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    White House downplays short-term economic disruptions after jobs report

    March 7, 2025Updated:March 7, 2025 example-1 No Comments
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    National Economic Council&nbsp, director&nbsp, Kevin Hassett sought to damp down problems on Friday that President Donald Trump‘s taxes against Canada, Mexico, and China was materially harm American consumers.

    A report published earlier in the day by the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed the economy adding 151, 000 work in February —&nbsp, below expectations but above the amount posted in January.

    TRUMP EXTENDS TARIFF EXEMPTIONS TO CANADA AFTER DUSTUP WITH TRUDEAU

    Hassett spoke to reporters recently Friday night at the White House, where he insisted that the mayor’s financial plan is bringing manufacturing jobs up to the U. S.

    ” Why were those jobs created here in the U. S.? Well, it’s because people are wary of what might occur to taxes in the future, and they’re currently onshoring National production”, he said. ” We’ve got more than a trillion dollars of agreements, some new businesses in the U. S. because people are trying to inland creation, and this is the first of many studies that are going to look like this”.

    Hassett was not able to calculate the short-term damaging effects the government’s levies might have in store for British buyers, as previewed by Trump during his address to a joint session of Congress earlier this year.

    ” Taxes are about making America rich once and making America great again. And it’s happening, and it will happen quite fast. There’ll be a little interruption, but we’re OK with that”, Trump said Tuesday evening. ” It won’t be much”.

    ” What I’m most interested in right now, what I’ve been seeing, is the short-term gain”, Hassett countered when asked what the president meant by a “little commotion”. ” So we’ve got more manufacturing jobs, we’ve got income coming up for taxes, we’ve got interest rates going down quite a bit, saving each base level about a billion dollars for citizens”.

    ” I know that there’s some doubt, but in the ending, if we make it so that it’s really interesting to make things in the U. S., then all the price and manufacturing in the U. S. that moves here is a good economy”, he continued. ” There’s going to be some confusion, especially between now and April, before taxes are finalized, but after that, therefore, it should be only a get. That’s going to get a fantastic time, because what we’re doing is we’re moving towards a world where local manufacturing in the U. S. is the most beautiful place to make on Earth”.

    Hassett particularly quibbled with reporters ‘ claims that the taxes may raise the cost of foods for American households.

    ” If we reduce inflation at the aggregate level by stopping the$ 2 trillion a year of deficit spending, then that’s going to be way more impactful on the price of groceries than a tariff here”, he said. ” But, I think that it’s actually easy to get lost on the detail of the taxes without looking at the macro-economic raise”.

    Trump is slated to reveal new “reciprocal” taxes on or around April 2 for a host of products, including automobiles, medicine, hardwood, metal, and more. He has already placed 25 % tariffs on the import of some Canadian and Mexican goods, 20 % tariffs on Chinese imports, and 25 % tariffs on all steel and aluminum imports, along with their downstream products.

    TRUMP’S Taxes TURN CANADIAN ELECTIONS UPSIDE DOWN

    A number of American companies voiced major problems after Trump’s levies on Canada and Mexico went into effect on Tuesday. That, coupled with a significant downturn in the markets this week, led Trump to extend a one-month tariff exemption for all goods compliant with the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement he implemented back in 2019.

    White House officials say that roughly 62 % of imports from Canada, including energy products, and 50 % of imports from Mexico will still be subject to the 25 % tariff rate.

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