NPR News: 02-02-2025 5PM EST
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🗓️ 2 February 2025
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| 0:00.0 | President Trump is back in Washington, pursuing major policy changes on his own terms. |
| 0:06.4 | We know from the past that means challenging precedent, busting norms, and pushing against the status quo. |
| 0:12.1 | NPR is covering it all with Trump's terms, a podcast where we curate stories about the 47th president with the focus on how he is upending the way Washington works. |
| 0:21.5 | Listen to Trump's terms from NPR. |
| 0:24.4 | Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Hurst. |
| 0:28.5 | Business groups are pushing back against President Trump's plan to impose stiff new tariffs |
| 0:33.5 | on imports from Mexico, Canada, and China. |
| 0:36.9 | MPR Scott Horsley reports those import taxes are set to take effect Tuesday. |
| 0:41.8 | President Trump says he's ordering the tariffs in an effort to curb the flow of illegal drugs and immigration. |
| 0:46.8 | But the U.S. Chamber of Commerce says while Trump is right to focus on those problems, tariffs are not the answer. |
| 0:52.6 | The Chamber says taxing imports will only upend supply |
| 0:55.3 | chains and raise prices for American families. Trump has ordered a 25% tax on most goods |
| 1:01.4 | coming from Mexico and Canada, but he called for a smaller 10% tax on Canadian crude oil |
| 1:05.9 | in an apparent effort to limit any spike in gasoline prices. The tariff on Chinese imports is also set at 10%. |
| 1:12.9 | All the taxes are set to take effect on Tuesday, leaving a short window for a possible reprieve. |
| 1:18.5 | Canada and Mexico have promised to respond to tariffs with taxes of their own on U.S. exports. |
| 1:23.3 | Scott Horsley, NPR News, Washington. |
| 1:25.2 | The National Science Foundation says it's going to start paying researchers again after a freeze of about a week. |
| 1:31.9 | MPIRS Jonathan Lambert has more. |
| 1:33.4 | On Sunday at noon Eastern, the NSF said that the agency will resume distributing funds to scientists who had received grants. |
| 1:40.9 | They have been unable to access their funds since Tuesday when the agency froze payments |
| 1:45.8 | as they reviewed how their grants complied with new executive orders, especially those targeting |
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