This message comes from MintMobile.

MintMobile took what's wrong with wireless and made it right.

They offer premium wireless plans for less, and all plans include high-speed data,

unlimited talk and text, and nationwide coverage.

See for yourself at mintmobile.com slash switch.

Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Jack Spear.

Despite announcements, the Trump administration is ready to talk tariffs, mixed messages continue to royal the financial markets.

Here's NPR's more Eliasson.

According to White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt, the president has directed his trade team to create tailor-made deals for each country.

It's still not clear what Trump's goal is to eliminate trade imbalances in goods but not services with every country in the

world, or to use the big tariffs to bring in what he says will be trillions of dollars of revenue.

Levitt says 70 countries have reached out to the White House since Trump announced the tariffs.

The Israeli Prime Minister has already been to the White House, and next week, the leaders of El Salvador and Italy will come.

Financial markets all over the world have reacted negatively to Trump's tariffs, but they've rebounded a bit when the White House messaging started focusing more on negotiating deals.

Mara Liason, NPR News.

Though the Dow fell 320 points today, Wall Street's so-called fear gauge, which has rarely been at the

levels it is right now, what's known as the VIX, which the Chicago Board Options exchanges

constructed to measure volatility, is usually somewhere around 20. There's been only two

periods in history where the index is closed consistently above 50 during the 2008 financial

crisis and early in the pandemic. Today, amid all the gyrations in the markets, the VIX was up

nearly 13 percent to just under 53. House Speaker Mike Johnson is going ahead with a plan to have the chamber vote on the Senate budget resolution Wednesday, despite not having the votes to pass it, compares Barbara Sprunt reports.

The Senate has passed a budget framework, a key step in unlocking much of President Trump's agenda. But to move forward, the House also has to pass it. And members say they don't think it currently has the

...