{"id":44847,"date":"2026-02-20T21:25:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T21:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=44847"},"modified":"2026-02-20T21:25:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T21:25:22","slug":"were-trumps-tariffs-working-the-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=44847","title":{"rendered":"Were Trump\u2019s Tariffs Working? &#8211; The New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<br \/><span class=\"css-hple31\">The Census Bureau released data showing that the U.S. trade deficit in goods last year was the highest on record. Our chief economics correspondent, Ben Casselman, breaks down whether President Trump\u2019s tariff policies had their intended impact in 2025.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Ben Casselman, Sutton Raphael, Nikolay Nikolov, Stephanie Swart, Keith Collins and Thomas Vollkommer<\/p>\n<p>February 20, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Census Bureau released data showing that the U.S. trade deficit in goods last year was the highest on record. Our chief economics correspondent, Ben Casselman, breaks down whether President Trump\u2019s tariff policies had their intended impact in 2025. By Ben Casselman, Sutton Raphael, Nikolay Nikolov, Stephanie Swart, Keith Collins and Thomas Vollkommer February 20,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44848,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[72,1862,71,5215,476],"class_list":{"0":"post-44847","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-crime-justice","8":"tag-tariffs","9":"tag-times","10":"tag-trumps","11":"tag-working","12":"tag-york"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/44848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}