Tensions are rising within the White House as a result of inconsistent messaging on the policy goals for tariffs. Bloomberg’s Justin Sink details the challenge in sorting out the varying disputes. The Trump administration is using a point system to determine who is eligible to be deported. Sergio Martínez-Beltrán with NPR describes how the system is leading to critical errors. The Los Angeles Times looks at the administration’s attempts to strip legal funding that provides lawyers for children who crossed the border without a parent or legal custodian. Reporter Rachel Uranga describes the scene at the West Los Angeles Immigration Court. Plus, the National Weather Service stopped translating alerts into other languages, a judge ruled that the Trump administration can proceed with firing thousands of federal workers, and the deadline to get a Real ID is fast approaching. Today’s episode was hosted by Shumita Basu.
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Good morning. It's Wednesday, April 9th. I'm Shemita Basu. This is Apple News Today. On today's show, the point system determining who gets flagged for deportation, what happens when unaccompanied minors cross the border and need a lawyer, and what to know about the upcoming deadline to get your real ID card.
But first, President Trump's latest round of tariffs went into effect overnight, bringing our total levy against China to at least 104 percent. In response, China raised its retaliatory tariff on U.S. goods to 84 percent starting Thursday. Trump acknowledged that so far his tariffs have been met with a lot of angst, but insisted that he, quote, knows what the hell he's doing.
He also said he would soon impose tariffs on pharmaceuticals, lamenting that America doesn't make our own medicines. The reaction from Wall Street to Trump's tariff plan has been unequivocally negative.
On Tuesday, the markets closed down for the fourth consecutive day in a row, and The Wall Street Journal reports that many CEOs are starting to break their silence, with people from JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon to billionaire hedge fund manager and Trump backer Bill Ackman sharply criticizing the moves, and Republican donor and billionaire Ken Griffin calling them a huge policy mistake.
The policy has also led to some infighting inside the White House, with basically three different camps emerging. Here's how Justin Sink, a White House correspondent for Bloomberg News, described the competing schools of thought.
So on one side, the most hawkish side, you have folks like Peter Navarro and Howard Lutnick, the Commerce Secretary, who really believe that tariffs can propel manufacturing back to the United States and help sort of settle historic trade deficits between the two countries.
They're the ones who say this isn't about negotiating with other countries, that this is, as Navarro put it, quote, a national emergency triggered by trade deficits caused by a rigged system. Then in the middle, you've got Treasury Secretary Scott Besant, who says tariffs will force other countries to come to the table and offer major concessions.
And then you've got Elon Musk over the side, and he's, while a close advisor of the president, also somebody who is a businessman and whose sort of immense wealth is tied up in the stock market.
Musk, who is the world's richest man, has lost an estimated $31 billion since Trump announced his tariffs, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. His company SpaceX has said new trade barriers will negatively impact how its Starlink communications service can operate in foreign countries. And although Tesla makes all of the cars it sells in the U.S.
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