Good morning. I'm Taylor Wilson, and today is Tuesday, April 1st, 2025. This is the excerpt.

Today, the countdown to a major date surrounding tariffs, plus new data on record U.S. imports from January,

and we discuss fire-resistant

neighborhoods in the wake of recent years devastating wildfires. President Donald Trump has

marked tomorrow, April 2nd, as the date he'll announce details for his widespread tariff plans.

I spoke with USA Today, White House correspondent, Joey Garrison, for the latest.

Thanks for joining me, Joey.

Jay, thanks for having me on.

So, Joey, big day tomorrow, this April second date that's been circled on the calendar for weeks.

What is on the way as it pertains to tariffs?

What Trump plans to do tomorrow is begin the, what he's called, reciprocal tariffs that affect really all countries that trade with the United

States. What he's promised to do is slap tariffs on imports coming from those countries at the

same rate in which they tariff United States exports. And so Trump has made the argument that the U.S.

has been getting screwed by these countries for years and that this is needed

for the United States to reduce the trade deficits with those various countries. He's also

made this argument really without a lot of evidence that this will reinvigorate, rejuvenate

domestic manufacturing in various key industries in the United States, things that have depleted really

since the 80s and 90s.

And so that's kind of the argument President Trump has made as we finally arrive at what

Trump is called Liberation Day coming here on Wednesday tomorrow.

And I guess, Joey, we should expect retaliatory action from the EU and others.

Is that fair to say? Yeah, I mean, we've

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