Aluminum, Industrial Policy, and the GOP's Big Lie

You Can’t Rebuild Industry Without the Right Kind of Government

There’s a long list of tariff taxes that the Trump administration has slapped on goods and services entering the United States. What’s striking is that, to this day, neither Donald Trump nor anyone in his administration seems to know which of those tariffs will stay and which ones might go.

But one thing is almost certain: the tariffs on aluminum are here to stay. And steel is a close second. As we dig deeper into the logic—or lack thereof—behind these decisions, the reasons become clearer.