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| 0:16.9 | Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Jack Spear. President Trump is set to announce a new round of |
| 0:24.7 | tariffs tomorrow, even as the European Union and others are bracing for the fallout. |
| 0:30.4 | NPR's Tamara Keith reports the White House is holding the details close. |
| 0:33.7 | White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt says President Trump has made up his mind about the tariffs. |
| 0:39.2 | This is obviously a very big day. He is with his trade and tariff team right now, perfecting it to make sure this is a perfect deal for the American people and the American worker. |
| 0:48.8 | Many economists are warning, adding tariffs will hurt American businesses and raise prices for consumers. But Leavitt dismissed |
| 0:56.1 | those concerns, pointing to the strong economy during Trump's first term when he put high tariffs on China. |
| 1:02.8 | Independent analysis found that those tariffs benefited some workers but harmed others, and U.S. |
| 1:08.8 | consumers bore most of the cost. |
| 1:13.8 | Levitt says the new tariffs will go into effect immediately. |
| 1:16.3 | Tamara Keith, NPR News, the White House. It's not technically a filibuster because it's not aimed at a particular piece of legislation. |
| 1:22.5 | However, New Jersey Democratic Senator Cory Booker is now at the 23-hour mark in his marathon speech on the Senate floor. |
| 1:29.7 | Booker's been railing against the Trump administration for souring global relations, |
| 1:33.9 | cuts to Social Security offices, and worries the Trump administration appears to be set to cut the social safety met many Americans relying on. |
| 1:40.9 | How can the central precept of our country founded on principles that are |
| 1:46.1 | reflected in the good book, how could we say that we should cut health care from the sick |
| 1:54.3 | and the needy to give bigger tax cuts to Elon Musk? Booker began his speech last night saying he'll hold the floor for as long as he's physically |
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