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President Donald Trump directed the US Trade Representative’s office to draw up a list of $200 billion worth of Chinese goods to subject to an additional 10% tariff.Trump said that the new tariff would go into effect if the Chinese government did not lower recently announced tariffs on US goods and failed to address the theft of US intellectual property by Chinese companies.The latest round of tariffs would almost definitely put the US into all-out trade war against China.

President Donald Trump threatened to escalate the trade fight with China into an all-out trade war on Monday, promising to impose massive tariffs on Chinese goods unless Beijing reverses course on its own trade actions.

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The Trump administration is abdicating responsibility for its own policy to Congress.

Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen squarely blamed lawmakers Monday for a new Trump administration practice that separates families at the U.S.-Mexico border.

“Congress and the courts created this law, and Congress alone can fix it,” Nielsen said.

Her comments came in a last-minute add-in to the daily White House press briefing amid growing backlash over the practice.

Back in April, the Trump administration announced it would start cracking down, prosecuting adults who cross the border illegally as criminals instead of slapping them with a civil violation. When a parent goes for criminal prosecution, they’re separated from their kids. Nielsen says that’s the result of legal “loopholes.”

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“If we close the loopholes, we can keep the families together, which is what they did in the last administration until a court ruled that we can no longer do that,” she said. “After 20 days, we have to release both unaccompanied children and accompanied children, which means that we cannot detain families together. The only option is to not enforce the law at all.”

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders backed up Nielsen’s explanation. The White House says the law to prosecute people trying to cross the border illegally exists, and it’s up to the executive branch to enforce it. It says family separation is a result of the so-called “loophole” Nielsen described — and that it can’t hold families together while an adult undergoes criminal prosecution.

But here’s the thing: The Trump administration is behind the spike in separations. Its “zero-tolerance” policy dramatically increased the rate at which families are split up at the border. And back in May, President Donald Trump reportedly lashed out at Nielsen in …read more

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