When President Trump got here into workplace, he promised to gas an financial growth with a magic bullet: tariffs. They’re taxes added to a variety of imports. And cash is coming in, greater than $30 billion a month to this point.
Eight months into Trump’s second time period, it is unclear what the bigger affect of those tariffs can have on the financial system. Regardless of that, the president retains promising to roll out new ones. NPR’s chief economics correspondent Scott Horsley explains.
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