Canada tariffs paused, Trump targets USAID, Congo ceasefire & more
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🗓️ 3 February 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, from CNN. This is Madeline Thompson, with five things you need to know for Monday, February 3rd. |
| 0:07.7 | Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau posted on X this afternoon that President Donald Trump's proposed tariff on Canadian goods, quote, will be paused for at least 30 days. |
| 0:18.8 | His announcement follows an afternoon phone call with Trump, who also paused tariffs on Mexico |
| 0:23.3 | earlier today. |
| 0:24.6 | In exchange, Trudeosa, Canada will invest heavily in border security, appoint a fentanyl czar, |
| 0:30.5 | and join the U.S. enlisting cartels as terrorist groups. |
| 0:34.0 | He also said he signed a new intelligence directive to combat organized crime, fentanyl and money laundering, to which he'll allot $200 million. |
| 0:42.3 | This is the world's richest man. |
| 0:45.3 | Deciding the world's richest country should stop helping the world's poorest people. |
| 0:48.3 | That's Jeremy Kaindyke, the president of Refugees International and a former senior official at USAID. |
| 0:55.3 | The agency has been all but shuttered and absorbed into the State Department to be at least |
| 0:59.9 | temporarily led by Secretary of State Marco Rubio. |
| 1:03.4 | Rubio called it a, quote, completely unresponsive agency. |
| 1:07.2 | And President Trump said this afternoon that he doesn't need congressional approval to scrap it. |
| 1:11.6 | Kaintyk rebutted both claims. |
| 1:13.6 | Most of the work USAID does is actually directed by Congress. |
| 1:17.6 | Congress says fund this much for health, fund this much for education, fund this much for humanitarian assistance. |
| 1:22.6 | The administration negotiates that budget with Congress every year and then executes that. |
| 1:26.6 | I don't see where they're seeing some huge disconnect. |
| 1:30.4 | Certainly, the agency is not operating on its own power. |
| 1:33.0 | They're operating under congressional and state department directives. |
| 1:36.5 | A CNN analysis has found that despite claiming no association with it, |
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