On Thursday, the White House was firmly behind the launch of rates of President Donald Trump despite the markets in chopped, the companies going back and the foreign leaders who threaten the reprisals.
Although Trump did not have public events during his time a day after his dramatic announcement of Rose Garden, the White House Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, and Vice President JD Vance were deployed to deal with the consequences in the morning news shows before the sale of the sale of the market began.
Vance acknowledged that Trump’s new mass rates, which will affect practically all US commercial partners, will mean a “great change” for Americans, who Trump had said that he would feel somewhat of short -term pain before.
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Vice President JD Vance arrives to attend the comments of President Donald Trump about reciprocal rates at an event in the White House Garden in Washington, DC, on April 2, 2025.
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Leavitt also defended politics when Trump “fulfilled his promise to implement reciprocal tariffs” during an appearance in CNN.
“For anyone on Wall Street this morning, I would say that confidence in President Trump. This is a president who is doubling in his proven economic formula of his first mandate,” he said.
However, neither Vance nor Leavitt directly addressed the increase in the costs that economists say that US consumers are sure to face or how they would help Americans in the short term.
“What would ask people to appreciate here is that we are not going to fix things overnight,” said Vance. “We are fighting as quickly as we can to fix what we had left, but it will not happen immediately.”
American actions fell into early negotiation on Thursday hours after Trump’s announcement of a minimum 10% rate in all countries and more specific “reciprocal” rates in dozens of nations that accused of treating the United States unfairly in commercial relations.
When asked about the negative commercial reaction, the Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick later told CNN: “They are not counting the factories” who said it would be built in the United States as a result.
Meanwhile, world leaders are weighing their response to Trump’s historical encumbrances, some of which enter into force on April 5 and others on April 9.
China, which will be affected with a huge rate rate of 54%, urged the US to “immediately cancel its unilateral rates measures and properly resolve differences with its commercial partners through the same dialogue.”
However, the White House says that tariffs are not in debate.
“The president made clear yesterday, this is not a negotiation. This is a national emergency. He is always willing to raise the phone to answer calls, but yesterday he presented the case why we are doing this and these countries around the world have had 70 years to do the right thing for the American people, and have chosen not to do it,” Leavitt said in CNN.
The White House Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, talks to journalists outside the west of the White House in Washington, on March 27, 2025.
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“They have scammed American workers. They have taken our work abroad. The president is putting an end to that,” Leavitt continued.
“I don’t think there is any possibility that President Trump backs his tariffs,” Lutnick said.
President Trump on Wednesday, while talking in the Rosas Garden of the White House, had a message for the objectives of the plan.
“If you complain, if you want your rate to be zero, then build your product here in the United States because there is no rate if you build your plant, your product in the United States,” Trump said.
