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Tariff plans pros and cons, Planned Parenthood funding, egg shortage cracks & more

CNN 5 Things

CNN

Daily News, News

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

First, we’ll break down the possible tariff options President Donald Trump is reportedly still weighing. The Supreme Court is hearing arguments on whether a state can cut Planned Parenthood funding. The corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams has been dismissed with a twist. Russia has launched its biggest military conscription drive in years. Plus, the egg shortage is finally improving, but there’s a catch. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey there from CNN. I'm Krista Bow with The Five Things You Need to Know for Wednesday, April 2nd.

0:07.8

President Donald Trump and his team are finalizing their massive tariff plan that's set to be announced later this afternoon.

0:14.4

And according to people familiar with the matter, the White House was still weighing up the pros and cons late yesterday.

0:20.5

CNN's Kevin Liptack breaks down what's

0:22.4

on the table. Krista, the president was weighing a huge array of options when it comes to these tariffs.

0:28.5

One was a 20% universal tariff rate on all imports. That would be the most extreme option,

0:35.0

but it would bring in billions of dollars in new revenue.

0:43.4

He's also thinking about a tiered system with sets of flat rates for different groupings of countries that would assign higher rates for countries that were seen as the worst tariff offenders and lower

0:48.3

rates for others.

0:49.8

He's also thinking about, you know, a true reciprocal tariff that would assign individual

0:54.1

rates to each

0:54.8

country, essentially dollar-for-dollar tariffs depending on those country's own duties.

0:59.7

It will all be revealed in the Rose Garden at 4 p.m. today.

1:03.7

Treasury Secretary Scott Besant spoke to lawmakers today and a source familiar with the conversation

1:08.5

said that he said the tariff rates will amount to a ceiling

1:12.0

and can be negotiated downward.

1:14.9

Besson's comments suggest the administration views the tariffs as a tactic to pressure other countries

1:20.0

to lower their duties on U.S. imports.

1:23.4

The Supreme Court is hearing arguments today on whether states are allowed to cut Medicaid funding for planned parenthood.

1:30.4

At the center of the case is an executive order signed by South Carolina's governor in 2018, which pulled spending for the state's two clinics run by the nonprofit.

1:40.0

He argued that the payments were essentially a taxpayer subsidy for abortion,

1:48.6

and federal and state law bans Medicaid from funding abortions in most cases.

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