Trump Is Trapped in a Maelstrom of His Own Making

Mr. Edsall contributes weekly essays from Washington on politics and demographics.

As of January, President Trump’s stubborn insistence on a beggar-thy-neighbor trade policy had already cost American consumers $200 billion, and it is projected to cost at least $330 billion more this year, according to the Democratic staff of the Joint Economic Committee of Congress. This policy, if that’s the right word, has also added up to at least $166 billion in direct costs for thousands of U.S. businesses, which the government is now in the process........

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