2025-04-07
14 分钟Good morning.
It's Monday, April 7th.
I'm Shamita Basu.
This is Apple News Today.
On today's show, why hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans living in the United States legally might be sent back?
The UN learns more about what happened to rescue workers killed by Israeli troops.
And Yukon wins its record 12th Women's Basketball National Championship.
But first, businesses, economists,
and governments across the world are still digesting and reacting to sweeping tariffs enacted by the Trump administration.
The announcement last week sent markets careening with the S&P 500 hitting the lowest level in almost a year.
Last week was the worst for American stocks since the beginning of the pandemic five years ago.
Over the weekend, thousands of protesters gathered in Washington, D.C.
and in cities across all 50 states to demonstrate against President Trump and Elon Musk in what organizers dubbed hands-off protests.
Demonstrators told reporters they were motivated by a diverse list of issues
from Musk's overhaul of government agencies to cuts to medical research to tariffs.
And yet, on Sunday,
administration officials remained defiant and waved away forecasting that has shown the tariffs could tilt the U.S. economy into a recession.
Treasury Secretary Scott Besant made the case on Meet the Press
that there are long-term gains to be made here for the U.S. economy.
There doesn't have to be a recession.