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So we're in survival mode right now.

What's the Trump administration doing to avoid the economic damage of the president's trade war?

I'm Steve Inskeep with A. Martinez, and this is up first from NPR News.

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Stay with us. We've got all the news you need to start your day. We don't know how the U.S. will get out of a trade war, but the Trump administration jolted markets yesterday just by admitting the problem.

The Treasury Secretary told business leaders that the U.S. and China need some way out of triple-digit tariffs.

Multiple forecasts are calling for sharply lower economic growth.

The International Monetary Fund is the latest.

It tracks the world economy and sees economic trouble for the globe.

For more on what this means in the U.S.

We're joined by NPR Scott Horsley.

So, Scott, I mean, the U.S. economy seemed to be chugging right along

before the president launched his trade war. How does it look now? Yeah, not so strong. The IMF lowered its

forecast for GDP growth in the U.S. by almost a full percentage point as a result of that trade war.

Businesses and consumers in the U.S. now have to pay an extra tax on almost everything we import. And the IMF's

chief economist, Pierre Olivier Grinchot, says that's going to lead to higher inflation, at least in the

short run, and slower economic growth. For the United States, the tariffs represent a supply

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