Bad News, Good News: Yes Stephen Miller Is The Brains Behind Trump But He Can’t Think His Way Out Of A Box. #authorsofinstagram #stephenmiller #trumpimmigration #trumpeconomics #trumpincompetence

Bad News, Good News: Yes Stephen Miller Is The Brains Behind Trump But He Can’t Think His Way Out Of A Box. #authorsofinstagram #stephenmiller #trumpimmigration #trumpeconomics #trumpincompetence

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They warned that the tariffs, which were levied in response to Mr. Trump’s concerns about fentanyl smuggling and illegal immigration, could inflame inflation, cripple American industries and make China an even more powerful global trade hub.</p> <p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">Mr. Trump on Sunday defended the tariffs while acknowledging that there could be some negative consequences.</p> <p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">“WILL THERE BE SOME PAIN? YES, MAYBE (AND MAYBE NOT!),” <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113934450227067577" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" title="">he wrote on social media.</a></p> <p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">The executive orders mean that on Tuesday at 12:01 a.m., all goods imported from Canada and Mexico will be subject to a 25 percent tariff, except Canadian energy products, which will face a 10 percent tariff. All Chinese goods will also face a 10 percent tariff.</p> </div> <aside aria-label="companion column" class="css-ew4tgv"></aside></div> <div data-testid="companionColumn-1"> <div class="css-53u6y8"> <p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">Canada and Mexico have vowed to retaliate swiftly with tariffs of their own, and <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/us/politics/china-trump-tariffs.html" title="">China said</a> it would pursue unspecified “countermeasures” to safeguard its interests.</p> <p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">Speaking on NewsNation on Sunday, Mr. Trump’s senior trade adviser, Peter Navarro, said it was unlikely that the tariffs would be stopped at the last minute.</p> <p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">“The magnitude of this particular problem is huge,” Mr. Navarro said, pointing to drugs entering the United States and killing Americans. “It’s time to stop the carnage.”</p> </div> <aside aria-label="companion column" class="css-ew4tgv"></aside></div> <div data-testid="companionColumn-2"> <div class="css-53u6y8"> <p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">Although Mr. Trump’s tariffs were clearly telegraphed for months, they were broader than many analysts expected. The president’s top economic aides, including Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, have defended the use of tariffs, but have suggested that they would be used as a tool for negotiations or that they should be phased in gradually to allow businesses time to adjust.</p> </div> <aside aria-label="companion column" class="css-ew4tgv"></aside></div> <div data-testid="companionColumn-3"> <div class="css-53u6y8"> <p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">“The tariff gun will always be loaded and on the table but rarely discharged,” Mr. Bessent wrote in a letter to partners of his hedge fund Key Square Group last year.</p> <p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">But Mr. Trump did not hesitate to use tariffs as a weapon against America’s largest trading partners, imposing sweeping levies that will hit everything from auto parts to avocados.</p> <p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">Economists said the pain of an escalating trade war could come in the form of slower economic growth and higher prices.</p> <p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">“The resulting surge in U.S. inflation from these tariffs and other future measures is going to come even faster and be larger than we initially expected,” said Paul Ashworth, the senior economist for North America at Capital Economics.</p> <p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">Mr. Trump is using a rarely deployed national security law, known as the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, to legally justify imposing tariffs on countries that have trade agreements with the United States.</p> </div> <aside aria-label="companion column" class="css-ew4tgv"></aside></div> <div data-testid="companionColumn-4"> <div class="css-53u6y8"> <p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">During his first term, Mr. Trump pushed for a rewrite of the North American Free Trade Agreement, which he had criticized as the “worst” trade deal ever, and ultimately signed the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement. He also reached a trade deal with China that required Beijing to purchase a certain level of products from the United States. Those promises have not been met.</p> <p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">Mr. Trump’s <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/us/politics/trump-tariffs-ieepa.html?smid=url-share" title="">legal rationale</a> for the tariffs is likely to be challenged in American courts. It could also dissuade other countries from negotiating trade pacts with the United States out of fear that the president could arbitrarily scrap them by using his emergency powers.</p> <p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">“If the president can with the stroke of a pen and for no good reason completely upend a North American supply chain that has been in place for more than 30 years, why would a foreign government be willing to expend all the political capital needed to enter into a trade agreement?” said Scott Lincicome, the vice president for economics and trade at the Cato Institute, which supports free trade.</p> <p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">Mr. Lincicome added that the cloud of uncertainty that the United States was casting over international commerce only stood to benefit China, which Republicans and Democrats largely view as an economic adversary.</p> </div> <aside aria-label="companion column" class="css-ew4tgv"></aside></div> <div data-testid="companionColumn-5"> <div class="css-53u6y8"> <p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">Mr. Trump has already threatened to impose a universal tariff on all imports, along with additional levies on the European Union. Those moves could encourage more countries to deepen economic ties with China. While the tariffs could sting China’s already soft economy, the disruption to the U.S. supply chains and Mr. Trump’s plans to back away from investments in clean energy and electric vehicles could ultimately benefit the world’s second-largest economy.</p> </div> <aside aria-label="companion column" class="css-ew4tgv"></aside></div> <div data-testid="companionColumn-6"> <div class="css-53u6y8"> <p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">“Beijing has long looked for ways to drive wedges between the United States and its allies, and tariffs on America’s closest partners make this much easier,” said Jonas Nahm, a professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and a former industrial policy economist in the Biden administration.</p> <p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">Congress, in theory, could try to take action to override the tariffs, but there does not appear to be the political will for such an effort.</p> <p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">Democrats, who also tend to embrace protectionist trade measures, criticized Mr. Trump’s actions as reckless but have little influence because they are in the minority in Congress. Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York and the minority leader, said that “it would be nice if Donald Trump could start focusing on getting the prices down instead of making them go up.”</p> <p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">Most Republican lawmakers, who traditionally have deep concerns about tariffs, were silent or appeared to fall in line with Mr. Trump. Among the few dissenters was Senator Rand Paul, Republican of Kentucky.</p> </div> <aside aria-label="companion column" class="css-ew4tgv"></aside></div> <div data-testid="companionColumn-7"> <div class="css-53u6y8"> <p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">“Conservatives once united against new taxes,” Mr. Paul wrote on social media. “Taxing trade will mean less trade and higher prices.”</p> <p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">Representative Don Bacon of Nebraska, who represents a district won by Kamala Harris last year and remains one of the most vulnerable Republicans in the House, also voiced skepticism of the policy. He said he was confused about using tariffs to negotiate a better trade deal with Canada.</p> <p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">“We already had a trade agreement and it was a good trade agreement,” he said on CNN. “It’s hard for me to square that circle. We’ll see what the impacts are over the next couple of weeks, maybe it’s a chance to maybe rethink we’re at that point.”</p> <p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">Mr. Bacon did not criticize Mr. Trump outright, but he tried to offer some carefully worded advice. “I would suggest focusing on China and Russia,” he said.</p> </div> <aside aria-label="companion column" class="css-ew4tgv"></aside></div> <div data-testid="companionColumn-8"> <div class="css-53u6y8"> <p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">The pushback from major industry groups that have been bracing for the tariffs has been less restrained. U.S. spirits, cars and farm products are all ripe targets for retaliation from Canada, Mexico and China, and retaliatory tariffs could deal a blow to the U.S. economy.</p> <p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">Big lobbying groups urged the Trump administration to consider other ways to address border and fentanyl concerns and warned that tariffs would only harm American workers and businesses.</p> <p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">“Ultimately, manufacturers will bear the brunt of these tariffs, undermining our ability to sell our products at a competitive price and putting American jobs at risk,” said Jay Timmons, president and chief executive of the National Association of Manufacturers.</p> <p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">Representatives for agricultural interests, which were among the hardest hit during the trade wars in Mr. Trump’s first term, warned on Sunday that Mr. Trump had put the sector in a “tough spot.”</p> <p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">“Farm and ranch families answer the call to feed America’s families and the world, and the tariffs and promised retaliation will put further stress on their livelihoods,” said Zippy Duvall, president of the American Farm Bureau Federation.</p> <p class="css-798hid etfikam0">Annie Karni<!-- --> contributed reporting.</p> </div> <aside aria-label="companion column" class="css-ew4tgv"></aside></div> <div class="mh-social-bottom"> <div class="mh-share-buttons clearfix"> <a class="mh-facebook" href="https://news.newbabylon.us/2025/02/trump-tariffs-threaten-to-upend-global-economic-order/" onclick="window.open('https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.newbabylon.us%2F2025%2F02%2Ftrump-tariffs-threaten-to-upend-global-economic-order%2F&amp;t=Trump+Tariffs+Threaten+to+Upend+Global+Economic+Order', 'facebookShare', 'width=626,height=436'); return false;" title="Share on Facebook"> <span class="mh-share-button"><i class="fa fa-facebook"></i></span> </a> <a class="mh-twitter" href="https://news.newbabylon.us/2025/02/trump-tariffs-threaten-to-upend-global-economic-order/" onclick="window.open('https://twitter.com/share?text=Trump+Tariffs+Threaten+to+Upend+Global+Economic+Order:&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.newbabylon.us%2F2025%2F02%2Ftrump-tariffs-threaten-to-upend-global-economic-order%2F', 'twitterShare', 'width=626,height=436'); return false;" title="Tweet This Post"> <span class="mh-share-button"><i class="fa fa-twitter"></i></span> </a> <a class="mh-pinterest" href="https://news.newbabylon.us/2025/02/trump-tariffs-threaten-to-upend-global-economic-order/" onclick="window.open('https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.newbabylon.us%2F2025%2F02%2Ftrump-tariffs-threaten-to-upend-global-economic-order%2F&amp;media=https://news.newbabylon.us/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/02dc-trumpecon-tpmk-facebookJumbo.jpg&amp;description=Trump+Tariffs+Threaten+to+Upend+Global+Economic+Order', 'pinterestShare', 'width=750,height=350'); return false;" title="Pin This Post"> <span class="mh-share-button"><i class="fa fa-pinterest"></i></span> </a> <a class="mh-googleplus" href="https://news.newbabylon.us/2025/02/trump-tariffs-threaten-to-upend-global-economic-order/" onclick="window.open('https://plusone.google.com/_/+1/confirm?hl=en-US&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.newbabylon.us%2F2025%2F02%2Ftrump-tariffs-threaten-to-upend-global-economic-order%2F', 'googleShare', 'width=626,height=436'); return false;" target="_blank" title="Share on Google+"> <span class="mh-share-button"><i class="fa fa-google-plus"></i></span> </a> <a class="mh-email" href="mailto:?subject=Trump%20Tariffs%20Threaten%20to%20Upend%20Global%20Economic%20Order&amp;body=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.newbabylon.us%2F2025%2F02%2Ftrump-tariffs-threaten-to-upend-global-economic-order%2F" target="_blank" title="Send this article to a friend"> <span class="mh-share-button"><i class="fa fa-envelope-o"></i></span> </a> </div></div>

Bad News, Good News: Yes Stephen Miller Is The Brains Behind Trump But He Can’t Think His Way Out Of A Box. #authorsofinstagram #stephenmiller #trumpimmigration #trumpeconomics #trumpincompetence