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      Project 2025 is split on the issue of foreign trade.[109] Mandate author Peter Navarro advocates what he calls a fair trade policy of reciprocal, higher tariffs on the European Union, China, and India, to achieve a balance of trade, though not all U.S. levies are lower than those of its major trading partners.[126] On the other hand, Mandate author Kent Lassman of the Competitive Enterprise Institute promotes a free trade policy of lowering or eliminating tariffs to cut costs for consumers, and calls for more free trade agreements.[126] He argues that Trump’s and Biden’s tariffs have undermined not just the American economy, but also the nation’s international alliances.[117]

      The first guy won apparently.

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        Right, he did, but here’s my point: Project 2025 doesn’t actually come out clearly for or against tariffs. So in so far as “they wrote it all down in Project 2025 and told you exactly what they’re going to do”, that’s just not the case for tariffs. And even the guy in favor of tariffs wasn’t talking about such broad and strong tariffs all at once.

        In other words, this is Trump’s plan on his own.

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          Yeah, that’s just Trump. He likes to be vengeful and a bully, using tariffs like a stick to beat others info submission. But he doesn’t seem to know when enough is enough.