'Tariff Man' Strikes Again
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Late in the afternoon on Thursday, the President released a statement announcing his intentions to enact a tariff schedule on all goods from Mexico in retaliation for Mexico's weak efforts to control illegal immigration into the United States, despite it's own strict immigration laws. Under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, the President plans to enact the following schedule unless Mexico "substantially stops the illegal inflow of aliens coming through its territory". Trump doubled down on Friday.
The response was everything you'd expect it to be, the