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Like our predecessors in 1930, we oppose the use of tariffs as a general tool for economic policy.

President Donald Trump’s inaugural speech pledge to declare an energy emergency echoes Gov. Ron DeSantis' resistance to ...

President Trump’s support for high tariffs and disdain for free trade harkens back to a much older policy — the Smoot-Hawley ...

Herbert Hoover signed the retaliatory Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930, and it only made the Great Depression worse. Mark Benedict Barry Library of Congress Protectionism doesn’t work ...

Marking the end of her vice presidency, Harris assured her current and former staffers, “It is not my nature to […] ...

Kamala Harris marked the end of her vice presidency with a tradition at the White House as she signed her name onto ... Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon and ...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt promised the American people a “New Deal,” and President John F. Kennedy declared America ...

Built on a swamp with a busy road going right through it, what’s now Ronald Reagan National Airport was initially lampooned in news articles as ‘a disgrace.’ ...

What follows are my initial responses to Trump’s creation of the External Revenue Service, or ERS, future rival of the IRS.