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What are the key points of President Trump's visit to China?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Corva Coleman. President Trump is en route to China for meetings with President Xi Jinping. He's accompanied by several key business leaders, such as the CEOs of Boeing and Nvidia. Trump will try to focus on reaching business agreements. The leaders will also focus on the war in Iran. China is a business ally of Iran's and buys most of Iran's crude oil. A new NPR Chicago Council Ipsos poll finds most Americans think U.S. tariffs have been bad for both economies and driven up consumer costs here. NPR's Frank Langfet reports.
Elisa Kajiwar is a physical therapist in greater Chicago. When she bought a Chinese-made board game, she noticed tariffs added up to $20 to the price.
I think the tariffs are bad. Making a worse deal for a country's trade does not mean we'll get more stuff out of it.
David Morgan lives in North Carolina and supports tariffs. Low-wage competition from China sank his furniture company. Business dried up and we didn't have the orders. We filed Chapter 11 and sold off a lot of our stuff. The poll shows most Americans see a potential solution. Cut tariffs on China in exchange. for China buying more U.S. agricultural goods. Frank Langford, NPR News, Washington.
The effects of the Iran war are driving up costs in the U.S.
How are tariffs affecting American consumers and businesses?
too. Before he left for China, President Trump said he did not consider Americans' financial situation when he's thinking about the war.
The only thing that matters when I'm talking about Iran, they can't have a nuclear weapon. I don't think about... American financial situation, I don't think about anybody. I think about one thing.
He added, if the stock market goes up or down a little bit, the American people understand it. But it's not the stock market that's hurting consumers. The government reported yesterday consumer prices rose in April 3.8 percent compared to the same time a year ago. Prices were up for many things. but especially gas. President Trump is expected to name David Ventrella as the next acting director of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency, or ICE. NPR's Jimena Bustillo prepared this report.
Ventrella most recently worked for the department overseeing contracts between ICE and various detention facilities. He previously worked for ICE during the Obama and George W. Bush administrations. He left the agency to work for GeoGroup, a private prison company that contracts with the federal government for immigration detention. The selection comes as leadership at DHS, led by new Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen, are looking to shift away from controversial surges of enforcement and build up detention and deportation capacity. Ventrella will inherit a much larger workforce. About 12,000 new employees were added in the last year. And a bigger budget. Congressional Republicans gave ICE $75 billion last summer, about half to spend on detention space.
Ximena Bustillo, NPR News, Washington.
On Wall Street, Dow futures are lower in pre-market trading. This is NPR. Voters in Nebraska and West Virginia held primary elections yesterday. One Democratic primary race for an open U.S. House seat is too close to call in Nebraska. With about 89 percent of the votes counted, state Senator John Kavanaugh and activist Denise Powell are virtually tied. The winner will face Republican Brinker Harding in the general election. The UN Children's Agency says Palestinian children in the occupied West Bank are at dangerous risk from Israeli military operations and settler attacks. UNICEF says at least one child has been killed there every week since the start of last year. NPR's Ruth Sherlock has more.
UNICEF says 70 Palestinian children have been killed in the occupied West Bank since January last year, 93% by Israeli forces. Another 850 have been wounded. Palestinians face an unprecedented number of settler attacks. Incidents documented by UNICEF include children shot, stabbed, beaten and pepper sprayed. Education is under what it calls sustained assault, with 99 documented incidences this year alone. For thousands of children across the occupied West Bank, UNICEF says daily travel to school has become a walk through fear.
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