The White House now says that President Donald Trump’s tariffs are bargaining chips to get better trade deals
“Bring us your best offers and he will listen,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said of other countries potentially negotiating tariff rates with Trump.
Trump is scheduled to speak at a National Republican Congressional Committee dinner at 6:45 p.m. ET. Watch in the player above.
She said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu coming to Washington to talk trade “should serve as a model.”
Leavitt said China was “making a mistake” by responding with its own steep tariffs.
She insisted that negotiating, rather than steadfastly sticking to high tariffs, wasn’t an evolution amid stock market turmoil.
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