Tariffs Deadline, Texas Flood Hearing, Witkoff In Israel
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🗓️ 1 August 2025
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| 0:00.0 | The White House issued new tariff rates last night, just hours before President Trump's midnight trade deadline. |
| 0:07.6 | The taxes affect imports from nearly every country. |
| 0:10.2 | Which imported goods will face the highest rates? And when? |
| 0:13.7 | I'm A Martinez. That is Steve Inskeep. And this is up first from NPR News. |
| 0:21.1 | Survivors of the floods in Texas had a chance to talk with state lawmakers. |
| 0:25.2 | Several of our dear friends and neighbors lost their lives that night, people we've known for |
| 0:29.8 | lifetime. |
| 0:30.6 | And lawmakers have opinions about local officials in the crisis. |
| 0:34.4 | When the time came to act, they did not do so in a timely fashion. |
| 0:39.7 | And two American officials visited Gaza today to inspect an American-Israeli-backed food |
| 0:44.3 | distribution site. |
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| 1:26.6 | President Trump last night signed executive orders imposing tariffs on imports from scores of |
| 1:32.2 | countries, which is, of course, a big shift in U.S. economic policy that has been months in the |
| 1:36.1 | making. |
| 1:36.7 | But surprisingly, most of those tariffs do not take effect today, as the White House had |
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