Breitbart Business Digest: The Day Bessent Glitched the Democrats
Democrats are now attacking Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent because the Trump administration created a program that progressive Democrats tried (and failed) to enact themselves.

Democrats are now attacking Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent because the Trump administration created a program that progressive Democrats tried (and failed) to enact themselves.

India’s political opposition is furious with Prime Minister Narendra Modi for failing to secure a trade deal with the United States.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, during a press conference on Thursday, said that President Donald Trump would sign an executive order imposing new tariff rates on trading partners that will take effect Friday.

Americans voted for what President Donald Trump is doing on trade, Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) said during an appearance on Breitbart News Daily.

President Donald Trump announced a renewed 90-day trade deal with Mexico following a call with President Claudia Sheinbaum, extending tough tariffs on fentanyl, automobiles, and key metals. The development comes as his administration separately pursues a financial crackdown on cartel-linked Mexican institutions.

The administration of President Donald Trump identified Brazil as a national security threat on Wednesday and imposed human rights sanctions on Brazil’s Supreme Federal Tribunal (STF) Justice Alexandre de Moraes.

President Donald Trump announced a “full and complete trade deal” with South Korea on Thursday evening — an agreement committing $350 billion in investment into the United States and significantly eroding Korean automaker advantages in the U.S. market.

President Donald Trump signed a pair of executive orders on Wednesday–one to close the de minimis loophole, which long exempted low-value import shipments into the United States from duties, and another to hike tariffs on Brazil to 50 percent. The Suspending

The New York Times, a far-left propaganda outlet that spreads conspiracy theories and utilizes hoaxes and blood libels to spread hatred against Jews, is obviously Big Mad over Wednesday’s triumphant news about our second-quarter GDP growth.

The U.S. will levy a 25 percent tariff on India, which includes a “penalty” for buying military equipment and energy from Russia amid the war in Ukraine, President Donald Trump announced Wednesday.

Radical leftist President of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will not behave like his predecessor Jair Bolsonaro and “wag his tail” or say “I love you” to Washington in prospective U.S.-Brazil tariff talks, Finance Minister Fernando Haddad said on Tuesday.

South Korea’s Finance Minister Koo Yun-cheol and the executive chairman of tech megacompany Samsung, Lee Jae-yong, both boarded planes headed towards America on Tuesday, seeking to find a resolution to the ongoing trade tensions between Washington and Seoul.

Economy sagged after stronger than expected growth in first quarter, inflated by companies trying to move product ahead of U.S. tariffs.

MAIDENS, South Ayrshire, Scotland — U.S. President Donald Trump told Breitbart News exclusively Monday that Chinese president Xi Jinping has been clamoring for a meeting in-person with him soon, and that may happen as soon as sometime this year, either in China or at the White House in the United States.

President Donald Trump indicated Tuesday that he is looking at placing a 20-25 percent tariff on India.

Even with the new tariffs, access to the U.S. market is still the best deal on the planet; and the Europe Union knows it.

President Donald Trump’s historic trade deal with the European Union (EU) instantly became one of the crowning achievements of his presidency, perhaps second only to the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which is now the law of the land.

Trade officials from the United States and China want to extend the current “tariff truce,” provided President Donald Trump approves.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said he would put his money on the “United States of America” if he were still running a hedge fund.

President Donald Trump announced an impressive trade agreement with the European Union on Sunday that, according to the White House, would result in $600 billion in European investment in America and a dramatic expansion in American exports to the continent.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney described his country’s trade negotiations with the United States as “intense” and “complex” on Monday, failing to express confidence that the parties would meet the August 1 deadline for an agreement to prevent Washington from imposing a 35-percent tariff on Canadian goods.

South Africa’s leading foreign policy bureaucrat is offering excuses for failure as the August 1 deadline for a trade deal with the U.S. looms, blaming an American focus on “non-trade” issues like Black Economic Empowerment (BEE).

The trade deal Donald Trump announced Sunday with the European Union is not just the death certificate of the old regime. It is also the birth certificate of a new era in international trade.

HBO comedian and podcaster Bill Maher had to admit on his recent podcast that he was wrong about the effect Trump’s tariffs would have on the economy.

European leaders appear to be in two minds about the historic trade deal negotiated by U.S. President Donald Trump and EU chief Ursula von der Leyen, with some praising the pragmatism of avoiding a broader trade war and others lambasting the deal as an effective surrender on behalf of Brussels.

In the hours following the Sunday announcement of the landmark trade deal agreed to by the United States and the European Union, a stinging reality began to sink in across the Old Continent: Brussels blinked, and the EU leadership had been utterly routed by President Donald Trump and his White House.

President Donald Trump announced a sweeping trade agreement with the European Union (EU) on Sunday, setting a baseline 15 percent tariff on European imports — including automobiles — while keeping existing 50 percent duties on steel and aluminum in place. As part of the deal, the EU committed to purchasing $750 billion in U.S. energy products.

On Friday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “American Agenda,” former Trump Economic Adviser Stephen Moore stated that “inflation is moderate,” and that’s especially true “given the fact that we have these trade deals coming. That will alleviate any higher price pressure
The Federal Reserve’s latest FOMC minutes offer a peek into the mind of an institution trying to explain why its insistence that tariffs would trigger inflation keeps misfiring.

Radical leftist President of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said that former President Jair Bolsonaro must “pay for the shit he did.”

President Donald Trump on Friday floated the idea of potential rebates for Americans with certain incomes, thanks to the tens of billions of dollars coming into the United States through his tariff policies.

The government of South Korea confirmed on Friday that officials in the administration of President Donald Trump canceled talks scheduled for Friday intended to negotiate a new bilateral trade agreement, hours before Finance Minister Koo Yun-Cheol was set to board a plane to Washington.

On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Ingraham Angle,” Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick argued that tariffs “paid for tax on tips and no tax on overtime” and also we have to lower the trade deficit. While discussing the

On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Ingraham Angle,” Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick stated that China paying 55% tariffs is “pretty good” and we don’t need a deal with them and “We didn’t feel it” when tariffs were

President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced a “massive” trade deal with Japan, plus a “beautiful” deal with the Philippines.
On Wednesday’s “Bloomberg Surveillance,” Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick stated that he doubts big countries “can get low” reciprocal tariff rates below 15% and it will be difficult for them to do so, but small nations “have a possibility” of getting
Next time Aussies famously “throw another shrimp on the barbie” there may well be a piece of prime U.S. beef sizzling away there too in yet another win for the Trump administration.

For decades, the elite consensus warned that any move toward tariff leverage would invite disaster. Trump has now signed three major deals in which the opposite happened.
President Donald Trump announced that his administration had “completed a massive” trade deal with Japan, under which Japan would pay a 15 percent reciprocal tariff rate and would invest $550 billion in the United States.

One reason economists continue to be surprised by incoming data is that American households are stubbornly refusing to behave the way models expect.
