Trump said that he will not make a deal with China unless the trade deficit is resolved. President Donald Trump on Sunday defended his sweeping tariffs on imports from other countries, saying they are aimed at fixing the trade imbalance, not at causing a global stock market selloff. “I don’t want anything to go down.
There are already warning signs that getting the blueprint through the House could be challenging for the Republican leadership. The House of Representatives this week will take up a Senate budget blueprint, the next step in the lengthy process to implement President Donald Trump’s agenda. In the early morning hours of April 5, following a
The bill faces long odds to passage in Washington, currently dominated by Republicans who back the president. Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) will introduce legislation in the lower chamber that would increase Congress’s authority over tariff policy in response to President Donald Trump’s recent imposition of substantial new import duties. The legislation—already introduced in the upper
“Please don’t shoot my wife.” That was Chad Caton’s desperate request as he stood in front of his garage at 3 a.m., staring down the barrel of a rifle. His wife had hung back inside their home in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, to secure their dog in a bathroom. As she exited with her hands
The Tesla CEO also advocated for the free movement of people between the two regions. Tech entrepreneur and special adviser to the president, Elon Musk, said Saturday that he wants zero tariffs between the United States and Europe, days after the Trump administration implemented broad duties on countries around the world. Speaking to Italian Deputy
‘Who knows how the market is going to react in a day, in a week?’ he asked. Department of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Sunday questioned concerns that the U.S. economy will enter a recession in the near future following President Donald Trump’s announcement that nearly every country in the world will face tariffs. Trump
‘They’re doing that because they understand that they bear a lot of the tariff,’ Kevin Hassett said. A top White House economic adviser said Sunday that more than 50 countries have contacted the Trump administration to initiate negotiations over a broad swath of tariffs that were announced last week on nearly every nation in the