“Mexico’s government told Donald Trump that his plan to place 25% tariffs on its goods would be a mistake that raises costs for US consumers, a day after he renewed his pledge to impose them on Saturday,” Bloomberg reports.
“The tariffs would also ‘set aside’ the Northern American free trade pact known as the USMCA, President Claudia Sheinbaum said, without providing clarity on what Mexico believes that will mean for the deal between it, the US and Canada.”
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Taegan Goddard is the founder of Political Wire, one of the earliest and most influential political web sites. He also runs Political Job Hunt, Electoral Vote Map and the Political Dictionary.
Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief operating officer of a prominent investment firm in New York City. Previously, he was a policy adviser to a U.S. Senator and Governor.
Goddard is also co-author of You Won - Now What? (Scribner, 1998), a political management book hailed by prominent journalists and politicians from both parties. In addition, Goddard's essays on politics and public policy have appeared in dozens of newspapers across the country.
Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.
Goddard is the owner of Goddard Media LLC.