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🗓️ 29 May 2025
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0:00.0 | Welcome to Seeking Alpha's Wall Street Breakfast, where we cover the top news for investors every morning. |
0:08.1 | Good morning. Today is Thursday, May 29th. I'm Julie Morgan. |
0:13.3 | Trump's tariffs fall flat. Elon Musk bows out and Envidia powers on. |
0:20.0 | A federal trade court has struck down the reciprocal tariffs that President Trump imposed on what he called Liberation Day. |
0:27.6 | The ruling puts an immediate stop to the collection of a sweeping set of levies that the president imposed. |
0:34.2 | The three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of International Trade ruled that President Trump |
0:38.9 | exceeded his authority on the April 2nd tariffs placed on more than 180 countries and territories. |
0:45.2 | The court wrote in a summary judgment that the Constitution assigns Congress the exclusive powers |
0:51.8 | to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises, and to regulate |
0:57.7 | commerce with foreign nations. The Trump administration will appeal the ruling, but considering |
1:03.6 | that the suing plaintiffs sought narrow relief, tariff collection will stop immediately, |
1:09.7 | barring an emergency stay. |
1:12.7 | Elon Musk is stepping down from his role as a senior advisor to President Trump. |
1:18.1 | In a post on his social media platform, X, Musk thanked Trump for the opportunity to lead |
1:23.4 | the Department of Government Efficiency commonly referred to as Doge. |
1:28.8 | He wrote that the department's mission will only strengthen over time as it becomes a way of life throughout the government. |
1:34.4 | Since the start of Trump's second term in January, Musk has headed the Department of Government |
1:39.1 | Efficiency, where he was charged with significantly reducing the size of the federal government. However, the Tesla and |
1:46.0 | SpaceX CEO's exit comes after he criticized Trump's Big Beautiful Budget Bill, the legislative |
1:52.1 | centerpiece of the president's agenda. In an interview that will be aired this Sunday, June 1st, |
1:58.0 | on CBS Sunday morning, Musk said the Big Beautiful bill will not help the nation's |
2:03.5 | finances. In a clip, he goes on to say that the bill undermines the work that the Doge team is doing. |
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