Trump's 'National Security' Steel Tariffs Are Just Old Fashioned Protectionism. Here's the Data To Prove It.
The department has granted just 1 percent of the tariff exemption requests that were challenged by domestic steel producers.
The department has granted just 1 percent of the tariff exemption requests that were challenged by domestic steel producers.
The coronavirus pandemic has killed roughly as many Americans as died in Vietnam. But the war metaphor serves mostly to sweep aside skepticism and dodge difficult questions.
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The White House announced a temporary suspension of tariff payments as a way to stimulate the American economy, but the relief will not apply to tariffs on steel, aluminum, or imports from China.
The inability of the federal government, and the president specifically, to deliver reliable and consistent information to the American public will make economic recovery more difficult.
We may find that we like making our own decisions.
"A national shutdown is not a sustainable long-term situation," Trump said Thursday evening. "We are not opening all at once, but one careful step at a time."
"It's unconscionable that the Trump administration would do the bidding of the potato and junk food industries," noted one critic. But Trump's changes are relatively minor.
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General Motors is being charged import taxes on parts it needs to build ventilators. Its requests for relief have gone unanswered.
Export restrictions only make sense if you're unable to understand the obvious consequences of that policy.
Developing them ought to be the top priority right now.
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Jerome Adams clung to older, faulty narratives in the crucial early days of the coronavirus outbreak.
Keeping up maximum pressure is a dangerous distraction for the United States and catastrophic for the Iranian people.
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It's almost like Americans are paying for them, and like Trump doesn't actually believe in free trade.
Politicians are merely using COVID-19 to push for policies they already wanted.
Robert Lighthizer, head of the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, says tariffs aren't hurting America's response to the virus. He's also lifting those tariffs to help with the response.
The administration has been quietly escalating against Iran and its allies using a selection of counterterrorism laws that allowed it to act without going through Congress or the public.
If you really want politicians to do something helpful, ask them to stop "leading" and to get out of the way.
Some of Trump's tariffs hit medical equipment and supplies from China. We need more trade, not less, to be prepared for pandemics.
Americans and those traveling from the U.K. will be exempted.
It hampers transparency and means that relevant health officials who lack clearance can't participate.
Actually, it's a bailout.
Your coronavirus prepping would be a lot tougher in a world without free markets. Libertarians might be the only ones who recognize that.
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While the 2017 tax cuts didn't deliver the results promised by Trump and his magical-thinking supporters, the administration has delivered some economic expansion, some job creation, and some investment growth.
The FDA has finally approved commercial diagnostic tests.
An important and thoughtful opinion that potentially invalidates Trump Administration refugee and asylum policies.
Coronavirus misinformation is spreading faster than the disease itself.
No matter how bad the outbreak might turn out to be, politicians will find a way to make it worse.
Barr's big complaint is that the president is so overt with the sleazy pressure.
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If the only way to beat China is to become like China, then we've already lost.
And whether it balances at all depends on some creative accounting. Meanwhile, it proposes $2 billion in new spending on the border wall.
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American manufacturing has been in a recession for the past year.
The president likes things big, so that apparently applies to government budgets too.
The framers of the Constitution were quite right that wars should be difficult to start and easy to end.