Speaking to the media on Sunday, President Donald Trump continued to emphasize that he stood behind his “Liberation Day” tariff package and said the tariffs were having the desired effect.
“I spoke to a lot of leaders, European, Asian, from all over the world,” Trump said aboard Air Force One on his way back from Florida, according to the Associated Press.
”They’re dying to make a deal. And I said, we’re not going to have deficits with your country. We’re not going to do that, because to me a deficit is a loss.
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“We’re going to have surpluses or, at worst, going to be breaking even,” he added.
The assurance that this was all part of the plan — or at least that it wasn’t
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