Can car shoppers avoid tariff sticker shock by buying American brands? It’s not that simple Many cars manufactured in the United States use imported parts. Some analysts say there is no such thing as a car made with all American parts. April 14, 2025 Amy Sherman
Opinion | Trump’s tariff chaos rattles markets — and conservative media is split Uncertainty abounds after a week of stock market volatility, and many wonder about the president’s motives. April 11, 2025 Tom Jones
Trump said tariffs collections are ‘almost $2 billion a day.’ Trade experts are doubtful Trump provided no evidence that the U.S. was taking in almost $2 billion a day from his tariffs. The Treasury Department shows a much lower figure. April 11, 2025 Amy Sherman
On International Fact-Checking Day, PolitiFact explains the truth in Trump’s tariffs agenda April 2 is Intl. Fact-Checking Day and Trump’s ‘liberation day.’ PolitiFact’s editor explains why we dig into policy arguments in search of truth. April 2, 2025 Katie Sanders
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt says tariffs are ‘a tax cut.’ Economists say they aren’t Most economists say tariffs are tax hikes, not cuts, since the added costs are largely passed to consumers through higher prices March 17, 2025 Louis Jacobson
Donald Trump’s interview with ‘Meet the Press,’ fact-checked Trump elaborated on plans for removing people in the country illegally and imposing tariffs — and made some false claims to support them December 9, 2024 Louis Jacobson
Can Trump enact tariffs without Congress? And can anyone stop him? Experts say he could act unilaterally, without support from a Congress that’s perhaps more ambivalent about tariffs than he is December 3, 2024 Louis Jacobson