Trump pauses Mexico and Canada tariffs while moving ahead with government changes…..Read More

By Antoinette Radford, Elise Hammond and Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN Antoinette Radford, Elise Hammond and Amir Vera, and Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN

What we’re covering
• Pause on some tariffs: President Donald Trump said he agreed to “immediately pause” tariffs on Mexico and Canada after speaking with those countries’ leaders Monday. Trump had announced the 25% tariffs on goods made in Mexico and Canada, as well as a 10% tariff on goods from China, over the weekend.

• USAID’s future: Secretary of State Marco Rubio notified key congressional committees that he delegated the authority of acting administrator of the US Agency for International Development to Pete Marocco. The news came hours after Elon Musk said Trump had signed off on shutting the humanitarian agency down.

Potential Cabinet fights: Tulsi Gabbard, Trump’s pick for spy chief, is expected to meet with GOP senators this week as she continues to try to shore up support for her confirmation among GOP skeptics. The Senate Intelligence Committee is expected to vote on her nomination tomorrow. Another controversial Cabinet pick, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., could also face pushback ahead of a Senate vote.

The US and El Salvador are finalizing a deal on migration, Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele said Monday during US Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s visit to the Central American country.

“It is a much larger agreement that has no precedent in the history of relations, not only between the United States and El Salvador, but I believe with Latin America,” Bukele said.

His remarks came after a reporter asked if both sides would reach a so-called “third safe country” deal, which would require migrants who pass through a certain country to apply for asylum there, rather than continuing on to the US.

“We are finalizing it,” Bukele said adding that Rubio would announce the deal later, which the Salvadoran leader said would be bigger than another migration deal signed in 2019. That deal allowed the US to send some asylum seekers back to El Salvador if they didn’t first claim asylum when passing through the country.