Deepa Shivram
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NPR News Now
NPR News: 02-03-2025 8PM EST
President Trump posted on his social media platform that the tariffs on Canada, which were supposed to go into effect on Tuesday, would be paused to see if an economic deal between the two countries could be reached.
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Trudeau also shared the news on social media and said Canada would invest $1.3 billion to enforce the U.S.-Canada border to help stop the flow of fentanyl, though only a tiny percentage of fentanyl that comes to the U.S. is through the northern border. Tariffs on Mexico were also given a 30-day pause,
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after Mexican leader Claudia Sheinbaum and Trump spoke and Mexico agreed to beef up security on the southern border. Deepa Shivaram, NPR News, the White House.
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NPR News: 02-14-2025 7PM EST
Vance didn't mince words in his speech at the annual security conference. He scolded Europe for what he said is censorship of right-wing views and shutting people out of the democratic process. He also downplayed interference from Russia in democratic elections.
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Vance also met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the conference. Deepa Shivaram, NPR News, the White House.
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NPR News: 01-23-2025 8PM EST
After listing what he sees as accomplishments in his first week of office, Trump addressed the Economic Forum in Switzerland with a focus on tariffs. saying that if products aren't made in America, there will be tariffs added to them. He also said he would call on Saudi Arabia to bring down the cost of oil, and that doing so would, quote, immediately end the Russia-Ukraine war.
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Russia, which exports a lot of oil, has been relying on the high cost of it to sustain the war.
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Trump also said China's Xi Jinping could help pressure Russia's Putin to end the conflict. Deepa Shivaram, NPR News, the White House.
Up First from NPR
Jobs Report, White House Crypto Summit, Gaza Ceasefire Uncertainty
Yeah, the argument the White House is making is that the U.S. is losing money by selling the Bitcoin they already have seized from court proceedings. So Trump's crypto czar, David Sachs, said on social media last night that the government has about $200,000 in Bitcoin, which is worth about $17 billion. And the idea is that the reserve will be a, quote, digital Fort Knox.
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Jobs Report, White House Crypto Summit, Gaza Ceasefire Uncertainty
all of that Bitcoin just stays there. And that was a campaign promise from President Trump. But the idea of having a crypto reserve is pretty controversial, even among those in the crypto space, coming down to details like which cryptocurrencies do you keep in the reserve and why is the president picking some over others? So there's a lot of lingering questions. Yeah.
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Jobs Report, White House Crypto Summit, Gaza Ceasefire Uncertainty
Yeah, the White House hasn't shared a lot of details about who's attending today, who's going to be speaking, though we do expect the president to make remarks. But I will say the big overarching thing that people are expecting from this summit is a pretty wide open question, which is what are the rules when it comes to cryptocurrency?
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Jobs Report, White House Crypto Summit, Gaza Ceasefire Uncertainty
a space that involves trillions of dollars, so many players and a lot of opportunity, but also a lot of volatility and risk and bad actors. So there's a desire here to build a regulatory framework.
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Jobs Report, White House Crypto Summit, Gaza Ceasefire Uncertainty
And a lot of folks in the crypto space see this summit as an opportunity to get the ball rolling on those discussions, especially because there are a lot of conversations like this that they feel weren't happening under the Biden administration. Well, what was Biden doing then?
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Jobs Report, White House Crypto Summit, Gaza Ceasefire Uncertainty
The Biden administration focused on enforcement in trying to crack down on cryptocurrency rather than coming up with the new rules of the road to help the industry and help consumers. Trump's approach so far has been to undo that.
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Jobs Report, White House Crypto Summit, Gaza Ceasefire Uncertainty
In the last few weeks, his administration has backed away from a lot of the lawsuits and investigations that the SEC, which is the Securities and Exchange Commission, had been doing on crypto businesses. I talked to Campbell Harvey. He's a finance professor at Duke University about the change in approach to crypto.
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Jobs Report, White House Crypto Summit, Gaza Ceasefire Uncertainty
And he says the summit happening today is important because it's a first step in making a framework for cryptocurrency that balances that innovation with protection for consumers.
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Jobs Report, White House Crypto Summit, Gaza Ceasefire Uncertainty
Correct. That's very important to point out. Trump was seen as a very crypto-friendly presidential candidate. He received a lot of financial support from people in the crypto industry who also invested in down-ballot races. And during the campaign, Trump also rolled out his own crypto venture called World Liberty Financial. That's run by Trump's kids, but he has a sizable financial stake in it.
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Jobs Report, White House Crypto Summit, Gaza Ceasefire Uncertainty
And right before inauguration, Trump and First Lady Melania Trump rolled out their own meme coins. That's a kind of cryptocurrency that the SEC recently said is not subject to oversight, which has raised questions about conflicts of interest.
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Jobs Report, White House Crypto Summit, Gaza Ceasefire Uncertainty
Stay tuned. All right. Thanks so much.