WTF Just Happened Today? Day 1505

This is a newsletter I subscribe to and I share parts of it here.
I think it's a good summary of the day that is fairly well sourced.
One can subscribe here: http://wtfjht.com

Welcome to Day 1505.

Today in one sentence: Trump launched a trade war by imposing a 25% tariff on nearly all Canadian and Mexican goods and an additional 10% on Chinese imports, which triggered immediate retaliation; economists and global trade experts warn of severe economic consequences from Trump’s tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China; Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins suggested Americans raise backyard chickens to combat rising egg prices; Trump paused all U.S. military aid to Ukraine following the Oval Office meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, where Trump and JD Vance accused him of being ungrateful; JD Vance dismissed dismissing a proposed European peacekeeping force in Ukraine as "20,000 troops from some random country that hasn't fought a war in 30 or 40 years"; White House adviser Alina Habba suggested that military veterans fired in the Trump administration’s federal workforce cuts may not be “fit to have a job at this moment; House Republicans were told to avoid hosting in-person town halls after facing angry constituents over federal spending cuts and layoffs by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency; and Trump will address Congress tonight at 9 p.m. ET.

-Matt, current mood: ?

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03/04/us/tariffs-us-canada-mexico-china/here-are-the-latest-developments?smid=url-share

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/03/03/china-retaliates-against-trump-tariffs/

https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/trump-tariffs-canada-mexico-china-stock-market-today-03-04-2025

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/economics/trump-puts-tariffs-thousands-goods-canada-mexico-risking-higher-prices-rcna194542

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/04/trump-trade-tariffs-reaction-00210319

https://www.npr.org/2025/03/04/nx-s1-5317494/tariffs-fentanyl-canada-mexico-trump

https://abcnews.go.com/Business/trump-tariffs-effect-canada-mexico-china-retaliates/story?id=119417925

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-04/lutnick-says-trump-considering-some-mexico-canada-tariff-relief

https://apnews.com/article/trump-tariffs-canada-mexico-china-643086a6dc7ff716d876b3c83e3255b0

https://www.axios.com/2025/03/04/canada-us-tariffs-trump-trudeau

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/04/china-rejects-additional-us-tariffs-vows-to-take-countermeasures.html

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/04/economy/trade-mexico-canada-china-tariffs-trump-hnk-intl/index.html

https://www.wsj.com/economy/trade/tariff-war-risks-sinking-world-into-new-great-depression-235fffeb

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-03-04/us-recession-odds-are-becoming-unsettlingly-high

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/03/04/gdp-government-spending-musk-lutnick-trump/

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/business/economy/gdp-data-lutnick-commerce-secretary.html

https://www.vox.com/politics/402410/trump-musk-lutnick-gdp-economic-data

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/brooke-rollins-eggs-backyard-chickens_n_67c676c9e4b044c440ed7fa7

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/jd-vance-eggs-inflation/681902/

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-admin-says-americans-should-farm-chickens-combat-egg-prices-2039178

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/doge/trump-adviser-alina-habba-says-veterans-fired-doge-are-perhaps-not-fit-rcna194721

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5175917-alina-habba-suggests-some-veterans-not-fit-for-government-jobs/

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/04/trump-lawyer-alina-habba-questions-fired-veterans-fitness.html

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5175061-house-republicans-town-halls-protests/

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/gop-reps-encouraged-virtual-town-halls-after-fiery/story?id=119428704

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/03/04/congress/gop-town-halls-richard-hudson-00210024

https://apnews.com/article/mcmahon-senate-confirmation-education-trump-01b8ff1ea2dac16e3dbeafa7d1014dc3

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/04/linda-mcmahon-education-department-final-mission-00210057

https://www.axios.com/2025/03/03/linda-mcmahon-confirmed-education

https://www.axios.com/2025/03/04/trump-college-protests-israel-gaza-funding

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-04/trump-threatens-funding-for-colleges-allowing-illegal-protests

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-says-federal-funding-will-stop-colleges-schools-allowing-illegal-protests-2025-03-04/

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/04/trump-students-college-protests-00210193

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/donald-trump-college-funding-protests-f4b5a679

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-03-04/federal-job-cuts-gsa-weighs-selling-properties-in-47-states-dc-puerto-rico

https://www.wired.com/story/people-paying-millions-donald-trump-mar-a-lago/

One can read the expanded version of each topic and its sources here: http://wtfjht.com