After Walmart executives said that customers should expect price hikes due to Donald Trump’s trade war, the president said the big box retailer should not raise prices and instead absorb the costs of his tariffs. “Walmart should STOP trying to blame Tariffs as the reason for raising prices throughout the …
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Dock workers and truckers who are out of work or worried about their jobs because China‘s trade with the U.S. is coming to a grinding halt “should be very optimistic and positive, because the president truthed it out,” Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said today. Since the punishing 145 percent tariffs …
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The Trump administration had announced tariffs on products from China only to walk back that decision on Friday, issuing an exemption from astronomical 145 percent reciprocal tariffs for smartphones, computers, semiconductors, and other electronic devices — although other tariffs would still apply. But on Sunday, the administration had senior White …
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Howard Lutnick, Donald Trump’s billionaire commerce secretary, suggested on a podcast this week that missing Social Security checks aren’t a big deal, and that only a “fraudster” would actually complain if their monthly benefit didn’t come in the mail. “Let’s say Social Security didn’t send out their checks this month,” …
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In 2017, Kellyanne Conway, then a senior counselor to President Donald Trump, was reprimanded by her own party when she told Fox News viewers to go out and “buy Ivanka’s stuff.” The comment, a response to Nordstrom dropping Ivanka Trump’s products from their stores, was treated as a gross ethics …
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