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Mexico Tariff Backlash Keeps Biting Trump
The June 14 edition should lead with the lingering blowback from Trump’s Mexico tariff gambit, which had already blown through trade norms, rattled the markets, and forced the White House into a messy cleanup operation. The point of the day was not a fresh tariff announcement but the visible aftershocks: the administration still had to defend a move that business groups, lawmakers, and even some allies treated as reckless. Trump had wrapped immigration enforcement in a trade weapon, then acted surprised when people noticed that was both economically dangerous and diplomatically deranged.