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🗓️ 6 March 2025
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0:00.0 | These days, there's so much news. It can be hard to keep up with what it all means for you, your family, and your community. |
0:06.4 | The Consider This Podcast from NPR features our award-winning journalism. |
0:10.7 | Six days a week, we bring you a deep dive on a news story and provide the context and analysis that helps you make sense of the news. |
0:17.5 | We get behind the headlines. We get to the truth. Listen to the Consider this podcast |
0:22.9 | from NPR. Hey, I'm Madison Brainerd, a student and reporter at the University of Alabama, and I'm |
0:29.2 | about to go live in the news wall for the first time. This podcast was recorded at 1.18 p.m. Eastern |
0:35.7 | time on Thursday, March 6th, 2025. Things may have changed by the time |
0:40.3 | you hear this, but hopefully I'll have nailed my first live shot. |
0:48.1 | Congratulations. I have no doubt. Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. I'm Sarah McCammon. |
0:57.1 | I cover politics. And I'm Asma Khalid. I cover the White House. |
1:09.9 | And on today's show, we are looking at the tariffs President Trump has put in place this week and how they're affecting the economy. So we've got NPR's chief economics correspondent Scott Horsley with us. Hi, Scott. |
1:12.2 | Hi, great. We're with y'all. Always good to have you. |
1:18.3 | You know, just remind us, there's been so much tariff talk from Trump, but what has actually been put in place so far? Well, you know, I think that caveat that we always put the top of the podcast, things may |
1:23.2 | have changed by the time you hear this, is particularly apt in this circumstance because it's been a wild |
1:29.3 | week. On Monday, we had no tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico. On Tuesday, we had suddenly a |
1:37.4 | 25% tax on nearly all imports from Mexico and Canada. On Wednesday, that tax was relaxed as far as cars go. Today, it was |
1:47.4 | relaxed further as far as most imports from Mexico go. That is, imports covered by the U.S.-Mexico, |
1:54.0 | Canada free trade agreement. So it's changing hour by hour, day by day, but it's certainly put the economy into a lot of questionable |
2:03.3 | territory. So Asma, like Scott just said, there's been a lot of back and forth here. I mean, |
2:07.6 | what is the White House trying to do, just sort of bring us up to speed on where they're focusing |
2:12.5 | these tariffs and why? So to me, these tariffs feel a lot more widespread and expansive than the tariffs in |
2:22.4 | Trump term one, when you're talking about 25% tariffs across the board on Canada, which at this |
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