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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

President Trump's trade war intensifies as he raises duties again on China, with retaliation

coming back from Beijing as well as possibly America's friends in Europe.

Meantime, the shock to the U.S. economy raises pressure on Republicans in the House and Senate to get

moving on that one big, beautiful bill to cut taxes elsewhere. So what's the holdup? Welcome, I'm

Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal. We are joined today by my colleagues on the editorial

page, Barton Swain and Kate Batchelder O'Dell. Trump's reciprocal tariffs on close to 100

countries have now taken effect as of Wednesday morning, with rates ranging up to 104% on China.

That includes an extra 50% Trump added at the last minute as retaliation after Beijing retaliated against the original reciprocal tariffs.

And more retaliation might soon be on the way, China now saying it will put 84% levies on U.S. exports.

The European Union is moving ahead with its own response.

So the journal reports this morning it is going to target

roughly $23 billion of U.S. exports, including chewing gum, motorcycles, and peanut butter. Yet

surveying the prospect of real economic damage, the pushback from other Republicans still

remains pretty mild. Nebraska Congressman Don

Bacon has a bill to pair back presidential unilateral tariff authority. He has two other

Republican co-sponsors, and then he told this to Axios, quote, I have 10 others who want to do it,

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