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US President Donald Trump speaks during an address to a joint session of Congress at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on March 4, 2025. (Photo by Win McNamee / POOL / AFP) (Photo by WIN MCNAMEE/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump grants automakers one-month exemption from tariffs after speaking with Ford, GM, and Stellantis leaders

By The Associated Press, Josh Boak, and others

Trump's commerce secretary Howard Lutnick surrounded by reporters

Howard Lutnick says Trump may give Canada and Mexico some wiggle room for his tariffs just one day after rolling them out

By Josh Boak and The Associated Press

This combination of file photos shows, from left, U.S. President Donald Trump in Palm Beach, Fla., Feb. 7, 2025, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Kyiv, Ukraine, June 10, 2023, China’s President Xi Jinping in Brasilia, Brazil, Nov. 20, 2024, and Mexico’s President in Mexico City, June 27, 2024. Claudia Sheinbaum (AP Photo)

Trump tariffs on Canada and Mexico go into effect as China hits back at U.S. farm exports and Canada prepares to roll out its own

By Josh Boak, Paul Wiseman, and others

Trump looks confused

Trump says 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico are happening with no chance of a last-minute deal—and his comments are throttling the stock market

By Zeke Miller, Josh Boak, and others

Howard Lutnick, US commerce secretary, during a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington

Government spending could be separated from GDP reports—doing so could distort a fundamental measure of the U.S. economy’s health

By Josh Boak and The Associated Press

Commerce Secretary nominee Howard Lutnick speaks in the Oval Office of the White House after President Donald Trump signed an executive order, Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

The Trump administration may exclude government spending from GDP, obscuring the impact of DOGE cuts

By Josh Boak and The Associated Press

The executive order would streamline the permitting process for obtaining wood products.

Trump takes actions to increase lumber supplies and curb wood imports

By Josh Boak and The Associated Press

Dozens of eggs roll along a conveyor belt

The USDA says egg prices could jump another 41% this year. Just last month, the increase was predicted to be 20%

By Josh Funk, Josh Boak, and others

FILE – President Donald Trump speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Jan. 21, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File)

Trump executive order directs government to consider copper tariffs—’It will have a big impact’

By Josh Boak and The Associated Press

President Donald Trump speaks at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla., Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025.

Trump executive order aims to seize control from independent watchdogs — SEC, FTC, and FCC

By Josh Boak and The Associated Press

FILE – People protest during a rally outside the Treasury Department in Washington, Feb. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Treasury watchdog begins audit of Musk DOGE team’s access to the US government’s payment system

By Fatima Hussein, Josh Boak, and others

President Donald Trump listens to a question from a reporter as Commerce Secretary nominee Howard Lutnick watches after Trump signed an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House, Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Economist warns Trump plan for reciprocal tariffs on U.S. trading partners could backfire: ‘A fundamental misunderstanding of how the global economy works’

By Josh Boak and The Associated Press

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum gives her daily morning press conference at the National Palace in Mexico City, Monday, Feb. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Trump agrees to one-month pause on Mexico and Canada tariffs after they pledge to boost border enforcement

By Josh Boak, Rob Gillies, and others

President Donald Trump in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Trump admits Americans could feel ‘some pain’ from his tariffs, but it will be ‘worth the price’

By Josh Boak and The Associated Press

FILE – Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Rohit Chopra, speaks from the South Court Auditorium on the White House complex in Washington, April 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Trump fires the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

By Josh Boak and The Associated Press