Reasonably Optimistic
Reasonably Optimistic
The Washington Post
Trump’s math is just … no
24 minutes Posted May 6, 2025 at 7:55 pm.
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President Trump is warning Americans that they might need to give up some new dolls and pencils as his tariff plans upend the world economic order. But as people brace for the trade wars to hit their pocketbooks, there’s still a question of whether Trump will back down. Dana Milbank, Catherine Rampell and Eduardo Porter discuss the broken calculations on both tariffs and the Republican budget bill.