资。高市今年推出名为“强大繁荣日本”的专项投资框架，且不设金额上限。这个新框架的申请总额，目前已达到12.1万亿日元。 （彭博社）

为扩大对新技术的投资，日本首相高市早苗允许各部门明年有更宽裕的财政预算。星期五（9月4日）公布的2027财年各部门预算申请，总额达143万亿日元（约1.16万亿新元），连续四年创下历史新高。此外，日本高龄化加剧以及积极的军扩也提高了申请额。

在各部门中，负责医疗与社会福利的卫生劳动部申请金额最高，达36万亿日元。因应对地方灾害等支出扩大，总务部门申请了21万亿日元，其中大部分用于弥补地方财政缺口。

日本防卫当局为扩大军需，申请了8.8万亿日元也提升预算。有报道指出，基于申请的内容里有诸多项目还未有明确的金额，估计军费预算到了年底还将继续扩大到10万亿日元以上。

日经新闻指出，除了加强危机管理，日本政府也重视对经济增长领域的投资。高市今年推出名为“强大繁荣日本”的专项投资框架，且不设金额上限。这个新框架的申请总额，目前已达到12.1万亿日元。

其中，以经济产业部最高，计划以4.525万亿日元发展人工智能、半导体支持和开发关键矿产。日本教育和科学部申请2.183万亿日元，写明用于发展太空、航空航天和量子计算的研究与开发。日本总务部门也以发展下一代通信标准6G，申请了5033亿日元。

高市早苗发表谈话时强调，将“仔细审查其对经济增长的贡献以及对吸引私人投资的影响，努力制定真正有效的措施”。

由于2027财年的预算申请额远超本财年122万亿日元的预算，日本媒体认为，这势必让日本债务继续攀高。日本目前的债务水平是主要发达国家中最高的。到2026年末，日本政府未偿债务将达1145万亿日元，相当于其国内生产总值（GDP）的两倍以上。

各个预算申请将由财务部与各部委协商后确定。日本财长片山皐月在记者会上说，将努力制定一份既能促进经济强劲发展又能保障可持续性的预算。

Trump says if the Fed doesn’t cut rates, he’ll stop trading with some nations

September 4, 2026 2:03 PM UTC / Reuters

U.S. President Donald Trump looks at the new Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh as he speaks during his swearing-in ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., May 22, 2026. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

WASHINGTON, Sept 4 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said that unless the Federal Reserve cut interest rates, he would stop trading with countries with which the United States had a deficit.

“High interest rates put the U.S.A. at a very unfair disadvantage, and I won’t allow that to happen!” said Trump, who has repeatedly demanded that the Fed cut rates.

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“We should have the LOWEST RATE of any country in the World … LOWER THE RATE OR I’LL STOP TRADING WITH COUNTRIES WITH WHICH WE HAVE A DEFICIT,” Trump said in a Truth Social post.

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Former Trump Cabinet official had ‘inappropriately close’ relationship with bodyguard, IG finds

September 4, 2026 9:38am EDT / Fox News

The DOL inspector general report details alleged hostile work environment, inappropriate relationship with security detail

By Robert McGreevy, Fox News

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Former Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer allegedly had an inappropriate relationship with her bodyguard and created a hostile work environment for her subordinates, according to a Thursday report from the Department of Labor’s (DOL’s) Office of the Inspector General (OIG).

The report cites one incident in which Chavez-DeRemer allegedly ordered a member of her security detail to throw cash at a stripper.

Chavez-DeRemer, who resigned her position in April, had been under investigation after the OIG received an anonymous complaint in January. That complaint alleged Chavez-DeRemer’s inappropriate relationship with the assistant special agent-in-charge (ASAIC) of her department’s Division of Protective Operations (DPO), who the report did not name.

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The complaint also alleged that Chavez-DeRemer, her chief of staff, Jihun Han, and deputy chief of staff, Rebecca Wright, created a hostile work environment and regularly drank alcohol on DOL property and during work hours.

U.S. Secretary of Labor Lori Chavez-DeRemer speaks at a press conference with U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson and other House Republicans, more than a month into the ongoing U.S. government shutdown on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., November 4, 2025.(REUTERS/Annabelle Gordon)

The OIG interviewed 38 witnesses who described the DOL work environment as “toxic, intimidating and humiliating.” The witnesses reported that Chavez-DeRemer, Han and Wright “openly discussed employee performance matters in the presence of other staff, including details of performance-related meetings and whether those employees had cried during the meetings.”

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Witnesses also told the OIG that Chavez-DeRemer’s alleged relationship with the ASAIC also contributed to the hostile work environment.

During an April trip to Oregon, the ASAIC complied with Chavez-DeRemer’s request to make an unplanned, off-the-record stop at “an establishment that was determined upon entry to feature partially nude dancers,” according to the report.

The ASAIC assigned Chavez-DeRemer’s driver to enter the establishment with her, and, according to the report, she handed the driver a stack of cash and instructed him to give it to one of the dancers. When the driver refused, the ASAIC instructed him to comply.

“Chavez-DeRemer then took additional money from her purse and asked the agent to drop the bills one by one onto the partially nude woman. The agent again hesitated and sought intervention from ASAIC 1, who told him to follow Chavez-DeRemer’s instructions,” according to the report.

Department of Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer is leaving the Trump administration.(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

The complaint and subsequent investigation also determined that the ASAIC’s alleged inappropriate relationship with the former labor secretary, who is married, affected his job performance.

“ASAIC 1 allegedly focused on his interactions with Chavez-DeRemer, monitored her interactions with other agents, and reduced the presence of other DPO personnel to create opportunities to be alone with her, resulting in reduced protective coverage for the Secretary,” the report read.

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The pair reportedly grew immediately close upon Chavez-DeRemer’s arrival at the department in March 2025, communicating often through the encrypted messaging app Signal in off-duty hours and about non-operational subjects.

Another witness described observing Chavez-DeRemer massaging the ASAIC’s shoulders in a car after he had finished a driving shift. When she asked if he was tired, he allegedly responded that he was “solid as a rock,” and the pair both laughed.

“The witness interpreted the comment as sexual innuendo,” the report read.

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Other witnesses described the pair walking arm in arm after leaving an event at Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins’ home. After opening the investigation, the OIG surveilled Chavez-Deremer’s Washington, D.C., home and found the ASAIC entering her residence through a back door on repeated occasions.

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Photo of ex-Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer in an elevator with her security detail.(Department of Labor’s Office of the Inspector General)

After reports that the ASAIC was breaking chain-of-command protocol by attending meetings with Chavez-DeRemer’s chief of staff and deputy chief of staff without his Special Agent in Charge’s (SAIC) knowledge, the SAIC recommended he take a leave of absence. However, the SAIC did not escalate beyond this recommendation for fear she herself would be terminated.

“ASAIC 1 declined the suggestion to take leave and agreed that the SAIC taking action to limit his travel with Chavez-DeRemer could result in the SAIC’s removal,” the report read.

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When the SAIC told ASAIC in a text message that she would reassign him to another team he replied, “lol. Don’t do that.”

The ASAIC was put on paid administrative leave in January and then on unpaid investigative leave in February. He resigned in March, according to the report.

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特朗普：除非美联储降息 否则停止与部分国家贸易

2026年9月4日 22:24 / 联合早报

特朗普再次公开施压联储局降息，并扬言对造成美国贸易逆差的国家采取行动。 （法新社）

美国总统特朗普威胁称，除非美国联邦储备局降息，否则他将停止与美国存在贸易逆差的国家进行贸易。

法新社报道，特朗普星期五（9月4日）引述强劲的8月份就业报告作为其采取此举的理由。

特朗普在其社交媒体真相社交（Truth Social）平台上发帖称：“降低利率吧，因为美国的信用状况比不久前好得多！降低利率，否则我将停止与存在贸易逆差的国家进行贸易。”

特朗普：除非美联储降息 否则停止与部分国家贸易

2026年9月4日 22:24 / 联合早报

特朗普再次公开施压联储局降息，并扬言对造成美国贸易逆差的国家采取行动。 （法新社）

美国总统特朗普威胁称，除非美国联邦储备局降息，否则他将停止与美国存在贸易逆差的国家进行贸易。

法新社报道，特朗普星期五（9月4日）引述强劲的8月份就业报告作为其采取此举的理由。

特朗普在其社交媒体真相社交（Truth Social）平台上发帖称：“降低利率吧，因为美国的信用状况比不久前好得多！降低利率，否则我将停止与存在贸易逆差的国家进行贸易。”

Former labor secretary drank at the office and misused resources, probe finds

2026-09-04T15:04:40.198Z / CNN

By Kaanita Iyer

56 min ago

PUBLISHED Sep 4, 2026, 11:04 AM ET

Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer testifies before the a House committee in the Rayburn House Office Building in May 2025.

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Former Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer violated department policy by drinking alcohol at the office and telling her staff to perform personal tasks for her, an independent Labor Department investigation found.

The scathing report published Thursday by the department’s Office of Inspector General also found that Chavez-DeRemer accepted expensive gifts without proper notification, combined personal and official travel and had an “inappropriately close” relationship with a supervisor in her security detail.

Some of her staffers, including her chief of staff, were also found to have behaved improperly.

CNN has reached out to Chavez-DeRemer’s lawyer for comment. A spokesperson for the Department of Labor said the agency “respects the integrity of the Inspector General’s investigation.”

Chavez-DeRemer departed the Labor Department earlier this year for a job in the private sector. The report sheds light on the former secretary’s brief tenure, which was marked by turmoil.

Under her leadership, the department saw a major reduction in staff as part of the administration’s reshaping of the federal workforce. Her husband, Shawn DeRemer, also faced sexual assault allegations and was reportedly banned from the agency’s headquarters, according to the New York times. A criminal investigation into Shawn DeRemer’s matter has been closed.

In one instance, according to the report, Chavez-DeRemer instructed an aide to use a department vehicle to go to her house to “to hang her laundry and dry cleaning and organize her clothing, shoes, and purses.” She also directed staff to buy alcohol and other personal items for her, including asking an aide during a work trip “to purchase wine for her at her hotel,” the inspector general report found.

The gifts Chavez-DeRemer did not properly disclose include tickets to a rodeo from a lobbyist, an alligator-hide wallet gifted during a trip to Springfield, Louisiana and two cowboy hats gifted during an America First Policy Institute event in Palm Beach, Florida, the inspector general said, based on a review of testimony from witnesses and department records.

Investigators scrutinized the November 2025 trip to Palm Beach, which was for a conservative gala held at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, with the report revealing that she “stayed three nights at a luxury hotel and spa with a nightly rate of $529, excluding taxes.” She was reimbursed over $2,000 for the trip, which greatly exceeded the federal reimbursement rate, according to the report.

The OIG found a “repeated pattern” of Chavez-DeRemer combining personal and business travel, like adding an official visit to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Portland to her schedule, despite planning to go to the city, where she has a house, for personal reasons.

The investigation “established that official travel authorities were used on multiple occasions to support travel that also served personal interests,” the report says. Overall, it “concluded that Chavez-DeRemer’s conduct was inconsistent with applicable standards.”

Before serving as Labor secretary, Chavez-DeRemer was elected in 2022 to represent Oregon’s 5th Congressional District in Congress. She only served for one term as she lost her reelection bid in 2024.

During her short tenure in the House, Chavez-DeRemer established herself as one of the most labor-friendly Republicans in Washington. She was one of the few GOP co-sponsors of a bill that would make it easier for workers to unionize.

After Chavez-DeRemer’s departure from the Labor Department, Keith Sonderling was appointed as acting secretary.

Trump is sitting on a $400 million war chest ahead of the midterms. But how will he spend it?

September 4, 2026 / 9:56 AM EDT / CBS News

By Ed O’Keefe

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With just two months to go before the midterm elections, President Trump is sitting on a $400 million war chest, according to Federal Election Commission filings, and fellow Republicans are wondering how he’s going to start spending all that money.

This week, Securing American Greatness, a nonprofit with ties to Mr. Trump’s super PAC, MAGA Inc., unveiled its first ad to air nationwide.

But the ad is focused on Mr. Trump instead of local congressional candidates.

And while the money has yet to flow out to candidates, the president says it will.

“I’ve raised a lot, and nobody knows what it is, but I will tell you it’s about $850 million,” Mr. Trump said before boarding Air Force One to fly to South Carolina on Aug. 21. “I’ll be spending a lot of that money for — and my own money — but I’ll be spending a lot of that money for candidates that I think are good, Republican candidates.”

The president and his team cite recent political history — if he tells his base to show up, they do. So, he’s trying to convince them to pretend he’s on the ballot.

“Pretend, please, that I’m on the ballot,” the president said Aug. 21 at a rally for Sen. Darline Graham in South Carolina. “Come and vote. It’s so important.”

The only meaningful donation from MAGA Inc. so far was a $827,000 payment to Graham’s campaign. Until Graham’s Senate bid, MAGA Inc. had spent only about $18,000 in 2026 on a midterm race. The super PAC spent about $1.7 million last year, and by the end of the second quarter, it had raised $401 million.

President Donald Trump during an end of summer barbecue with Republican lawmakers in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 2, 2026. Samuel Corum/Sipa/Bloomberg via Getty Images

The focus on Mr. Trump continues next week in Dallas when the GOP is set to gather for a presidential-style midterm convention at a sports arena with dozens of speeches — and even a balloon drop.

It’s designed to showcase some of the party’s rising stars. But CBS News has learned some Republican candidates in competitive congressional contests are not attending.

“I have to be campaigning. No one votes for me in Washington or in Dallas. I have to be in Miami,” Florida Republican Rep. Maria Salazar recently told reporters outside the Capitol.

Vice President JD Vance said Thursday he’s not concerned if Republicans would rather campaign in their districts.

“Most importantly, you’ve got to go out there and meet voters and message to voters,” Vance said.

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邮寄选票寄出 美国关键中期选举投票正式开始

2026年9月4日 22:47 / 联合早报

7月30日，美国得克萨斯州众议员、民主党州长候选人吉娜·希诺霍萨（Gina Hinojosa）在奥斯汀举行的UnidosUS年度大会上发表讲话。 （路透社）

美国中期选举投票于星期五（9月4日）正式开始，北卡罗来纳州成为首个寄出邮寄选票的州。此次选举预计将对特朗普所属共和党对国会的控制构成威胁。

法新社报道，11月3日的选举将决定众议院全部435个席位和参议院三分之一的席位归属，从而决定特朗普在其剩余两年任期内推行其政策议程的自由度。

民主党在选举的最后几个月里被普遍看好能够赢得众议院的控制权。

康奈尔大学一项新的预测模型显示，民主党有80%的概率赢得众议院的控制权，并预测它将以大约226比209的微弱优势占据多数席位。其他预测机构也同样认为民主党略占优势。

预计参议院的选情将更加胶着。共和党目前以53席对47席掌控参议院，这意味着民主党需要净增四个席位才能获胜。而选举网站Decision Desk HQ预测，参议院可能会出现50比50的局面，届时共和党副总统万斯将投下打破僵局的关键一票。

Trump says ‘nobody will’ build monuments for him once he’s gone

Updated Sep 4, 2026, 9:56 AM ET / Published Sep 4, 2026, 9:23 AM ET / CNN

Donald Trump

President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media near the White House helipad construction, on the South Lawn of the White House on August 19.

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President Donald Trump did not dispute that he is building monuments to himself amid his architectural blitz in Washington, DC, saying in a recent interview that “nobody will do it once I’m gone.”

When asked about the monuments, such as the “triumphal arch,” by New York Magazine, Trump agreed that he was building them for himself.

“That’s true,” Trump said. “Nobody will do it once I’m gone. When I leave here, nobody will.”

The president has been intensely focused on construction of a White House ballroom and other projects in his second term, much to the chagrin of some congressional Republicans and Trump advisers, some of whom told New York Magazine that harping on the ballroom could harm the GOP’s midterm election chances and make staying on message more difficult.

Trump told the magazine, however, that “the people should be thankful” for the ballroom.

“A lot of people said, ‘Don’t do this interview.’ But I’m proud of the work I’m doing,” the president said.

Trump has argued that the ballroom is necessary for national security, emphasizing plans for a drone port on the roof and an underground bunker, as well as bulletproof windows. Meanwhile, the administration is set to break ground on the 250-foot arch near Arlington National Cemetery in the next two weeks.

But ultimately, as sources told CNN earlier this year, it all comes down to the president’s legacy.

“Look at Donald Trump’s life, look at what he’s done: Built things that no one will ever tear down,” a source close to him told CNN in May, noting that even if successors undo his policies, the ballroom will likely still stand.

“The one thing they can’t tear down will be the East Wing. That is his lasting impact. That’s why he cares so deeply: legacy sh*t,” the source said.

This is a developing story and will be updated.

邮寄选票寄出 美国关键中期选举投票正式开始

2026年9月4日 22:47 / 联合早报

7月30日，美国得克萨斯州众议员、民主党州长候选人吉娜·希诺霍萨（Gina Hinojosa）在奥斯汀举行的UnidosUS年度大会上发表讲话。 （路透社）

美国中期选举投票于星期五（9月4日）正式开始，北卡罗来纳州成为首个寄出邮寄选票的州。此次选举预计将对特朗普所属共和党对国会的控制构成威胁。

法新社报道，11月3日的选举将决定众议院全部435个席位和参议院三分之一的席位归属，从而决定特朗普在其剩余两年任期内推行其政策议程的自由度。

民主党在选举的最后几个月里被普遍看好能够赢得众议院的控制权。

康奈尔大学一项新的预测模型显示，民主党有80%的概率赢得众议院的控制权，并预测它将以大约226比209的微弱优势占据多数席位。其他预测机构也同样认为民主党略占优势。

预计参议院的选情将更加胶着。共和党目前以53席对47席掌控参议院，这意味着民主党需要净增四个席位才能获胜。而选举网站Decision Desk HQ预测，参议院可能会出现50比50的局面，届时共和党副总统万斯将投下打破僵局的关键一票。