Welcome to another episode of Lurie Breaks It Down, a podcast where we dig deeply to connect the dots on the issues that shape our world.

I'm Lurie Daniel Favors, author,

activist, attorney, and host of the Lurie Daniel Favors show on Sirius XM's Urban View,

Channel 126. Over the course of the past few episodes, we've talked a lot about tariffs and the

international impact, both what we're going to see on the global scale and what we're going to see broadly

in national perspective.

But today I really want to talk about what comes next when it comes to our kitchen cabinets

and our medicine cabinets and our garages, which hold our cars and our lawnmowers and all

the Michigas that goes into being homeowners or the vacuum

cleaners that clean our apartments and the washcloths that we use to clean our dishes.

I want you to think about every single thing that you use.

How many of those things are made somewhere else?

That somewhere else factor is what I want to focus on today because we are in a moment right

now where there's seeming paralysis

as it pertains to the discussions about who's going to get a tariff, if the tariff is going to be

decreased, if the tariff is going to be increased, and with particular focus on China,

I want us to predict out what's going to be happening to our kitchen cabinets, our closets,

our garages, and everything that goes into all of the spaces

where we as American store our stuff if this international tariff stuff doesn't get fixed.

So today we're going to start with a few articles that I think are really important for help

locating what's happening right now. And the first is that Donald Trump is discovering that the United States is not indispensable.

And it's unfortunate for the United States to realize this, but this is where we're at.

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