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You’d start with all countries, so let’s see what happens,
Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One
The tariffs will be far more generous than those countries were to us, meaning they will be kinder than those countries were to the United States of America over the decades,
Trump said, ... according to AFPThey ripped us off like no country has ever been ripped off in history and we're going to be much nicer than they were to us. But it's substantial money for the country nevertheless,
he added
What you see here is a group of people who think they missed an opportunity the first time around — that they didn’t fully realize what they now believe to be the powers of the presidency and they didn’t maximize Trump’s indiscriminate, narcissistic, vengeful nature,
says Ty Cobb, a former White House lawyer during the first Trump administration
A tariff regime that generated $600 billion per year would amount to the biggest increase in federal tax revenue since World War II, ... We’ve never seen a president propose such a drastic tax increase at a time where there is no national emergency requiring it,
WaPo’s Jeff Stein writes ... according to budget expert Jessica Riedl, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a center-right think tank ... she says.jpg)
He randomly picks up phone calls — it’s a Trump thing,
POLITICO’s White House Bureau Chief Dasha Burns tells Playbook via text messageOne after another, a parade of the wealthiest and most elite institutions in American life have found themselves confronted by unprecedented demands from President Donald Trump,
John and team write