All civic learning topics for this day
On August 7, 2025, President Trump's "Liberation Day" tariff package kicked in, applying a universal 10% duty on non-exempt trading partners and steep country-specific rates—from 15% to 50%—on 69 nations. Canada faces a 35% levy, Brazil 50%, and India 25% (with a further 25% penalty over Russian oil set to begin August 27). That same day, Trump directed the Commerce Department to launch a mid-decade census that would exclude undocumented immigrants from congressional apportionment figures, reviving his first-term proposal overturned by federal courts. Both moves deploy executive authority to shift economic costs onto U.S. consumers and political power toward Republican-leaning states.