Mara Liasson
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Trump can't just unilaterally lay down the terms of a trade deal the way he has done with smaller, less powerful countries.
On his way from the White House to Florida for a charity golf event, Trump said he wasn't surprised by the market reaction to his tariffs. The Wall Street Journal estimates that the market drop equaled a loss of $2.7 trillion. But President Trump insists that the markets ultimately are going to surge...
U.S. trading partners are promising to retaliate with tariffs of their own, which are in effect an import tax paid by American consumers, who economists say may pay as much as $2,100 a year more per family. Mara Liason, NPR News.
All these special elections are the first chance that voters have to weigh in on the Trump administration. And Democrats have already won a bunch of special elections for state legislative seats. But now the Wisconsin state Supreme Court race is the first race with national implications. Unlike Florida, it's a battleground state.
The balance of power on the state Supreme Court in Wisconsin is up for grabs.
I'm Ximena Bustillo, and I cover immigration policy. And I'm Mara Liason, senior national political correspondent.
No, I think that the optics are more important. I think that that's going to matter more politically than whether he actually hits a numerical target. If he just... deports people who are in the United States without legal status, I think that will continue to be popular.
But if he starts taking away legal status from big groups of immigrants who are in this country, like Haitians or Venezuelans who've been protected by TPS, temporary protected status, that might be different. And remember, the reason why we have an illegal immigration problem in the United States is because we have a labor shortage in the United States.
If there weren't jobs for these people, they wouldn't be coming. And Donald Trump has not addressed that part of the problem.
Jimena, what is the status of TPS? There are a bunch of immigrants who are here with that legal protection and Trump has talked about ending it. Is it still in effect?
Well, yeah, but also it aligns with his view of what he wants America to look like. The people who could afford this gold card, and as you said, it's not new. The United States has had a program for people who could come to the United States and invest a certain amount of money and create jobs. I don't know if it's been $5 million, which is the price of his gold card.
But he expects that these will be wealthy people from around the world who he says can create businesses and employ Americans. It's a way to get foreigners to invest in the country. Foreign governments do this too. Many European countries used to offer a kind of gold card or an EU visa or passport to people. Yes, some still do to people who would be willing to buy an apartment for X million euros.
Oh, I think there's definitely a possibility for action. As a matter of fact, I've had many conversations with Republicans about this. If Trump was really smart politically and wanted to triangulate the way he did on abortion during the campaign, he would sign a comprehensive immigration bill that included a path to citizenship for the dreamers. And he would basically...
get tremendous amounts of credit. He might even be able to cement some of the support he got from Hispanic voters, especially Hispanic men. That would be a real political coup. Now, there are people in his party that don't want any kind of immigration reform that would amount to what they would call amnesty.
In other words, giving people who are here without legal status some kind of legal status or a path to that. But yeah, I think it's absolutely possible.
Well, Jimena, what about employers? I mean, what about meatpacking plants that depend on people who are here without legal status? What are they doing about this? Are they trying to appeal to ICE not to come into their plants? Or in some communities, this would be economically devastating.
I'm Jimena Bustillo, and I cover immigration policy. And I'm Mara Liason, senior national political correspondent.
The NPR Politics Podcast · Poll: Majority Thinks Trump Is Making Changes Too Quickly · 3 Mar 2025
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The dogs of NPR welcome them.
They must have been begging for one for a long time. That's usually what happens.
I'm Domenico Montanaro, senior political editor and correspondent. And I'm Mara Liason, senior national political correspondent.
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