Welcome to PUDSAFE of America. I'm John Favre. I'm Dan Pfeiffer. On today's show, the Doge

wrecking ball continues to swing, but it looks like the Supreme Court and maybe even Donald Trump

might be clipping Elon's wings. We'll get into all the latest there. The government runs out of

money next week, but Congress is busy scolding one of its members

for interrupting Trump's state of the union. Speaking of which, I sat down with our pal Sarah Longwell

from the bulwark the morning after the big speech to talk about how voters are processing the first

month of Trump 2.0. So stick around for that conversation later. But first, we have some important updates to share on how the golden age of America is coming along.

A few days after launching an economic trade war against our fiercest adversaries in Canada and Mexico,

Trump is already backing down.

On Wednesday, the White House announced that their new

25% tax on everything we buy that's made in Canada or Mexico would exempt cars, preventing what

analysts say would be up to a $12,000 increase in car prices. Then on Thursday, right before we started recording, obviously,

Trump said, just kidding, trade war is basically off until April 2nd on most goods from Canada

and Mexico. What changed, you might ask? Well, Canada didn't offer any concessions. Mexico

didn't offer any concessions. Mexico didn't offer any concessions.

But here in the United States, the stock market tanked over the last week.

The Atlanta Fed's forecast model now predicts that the economy will shrink this quarter.

Consumer sentiment is at an eight-month low.

Retail sales dropped by the largest amount in two years. And even though

the Bureau of Labor Statistics jobs report won't be out until you're listening to this, we learned

on Thursday that employers cut more jobs in February than at any time since the last two recessions.

I don't know, Dan, do you think any of those economic developments might have

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