The record-setting government shutdown is dragging on, and with it, policy uncertainty about certain aspects of American trade. The Commerce Department is supposed to report on its findings for implementing new auto tariffs in February, and have fielded questions about their ability to hit that deadline. But with the shutdown harming the American victims of this trade war more acutely than the rest of the country, it should be a time for the White House to put a halt to these misguided tariff and trade policies altogether.
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