Tariffs, spending, taxes, rescissions and economic consequences of administration policy.
In a fact sheet issued Aug. 31, the White House set out the terms of the Venezuela oil arrangement Trump announced three days earlier. Venezuelan interim authorities have granted North American Blue Energy Partners, or...
California Attorney General Rob Bonta and the California Energy Commission sued the Trump administration and Golden State Wind LLC on Aug. 28, 2026 over the Interior Department's buyout of the company's offshore wind...
Trump wrote on Truth Social on Monday that "On Jan. 1, 2027, Tariffs on all Cars, Trucks, both large and small, Automotive Parts, and Steel, will be increased to 50%," adding that "Canada will be treated like a State no...
Trade negotiations between the United States and Canada collapsed on the night of Aug. 21, hours before a midnight deadline for 50 percent U.S. tariffs to take effect on about $20 billion in Canadian goods, including...
President Trump announced on Truth Social on Aug. 21 that the United States will allow up to 300,000 metric tons of ground beef into the country over the next 90 days with "no out-of-quota tariff," pausing rates...
President Trump announced late Tuesday that he would delay 50 percent tariffs on a range of Canadian goods for three days, posting the decision less than two hours before the levies were to take effect at 12:01 a.m...
In a proclamation signed August 13, 2026 under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act, Trump imposed a 100 percent ad valorem duty on imported unmanned aircraft systems with a maximum take-off weight above 25 kilograms...
In a proclamation issued Aug. 6, 2026, under section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, President Trump set minimum import prices on polysilicon and its derivatives: $21 per kilogram for polysilicon, $100 per...
Twenty-five states sued the administration on Aug. 3, 2026, over tariffs imposed the previous month on 59 countries and the European Union under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974, on the finding that those trading...
The New York Times reported on Aug. 1 that President Trump's decision to buy 11 polar icebreakers followed a phone call to Finnish President Alexander Stubb and a subsequent golf outing, and that the resulting contracts...