{"id":5716,"date":"2025-02-04T12:22:20","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T12:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trumps-tariff-threats-give-washington-whiplash\/"},"modified":"2025-02-04T12:22:20","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T12:22:20","slug":"trumps-tariff-threats-give-washington-whiplash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trumps-tariff-threats-give-washington-whiplash\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s tariff threats give Washington whiplash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump on Monday paused the threat of 25-percent tariffs against Canada and Mexico, two of the nation&rsquo;s biggest trading partners, and claimed an early victory in his mission to crack down on drug and human smuggling along the northern and southern borders. Trump and his allies claimed&nbsp;victory after&nbsp;Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum agreed to&nbsp;send 10,000&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/5124600-trump-tariffs-canada-mexico\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump on Monday paused the threat of 25-percent tariffs against Canada and Mexico, two of the nation&rsquo;s biggest trading partners, and claimed an early victory in his mission to crack down on drug and human smuggling along the northern and southern borders. Trump and his allies claimed&nbsp;victory after&nbsp;Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum agreed to&nbsp;send 10,000&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5717,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5716","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=5716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}