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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Jack Spear. After speaking for a second time today over the phone, President Trump and Canadian leader Justin Trudeau announced there is a 30-day pause on the 25 percent tariffs the U.S. was going to impose on Canada. As NPR's Deepa Shivram explains, it comes hours after word of a similar pause for Mexico.
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.
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,
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.
President Trump, meanwhile, is acknowledging all his tough talk on tariffs and possible implementation could cause some pain for average Americans. Tariffs could spark inflation, according to economists, that would essentially violate a promise Trump made to voters when he promised to bring down inflation.
Billionaire Elon Musk, under the auspices of the non-government entity Doge, continues to move to consolidate control over large swaths of the federal government. The world's wealthiest man working on behalf of President Trump, shutting down the U.S. Agency for International Development, was created by Congress to provide international aid.
Maryland Congressman Jamie Raskin was among those at a protest in Washington, D.C., against the administration's actions.
This is billions of dollars of work that is being done all over the world, and they're trying to disrupt it and block it. And it comes from Elon Musk, and we don't know exactly what authority he's operating under.
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