The Trump administration’s trade strategy is all going according to plan, even with the turnabouts on tariffs, as it addresses the United States’ “national emergency” of being too dependent on foreign goods, National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett said Sunday. 

“In the previous administration, you can say, if you’re thinking about it in the football analogy, is that they were running out the clock,” Hassett told CNN’s “State of the Union.” “And what’s going on now in the Trump administration is, across a wide array of policy areas, we’re in a two-minute offense.”

Part of the offense is the push for a reconciliation bill so that Americans can get tax relief, while the other parts include deregulation and trade policy, he added. 

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