11 Feb 2025

USA correspondent Danielle Kurtzleben

From Nine To Noon, 9:45 am on 11 February 2025
The White House stands in the distance behind the stage on the Ellipse for Vice President Kamala Harris' “closing argument” for the presidential election in Washington, DC, on October 29, 2024.  Speaking to a crowd of roughly 75,000 people at the site of ex-President Donald Trump’s infamous speech on January 6, 2021, the Democratic nominee emphasized her policies to benefit everyday Americans and warned of the threat to democracy posed by Trump. (Photo by Allison Bailey/NurPhoto) (Photo by Allison Bailey / NurPhoto / NurPhoto via AFP)

Photo: ALLISON BAILEY

President Trump's big talk on tariffs on China have the world waiting for more clarity.

Elsewhere a federal judge has blocked Elon Musk from accessing Treasury data and the President is trying to turn campaign rhetoric against transgender rights into law.

Danielle Kurtzleben is a political correspondent assigned to NPR's Washington Desk.