Kevin Hassett, the director of the White House National Economic Council, declined to give evidence to substantiate the president’s claims that economic data had been manipulated.
The Trump administration will impose much higher tariff rates for exports from dozens of countries next week, scrapping a system of levies that the United States has had in place for decades.
It’s the third time this year that investigators from the Government Accountability Office have determined the administration defied Congress on spending.
Republicans are seeking to undermine the Government Accountability Office as it investigates, and considers suing, over the Trump administration’s withholding federal funds.
White House officials including Russell T. Vought, its budget director, are targeting the Government Accountability Office, a nonpartisan agency that helps Congress parcel out money more effectively.
Russell T. Vought, the head of the Office of Management and Budget, said he and other administration officials wanted access to the Fed’s building in Washington.
President Trump’s budget director continued the administration’s pressure campaign against Jerome Powell, the Federal Reserve chair, seated, on Thursday.
The Trump administration is toying with removing Jerome H. Powell as chair of the Federal Reserve, accusing him of mismanaging a multibillion-dollar update to its Washington headquarters.
President Trump has seized on Jerome H. Powell’s renovation of the Federal Reserve’s headquarters as a potential reason to fire him, intimating that he engaged in “fraud.”
The United States has begun investigating Brazil’s trade practices and “anti-corruption interference,” after the president’s criticisms of Brazil’s treatment of Jair Bolsonaro, a Trump ally.
Jamieson Greer, the U.S. trade representative, said he was beginning the investigation “into Brazil’s attacks on American social media companies as well as other unfair trading practices that harm American companies, workers, farmers and technology innovators.”
The United States has begun investigating Brazil’s trade practices and “anti-corruption interference,” after the president’s criticisms of Brazil’s treatment of Jair Bolsonaro, a Trump ally.
Jamieson Greer, the U.S. trade representative, said he was beginning the investigation “into Brazil’s attacks on American social media companies as well as other unfair trading practices that harm American companies, workers, farmers and technology innovators.”
President Trump linked his threat of a 50 percent tariff on Brazil this week to that country’s treatment of its former president Jair Bolsonaro, above.
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