The president’s plan, whatever it is, seems to spring from his belief that trade deficits are bad and must be eliminated.

President Donald Trump has demonized the trade deficit. And he’s argued that tariffs can help boost American exports and ...

Those numbers are not close to accurate. In fact, official federal figures show that the 2024 deficit with China in goods and services trade was $263.3 billion. That’s up from $252.1 billion in ...

Economists say that if if foreigners buy fewer American goods, then the US federal government needs to spend less, but that's ...

And he once more discussed Canada’s dairy tariffs without mentioning a critical fact about them ... that this statement still stands. The US trade deficit with China: Trump repeated his false ...

US aid to Ukraine, the number of migrants who entered the US during the Biden administration, the US trade deficits with China and Canada, and annual US fentanyl deaths.