This is Irid Glass, the host of This American Life.

So much is changing so rapidly right now with President Trump in office.

It feels good to pause for a moment sometimes and look around at what's what.

Just try and do that.

We've been finding these incredible stories about right now that are funny and have feeling,

and you get to see people everywhere making sense of this new America that we find ourselves in. This American

life, wherever you get your podcast. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Hurst. A 25%

tariff on imported auto parts is not an effect. President Trump offered auto makers a partial

reprieve, but as NPR's Camila Dominovsky reports, the tariffs are still expected to have a major impact on the auto industry.

This week, President Trump announced that automakers importing foreign parts for U.S.-built cars could get reimbursed for some tariffs temporarily.

In recognition of the fact that it's not

possible to build a car with exclusively U.S. parts right now. The industry welcomed the changes,

but the tariffs are still expected to cut profits and drive up prices. The reprieve doesn't extend

to anyone buying parts for repairs, so the tariff will make it more costly to

maintain existing cars, as well as sending insurance prices, which have been rising for several

years, up even higher. Camila Dominovsky, NPR News. President Trump released his first

budget of his second term. It's a policy wish list of sorts called a skinny budget that lays out how

the government would spend money if he had his way. It's up to Congress to make the actual

spending decisions. This comes after Trump already used executive orders and his doge cost-cutting

effort to try to make big changes to the federal government. MPRs Daniel Kurtzleben reports

it would make big cuts to

non-defense spending, including education, transportation, and scientific research. He proposes cuts of

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