{"id":7994,"date":"2025-04-05T13:20:18","date_gmt":"2025-04-05T13:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/are-trumps-tariffs-a-negotiating-tool-depends-on-whom-you-ask\/"},"modified":"2025-04-05T13:20:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T13:20:18","slug":"are-trumps-tariffs-a-negotiating-tool-depends-on-whom-you-ask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/are-trumps-tariffs-a-negotiating-tool-depends-on-whom-you-ask\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Trump\u2019s tariffs a negotiating tool? Depends on whom you ask"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Businesses, consumers and foreign leaders are trying to assess just how set in stone President Trump&rsquo;s tariffs are, as the administration and its allies send mixed signals about whether the measures are being used for leverage. Some Trump allies touted the tariffs &mdash; which have led to a massive stock market selloff and heightened fears of a recession&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5232933-trump-tariffs-mixed-signals\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Businesses, consumers and foreign leaders are trying to assess just how set in stone President Trump&rsquo;s tariffs are, as the administration and its allies send mixed signals about whether the measures are being used for leverage. Some Trump allies touted the tariffs &mdash; which have led to a massive stock market selloff and heightened fears [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7995,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7994","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\/7994","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=7994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}