White House’s impatience for trade deals grows as economic anxiety builds | CNN Politics

While the president is not growing uneasy about his long-held belief in tariffs as a way to revive the American economy, advisers said he is increasingly growing impatient about the need for the US to reach a deal with some countries on trade in the coming days. The prospect of a disruption in the supply chain is a critical source of anxiety for business executives, who have been conveying concerns to the White House for weeks about the fallout from the Trump tariffs and ensuing trade war. Despite that line of messaging, quiet anxiety over the economy’s current state is building, with many of the people involved in crafting Trump’s plan aware they need to make substantial progress quickly to give the public more reason to, as Trump himself put it on Wednesday, “be patient.”

Author: Kevin Liptak

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