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Trump says tariffs on Canada and Mexico coming Saturday, and he’s deciding whether to tax their oil

By JOSH BOAK
Updated 7:59 PM CST, January 30, 2025

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said his 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico are coming on Saturday, but he’s still considering whether to include oil from those countries as part of his import taxes.

“We may or may not,” Trump told reporters Thursday in the Oval Office about tariffing oil from Canada and Mexico. “We’re going to make that determination probably tonight.”

Trump said his decision will be based on whether the price of oil charged by the two trading partners is fair, although the basis of his threatened tariffs pertains to stopping illegal immigration and the smuggling of chemicals used for fentanyl.

The risk of tariffs on Canadian and Mexican oil could undermine Trump’s repeated pledge to lower overall inflation by reducing energy costs. Costs associated with tariffs could be passed along to consumers in the form of higher gasoline prices — an issue that Trump placed at the center of his Republican presidential campaign as he vowed to halve energy costs within one year.

“One year from Jan. 20, we will have your energy prices cut in half all over the country,” Trump said at a 2024 town hall in Pennsylvania.

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Trump casts speculation, unproven claims on DC plane crash as cause remains unknown

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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While no cause has been determined in the Washington plane crash, President Donald Trump was quick to try to assign blame on Thursday to Democrats, DEI and other factors.
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Housing migrants at Guantanamo comes with challenges, national security expert says

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ABC News’ Phil Lipof talks to Fordham Law School's Karen Greenberg about President Donald Trump’s plan to hold migrants at Guantanamo Bay.
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Hakeem Jeffries pledges Democrats will 'fight' Trump agenda 'in the streets'

  • News source: FOX News
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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., is being criticized by Republicans after pledging Democrats would fight President Donald Trump’s agenda "in the streets."

"Right now, we're going to keep focus on the need to look out for everyday New Yorkers and everyday Americans who are under assault by an extreme MAGA Republican agenda that is trying to cut taxes for billionaires, donors, and wealthy corporations and then stick New Yorkers and working class Americans across the country with the bill," Jeffries said.

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'Scream night': Climate activists repeatedly disrupt DNC leadership meeting

  • News source: FOX News
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Environmental groups appear to be breaking with the Democratic Party after protesters disrupted a recent leadership meeting, which comes as the party attempts to regain its footing after suffering defeat in the 2024 presidential election.

The Democratic National Committee (DNC) held a candidate forum on Thursday evening in Washington, D.C., ahead of their upcoming election to determine who will lead the campaign arm into the next election cycle.

While the event was intended to showcase some of the party's potential new faces, it was interrupted by...
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Black Caucus chair accuses Trump of 'purge' of 'minority' federal workers

  • News source: FOX News
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Congressional Black Caucus Chair Yvette Clarke has accused President Donald Trump of trying to "purge" non-White workers from the federal government.

"Our republic’s president, Donald Trump, chose to address a nation in mourning with only fiction and White supremacist ideologies," Clarke said during a Friday press conference in Brooklyn, New York.

"Yesterday, he spun that fiction for one reason and one reason alone, and that is to further his administration's purge of America's minority employees."

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GOP senator faces intraparty criticism after saying he is 'struggling' with RFK Jr's confirmation

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The top Republican on the Senate health committee, Sen. Bill Cassidy, faced criticism from fellow Republicans after he suggested his vote for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary is not a lock.

Cassidy, chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, said during closing remarks at Kennedy's second confirmation hearing of the week that he was "struggling" to confirm the HHS secretary nominee over his inability to admit vaccines are safe and don't cause autism. "A worthy movement called ‘MAHA,’"...
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Federal court rules ATF age limits on handgun sales violate Second Amendment

  • News source: FOX News
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A federal appeals court on Thursday ruled a nationwide ban on handgun sales to young adults is unconstitutional.

A three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans found a federal law that prohibits adults aged 18-20 from buying handguns violates the Second Amendment. The ruling comes as key firearms regulations have been struck down across the country following a landmark Supreme Court decision that expanded gun rights in 2022.

"Ultimately, the text of the Second Amendment includes eighteen-to-twenty-year-old individuals...
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Homan, lawmakers signal cooperation on ‘overlooked’ northern border amid migrant spike: 'Same vision'

  • News source: FOX News
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EXCLUSIVE: Republican lawmakers representing the Northern Border Security Caucus are looking to meet with border czar Tom Homan about the "overlooked" northern border -- with Homan telling Fox News Digital he is keen to work with them "ASAP."

Reps. Mike Kelly, R-Pa., and Ryan Zinke, R-Mont., have written to Homan, congratulating him on his new role as border czar in the new Trump administration.

"As this new administration begins, we, as co-chairs of the Northern Border Security Caucus, want to highlight the importance of protecting the Northern...
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Avocados to autos: Trump tariffs on Canada and Mexico could hit close to home

  • News source: Paul Wiseman | The Associated Press
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The 25% tax that President Donald Trump plans to slap on imports from Canada and Mexico as soon as Saturday could drive up the price of everything from gasoline and pickup trucks, to Super Bowl party guacamole dip.

The tariffs would also invite retaliation. Doug Ford, the premier of Ontario, has already vowed to counterpunch by pulling American alcohol off store shelves in the Canadian province – no idle threat; Canada is the world’s No. 2 market for America’s distilled spirits (behind the 27-nation European Union).

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US colleges returning to campus sexual assault rules created during Trump's 1st term

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Schools and universities responding to complaints of sexual misconduct must return to policies created during President Donald Trump’s first term, with requirements for live hearings and more protections for accused students
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'Essential to our nation's sovereignty': Noncitizen voter crackdown led by GOP ahead of 2026 midterms

  • News source: FOX News
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FIRST ON FOX: House Republicans are rolling out a new package of election security legislation this week, with GOP lawmakers already setting eyes on 2026.

Republican Study Committee Chairman August Pfluger, R-Texas, introduced the bills this week, with four lawmakers co-sponsoring the entire package and various other members supporting specific pieces.

The three pieces of legislation are a bill to prohibit noncitizen residents of Washington, D.C., from voting in local elections, a bill to block noncitizens from helping administer elections and a...
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After stinging election defeats, DNC eyes rural voters as key to 2026 midterm success

  • News source: FOX News
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FIRST ON FOX— The Democratic National Committee (DNC) plans to focus much of its campaign efforts on winning over rural voters in the 2026 midterm elections, according to the party's outgoing chairman— a sprawling effort they hope will help the party engage with and educate new voters, and loosen what many see as President Donald Trump's ironclad grip on many red state voters.

The new strategy was previewed exclusively to Fox News Digital by outgoing DNC Chair Jaime Harrison ahead of the DNC's slated vote Saturday to select his successor as next...
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Outgoing DNC chief says more Democrats "need to pause" on being "rigid"

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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As his time as chairman of Democratic National Committee comes to a close after a difficult election cycle, Jaime Harrison hopes people in his party come to "understand that you've got to be more elastic than rigid."

Harrison, who was picked by then-President Joe Biden to take over the role in 2021, said "Sometimes, we got folks that are very rigid. If you don't have the right job, if you didn't come from the right community, if you don't say the right word, and then therefore you are x-ed out or you're castigated."

"We need to pause on that...
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Patients who allegedly got fake Botox or Botox from unlicensed injectors speak out

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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Joey Luther was arrested last week and charged with wire fraud, smuggling and distributing counterfeit drugs for allegedly selling fake Botox.
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Pete Buttigieg blasts Trump after president excoriates him during press briefing

  • News source: FOX News
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Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg fired back at President Donald Trump on Thursday after the commander in chief blasted the Democrat during a press briefing about the deadly midair collision between a military helicopter and a passenger airplane that occurred on Wednesday night.

Trump sarcastically called Buttigieg "a real winner."

"He's a disaster. He was a disaster as a mayor. He ran his city into the ground. And he's a disaster now. He's just got a good line of bulls---," the president said.

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