President Trump’s “America First” initiative is an effort on many fronts. Even while facing one of the country’s tightest-ever labor markets—with more than six million unfilled jobs and a 4.3 percent unemployment rate—the Trump administration has proposed to reduce by half the number of green cards provided to highly sought-after immigrant engineers, scientists, and technicians who seek to come to the United States.

On another front, the administration has condemned Germany for exporting “too much” to the U.S. and has accused China of currency manipulation and other alleged export-enhancing tactics. Oddly enough, the consumers who prefer German cars and Chinese computers don’t seem to count for much in the Trump administration’s America First calculations.