The Impact of Trump’s Tariffs on the Rest of His Agenda

P.M. Edition for April 7. Amrith Ramkumar, who covers tech policy for the Journal, discusses how President Trump’s tariffs risk undercutting his goals of curbing inflation, supporting U.S. manufacturing and boosting a build-out of AI data centers. Plus, Trump threatens China with an additional 50% levy if Beijing doesn’t withdraw its retaliatory tariff by tomorrow. And U.S. markets went on a wild swing that added—and then erased—more than $2 trillion in value in a matter of minutes. WSJ markets reporter Hannah Erin Lang walks us through what happened. Alex Ossola hosts. Sign up for the WSJ's free What's News newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices