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Ryland Barton (0:15)
See Terms live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Ryland Barton. Snow continues to fall over parts of New England while the rest of the Northeast and Mid Atlantic states d from under as much as two and a half feet of snow in some places. Reporter Steve Kastenbaum is in New York, where cleanup from the blizzard is in full swing.
Steve Kastenbaum (0:36)
Over 2,000 sanitation department snowplows are working to clear up to 2ft of snow from the streets here. Mayor Zoran Mamdani said the city is hiring thousands of temporary workers to shovel snow due to the historic nature of this blizzard.
Ryland Barton (0:50)
We've increased pay to $30 per hour.
Steve Kastenbaum (0:53)
An emergency travel ban expired, but he asked people not to drive if possible so crews can get the city streets ready for commuters and the reopening of schools west of the city. Utility crews in New Jersey were dealing with thousands of power outages. Meanwhile, there's more snow in the forecast in the coming days. For NPR News, I'm Steve Kastenbaum in New York.
Ryland Barton (1:14)
American consumers have been paying some of the cost of the Trump administration's tariffs. Now, the Supreme Court has struck down many of those tariffs, but as NPR's state Stephen Bassarha reports, customers are unlikely to get their money back when it
Robert Shapiro (1:27)
comes to who pays for tariffs, importers, exporters and, yes, consumers split the cost,
Stephen Bassarha (1:33)
but we may not all be splitting the recovery if we can get the recovery.
Robert Shapiro (1:36)
Robert Shapiro is with the law firm Thompson Coburn. He says importers are the ones eligible for refunds since they pay the actual tariff charge. And getting companies to share with customers could require lawsuits.
Stephen Bassarha (1:48)
I think it's really going to depend on what arguments are made on that. So if you're a company that says here's your tariff surcharge, I think you're more likely to be in a position where someone's going to have a claim to recover.