PDB Afternoon Bulletin | May 9th, 2025: Trump Floats Major Chinese Tariff Cut & Ukraine Busts Hungarian Spy Network

The President's Daily Brief

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🗓️ 9 May 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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In this episode of The PDB Afternoon Bulletin: First, President Donald Trump suggests he is willing to drastically cut U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods, just as his economic team heads to Switzerland for their first direct trade talks with officials from the communist regime. Later in the show—Ukraine is accusing Hungary of espionage after allegedly dismantling a Hungarian military spy network gathering sensitive intelligence regarding Kyiv’s defenses near their shared border. To listen to the show ad-free, become a premium member of The President’s Daily Brief by visiting PDBPremium.com. Please remember to subscribe if you enjoyed this episode of The President's Daily Brief. YouTube: youtube.com/@presidentsdailybrief Birch Gold: Text PDB to 989898 and get your free info kit on gold. TriTails Premium Beef: Visit https://TryBeef.com/PDB for 2 free Flat Iron steaks with your first box over $250. Plus, for a limited time enjoy 5% off on almost everything site-wide excluding subscriptions and B-stock. Jacked Up Fitness: Go to https://GetJackedUp.com and use code BAKER at checkout to save 10% off your entire purchase Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.8	Amazon offers term time working to their employees, like Anton,
0:07.4	who's home to look after his daughters during their holidays.
0:10.0	Hello!
0:10.9	To him, this is the best sound in the world.
0:17.2	Actually, maybe that's the best sound of all.
0:23.1	Now that's term time working.
0:24.5	Offered at Amazon.
0:26.8	Ten weeks off guaranteed per year.
0:29.0	Mix of paid holiday and unpaid time off.
0:43.7	Conditions apply. It's Friday the 9th of May.
0:46.5	Welcome to the PDB afternoon bulletin.
0:49.9	I'm Mike Baker, your eyes and ears on the world stage.
0:52.0	All right, let's get briefed.
0:59.2	First up, President Trump suggests that he's willing to drastically cut U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods,
1:06.6	just as his economic team heads to Switzerland for their first direct trade talks with officials from the communist regime.
1:14.1	Later in the show, Ukraine is accusing Hungary of espionage after allegedly dismantling a Hungarian military spy network gathering sensitive intelligence regarding Kyiv's defenses near their shared
1:20.3	border. We'll have those details. But first, today's afternoon spotlight. We'll begin with a major
1:26.2	update on the U.S.-China trade war as President Trump
1:29.3	signals that he's willing to make a big tariff concession to the Chinese Communist Party.
1:35.1	Taking to Truth Social on Friday morning, the president said he'll consider slashing his current
1:39.8	145% tariff on Chinese imports by nearly half.
1:49.3	And for those of you working on your math, that would be somewhere near 80%. Well, okay, not exactly 80%, but in that region.
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