The U.S. Agency for International Development is at the center of a political firestorm after the Trump administration indicated it will shut it down as an independent agency and possibly move it under the U.S. State Department in a larger effort to crack down on federal bureaucracy.

President Donald Trump said he is speaking Monday with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum before steep new tariffs on U.S. allies and trading partners are scheduled to take effect early Tuesday.

Trump has said tariffs are a way to force the countries to stop the flow of migrants and fentanyl across the borders and into the U.S.