Will Trump negotiate on tariffs?

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🗓️ 8 April 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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On this episode, The Washington Post's Libby Casey, Rhonda Colvin and James Hohmann discuss the latest on the economy and Trump's tariffs – starting with the short-lived morning rally in the U.S. stock markets. The crew breaks down whether President Trump and his administration might be willing to negotiate with countries on the import duties Trump has put in place.

Plus, will a proposed Senate bill that would limit the president's power to put tariffs in place without congressional approval actually pass?

Then, the crew breaks down a change to the way the Justice Department will investigate cryptocurrency fraud.

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0:00.0	So what is the big question here?
0:02.0	Like, how do we know what's going to happen?
0:04.0	The million dollar question really is will Trump cave?
0:08.0	Will he back down?
0:09.0	Isn't it like a trillion dollar question at this point?
0:13.0	When you put it that way, I guess it's really like an $8 trillion question.
0:15.0	Oh my gosh, it's so much money on the line.
0:17.0	Look what happened. Is this crazy?
0:20.0	We stand on the verge of the four greatest years in the history.
0:25.2	Make America great Hickickick.
0:28.3	How can you be against them?
0:33.9	We're watching the markets, which plummeted, now rebounding a bit amid President Trump's trade war.
0:39.5	We're watching small business owners prepare for major disruptions in supplies and uncertainty.
0:45.3	We're waiting to see if and how much prices go up for consumers.
0:50.1	And it seems like really no one knows what's going to happen next, not in America or around the globe,
0:56.4	except perhaps President Trump?
0:59.1	Hard to say.
1:00.0	Welcome to Sidebar from The Washington Post.
1:01.9	I'm Libby Casey along with Rhonda Colvin and James Homan, my colleagues here at The Post.
1:06.7	Today's episode is really about conflict, conflict with other countries around the world over Trump's upending of global trade markets.
1:15.2	Conflict here at home, even within the team working inside and outside the White House with President Trump to figure out next steps.
1:24.1	And with great sympathy to our wonderful producers, we don't even know how much will change
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