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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Hurst. The European Union says it's prepared to

impose counter-tariff plans now that President Trump doubled his tariffs on steel and aluminum

imports to 50%. An EU spokesperson says they had paused their tariffs in hopes of reaching an agreement.

Terry Schultz has more.

A spokesperson for the European Union's executive says the bloc strongly regrets Trump's decision to raise tariffs on steel imports from 25 to 50%.

The decision adds further uncertainty to the global economy and increases costs for consumers

and businesses on both sides of the Atlantic, the spokesperson said in a statement.

They added that this move also undermines ongoing efforts to reach a negotiated solution,

which was the reason the EU decided in April to hold off imposing its own tariffs.

But now the spokesperson says the European Commission is finalizing its decisions on

countermeasures and will put them into effect on July 14th, or even earlier, if, in their words,

no mutually acceptable solution is reached. For NPR News, I'm Terry Schultz in Brussels.

Elon Musk stepped down from the federal government yesterday, and some people, including Republicans,

aren't sad to see them go. NPR's Maria Aspen spoke with Senator Mike Rounds of South Dakota.

Musk is leaving the Department of Government Efficiency, which is spearheading President Trump's

efforts to shrink the federal bureaucracy. But many of Doge's indiscriminate cuts have likely

made the government less efficient.

Senator Rounds tells NPR that if Musk and Doge really wanted to be effective, they needed to be

more careful with their cuts and spend more time digging into what he calls the finer details.

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