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White House Staffers Battle Over Trade Policy
https://politicalwire.com/2017/03/10/white-house-battle-internally-trade-policy/"SNIP...........
“A civil war has broken out within the White House over trade, leading to what one official called ‘a fiery meeting’ in the Oval Office pitting economic nationalists close to Donald Trump against pro-trade moderates from Wall Street,” the Financial Times reports.
“According to more than half a dozen people inside the White House or dealing with it, the bitter fight has set a hardline group including senior adviser Steve Bannon and Trump trade adviser Peter Navarro against a faction led by Gary Cohn, the former Goldman Sachs executive who leads Mr Trump’s National Economic Council.”
“The officials and people dealing with the White House said Mr Navarro appeared to be losing influence in recent weeks. But during the recent Oval Office fight, Mr Trump appeared to side with the economic nationalists… The battle over trade is emblematic of a broader fight on economic policy within the Trump administration.”
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