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U.S. tariffs on Mexico to be paused for a month, Trump says (www.reuters.com)

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U.S. President Donald Trump will pause new tariffs on Mexico for one month after Mexico agreed to reinforce its northern border with 10,000 National Guard members to stem the flow of illegal drugs, particularly fentanyl, he said on Monday on social media.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said the agreement also includes a U.S. commitment to act to prevent trafficking of high-powered weapons to Mexico. The two leaders spoke by phone on Monday, just hours before U.S. tariffs on Mexico, China and Canada were set to take effect.

The two counties will use the month-long pause to engage in further negotiations, Trump said.

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[–] madpuma13 4 points 2 weeks ago

No, I guess I should have explored that option as well. The lack of response is still a response. So Trump can still claim to his base" see it's working" and claim it as a win.

I know it's difficult to imagine that in stakes so large, countries economies (hell the world economy) can be manipulated in such a way that no matter what factually and verifiability happens, it can be spun in a way to say it's a win and there's a group of people that take it at its face and says "yay! Keep going!"

Other countries are in a damned if you, damned if you don't situation. As are the rest of the United States citizens that don't support these actions (or can't see them because they are believing the president of the US when he says "we're winning"). The only thing we can do at this point is try to wake up trump supporters and hope that is done in time to affect change.

If not, we are at the mercy of whatever he does. Complaining about it and pointing out how obvious it is, does nothing. Go talk to some people that support him. Families that voted him in and have illegal immigrants in their family are getting a hard dose of that wake up call in their own. But until we get so many people that can't be ignored, nothing will happen. It will become similar to Russia where the state controls the media and everything is a "win", even invading acountry that did nothing to provoke invasion.