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NPR News: 04-06-2025 7PM EDT

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🗓️ 6 April 2025

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0:16.7

Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Hurst. President Trump's tariffs are unpopular with voters,

0:24.3

but as NPR's Mara Liason reports, he doesn't appear to be backing off.

0:28.7

In the past, President Trump has reversed course when the markets or voters reacted negatively to his policies.

0:34.7

But this time, White House advisors say he is staying the course,

0:38.5

and Trump himself posted last week, quote, by policies will never change. A majority of Americans

0:44.5

tell pollsters they disapprove of Trump's tariffs, and the S&P 500 is down by 15% since

0:51.0

inauguration day. It's also unclear which of Trump's stated reasons for the tariffs

0:55.8

will win out. The White House sometimes says they're meant to be permanent in order to bring

1:00.3

manufacturing back to the U.S. and bring in enough money, hundreds of billions of dollars,

1:05.5

to pay for tax cuts and balance the budget. Other times, Trump has suggested the tariffs are just

1:10.6

a negotiating tactic. Mara Liason,

1:13.2

NPR News. And U.S. futures contracts are sharply lower at this hour. Dow futures down 4%. Nasdaq futures are

1:19.6

down about 4.5%. College and university leaders are under pressure to comply with federal executive

1:25.7

orders and policy changes or risk losing federal

1:29.4

funding. And peers Alyssa Nadwarning has more.

1:32.2

Dozens of institutions are under federal investigation for allegedly failing to protect Jewish

1:37.3

students from discrimination on their campuses. Dozens more for not complying with President

1:41.8

Trump's interpretation of civil rights laws. A federal task

1:45.3

force is reviewing billions of dollars in Harvard University's funding. A similar probe is underway

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