Ron Elving
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NPR News Now
NPR News: 01-25-2025 7PM EST
Trump sent firing notices to a dozen of these last night, some of whom are people he himself appointed in his first term. And it's unclear what the legal effect of this will be. As the law says, Congress has to get 30 days notice in advance. And obviously that didn't happen.
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NPR News: 03-22-2025 4PM EDT
The DHS spokesman told NPR Friday that these offices, quote, obstructed immigration enforcement by adding bureaucratic hurdles and undermining DHS's mission, unquote. Well, their job was to provide in-house oversight and restraint on this powerful agency and make sure it stays within the law and follows its own mandates. That's what watchdogs do. That's what ombudsmen offices are for.
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NPR News: 04-05-2025 6PM EDT
They say the retaliation we're seeing from China and elsewhere will be transitory. They say our trading partners will knuckle under and lower their own tariffs. And most important, they say American companies will bring home the jobs that they've shifted overseas and that other countries will shift their manufacturing to the U.S., creating jobs here rather than in their own countries.
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NPR News: 12-29-2024 7PM EST
Jimmy Carter left the White House in defeat in January 1981, handing the keys to the man who had defeated him, Ronald Reagan. But in a post-presidential career that spanned nearly four decades, Carter set a new standard for achievement by a former chief executive. He founded the nonprofit Carter Center in 1982 and oversaw its many peacekeeping and hunger relief missions in more than 80 countries.
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NPR News: 12-29-2024 7PM EST
Among his international accolades, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002. He remained active while fighting liver and brain cancer in his later years, still teaching Sunday school classes and building houses with Habitat for Humanity in his 90s. Ron Elving, NPR News, Washington.
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NPR News: 02-27-2025 8PM EST
Florida is not a place where you're welcome with that type of conduct in the air. And I don't know how it came to this. We were not involved. We were not notified.
Up First from NPR
Tariffs Come Due, Chopper Traffic After Crash
A purposeful, forceful, but reasonable, immediate response. We won't relent until tariffs are removed and, of course, everything is on the table.
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Tariffs Come Due, Chopper Traffic After Crash
By and large, it would be people who share Trump's sense of grievance about world trade and global affairs. People who believe the United States has been getting ripped off, to quote the president, they tend to also believe that tariffs will help even the score.
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Tariffs Come Due, Chopper Traffic After Crash
Now, Trump says tariffs will be our external revenue service, collecting money from other countries instead of taxing Americans like the internal revenue service we all know. And that must sound pretty good to a lot of folks judging by the election results. Of course, as we just heard from Scott Horsley, economists see tariffs quite differently.
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Tariffs Come Due, Chopper Traffic After Crash
They tend to see an outmoded and counterproductive blunderbuss of a weapon that often winds up wounding the user as much as the target. The classic example being the tariffs the U.S. imposed in the early 1930s. Historians tell us those tariffs actually deepened and lengthened the Great Depression.
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Tariffs Come Due, Chopper Traffic After Crash
You'd have to say it was mixed and rather limited, really. Those tariffs served their purpose in the short run in targeted areas. But they did not measurably improve Trump's standing for reelection in 2020 or, for that matter, when he came back in 2024. The tariffs were not the salient issue either time. There were just too many other issues.
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Tariffs Come Due, Chopper Traffic After Crash
And the blame for the inflation of the past few years had long since gone elsewhere.
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Tariffs Come Due, Chopper Traffic After Crash
To me, the chief executive moment of the week was Trump's news conference Thursday morning about the midair collision over Ronald Reagan National Airport. Diverting attention from that tragedy to make a tech on diversity hiring. When we still don't know who or what was responsible for that crash, Trump said he was using common sense and that's a phrase he's been using a lot lately.
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I think people are beginning to get a sense of what that common sense means to him. As for the executive orders, it's quite a competition. I'd have to go with the now rescinded order to freeze federal spending. That order said all grants had to be frisked for Marxism or race and gender diversity or approval of certain sexual orientation. That language was striking as well as confusing.
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Federal judges stepped in. The freeze is off for now. But the underlying orders, the judgments from the Trump administration remain in effect. Of course, the courts had already paused an earlier order against birthright citizenship. But perhaps the most notable evidence, of the overall attitude of these orders is the preemptory nature of it.
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There was a sense Trump was testing the boundaries and trying all the locks on the Constitutional House at once.
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Tariffs Come Due, Chopper Traffic After Crash
Not at the moment, although the margins in both chambers are historically slim. All presidents have used executive orders, at least at times, and often at critical times. It's fast. It creates an impression of action and change and effectiveness, but only for a time, and only if the various orders survive court challenges and other forms of pushback.
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Tariffs Come Due, Chopper Traffic After Crash
When you go around Congress for short-term success, you risk a reckoning that can have longer-lasting effects.