China responds to steel tariffs with tariffs on US farmers, as Trump prepares to escalate trade war

In an unsuccessful effort to win a Pennsylvania House seat by policies that were more about making noise than making progress, Donald Trump imposed import tariffs on steel and aluminum. The tariffs were imposed over strong warnings from several members of Trump’s cabinet, and Gary Cohn, Trump’s top economic adviser, walked out when Trump ignored that advice in favor of his own “very good brain.”