{"id":2944,"date":"2024-11-26T14:17:47","date_gmt":"2024-11-26T14:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/what-were-watching-trump-steps-up-tariff-threats\/"},"modified":"2024-11-26T14:17:47","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T14:17:47","slug":"what-were-watching-trump-steps-up-tariff-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/what-were-watching-trump-steps-up-tariff-threats\/","title":{"rendered":"What we\u2019re watching: Trump steps up tariff threats"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Here\u2019s what we\u2019re watching in transition world today:<\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0\ud83d\uddd3\ufe0f What we&#8217;re watching<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Trump vowed Monday to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2024\/11\/25\/congress\/trumps-tariff-threat-00191615\">impose tariffs of 25 percent<\/a> on both Mexico and Canada on his first day in office as part of an effort to crack down on migration and the flow of fentanyl into the U.S. He did not specify how he would impose the measure, though he could <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/09\/01\/trump-universal-tariff-threat-00176746\">theoretically tap the International Emergency Economic Powers Act<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Trump is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/11\/25\/trump-oneill-hhs-deputy-secretary-00191544\">considering nominating Jim O\u2019Neill<\/a>, an associate of billionaire investor and early Trump backer Peter Thiel, as HHS deputy secretary.<\/li>\n<li>Progressive Democrats are planning to deploy a new strategy against Trump during his second term: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/11\/25\/progressives-against-trump-00191392\">take Trump at his word on populist, working-class policy proposals<\/a> \u2014 or at least pretend to.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>\ud83d\udea8What\u2019s up with the nominees?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hedge fund executive Scott Bessent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/11\/25\/why-wall-street-likes-scott-bessent-00191370\">will be Trump\u2019s primary conduit<\/a> to Wall Street investors who are skeptical of the president-elect\u2019s punishing trade agenda. Inevitably, his Treasury secretary will have to shoulder the conflicts and contradictions that arise from that agenda.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>\u23f1\ufe0fWhat Cabinet secretary announcements are we still waiting on?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>None \u2014 Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/11\/23\/trump-cabinet-00191395\" target=\"_blank\">wrapped up his Cabinet picks<\/a> over the weekend.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s what we\u2019re watching in transition world today: \u00a0\ud83d\uddd3\ufe0f What we&#8217;re watching Trump vowed Monday to impose tariffs of 25 percent on both Mexico and Canada on his first day in office as part of an effort to crack down on migration and the flow of fentanyl into the U.S. He did not specify how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}