"Going very well": Amid stock market freefall, Trump touts tariff "boom"

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The Dow Jones Industrial Average experienced its worst single day since March 2020 after Trump announced that the United States would place tariffs on all imports.

A recent Reuters /Ipsos poll found that 7 in 10 voters expected prices to shoot up following Trump ’s tariff scheme.

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told CNN that the scheme was necessary to “drive growth”.

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