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The Fed was wrong to assume moving production out of China necessarily imposes deadweight costs or efficiency losses

Democrat presidential hopeful Joe Biden promises his election will cure China’s unfair trade practices by means of his optimism.

The data defy the dire predictions of experts who forecast consumers would foot the bill for tariffs. 

The acting White House chief of staff explained this morning’s price data. Importers pay tariffs but consumer prices aren’t rising.

Claims that the China or metals tariffs are squeezing consumers lack any basis in fact, the most recent inflation data show.

Author and economic analyst Stephen Moore predicted on Breitbart News Saturday radio a massive 2020 re-election victory for President Donald Trump if he makes a trade deal with China.

During a Tuesday appearance on CNN’s “New Day,” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) discussed the impact of the United States imposing tariffs as part of its ongoing trade war with China. Cotton recognized that tariffs have “some negative impact,” but explained

Pompeo said the deal with Mexico would not have happened if President Trump had not threatened tariffs against its southern neighbor.

Trump said GM made a “bad investment” when it decided to gut its American manufacturing base to move auto plants to the communist country.

“Based on my opinion and a lot of knowledge, China’s going to make a deal because they have to make a deal,” Trump said.

“When you look at it, the Chamber is probably more for the companies and the people that are members, than they are for our country,” he said.

The pro-mass immigration Koch brothers’ network of billionaire, donor-class organizations is readying to financially back Democrats so long as they promise to support amnesty for illegal aliens and vote to advance free trade at all costs.

Writer and economist Stephen Moore said President Donald Trump’s negotiating prowess with Mexico had the potential to aid trade negotiations with China, as Moore joined Breitbart News Saturday with host Matt Boyle.

The top Democrat in the House, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, is opposing President Donald Trump’s comprehensive immigration reform deal with Mexico.

Rep. Maxine Waters is spiking the political football after wrongly predicting how President Trump’s tariff threats against Mexico would pan out.

Sen. Marco Rubio issued glowing praise to President Trump for reaching a deal with Mexico amidst pending tariff threats and predicted the mainstream media’s struggle to process the significant political victory.

Nikki Haley, former United States ambassador to the United Nations, spoke at Turning Point USA’s Young Women’s Leadership Summit on Friday night, telling student attendees that President Donald Trump was right to have “pushed these countries to a place that’s uncomfortable.” She added that Mexico’s reaching a deal with the United States “that quick” is a sign “that so many other things can be fixed, too.”

President Donald Trump declared in all-caps on Twitter Saturday that Mexico will begin purchasing large amounts of U.S. agricultural products.

President Donald Trump has announced an immigration reform deal with the Mexican government which likely will allow border officials to end the catch-and-release of Central American migrants.

President Donald Trump has announced a comprehensive immigration reform deal with the Mexico government, but the details have not been released. 

Russia’s leading meat producer on Thursday said it is ready to fill the “food gap” in China created by retaliatory tariffs against American products and a devastating outbreak of swine flu.

Mexican authorities are not releasing the names of the 26 individuals and entities whose assets were frozen as part of a new probe into migrant caravans and cartel-linked human smuggling organizations. The investigation was moved into high gear this week as tensions between the U.S. and Mexico escalated over tariff threats as a punitive measure for lax immigration enforcement.

“There’s been a lot of talks, a lot of progress made,” White House economist Kevin Hasset said on Friday morning.

President Donald Trump defended tariffs as a “beautiful thing” on Thursday and said Republicans should support him.

Republican voters are overwhelmingly supportive of President Donald Trump’s economic nationalist agenda that defends American workers and U.S. manufacturers by imposing tariffs on billions of dollars worth of Chinese imports.

The U.S. and Mexico continue talks on illegal immigration and tariffs, but Mexican authorities are already beefing up border security.

Mexican authorities arrested two men suspected of promoting and organizing the migrant caravans that moved thousands of migrants from Central America to the U.S. border. Officials claim that the two men demanded money from Central American migrants in exchange for getting them illegally into the U.S.

Mexican tax officials froze the assets of 26 individuals and entities they allege are tied to human smuggling organizations or to promoting Central American migrant caravans. The caravans moved thousands of individuals from the “northern triangle” through Mexico to the U.S. border. The funding for the migrant caravans allegedly came from the U.S., England, Africa, and Central America.

Talks with Mexican officials are not making “nearly enough” progress in curbing the Central American migration into the United States, said a tweet from President Donald Trump.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) accused President Trump of using tariff threats as a “distraction” from the Mueller report during her weekly briefing on Capitol Hill.

Rep. Kevin McCarthy, the GOP leader in the House, is urging establishment GOP Senators to begin supporting President Donald Trump’s strategy of using tariff threats against Mexico’s policy of allowing mass migration through its territory.

Democrat presidential candidate Julián Castro told CNN’s Don Lemon that President Trump’s tariff threats are “Grade-A dumb.”

During Wednesday’s broadcast of “Morning Joe” on MSNBC, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) addressed the possibility President Donald Trump levying tariffs on Mexico over the lax handling of its southern border.

Wednesday on Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom,” Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) weighed in on President Donald Trump’s threats put tariffs on Mexico for the lax control of its southern border. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said Trump is bluffing,

Tuesday on Fox News Channel’s “Fox News @ Night,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) explained why he was not one of his U.S. Senate colleagues that opposed levying tariffs against Mexico for its seemingly lack of willingness to control its own southern border, which is contributing to U.S. immigration problems.

Tuesday on Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom,” Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) said he approved of President Donald Trump’s tactic of levying a 5% tariff on Mexico until there was a noticeable improvement on lowering the influx of illegal immigrants into the United States through the U.S.-Mexico border.