Canada Tariffs, Education Department Targeted, DOGE

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🗓️ 4 February 2025

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At the last moment the US paused its trade wars with Canada and Mexico, the Trump administration is reportedly targeting the US Department of Education for closure and questions are being raised about the amount of government access given to Elon Musk and his DOGE entity.

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0:00.0	A liquor store worker in Canada was just about to yank American bourbon off the shelf.
0:07.2	We felt betrayed.
0:08.8	At the last moment, the U.S. paused its trade war.
0:11.4	How's all this look from the U.S. ally to the north?
0:13.8	I'm Michelle Martin.
0:14.6	That's Stevenskiy, and this is up first from NPR News.
0:18.3	An ethics watchdog who criticized the first Trump administration now watches the second.
0:24.7	I've never seen the White House send their people into the agents this way in such an
0:29.9	intrusive matter. What is Elon Musk's authority for accessing Treasury Department
0:33.9	records of almost everybody? Also, NPR has details of President Trump's
0:37.7	plans for the Department of Education. Closing a cabinet department requires an act of Congress,
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