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Mexico, we've had very good talks with them.

And this is retaliatory.

This is retaliatory to a certain extent.

Millions of people float into our country through Mexico and Canada.

And we're not going to allow that.

President Donald Trump imposes sweeping tariffs on the three largest trading partners of the United States, Mexico, Canada, and China.

Global stocks are tumbling.

Then the staff of USAID, the U.S. Agency for International Development, is told to stay home.

This comes after tech billionaire Elon Musk says Trump has agreed to shut USAID down.

And USID is a ball of worms.

There is no Apple.

And when there is no Apple, you've just got to basically get rid of the whole thing.

We'll look at the impact of Musk's move with former USAID staffer Jeremy Kahnandike, president of Refugees International.

And as Elon Musk in a so-called Department of Government Efficiency gets access to classified details by taking over the State Department, the Treasury Department.

We'll speak with longtime Democratic strategist, Wili Shaheed, who says Elon Musk is staging a coup.

And with Lindsay Owens of Groundwork Collaborative, who says there are several reasons

Musk wants to control treasury payments. None of them are good. All that and more coming up.

Welcome to Democracy Now, Democracy Now.org, the War and Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman.

Global stocks are tumbling after President Donald Trump imposed 25% tariffs on most imports from Canada and Mexico and 10% on goods from China.

The White House said that tariffs are needed to hold the three

countries, quote, accountable to their promises of halting illegal immigration and stopping

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