President Donald Trump’s new pressure campaign targeting countries that levy predatory taxes and regulations on American companies got immediate rave reviews from his allies in and out of Congress.
Outside of Congress, trade policy experts explained why Trump’s move is necessary. Joe Grogan, the former director of Trump’s Domestic Policy Council, noted that his former boss’s “EU trade deal was a hard-fought win for American innovation, especially in dismantling Europe’s unjustified digital trade barriers.”
“The president is absolutely right to call out EU officials now claiming they made “no commitment” on digital regulation or taxes,” Grogan said.
“European leaders should understand that backpedaling and other bureaucratic workarounds to sustain an untenable status quo simply won’t be tolerated,” Grogan, who is also the president of Public Policy Solutions, added. “President Trump will use every lever of power at his disposal to stand up for American interests.”
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