China / Trade
- Trump, Xi likely to meet in Japan in June: White House adviser (Reuters)
- Kudlow acknowledges U.S. consumers, not China, pay for tariffs on imports by Felicia Sonmez (Washington Post)
- China defiant as Trump adviser admits US consumers pay tariffs (Al Jazeera)
- Kudlow Contradicts Trump, Admits U.S. Businesses and Consumers Pay for China Tariffs by Aaron Mak (Slate)
- Trump’s Trade War Escalation Will Exact Economic Pain, Adviser Says by Jeanna Smialek, Jim Tankersley, and Mark Landler (NY Times)
Other News
- More Than 20 Democrats Want to Be President. Only 2 Have a Climate Change Plan. by Emily Holden (Mother Jones)
- Iran Officials: ‘Nobody Is Going to Call’ President Trump by Golnar Motevalli, Bloomberg (Time)
- “Saturday Night Live” mocks Republicans who stick by Trump no matter what by Matthew Rozsa (Salon)
- Trump takes aim at McGahn, says he ‘had a much better chance of being fired than Mueller’ by Felicia Sonmez (Washington Post)
- Pentagon will pull money from ballistic missile and surveillance plane programs to fund border wall by Dan Lamothe (Washington Post)
- Trump Seeks New $15 Billion Subsidy To Protect Farmers From His Own Trade War by Mary Papenfuss (Huffington Post)
Opinion
- What’s behind Donald Trump’s bewildering avalanche of lies? Nothing good. Part 1 of 2 by Paul Rosenberg (Salon)
- Tariffs: Donald Trump’s trust in trade war tactic is big electoral gamble by David Smith (Guardian)
- An Imperial Presidency? by Charles M. Blow (NY Times)