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Up First podcast from NPR. Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. President Trump has signed

executive orders that give both Canada and Mexico a nearly month-long break on import tariffs of

25% for goods covered by the U.S.-Mexico-Canada

Agreement.

And Pierre Zeta Peralta has more from Mexico City.

Mexican President Claudia Seymbaum said that during a phone call, she walked President

Trump through a set of his own government statistics.

They showed a huge drop in the amount of fentanyl being seized by border authorities.

Well, how we're going to continue cooperating, collaborating with something that daña the amount of fentanyl being seized by border authorities. I asked him, how can we continue to collaborate if the U.S. is doing something that hurts

the Mexican people? It wasn't a threat, she said. I just asked him to understand my position.

Shanebaum said, after a respectful conversation, Trump agreed to pause most of the new tariffs

and review it in a month.

Shame bomb had been set to announce retaliatory measures at a mass rally on Sunday.

Now she says it will be a celebration.

Adipralta, NPR News, Mexico City.

Nearly 6,000 fired employees of the U.S. Department of Agriculture have a job again today.

An independent federal board ordered them reinstated for 45 days while an investigation into the firings continues.

NPR's Andrews, she has more on how USDA workers are reacting.

They're not exactly celebrating.

I spoke with Michelle Kirchner,

an entomologist who was helping alfalfa growers manage pests when she was fired last month,

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