Tag: Trade

The destroyer USS Truxtun sits in dry dock at the General Dynamics shipyard facility on the Elizabeth River in Norfolk, Va. General Dynamics and rival contractors stand to benefit from increased U.S. military spending.

General Dynamics sales hit $9.2 billion as U.S. pumps cash into defense industry

James Langford · July 25, 2018 7:52 am

Farmer Tim Novotny of Wahoo, shreds male corn plants in a field of seed corn, in Wahoo, Neb., on July 24, 2018.

Where did Trump find $12B to bail out farmers?

Pete Kasperowicz · July 25, 2018 4:00 am

Kevin Cramer of North Dakota is a talkative first-term senator who says he speaks with the president once a week on oil policy matters after being Trumpâs energy adviser during the campaign.

Amid grumbling, Republicans quietly relieved about Trump’s farm aid package

David M. Drucker · July 25, 2018 4:00 am

A withered Donald Trump campaign flag flies over a field on May 1, 2018, in Maricopa, Calif.

Beltway Confidential

Emergency farm aid is a New Deal solution to a stupid #MAGAnomics problem

Philip Wegmann · July 24, 2018 8:51 pm

The federal government currently spends about $15 billion a year on myriad agricultural subsidies. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman)

Farm groups praise $12 billion aid package, urge pullback on trade fights

Sean Higgins · July 24, 2018 7:30 pm

President Trump speaks during a ceremony at the White House.

Trump defends tariffs: ‘We’re opening up markets … be patient’

Steven Nelson · July 24, 2018 5:55 pm

Sen. Jim Risch, R-Idaho, left, and Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker, R-Tenn., sit during a hearing on Capitol Hill.

Republicans pan Trump’s $12 billion trade bailout

Al Weaver, Susan Ferrechio · July 24, 2018 5:52 pm

President Donald Trump arrives at Kansas City International Airport to attend the national convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Tuesday, July 24, 2018, in Kansas City, Mo.

Beltway Confidential

How Trump can win on EU trade talks

Erin Dunne · July 24, 2018 5:18 pm

Trade Wars Are Not Easy to Win

TWS Podcast · July 24, 2018 4:47 pm

U.S. President Donald Trump, speaks while U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan, a Republican from Wisconsin, left, listens during a meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Thursday, Nov. 2, 2017. The House tax bill released Thursday preserves the carried interest tax break despite TrumpÂ and GOP leaders' promise to do away with loopholes for the wealthy.

Beltway Confidential

Congress doesn’t care enough about you to do anything on trade

Philip Wegmann · July 24, 2018 4:34 pm

A farmer drives a tractor alongside strawberry fields at the Boxx Berry Farm in Ferndale, Washington, U.S., on Monday, June 18, 2018. A plan to move quickly on theÂ farmÂ billÂ in Senate was held up by SenatorÂ Marco Rubio, a Republican from Florida, who threatened to block any new amendments from the measure unless a dispute over Cuba trade is resolved.

White House preparing $12 billion in aid to farmers caught in Trump’s trade war

Sean Higgins · July 24, 2018 3:51 pm

An employee in protective clothing takes a sample from the furnace at the steel producer Salzgitter AG in Salzgitter, Germany.

Steel Dynamics joins Nucor in doubling profit, thanks to Trump’s tariffs

Daniel Strauss · July 24, 2018 3:46 pm