(The Post Millennial)—President Donald Trump is set to meet with business leaders at a Business Roundtable meeting in Washington, DC on Tuesday evening. The business advocacy nonprofit has urged for an end to tariffs Trump has imposed or announced, saying that they would create “serious economic impact.”
Trump will speak to around 100 CEOs at the meeting, including leaders from Apple, JP Morgan Chase, and Walmart, Reuters reported. Market value for many of these companies dipped on Monday, with the S&P 500 being 3 percent below when Trump was elected and down 4.5 percent year over year amid concerns about market instability and inflation.
Business Roundtable has called for making Trump tax cuts permanent and for reforms in manufacturing, infrastructure, and energy sectors. However, the group urged “negotiators to redouble efforts to secure a path forward that swiftly removes the recently implemented tariffs.” The group added in a statement, “These tariffs, especially if they are long-lasting, run the risk of creating serious economic impact.”
This comes as the latest CEO Confidence Index conducted by the Chief Executive Group found that 39 percent of CEOs expect business conditions to improve over the next 12 months, which is down from a high of 64 percent seen in November after Trump won the election. 36 percent of CEOs expect worsening business conditions, up from 20 percent in January. The poll was conducted between March 4 and 5 of over 220 US CEOs. The poll also found that 38 percent of CEOs believe tariffs proposed or implemented on Mexico, China, and Canada will have short-term negative effects, while an additional 38 percent said that it would have lasting negative effects.
On Tuesday, Trump announced that tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum coming into the US would be doubled, bringing the total to 50 percent, in response to Ontario placing a surcharge of 25 percent on electricity going to US states. Trump also called for Canada to “immediately drop” their tariffs on American dairy products. On April 2, reciprocal tariffs are set to take effect, charging a tax on imports to the US from a country that is using tariffs against US imports.
Independent Journalism Is Dying
Ever since President Trump’s miraculous victory, we’ve heard an incessant drumbeat about how legacy media is dying. This is true. The people have awakened to the reality that they’re being lied to by the self-proclaimed “Arbiters of Truth” for the sake of political expediency, corporate self-protection, and globalist ambitions.
But even as independent journalism rises to fill the void left by legacy media, there is still a huge challenge. Those at the top of independent media like Joe Rogan, Dan Bongino, and Tucker Carlson are thriving and rightly so. They have earned their audience and the financial rewards that come from it. They’ve taken risks and worked hard to get to where they are.
For “the rest of us,” legacy media and their proxies are making it exceptionally difficult to survive, let alone thrive. They still have a stranglehold over the “fact checkers” who have a dramatic impact on readership and viewership. YouTube, Facebook, and Google still stifle us. The freer speech platforms like Rumble and 𝕏 can only reward so many of their popular content creators. For independent journalists on the outside looking in, our only recourse is to rely on affiliates and sponsors.
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Independent media is the future. In many ways, that future is already here. While the phrase, “the more the merrier,” does not apply to this business because there are still some bad actors in the independent media field, there are many great ones that do not get nearly enough attention. We hope to change that one content creator at a time.
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JD Rucker
