Dan Mitchinson: US Correspondent on Trump’s pause on Mexico-Canada tariffs, revaluation of Elon Musk's role in the Government

Cracks are showing in the relationship between US President Donald Trump and Elon Musk.

Trump gathered his cabinet to distinguish what power Musk has. 

The President's new guidance says that DOGE will play an advisory role and that's it.

US Correspondent Dan Mitchinson talks to Ryan Bridge about the change, and Trump's pause on Mexico-Canada tariffs. 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
International correspondence with endsit Eye Insurance, peace of mind for
New Zealand business. Ben Midicine's US correspondent Dan Good afternoon.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Hey, good afternoon, Ryan.

Speaker 1 (00:10):
So we've got to delay or a pause, as he
likes to call it, a pause from Trump on terras
for Mexico and Canada.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
We do. That's good news the stock market. I was
just checking during the World wires their futures right now,
which are up before the market opens tomorrow, which is nice.
But he did sign that executive action today, so it'll
give us about a month break on products that we
get in from Mexico and Canada. Although I've got to
tell you the President said earlier today he hasn't been
paying any attention to the stock market, you know he is.

(00:38):
And this trade agreement is between the US and Mexico
and Canada. It's the USMCA. The thing is, though, only
about fifty percent of imports from Mexico and about a
third from Canada are cover this agreement. So I wouldn't
expect a sudden rollback in prices just because of this,
this sudden halt for the next month.

Speaker 1 (00:57):
Meanwhile, elon Musk, he's been kind of putting his place
a little bit by trump new limits.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
Yeah, he did, he did. I mean, we've seen more
of him on the evening news. It seems like when
we have the president, and there's been a lot of
pushback about how much authority he has or power or influence,
whatever you want to call it. So the President got
together with his cabinet today and he said, you know what,
you're in charge of your departments, not Elon Musk. He
did say that Musk was empowered to make recommendations to
various departments, but he can't have the final say on

(01:27):
a policy. And Musk was in the meeting during this time.
And the reason I think that the president had this
was just because Musk has had so much pushback from
Democrats and from some Republicans, and there have even been
court filings over the actions that have been taken. So
I think bottom line, according to Trump's new guidance, Doge
and the staff will play an advisory role, and that's

(01:47):
what it should be, just an advisory role.

Speaker 1 (01:50):
There you going. Just so everybody's clear now and new
generation is here, its name is already an insult apparently.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
Yeah. I mean every generation, I guess they say has
a stigma that's associated with this. And this is Generation Beta,
which went into effect on the first of this year.
And there are people that are saying that and parents.
I have a lot of parents saying that this could
be seen as offensive because the term beta doubles a
slang for someone who's passive or weak. And I got

(02:18):
to tell you, Ryan didn't. I had no idea that
that was a thing before this came out today. But
in terms of the Greek alphabet, I mean, we had
the Alpha generation that was before this, we have the Beta.
I have no idea what they're going to call the
generation after this. It's going to have to be something
with a sea. But these are people that were born
between this year and will be born until twenty thirty nine.
And they say that these are our kids right now

(02:41):
that are going to inherit a world that's grappling with
a lot of societal changes right now that are kind
of basically going to be connected to the screen, which
I don't think is kind of surprising on this. And
this futurist, the guy that coined this guy by the
name of Mark K. Krindle, He said that, you know,
this could be one of the biggest generations that we've
ever had in the in the history.

Speaker 1 (03:01):
Goodness may. But the problem is by complaining that, you know,
complaining that you don't like the name Beta makes you
sound beta.

Speaker 2 (03:11):
It kind of does. And to tell you the truth,
I don't know when we started naming generation. I mean,
of course we have the greatest generation. We have Generation
Acts and we you know, and a few others that
we use in our it seems like our daily terminology.
But you're you're right. I mean, if they complain about this,
I mean, that's why we complain about the generation before us,
Generation what is Z you know, they're the ones that
we're given all the flak to. But I guess this

(03:32):
is going to be the ones that we end up
giving the flak to in the coming years.

Speaker 1 (03:36):
And thank you, Dan Mitchson, now vis correspondent. For more
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