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Hello again, everyone. This is Jamie from Nearly Parents, which is currently brought to you by Starbucks.

Now, Starbucks means great coffee, of course, but it's also one of the only places that I get to decompress. Find a bit of time for myself and chat to loved ones about the things that really matter. It's like a warm, welcoming glow when I step inside my favorite Starbucks. Actually, guys, I tell you what, let me pause on this, and I'm going to head out for a coffee. So if you like coffee, in a great location, then why not do the same and head down to your local Starbucks for the good stuff? From executive producer Isaac Saul, this is Tangle.

Good morning, good afternoon and good evening, and welcome to the Tangle podcast, the place we get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking, and a little bit of my take. I'm your host, Isaac Saul, and on today's episode, we are going

to be talking about the United States European Union trade deal, a very big deal, big deal for

Trump, big deal for world trade, big deal for EU, U.S. relations. We're going to break down what exactly

happened, share some views from the left and the right and from abroad, and then my take.

Before we jump in, though, I want to give you a quick heads up that in response to yesterday's

reader question on the Social Security Fairness Act, SSFA, we wrote that, quote, beneficiaries who did not have portions of their

salaries pay into the Social Security Trust Fund would now be exempted from a provision that

garnished their Social Security benefit. That wording created some confusion by not clarifying

that these beneficiaries had paid into the funds through other jobs that they

worked. Only those who have contributed to Social Security can receive benefits for themselves

or their surviving family. A few readers wrote in asking us to kind of clarify that,

so we figured we would clarify that here at the top of the podcast and the newsletter, just letting you know.

All right, with that, I'm going to send it over to John for today's main topic, and I'll be back for my take.

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