Joe Schatz

1 week ago | politico.com | Joe Schatz

Rayfield spoke to us earlier this month about the AGs’ strategy in challenging Trump’s use of the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act to impose wide-ranging tariffs, and we caught up with him again Thursday morning in the wake of the court’s ruling. Even as the Trump administration moved to challenge the ruling and received a stay, Rayfield expressed optimism about their chances in the appeals court — and, ultimately, the Supreme Court.

3 weeks ago | politico.com | Joe Schatz

“Right now, in Canada, they are literally pulling [Oregon] products off of shelves,” he told POLITICO Magazine last week as he attended meetings in New York. Rayfield has worked closely with Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes in leading the suit, which challenges Trump’s invocation of the International Economic Emergency Powers Act, enacted in 1977 and now used for the first time to impose tariffs. “It’s an unprecedented misuse of emergency powers,” said Rayfield.

1 month ago | politico.com | Joe Schatz

BERLIN — Angela Merkel, the former German chancellor, once said that President Donald Trump “was obsessed by the fact that, in his view, there were too many German cars in New York.” Now, Trump’s 25 percent tariff blitz on many foreign auto imports, which is still in place even as he paused a broader set of so-called “reciprocal” tariffs for 90 days, is putting the vaunted German auto industry in a particularly delicate position.

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Joe Schatz

BERLIN — Angela Merkel, the former German chancellor, once said that President Donald Trump “was obsessed by the fact that, in his view, there were too many German cars in New York.”Now, Trump’s 25 percent tariff blitz on many foreign auto imports, which is still in place even as he paused a broader set of so-called “reciprocal” tariffs for 90 days, is putting the vaunted German auto industry in a particularly delicate position.

2 months ago | politico.com | Joe Schatz

Now the president of the non-profit Bipartisan Policy Center in Washington, the Texan and longtime Bush loyalist worries that Trump’s focus on gutting and reorganizing the bureaucracy — shifting the student loan portfolio to the Small Business Administration, shuttering remaining Bush-era accountability programs, laying off thousands — risks distracting policymakers’ attention from tanking student performance in reading and math, which accelerated during the Covid pandemic.