{"id":662418,"date":"2026-09-03T14:19:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T14:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=662418"},"modified":"2026-09-03T14:19:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T14:19:00","slug":"trade-deficit-grew-24-in-july-as-trump-rebuilds-tariffs-trade-gap-is-down-30-this-year-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=662418","title":{"rendered":"Trade deficit grew 24% in July as Trump rebuilds tariffs; trade gap is down 30% this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. trade deficit grew to $88.6 billion in July, a 24% increase from June, as the country imported goods to fuel the artificial intelligence boom and President Trump worked to rebuild his tariff framework after legal setbacks.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/twt-thumbs.washtimes.com\/media\/image\/2026\/08\/31\/AP25357842400005_s1440x958.jpg?490e662726d84b4409caff0ab65abb92b92af294\" title=\"Trade deficit grew 24% in July as Trump rebuilds tariffs; trade gap is down 30% this year\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. trade deficit grew to $88.6 billion in July, a 24% increase from June, as the country imported goods to fuel the artificial intelligence boom and President Trump worked to rebuild his tariff framework after legal setbacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":662402,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-662418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economic-empowerment","category-national-security","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=662418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/662402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=662418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=662418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=662418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}