Hassett: Trump Isn’t Worried About “Empty Shelves”

The Hill reports:

National Economic Council (NEC) Director Kevin Hassett dismissed the notion that President Trump is worried about empty shelves in supermarkets and households due to the ongoing tariff war and claimed the U.S. is actively engaged in trade negotiations with scores of countries around the world.

“No, absolutely not,” Hassett said Wednesday night in an interview on Fox News’s “The Ingraham Angle,” when asked if the president has concerns over empty shelves in homes as a result of his tariff agenda.

“We have got virtually every country on earth negotiating with us right now,” Hassett told guest host Brian Kilmeade. “We have got the Chinese open to talks already. The president has moved the world in a way that is unprecedented and it’s in the direction of the American worker.”

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