The Daily Signal - Trump Tariffs Begin, Title IX Restored, Crash Causes Surfaces | Jan. 31

Starting point is 00:00:00 Trump's tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China are another campaign promise made and kept. I'm Elizabeth Mitchell. This is the Daily Signals Top News in 10 for Friday, January 31st. White House Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt announced Trump will install 25% tariffs on Mexico and Canada and 10% on China starting Saturday. He says this is a punishment for those countries ushering fentanyl across the United States borders. I can confirm that tomorrow, the February 1st deadline that President Trump put into place that a statement several weeks ago continues. The president will be implementing tomorrow 25% tariffs on Mexico, 25% tariffs on Canada, and a 10% tariff on China for the illegal fentanyl that they have sourced and allowed to distribute into our country, which has killed tens of millions of Americans. These are promises made and promises kept by the president. Yesterday said that last night he was planning to discuss whether an exemption would be made on oil imports.

Starting point is 00:01:12 Do you have any information on what decision he made there or will there be exemptions at all offered under the? I don't have an update or read out for you on the exemptions, but those tariffs will be for public consumption in about 24 hours tomorrow. So you can read them then. Leave it denied a Reuters report, which claimed the tariffs would take effect March 1st and that there would be a process for the countries to seek exemptions. Trump campaigned heavily on tariffs. On inauguration day, January 20th, he threatened to implement them against Canada and Mexico. Trump reportedly has not been satisfied with the results of recent meetings with the presidents of those border countries. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Canada will respond immediately and forcefully if the United States moves forward with the threat to impose tariffs.

Starting point is 00:01:57 He warned Canadians, tough times could be ahead. On Friday, the Trump administration's Department of Education, released a dear colleague letter rejecting the Biden administration's attempt to change the meaning of sex in Title IX to include gender identity. Title IX is a federal law designed to create equal opportunities for women in education and athletics. The letter was sent to every school in the country, stating that the social experiment of trans-inclusive facilities, sports, bathrooms, and scholarships is done. Sex under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 is back to being interpreted as male and female. Any school, recipient, or college that doesn't comply with the directive could lose federal funding. Heritage Foundation legal expert Sarah Partial Perry is here to discuss.

Starting point is 00:02:45 Thanks for joining us. Thanks for having me. Could you please describe the Biden administration's rewrite of Title IX that caused the Trump administration to need to do this? Well, in short, Elizabeth, he made an utter mess of the entire situation. He took the very simple meaning of sex in a 37-word longstanding civil rights. law and expanded it to include sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. Now, you can imagine what that did for law designs to guarantee women's equal opportunity in any education program in the country. It essentially opened up everything that would have been

Starting point is 00:03:22 specifically and separately for women to include men who identified as women. And that, of course, led to a variety of bills, not just individuals who were divesting women of their activities. academic scholarships and their athletic scholarships, taking their places on sports rosters and entering their bathrooms. But also, in many instances, in certain states, we saw increased incidents of sexual assault, naturally, because putting boys and girls together in the same bathroom can only lead to bad outcomes. So in short, he made an utter mess of a very simple law. How will this decision from the Trump administration's Department of Education affect women and girls sports and spaces?

Starting point is 00:04:05 Well, it rewinds the clock. In fact, the most recent iteration from the Trump administration under his 45th presidency was issued in 2020. And that not only reiterated that sex means sex, but in fact included among its additional protections, protections for religious institutions and tightened due process protections for individuals accused of sexual assault or misconduct. conduct on college campuses. So it was good for men and women for parents and for religious institutions. So the clock is now rewound to 2020. And in addition to the dear colleague

Starting point is 00:04:46 letter today, the department released a list of resources on its website that are going to help recipients, those individuals, schools, colleges that receive federal funding, help them navigate exactly what it's going to look like to return to common sense. Wow. Well, thank you so much, Sarah. Thanks for having me. A federal aviation administration report obtained by the Associated Press says staffing in the air traffic control tower was not normal at the time of the collision. More than 60 people died after an American Airlines jet collided with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter and crashed into the freezing Potomac River on Wednesday night around 9 p.m. President Donald Trump said in his press conference on Thursday, that diversity, equity, and inclusion hiring in the FAA could have been a factor.

Starting point is 00:05:38 In the White House press conference today, press secretary Caroline Leave It addressed the possibility that DEI initiatives played a role in the fatal crash. The morale of people in this industry. And if you talk to people in this industry, they'll tell you that. In fact, many of them filed a lawsuit against the FAA a couple of years ago under Joe Biden's administration because they were denied positions because of this. a DEI hiring practice that was putting identity politics over merit and skills. That's unacceptable. And I think just to put a fine point on this, because this is the third or fourth

Starting point is 00:06:12 question I've answered on this subject, when you are flying on an airplane with your loved ones, which every one of us in this room has, do you pray that your plane lands safely and gets you to your destination? Or do you pray that the pilot has a certain skin color? I think we all know the answer to that question. And as President Trump said yesterday, it's common sense. This is the first commercial airline plane crash since 2009. The routine commercial flight was about to land at Washington Reagan National Airport from Wichita, Kansas. Trump has raised questions about how such a crash is possible in 2025. He said on Truth Social, the Black Hawk helicopter was flying too high by a lot and it was above the 200-foot limit.

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Starting point is 00:07:52 Trump took office. Secretary of Defense, Pete Higseth confirmed that who he calls the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens will be sent to Guantanamo Bay detention camp. He said Friday on Fox and Friends that all options will be on the table for military action against cartels. Here's his conversation with Jesse Waters. We actually can accommodate 30,000 criminal migrants at Gitmo. Absolutely, we can. And we can plus that up very rapidly. As you mentioned, I serve there. I know exactly the places where this would happen. Guantanamo has long been a place for migrants. In fact, in the 90s, tens of thousands of Haitian and Cuban migrants staged there as part of a crisis.

Starting point is 00:08:36 We have an even bigger crisis on our hands right now. It was mentioned. 7,500 violent illegals have been captured by ICE in the last nine days. God bless them. Where do you move them? I'll tell you what. No one's going to be waiting on the Defense Department. We're going to lean forward.

Starting point is 00:08:51 We've made sure that we staging on the border to protect it, that we've got gray tails, which are known as military aircraft, to help mass deportations. and Guantanamo Bay, Jesse, is a perfect spot. We don't want illegal criminals in the United States, not a minute longer than they have to be. Move them off to Guantanamo Bay, where they can be safely maintained until they are deported to their final location, their country of origin, where they are headed.

Starting point is 00:09:18 So we feel great about this plan. We know we can execute it, and the Defense Department's prepared to do everything we can. We just laud DHS and ICE for what they've done, and we're coming alongside them to make sure we protect the American people. The Trump administration eliminated the Pentagon's policy of funding abortion travel on Friday. Senator Tommy Tuberville and Alabama Republican who has fought for this four years, said in response. President Trump and Secretary Heggseth affirmed today what I've been fighting for since I got to Washington.

Starting point is 00:09:47 Zero taxpayer dollars should go toward abortions. That's it for today's episode. Thank you so much for listening to Top News in 10. Don't forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode. of the show. And please help us reach more listeners by leaving a review. We enjoy reading your feedback. Today's episode was edited by Kate Trinko and produced by John Poth and Morgan Johnston. Thank you so much for listening. Have a great night and a lovely weekend. We'll be back with you tomorrow morning with our interview edition.

The Daily Signal - Trump Tariffs Begin, Title IX Restored, Crash Causes Surfaces | Jan. 31

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