"He's not getting anything," President Trump said of DOGE Chief Elon Musk in a Fox News interview with Brett Baier Sunday. "In fact, I don't know how he can devote time to it -- he's into it."

MONDAY 2/10/25

Steel and Aluminum – President Trump promises a 25% tariff on steel and aluminum from every trading partner, The Wall Street Journal reports. Canada in particular is a major importer to the US of the metals. Trump also will announce reciprocal tariffs to be detailed Tuesday or Wednesday, and to take effect “almost immediately.”

“Very simply, they charge us, we charge them,” he told reporters on Air Force One on the way from Florida to New Orleans for Super Bowl LIX. 

Musk is ‘terrific’ … In an interview with Fox News’ Brett Baier recorded at Mar-a-Lago before he flew off to the Super Bowl, President Trump called a federal court’s temporary halt on the Department of Government Efficiency’s access to Treasury Department records “crazy.” 

“I’ve had great help with Elon Musk, who’s been terrific,” Trump told Baier. 

Trump predicted the Kansas City Chiefs would win Super Bowl LIX. The Chiefs lost to the Philadelphia Eagles, 40-22.

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CFPB Shuts Down – Employees of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau were informed Monday the Washington headquarters will be closed this week and that they must work remotely, NPR’s Morning Edition reports, citing an internal email it obtained. On Saturday night, CFPB employees were instructed by the agency’s new acting director, Trump Office of Management and Budget director and Project 2025 co-author Russell T. Vought, that they should “stop virtually all their work.” 

The White House initially replaced Biden CFPB appointee Rohit Chopra as director with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.

--Compiled and edited by Todd Lassa