Trade Tiffs, Bureaucracy Battles and Musk’s Mandate: Trump’s third week starts: From the Politics Desk

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Exchange tiffs, bureaucracy battles and Musk’s mandate: Trump’s third week begins

The third week of President Donald Trump’s second term started with an international trade battle, an uncertainty about the future of a key government agency and questions about the role of Elon Musk in the administration.

Let’s dive directly.

Prices postponed: A few days after announcing a 25% rate on imports from Canada and Mexico, Trump agreed to delay them for a month after Canada and Mexico managers announced moves to accelerate security at their borders, Shannon Pettypice Reports.

The decision diverts, at least for the moment, a potential trade war with two of the trade partners closest to America who could have increased prices for American consumers and blocked the economies of countries.

As part of the agreement, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said his country would spend $ 1.3 billion on a plan to strengthen its border with new helicopters, technologies and staff, as well as additional resources to stop Fentanyl flow. (Canada had announced its $ 1.3 billion investment at the border and immigration at the end of last year.)

And earlier in the day, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said her country would immediately strengthen the North border with 10,000 members of her national guard to combat Mexico drug trafficking in the United States, in particular fentanyl.

The price of 10% of Trump on all Chinese imports is expected to come into force on Tuesday.

Usaid under fire: Secretary of State Marco Rubio allowed Pete Marocco, a senior State Department official, to manage the American agency for international development and to review all the work carried out by the targeted agency for dismantling by Trump and Elon Musk, Vaughn Hillyard, Abigail Williams, Rebecca Shabad and Ryan Noble Report.

Rubio has warned that some projects or programs may be suspended or eliminated, marking the last attack on the Trump administration against the federal bureaucracy. USAID -based employees based in Washington were ordered not to enter the office on Monday and work at home.

Democratic legislators and legal experts have argued that the dismantling of the USAID would violate a law adopted by the congress establishing the agency. Senator Brian Schatz replied saying He would place a catch On candidates of the Trump State Department.

But the Republicans did not express many scruples with the wave of unilateral movements of Trump. House speaker Mike Johnson said Trump’s efforts to reduce federal spending and take other movements without approval from the congress were “appropriate”.

Role of musk: While Musk directed the effort to reduce the federal government through the “Department of Effectiveness of the Government”, its comments on the potential closure of the USAID sparked a new series of questions on what the role of technological billionaire is in the administration.

A White House official tried to offer a certain clarity: Musk is a “employee of the special government”, ” Katherine Doyle reports.

It is a designation which means that Musk works neither as a volunteer nor full -time employee. Special government employees are invited to meet the requirements of conflicts of interest and ethics policies which are generally less expensive than federal employees. As a temporary position, he bypass some of the disclosure obligations required for full -time roles.

Overview: As Jonathan Allen and Allan Smith writeTrump waged war against his own government, creating a deep feeling of fear in the federal workforce – and the beneficiaries of federal aid – while he tests the limits of his power to modify the scope, the function and the nature of the government without a congress.

Trump signs decrees at a historical pace

By Joe Murphy

If the pace to which President Trump signed decrees feels faster than normal, you do not imagine things.

In fact, Trump published more decrees in the first 10 days of his mandate than any president in their first 100 days since Dwight Eisenhower, according to an analysis of NBC news from Federal data from the register.