Weekly Roundup: Tariffs, Texts & Turtles

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4.5 • 24.9K Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

President Trump signaled more tariffs would come in April, signed an executive order about voting, & withdrew the nomination of his proposed United Nations ambassador. We look at that and more in our weekly roundup.

This episode: political correspondent Susan Davis, senior political editor & correspondent Domenico Montanaro, and senior national political correspondent Mara Liasson.

The podcast is produced by Bria Suggs & Kelli Wessinger and edited by Casey Morell. Our executive producer is Muthoni Muturi.

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0:09.2	upward mobility, and economic prosperity, regardless of race, gender, or geography.
0:14.4	Coffman.org
0:15.4	Hi, this is Kyle from Annapolis, Maryland.
0:18.7	Right now I'm about to walk on stage for the final performance of week three out of five of the show Working the Musical.
0:26.4	This podcast was recorded at 12.3 p.m. on Friday, March 28th.
0:31.6	Things may have changed by the time you hear this.
0:33.9	Places. On with the show.
0:40.3	Nice.
0:41.2	Break a leg.
0:43.0	Hey, it's the NPR Politics Podcast.
0:45.1	I'm Susan Davis.
0:45.9	I cover politics.
0:47.1	I'm Domenico Montanaro, senior political editor and correspondent.
0:50.2	And I'm Mara Liason, senior national political correspondent.
0:53.8	And it's Friday, so it's time for our weekly roundup.
0:56.7	And we're going to start on Capitol Hill where someone was about to leave Washington.
1:00.4	Bags were packed. They were on a farewell tour. And then things changed.
1:04.4	New York Congresswoman Elise Stefani had been tapped to be the Trump administration's ambassador to the United Nations.
1:10.2	But our candidacy was withdrawn yesterday. Mara, what did the Trump administration's ambassador to the United Nations, but her candidacy was withdrawn
1:11.9	yesterday. Mara, what did the Trump administration say about why they were withdrawing her nomination?
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