Is today the day Donald Trump will announce new tariffs because yesterday wasn't the day?

I'm David Brancaccio. Let's get right to President Donald Trump's executive orders right out of the gate.

Mark Goldwine joins us this morning. He's senior vice president and senior policy director at the committee for a responsible federal budget, a nonpartisan organization with

bipartisan roots. Mark, good morning. Good morning. Thanks for having me. Voters spoke early and

often about their anger over inflation. President Trump addressed inflation yesterday by, what is it,

directing every piece of the federal government to deal with it. I look for

details and didn't see details. What about you? No, I mean, so look, I wouldn't say he addressed

inflation, but in the other hand, I wouldn't say what he did was particularly strange, right? So a lot of

the executive orders you're going to see early on are sort of orders to start thinking about how to make orders.

And that's what this inflation one is.

Does it solve inflation?

Does it even reduce inflation?

No.

But might that get somebody in some agency to think a little bit more hard about not

worsening price increases or bringing them down?

Perhaps it could.

Either way, it's mainly sort of a statement of the

administration's priorities more than an actual change in policy. Now on federal government workers,

the president's getting strict on remote work for federal workers, but a hiring freeze,

including at the Internal Revenue Service, something you will have noted in the work you do.

Yeah, look, it's supposed to be temporary while they, quote, figure things out.

Overall, hiring freeze is an opportunity to save the government money.

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