Friday, 9 March 2018

First immigration, then guns, now tariffs: Policy chaos defines Trump's White House

President Trump's daily public schedule had been emailed later than usual the evening before, near 11 p.m., yet by Thursday morning it had already been upended. The update arrived before breakfast, straight from the president's Twitter account to his millions of followers.
"Looking forward to 3:30 P.M. meeting today at the White House," Trump wrote — to impose the tariffs on steel and aluminum imports that most Republicans, his top advisors, many foreign allies and numerous American companies had implored him to reconsider. Aides scrambled to add the event — forced not for the first time, or even the first time this month, to react to the policy chaos the president increasingly seems to revel in.
Later, in rambling remarks to reporters before a morning Cabinet meeting, the president touched on no less than 15 different issues that he said he is working on. "A lot of great things are being done," Trump said. "A lot of things are happening right now, as we speak."
 
 
Source: Latimes

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