Trump, tariff and AUGUST 1
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Neither side has released documentation of the tariff terms, raising questions about whether they did, in fact, reach an agreement.
The president has published just 22 letters, many to minor trading partners like Brunei, Moldova and Sri Lanka.
As Wall Street traders continued to share the accusation that “Trump Always Chickens Out,” the president falsely insisted that he did not delay a tariff deadline.
Scavino and two other top officials sold Trump Media stock with a combined value of up to $10 million before tariffs news
Dan Scavino sold off at least $1 million in Truth Social stock on April 1, while Sergio Gor sold at least $15,000 a few days earlier.
President Trump plans to issue an executive order to extend the pause on his steep, so-called reciprocal tariffs to Aug. 1, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Monday. The pause had been set to expire Wednesday.
The U.S. is going to provide more weapons to Ukraine after having recently paused a shipment to the country, Trump said. He added that he's "not happy" with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers said that some countries that are negotiating with the U.S. could see tariffs delayed.
President Donald Trump’s tariffs have already driven up some prices, but they have not yet produced the overall inflation that many economists feared.
Instead on Wednesday, Trump continued to threaten countries with higher tariffs in the near future by publishing open letters to the Philippines, Brunei, Moldova, Algeria, Iraq, Libya and Sri Lanka that set new tariff rates ranging from 20% to 30% that he said he would impose on Aug. 1.
The Council of Economic Advisers, chaired by Stephen Miran, said in a report this month that, using an analysis of a price index used to track inflation, it has contradicted the idea that