EU Leaders On Ukraine, Auto Tariffs Paused, USDA Workers Return

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🗓️ 6 March 2025

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European leaders are meeting for an emergency summit to find ways to raise billions for defense and aid to Ukraine after after the U.S. cut military support. President Trump has granted a one-month exemption on new auto tariffs for Canadian and Mexican imports. And, a federal board has ordered the USDA to reinstate nearly 6,000 fired workers, ruling their dismissals were likely unlawful.

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0:00.0	Europe aims to increase defense spending after the U.S. withholds military aid from Ukraine.
0:08.3	What would it take for Europeans to defend themselves against Russia?
0:11.8	I'm Steve Inskeep with A. Martinez, and this is up first from NPR News.
0:19.8	The auto industry gets a reprieve. President Trump pauses new tariffs on cars made in Canada and Mexico.
0:26.1	U.S. automakers lobbied hard because their car parts cross both borders.
0:30.4	What they said was, look, if you put a 25% tariff on us, you're helping everybody but us.
0:35.6	So come on.
0:36.6	But the relief lasts only a month,
0:38.3	so what happens next? And nearly 6,000 fired Department of Agriculture workers are back, at least for now.
0:44.4	A federal board says their firings were likely illegal, but the fight over government jobs is not over.
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