Trump’s plan to finish what he started on trade: “Here we are again with some very, even higher, expectations for what can be achieved in a relatively short period of time,” Michael Beeman, a Trump 1.0 aide in the Office of the United States Trade Representative, tells Jasmine and NOTUS’ Violet Jira for a new story about a return to Donald Trump’s old favorite topic: trade.
After Iran, the reconciliation bill, the public images of mass deportations, we are back to watching this president try to remake the global economic order without paying a political price for the upheaval that can cause.
This has not been figured out yet. Deadlines keep moving and hints of new trade deals keep being teased. The 90 days in “90 Deals in 90 Days” promised in April is technically Wednesday, and something like 83 of those deals do not yet exist. Trump extended the deadline to Aug. 1 yesterday.