{"id":8069,"date":"2025-04-08T07:21:44","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T07:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trumps-trade-chief-will-defend-tariffs-as-a-drastic-overdue-change-2\/"},"modified":"2025-04-08T07:21:44","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T07:21:44","slug":"trumps-trade-chief-will-defend-tariffs-as-a-drastic-overdue-change-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trumps-trade-chief-will-defend-tariffs-as-a-drastic-overdue-change-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s trade chief will defend tariffs as a \u2018drastic, overdue change\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump&rsquo;s chief trade negotiator, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, will be on the congressional hot seat over the next two days as he defends Trump&rsquo;s controversial decision to impose &#8220;reciprocal&#8221; tariffs on nearly every country in the world. The 44-year-old trade lawyer plans to tell Congress that Trump&#8217;s tariff &ldquo;strategy is already bearing fruit,&rdquo; according to testimony prepared for Greer&#8217;s Tuesday appearance at the Senate Finance Committee&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/04\/07\/congress\/trumps-trade-chief-will-defend-tariffs-as-a-drastic-overdue-change-00277248\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump&rsquo;s chief trade negotiator, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, will be on the congressional hot seat over the next two days as he defends Trump&rsquo;s controversial decision to impose &#8220;reciprocal&#8221; tariffs on nearly every country in the world. The 44-year-old trade lawyer plans to tell Congress that Trump&#8217;s tariff &ldquo;strategy is already bearing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8069","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=8069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}