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Trump\u2019s presidency: Canada\u2019s retaliatory tariffs, Ukraine war talks and a looming government shutdown <\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
As Trump imposes sweeping 25% tariffs<\/a> on steel and aluminum, Mark Carney, leader of Canada’s ruling Liberal Party, told workers at a steel mill in Hamilton, Ontario that the country’s leadership was ready to sit down with the US “under a position where there’s respect for Canadian sovereignty.”<\/p>\n

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Updated 5:00 PM EDT, Wed March 12, 2025 <\/div>\n

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As Trump imposes sweeping 25% tariffs<\/a> on steel and aluminum, Mark Carney, leader of Canada’s ruling Liberal Party, told workers at a steel mill in Hamilton, Ontario that the country’s leadership was ready to sit down with the US “under a position where there’s respect for Canadian sovereignty.”<\/p>\n

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Canada’s Carney discusses conditions for Trump talks <\/p>\n

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Canada’s Carney discusses conditions for Trump talks<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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\u2022 Looming shutdown deadline: <\/strong>Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said today that Democrats have the votes<\/a> to block the House-passed GOP spending bill and called on Republicans to cut a deal to avert a shutdown Friday night. <\/p>\n

\u2022 Sweeping tariffs:<\/strong> President Donald Trump has imposed a 25% tariff on all steel and aluminum imports<\/a>. The European Union and Canada quickly responded with retaliatory levies. The escalation comes as a new CNN poll<\/a> shows Americans are not impressed with Trump\u2019s handling of the economy. <\/p>\n

\u2022 Judge rules on law firm: <\/strong>A federal judge halted parts of Trump\u2019s executive order<\/a> that targeted<\/a> a Democratic-linked law firm. US District Judge Beryl Howell sided with the firm Perkins Coie,<\/a> which represented Hillary Clinton in 2016 and has been involved in election litigation that Trump opposed. <\/p>\n

\u2022 Ukraine war talks: <\/strong>Trump said today that the ball is now in Russian President Vladimir Putin\u2019s court<\/a> after Ukraine accepted a US-proposed 30-day ceasefire<\/a>. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Democrats have the votes to block the House-passed GOP spending bill. It is his first statement about his party\u2019s strategy ahead of the Friday shutdown deadline. <\/p>\n

Schumer called on Senate Republicans to cut a deal with Democrats on a short-term spending bill instead, while they continue negotiating full-year appropriations. <\/p>\n

The House-passed bill would keep the government open until September. Senate Republicans are expected to reject Democrats\u2019 attempts to pass their own short-term stopgap bill. <\/p>\n

Earlier this afternoon:<\/strong> Senate Democrats engaged in an animated debate behind closed doors over how to handle the House\u2019s government funding bill. The meeting lasted for more than an hour. <\/p>\n

They were debating whether to supply the votes for a bill or block it and risk what could be a prolonged shutdown. Some Democrats are also pushing for bill that would keep the government funded for 30 days while a long-term solution is worked out. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Ukraine\u2019s plan of using Russia\u2019s Kursk region<\/a> as a bargaining tool in negotiations has collapsed, Russia\u2019s top general, Valery Gerasimov, claimed Wednesday. <\/p>\n

Russia has reclaimed 86% of the area and hundreds of Ukrainian soldiers have been taken prisoner in the region, Gerasimov claimed as President Vladimir Putin was making his first visit to the region since Ukraine\u2019s incursion in August last year. <\/p>\n

Ukrainian troops in the region have been surrounded, Gerasimov also claimed. <\/p>\n

CNN cannot independently verify the general\u2019s claims. <\/p>\n

Putin said the goal is to \u201ccompletely liberate\u201d the region as soon as possible and raised the possibility of creating a \u201cbuffer zone\u201d along Russia\u2019s border with Ukraine. <\/p>\n

Appearing on Russian state television dressed in military uniform, Putin also said all Ukrainian soldiers captured in Kursk will be treated as terrorists. <\/p>\n

Some background: <\/strong>Ukraine launched its shock incursion into Kursk<\/a> in August, swiftly capturing territory in what was the first ground invasion of Russia by a foreign power since World War II. As well as capturing land that could potentially be swapped for Russian-occupied territory, the campaign aimed to divert Moscow\u2019s resources from the front lines in the east. But since then, Ukraine has struggled to hold onto its captured territory, with its grip on the region rapidly deteriorating in recent days. <\/p>\n

What Ukraine is saying: <\/strong>Moscow is using airborne troops and special operations forces to push Ukrainian troops out of Kursk, and has carried out air strikes on its own land, Oleksandr Syrskyi, commander-in-chief of Ukraine\u2019s army, said in a post on Telegram. Russia is attempting to break through Ukrainian defenses in Kursk and move the fighting to the northeastern Ukrainian regions of Sumy and Kharkiv, he said. His priority is to save his soldiers\u2019 lives even if it means maneuvering them into \u201cmore favorable positions\u201d while continuing to hold defense in Kursk for as long as it\u2019s appropriate, he said. <\/p>\n

This post was updated with a statement from Ukraine\u2019s military leadership.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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US intelligence sharing has fully resumed and American weapons are flowing into Ukraine again <\/strong>after Tuesday\u2019s meeting between US and Ukrainian representatives in Saudi Arabia, according to a US official. <\/p>\n

Some of these weapons were held in Poland before they had entered into Ukraine. On Tuesday night, Poland\u2019s Secretary of State in the Ministry of National Defense Pawel Zalewski, said on social media<\/a> that the weapons in Rzeszow near the border with Ukraine had started moving again. <\/p>\n

US contractors who are in Ukraine to help with maintenance, training and support on the country\u2019s more complex weapons systems have also resumed their work, the official said. It is not clear if they were compelled to leave the country as part of the pause in aid or if they remained in Ukraine. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Iran\u2019s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has dismissed US President Donald Trump\u2019s offer to open negotiations on Tehran\u2019s nuclear program. <\/p>\n

Trump told Fox News last week that he had written a letter to Khamenei, telling the network, \u201cthere are two ways Iran can be handled: militarily, or you make a deal. I would prefer to make a deal, because I\u2019m not looking to hurt Iran.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cI said, \u2018I hope you\u2019re going to negotiate, because it\u2019s going to be a lot better for Iran,\u2019 and I think they want to get that letter \u2014 the alternative is we have to do something, because you can\u2019t let them have a nuclear weapon,\u201d Trump said. <\/p>\n

The Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi said earlier on Wednesday that a letter from Trump would soon be delivered to Tehran by an Arab country, but that the letter \u201chas not yet reached us.\u201d <\/p>\n

Khamenei told the students he had not personally received a letter from Trump yet. <\/p>\n

Some context:<\/strong> Tehran, which has long insisted its nuclear program is peaceful, has expressed increasing skepticism about diplomacy with the US since the Trump administration withdrew in 2018 from the Iran nuclear deal signed three years earlier by Iran and six other countries. <\/p>\n

Khamenei\u2019s comments also targeted domestic critics who have called for renewed engagement with Washington to ease economic sanctions. \u201cIf the goal of negotiations is to lift sanctions, then dialogue with this administration will not lead to that. Rather, it will make the sanctions more complicated and impose more pressure,\u201d Khamenei said. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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The Trump administration is rolling back several major climate policies<\/a>, including two rules that target planet-warming pollution from vehicles and power plants, in a major blow to America\u2019s effort to address the causes of climate change. <\/p>\n

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced Wednesday it will undo a vehicle pollution rule the Biden administration finalized in March 2024, which \u2014 by mandating less pollution from cars \u2014 would have pushed US automakers to produce more electric vehicles and fuel-efficient hybrid models that run on a mixture of gas and small batteries. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe American auto industry has been hamstrung by the crushing regulatory regime of the last administration,\u201d EPA administrator Lee Zeldin said, adding the Trump administration \u201cwill abide by the rule of law to protect consumer choice and the environment.\u201d <\/p>\n

The administration also plans to dismantle a Biden-era rule that compelled coal and new natural gas power plants to either cut or capture 90% of their climate pollution by 2032. <\/p>\n

Zeldin went as far as to recall the Obama administration\u2019s power plant rule, saying in a statement that Trump \u201cpromised to kill the Clean Power Plan in his first term, and we continue to build on that progress now.\u201d <\/p>\n

Additionally, Trump\u2019s EPA is preparing to reconsider and strike down a consequential scientific finding that has served as the basis of federal regulations to curb climate pollution. Dismissing the precedent would strip the EPA\u2019s authority to manage the pollution that causes global warming. <\/p>\n

This post has been updated with additional information about the rules set to be undone and comments from Zeldin.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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The White House today declined to say if the Trump administration has any enforcement mechanism in place in case Russia breaks a US-proposed ceasefire with Ukraine. <\/p>\n

\u201cWell, that\u2019s obviously a grand hypothetical question that I won\u2019t comment on, because we\u2019re not there yet,\u201d White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters at the White House following a Fox interview. <\/p>\n

Leavitt said that national security adviser Mike Waltz spoke with his Russian counterpart earlier today, and that Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff is traveling to Moscow this week to urge Russia to sign on to the plan. She described the state of negotiations as \u201con the tenth yard line of peace\u201d and said it is now \u201cup to the Russians to agree to this plan.\u201d <\/p>\n

But she declined to say if President Donald Trump planned to call Russian President Vladimir Putin in an effort to exert direct pressure to commit to the ceasefire. <\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t have a readout on the the president\u2019s calls, but as the president always does, if that call happens, he will let you guys know,\u201d Leavitt said. <\/p>\n

Asked if he planned to speak with Putin this week to discuss the ceasefire proposal, Trump told reporters at the White House on Tuesday, \u201cI think so, yes.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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President Donald Trump has imposed sweeping 25% tariffs on all steel and aluminum imported into the United States. <\/p>\n

In total, the US imported<\/a> $31.3 billion worth of iron and steel and $27.4 billion of aluminum last year, according to data from the US Commerce Department. (The government data groups iron and steel together.) <\/p>\n

Canada was the top source of iron, steel and aluminum sent to the US last year, with the US importing $11.4 billion worth of aluminum and $7.6 billion worth of iron and steel from there. <\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a breakdown of where it comes from:<\/em> <\/p>\n

CNN\u2019s Elisabeth Buchwald contributed reporting. <\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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President Donald Trump is forging ahead with his tariff strategy, imposing a new 25% tariff on all steel and aluminum imports. The European Union responded will billions of dollars in countermeasures, while Canada announced 25% retaliatory tariffs on about $20 billion of US imports. <\/p>\n

A 56% majority of the public disapproves of Trump\u2019s handling of the economy, worse than at any point during his first term in office, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The president\u2019s aggressive and volatile trade policy is also creating a growing concern on Wall Street. Economists at JPMorgan Chase say there\u2019s a roughly 40% chance the US economy stumbles into a recession this year due to \u201cextreme\u201d policies. <\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what some experts are saying:<\/em> <\/p>\n

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