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- Hamilton Spectator
Trump lowers expectations of trade deal with Canada, gives 90-day delay to Mexico
WASHINGTON - Donald Trump dampened expectations of a deal with Canada materializing at the last minute as his tariff deadline loomed Thursday — but the U.S. president did give a 90-day deadline delay to Mexico. In a post on social media early Thursday morning, the president said it will be very hard to make a deal with Canada after Prime Minister Mark Carney announced Wednesday Ottawa intends to recognize a Palestinian state. Trump previously sent a letter to Carney threatening to impose 35 per cent tariffs if Canada doesn't make a trade deal by Friday. The White House has said those duties would not apply to goods compliant with the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement on trade, better known as CUSMA. In a separate social media post, Trump said he spoke with Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum and agreed to extend Mexico's trade deal deadline because the 'complexities of a Deal with Mexico are somewhat different than other Nations because of both the problems, and assets, of the Border.' Trump's previous letter to Sheinbaum threatened 30 per cent tariffs. The Thursday post said the current 25 per cent fentanyl-related tariffs, as well as sectoral tariffs on steel, aluminum, copper and automobiles, will remain in place. 'Additionally, Mexico has agreed to immediately terminate its Non Tariff Trade Barriers, of which there were many,' Trump said. 'We will be talking to Mexico over the next 90 Days with the goal of signing a Trade Deal somewhere within the 90 Day period of time, or longer.' While Trump continued to claim in posts on social media that tariffs are making 'America GREAT & RICH Again,' the president's main tool for realigning global trade faces a hurdle in court. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit is hearing Thursday from businesses and states that say Trump's use of a national security statute to implement the duties is beyond his powers as president. 'To all of my great lawyers who have fought so hard to save our Country, good luck in America's big case today,' Trump said in a social media post. 'If our Country was not able to protect itself by using TARIFFS AGAINST TARIFFS, WE WOULD BE 'DEAD,' WITH NO CHANCE OF SURVIVAL OR SUCCESS. Thank you for your attention to this matter!' The U.S. Court of International Trade ruled in May that Trump does not have the authority to wield tariffs on nearly every country through the use of the International Economic Emergency Powers Act of 1977. The act, usually referred to by the acronym IEEPA, gives the U.S. president authority to control economic transactions after declaring an emergency. No previous president had ever used it for tariffs and the U.S. Constitution reserves power over taxes and tariffs for Congress. The Trump administration quickly appealed the lower court's ruling on the so-called 'Liberation Day' and fentanyl-related tariffs. The Trump administration's lawyer argued in the appeals court Thursday morning that there are still checks and balances on the president's powers and he has the authority to use the statute to impose duties — despite the fact that word 'tariff' is not in IEEPA. This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 31, 2025.
New York Times
6 minutes ago
- New York Times
More Than 150,000 Federal Workers Accepted Trump's Resignation Incentives
The Trump administration is paying about 154,000 employees not to work as a result of novel resignation incentives offered to federal workers since Inauguration Day, the government's human resources arm said on Thursday. That estimate is the first comprehensive disclosure from the government about the scale of President Trump's effort to downsize the federal work force. Still, the figure represents just a portion of the total number of workers who have left the federal government since the beginning of the Trump administration — only those who accepted an offer to resign early in exchange for many months of pay. It does not include the thousands of people who were laid off or fired. While the Trump administration has not made public a complete picture of the cuts, the work of Mr. Trump and his Department of Government Efficiency under Elon Musk amounts to the largest reduction to the federal work force in the modern era. The government employed roughly 2.3 million nonmilitary workers at the start of the year. A spokeswoman for the Office of Personnel Management said that as of June, about 154,000 employees had resigned or retired early with the promise of being paid through Sept. 30 or Dec. 31, depending on the offer. The Washington Post reported the figure earlier. The Partnership for Public Service, a nonprofit that works to promote best practices in the federal government, had estimated the total number of departures — voluntary resignations, layoffs and firings — to be around 148,000 as of July. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
CNN
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- CNN
Trump announces agreement to pause higher tariffs on Mexico for 90 days
President Donald Trump announced on Thursday he's extending the existing tariffs with Mexico, America's largest trading partner, and he will pause higher tariffs that were set to go into effect Friday. That means the status quo will continue, in which goods from Mexico are taxed at 25%, unless they are compliant with the United States-Mexico-Canada trade deal Trump signed under his first term. In those instances, goods won't face any tariffs, barring certain sectoral tariffs in place. 'I have just concluded a telephone conversation with the President of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, which was very successful in that, more and more, we are getting to know and understand each other,' Trump said in a Truth Social post. 'The complexities of a Deal with Mexico are somewhat different than other Nations because of both the problems, and assets, of the Border. We have agreed to extend, for a 90 Day period, the exact same Deal as we had for the last short period of time.' 'We will be talking to Mexico over the next 90 Days with the goal of signing a Trade Deal somewhere within the 90 Day period of time, or longer,' Trump wrote. This is a developing story and will be updated.
