Ukraine Funds Paused, Trump Addresses Congress, Tariffs Begin
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🗓️ 4 March 2025
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| 0:00.0 | President Trump paused military aid to Ukraine after a disastrous meeting in the Oval Office last week. |
| 0:09.1 | What is the White House trying to pressure Ukraine to do by holding back weapons? |
| 0:12.8 | I'm Leila Faudil. That's Michelle Martin. And this is up first from NPR News. |
| 0:20.4 | Trump addresses Congress tonight after a dizzying first six weeks in the White House with |
| 0:25.4 | questions around the legality of mass layoffs of federal workers, a major shift in U.S. foreign policy, |
| 0:31.1 | and is pushed to consolidate executive power. |
| 0:33.9 | What will Trump's message to Americans be? |
| 0:36.1 | And Trump's new tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China are rattling markets and sparking retaliation. |
| 0:41.4 | They want to come out as hard. We're going to come back twice as hard. |
| 0:44.4 | Canada and China are already hitting back with tariffs of their own raising fears of an all-out trade war. |
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| 1:25.2 | The White House says it will pause military aid to Ukraine as the country continues to defend itself from Russian attacks. |
| 1:31.8 | A White House official told NPR, the administration wants to review the aid to see if it is contributing to peace. |
| 1:38.1 | The decision comes after President Trump and Vice President Vance berated Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelensky, |
| 1:44.5 | in an Oval Office meeting last Friday. |
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