We're going to Washington. Well, kind of. You're listening to Motley Full Money.

I'm Mary Long, joined today by Asset Sharma.

Asit, always a pleasure to have you on the show.

Thanks for being here.

Mary, thank you for inviting me once again.

So we got kind of an interesting, an interesting show today.

We're going to focus on a couple different stories that's kind of stood at the intersection of policy and stuff

that's happening in Washington, but that also do have an impact, not just on the economy, but on

investors in particular. We'll kick things off with Trump's speech last night. Last night,

President Trump delivered a one hour and 40-minute speech to Congress. There were a lot of

headlines out there this morning that are covering the speech. There were a lot of headlines out there this

morning that are covering this speech. But Politico kind of summed it up this way this morning,

saying, quote, this was not a speech that shifted the news dial at all. New policy announcements

were few and far between. What did shift the news dial yesterday was really the implementation

of tariffs that have been talked about

for a while, but finally went into effect yesterday. Trump kind of took yesterday's speech as an

opportunity to double down on the rollout of these tariffs. During last night's address,

Trump confirmed that new reciprocal tariffs on goods imported from a wide range of countries will begin

on April 2nd, notably not April 1st, because that's April Fool's Day.

There was a bit of a joke.

Unless there be any confusion there, right?

Yeah, there was a bit of a joke.

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