President Donald Trump has turned tariffs into the centerpiece of his economic strategy, and in 2026 the policy will bite even harder. The new schedule of import taxes, paired with promised $2,000 "tariff dividend" checks,

During a bilateral meeting at the Oval Office with Polish President Karol Nawrocki several months ago in September, Donald Trump made his own version of history as he came up with the outright lie that the Great Depression happened because the U.

The final jobs report of 2025 makes one thing abundantly clear: The critics of President Donald Trump’s tariffs were right. The detritus of a failed policy appears in every element of this jobs report. In the seven months since Trump’s Liberation Day ...

A study finds proposed tariff rebate checks could more than offset the tax burden of tariffs for most U.S. families, especially low-income households, though cost and eligibility remain uncertain.

In a more serious presidential administration, the decision to spend $11 billion bailing out American farmers might inspire a moment of introspection. Why is such a bailout necessary? It could be that President Donald Trump's tariffs are creating higher ...

The president rolled out a $12 billion bailout for farmers as he makes the case that his policy is working — or will soon. By David E. Sanger David E. Sanger has covered five American presidents and has written about American trade policy from Washington ...

President Donald Trump has long praised tariffs as key to increasing wealth in the United States, idealizing Gilded Age policies that preceded the implementation of a modern federal income tax. Among the potential benefits, Trump claims, is the ability to ...

President Trump's on-again, off-again tariffs on Chinese imports affected many U.S. businesses last year. We check in with one small business owner to ask what the year and holiday season were like.

President Trump is floating an idea that could appeal to millions of budget-strained households: using tariff revenue to reduce, or even eliminate, the federal individual income tax. But tax experts are skeptical that import taxes could completely replace ...