"How cynical it is for the Chinese, basically, rather than respond graciously and stop doing all this bad stuff they're doing, to attack American farmers? I think that's going to be a wake-up call for Americans," White House trade adviser Peter Navarro said on NBC's "Meet The Press."
"What we want from China is very clear," Peter Navarro said. "We want fair and reciprocal trade. We want them to stop stealing our stuff. We want them to guard intellectual property, not take it from us."
President Trump's newly minted chief economic adviser Larry Kudlow defended the administration's escalation of tariffs targeting China over intellectual property theft, accusing the Chinese government of violating international trade laws.
"I think we need a more nuanced approach, but I give the president credit for levying these tariffs against the Chinese, with whom we've talked for a decade about their unfair trade practices and their theft of intellectual property from American firms," Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) said.
"On policy grounds alone, I think Scott Pruitt is the wrong person to head the EPA," Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) said during an interview on CNN's "State of the Union."
"The reason why all of the emphasis right now is on Mr. Pruitt is because he is executing these policies and they’re not popular policies with a lot of people. But he is executing policies this president said he would put in place," Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) said on NBC's "Meet The Press."
“I would do a full blown press conference and say 'Okay here are your criticisms. That's fair. I'm going to stop doing it. Here's what I think is not fair,’” Republican Sen. Joe Kennedy (R-La.) told CBS’s “Face the Nation.”
President Trump's chief economic adviser, Larry Kudlow, is pushing back on reports of tension between Trump and John Kelly, saying on Sunday that the president has only positive things to say about the White House chief of staff.
"Our promised digital utopia has minefields in it. Mr. Zuckerberg has not exhausted himself being forthcoming,” Republican Sen. Joe Kennedy (R-La.) told CBS’s “Face the Nation,” referring to Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg.
Cambridge Analytica co-founder Christopher Wylie said on Saturday that the number of people affected by his company’s data breach could be higher than Facebook’s estimates of 87 million.
Wall Street has muddled through a bumpy 2018, with the economic optimism that drove major gains during President Trump's first year in office steadily eroding.
Stocks have seen rampant volatility this year, in part because of rising trade tensions and growing questions about the outlook for the U.S. economy. While major U.S. stock indexes are still priced well above were they were before Trump took office, they've fallen close to 10 percent from their record highs.
The picture was very different last year, when excitement for sweeping U.S. tax cuts and increases in corporate earnings fueled a massive stock surge dubbed the "Trump bump."
Few Republicans in Washington are willing to go head-to-head with President Trump, but there is one band of GOP members willing to stand up to the leader of their own party: lawmakers who have announced their retirements.
While it’s not uncommon for members to feel far more liberated on their way out the door, it has taken on a whole new meaning in the Trump era, where lawmakers are confronted daily by a never-ending stream of White House controversies.
