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President says overseas leaders are ‘coming to the table’ as markets plunge in response to tariffs
Good morning and welcome to the US politics live blog. I’m Tom Ambrose and I will be bringing you all the latest news over the next couple of hours.
We start with the news that president Donald Trump says foreign governments would have to pay “a lot of money” to lift sweeping tariffs that he characterized as “medicine”, as financial markets indicated another week of steep losses could be in store.
Europe and Asia markets plunge as Trump says ‘you have to take medicine’
US president tells reporters foreign governments will have to pay ‘a lot of money’ to lift levies
Stock markets in Asia and Europe have fallen sharply on Monday after Donald Trump said foreign governments would have to pay “a lot of money” to lift sweeping tariffs that he characterised as “medicine”.
Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One late on Sunday, the US president indicated he was not concerned about market losses that have already wiped out nearly $6tn (£5tn) in value from US stocks. “I don’t want anything to go down. But sometimes you have to take medicine to fix something,” he said.