What, Trump can’t just hide these reports like he does with the job reports?
Mission_Search8991 on
Trump sure showed China who is the boss with his tariffs
S1gorJabjong on
Wait a minute! Then who paid all those tariffs?!?!

/s
lefty200 on
But the purpose of the tariffs was to reduce trade surplus to USA, not to reduce them for the whole world. And indeed, it did do that (by 22% according to the article)
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It was the third-highest monthly [surplus](https://www.the-express.com/finance/personal-finance/195482/social-security-recipients-benefits-surplus) on record, trailing only January and June last year.
What, Trump can’t just hide these reports like he does with the job reports?
Trump sure showed China who is the boss with his tariffs
Wait a minute! Then who paid all those tariffs?!?!

/s
But the purpose of the tariffs was to reduce trade surplus to USA, not to reduce them for the whole world. And indeed, it did do that (by 22% according to the article)
Doesn’t China trade with 7.5billion other people?