Politics and views in the United States.

Amid market blowback, President Trump says China tariffs will likely be cut. Border Czar Tom Homan alleges Kilmar Abrego Garcia received due process, and the administration takes a tough line on people without housing.

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Welcome to 2025 Talks, where we're following our democracy in historic times.

We were losing $2 trillion a year on trade.

Now we're gonna be making money, a lot of money.

Every country wants to partake, even countries that have ripped us off.

President Donald Trump says he's in trade talks with China and may cut their tariffs in half.

The world's largest economies have hit each other with record import taxes, sending shockwaves through global stock markets.

After cuts, the levies would still be high, but US markets rose on the news.

A new poll shows Trump's economic approval falling to its lowest level ever.

On social media, Trump is criticizing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for refusing to cede Crimea to Russia in a peace deal.

Trump posted that an agreement is close and said Zelensky should give in because he has, quote, "no cards to play."

Borders are, Tom Homan says the man wrongfully deported to El Salvador, Quilmar Abrego-Garcia, was granted due process.

We removed an MS-13 gang member, public safety threat, wife beater, designated terrorist from the United States.

He's home.

He's at Citizen House, El Salvador.

The Supreme Court has ordered the administration to facilitate Abrego-Garcia's return.

Orders from the federal judge overseeing the case have grown increasingly critical of White House delays and obfuscation.

Democrats in Congress are warning that the Trump administration is defying legal rulings in violation of the Constitution.

Dick Durbin of Illinois, the second-ranking Democrat in the Senate, won't seek a sixth term next year.

In a video posted to social media, the 80-year-old Durbin said it's time to pass the torch.

At least three House Democrats and the state's lieutenant governor are eyeing the seat.

Two leading Colorado nonprofits are collecting handwritten letters from a wide range of people likely to suffer if Congress cuts funding for SNAP.

Carmen Maradillan with Hunger Free Colorado says lawmakers need to see the budget is not just an abstraction.

We're talking about the real-life effect of cuts on real people, and so we wanna hear from Coloradans what impact SNAP cuts would have on them and how SNAP has shaped their life.

Republicans have charged the agriculture committees to cut a quarter trillion dollars from SNAP to pay for mass deportations and extending tax breaks.

The Trump administration says it's changing the federal response to homelessness, vowing to force people into government camps and require mental health and addiction treatment under penalty of arrest.

Donald Whitehead is executive director of the National Coalition for the Homeless and says that's expensive and won't work.

People do not actually react to treatment that's forced upon them versus given the option of going on their own.

Criminalization is not a solution, it's not effective, and it only exacerbates the situation.

The president supports encampment sweeps, which Whitehead says create misery and distrust and disconnect people from services.

I'm Alex Gonzalez for Pacific Network and Public News Service Find our trust indicators at publicnewsservice.org.