Adam Behsudi

@mmcassella @sabrod123 @tradereporter There's always a spot on the sidewalk outside USTR for you @mmcassella and @sabrod123

@sabrod123 @tradereporter @ABehsudi It's only fitting!! Ready to return to my roots and report for duty on the trade beat 🫡🫡

FT: Trump has offered Bob Lighthizer the role of USTR, reprising the position he had in the first term. Not clear yet whether Lighthizer, who had lobbied for a different position, will take the role, FT says bit.ly/3NXJ63s

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is in a full-on sprint to push interest rates high enough to curb inflation. From Washington to Wall Street, he’s hearing an increasingly loud cry: Slow down. politico.com/news/2022/11/0…

Scoop: A handful of Republicans are now considering efforts to block some FDA $ in the upcoming government funding bill—if they don’t get more answers about the Biden admin’s handling of the baby formula crisis politi.co/3WokELB via @politico

Scholz and Macron threaten trade retaliation against Biden politico.eu/article/france…

NEW: Chinese energy companies are buying a LOT of American natural gas. But their behavior in support of the CCP is sparking calls for new limits on the trade politico.com/news/2022/10/2…

Wall Street is beginning to fret over an expected slate of rule proposals from the Gary Gensler-led SEC hitting on the stock market’s plumbing. “Gensler likes to go big. I suspect he is looking to make his mark here on our equity markets.” politico.com/news/2022/10/1… @politico

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is waging a relentless battle against inflation that threatens to leave a path of destruction on the global economy in its wake. My story with my European colleague @JohannaTreeck: politico.com/news/2022/09/3…

Biden officials argue the WH conference on hunger + nutrition will help push for future legislation. But Hill Dems admit that no major bills are slated to move before Nov, + next year is questionable w/ Rs likely to flip the House politi.co/3SiNZ7F via @politico

Speaking at the WH hunger, nutrition + health conference next Wednesday: President Biden @SecondGentleman @AmbRice46 @SecVilsack @SecBecerra @chefjoseandres + @corybooker @DrMayneFDAFood + more

🧵The Commission (finally) unveiled today its plan to ban forced labor goods from the EU market 🔗 politico.eu/article/5-thin… with @StuartKLau & @SamuelStolton

T-minus 36 hours until deadline. Rail unions + carriers are lunching at DOL in a last-ditch, all-day meeting. And one local just authorized a strike. With @TSnyderDC, @NickNiedz + the rest of @POLITICO's rockstar labor + transportation policy teams: politico.com/news/2022/09/1…

“The country is ready. Investors are ready. Bettors are ready. ... It’s a question of whether regulators are ready.” Washington weighs plan to let Americans wager on elections politico.com/news/2022/09/0… via @politico

The chips are down: Putin scrambles for high-tech parts as his arsenal goes up in smoke politico.eu/article/the-ch…

In Michigan, industrial policy is back, and so are manufacturing jobs. So why isn’t economic security? My report from Flint and Lansing this summer: politico.com/news/2022/08/2…

From me for @POLITICOPro Trade - Businesses sent scrambling amid GSP gridlock "Domestic industry has raised Chinese imports by hundreds of millions since the trade provision’s expiration." subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2022/0… + thanks to @ABehsudi for the edits

The Biden administration on Tuesday got some much-needed good news on inflation: Online consumer prices dropped in July — the first time in more than two years that’s happened. (via @samjsutton and me) politico.com/news/2022/08/1…

Fed rate hikes are having a ripple effect on the global financial markets, but this may not become the debt crisis of the 1980s. The world is a different place from the Volcker days. politico.com/news/2022/08/0…

Reupping this great @BrendanBordelon and @eleanor_mueller piece on the workforce and immigration problem lurking behind one of the biggest US industrial policy initiatives in recent years. politico.com/news/2022/07/3…

Senate Democrats struck a deal with West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin for a bill that includes the biggest package in U.S. history to address climate change. Here’s a breakdown of what’s in the bill 👇 politico.com/news/2022/07/2…

White House's John Kirby: Trump's China tariffs "were poorly designed" + Biden admin believes "they've increased costs for American families and small businesses as well as ranchers...w/out actually addressing some of China's harmful trade practices"