In Trump’s Economic Plan, Tariff Is ‘the Most Beautiful Word’

This is Washington Edition, the newsletter about money, power and politics in the nation’s capital. Today, White House correspondent Jenny Leonard summarizes Donald Trump’s interview at the Economic Club of Chicago. Sign up here and follow us at @bpolitics. Email our editors here.

Donald Trump, the self-proclaimed “Tariff Man,” made it quite clear — if it wasn’t already — that putting punishing duties on imports is the centerpiece of his economic agenda.