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NPR News: 03-07-2025 6PM EST

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🗓️ 7 March 2025

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0:00.0

Following the news out of Washington, D.C. can be overwhelming.

0:04.4

I'm Scott Detrow, and NPR has a podcast that can help. It's called Trump's Terms.

0:08.5

Stories about big changes the 47th president is pursuing on his own terms.

0:13.2

Each episode is short, usually around five minutes or so.

0:16.2

We keep it calm and factual.

0:17.8

We help you follow what matters, and we leave out what doesn't.

0:21.9

Listen to Trump's terms from NPR. Live from NPR news in Washington, I'm Jack Spear. Even as he's paused plans,

0:31.8

25% tariffs against Mexico and Canada, President Trump is railing against what he is called

0:37.0

tremendously high

0:38.0

Canadian tariffs on dairy and lumber products coming into the country from the U.S.

0:43.3

Speaking of the Oval Office today, he said he plans to potentially retaliate.

0:46.6

Canada has been ripping us off for years on tariffs for lumber and for dairy products.

0:53.3

250 percent. Nobody ever talks about that, 250 percent tariff, which is taking advantage of our

1:00.8

farmers, so that's not going to happen anymore.

1:02.7

President's latest remarks add to the trade pressure against the Canadian government,

1:06.7

which Trump is accused of failing to stop the flow of the deadly drug fentanyl across the northern border.

1:12.3

That's despite little evidence such trafficking is actually occurring, much of the 1.6 trillion in trade

1:17.6

between the U.S. Canada and Mexico already crosses borders duty-free.

1:22.1

Today, the Trump administration said it's cutting roughly $400 million in federal funding from Columbia University,

1:28.4

citing claims of anti-Semitism on campus.

1:30.9

And Barrous Janet Ujong-Lee reports.

1:32.8

The administration announced the cancellation of federal contracts and grants,

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