Washington Edition

Trump Keeps His Options Open in Wielding the Tariff Tool

This is Washington Edition, the newsletter about money, power and politics in the nation’s capital. Today, economic statecraft reporter Daniel Flatley looks at how Donald Trump uses his favorite tool: the tariff threat. Sign up here and follow us at @bpolitics. Email our editors here.

Tariffs are like a Swiss army knife for Donald Trump: a tool for every occasion.