President Donald Trump’s team spent the start of this week denying that he was considering any sort of pause of his new tariff regime.
“We’re not looking at that,” Trump said when a reporter asked about on Monday a potential pause.
But the president was privately talking on Tuesday with certain aides about instituting one, an administration official told NOTUS. And the final decision to place a 90-day hold on much of a program that had shaken global financial markets came together Wednesday, disseminated across the globe via the president’s own social media service.