Derek Scissors | AEIdeas
Here is a list of the top 10 goods imported from China last year. The first year of the Trump presidency saw a record US merchandise trade deficit with China: $375 billion. Exports were the most ever. Unfortunately for the president, so were imports, breaking $500 billion.
James C. Capretta | The Hill
The Congressional Budget Office projects that the Treasury Department will run out of maneuvering room under the current debt limit in the first half of March. There is no getting around the fact that the debt limit has to be raised soon, too. The result is that Republicans have agreed to a massive increase in appropriated spending that runs directly counter to their previous budget plans.