Reporter’s notebook: White House adviser slams Trump tariff plan in Wisconsin

CHIPPEWA FALLS, WI -- Former President Trump’s plan to impose a 10 percent across-the-board tariff would raise costs for families and spur retaliation likely to disproportionately hurt the exports of rural agricultural producers, a top White House adviser said here this week. White House Domestic Policy Council Director Neera Tanden -- along with Doug McKalip, chief agricultural negotiator in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, and Andrew Berke, administrator of the Agriculture Department’s Rural Utilities Service -- was in...